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Monday, December 8, 2008

Truthophobia indeed. Matthias Kuntzel on the latest misuse of language:

...First, while racism usually makes people "small" in order to enslave, exploit or expel them, anti-Semitism makes the Jews delusionally "big." The most important characteristic of anti-Semitism is a conspiracy theory that holds the Jews responsible for both capitalism and communism, for AIDS, revolutions and financial crises -- in short, for every "inexplicable" catastrophe of modernity.

The concept of "redemptive anti-Semitism," coined by Holocaust scholar Saul Friedländer, describes this phenomenon: If one assumes the Jews are responsible for all the world's misery, only their extermination can "redeem" the world. This paradigm of Jew hatred does not apply to racism. Muslims are not accused of pulling the strings behind all revolutions and wars.

Second, while we must reject any general suspicion of Muslims, it is impossible to ignore the fact that reservations about Muslims are based on real mass murder committed by some Muslims in the name of Islam. Events such as 9/11 or the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh have no counterpart in Jewish tradition.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often used to explain Muslim hatred of Jews. But Israel's policies are not causing anti-Semitism. Rather, the way those policies are distorted and demonized in the Muslim world, and increasingly in Europe, is a new expression of this old hatred.

Third, one need not play down the extent of discrimination against Muslims in Europe to recognize that the effects of the "concept of the Muslim enemy" and the "concept of the Jewish enemy" are qualitatively different. No one wants to erase a Muslim country from the map the way some people threaten to do with the Jewish state. Islamic centers and houses of prayer need no permanent police protection in Europe, unlike Jewish sites. No satellite stations call for the extermination of Muslims, whereas Hezbollah and Hamas TV, for example, broadcast via Arab satellites into European living rooms, regularly call for the destruction of the Jews -- even on children's programs.

In taking up the fashionable vocabulary of Islamophobia and equating hostility to Muslims with hostility to Jews, the center also risks undermining the most important current task in dealing with anti-Semitism: studying and fighting hostility to Jews in the Islamic world, where anti-Semitism has reached an unprecedented level...

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Islamphobia is shinning like the sun in the middle of a sunney day. that stems from the lack of understanding of what islam is.

anti-semetism is rooted in europe, where as arabs are semites and the term is irrelevent in its own.


"...First, while racism usually makes people "small" in order to enslave, exploit or expel them, anti-Semitism makes the Jews delusionally "big." The most important characteristic of anti-Semitism is a conspiracy theory that holds the Jews responsible for both capitalism and communism, for AIDS, revolutions and financial crises -- in short, for every "inexplicable" catastrophe of modernity."

jews caused the biggest catastrophy in europe by supporting all kinds of movments agianst the traditional religous and nationalist realities. while on the other hand the jews shared the nationalistic movment"zionism" and supported it Either through rich families in england "rochester" or through thinkers that deconstructed all of european heratige and thought and questioned everything they held for thousands of years.

for example.


"Second, while we must reject any general suspicion of Muslims, it is impossible to ignore the fact that reservations about Muslims are based on real mass murder committed by some Muslims in the name of Islam. Events such as 9/11 or the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh have no counterpart in Jewish tradition."

muslims should not kill anybody away from the borders of wars, and thats why in arab media alqaeda is loosing popularity because it doesnt hit israel, the enemy of most arabs, but hits other places like israel.

so killing innocent civilians is wrong.
on the other hand, jews didnt kill from a oint of weakness, if your a miniority you will think hundreds of times to hit targets, but right know, jews have israel and the "targeted attacks" through IDF and mossad.


friedman in the nytimes writes about new sources of energy with optimism " to stop alliance between arab oil producers and iran with america" he is a jew

danial pipes draws promotes islamphobia either directly or indirectly.

so all jews share their thoughts either directly or indirectly for their united aim.(not united states)


I think in the future with the end of anti-semetism in europe.....jews will reutrn to europe and america to start their lives agian. end of story


"Third, one need not play down the extent of discrimination against Muslims in Europe to recognize that the effects of the "concept of the Muslim enemy" and the "concept of the Jewish enemy" are qualitatively different. No one wants to erase a Muslim country from the map the way some people threaten to do with the Jewish state. Islamic centers and houses of prayer need no permanent police protection in Europe, unlike Jewish sites. No satellite stations call for the extermination of Muslims, whereas Hezbollah and Hamas TV, for example, broadcast via Arab satellites into European living rooms, regularly call for the destruction of the Jews -- even on children's programs."


erase what? the islamic world....hahahha. why did they come from alaska to erase them.
yes its not allowed to hit jewish prayer places , its haram, forbidden. but go catch people that think that they will enter heaven +, and this is important, + they see israel and jews as enemies because of israel. as they say, call your people martyers if you can. agian its not allowed to kill or target worship places of jews and christians especially because they have their books fro god, and all religeions out of the border of the "pinisula" where they are not allowed to be constructed.

"In taking up the fashionable vocabulary of Islamophobia and equating hostility to Muslims with hostility to Jews, the center also risks undermining the most important current task in dealing with anti-Semitism: studying and fighting hostility to Jews in the Islamic world, where anti-Semitism has reached an unprecedented level..."

yes it reached new levels, and will continue to reach, because jews and israel are unwelcomed guests.


Once a friend told me how can america stop its aggression on muslims countries, its impposibale. I told him it will happen in away we wont imagen, just wait and see.

and know in the economic crisis, I think america wont rise agian as it did. as a poet says, between the closing of an eye and opeining it, god changes things froming bieng powerfull to weak, healthy to sick, rich to poor.

things will change and go the pyraminds and ziggurets and see......they all fell from reasons from inside.

i will see the day your right about americaphobia inshallah. it will be truthphobia

Unwelcome guests? Get your fucking arabians out of North Africa, the Levant, South Asia, and Europe. You interloping piece of turd, arabian.

Also, you should understand that islamophobia is a polite term used by the OIC and our feckless, politically correct elites. No, we do not fear islam. We more generally revile it.

> I think in the future with the end
> of anti-semetism in europe.....jews will
> reutrn to europe and america to start their
> lives agian. end of story

I'm sure you really believe that, which is an amazing testament to the power of mass delusion.

Though this is a fundamental human trait common to all cultures, and without which culture might be impossible, Arabs do seem to excel at it beyond all others.

In "The Jihadi as Nazi, from 9/11 to Mumbai" Bradley Burston writes:

For the whole of my adult life, it irked me when my fellow Jews would routinely and without compunction, accuse anti-Zionists of being anti-Semitic, and conflate anti-Israeli sentiment with the Nazis.

I felt that the latter eroded the memory and the magnitude of the Holocaust, and that the former was a slightly more elegant way of telling people with whom one took issue, to shut the hell up.

Only this week did I realize my error.

It turns out, that when Jews suspected that the Jihadi hated the Jew the way the Nazi hated the Jew, they were right.

After all this time, I am embarrassed to admit that only when the monsters entered Chabad House in Mumbai, did I understand.

Monsters, not solely for what they did there, but, if the reports are to be believed, for the fact that they were able to do what they did after having actually gotten to know the young couple who founded the center, after asking them for shelter in Chabad House, after telling them that they were Malaysian students eager to learn about Judaism.

Monsters, for having befriended these sweet people in order to better learn how to execute them. Monsters, for having targeted a young couple who had devoted their lives to helping others better live theirs, despite having had a baby who died of a genetic disease and a second child ill and under treatment far away in Israel.

The monsters in Chabad House were not Nazis because they were Muslims. It was specifically because they so faithfully emulated the Nazis, that they, in fact, betrayed Islam.

The hatred of the Jihadi for the Jew is such that - as in the case of the Nazis - the killing of Jews - anywhere they may be found - is an obligation on par with whatever other enemy, target, cause, mission, goal or creed they may be pursuing at the moment...

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