Posted on 06/03/2015 6:45:09 AM PDT by SJackson
Leading Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) expressed shock on Monday over a call by a Bavarian parliament member to exclude German Muslims and other immigrant students from visiting concentration camps as part of Holocaust educational programs.
“There are a lot of children from Muslim families who do not have a connection to our past,” said Christian Society Union (CSU) MP Klaus Steiner, justifying the exclusion in a speech to the Bavarian Parliament. “We have to approach this topic carefully with these children.”
SWC Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, registered the group’s objections in a letter to German Federal Education Minister Dr. Johanna Wanka saying her Bavarian coalition partner is promoting Holocaust denial with his proposal.
“To hear such language from a mainstream German politician reeks, at best, as Holocaust denial,” he wrote, according to a statement, “and, far worse, a German endorsement for such radical Islamist and Iranian intents, summed up as, ‘the Holocaust is a lie, let’s make it a reality.'”
SWC noted that Minister Wanka will attend the opening of the G-7 Summit in Bavaria on June 7, where she will announce Germany’s 20 million euro ($218 million) investment and five-year plan to create centers of Islamic theology at four universities: Tubingen, Frankfurt/Giessen, Munster/Osnabruck and Nurenberg/Erlengen. Samuels said the latter two establishments in Bavaria have a reportedly “checkered Nazi history.” He charged that the Islamic education programs, mixed with Steiner’s proposal, suggest a “recipe for Jihadism.”
“At a time of increasingly rampant antisemitism and even antisemitic terrorism across Europe, the Steiner Bavarian plan, together with your generous Federal Islamic education program seems a recipe for Jihadism, ISIS recruitment and incitement to Jew-hatred, to be inevitably followed by attacks on other traditional Nazi victims: Roma, gays, women and disabled,” he wrote.
SWC called on Minister Wanka to “unequivocally reject” Steiner’s initiative and ensure that lesson plans by Muslim instructors include an “adequate Holocaust model, such as a mandatory visit to the Yad Vashem memorial museum in Jerusalem.”
The Jewish group also drew attention to the Ministry’s website explaining that it is part of its integration policy to “train religious educators and specialized religious scholars … who will go on to work in mosques.” Muslims make up the third largest religious group in Germany numbering 4 million people, following Catholics and Protestants, according to the website.
“By suppressing the concentration camp visit for young Muslims, Germany may evoke for some, iconized memories of the 1930’s Fuhrer-Mufti alliance as a paradigm for contemporary Islamism,” Samuels concluded.
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Why educate those who think it didn't happen. A policy the US could adopt, why bother to teach immigrants American values. At least those who don't care about American values.
It would only give them ideas.
Leading Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) expressed shock on Monday over a call by a Bavarian parliament member to exclude German Muslims and other immigrant students from visiting concentration camps as part of Holocaust educational programs.
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Visiting concentration camps? How about INTERNING them. Permanently.
(Now, where did I put that silly sarc tag?)
Muslims are the only major religion in the world with a significant element who advocate the same final solution as Hitler did. German children have more grounds for exemption.
Why are Jews surprised that the liberals they elect hate them?
Actually such exemption is probably a good idea. You don’t want to promote obvious gloating on these occasions.
Watching all this play out on a daily basis makes in increasingly apparent that Islam could be the Beast of Revelation.
I could see leftists refusing to visit concentration camps. That way the could sill deny the Holocaust ever happened.../s
In the name of “diversity”, Progressive ideology dictates that German society will be improved when people who have no desire to assimilate are invited to embed themselves in Germany an live at government expense. This is even worse when such people believe that their invasion is a form of conquest. Within a very few generations, Germany as a historic culture will cease to exist, and Progressives will think it is good thing.
There should be no special privileges for members of a cult that has as one of its beliefs hatred for Jews.
I guess it just got to be too embarrassing to have the Muslim students doing high-fives and chest-bumps in the gas chambers.
Plus, the Muslims were getting pretty good at hocking loogies, from a distance, on the museum pictures of the emaciated Jewish prisoners.
Probably because balloons, streamers, and vuvuzelas would appear disrespectful there.
Because celebratory gunfire would not be a nice thing for the neighbors to hear...
There is no doubt to me that we are living in the end times.
“Why are Jews surprised that the liberals they elect hate them?”
Yeah, us Jewish people are a real material voting block in Germany with 0.144% of the population.
Get a clue.
Exactly, lol. That “blame the jews” comment always shows up on time.
Why is the truth such a dangerous thing?
I wonder who paid HIM off?/S
Because muslims were and are nazi sympathizers, and it would tend to upset their pedophilia rackets.
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