Muslims and the Holocaust
Muslims and the Holocaust
By Cathy Young, The Boston Globe
RECENTLY IN England, four Muslim-staffed committees appointed to advise Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Cabinet on issues related to Islam have come up with a recommendation: Get rid of an official event viewed as offensive to Muslims. What event would that be? A celebration of the Crusades, perhaps? No, Holocaust Memorial Day.[..]
Unfortunately, even against the bloody backdrop of the 20th century, there are strong reasons to regard the Nazi extermination of the Jews as a unique atrocity. It was the first, and so far the only time that, as Cornell University historian Stephen Katz put it in his 1994 book ''The Holocaust in Historical Context," that ''a state set out, as a matter of intentional principle and actualized policy, to annihilate physically every man, woman, and child belonging to a specific people."
But the problem with the proposal goes far deeper. The other ''genocides" for which they want recognition include the Israeli killings of Palestinians. [..]
Any equation between the Holocaust and Israel's treatment of the Palestinians is absurd. The effect of such a parallel is not to promote ''inclusiveness" -- it is to erase and minimize the tragedy of the Jews as past victims of genocide by slanderously assigning them an equal role as its present-day perpetrators.[..]
Posted by Ted Belman at September 19, 2005 06:07 AM
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Per
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The Nazi extermination of the Jews was indeed in many ways a unique atrocity. However, the islamization of the world, which has taken place over the past 1300 years, far exceeds the Holocaust, both in numbers killed and in the intentional evil by which it was carried out.
The Holocaust may have been "the first time a state set out, as a matter of intentional principle and actualized policy, to annihilate physically every man, woman, and child belonging to a specific people". However, much the same was done to the "infidels" regardless whether they enjoyed "protection" under a dhimma-agreement or not. Only the islamization of the Indian subcontinent has been conservatively estimated to have cost more than ten times the number of Holocaust victims.
Since European politicians may sooner or later give in to muslim pressure to have the Holocaust Memorial Day abolished, one should consider a counter attac, such as proposing a Anti Racist Dhimmi Memorial Day, adopted by the UN, to commemmorate the hundreds of millions of victims of Islamic extermination practices and Arab racism.
Posted by: Per on September 19, 2005 08:10 AM
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Great suggestion, Per.
Posted by: Ted Belman on September 19, 2005 09:13 AM
Muslims and the Holocaust
By Cathy Young, The Boston Globe
RECENTLY IN England, four Muslim-staffed committees appointed to advise Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Cabinet on issues related to Islam have come up with a recommendation: Get rid of an official event viewed as offensive to Muslims. What event would that be? A celebration of the Crusades, perhaps? No, Holocaust Memorial Day.[..]
Unfortunately, even against the bloody backdrop of the 20th century, there are strong reasons to regard the Nazi extermination of the Jews as a unique atrocity. It was the first, and so far the only time that, as Cornell University historian Stephen Katz put it in his 1994 book ''The Holocaust in Historical Context," that ''a state set out, as a matter of intentional principle and actualized policy, to annihilate physically every man, woman, and child belonging to a specific people."
But the problem with the proposal goes far deeper. The other ''genocides" for which they want recognition include the Israeli killings of Palestinians. [..]
Any equation between the Holocaust and Israel's treatment of the Palestinians is absurd. The effect of such a parallel is not to promote ''inclusiveness" -- it is to erase and minimize the tragedy of the Jews as past victims of genocide by slanderously assigning them an equal role as its present-day perpetrators.[..]
Posted by Ted Belman at September 19, 2005 06:07 AM