The myth of "moderate" Islam.
Can you distinguish between those two pictures?
Posted on 09/13/2005 12:03:48 AM PDT by Mount Athos
British Prime Minister Tony Blair notified Monday that he would not adopt the proposal to change the British Holocaust Memorial Day to a British Genocide Day, which would serve as a memorial to Muslim deaths as well as Holocaust victims.
Radical Muslims were uncomfortable with the Holocaust because of the infamous role played by some of their leaders during World War II, said former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Israel Meir Lau on Monday in response to proposals to do away with Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain because Muslims find it offensive.
"The so called 'religious' leader Haj Amin el Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, went out of his way to come all the way to Berlin to encourage Hitler to kill Jews. He did everything in his power to help the Nazis in their diabolical plot."
"So I do not buy it when Palestinians argue that they were victims of the Holocaust because it led to the establishment of the state of Israel."
"Before there was ever a state of Israel there was rabid anti-Semitism among radical Muslims."
"I call on Tony Blair, who was the man who is responsible for creating Holocaust Memorial Day back in 2001, not to bow down to pressures made by these radical Muslims," said Lau, himself a survivor of Buchanwald. "He should be faithful to his own convictions."
According to British media reports, advisers to Prime Minister Blair proposed that Holocaust Memorial Day be replaced with 'Genocide Day'. The new memorial day would commemorate Muslim deaths in the West Bank and Gaza, Chechnya and Bosnia, in addition to Holocaust victims.
The recommendations, which were finalized were to be submitted to Blair on September 22, were prepared by four committees that Blair appointed after the recent London bombings in an effort to combat extremism.
Britain's Sunday Times quoted one committee member as saying, "The very name Holocaust Memorial Day sounds too exclusive to many young Muslims. It sends out the wrong signals: that the lives of one people are to be remembered more than others. It's a grievance that extremists are able to exploit."
Ibrahim Hewitt, chairman of the charity Interpal was quoted as saying, "There are 500 Palestinian towns and villages that have been wiped out over the years. That's pretty genocidal to me."
Lau said that Blair had the opportunity as Prime Minister to right historical wrongs made by previous British statesmen.
"Churchill was a great man, but he did not help the Jews as much as he could have during the Holocaust. He could have bombed the train tracks from Budapest to Auschwitz and save 50,000 lives a day."
"You, Tony Blair, are in Churchill's place now. Do not give credibility to Holocaust denial. Lau has said in the past that he sees no future for European Jewry, due in part to the rising tide of Islamic anti-Jewish sentiment."
In January, the Muslim Council of Britain, representing about 350 different Muslim organizations, boycotted the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz claiming it was racially inclusive and did not honor the victims of Palestinian conflict. The council insisted that the Palestinian 'holocaust' be included as well.
Islam was built on genocide.
The myth of "moderate" Islam.
Can you distinguish between those two pictures?
Somebody just posted an article about this here... it was about those "chicken" advisers Tony got with him who proposed this foolish thing... good thing you posted the result, they must have been embarrassed. Tony is not a dhimmi... good to know...
You don't change history by going into denial. Face it, Muslims were bad and still are.
Captain Hook after his conversion to Islam... from piracy to Islam... same thing!
LOL... That was you... Good job dude!
What part of HOLOCAUST do these people not understand. This isn't about the political turmoil since Israel became a state, but the killing of thousands upon thousands of Jews. My father-in-law landed on Utah Beach on D-Day and marched from there to Berlin, was in the Battle of the Bulge and saw many of his fellow soldiers killed and/or maimed. He said the ONLY thing that ever made him physically ill was when they were freeing Jews from a concentration camp. Most were SO emaciated that he couldn't believe they were still alive and even after everything he'd seen in battle was unprepared for the depth of suffering he saw. No Palestinian has ever had to endure what the Jews did during WWII. I can't believe the British would even consider changing this to "genocide" day.
Pinging...
The nitwits currently running the Dem. Party could-but probably won't-learn a lot from his example.
You know, when I consider how parasitic, hypocritical, socially-toxic, malevolent, and mean-spirited most Moslems tend to be, I can't help thinking that maybe it's time the rest of the world rose up and opened a can of whoopass on them.
Lau said that Blair had the opportunity as Prime Minister to right historical wrongs made by previous British statesmen.
"Churchill was a great man, but he did not help the Jews as much as he could have during the Holocaust. He could have bombed the train tracks from Budapest to Auschwitz and save 50,000 lives a day."
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Actually this has been disproven many times. There were not enough planes, it was too far to go, it would not have hastened the end of the war (but do the opposite by taking supplies away from the fight), the bombs were grossly innaccurate and the Nazis had many units that on average took about a day to fix the tracks in the area.
There are much better examples of countries (including the UK) not helping the Jews and other groups during the war.
Also I think the focus on Holocaust day should be on the 11 million that died in the camps not just on the 6, a human is a human regardless of religion or creed. But it is wholly appropriate to not include muslims since they were not in the camps (and since many were on the Nazi's side).
Roosevelt and Churchill reached the conclusion that the best way to save the Jews and other prisoners was to win the war as quickly as posisble. Even in 20/20 hindsight, it's hard to find fault with that decision.
Even if the Allies had destroyed the train tracks to Auschwitz, the Nazis would have found other ways, built other camps, to commit murder. They had a clear record of diverting needed men, materiel and rolling stock from the war effort and devoting them to killing Jews. It wasn't rational, but hatred seldom is.
If someone is strangling babies with his right hand, you don't aim at his right hand, because even if you succeed, he'll just switch to his left. You shoot for the heart and the head.
Talk about strange bedfellows. That's the common cause between Islamofacists and Neonazis: The Holocaust never happened, they had it coming, and we're going to do it again.
hol·o·caust Pronunciation Key (h
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1. Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire.
2. a. Holocaust The genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II: “Israel emerged from the Holocaust and is defined in relation to that catastrophe” (Emanuel Litvinoff).
There they are!!
My favorite lines from the post.
1. "So I do not buy it when Palestinians argue that they were victims of the Holocaust because it led to the establishment of the state of Israel."
2. "There are 500 Palestinian towns and villages that have been wiped out over the years. That's pretty genocidal to me"
Arrrrgh!
To be honest 99% of the people in the UK don't know that we HAVE a Holocaust day. I didn't until I read this post. We all know about the Holocaust, but Holocaust day? Were all the Jews and Poles murdered on a particular day? No. We remember D-Day, if you like, because that has a particular date.
Of course now that I find the Muzzies are keen to expropriate Holocaust Day, I shall defend it. But a day picked by committee means nothing to me.
I only found out this year, I think it is February or March. I think someone should try to put these days into one day and have a list of reasons to remember the importance of winning world war two. The list would be long but deserving.
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