Have you seen the latest inanity of the GOP rightists and their pet mainstream media puppets? here is the link:
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According to this it is a "socialist agenda" to tell school kids that they should exercise responsibility and work hard for the good of themselves and of the country. Apparently, GOPers are incensed about the idea of kids being asked to help President Obama, sensing some fascist/authoritarian dictatorship no doubt on the lines of Hitler's Fuehrerprinzip. How come they never felt the same when they were demanding total loyalty to our heroic Commander-in-Chief, George W. Bush, after 9/11, and attacking any criticism of the regime as treason? Hypocrisy is too good a word for what Republicans are perpetrating at the moment. Let us hope the American people sees through this cynicism.
It is time for those that hate, not only healthcare reform, but also democracy and freedom, to stop inciting riots by spreading lies. The most despicable lie about the new health care bill regards a simple provision that a physician can be reimbursed if a patient wants to have a discussion about how they wish to be cared for if they become extremely ill.
That discussion could be that the patient wants to remain hooked to a machine that keeps them alive indefinitely, or the decision could be that the patient wishes to be unhooked from such a machine if they are brain dead, or the decision could be that the patients wants their spouse, parent or child to make such a decision. The common denominator is that this is a patient decision. The provision in the bill simply allows physicians to be reimbursed when they listen to patient’s decisions.
It’s a compassionate clause. It allows for us to have a conversation with our physician, as we do with our attorneys when we create our will. Lawyers get paid for making wills. This bill simply says that physicians will get paid for helping us during such difficult times. It’s about reimbursement, nothing more.
But horrific organizers against health care reform are causing people to wrongly believe that the bill somehow states that the government will kill you, that the government will mandate euthanasia. That is so preposterous that had I in advance seen that the strategies of these protestors would rely on such a nonsensical plan, I would have not even been concerned that such a far-fetched idea could have a chance of working, that anyone would ever believe such nonsense, such a distorted reversal of the actual facts. But incredibly, fear is a great lever. People actually believe that in the bill, there are provisions allowing the government to kill citizens through health care. And this lie is gaining traction, a lot of traction. The lie is working.
It’s time for intelligent people to say enough.
Enough fear mongering.
Enough distortion.
Enough bringing up Hitler and comparing that horrific individual to our President.
Enough.
President Obama, it’s time to make a significant speech about fear mongering, about the psychology of the lynch mob and why as a decent society we should abhor such insidious tactics. We cannot sit idly by and watch our society devolve into such horrors as we have seen in the past when lynch mobs, rather then the rule of law, governed our land.
President Obama, please bring your eloquence to the table of hatred and help stop this madness.
Adolf Hitler / Nazis hated Arabs as an inferior “race”, yet praised Islam in its ‘war like’ TOTALITARIAN ideology He saw them as a great disposable tool to be used against the Jews, the mufti fell for it.
SPLCenter.org: The Swastika and the Crescent, Although he loathed Arabs (he once described them as “lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped“), Hitler understood that he and the Mufti shared the same rivals, British and the Jews… http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=242
ESSAY - May 2002 By Martin A. Lee …Ahmed Huber: Neo-Nazi, Islamic convert… The roots of the Muslim Brotherhood and, in many ways, the Nazi-Muslim axis go back to the organisation’s formation in Egypt in 1928. Marking the start of modern political “Islamic fundamentalism,” the Brotherhood from the outset envisioned a time when an Islamic state would prevail in Egypt and other Arab countries.
The growth of the Muslim Brotherhood coincided with the rise of fascist movements in Europe - a parallel noted by Muhammad Sa’id al-’Ashmawy, former chief justice of Egypt’s High Criminal Court, who decried “the perversion of Islam” and “the fascistic ideology” that infuses the world view of the Brothers. Youssef Nada, current board chairman of Al Taqwa, had joined the armed branch of the Muslim Brotherhood as a young man in Egypt during World War II. Nada and several of his cohorts in the Sunni Muslim fraternity were recruited by German military intelligence. Hassan al-Banna, the Egyptian schoolteacher who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, also collaborated with spies of the Third Reich. Advocating a pan-Islamic insurgency in British-controlled Palestine, the Brotherhood proclaimed their support for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini, in the late 1930s.
The Grand Mufti, the preeminent religious figure among Palestinian Muslims, was the most notable Arab leader to seek an alliance with Nazi Germany. Although he loathed Arabs (he once described them as “lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped”), Hitler understood that he and the Mufti shared the same rivals - the British, the Jews and the Communists. They met in Berlin, where the Mufti lived in exile during the war. The Mufti agreed to help organise a special Muslim division of the Waffen SS. Powerful radio transmitters were put at the Mufti’s disposal so that his pro-Axis propaganda could be heard throughout the Arab world. http://www.aijac.org.au/review/2002/275/essay275.html
War aims in the second world war: the war aims of the major belligerents … - by Victor Rothwell - History - 2005 - 244 pages (Page 41) However, the Nazis were clear in their minds that the Arabs were racially inferior, and there would, therefore, be no pleasure to be had from helping them in anything except for the extermination of Jews in their region. http://books.google.com/books?id=XfgLbSc94MEC&pg=PA41
Islam, Nazism, and Totalitarianism
During an interview conducted in the late 1930s (published in 1939), Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychiatry, was asked “…had he any views on what was likely to be the next step in religious development?” Jung replied, in reference to the Nazi fervor that had gripped Germany We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future. Albert Speer, who was Hitler’s Minister of Armaments and War Production, wrote a contrite memoir of his World War II experiences while serving a 20-year prison sentence imposed by the Nuremberg tribunal.
Speer’s narrative includes this discussion, which captures Hitler’s racist views of Arabs on the one hand, and his effusive praise for Islam on the other:
Hitler had been much impressed by a scrap of history he had learned from a delegation of distinguished Arabs. When the Mohammedans attempted to penetrate beyond France into Central Europe during the eighth century, his visitors had told him, they had been driven back at the Battle of Tours. Had the Arabs won this battle, the world would be Mohammedan today. For theirs was a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and subjugating all nations to that faith. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament. Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate and conditions of the country. They could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire. Hitler usually concluded this historical speculation by remarking, “You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?” http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/61/55/
The roots of Arab Anti-Semitism - By David Greenberg - Slate Magazine Oct 31, 2001 … As he notes, anti-Semitism in Arab countries (and non-Arab Islamic states such as Iran) …. East—they were eager to make common cause with Hitler, despite Nazi belief that they, like the Jews, were inferior to Aryans. … http://www.slate.com/id/2057949/
The third Reich & the Palestine question - Francis R. Nicosia - 2000 - History - 319 pages (Page 85) Most Arabs never realized that the Nazis would consider them racially inferior as well and that Germany had no intention of undermining British authority in … http://books.google.com/books?id=xh4m-OMrhJUC&pg=PA85
The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj … Chuck Morse - 2003 - History - 188 pages (page 53) … as Hitler was known to have described the Arabs as “lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped,” to a lower race … http://books.google.com/books?id=HGkthBwbNg8C&pg=PA53
Despite Hitler’s personal antipathy towards Arabs, who he once described as lacquered half apes who ought to be whipped, he nevertheless was prepared to … http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/An%20unholy%20alliance%201801%20original.doc
The Beast Reawakens: Fascism’s Resurgence from Hitler’s Spymasters …Martin A. Lee - 1999 - Political Science - 560 pages (page 122) Even though he loathed Arabs (he once described them as “lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped”), Hitler was nonetheless the idol of the paramilitary … http://books.google.com/books?id=SX4B7pNG3W8C&pg=PA122
What a world:: Racist Arabs & Islamic bigots call the victims of their racism - "racists"
Forget the fact that Israel is multi-racial for all colors from the whitest of white to the darkest of black, whereas Arab countries (including "Palestinian" authorities") asides from oppressing all non-Arab minorities, are almost entirely "judenrein", but in democratic Israel, an Arab can get the highest office!But the brazenness of Arab racism not only fails to admit of it's racist war on Jews/Israel since the 1920's, but it brands Israel's defense FROM it as "racist"..
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Israelis aren't 'racist' - they're worried Op-Ed Contributors ...Israel's Arab citizens are being drawn toward radicalism by their leadership. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1167467807212
[Racism of] Killing Jews in Israel a young Israeli student at Hebron University was gunned down while jogging through a mixed neighborhood of Jews and Arabs. The al Aqsa Brigade, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yassir Arafat's Fatah movement, joyously claimed credit for the killing of yet another innocent Jew. When it was later learned that the jogger was an Arab-Israeli and not a Jew, al Aqsa quickly apologized to the family, calling it an accident. But the killing of the innocent young jogger was not an accident; the murderer had deliberately taken aim at his head and midsection, intending to end his life. The only thing accidental about the murder was the religion of the victim. The al Aqsa Brigade had sent the assassin to murder a Jew - any Jew, so long as he was a Jew.This is racism, pure and simple. And despite efforts by supporters of Palestinian terrorism to justify the murder of innocent civilians as national liberationor by any other euphemism, this case proves that the Palestinian terrorists targeting of Jews and only Jews - as many as possible - is little different in intent than other forms of lethal or exterminatory anti-Jewish murders (I dont use the term anti-Semitic only because some Arabs claim that because they too are Semites, they cant be anti-Semitic). Obviously the numbers are different, because Israel is capable of defending its Jewish citizens, but if it were not, the goal of Palestinian terrorist groups would not be very different from that of previous groups intent on murdering as many Jews as possible. http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israeljewsracismdersh130112.html
The Hamas advocates Killing Jews, simply for being Jews http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=14650
If justifying the murder of innocents because they belong to a certain hated group is not abject racism, I'd like to know what is.http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999795.html
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MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD 'Racist' speech walkout - Apr 21, 2009 Diplomats from across the world have walked out of a speech delivered by Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a global anti-racism conference, ... http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/home/regularieninhalte/world-news-ticker/world/2009/04/21/mass-walk-out-at-un-conference-after-racist-iranian-speech.html
Lebanon news - NOW Lebanon -Western leaders horrified at 'racist ...Western leaders horrified at 'racist' Ahmadinejad speech. April 20, 2009. Western leaders recoiled in horror Monday at a fierce anti-Israel outburst by Iran's president at a UN ... http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=89673
When representatives of many Arab and Muslim nations publicly applaud Ahmadinejad's racist rant, the real losers are the Palestinians. ... http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/durbanII
Israel VS Islamo Arab campaign of Genocide.
Attempted Genocide From the Start [1] Israel has always faced (radical) Arab genocide, To fully understand current conflicts in the Middle East, history must be recalled. [2] It exist a common phrase: 'If the Jews would just lay down their weapons there would be no more Israel' [3].
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The first Arab sponsored terrorist attacks upon Jews occurred in 1920 [4] a highlighted tragedy is The Hebron Massacre of 1929 where thousands of Arabs descended from Har Hebron, shouting "Kill the Jews!" in Arabic [5] [6].
This was not the first mass racist attack by Arabs against unarmed civilian Jews in British Mandate ‘Palestine,’ nor would it be the last attempted extermination. [7].
It was the Mufti who sought to annihilate the tiny State of Israel [8], The Palestinian Mufti's Deal with Hitler: 'Kill All the Jews in the Middle East' [9].
Though Haim Weizmann declared he would accept a Jewish state even with the size of a tablecloth — still, even that was rejected by the Arabs who swore to "throw the Jews into the sea" and attacked in force to fulfill that oath. [10].
What the Fight in Israel Is All About... Spring of 1967 the Arab countries, led by Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt, prepared to attack Israel and, in their own words, “throw the Jews into the sea. [11] [12], the Arab leaders' slogan : We’ll Throw Them into the Sea" [13]
New Radical Islamic Thinking Justifying The Genocide of Infidels [14], Specifically Radical Islam's Threat of Genocide against the Jews is more and more revealed [15][16] [17].
The Palestinians Encourage Genocide [18] and on Palestinian TV openly call: Kill All The Jews [19], Palestinian Muslim cleric urges all Arabs to kill Jews, Christians [20], (Even calling to Kill all Americans [21]), Islamic sermons broadcast on Palestinian Authority have also been openly genocidal [22] An ideology of genocidal radical Islamism - Jihad-Islamism.[23]
At the second Palestinian violent Intifada, they came up with a new (tool in) Genocide: Suicide Bombing, designed to massacre the most masses of civilians possible [24] [25].
An emphasis in radicals' work is indoctrinating Palestinian Children to Genocidal Hate, Imams are extremely influential in successfully emphasizing the goals of jihad and martyrdom [26] Especially the Islamic party: Hamas promotes Islamic supremacy over the world, "The Hamas Ideology of Hatred and Genocide: Islamic supremacy over the world, destroying Israel and Jews [27], vows to 'drink' Jewish blood, group would drink the blood of Jews [28], Hamas Mickey-Mouse-like character to incite for genocide [29], Genocide of Jews remains Hamas goal [30] and declare: "The Final Goal of the Resistance is to Wipe This Entity Off the Face of the Earth" "We are making the preparations for a confrontation. This is not because we need to be prepared for an Israeli act of aggression - after all, aggression is intrinsic to this entity - but because the final goal of the resistance is to wipe this entity off the face of the Earth. This goal necessitates the development of the capabilities of the resistance, until this entity is wiped out." [31]
Hamas, the Muslim-Brotherhood-linked terror group dedicated to the annihilation of Israel through jihad [32], The people who comprise Hamas are dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and the slaughter of every Jew who lives there [33] in its Charter 1988 it states: 'Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it' ... Hamas wants the ‘islamisation’ of all the Middle East (as a first phase) [34].
In Al-Qaeda's Intellectual Legacy - Islamic Thinking justifying the genocide of infidels, According to al- Ali, all citizens of Israel are to be considered combatants. [35].
In her book 'Lebanon's Hezbollah' (2003, Page 49) Ann Byers writes: 'In the 1990s, Hezbollah was training members of the terrorist groups Al Qaeda... (it supported the PLO as) in its early days the PLO was dedicated to the annihilation of Israel'. [36].
The Hezbollah Founding Statement contains a section titled “The Necessity for the Destruction of Israel,” which reads as follows: “We see in Israel the vanguard of the United States in our Islamic world. It is the hated enemy that must be fought until the hated ones get what they deserve . . . Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. [37]
Hezbollah calling on Muslims to kill all Jewish Israelis with firearms, knives and poison [38]
The widening arena of Hezbollah's attacks stemmed from Nasrallah's perception that Jews anywhere are legitimate targets. In fact, Hasan Nasarallah has said: If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide. (Daily Star, Oct. 23, 2002) [39].
More from Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah on Al Manar: "Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan, America, is absolute. Regardless of how the world has changed after September 11, death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: Death to America." (House Record: 'war is ugly but tyranny is uglier'). [40], "Martyrdom operations -- suicide bombings -- should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it." [41]
Hezbollah’s renewal of Jihad Genocide on Global “Jewish Targets” (June, 2008) [42].
The 'Muslim Brotherhood's Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi: 'There is No Dialogue between Us and the Jews Except by the Sword and the Rifle' [43]
Islamic Republic of Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has triggered a sharp international response and widespread condemnation [44] [45] (It was not mistranslated [46]). has been described as wanting to carry out another genocide aimed at destroying the State of Israel [47], He 'faced genocide case', in 14 Dec 2006 was expected to be the target of a lawsuit which accuses him of inciting genocide against Israel. [48] [49].
In 2007, Ahmadinejad has threatened (again) the State of Israel with annihilation, Iran: 'Israel, US will soon die' [50]
Even many of 'moderate Arabs' have been accused of this [51], in a poll of February 16, 2007 '75% of Palestinians do not think that Israel has the right to exist' [52].
Jerusalem Post's C. Glick: No Tolerance for Genocide , Genocide: The Spirit of Palestine... in Palestinian society today. It is not just Hamas or Tanzim or Islamic Jihad that we must fight, but Palestinian society itself must be transformed for there to be peaceful coexistence. Poll after poll shows that a solid majority of Palestinians from all socio-economic levels supports suicide bombers and other forms of terrorism against Israel. In fact the polls show that the higher the socio-economic level of the respondents, the stronger their support for terrorism. Virulent, Nazi-style Jew hatred and dehumanization has become for the Palestinians, as for the Germans before them, the central unifying theme of society. The best-seller lists in the PA for years have included such works as Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. [53] [54] [55] [56].
On the so called 'Palestinian documentaries'. T. Menaker: 'College Film Festival: Kill the Jews', It is understandable that the mere existence of Israel in such close proximity is unbearable. What is strikingly serious in all these films is that if one were to count the most often used words, these words would be "humiliation" and "Kill the Jews!" Even in the most peaceful and idealistic documentary... a young boy asked what he wants to do when he grows up is prompted by his father: "Kill the Jews!" When asked to draw a picture of his future he draws himself killing Israelis. [57]
The International Solidarity Movement - a 'Palestinian' propaganda machine, organized many activities, including on US campus, both, the ISM and PSM support in thinly veiled language suicide bombings... in their gatherings the audience chanted "Kill the Jews" - "Ittbach al yahood" in Arabic [58].
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM), its American, student affiliate the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, and other radical left-wing groups label every inch of Israeli territory as “occupied Palestine,” advocate destroying the Jewish State by “any means necessary,” and openly condone terrorism and Muslim suicide bombers as a means for accomplishing this goal. These groups are working to eliminate a population of six million Jews. [59].
At Israel's operation against Hamas terrorists in 'cast lead' [60] December 2008-January 2009, anti Israel Arab Muslim protesters called for Jews to 'Go Back to the Oven', to 'kill all the Jews', or: “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas” [61], Other demonstrators held signs that said "Nuke Israel," and a number made comparisons to the Holocaust [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67].
Phyllis Chesler: Today, we have grown used to seeing Palestinian and Hamas supporters goose-step, Nazi-style, shoot out their arms as they deliver the Hitlerian "Sieg Heil" salute. They also chant and scream: "Jews to the ovens," "Hitler did not kill enough of you," "Jews to the gas chambers." [68].
Karşılıklı çıkarların korunup gözetilmesi konusunda devletlerarası ilişkilerde dengeler, diplomasinin izin verdiği kurallar çerçevesinde şekillenir. Bir dönem dostane ve barışçıl söylemlerle ortaya çıkan yakınlaşmalar başka bir dönemde yerini husumet ve çekişmelere bırakabilir. Tarih bu tür ilişkilere az mı şahit olmuştur? Elbette var olabilmek adına bu tür değişkenlikler yaşanmalıdır. İlişkilerde dostluktan düşmanlığa uzanan açılımlarda etik olarak kabul edilebilir sınırlar içerisinde kalabilmenin ve bunu yaparken kolektif bir aklın ürettiği bir incelikle hareket edebilmenin adıdır diplomasi. Temsil ettiği topluma ve muhatap aldığı çevrelere karşı ne denli inandırıcılığa sahipse o oranda güçlü bir etkisi bulunmaktadır bu söylemlerin. İkna kabiliyeti ölçüsünde ardına aldığı destek ile karşı tarafın etkisini kırmakta ve elde ettiği inisiyatif ile hedeflerine ulaşması kolaylaşmaktadır.
İşte yakın zamanlarda Alman Şansölyesi Angela Merkel ile Rusya arasında yaşananlar, akıl dolu diplomatik atakların en güzel örneklerinden biri olarak gösterilebilir türden. Daha geçtiğimiz ağustos ayında militarizmin bölge ülkeleri arasında yaygınlaşmasına olan etkileri nedeniyle Rusya'yı Rusya'da uyarmaktan kaçınmayan ve hemen ardından Gürcistan'ın Nato üyeliğini desteklediğini açıklayan Merkel, ikili ilişkilerde bugün, gerginliği azaltacak girişimlerde bulunarak beklediği kazanımları elde etmiş olarak ayrıldı Rusya'dan.
Peki, aralarında bitmek tükenmek bilmeyen düşmanlığa ve aynı coğrafyada varlık, üstünlük mücadelesi vermelerine rağmen nasıl oldu da bu ikilli birden bire böylesine can ciğer oluverdiler! Avrupa'da gücü bir zamanlar Almanya ile dengelenen Rusya, Amerika için her zaman kolay bir lokma olmuştur. Fakat 11 eylül bir şeylerin habercisi oldu! Adeta bir boşluk belirdi dengelerde. Bunu zamanında öngören toplumlar, oyunu bilinen kuralların dışında oynamaya başladılar. Yaşlı Avrupa ise çekimser kalarak Asyalı toplumların inisiyatif almalarına seyirci kaldı bir süre. Gelinen noktada şartlar, Rusya ve Almanya gibi birbirine tarihi kırgınlığı olan ülkeleri dahi işbirliğine mecbur bıraktı. Yakın bir tehdit algılaması olabilir mi bu? Sanmıyorum ama düşünsenize bir, şu zamanda Moğol saldırılarına benzer Asyalı, dinamik, nasıl davranacağı batılılarca bilinemeyen zinde bir askeri tehdit yavaş, yavaş doğudan batıya doğru kaymakta olsun. Ya da ekonomik bir istila ve herşeyden önce sanayileşme sürecini çoktan geride bırakarak pazar ağını Asyalıların değiştirilen tüketim anlayışı üzerine inşa etmiş Avrupa'nın üretim ve pazarlamada liderliği bölge insanlarına kaptırdığını. Bu şartlarda pazarlanacak ürün kalmazsa acaba üretim, ulaşım, ısınma ve kısaca hayatın her alanında ihtiyacı duyulan enerji kaynaklarından daha öncelikli başka bir tüketim kaynağı olabilir mi?
Almanya Rusya'yı finanse eder ve bunun karşılığında Çin'e kadar uzanan bakir topraklar üzerinde bulunan enerji kaynaklarında tasarruf hakkı elde ederse, acaba Amerika bu duruma ne der? ya da Hindistan, Pakistan ve Çin? Sanırım Amerika bu yerel ittifaklara göz yummak durumunda kalacak.
Merkel, bir Alman enerji şirketi olan E.ON'in Rus kamu şirketi olan Gazprom'la Sibirya'daki doğal gaz yataklarının işletimi konusunda bir anlaşma imzaladı. Ekim ayı başında St.Petersburg'ta imzalanan anlaşma gereğince E.ON, Sibirya'da bulunan doğal gaz yatakları üzerinde hatırı sayılır bir hisse elde etti.
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Anti-Arab hopeful irks Israel's Netanyahu
by Patrick Anidjar Patrick Anidjar – Thu Dec 11, 2:31 pm ET
AFP/File – Right-wing Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin is pictured in 1997.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – A far-right Likud party member has become a thorn in the side of party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, a frontrunner in the race to become Israel's prime minister, as media reprint comments he made praising the Nazi system and denigrating Arabs.
Moshe Feiglin, 46, had a strong chance of winning a parliamentary seat after gaining significant support within Likud, at a time when Netanyahu is seeking to soften the image of the right-wing opposition party............
........the Israeli media has since highlighted comments Feiglin made in a 1995 interview with the Haaretz daily, in which he spoke highly of Hitler and disparagingly of Arabs.
An observant yarmulke-wearing Jew, Feiglin called the man responsible for the Holocaust "an unparalleled military genius."
"Hitler savoured good music. He would paint. This was no bunch of thugs. They merely used thugs and homosexuals," Feiglin was quoted as saying at the time...........
ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081211/wl_mideast_afp/israelpoliticswwii
This is a Direct message and request to President Elect Obama,
The following news report published in today's Times of India (11/09/2008) indicate that you have selected an advisor of an Indian origin by name Sonal Shah. Sonal Shah is an hindu fundamentalist who belong to the state of Gujrat, Shah has unconditional relation with the hindu extremist group RSS and VHP. Both these are extremist hindu organization heavily funded by hindus in US who's main aim is to make India a racist and casteist nation in the name of hindu nation or bharat. In this process, all the hindu organizations, atleast the RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal's are involved in Burning and killing the Australian Christian family few years ago and in the recent communal violence that targeted Christians in India as well as Dalits and muslim minorities quite widespread in India. Hundreds and thousands of houses were burnt and innocent people were killed by these organizations.
Moreover, the Shah's family's involvement in all these organaizations is quite clear from the following report. On top of all these crimes the Shah family been part of it by beeing members of these fundamentalist organizations, Shah's family is very close to the Gujrat Chief Minister Narender Modi, who is no lesser evil than an hitler, Modi's direct hand in dalit atrocity, muslim atrocity and Christians killing and violence is a world known fact.
You have now in your advisor counsil a member of hindu fundemanlist that is very sad and unaccetable, before it is too late, I am directly writing to you through my blog here, I have been your well wisher and supporter from the beginning and so do hundereds and thousands of good Indian Americans who will be terrified by your choic of Shah as one of the advisor. This is horrendous choice and should be avoided before it is too late. And, by the way, the only thing I ever felt Bush administration did correct is to ban Modi, the Indian State of Gujrat's Chief Minister from entering USA. This is a very sane and very responsible legal action taken by President GW Bush and we hope you will continue to ban Modi the mass murdere to enter US soil.
Thanks,
Saint
Will Obama's top aide give Modi visa power?
"My Fellow Prisoners"? Are we going to be prisoners of a McCain administration and economy? Herr Hilter was not nearly as bold. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mBi7d6e5KI
The wiki Pan - Arabism page
The Arab Contrieng's "objection" is mainly against Atabism's anti-Jewish section, which is of course only reaffirming again Arab racism by staunch Pro-Arabism.
(There's also a bias tendency on some at the wikipedia "administrators" to block certain users under a cover of baseless "charge" of sockpuppet-ing, no, not when it comes to anti Jewish racist editors...).
Well, here we reiterate it again, I am the editor and I distribute it to others [free to use it] who might use wikipedia [figthing unfairness & bias].
Well, here are a few points about the undisputable connection.
Another important point, the POV push by some on wikipedia that Arabism is 'only' secular is totally wrong, historically or present, though not always is it 'religious' either, but there have been Islamism & Arabism connection since the beginning, and still going on today.
Pan-Arabism's anti-Jewish ideology
The champion of pan-Arabism Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser used the infamous anti-Semitic "protocols" libel in his war against Israel. [29], Both pan-Arabism and pan-Islamic ideologies looked to Hitler's Germany as a model Haj Amin al-Husseini expressed his admiration for the way 'the Germans have definitively solved the Jewish problem,' [30] & Gamal Abdel Nasser's affinity for the Mufti was great [31], Joachim Wurst describes the emergence and psychological mechanisms of modern anti-Semitism and particularly of genocidal Islamist anti-Semitism. He traces the development of this trend from the Muslim Brotherhood and the Mufti of Jerusalem in the 1930s and 1940s through the pan-Arabism of the 1950s and 1960s up to the present-day Islamism. [32].
1800's & 1920's.
The origin of anti-Jewish feelings among Arabs do not originate from what they preceive as 'the occupation of Palestine' and the creation of Israel. Even before the creation of the Israeli state in 1948 on what was before Palestine, a largely uninhabited terrain, many Jews were recorded attacked in various settlements by Arabs since the late 1800's [33].
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Pan-Arabism and Arabization - a movement for unification among the peoples and countries of the Arab World, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea. It is closely connected to Arab nationalism which asserts that the Arabs constitute a single nation. At times Pan-Arabism has tended to be secular and often socialist, but often it embeds within it Islamic tradition and culture or Islamism (like the genocide in Darfur). and has strongly opposed colonialism and Western political involvement in the Arab world. Also historic Arabizing of the middle east [1] and in Africa that process is still going on today [2]. Pan-Arabism is a form of nationalism and cultural nationalism .
There's a strong argument that Arabism was never detached from Islamism, To this day, Islam has retained its imperial ambitions. The dream of regional and world domination has remained very much alive, despite the destruction long ago of the last great Muslim empire, which has left the Islamic caliphate vacant. The 20th century doctrine of pan-Arabism (exemplified by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser), though secular in appearance, has been effectively Islamic in its ethos, worldview, and imperialist vision. Karsh quotes Nuri Said, longtime prime minister of Iraq and a prominent early champion of pan-Arabism: "Although Arabs are naturally attached to their native land, their nationalism is not confined by boundaries. It is an aspiration to restore the great tolerant civilization of the early caliphate." [3].
'Arabism Equals Racism', in an elaborated article, Gerald A. Honigman writes on the "acceptance of anyone else�s political rights in a multi-ethnic region that most Arabs see exclusively as "purely Arab patrimony." That's the Arab-Israel conflict in a nutshell; but it is also the core of the Arab-Berber, Arab-Kurd, Arab-Black African, Arab-Copt, Arab-Assyrian, Arab-non-Arab Lebanese conflicts, as well, among others. The Arabs' Anfal Campaign against the Kurds and their actions in Darfur and the rest of the southern Sudan are just a few of many examples of Arab genocidal actions against all who might disagree." [4].
Walid Phares writes about Arabism's denial of identity of millions of indigenous non-Arab nations as an ethnic cleansing on a politico-cultural level [5].
Christians of Iraq site published an extensive historic account on "The Foolishness of imposing Oppressive Arab Nationalism on Non Arabs, Non-Arab Muslim minorities such as the Amazigh, or Berbers, Kurds, and Turkmen found themselves officially out of favor. They faced the prospect of becoming "Arabized" or of being denied political and even civil rights. Groups that identified themselves as neither Arab nor Muslim had it even worse: Southern Sudanese, Copts, Jews, and Assyrians were plunged into a protracted nightmare that saw their communities ground into anonymity, forcing many to emigrate permanently. Even Maronites, whose retention of political power in Lebanon immunized them from utter marginalization, watched with alarm as Arab nationalist propaganda increasingly portrayed them as a foreign and sinister element in the heart of the Arab nation." [6]
Adel Makhoul wrote in May 1, 2005 about Pan-Arabists: Hiding Arab Racism, that they're agents of racism: Arab Racism, that always supported Arab unity and "Islam" at the expense of non-Arab and non-Moslem peoples and tries to deflect the world's attention from Arab and Moslem attrocities committed against Christians, Kurds, Jews, Israelis, Coptic Christians, non-Arab Sudanese, etc. he also points to the fact that Sadam Hussein's poisoning of the Kurds has never been condemned by one Arab intellectual or leader. This is because a racist prevalent attitude in the Arab mind is that the entire Middle East should be Arab. This also explains the attitude towards Israel, a country that is predominantly non-Moslem and speaks a Middle Eastern language other than Arabic.[7] Michael Totten decries the tired Arab nationalist myth that Arabism protects Christians. [8]
The linkage to terror - Protecting terrorism, Pan-Arabism: the inhuman progenitor of Islamic Terrorism [9].
A historic account of Pan-Arabism's Legacy of Confrontation with Iran & Arab racism against Iranians. [10], Iran Heritage says that It was in Saddam Hussein's Iraq where Arab racism attained its most vulgar ... The "Arabization" of Persian contributions on the world stage was in full. [11]
The Kurds in Syria between 2 to 2.5 million [12] they're second class citizens, for many not citizens at all, the attempts of Erasing Ethnic Identity. Syrian Kurds were banned from giving their children names reflecting their ethnic identity. Pary Karadaghi, Director of Kurdish Human Rights Watch in Washington, says one of the most basic ways of showing Kurdish identity was taken away. "The campaign of 'Arabization' actually replaced the Kurdish names, People could not have Kurdish names on cities, buildings [and] businesses. Children's names could not be Kurdish." Syria's Kurds struggle for years to survive despite government oppression on many fronts. [13] And a cry against syria's oppression has gone out. [14]
Iraq's Saddam Hussein's Anfal campaign was designed to depopulate ethnic cleansing the Kurdish regions in northern Iraq. [15], Kurdish writers decry the massacre of Halabja and The Racism of so-called Arab Intellectuals towards Kurds and Kurdistan [16] [17].
The UN documented the racism against Indigenous peoples Multi-ethnic States, The Imazighen Berbers are the indigenous peoples of northern Africa and the Sahel [18]. Despite Arabization's oppression in north-Africa, they are a proud people[19], Morocco's Berbers Battle to Keep Their Culture [20], in 2004 they spoke out and attacked Moroccan state racism [21]. Berber Leader Belkacem Lounes: �There Is No Worse Colonialism Than That of the Pan-Arabist Clan that Wants to Dominate Our People� [22].
Kabylia info writes about oppression and tyranny of its people by Arabic-Islamic colonialism [23], the IHT's description: This is Kabylia, one of Algeria's most restive regions - home to a stubborn and proud ethnic minority of Berbers who since the end of the colonial era four decades ago have fought to preserve their cultural identity and independence. [24]
SHEIK Taj Din al-Hilali: "The Western people are the biggest liars and oppressors and especially the English race," the Mufti of Australia said in Arabic during the extensive interview in Egypt, his birthplace. [25]
On the racist gang rape spree by Arab Lebanese in Australia targeting specifically white girls, From the Sydney Morning Herald 2002 Racist rapes: Finally the truth comes out, So now we know the facts, straight from the Supreme Court, that a group of Lebanese Muslim gang rapists from south-western Sydney hunted their victims on the basis of their ethnicity and subjected them to hours of degrading, dehumanising torture. The young women, and girls as young as 14, were "sluts" and "Aussie pigs", the rapists said. So now that some of the perpetrators are in jail, will those people who cried racism and media "sensationalism" hang their heads in shame? Hardly. [26]
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993: "I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave." [27]
In 2006 Arab "Youths� Kick Man to Death on Crowded Bus in Antwerp Belgium [28].
'Historical and Investigative Research' examins if Arab anti-Jewish racism in the first half of the 20th c. (that was marked already then with slaughtering of Jews with the racist shouting of Itbach al Yahud - kill the Jews) was fundamentally indifferent from the European variety [34]. On March 1, 1944. the famous Mufti: Amin Al-Husseini makes speech from Berlin addressing Muslim SS Nazi troops: �Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, History and Religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.� [35].
On Syria's Baathism's racism [36] Major ideas of Baathism center around racism and anti-Semitism. The Baath party stems from the Pan-Arab movement [37], examples: Syrian Daily Al Baath, October 21, 1998 had an antisemitic cartoon, and on October 21, 1998 on Syrian TV: In these days, all of us, Arabs and Muslims, must stand together against the Jews [38].
Egypt has played gross anti-Jewish TV extravaganza "Horse without Horseman" which also portrays the Arab/Israeli conflict in an antisemitic anti-Jewish format [39]. so does anti-Jewish themes in Hezbollah Media. [40] Memri So does the ADL [41], Saudi Arabia bans Jewish visitors [42]. Pew's finding in 2005 found that in Muslim nations such as Jordan most viewed Jews. [43].
But it knows no borders, of the ADL's records that documents antisemitic attacks wordlwide [44], the larger portion of those listed since 2002 (to 2008) were attributed to Arabs, especially those in Europe, in a sport game in Chile, Non-Jewish Goldberg (mistaken for Jew) made headlines after fans of Palestino, a Chilean team set up by Palestinian Arabs hurled racial slurs, 'They called me J. garbage' [45].
In 2007 the London editor of pan-Arab daily was praying for Iranian nuclear genocide attack on Israel [46] "if the Iranian missiles strike Israel, by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square and dance with delight." circulating its propaganda to about 50,000 readers [47].
Europe: A few examples in France: Already in October 2000 among a very long and troubling list of attacks, Jews threatened and shoved by Arabs outside O.Y. Synagogue in Paris (first of two incidents) & 'Death to Jews' painted on two Synagogues in Marseilles [48], between 2000-2001 200 Arabs attacked Jews on the Champs Elysees [49], in March 2003 French Arab Muslims attack Jews in Paris in an "anti-war" march [50], in 2003 Jewish congregations in Sweden have noted a sharp increase in "harassment threats and attacks by Arabs and Muslims against Jews [51], in 2004 Six Arab youths attacked a twenty three year old young mother with her thirteen month old baby [52] after "deciding" she was Jewish, cut her hair with knives, slashed her clothes and scrawled swastikas on her belly in black felt-tip pen [53],in March 2006 Jews attacked in Paris suburbs by Arabs [54] in June 2008 Jewish Boy Attacked by Arab Muslim Mob in Paris [55], A 17-year-old French Jew Rudy Haddad attacked by North-Africans (Arabs) Jewish teen brutally beaten in apparent anti-Semitic attack in Paris, "[Sarkozy] assures the victim and his family of his support and renews his total determination to fight all forms of racism and anti-Semitism," said a statement from Sarkozy's office. A 23-year-old French Jew, Ilan Halimi, was found naked, tortured and covered in burns near Paris on February 13, 2006, after being held captive for three weeks. He died on the way to the hospital. The crime shocked France and raised fears of surging anti-Semitism among French Muslims. In February of this year, another Jewish teenager was tortured in the same town in which Halimi was killed, in yet another anti-Semitic attack. [56].
At the UN, The Arab Lawyers Union of Egypt in Durban in 2001, distributed a booklet of violently Ani Jewish cartoons and has, since then, continued its incitement to Jew-hatred [57].
Jeremy Jones wrote in a report in 2004 on Australia that some of the most overt anti-Jewish rhetoric in recent years has come from the Muslim and Arab groups & communities, and within the Arab and Muslim communities there is a group of activists who seek at every opportunity to denigrate Jews, not only in association with attacks on Israel[1].
On campus: The university of Columbia's investigation into charges of anti-Jewish intimidation by Arab professors [58].
Harassment on Jewish students in Canadian universities by Arabs like in Carleton [59], Concordia University [60] which has been described by some as "centre of militant Arabism in Canada" [61]. [62] there were charges (in 2002) of militant Arabism in Canada's Concordia University.
More on campus, On May 7 2002, an example has been seen at the SFSU while a large, angry crowd of Arab Palestinians and their supporters swarmed a Jewish peace rally (where students wore t-shirts that said "peace" in English, Hebrew and Arabic) members, used physical violence, and shouted "Get out or we will kill you" and "Hitler did not finish the job" [63] [64] [65].
There are complaints against the Muslim Students Association MSA of racism against Jews coming from its Arabs, Muslims, in 2008 Author David Horowitz, a popular conservative writer, was derided in a Nazi-like anti-Semitic cartoon, put out by the Muslim Student Association. The cartoon, which was copied and spread around campus, portrays Horowitz, a Jewish man, as a hooked-nose Nazi hiding in a trash can [66].
Pundits explain that the conflict in the middle east Arabs Vs Israel (that started with racist massacers on Jews accompanied with the slogan "Itbach al Yahud - Kill the Jews" [67] already in the 1920's [68], through Hitler's buddy [69] the Mufti Mohammad Amin al-Husayni is just another Arab Muslim intolerance, the plight of Israel - being a minority in a majority hostile middle east. [70] [71] [72] And even progressive, left wingers in Israel realize that Arab racism must go, and that "There will be no peace around here before Arabs view Jews as human beings." [73], or as others have phrased it: Racism and Middle East Politics, As long as middle-eastern Arabs teach their children to hate Jews, there will be no lasting peace [74]. 'Facts and Logic About the Middle East' asks: Racism in the Islamic World How can peace prevail in the Middle East in the face of Islamic bigotry and hate? When will moderate Muslims speak out? [75], and the phenomenon of the new anti-Semitism which demonizes Jews and Israel alike, has fused itself with the "old" European anti Jewish bigotry [76]. Saddam Hussein's "Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Persians, Jews, and Flies" [77] who also led a racist [78] genocide campaign [79] against the Kurds, coincides with that in moments before his death, he shouted: 'Palestine is Arab', meaning only Arab. [80], as part of a culture of hatred, the racism that denies historic roots of the Jews to Israel [81].
The first recorded Arab attack on Jews in Palestine was already back in 1886 in Petach Tikva [82][83] [84] [85].
Regarding the racist expulsion of 850,000 to 900,000 Jews from Arab countries [86] [87] the ethnic cleansing of the Jews [88], the UN Watch Mar 19, 2008 has raised the importance of Historic truth in: Testimony at the UN - "Racism and Historical Truth: Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands" [89].
On anti-Jewish racism's effect on clarity of the middle east, Interfaith Office Acknowledges (May 2008) Anti-Jewish Motifs and Stereotypes in Commentary About Arab-Israeli Conflict [90], concern about Carter's pro-Arabism and veteran historian of Islam and the Middle East [91] & Bernard Lewis is concerned that the �Arab strain of racism, untruths and hatred against Jews and Israel is not only more virulent than its European counterpart, but is not counterbalanced by true scholarship or competing reason.� As a result, he believes, attitudes and beliefs �long discredited in the modernity of western countries take root with gullible, impressionable Middle Eastern audiences from a pre-modern culture.� [92].
There's extensive research on 'Palestinian Anti-Semitism' [93], In its official media, the PA daily described: The Fable of the Holocaust [94], the JCPA elaborates About Anti-Semitism among Palestinian Authority Academics and how The Palestinian Authority's academic anti-Semitism has built an extensive case against Jewish existence [95] This Palestinian racism is particularly dangerous because this hatred of Jews is portrayed as the will of Allah. [96] The Arab-Palestinian racism of killing only Jews In Israel, for the sole reason of being Jewish. they target every Jew, regardless of his or her individual political views, and they apologize when they accidentally kill a non-Jew, regardless of his political view. [97]
Rachel Neuwirth Wrote "Judenrein Palestine?" about Arabs forcing Israel to remove Jews from their historic Judea and asks: Why can�t Jews live in their historic homeland if there really is peace? After all, there are 1.2 million Arabs living as citizens of Israel in the one Jewish country in the world, while there are only a handful of Jews living in any of the 22 Arab countries. In fact, in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, not only is it illegal for Jews to be citizens, they are not even allowed to live there. Therefore, she proves, instead of Israel being the "apartheid state" in the region, it is the Arab world that is not only apartheid, but also racist and religiously exclusive" [98].
Arab Racism against Black Africans [99] [100], Darfur is but one example of Arab racism toward non-Arabs within the broader Arab world [101]. In the New York Times June 5, 1988 about Libya's leader: Qaddafi is bringing a truly racist crusade against Chad and Africa, Chad's President, Hissen Habre, told [102]. blacks who live in Arab countries subject to racism, most Arabs refer to blacks as "Abed" which means "slave" in Arabic. [103]. Umarlee details it: �Ugly Black Women�, Perfect Arab Wives, and Matters of Race, Arab racism is not akin to American white racism. Let it be said that Arab racism is different from white (American) racism [104]. In an article in The Guardian 2008, titled 'A paler shade of black' a former Sudanese Arab described his growing up (by his family) as "superior" to blacks, that were referred to as "abd" (slave), yet when he moved to Saudi Arabia he found out that his Arabness didn't measure up, he wasn't Arab enough in Saudi Arabia's racist society. [105] Some charge the Arab attitude on Darfur, 'to the True Nature of the Twin Fascisms of Islamism and Pan-Arabism' [106].
Eritreans in Egypt suffer from racism [107], in 2008 alone at least 20 Darfurian refugees (who tried to break free from Egypt's oppression into democratic Israel) have already died at the hands of Egyptian forces [108].
Palestinian-Arab Racism: Secretary of State Rice has been the subject of some vicious racial attacks [109] including an anti-black Racist Rice Cartoon in Palestinian Authority's controlled Press Al Quds 'Black spinster' label pinned on Condi Rice Palestinian media use racist terms including 'colored dark skin lady'[110] Condemned by Black Activists [111].
The Christian Science Monitor 2004 affirms that Racism is at root of Sudan's Darfur crisis [112], a writer at RaceandHistory.com calls it 'Arab Racism And Imperialism In Sudan' [113], Darfur crisis linked to Arab racism, Slavery [114]. and this genocide has been described as an example of Arab racism at its worst [115]. Sudanese decry the "Apology of racism", that some Sudanese people of Arabic origin consider themselves superior than the indigenous Sudanese [116]. Der Spiegel writes about the Janjaweed: Sudan's War within a War - regime that uses tribal conflicts and Arab racism [117]. Pundits of Sudan write about "Arab racism, Islamic bigotry and discriminatory practices are the most divisive issues in the Sudan" and its terrible effect, crimes on non-Arab Sudanese [118].
"We live in a dangerous world. And we need a president who understands the lessons of Sept. 11, 2001: that to protect America, we must stay on the offense, stop attacks before they happen and not wait to be hit again."
-Bush, RPN 2008
I'm going to fight for my cause every day as your President. I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight with me.
Fight for what's right for our country.
Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.
Fight for our children's future.
Fight for justice and opportunity for all.
Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.
Stand up for each other; for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America.
Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We're Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.
-McCain, RPN 2008
I say: my feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the Man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to the fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as sufferer but as fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through that passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and of adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have not duty to allow myself be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
- Adolf Hitler, April 12, 1921
… if, as in propaganda for sticking out a war, the aim is to influence a whole people, we must avoid excessive intellectual demands on our public, and too much caution cannot be extended in this direction… all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out.
Hitler, Mein Kampf
Number of times McCain mentioned fighting 35
Islamofascism, the very Appropriate Term, Islamo Arab Fascism (Islamic facism)
Hitler's Mufti | Islamofascism 101 | 'Apes & pigs'
Mufti Part 1 - The Arab Muslim Nazi Connection
Mufti Part 2 - Accounts of atrocities
The Truth about Islam and Nazism Adolph Hitler meets with Mufti Hitler, Mufti, Modern Islamo Nazism Hitler and the grand mufti of Jerusalem
Nazi Roots Of Islamofascismhttp://www.willisms.com/archives/2006/06/nazi_roots_of_i.html
Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini with Hitlerhttp://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php
Islamic Fascism 101, On all they’ve done to earn the name. Make no apologies for the use of “Islamic fascism.” It is the perfect nomenclature for the agenda of radical Islam, for a variety of historical and scholarly reasons. That such usage also causes extreme embarrassment to both the Islamists themselves and their leftist “anti-fascist” appeasers in the West is just too bad. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OGEyNjcyNzBjYTQ2MDM0ZGIzZjY5YjhhMzViYjdjNTA
'Islamofascism' Beware of a religion without irony. BY ROGER SCRUTON ... The term "Islamofascism" was introduced by the French writer Maxine Rodinsonhttp://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008822
Islamofascism ... Bush Is on to Somethinghttp://hnn.us/articles/30111.html
target="_blank">[2006] It's Islamo-fascism. It comes in different forms. They share the same tactics, which is to destroy people and things in order to create chaos in the hopes that their vision of the world become predominant in the Middle East.http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060807.html
Defending 'Islamofascist' What I like the best about the term Islamofascism is that it calls a spade a spade. It's not some wishy-washy euphemism. It pinpoints and accurately describes this century's greatest threat to humanity. It combines intolerant religious zealotry, that's the "Islamo" part, with ruthless totalitarianism, that's the "fascist" part. Islamofascism is a radical subset of Islam. Just as Earth First! terrorists are a radical subset of environmentalists. Not all Muslims are Islamofascists, but all Islamofascists are Muslims. Al-Qaida is Islamofascist, as are the Taliban and the extremist Wahhabi sect. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23972_5011681,00.html.
What Is 'Islamofascism'?http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/593ajdua.asp
Deroy Murdock on Islamofascismhttp://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock120302.asp
What I mean by 'Islamo-fascism'http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31315
The Muslim Brotherhood's Subterfuge: Plan For Islamofascism - 101http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2005/11/the_muslim_brot_1.php
Islamofascism similarly pursues its aims through the willful, arbitrary, and gratuitous disruption of global society, either by terrorist conspiracies or by violation of peace between states. Al Qaeda has recourse to the former weapon; Hezbollah, in assaulting northern Israel, used the latter. These are not acts of protest, but calculated strategies for political advantage through undiluted violence. Hezbollah showed fascist methods both in its kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and in initiating that action without any consideration for the Lebanese government of which it was a member. Indeed, Lebanese democracy is a greater enemy of Hezbollah than Israel.http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/007373.html
Early Views of Islamofascism (2008) - Anyone who thinks the idea of Islamofascism is a recent invention will be surprised by the series of quotes from early 20th century intellectuals linking Islam with totalitarianism upturned by Providence-area native...http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/005328.html
It's Fascism -- And It's Islamic [September 07, 2006]
Yes, the problem is 'Islamic fascism' [Aug 13, 2006]http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525865419&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
WALID SHOEBAT, FORMER PLO TERRORIST: Secular dogma like Nazis is less dangerous than this Islamofascism that we do today. It's less dangerous because Islamofascism has a religious twist to it. It has "God almighty" ordering to do this, not the furor. So it is way more dangerous. It is trying to grow itself in 55 Muslim states, so potentially you could have a success rate of several Nazi Germany if these people get their way. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/14/cnr.05.html
How to defeat Islamo-fascismhttp://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/Ohmyrus51230.htm
Islamofascism Rising in Hollandhttp://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6485
Sheik: 'It's OK to kill non-Muslims' London Islamic cleric caught on tapehttp://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29709
"If a kafir person (non-believer) goes in a Muslim country, he is like a cow," explains Hamza. "Anybody can take him. That is the Islamic law." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30689
What I mean by 'Islamo-fascism' [March 2003]http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31315
The Moderate face of Islamofascismhttp://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2005/06/the_moderate_fa.php
Islamofascism The Clash of Civilizations is West vs. Westhttp://www.michaelnovak.net/Module/Article/ArticleView.aspx?id=110
The Devilfish of Islamofascismhttp://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4364
Islamic radicals, like Hitler, cultivate support by nurturing grievances against others. Islamists, like Hitler, scapegoat Jews for their problems and want to destroy them. Islamists, Hitler divided the world into Aryans and subhuman non-Aryans, while Islamists divide the world into Muslims and sub-human infidels. Nazis aimed for their Thousand-Year Reich, while Islamists aim for their eternal Caliphate. The Nazi party used terror to achieve power, and from London to Amsterdam, Bali to New York, Egypt to Turkey, Islamists are trying to do the same. The two fascisms, one racial and one religious, one beaten and the other resurgent, are evil in both their ideology and their methodology, in their supremacism, intolerance, belief in violence and threat to democracyhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article550184.ece
...the United States can't win this war alone. We can do damage to the enemy. We can take the philosophical high ground and remind people of the importance of how freedom can change societies. But we will work with allies and friends to achieve this objective. And part of the challenge in the 21st century is to remind people about the stakes, and remind people that in moments of quiet, there's still an Islamic fascist group plotting, planning and trying to spread their ideology. And one of the things that -- one of the things that came out of this unfortunate incident in the Middle East is it is a stark reminder that there are those who want to stop the advance of liberty and destabilize young democracies. And they're willing to kill people to do so. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060807.html
...about the term, Islamo-fascism [...] listen to what Osama bin Laden has said. He has said that his envisions an "Islamic nation," to reestablish the caliphate -- I don't know if it would still be headquartered in Baghdad, but if you want your pristine historic analogy, that's where it would be, and it would extend from Asia all the way back to Spain, because memories are still raw about 1492 when the Moors were expelled from Andalusia. That's what he's talking about. So in that sense, what you end up having is strict centralized government under repressive conditions, the likes of which we saw with the Taliban. If you look at the interpretation of sharia law that has been championed by bin Laden and others, it fits all of the descriptions you've had. And if you talk about an unbroken government using those kinds of regulations over an extended landmass, which is what he's talking about, that it does fit the description.http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060913-3.html
Said Amir Arjomand [1986]: Like fascism, the Islamic revolutionary movement has offered a new synthesis of the political creeds it has violently attacked. And, like the fascists, the Islamic militants are against democracy because they consider liberal democracy a foreign model that provides avenues for free expression of alien influences and ideas. (Also like the fascists, however, the Islamic militants would not necessarily accept the label of "antidemocratic.")http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-8871(198604)38%3A3%3C383%3AIIRICP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
Islamofascism http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina50419.htm
Arab Racism & Islamo-Fascism!!! The most vicious Torture for WEEKS! and Cold Blooded Murder of poor Innocent Ilan Halimi by Islamo-Fascists http://arabracismislamofascism.blogspot.com/2006/03/most-vicious-torture-for-weeks-and.html
Neo-Nazi becomes fanatical Muslim. 24/5/2006. YOU COULDN'T make it up. A leading Nazi behind the notorious Combat 18 has become a fanatical Muslim supporterhttp://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=11680&grp=66&cat=330
Islamofascism the term (article by WSJ) http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2006/08/islamofascism.html
Kinder, Gentler Islamofascismhttp://www.kxnet.com/getARticle.asp?ArticleId=103620
How to explain the rise of Islamofascism? One word: Successhttp://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/07/sound2454159.992361111.html
Islamofascism's 1936http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060801-093446-6334r.htm
More on the Term "Islamic Fascists"http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/652
The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazis and Al Qaedahttp://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15344
Islamofascism by any other namehttp://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060901-090752-7525r.htm
The Meaning of 'Islamofascism'... ‘Islamofascism’. That conflates (sic) all the elements into one image: suicide bombs, kidnappings, and the Qur’an; the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan; Iranian clerics and Hitler … Unlike CAIR, many Arab liberal and reformist writers, have supported such an analogy. A Saudi columnist, Muhammad bin ‘Abd Al-Latif Aal Al-Sheikh, published a series of articles in the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah in July, attacking the ideology of the Al-Salafiyya movement (long associated with Saudi Wahhabi Islam). He said that the ideology of this movement was similar to, or even worse than, the Nazi ideology, and that it should be dealt accordingly. Mr. Al-Sheikh cited the conference on “de-Nazification” held in Potsdam, Germany, shortly following Nazi Germany’s surrender in 1945 to serve as precedence today. He explained it was credited with uprooting the culture of Nazism from Europe and that the conference made Nazism into something similar to a crime, not just in judicial and political terms, but also in terms of culture, ideology, and the media. Just as the world uprooted Nazism at the Potsdam conference, Al-Sheikh explained that the West should follow suit with Islamism after the attacks of September 11, 2001: “I still believe that one of the primary missions of the international community today is to repeat its experience with Nazism and to deal with this dangerous barbarian culture [of Islamofascism] exactly as it dealt with the Nazi culture. If this does not happen, the near future is liable to bring many [events], the consequences of which will be far more severe for all of humanity than [the consequences] of World War II.” A columnist for the London Arabic daily Al-Hayat, Zuheir Abdullah, blamed what he termed “Arab fascism”and “Islamism”for leading to the current backwardness of the Middle East. In an August 2003 article he wrote, “since 1948, primitive Arab fascism,” sometimes “allied with fundamentalist Islam,” has produced only “empty slogans.” Mr. Abdullah continued, “many simple-minded people and ignorant persons were unfortunately brainwashed and turned into the fuel of this extremism.” He concluded by stating the Arab world’s embrace of fascism and Islamism has led it to adding “almost nothing” to modern civilization.http://www.nysun.com/article/33302
Michael Ledeen on Fascism & War on Terrorhttp://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200310170840.asp
Islamic Fascism The only proper response to Islamofascism is total warhttp://markhumphrys.com/islamic.fascism.html
The Devilfish of Islamofascismhttp://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4364
Lebanon, Islamofascism and democracyhttp://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050619-111015-8701r.htm
Islamofascism and the Mental Immune System Oct 26, 2006 ... The surest way of dealing with Islamofascism is through effective inculcation of a religious software that promotes tolerance of diversity, ... http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/10/islamofascism_and_the_mental_i.html
Never Mind the Bomb, Beware of Islamofascism [Dec 20, 2007]http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=88&Itemid=2
Islamo-Fascism Week Spotlights Terrorism Oct 23, 2007 ... A week-long series of forums discussing Islamic fundamentalism’s ties to human rights abuses and terrorism has sparked protests and charges ...http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/islamofascism_week/2007/10/23/43339.html
Let's worry about Islamofascismhttp://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=kanchan%2Fkanchan166.txt&writer=kanchan
Yes, the problem is 'Islamic fascismhttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525865419&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Islamofasicsm: Hamas' Sturm Und Drang Islamofascism is a completely appropriate termhttp://www.windsofchange.net/archives/008063.php
Islamic Fascism the Enemy, Not Terror, Says Santorum -- 07/21/2006http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200607/POL20060721a.html
New wave of genocide building in Sudan... cleansing black Sufi Muslims from the western province of Darfurhttp://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200406250926.asp
Oriana Fallaci and the War Against Islamofascismhttp://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=20343
Rogmios on Islamofascismhttp://mysite.verizon.net/rogmios/id75.html
Islamofascism -- an enemy like no other http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LarryElder/2006/08/03/islamofascism_--_an_enemy_like_no_other
Islamofascism, Inc. by Chris Weinkopf To use Time’s pop-business lingo, Hamas is but a subsidiary of Islamofascism, Inc.http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7938
Hamas and Islamofascismhttp://allocasuarina.blogspot.com/2006/10/hamas-and-islamofascism.html
The Hamas-charter might indeed be a prime example of Islamofascismhttp://ronrosenbaum.pajamasmedia.com/2006/12/18/islamofascism_denial_and_islam.php
Nuclear Islamo-fascismhttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3182730,00.html
THE CREATION OF AN ANTI-ISLAMOFASCISM MOVEMENThttp://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/2539/2/
The Scope of Islamofascismhttp://www.danielpipes.org/comments/5948
Islamism, fascism andhttp://www.atimes.com/atimes/others/islamism-fascism-terrorism.html
The Historical Collaboration of Nazis with Muslims/Arabshttp://somebodyhelpme.info/nazimuslims/nazimuslims.html
DANEgerus - Islamofascismhttp://www.danegerus.com/weblog/Right.asp?svSubject=Islamofascism
A Case For The Term 'Islamofascism': How Hebollah killed (Arab) Civilians [0ct. 2006]James G. Zumwalt, a Marine veteran of the Persian Gulf and Vietnam wars, writes in The Washington Times of Hezbollah's incredibly sinister and deadly chess match in the recent Lebanon war, and of their tactical plan calculated to maximize civilian casualties on both sides of battlefield - by design on the Israeli side in targeting its major population centers and by consequence on the Lebanese side as Israel responded...http://www.freedomszone.com/archives/2006/10/a_case_for_the_term_islamofasc.php
A Bridge to 'Moderate' Islam Is In Fact a Road to Hell... Let us, for the record, be clear on this subject one more time: Islamism, Islamofascism, Radical Islam, Political Islam, and Militant Islam are different terms for essentially the same thing, a virulent, hateful, and violent system of beliefs and practices. Yet, one and all are progeny and mutation of Islam itself. [Agust 2007]http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3226&cid=2&sid=2
If we don't win the war against Islamofascism other issues won't matter at all.http://www.americancongressfortruth.org/
What is "Islamo-fascism"? Persian Journal, Iran - Jul 20, 2007 http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_22192.shtml
Moderate Islam Is No Islam http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3109&cid=2&sid=2
"Islamofascism is rooted in a theocratic Islamic jihadism that seeks to destroy and annihilate every last one of us. It wants to establish a complete Islamic theocracy across the world and for that to happen it means our culture has to be completely snuffed out http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58183
Fascism, Islamism, and Anti-Semitism [Jan. 2006] http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed010306c.cfm
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CONFLICT [September 23, 2007] -- WORLD WAR IV: The Long Struggle against Islamofascism http://www.nypost.com/seven/09232007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/wake_up_and_smell_the_conflict.htm
Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week [week of October 22-26, 2007] http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=A5F5C60A-C63A-4142-B4F5-1B8E5A3F3E94
Defending the term "Islamofascism." - By Christopher Hitchens [0ct. 2007]The term Islamofascism was first used in 1990 in Britain's Independent newspaper by Scottish writer Malise Ruthven, who was writing about the way in which traditional Arab dictatorships used religious appeals in order to stay in power. I didn't know about this when I employed the term "fascism with an Islamic face" to describe the attack on civil society on Sept. 11, 2001, and to ridicule those who presented the attack as some kind of liberation theology in action. "Fascism with an Islamic face" is meant to summon a dual echo of both Alexander Dubcek and Susan Sontag (if I do say so myself), and in any case, it can't be used for everyday polemical purposes, so the question remains: Does Bin Ladenism or Salafism or whatever we agree to call it have anything in common with fascism? I think yes. The most obvious points of comparison would be these: Both movements are based on a cult of murderous violence that exalts death and destruction and despises the life of the mind. ("Death to the intellect! Long live death!" as Gen. Francisco Franco's sidekick Gonzalo Queipo de Llano so pithily phrased it.) Both are hostile to modernity (except when it comes to the pursuit of weapons), and both are bitterly nostalgic for past empires and lost glories. Both are obsessed with real and imagined "humiliations" and thirsty for revenge. Both are chronically infected with the toxin of anti-Jewish paranoia (interestingly, also, with its milder cousin, anti-Freemason paranoia). Both are inclined to leader worship and to the exclusive stress on the power of one great book. Both have a strong commitment to sexual repression—especially to the repression of any sexual "deviance"—and to its counterparts the subordination of the female and contempt for the feminine. Both despise art and literature as symptoms of degeneracy and decadence; both burn books and destroy museums and treasures. Fascism (and Nazism) also attempted to counterfeit the then-success of the socialist movement by issuing pseudo-socialist and populist appeals. It has been very interesting to observe lately the way in which al-Qaida has been striving to counterfeit and recycle the propaganda of the anti-globalist and green movements. (See my column on Osama Bin Laden's Sept. 11 statement.) There isn't a perfect congruence. Historically, fascism laid great emphasis on glorifying the nation-state and the corporate structure. There isn't much of a corporate structure in the Muslim world, where the conditions often approximate more nearly to feudalism than capitalism, but Bin Laden's own business conglomerate is, among other things, a rogue multinational corporation with some links to finance-capital. As to the nation-state, al-Qaida's demand is that countries like Iraq and Saudi Arabia be dissolved into one great revived caliphate, but doesn't this have points of resemblance with the mad scheme of a "Greater Germany" or with Mussolini's fantasy of a revived Roman empire? Technically, no form of Islam preaches racial superiority or proposes a master race. But in practice, Islamic fanatics operate a fascistic concept of the "pure" and the "exclusive" over the unclean and the kufar or profane. In the propaganda against Hinduism and India, for example, there can be seen something very like bigotry. In the attitude to Jews, it is clear that an inferior or unclean race is being talked about (which is why many Muslim extremists like the grand mufti of Jerusalem gravitated to Hitler's side). In the attempted destruction of the Hazara people of Afghanistan, who are ethnically Persian as well as religiously Shiite, there was also a strong suggestion of "cleansing." And, of course, Bin Laden has threatened force against U.N. peacekeepers who might dare interrupt the race-murder campaign against African Muslims that is being carried out by his pious Sudanese friends in Darfur. http://www.slate.com/id/2176389/
Islamo-Fascism Denial [Oct. 23 07] There is nothing artful or contrived in the term "Islamo-Fascism." It is derived from history itself. Hassan al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (from which today's radical Muslim groups descend) was, after all, an open admirer and supporter of Adolf Hitler -- as was the principal theorist of the modern jihad, Sayyid Qutb. During World War II, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, cousin of Yasir Arafat and spiritual godfather of Palestinian nationalism, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, prouncounced his pro-Nazi sympathies openly and proudly. In May 1941, he issued a fatwa calling upon the Germans to bomb Tel Aviv, and in November 1941 traveled to Berlin and met with Hitler. He implored the Nazi dictator to help implement a Final Solution in the Middle East. Then he went to the Balkans, where he spearheaded the creation of Muslim units of the Waffen SS. In terms of the specific terrorist groups and entities mentioned in the MSA packet, all of them -- along with many others -- have indeed made clear that they wish to destroy the United States and dominate the world under an oppressive caliphate -- that is, a unified Islamic state ruled by Islamic Sharia law: Al-Qaeda: Osama bin Laden has said that the 9/11 attacks strengthened the Muslims, "which is a very good sign and a great step towards the unity of Muslims and establishing the Righteous Islamic Khilafah [caliphate] insha-Allah [Allah willing]." His second-in-command, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, has declared: "The war with Israel is not about a treaty, a cease-fire agreement, Sykes-Picot borders, national zeal, or disputed borders. It is rather a jihad for the sake of God until the religion of God is established. It is jihad for the liberation of Palestine, all Palestine, as well as every land that was a home for Islam, from Andalusia to Iraq. The whole world is an open field for us." Hamas: The Hamas Charter sets out its Islamic mission as global: "Its spatial dimension extends wherever on earth there are Muslims, who adopt Islam as their way of life; thus, it penetrates to the deepest reaches of the land and to the highest spheres of Heavens. . . . By virtue of the distribution of Muslims, who pursue the cause of the Hamas, all over the globe, and strive for its victory, for the reinforcement of its positions and for the encouragement of its Jihad, the Movement is a universal one." Universal in what way? The Palestinian Sheikh Ibrahim Madhi exhorted believers in 2002 "Oh beloved, look to the East of the earth, find Japan and the ocean; look to the West of the earth, find [some] country and the ocean. Be assured that these will be owned by the Muslim nation, as the Hadith says . . . 'from the ocean to the ocean.'" The Muslim Brotherhood: Its founder, Hasan Al-Banna, wrote that "it is a duty incumbent on every Muslim to struggle towards the aim of making every people Muslim and the whole world Islamic, so that the banner of Islam can flutter over the earth and the call of the Muezzin can resound in all the corners of the world: God is greatest [Allahu akbar]!" Despite recent claims to the contrary, there is no evidence that the Brotherhood has renounced this goal. Hezbollah: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has made clear that he wishes to pose a threat to the United States: "Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan is absolute.…I conclude my speech with the slogan that will continue to reverberate on all occasions so that nobody will think that we have weakened. Regardless of how the world has changed after 11 September, Death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: Death to America." The Islamic Republic of Iran: While as a Shi'ite he does not wish to see the establishment of a caliphate, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad harbors similar dreams of Islamic domination. He said in 2005: "we will soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism and will breathe in the brilliant time of Islamic sovereignty over today's world." And in terms of Saddam Hussein, suffice it to say that there was a reason he trained thousands of Islamic jihad terrorists from all over the Middle East at camps in Iraq over the four years preceding the U.S. invasion. http://www.aina.org/news/2007102311299.htm
Islam and Islamofascism [Nov. 07]http://www.globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3689&cid=11&sid=109
Why 'Islamofascism' correctly identifies threat [Oct. 25 07] Islamofascism is an ideology that seeks a global theocracy under the dictatorship of a caliph. Everyone will be converted to their extremist interpretation of Islam, and any one who resists will be killed in the name of Allah. These extremists, however, do not represent the basic beliefs of Islam, and their message and methods resemble Nazis more than Muslims. Their goals are almost a mirror image of Hitler's dreams of world domination and extermination of the Jews, except their justification claims to be rooted in Islam rather than German nationalism. How is "Islamofascism" a racist term? It isn't. The term has nothing to do with the ethnicity of our enemy, nor should it. The term is a fusion of Islam - which is a religion and not a race - and fascism. Most of the terrorists are ethnically Arabic, but the membership of al-Qaida and similar networks is not exclusively Arabic. The focus of the word is fascism, which is used to describe the terrorists' methods and goals. How does the phrase "militant fundamentalist Muslims" more accurately describe who we are fighting? It doesn't. Our enemy is indeed militant and claims to be Muslim, but their breed of Islam is not fundamentalist. The fundamentals of Islam are faith, worship, charity, sacrifice and pilgrimage. Islamofacism has interpreted Islam as not only a religion but an entire political and economic system as well. They have twisted the meaning of holy war into a tangible fight against infidels when the concept of jihad is supposed to be an internalized battle within the human conscience. http://media.www.lsureveille.com/media/storage/paper868/news/2007/10/25/Opinion/Why-islamofascism.Correctly.Identifies.Threat-3059132.shtml
Tony Blair: Iran extremism like rise of 1930s fascism [Oct. 2007]http://www.thatpoliticalblog.com/serendipity/archives/1668-Tony-Blair-Iran-extremism-like-rise-of-1930s-fascism
Islamofascism: Why It Is Fascism and Why Hating It Isn't Racist [Dec. 2007] Islam is not a race. Even its harshest critics, if they limit their criticism to doctrine and to those only who follow it, are not to be labeled bigoted or racist. Religion is an idea, a belief system not immune from mockery or even detestation, and abhorrence for it is perfectly ethical (and legal, at least in this country). Succumbing to political correctness would have me now declaring impartiality for all the monotheisms, claiming an equality for each theology. I am all for equal-time ridicule, but not today. So let me be clear. There is very little about the Islamic faith, in particular, that I find believable or inspirational. The given-at-birth compulsory submission to a deity –– as its translation boasts –– is not my bag. An illiterate businessman-turned-general talking to angels and going on fantastical night journeys across the sky, taking six-year-olds as his wife, invading and converting large portions of planet, insisting his word alone is the final and unalterable directive of the divine… None of this makes me want to humble myself, get on my knees, and bow my head. I look at the life of Muhammad –– the pedophilia, the megalomania, the conquests –– and see John Mark Karr with an army. But my contempt for this theological arrogance does not render a hatred for, or suspicion of, Muslims as individuals or as a people; nor will it, nor should it. I have a fair amount of Muslim friends, some of them very good friends, and, in the mold of Dr. King’s litmus test, I judge them, like everyone else, based upon the content of their character –– not their genetic makeup. This is not racism anymore than disdain for Marxism is racism; anymore than abstract anticommunism undermines the concreteness of a beautiful Cuban girl, or the sincerity of a Russian acquaintance, for instance. Those on campus who were wearing green to protest the original protesting of fascism should at least forfeit to irony: the green they don takes us back the “green shirts” of Haj Amin al Husseini, the Palestinian mufti and long time Hitler companion and proxy, as well as the Nazi-admiring Hassan al Banna, brown-shirt wannabe and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. The lack of study into the fascist origins of contemporary Middle Eastern movements is just another sad example of Western self-loathing and academic indifference, but thankfully we have colleagues like Ryan Mauro to shed some light for us. How quickly we forget that Mussolini, for example, was admiringly called Musa Nili across the Arab world. Who remembers the Waffen SS hit-squads that armed the warriors of Grand Mufti Husseini –– plush with Third Reich subsidies –– to liquefy anti-Nazi citizens of the Baltic? Did your last professor point out that the predecessors of al Qaida –– who Hitler called his Gebirgsjäger Muslim killers –– slaughtered 100,000 innocents by 1943? It continues: Nazi agent General Khairallah Tulfah would go on to raise and mentor his Tikriti village nephew, Saddam Hussein. Future Egyptian presidents Nasser and Sadat –– supposed secularists –– mingled with the Brotherhood, which in turn spawned Egyptian Islamic Jihad, cradle of al Qaida linchpin Dr. al Zawahiri. (Nasser would later rely on ex-Gestapo goon Joachim Daumling to craft his own secret police force.) Hitler’s propagandist Johannes von Leers would flee postwar Germany, change his name to Omar Amin, and become a lead official in Egypt’s information ministry, just as Sami al Joundi of the Syrian Ba’ath would brag, “We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in Nazi literature… we were the first who thought of a translation of Mein Kempf.” (Eichmann aide Alois Brunner would also assist the Assads in Damascus.) I could go on, but must I really? When defending the label of fascist, however, none of this fascist-entrenched history really matters. The premise of subservience to a celestial dominion and the coerced obedience to the earthly holy men who implement this dominion is enough: it’s Islamic and it’s fascistic. It is a creed that seeks to control what you think, say, hear, read, eat and drink; who you talk to, who you befriend, and who you hold hands with. This is the root basis of totalitarianism and it’s all in your God-given Qur’an. Societies, cultures, and peoples can most certainly change, but self-described infallible doctrine cannot. It was not designed to reform. Its divinity and irreversibility is the reason for its existence. There used to be a proud secular tradition of liberal antifascism, but the veneer of multiculturalism and relativism has prodded such thinkers into a state of fear. Many are afraid to come across as intolerant of intolerance, lest they seem as if they are asserting political supremacy or cultural superiority. This is why Western operas have been canceled, why cartoons have been taken out of circulation, why movies have been taken off air, and why journalists and authors with prices on their heads are in hiding all across Europe –– all products of a free and wonderfully crude culture under threat from book-burning mullahs. But there is good news. You do not have to oblige yourself into justifying deplorable atrocities in the name of “understanding.” You do not have to defend the apocalyptic Haghani Circle of Iran, or the Salafist lecturers in Pakistan, or the Wahhabi royal family. You do not have to applaud the “transparency” of the Iranian committee entitled the “Council for Spreading Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Thoughts.” When Hina Saleem’s father cuts her throat, buries her in the yard, and faces her head towards Mecca before rigamortis sets in –– for the sin of loving an Italian man –– and most of the Islamic organizations in Europe (from the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy to the Islamic Cultural Association in Brescia) defend the murderer, not the victim, you do not have to conscript yourself into appreciating or defending this insanity. You’re allowed to hate it. Not all hate is improper. My hatred of the fascistic impulses of archaic shari’a law stems not from ignorance of “the other,” but from knowledge. The more I learn, the more that is revealed, the stiffer my backbone becomes and the more I come to despise. This hatred is fine, as its converse would be immoral indifference. http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=1359
"The Islamic fascists who have declared enmity against us are not interested in settling the types of lines of demarcation that normally settle wars. " [2007] http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30107.html
Mike Huckabee: We must defeat IslamofascismTogether, we must prevent nuclear proliferation and defeat Islamofascism. Together, we must be the people who confront and overcome evil... (Feb , 2008)http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202064581092&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
First Things Next (for the 2nd time) PoliGazette, Netherlands - Jan 22, 2008 Islamofascism is an aggressive movement determined to impose fundamentalist Islamic theocracy on all the peoples of the world by means of violence http://poligazette.com/2008/01/23/first-things-next-for-the-2nd-time/
Winds of War: Apposing Islamofascism [29 Jan 2008 by WC] I oppose Islamofascism because I believe in the separation of church and state. * I oppose Islamofascism because I believe in freedom of speech. * I oppose Islamofascism because I believe in freedom of religion...http://the-gathering-storm.blogspot.com/2008/01/winds-of-war-apposing-islamofascism.html
Early Views of Islamofascism [7 Feb 2008] by Carroll Andrew MorseAnyone who thinks the idea of Islamofascism is a recent invention will be surprised by the series of quotes Andrew Bostom has upturned from early 20th century intellectuals linking Islam with totalitarianism.http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/005328.html
A German’s Point of View on Islam (Feb. 2008) [Islamofascism: Parallels with Nazism & Communism]http://www.icjs-online.org/index.php?article=1414
Islamofascism 101 - Little Green Footballs has several posts that are demonstrative of the true nature of Islamofascism. Rather than post them individually, they are all on this post. Only excerpts are given so check them out via the headline links to the permanent archives!http://blogfromthejungle.blogspot.com/2007/04/islamofascism-101.html
Militant Islam 101: a history - In the wake of the Iraq War, there has been much Monday morning quarter backing by America's weak offensive line (liberals) who insist the “War on Terror” is to be waged only against Osuma bin ladens al Qaeda. This essay is to make the connection of pan-Islamo Fascism and its long terrorism history. As the democratic world confronts al Qeada's Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah 's Hassan Nasrallah, and their followers, many among us are trying to understand militant Islam, where it came from and its aims. The following background material is designed to give an overview of the phenomenon that has been called "militant Islam," "fundamentalist Islam," “Islamo Fascism” “Islamism,” or "radical Islam." [July, 2008]http://www.free-press.biz/usa/Islamism-101.htm
Testbook Terrorism Islamofascism: [7/24/2008] A new study confirms our “ally” Saudi Arabia is still poisoning young Muslim minds with anti-Western textbooks. So? Its hate-filled graduates are enrolling at our colleges. …despite promised reforms, the kingdom still teaches students to “hate the infidels.” The texts assert that it’s “permissible” for a Muslim to kill an “apostate,” an “adulterer,” a “homosexual,” as well as non-Muslims practicing “polytheism,” or Christianity. The violent ideology is introduced in a religion textbook in the first grade and reinforced and developed in following years of the public education system, culminating in the 12th grade…including to 19 academies founded by the Saudi ministry and chaired by local Saudi ambassadors in or near major foreign cities. Quotes from the latest textbooks Riyadh is propagating include: • “The Jews and Christians are enemies of the believers.” • “Only through force and victory over the enemies is there security and repose. • ”The apes are Jews, the people of the Sabbath; while the swine are Christians, the infidels of the communion of Jesus.” The Saudi ministry has not removed these messages from its school texts…http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=301792048827503
The truth about Islamofascism [2008]Coffee break: Kanchan Gupta...40 per cent want shari'ah in Britain for Muslims; 33 per cent favour a worldwide Islamic caliphate; 24 per cent think men and women are not equal; 32 per cent believe killing in the name of religion is justified; 33 per cent don't think Islam is compatible with democracy...The reason for this digression is not to provide an insight into the warped mindset of those who believe 'Islam is the solution' -- much as Adolf Hitler thought he had found the 'final solution' to rid the world of Jews and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks god has willed him to complete Hitler's unfinished task -- but to highlight the danger posed by those who see nothing wrong with the fringe increasingly occupying the centre. The lib-left intelligentsia, whose criminal disregard of facts and aggressive peddling of fiction often persuades ill-informed and ill-intentioned journalists to suppress the truth, wants society to be tolerant of Islamofascism; to indulge the Muslim cult of denial; and, to gloss over incidents like serial bombings and suicide attacks. Those who refuse to do so are accused of Islamophobia...http://www.dailypioneer.com/agenda1.asp?main_variable=sundaypioneer%2Fdialogue&file_name=dial1.txt&counter_img=1
Islamofascism, the broader, wider & deep reality, (research) How radical Islam makes you a fascist
Islamo Arab fascism: For Arabs only, For Muslims only & Anti-Israel as an integral part of it
The middle east, Arab Muslim violence & Islamo-Fascism - http://somebodyhelpme.info
Finally mainstream media blows the lid on Islamofascism, Islamofascists: 'Non Muslims = apes & pigs'
The following are some of the recent showing in US media, where up to now it was a taboo, so not to offend some Muslims it's called "Politically correctness", as Brigitte Gabrielle said this PC is killing us... on Glenn Becks's special called "Radical Islam Extremist agenda". You can see how they compare their tactics to the nazis of WW2, (No, not the exaggerated slogans anyone throws in a political discurse, but) real fascism.
They show there the Wahabbi Saudi Arabian evil textbooks that are being spread into the US calling Christians and Jews "apes and pigs" (as if it's not enough that their Quran says that, they stress it out to adhere to in real life...).
Another Arab speaking out is M. Darwish that laments on how the Islamic adults brainwash the toddlers with so much hatred and glorifying mass murder in the name of Islam.
Finally he has the segment of the few rare moderates, like the Nevada's Islamic group that is moderate and speaks out against it so do some cleric in Kuwait that regret the CULT of DEATH, "not giving the value of life to our kids"...
http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/ OBSESSION The Movie Obsessionhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227057,00.html The Threat of Radical Islamhttp://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/15/tivo-alert-glenn-beck-presents-exposed-the-extremist-agenda/ (CNN) Glenn Beck: 'Islamic Extremism' Greatest Threat to US http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/11/14/170416.shtml?s=br (Video) Exposed: The Extremist Muslim Agenda http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/185400.php
Some quotes from the "Obsession" On radical Muslims' war against Non Muslims (copied from http://attheagora.blogspot.com/ )
First, Walid Shoebat – Billed as a “Former” PLO Terrorist:1. “When the terrorists attacked America on 9/11 – everyone asked, “Why do they hate us, Americans had no clue!”2. “Muslims are also victims.”3. “Jihad means to struggle – the struggle within – but so does Mine Kampf.”4. “Radical Islam is way more dangerous than German Nazism because it is god not the Fuarer telling you to do this.”Second, Khaled Abu Toamel – Palestinian Journalist:1. “Radical Islam has declared War . . .”2. “A campaign to bring down the West”.3. “Islam has been hijacked”.Third, Nonie Darwish – Daughter of a Shahid (martyr)1. “When I saw the second airplane hit, I knew Jihad had come to America.”2. “A down right declaration of war from Islam on Western Culture.”3. “To conquer the world for Allah – That is Jihad.”4. “They blame every little problem in the Arab world on the West.”5. “We have been infiltrated by people who want the Koran to replace our Constitution.”6. “. . . They are here to make Islam the law of the land.”7. “America has to wake up because we are strangling ourselves with our political correctness.”What follows now are direct quotes from Islamic Radicals. I have given names and dates when possible. Speakers are presented in the order of their first appearance, although many statements were presented by some later in the documentary.1. Khattab – Chechen Terrorist Leader (Sept. 2004):“From now on we will get our bombs everywhere! Let Russia await our explosions blasting through their cities. I swear we will do it.”2. From a Lebanese Suicide Bomber Induction Ceremony (1996):“We swear by the blood and severed bodies of our children and the torment of our prisoners, and we will reply blowing our bodies!”3. Hassan Nasrallah – Hizbollah Sec. Gen. (2005):“The most honorable death is by killing. And the most honorable killing and most glorious martyrdom is where a man is killed for the sake of Allah.”“We consider [America] to be an enemy because it is the greatest plunderer of our treasures, our oil, and our rescores, while millions in our nation suffer unemployment, poverty, hunger, unmariageability, ignorance, darkness, and so on.”“Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is: Death to America.”4. Hassein Suadd – Al-Qassam Brigades Commander (Dec. 2005):“We succeeded, with Allah’s grace, to raise an ideological generation that loves death like our enemies love life."5. Sheikh Ibrahim Madhi (2001):“We must educate our children on the love of Jihad for the sake of Allah. And the love of fighting for the sake of Allah.”6. Little Girl on Palestinian T V:“But I march quickly toward my death.”7. Little boy on Palestinian T V:“. . . And we swear to take vengeful blood from our enemies for our killed and wounded.8. Jordanian and Palestinian School book (1998):“This religion [Islam] will destroy all other religions through the Islamic Jihad fighter.”9. 3 ½ year old Girl prompted by some adult (May, 2002):“A - . . . Are you familiar with the Jews?G - Yes.A – Do you like them?G – No.A – Why don’t you like them?G – Because.A – Because they are whats?G – They’re apes and pigs.A – Who said they are so?G – Our God.A – Where did He say this?G – In the Koran.”10. Sheik Dr. Bakr Al-Samarai (February, 2003):“If Allah permits us, oh Nation of Mohammed, even the stone will say, ‘Oh Muslim, a Jew is hiding behind me come and cut off his head! And we shall cut off his head! By Allah, we shall cut off! Oh Jews. God is Great; Jihad for the sake of Allah!” (There were thousands shown cheering this speech.)11. Little girl on Palestinian T. V.“When I wander into the entrance of Jerusalem, I’ll turn into a suicide warrior. I’ll turn into a suicide warrior. In battledress. In battledress.”12. Sheidh Al – Bajrruni – Palestinian Religious Scholars Ass. (2004):“Oh Muslim, as much as you yearn for death, so you will be given life”13. Ahmed Abdul Razek – Palestinian Cleric (2002):“Should we want honor the only way to honor is by jihad!"14. Ibrahim Muderis – Palestinian Cleric (2003):“America is the foremost enemy of the Muslim Nation because it wages war against the Arab, Islamic Nation.”15. Nagi AL-Slihabi – Egyptian Newspaper Editor (2004):“The truth is that the US wants to eradicate our religious and Islamic identities.”“The only enemy of the Arab and Islamic peoples is the US and not only Israel.”16. Saudi Cleric Aed Al-Qami (2004):“Houses and young men must be sacrificed. Throats must be slit and skulls must be shattered. This is the path to victory.”“Furthermore, reality shows that American is behind all problems.”17. Al-Qaeda Operative, (In a hood) (2005):“Come and join us. Join this blessed jihad. Come for the sake of Allah. Join us in the blessed jihad, with Mullah Omar and Sheik Osama bin Laden.”18. Abu Hamza Al – Masri (1998):“What makes Allah happy? Allah’s happy when (non-Muslims) get killed.”“You see the Islamic rule, if a Kuffar (non-Muslims) goes into a Muslim country. And he’s walking by. He’s like a cow; boy, anybody could take him. That is the Islamic rule and this is the opinion of Islam. It’s not my opinion. If you read the books of jihad, you’ll see . . . A Kuffar is walking by, he walks inside – you catch him. “What are you doing here?” Then he’s a booty, you can sell him in the market. If Muslims cannot take him, you know, and sell him in the market then you just kill him. It’s okay.”“It’s only a matter of time until we rule Earth, until we control Earth.”“In the end of the day, Islam must control Earth whether we like it or not it’s a promis from the prophet.”19. On Iranian TV– Momaoun Al-Tamimi – Political Consultant (May 2004):“They [The Americans] are beasts in human form.”’20. Voice over on Iranian TV (2004):The Statue of Liberty slowly turns in above a sea of blood. “There she is, the unique symbol of freedom. American is the enemy of God’s unity and an affront to God.” The statue turns to reveal a death’s head.While showing a picture of President Bush, “This is Satan, the source of tyranny.”21. Palestinian TV - Suliman Sutari, before thousands of chanting fanatics. (July 8, 2005):“Annihilate the infidels and the polytheists. They’re [God’s] enemies and the enemies of the religion. God, count them and kill them to the last one, and don’t even leave one.”22. June 2005 – The Islamic Thinkers Society – a video voice over while young "Americans" are stamping on an American flag:“In this country, one of the loopholes of this government is they allow the freedom of expression.”“Indeed, it is He [Allah] who sent His messenger, Mohamed, with the Islam to dominate over all other religions; to dominate the United Sates; to dominate the world even though the non-Muslims may hate it.”23. Some unnamed, turbaned figure speaking on a computer capture.“Islam’s superior than the Jews, than the Christian, than the Buddhists, than the Hindus. Who ever seeks any other thing apart for Islam will never be accepted. And the Christian or Kuffar, you may think to yourself. No, No, No, they are innocent. No Kuffar is innocent.”24. Another shouting computer image:“From yourself we’ll make your destruction because Allah’s tradition will prevail on this earth.”25. Mohanoud Ahmadinejad – Iranian President (July, 2004):“The message of the (Islamic) Revolution is global, and is not restricted to specific place or time. Have no doubt – Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountains tops of he world.”26. “Palestinian T.V, Ibrahim Mudeins (March 2005):“We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again!”27. Screaming demonstrator at a rally in Great Britain: (May 2005)“One day this very flag will fly over the Parliament in London. We will see this flag that will fly over the White House, and we will see the Black House, the Kaaba [in Mecca] will take over the whole world!”28. H. R. Saleen, Chairman of Muslim Youth Organization:“You will take over USA! You will take over UK! You will take over Europe! You will defeat them all! You will get victory!! You will take over Egypt! We trust in Allah!”
First, Walid Shoebat – Billed as a “Former” PLO Terrorist:
1. “When the terrorists attacked America on 9/11 – everyone asked, “Why do they hate us, Americans had no clue!”
2. “Muslims are also victims.”
3. “Jihad means to struggle – the struggle within – but so does Mine Kampf.”
4. “Radical Islam is way more dangerous than German Nazism because it is god not the Fuarer telling you to do this.”
Second, Khaled Abu Toamel – Palestinian Journalist:
1. “Radical Islam has declared War . . .”
2. “A campaign to bring down the West”.
3. “Islam has been hijacked”.
Third, Nonie Darwish – Daughter of a Shahid (martyr)
1. “When I saw the second airplane hit, I knew Jihad had come to America.”
2. “A down right declaration of war from Islam on Western Culture.”
3. “To conquer the world for Allah – That is Jihad.”
4. “They blame every little problem in the Arab world on the West.”
5. “We have been infiltrated by people who want the Koran to replace our Constitution.”
6. “. . . They are here to make Islam the law of the land.”
7. “America has to wake up because we are strangling ourselves with our political correctness.”
What follows now are direct quotes from Islamic Radicals. I have given names and dates when possible. Speakers are presented in the order of their first appearance, although many statements were presented by some later in the documentary.
1. Khattab – Chechen Terrorist Leader (Sept. 2004):
“From now on we will get our bombs everywhere! Let Russia await our explosions blasting through their cities. I swear we will do it.”
2. From a Lebanese Suicide Bomber Induction Ceremony (1996):
“We swear by the blood and severed bodies of our children and the torment of our prisoners, and we will reply blowing our bodies!”
3. Hassan Nasrallah – Hizbollah Sec. Gen. (2005):
“The most honorable death is by killing. And the most honorable killing and most glorious martyrdom is where a man is killed for the sake of Allah.”
“We consider [America] to be an enemy because it is the greatest plunderer of our treasures, our oil, and our rescores, while millions in our nation suffer unemployment, poverty, hunger, unmariageability, ignorance, darkness, and so on.”
“Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat year after year, is: Death to America.”
4. Hassein Suadd – Al-Qassam Brigades Commander (Dec. 2005):
“We succeeded, with Allah’s grace, to raise an ideological generation that loves death like our enemies love life."
5. Sheikh Ibrahim Madhi (2001):
“We must educate our children on the love of Jihad for the sake of Allah. And the love of fighting for the sake of Allah.”
6. Little Girl on Palestinian T V:
“But I march quickly toward my death.”
7. Little boy on Palestinian T V:
“. . . And we swear to take vengeful blood from our enemies for our killed and wounded.
8. Jordanian and Palestinian School book (1998):
“This religion [Islam] will destroy all other religions through the Islamic Jihad fighter.”
9. 3 ½ year old Girl prompted by some adult (May, 2002):
“A - . . . Are you familiar with the Jews?
G - Yes.
A – Do you like them?
G – No.
A – Why don’t you like them?
G – Because.
A – Because they are whats?
G – They’re apes and pigs.
A – Who said they are so?
G – Our God.
A – Where did He say this?
G – In the Koran.”
10. Sheik Dr. Bakr Al-Samarai (February, 2003):
“If Allah permits us, oh Nation of Mohammed, even the stone will say, ‘Oh Muslim, a Jew is hiding behind me come and cut off his head! And we shall cut off his head! By Allah, we shall cut off! Oh Jews. God is Great; Jihad for the sake of Allah!” (There were thousands shown cheering this speech.)
11. Little girl on Palestinian T. V.
“When I wander into the entrance of Jerusalem, I’ll turn into a suicide warrior. I’ll turn into a suicide warrior. In battledress. In battledress.”
12. Sheidh Al – Bajrruni – Palestinian Religious Scholars Ass. (2004):
“Oh Muslim, as much as you yearn for death, so you will be given life”
13. Ahmed Abdul Razek – Palestinian Cleric (2002):
“Should we want honor the only way to honor is by jihad!"
14. Ibrahim Muderis – Palestinian Cleric (2003):
“America is the foremost enemy of the Muslim Nation because it wages war against the Arab, Islamic Nation.”
15. Nagi AL-Slihabi – Egyptian Newspaper Editor (2004):
“The truth is that the US wants to eradicate our religious and Islamic identities.”
“The only enemy of the Arab and Islamic peoples is the US and not only Israel.”
16. Saudi Cleric Aed Al-Qami (2004):
“Houses and young men must be sacrificed. Throats must be slit and skulls must be shattered. This is the path to victory.”
“Furthermore, reality shows that American is behind all problems.”
17. Al-Qaeda Operative, (In a hood) (2005):
“Come and join us. Join this blessed jihad. Come for the sake of Allah. Join us in the blessed jihad, with Mullah Omar and Sheik Osama bin Laden.”
18. Abu Hamza Al – Masri (1998):
“What makes Allah happy? Allah’s happy when (non-Muslims) get killed.”
“You see the Islamic rule, if a Kuffar (non-Muslims) goes into a Muslim country. And he’s walking by. He’s like a cow; boy, anybody could take him. That is the Islamic rule and this is the opinion of Islam. It’s not my opinion. If you read the books of jihad, you’ll see . . . A Kuffar is walking by, he walks inside – you catch him. “What are you doing here?” Then he’s a booty, you can sell him in the market. If Muslims cannot take him, you know, and sell him in the market then you just kill him. It’s okay.”
“It’s only a matter of time until we rule Earth, until we control Earth.”
“In the end of the day, Islam must control Earth whether we like it or not it’s a promis from the prophet.”
19. On Iranian TV– Momaoun Al-Tamimi – Political Consultant (May 2004):
“They [The Americans] are beasts in human form.”’
20. Voice over on Iranian TV (2004):
The Statue of Liberty slowly turns in above a sea of blood. “There she is, the unique symbol of freedom. American is the enemy of God’s unity and an affront to God.” The statue turns to reveal a death’s head.
While showing a picture of President Bush, “This is Satan, the source of tyranny.”
21. Palestinian TV - Suliman Sutari, before thousands of chanting fanatics. (July 8, 2005):
“Annihilate the infidels and the polytheists. They’re [God’s] enemies and the enemies of the religion. God, count them and kill them to the last one, and don’t even leave one.”
22. June 2005 – The Islamic Thinkers Society – a video voice over while young "Americans" are stamping on an American flag:
“In this country, one of the loopholes of this government is they allow the freedom of expression.”
“Indeed, it is He [Allah] who sent His messenger, Mohamed, with the Islam to dominate over all other religions; to dominate the United Sates; to dominate the world even though the non-Muslims may hate it.”
23. Some unnamed, turbaned figure speaking on a computer capture.
“Islam’s superior than the Jews, than the Christian, than the Buddhists, than the Hindus. Who ever seeks any other thing apart for Islam will never be accepted. And the Christian or Kuffar, you may think to yourself. No, No, No, they are innocent. No Kuffar is innocent.”
24. Another shouting computer image:
“From yourself we’ll make your destruction because Allah’s tradition will prevail on this earth.”
25. Mohanoud Ahmadinejad – Iranian President (July, 2004):
“The message of the (Islamic) Revolution is global, and is not restricted to specific place or time. Have no doubt – Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountains tops of he world.”
26. “Palestinian T.V, Ibrahim Mudeins (March 2005):
“We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again!”
27. Screaming demonstrator at a rally in Great Britain: (May 2005)
“One day this very flag will fly over the Parliament in London. We will see this flag that will fly over the White House, and we will see the Black House, the Kaaba [in Mecca] will take over the whole world!”
28. H. R. Saleen, Chairman of Muslim Youth Organization:
“You will take over USA! You will take over UK! You will take over Europe! You will defeat them all! You will get victory!! You will take over Egypt! We trust in Allah!”
The usual slogan by the "religion of peace" - Palestinian-Arabs shout "itbach al yahood", slaughter the Jews!http://christianactionforisrael.org/antiholo/raging.html
Not just radical clerics, but even mainstream "activists" like 'Pro-palestinian' ISM - Anti-Semitic hate speechhttp://www.stoptheism.com/Default.asp?M=24&T=139
..."When the Solidarity Movement met at the University of Michigan, delegates chanted 'Kill the Jews.'" The ISM/PSM denies that it chanted "Kill the Jews," apparently because what it actually chanted was "Itbach al yahood" (Arabic for "Kill the Jews"). http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=85Read More »
Most liberal pundits have been casting McSame as the reincarnation of red-baiting fascist McCarthyism. Joe McCarthy was a one-note anti-Communist. The breadth and depth of the radical changes envisioned by the far right (and they are radical and not traditional) are much more accurately seen as a parrellel to the visions of the Nazis. This is not a comparison that I make lightly; comparing everyone we don't like to Hitler and the Nazis is an insult to the millions of lives ended by their evil program, as well as to an intelligent understanding of the easy acceptance that greated their all-consuming fascist, jingoist philosophy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. We were told we were now on a "war footing"; we were in a "global war" against a "global caliphate" intending to "wipe out civilisation". There have been other times of crisis in which the US accepted limits on civil liberties, such as during the civil war, when Lincoln declared martial law, and the second world war, when thousands of Japanese-American citizens were interned. But this situation, as Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda notes, is unprecedented: all our other wars had an endpoint, so the pendulum was able to swing back toward freedom; this war is defined as open-ended in time and without national boundaries in space - the globe itself is the battlefield. "This time," Fein says, "there will be no defined end." Creating a terrifying threat - hydra-like, secretive, evil - is an old trick. It can, like Hitler's invocation of a communist threat to the nation's security, be based on actual events (one Wisconsin academic has faced calls for his dismissal because he noted, among other things, that the alleged communist arson, the Reichstag fire of February 1933, was swiftly followed in Nazi Germany by passage of the Enabling Act, which replaced constitutional law with an open-ended state of emergency). Or the terrifying threat can be based, like the National Socialist evocation of the "global conspiracy of world Jewry", on myth.
After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. We were told we were now on a "war footing"; we were in a "global war" against a "global caliphate" intending to "wipe out civilisation". There have been other times of crisis in which the US accepted limits on civil liberties, such as during the civil war, when Lincoln declared martial law, and the second world war, when thousands of Japanese-American citizens were interned. But this situation, as Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda notes, is unprecedented: all our other wars had an endpoint, so the pendulum was able to swing back toward freedom; this war is defined as open-ended in time and without national boundaries in space - the globe itself is the battlefield. "This time," Fein says, "there will be no defined end."
Creating a terrifying threat - hydra-like, secretive, evil - is an old trick. It can, like Hitler's invocation of a communist threat to the nation's security, be based on actual events (one Wisconsin academic has faced calls for his dismissal because he noted, among other things, that the alleged communist arson, the Reichstag fire of February 1933, was swiftly followed in Nazi Germany by passage of the Enabling Act, which replaced constitutional law with an open-ended state of emergency). Or the terrifying threat can be based, like the National Socialist evocation of the "global conspiracy of world Jewry", on myth.
Hitler evoked Christianity in his Munich speech, April 12, 1922
Today Christians … stand at the head of [this country] … I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit … We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press—in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past … [few] years.
And in his 1928 speech in Passau
We are a people of different faiths, but we are one. Which faith conquers the other is not the question; rather, the question is whether Christianity stands or falls. … We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity … in fact our movement is Christian. We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people.
And time and time again in early 1933:
But at Dormund, 9 July 1933, on the day after the signing of the Nazi-Vatican Concordant of 1933:
This is for us a ground for satisfaction, since we desire that the fight in the religious camps should come to an end … all political action in the parties will be forbidden to priests for all time, happy because we know what is wanted by millions who long to see in the priest only the comforter of their souls and not the representative of their political convictions.
A country founded by and lead by religious men and women can receive the benefits of religous thought and belief. State-sponsored religion, however, is just one stick in the helve of fascism. Fundamentalism can only create a false unity that marginalizes a silent-in-fear rather than in complacency, majority.
Henry M
It took a while, but here is the talk I gave in NYC recently. It takes a while to get to the Obama reference, but I think (hope) it is worth it!
Beyond prejudice: Antisemitism’s lessons for today’s world.
À propos the presentation of Antisemitism. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2008) at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, June 17, 2008
Antisemitism is often seen as an endemic prejudice, a mental disease almost, that has infected European societies for centuries past—and persists as such even today, under the surface. The study of antisemitism often appears to discount the historical reality in which antisemitism existed, treating it as a prejudice—how it developed, and how it affected people’s attitudes and actions, without looking at the historical contexts in which antisemitism actually functioned. It often appears enough simply to prove that this or that famous figure, this or that politician or writer, this or that religion, culture or society had antisemitic prejudices, and leave it at that, as one more proof of the irredeemable Jew-hatred of Western or (post-) Christian society.
The problem with this fairly straightforward research program concerning antisemitism is that it does little to explain the actual historical record of Jewish-non-Jewish relations in European history, or indeed history generally. Considering that antisemitic prejudice is held to be ubiquitous, deeply ingrained into Christian and hence Western culture, it appears very odd that there have been many societies within Europe and the Americas, ranging over time and space, in which antisemitism or anti-Jewish animosity were not strong, and certainly not predominant attitudes politically or socially. England, for instance, had been one of the most fervently anti-Jewish societies in medieval Europe, originating the ritual murder libel, and then being the first Western country to expel the Jews in 1290. By the nineteenth century, however, anti-Jewish animosity had so diminished that, when Adolf Stoecker tried to spread his newfangled political movement of “antisemitism” (the term was only invented in the late 1870s to reflect the racial underpinnings of the supposed “Semitic” threat of the Jewish race) to England, English public opinion basically laughed him out of court. Despite some “genteel” anti-Jewish disdain in certain sectors of the upper classes (but not all) and some not so genteel anti-Jewish prejudice lower down the social scale, the fact was that creating a political movement to combat “Semitism” appeared ridiculous, and un-English, because general English public opinion held that discrimination against Jews, as against the members of any respectable religious group, was anathema.
Even if prejudices against Jews existed, and research has abundantly shown they did, especially based on Christian theology, the question that we should ask is how effective such prejudices were when it came to social or political action? The answer in many cases was very ineffective, sometimes so ineffective (as in nineteenth century Italy) as to be barely noticeable. Moreover anti-Jewish hatred, anti-Jewish discrimination, did not automatically translate into political success.
Even when prejudice against Jews did result in anti-Jewish persecution and discrimination, as it did, for instance, in the Russian Empire, it did not necessarily take the form of modern antisemitism. Actual antisemitism, the modern political and ideological movement that began in the 1870s, led to the Holocaust, and whose influence is still with us today, was not a ubiquitous phenomenon in nineteenth century Europe. In much of Western Europe and Southern Europe it was virtually non-existent. The key region where it originated and developed was Central and Eastern Europe, primarily the German Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The movement started here and it was politically most successful here. It was here that modern antisemitism, as opposed to traditional anti-Jewish animosity, took shape as a reaction to the perceived threat resulting from the granting of legal equality to Jews and their integration into society as full members.
Tsarist Russia, in contrast, was notoriously hostile to Jews, but Russia’s Jewish Question and hence the basis of Russian anti-Jewish hostility was quite different than in Central Europe, because Jews never achieved full legal equality and emancipation there and were never as integrated as a group in Russian (or Polish or Ukrainian or Lithuanian or White Russian) society. Hence anti-Jewish hostility—which did come also, admittedly, to be called antisemitism—tended to be more backward-looking, more traditional, and did not produce the Holocaust. The key question in the historiography of antisemitism is how did modern Germany (and Austria-Hungary) go so wrong as to regress and produce the Holocaust? The fact is that despite all the evident government-backed hostility against Jews in Russia, the pogroms of the 1880s and later, the active government discrimination against Jews, tsarist Russia did not perpetrate genocide against Jews, but “civilized” Germany did. So Russia is not the main subject, nor is, despite the Dreyfus Affair, France. That affair was more about the character of France than about Jews, and in any case it was the republican, Dreyfusard side that won, reasserting France’s liberal and progressive values (and hence the equal rights of Jews)—until 1940. The main subject in a study of antisemitism’s career must be Central Europe.
Even in Central Europe antisemitism was far from being successful everywhere. There was some minor political success in parts of Germany, such as the more rural parts of Hesse; there was more success in the Habsburg Monarchy, with the spectacular victory of the antisemitic Christian Socials in Vienna from 1895, as well as success in other parts of Cisleithania (the Austrian half of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy). Yet there were also many areas and communities in Central Europe which resisted or defused political antisemitism. Budapest—and Hungary generally—before 1918 saw the Hungarian political leadership stamping down hard on antisemitic agitation in the 1880s, so that Hungary was viewed before the First World War as a relative paradise for Jews. Similarly, the leadership of the German community in Prague, as Gary Cohen has shown, adopted a very pro-Jewish approach. Till van Rahden’s study of Breslau (Wroclaw) in Germany similarly shows a city in which Jews and other Germans coexisted with little friction before 1914. In Germany generally, indeed, political antisemitism as such was a bust before 1914, and even the German capital, Berlin, was far from being a center of antisemitic power, being instead run by a liberal “Progressive” administration.
There are rational explanations for these examples. In Budapest and Hungary the political leadership regarded Hungarian Jewry as allies in two key causes. First, many Hungarian Jews had voluntarily “Magyarized”, adopting the Hungarian national language of Magyar and a Magyar Hungarian national identity, and thus helping the Magyar effort to achieve a Magyar-speaking majority in the Hungarian Kingdom, where only a minority in the 1860s, lower than 40%, spoke the “national” language (as opposed to Romanian, Slovak, German and so forth). Second, the Magyar leadership viewed Jews as an entrepreneurial minority who were Hungary’s best hope for achieving the national goal of rapid commercial and industrial modernization. For these reasons, any attack on Jews such as political antisemitism was seen by them as also an attack on the Hungarian (Magyar) national cause, and should be suppressed—as it largely was.
In Prague, it was a question for the German leadership of “ethnic survival” in a city which was becoming increasingly Czech in population. Those Jews in the city who still were German-speakers constituted roughly half of the German-speaking population; therefore to preserve a German presence in the city it made sense not to alienate the Jewish community. Again, Jews were seen as allies, and not foes, depending on circumstances.
What these two examples suggest is that even though there may well have been an underlying anti-Jewish prejudice based largely on Christian anti-Judaism, individuals and whole communities appear to have been amenable to rational considerations when deciding whether to let this prejudice decide their choices and actions. In other words, antisemitism in Central Europe was not always impervious to reason, and was indeed amenable to argument and experience, especially if circumstance suggested that one’s own interests would be better served by being positive with Jews rather than negative. The question then becomes why, nevertheless, did antisemitism in Central Europe become as prominent and potent as it did, and why did it remain so?
I suggest that there were three main factors which made Central Europe particularly fertile for antisemitism. The first concerned the Jews of Central Europe themselves. To be clear: Jews were not to blame for what happened to them, they were not to blame for antisemitism, let alone the Holocaust, nor were they even “responsible” in any meaningful, moral sense. However, the way in which Jews entered the modern world in Central Europe, the strategies they followed in integrating into German and Habsburg society and culture, the time it took, and the very framework in which their “emancipation” and “assimilation” (integration) took place, all were factors making for a persistence of the “Jewish Question”, and hence an opening for antisemitism, that were not present in other European states to the north, west and south.
The initial problem was that Jews in Central Europe did not, unlike their western counterparts, gain their civil equality on their right to this as citizens or subjects. Instead, in the German states and in Austria-Hungary the right to full civil equality came to be provisional on the achievement by Jews of a sufficient modernization and integration—assimilation—into German or Austrian society. This quid pro quo between Jews earning their right to equality through acculturation and assimilation, so that they would become just like all other Germans/Austrians, and their actually being granted that equality took roughly ninety years (1780 to 1871) to be fully realized. In the course of those decades a whole ideology of emancipation grew up, with various associations and support systems to enable Jews in Central Europe to become just like their fellow German and Austrian citizens. These were, of course, Jewish institutions, and it was a Jewish ideology, all aimed at achieving through Bildung (education, but also with the sense of self-realization and self-improvement, both morally and aesthetically) parity with their non-Jewish fellow citizens. The end result, as historians of Central European Jewry know only too well, was that Jewish identity in the region did profoundly change, in terms of occupations, and in the character and level of education, as well as in understanding of what the Jewish religion meant, but what this did not achieve was a “disappearance” of Jewish difference. The very effort over decades to achieve what the German and Austrian states wanted Jews to become, resulted only in a new social profile for the Jewish communities, and another, new Jewish identity.
Moreover the very energy that Jews in Central Europe put in to their transformation into well-educated citizens and prosperous agents in the new, modern economy (instead of itinerant beggars and peddlers, as many had been) meant that, as a group, they stood out for being much more bourgeois, and better educated, than the average Central European. By 1900 the very success of Jews in accepting the challenge set to them a century before had left them, despite their being a really tiny minority, with a very high profile in many fields of modern culture and the modern economy. In other words, from a certain point of view, Jews had not actually achieved the goal of being just like their fellow citizens. They were far too successful in the rational, modern world to be seen as the same, or as “German”.
That at least was the conclusion drawn by many in a very significant branch of Central European and German culture: irrationalism. The second factor encouraging a survival of animosity against Jews in Central Europe was the high cultural context in which Jewish integration was received, and the strength specifically of what has been termed irrationalism in key sectors of central European culture and society, especially among many cohorts of German and Austrian-German students, who went on to populate academia and the liberal professions, and become the backbone of the (non-Jewish part of the) Bildungsbürgertum of German-speaking Central Europe. Irrationalism was a form of German idealism, based on Romanticism. Its leading lights in the nineteenth century were Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche. It was not irrational per se, rather, much as the counter-culture of the Sixties, it asserted that rationalism, an absolute reliance on rationality, was too narrow a basis on which to conduct human affairs, manage human relations, or create culture and art. Instead, more emphasis needed to be put on the “irrational” side of human experience, on emotions, on creative imagination, and on the organic, living world, which in human terms was seen as heritage and descent, or “blood”. The problem for Jews presented by the adoption of this irrationalism by the world of Central European high culture was that, first: Jews had very much adopted the rationalist attitudes that had been behind the initial quid pro quo of emancipation; and second: irrationalism’s emphasis on the source of emotional authenticity and cultural creativity in the humus of the organic given meant that German (or Czech, or Polish, or whatever nationality’s) culture meant that Jews, not being descended of that organic whole, could never be authentic bearers of that culture. Therefore from this perspective Jews, contrary to the assumptions of the ideology of emancipation, could never become just like their fellow Germans or Central Europeans.
The third factor making Central Europe receptive to antisemitism was the form of Central European modernization. Namely, Germany and the other nascent polities within the Habsburg Monarchy entered the modern world through nationalism, and ultimately through integral ethnonationalism. Even though Central Europe had been once the site of the universalist and multi-layered polity of the Holy Roman Empire, whose multifaceted character the Habsburg Monarchy perpetuated, the dominant form of modernity that was seen as the way to the modern, rational future was the nation-state, and a nation-state based on the sort of organic community that Romantic thought had seen as “natural”, whether linguistic, or increasingly as the nineteenth century advanced, ethnic or racial. It was the old multi-national empires and polities that were seen as “unnatural” and hence irrational, whereas the integral ethnonational state, where everyone shared the bond of natural community through culture or “blood”, was seen as the best guarantee of national cohesion and hence national success.
This modernization through integral ethnonationalism was seen at the time as “rational”, because based on the most advanced scientific theories available, especially those coming from biology and Darwinian evolutionism. Although antisemitism is seen today as a completely irrational ideology, based on illusory claims about Jewish difference, especially racial difference, we need to remember that at the time racialism was seen by many as on the cutting edge of scientific thought, especially in Central Europe. It fitted both the Romantic organicism behind nationalism, and the materialism implicit in nineteenth century scientific thought. What could be more “scientific” than a theory that traced everything important, including our values and our thought patterns, through materially inherited (racial) traits, as Darwinian evolutionary theory suggested with regard to species?
Central Europe, and especially Germany, was particularly fertile for this racial, organicist-based thinking, because its intellectual tradition had by 1900 become one in which holistic thought, with the whole greater than the individual, was seen to have priority over “Anglo-Saxon” and French traditions of empiricism and Comteian positivism in which individual facts (and individuals) were prior. Hence the good of greater whole of the nation, of the Volk, increasingly racially defined, was what counted, not the rights of individuals. This holistic nationalism (mirrored, ironically perhaps, in the nationalisms of the smaller Central European nationalities, such as Poles and Czechs) received a huge boost in prestige from the fact that Germany by 1900 appeared to be the most scientifically advanced, socially best organized, and industrially and economically most vital (on the way to surpassing Britain) nation in Europe. It was the German model of modernity that appeared to be the path to the future, not the empirical Western one. This perceived dichotomy was described in many ways at the time. One of the best known was Thomas Mann’s contrast between Western Zivilisation and German Kultur—the former superficial and atomistic, the latter profound, holistic and deeply spiritual. (The same sort of dichotomy can also be seen in the near contemporary novel by E.M.Forster, Howard’s End.) it does not take too much imagination to realize that Jews would, because of the very terms of the emancipation, their liberalism, their role in the modern capitalist economy, even reverence of many of them for English liberty, be identified by antisemites with this foreign, Western empirical, lower modernity, and hence be seen as unsuitable for the higher, German path to modernity.
Jews were, indeed, in a double or even triple bind: to begin with they had not been rational enough for Central European states’ liking; then they had become too rational for the irrationalists; and finally they had ended up being seen as having the wrong kind of rationality. Behind this constant moving of the goalposts was that while Jews were trying to be Germans, for instance, the Germans were still trying to define themselves, and one of the main ways of doing so was by defining themselves against others. This process of “negative integration” (I know I am German, because I am not an x) could employ external targets (such as the English) or it could employ internal ones, such as Catholics (as in the Kulturkampf), who owed allegiance to a foreign power (the Pope); or socialists, who threatened social order and believed in international brotherhood—or Jews. The place in Central Europe where this definition of self against the Other was most pronounced and most successful was Vienna, where Karl Lueger’s genius lay in his realization that the disparate groups opposed to liberalism in Vienna all could be unified by their opposition to Jewish influence. Hence his Christian Socials captured power in Vienna’s municipal government in 1895 on an explicitly antisemitic ticket, due to Lueger’s instrumental rationality in selecting Jews as his main Feindsbild (target). It is still not clear that Lueger really was all that convinced of his antisemitic rhetoric, but what it achieved was a uniting behind a Viennese and later Austrian identity that defined itself, ultimately by being “Christian”, i.e. not Jewish.
Closely linked to this danger of being the preferred target of “negative integration” in Central Europe, the very logic behind nationalism, which was in itself very modern and rational, also posed an immense problem for Jews. The law of the excluded middle seems on the face of it a truism: something either is or is not the case. It cannot be both a and not a, so in classical logic the middle ground (both/and) is excluded. This law of either/or makes sense in any number of settings, and its simple efficiency was behind much of the administrative and economic power of the emergent nation-state, comparing most favorably to the complexities and apparent self-contradictions of previous multi-national and international polities. Instead of the multiple loyalties of these premodern polities, only one loyalty, loyalty to the nation-state, was expected of the citizen/subject of such a state. This simplified things immensely, much to the benefit of logistical and bureaucratic efficiency. Yet it also did much damage to actual human relations, and actual human experience, for it forced decisions in many instances that were not really necessary. For instance, this logic imparted huge pressures in the nation-state system for citizens to have only one national identity/loyalty, and not be indulged in any dual or triple loyalty, regardless of one’s background and parentage. The monolithic nation-state demanded in principle total and absolute loyalty, and identity, and made any form of different identity, allegiance or loyalty, ultimately any difference at all, suspect. If you were of French and German background, for instance, there was huge pressure to choose sides—one could be either French, or German, one could not be both.
Although it was not immediately obvious, given the status of Jews in most of Europe as a religious minority, the residual identity of Jews as an ethnic group, and in any case as still recognizably different in social, cultural, political and economic terms, meant that Jews did not fit in to this model of the monolithic nation-state. Whether they wanted it or not, Jews had remained different as a group within Central European and German society. Subjectively they were different, because most still saw themselves as Jews, even many of those who had converted or were konfessionslos. Intersubjectively, Jews were also seen as different by most other non-Jewish Germans, as part of a special, other group; and objectively as well Jews remained as a group noticeably different by most measures, whether it was political allegiance, cultural preferences, level of education, or socio-economic stratification.
There really should not, by our current standards, have been anything at all wrong with this continuance of difference. Indeed one major marker of difference was the relative, and very significant economic and intellectual success of Central European Jewry. Central European Jews, it can be claimed, were the most successful example of minority integration in modern times and were a huge cultural success (much as American Jewry has been). The Leo Baeck Institute is indeed an institutional testament to that immense achievement. Despite being a tiny portion of the populace, Jews came to occupy a vital place in German and Central European culture and society, acting as the pluralizing leaven of German and Central European modern culture.
Yet this very success was, in the terms of the exclusory logic of nationalism, and in terms of the original quid pro quo of the emancipation bargain, let alone in terms of antisemitism, a sign of failure, for it meant that Jews were still different, identifiably different. Given the exclusory either/or, “us v. them” logic of nationalism, one could either remain a Jew, or become a German, but, ultimately, one could not be both. And, if one were a devotee of racial thought, the question was in any case moot, for Jews could never become really, authentically German in any case. This explains the paradox that the place where Jewish integration had its greatest cultural and intellectual achievements was also the place where antisemitism flourished best.
By 1914, these three factors meant that the potential for disaster for Central European Jewry was already present, and some of the more perceptive and sensitive commentators of the times, such as Arthur Schnitzler in The Road to the Open, could see this and express it in writing. Nevertheless, and this needs stressing, the situation in Central Europe regarding Jews and antisemitism in the early years of the twentieth century did not have to result in the Holocaust. E.H.Carr once wrote that, in history, nothing is inevitable until it has happened, and the Holocaust is very much a case in point. The potential was there, but potentialities are not always realized; it was the self-induced collapse of European, of Western, civilization in the First World War, and the subsequent economic and political crisis of the Twenties and Thirties, which was never really resolved before the Second World War, that allowed those potentialities to be realized.
The resulting Third Reich was the hyperbolic realization of Central European nationalism’s logic, and the logic of Central Europe’s special form of holistic modernity, taken to absurd, ultimately insane, paranoid, lengths. Yet in those terms the consequence of the Holocaust was but a logical progression, of purification of the body politic and prevention (by extermination) of those “foreign” bodies, the equivalent of the “free radicals” of today’s medicine, that were perceived as threatening the political and economic health of that body politic. There was in this most cataclysmic of genocides a form of what Alexander Herzen had termed, a century before referring to the crushing of the 1848 revolutions, “rational evil”: the application of reason without the pathos of humanity, of logic without ethical restraint, as we understand it, and only “irrational” if we apply our moral and ethical values as the basis of reason. Beyond these questions of theodicy, there was another form of rational evil that enabled the horror of the Holocaust to occur, an instrumental rationality that encouraged individuals to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the misfortunes of their fellow human beings (whether Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and other persecuted categories) to better their own prospects, whether through material gain or career promotion. The studies by, among others, Gerhard Botz for Vienna, and of Götz Aly for the occupied lands, of National Socialism’s really quite sophisticated, and in its own perverse way effective, race-based welfare policies only confirm this insight into the abysmal depths of human nature, cut loose from humanist and pluralist restraints.
Fortunately, that particular modernity, and that particular application of exclusory logic did not totally succeed. The Western Allies and the Soviet Union won out, and, by the end of the twentieth century, with the demise of the Soviet Union, the Western Allies and their version of the world (embodied, perhaps ironically, in the United Nations) had won out. This meant that it was their version of modernity, not that of Central European nationalism, that is today predominant in the world, to a greater or lesser extent, depending, and that modernity is based on the concept of liberal pluralism.
The success of liberal pluralism after 1945 has only been a gradual one, and, as Tony Judt has pointed out, was built in Europe on the ruins of the previous, much more diverse and plural societies “cleansed” as a result of the Second World War and its aftermath. Yet liberal pluralism has largely succeeded, and this is the most hopeful sign, for me, that the factors that enabled antisemitism are a shadow of what they once were. This took a while—it is a myth that Europe after 1945 suddenly shook off decades of monolithic, nationalistic and racist thinking and immediately adopted a liberal pluralist, multilateral approach. Instead racial thought and nationalism persisted for many years. Initially the European powers maintained their empires, and defended them on the basis of basically racist theories of white superiority over the yellow, brown and black peoples. The US Army was still segregated at the end of the Second World War. Nevertheless, over time attitudes did change, radically, so that today, in the United States and in the European Union, itself evidence of this remarkable change, as well as in most of the rest of the developed world, the predominant logic concerning human relations and human values, identities and loyalties is much more inclusive and open, as is fitting.
This inclusive, open logic is what liberal pluralism is about, because what liberal pluralism basically asserts is that in very many circumstances the classic, exclusory logic of “either/or” does not apply in human relations. There are just too many cases where there is more than one right answer to a question of values, or where the best thing to do is not to make a false choice but to attempt to encompass both interests, both priorities, both points of view. Liberal pluralism in other words is based on the inclusive logic of “both/and”, where the middle ground between stark choices is included and not ruled out. This is the logic of connections and of co-operation, of relations and not divisions, lateral thinking and not categorization, and it is the system that allows, indeed makes as its basis for functioning, the existence of multiple value systems, multiple loyalties, multiple cultures and multiple origins and heritages. The multiplicity of human experience and human achievement can, under the liberal pluralist umbrella, be encompassed, difference allowed and respected, treasured even, in ways that the monolithic logic of nationalism in the end never did. It is not the nationalistic “Each to his own” but rather “Chacun à son goût” that typifies liberal pluralism.
This makes liberal pluralism by far the best antidote to antisemitism that we are likely to find, for in a liberal pluralist polity or community Jews can be full members while retaining their difference. In such a system it is those that do not have a hyphenated identity (Jewish-American, African-American, Irish-American etc.) who are not the norm, and this simple hyphenation is but the most basic form of what could be a triple, quadruple form of (connected, not divided) identity, to the nth degree. In this system the existence of multiple loyalty and of difference is not a problem but a possibility. The vibrancy of pluralist societies such as modern America (and elements of modern Britain and Europe) attest to the tragic error that occurred in Central Europe’s modernization. For the lesson of that moral disaster must surely be that the central mistake was the attempt, in the interests of social and political unity and cohesion, to erase difference.
The aim should not be to produce ethnically pure nation-states, but rather to allow for “diversity in unity”. This entails respecting difference in other people’s views and values, and attempting to understand those differences. It is through mutual respect and mutual recognition that our society gains strength and insight, as a whole.
Ethnic nation-states, however they historically came about, are not in themselves bad—but they should not, cannot, be the be-all and end-all of human interaction and endeavor. Instead, the most hopeful path for all of us, Jews or not, is a liberal pluralist approach that encompasses difference, encouraging unity and synergy where others mistakenly see division and weakness. That is why I find the apparent fears among many Jews about Barack Obama so oddly misplaced, because Obama’s whole approach is based on the inclusive “both/and” logic of liberal pluralism, his campaign exudes this sense of mutual respect of difference combined with recognition of fundamental unity, and he himself, in his bi-racial, multi-ethnic self, physically embodies the principle.
The central power of Obama’s attraction resides, I would assert, in the fact that he realized at some point in his life that he was not divided and weakened by having more than one racial and ethnic origin, but that the ability to straddle, and more, unite, these diverse heritages, these diverse cultures and sets of values, gave him strengths and insights that were not to his disadvantage but rather to his immense benefit, and to the benefit of others who might share his insight. And it is that vision of a country, and of a world, that can live and flourish in a world where the “infinite variety” of the human experience is valued and cherished, and not regarded as a problem, that is the best antidote of all to the narrow, prejudiced visions of the world that gave us the Holocaust and that continue to produce and justify Man’s inhumanity to Man to this day.
©Steven Beller
The following was written by activist Tim Wise. It is not for the weak at heart or racially biased. I'm posting Tim's work in objection to an earlier post "Israel & Obama", by an HRC supporter Danielle from Austin, TX.
May 27, 2008 America's Racial Litmus Test: Farrakhan is not the Problem By TIM WISE The more things change, the more they stay the same. Thirteen years ago, when I first started out on the lecture circuit, speaking about the issue of racism, it seemed as though everywhere I went, someone wanted to know my opinion of Louis Farrakhan. To some extent, this was to be expected, I suppose. It was 1995, after all, and Farrakhan had just put together the Million Man March in DC. So when race came up, that, and sadly, the OJ Simpson trial and verdict seemed to be the two templates onto which white folks in particular would graft their racial anxieties. Though OJ has long since faded as a matter of conversation among most, discussion of Farrakhan never seems to end. As controversy has erupted regarding comments made by Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Wright's occasional words of praise for Farrakhan have caused many to suggest that he, and by extension, Obama, are somehow tainted. Wright, we are to believe, is forever compromised as a legitimate commentator on issues of race and even as aman of God. And why?
"God says in Jeremiah 16 - 'Behold I will bring them the Jewish people again unto their land that I gave unto their fathers' - that would be Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - 'Behold I will send for many fishers and after will I send for many hunters. And they the hunters shall hunt them' - that will be the Jews - 'from every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.' If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the Holocaust... you can't see that. So think about this - I will send fishers and I will send hunters." -Pastor John Hagee
This profound display of theological buffoonery approaches the outer limits of incredulity. This is the Mecca of relativism as regards scriptural interpretation. Jeremiah 16:16 has been related to the Egyptians of antiquity, the Chaldeans, the Persians, the Medes, and even the Apostles of Jesus. The reference to the holocaust is just one more addition to the litany of scriptural assessments that have amassed to cloud the original meaning in a lasting and eternal doubt. Whatever Jeremiah had in mind, we may never really know. The best take would be to relate something in the immanent future or recent past within the time of this prophet. That would favor the Egyptians or the Chaldeans. Taking it to the Hitler regime is going beyond the irrational to pure conjectural stupidity.
At the crux of this resounding idiocy lies the eternal bid to align a loving God with the existence of evil. Trying to legitimize a fallacy yields repugnance. What is even more repulsive about John Hagee's remarks is the mental captivity of the thousands if not millions of people who regularly listen and attend to this lunacy. As if there is no further to go, we have the ambitions of a man seeking the presidency of the United States driving this high office into associations that border on insanity, explained and excused by the pragmatism of national politics. Stranger bedfellows have rarely surfaced. Despite the belated rejection of Hagee's endorsement, John McCain exposed a sickly and dangerous rift in the fabric of human intellect bogged down by the ignorance of the masses which demands capitulation to the irrational dialogue of religious intransigence.
To signal the absence of an end in sight to this madness, Hagee goes yet another furlong by bringing in an aging Jewish "authority" to stand with him and rubber stamp the catastrophically ridiculous mix of the holocaust with the prophecy of Jeremiah. I thought that church and state were to be separate entities within the framework of a government dedicated to freedom of speech and protection from religious incursion. I still think that and shudder each time the ugly head of religious insolence rears itself in politics at the national level.
John McCain is not a religious fanatic seeking to trumpet his zeal to a spiritually thirsty constituency. He's at best a moderate looking to win a campaign. He, like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and anyone else seeking the office of president must find a connection to the hundreds of millions of Americans who live by faith one way or another. This violates Article 6 of the Constitution which shields office holders and seekers from any test of religion. Article 6 continues to be overlooked in elections which constantly demand from the candidates, a high profile salute to the seemingly immortal reign of religious intolerance.
RWH 5-24-2008
President Bush calls Senator Obama's intention for face-to-face meetings with leaders Bush doesn't like "appeasement". Clearly the President is blessed with the ability to produce Texas-sized piles of mental manure!
Where does a man whose family businesses offered material support to Hitler (note 1) get the brass to call the Senator's policies "appeasement"?
It's bad enough that Bush went to war against Rumsfeld's former friend in a completely botched attempt to find remnants of weapons of mass destruction the Reagan administration had supplied, then hanged Hussein before he could write a book on the perils of befriending Republicans. Bad enough Bush rants on about Iran's nuclear energy program that was begun by the Shah (note 2) when Iran was Republican America's good buddy. (Note 3) But to suggest diplomacy would weaken America, or make it less secure, and worse, expect people with actual IQ's to believe him is truly beyond surreal.
And to think, Republicans are the guys who want voter tests.
- Note 1: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar- Note 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran- Note 3: "In 1953 the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular Prime Minister, Mohammed Massadegh. The Eisenhower Administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons; but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development. And it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs." U.S. Secretary of State Albright.
