With great conviction, my half-sister cried: "It's a lie! Jews have a way of blinding people. They were not killed, gassed or massacred. But I pray to Allah that one day all the Jews in the world will be destroyed."
She was not saying anything new. As a child growing up in Saudi Arabia, I remember my teachers, my mom and our neighbors telling us practically on a daily basis that Jews are evil, the sworn enemies of Muslims, and that their only goal was to destroy Islam. We were never informed about the Holocaust.
Later, as a teenager in Kenya, when Saudi and other Persian Gulf philanthropy reached us, I remember that the building of mosques and donations to hospitals and the poor went hand in hand with the cursing of Jews. Jews were said to be responsible for the deaths of babies and for epidemics such as AIDS, and they were believed to be the cause of wars. They were greedy and would do absolutely anything to kill us Muslims. If we ever wanted to know peace and stability, and if we didn't want to be wiped out, we would have to destroy the Jews. For those of us who were not in a position to take up arms against them, it was enough for us to cup our hands, raise our eyes heavenward and pray to Allah to destroy them.
Hirsi Ali goes on to ask where is the counter-conference in the Muslim world to that foul Holocaust-denial conference in Tehran. Why are mainstream Muslims not denouncing or disassociating themselves from it? Here's her answer:
Could the answer be as simple as it is horrifying: For generations, the leaders of these so-called Muslim countries have been spoon-feeding their populations a constant diet of propaganda similar to the one that generations of Germans (and other Europeans) were fed — that Jews are vermin and should be dealt with as such? In Europe, the logical conclusion was the Holocaust. If Ahmadinejad has his way, he shall not want for compliant Muslims ready to act on his wish.
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Anon,
I believe it was Michael Moore who on 9/12/01, said that America had it coming. I dont believe he is excatly Mr. Religious Right, but he seems to think this country is quite evil.>
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While wondering if I'm right in assuming that john's post is supposed to convince the reader of America's decadence, I'm struck by a couple of random thoughts.
Let's all stand up to these Holocaust-denying Muslim cultures, and publicly insist that they are all hate-filled war mongerers who want nothing more than to establish Muslim dictatorships in every country. When they complain about our telling lies about them, we can simply point out that our "lies" are no more "lies" than their "truth" about Jews is "truth".
[Personal caveat: that is an ill-formed and incomplete idea. I don't personally believe in the core descriptions.]
To Burlap Bagg: two sets of your "enemies" are not by definition "friends" of each other. I don't know of any liberal this side of the lunatic fringe who even thinks that we got what was coming to us, and Michael Moore may be excused (but not forgiven) for using exaggerated rhetoric in order to promote his livelihood. I am, in many ways, just as liberal as Moore, and in no way do I permit him to speak for me, not even in those areas where I may later agree with him: I simply don't trust him any further than I trust most televangelists, and for the same reasons.>
To ONC:
I don't know about Michael Moore, but I recall two guys named, IIRC Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell saying the same thing. Do their names ring a bell with you? Are they Christian by any chance?
Kim M>
It is the Christian Nazis who gassed the Jews and it was always the Western Europeans who ill-treated them.
The Jews have lived in Arab lands for centuries in peace and harmony. The problem between Arabs and Jews happened after the creation of Israel in Arab Palestine.
Stop blaming everyone else.
Now Ayaan Ali is playing to the Western prejudices.
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