Posted on 09/21/2005 11:49:58 AM PDT by Sthitch
Last week, the London Times reported that a group of Muslims appointed by Tony Blair to examine how the government might diminish Muslim extremism are pressuring the PM to replace Holocaust Memorial Day with "Genocide Day," since "Muslims feel hurt and excluded that their lives are not equally valuable to those lives lost in the Holocaust time." The head of a British Muslim charity added, There are 500 Palestinian towns and villages that have been wiped out over the years. Thats pretty genocidal to me. (One Labour MP appropriately responded, These Muslim groups should stop trying to evade the enormity of the Holocaust.)
Perhaps French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy might want to visit Britain for next year's Holocaust Memorial Day, which is held on January 27. Yesterday's Ha'aretz reports that Douste-Blazy revealed a shocking lack of knowledge of the Holocaust and European history during a recent visit to Israel's Holocaust memorial site, Yad Vashem.
The museum, which is an extraordinary achievement in public history, includes detailed maps showing the number of Jews killed in each nation occupied by the Nazis. Douste-Blazy asked why no British Jews were listed as murdered, prompting the museum curator to point out, "But Monsieur le minister, England was never conquered by the Nazis during World War II."
The Foreign Minister's response: "Yes, but were there no Jews who were deported from England?" Amazing.
Sheesh, THERE's a "bushism" if I ever heard one..
Maybe six million of them need to be murdered?
Maybe he was thinking the US. I heard we turned a boat of Jewish refugees from Germany back around to the Reich before we entered WW2.
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Are they Turks?
Maybe they should replace it with an Armenian holocaust statue.
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