Sunday, February 3, 2008
Harry's Place points out this story from London: Holocaust Day marred by 'racist' stone-throwing
THE Holocaust Memorial Day marking the genocides of the 20th century was marred on Sunday when a gang of youths stoned Jewish tourists on a guided tour of London's East End.
A group of 96 visitors looking at sites of Jewish interest were attacked by youths hiding behind a fence in a back street in Whitechapel.
Two were struck by the missiles, an American woman just starting a new post at London's Metropolitan University and a Canadian lecturer.
The woman had blood pouring from her head and needed hospital treatment.
The tour was organised by leading local historian Clive Bettington, who was later asked by police if he wanted officers to accompany him in future, but declined.
"That would be admitting there are 'no go' areas," he said.
"I won't be intimidated. We have a right to walk our streets unmolested."
He has now written to Tower Hamlets chief executive Martin Smith for an urgent meeting.
Sunday's incident was outside a former Jewish maternity home in Underwood Road, now used as social services offices, which was on his tour as a place of interest where playwright Arnold Whesker and showbiz comedian Lionel Bart were born.
YOBS LAUGHED
An eye-witness said: "Stones started to come down on us and some in the group were scared and ducked.
"I looked over the fence and saw four Asian youths throwing stones. They were laughing, then ran away."...
Hat tip to Sophia.
On a related subject. Did I miss something? Did Muslim boycotts of Holocaust Memorial Day finally result in the day being made a generic "genocide" day, or has that always been the case?
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I think the Muslim objections to Holocaust Memorial Day have indeed resulted in this "generic" business - in fact I wasn't aware they'd actually succeeded in this -
I recall a vitriolic discussion on DU a few years ago, in which this issue was discussed - there were so many vicious comments that whole subthreads were deleted by the moderators - of course the Gaza Strip was compared to the Warsaw Ghetto - it was terrible.
In any case, the upshot of it was, the Muslim attitude was presented: that Holocaust Memorial Day caused them to feel left out of the "celebration" so to speak, and thus the true nature of the Holocaust - the deliberate murder of millions of Jews, Gypsies, and other unwanted persons, including incidentally some Muslims, has apparently been watered down.
Thus is history distorted, rewritten, ultimately forgotten and of course, repeated.
Here is a link to websites that document the Arab/Muslim Nazi connection.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/medigest/may00/arabnazi.html
http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/gallery/index.html
And muzlim nazis gave SHITler an arabic nickname, abu ali.
Where is my Grogger?
http://christianactionforisrael.org/antiholo/hitler_abu.html