“NEVER REMEMBER”
By Don Feder
FrontPage magazine.com, CA
Sept 27 2005
A committee appointed by the British government, composed of Muslims,
wants the nation to scrap its Holocaust Memorial Day, in the name of
inclusiveness and sensitivity. No word yet on whether they also want
to eliminate Passover – said to be insensitive to Egyptians.
The committee recommends replacing the observance (started in 2001
and held annually on January 27) with a Genocide (a.k.a., Victimhood)
Day, which would recognize the alleged mass murder of Muslims in
“Palestine,” Chechnya, Bosnia, and wherever else followers of the
Religion of Peace have come into conflict with the accursed infidel.
In making its case for inclusiveness, the committee somehow neglected
to mention the many victims of Muslim mayhem – Armenians, Sudanese
Christians, Kosovar Serbs (ethnically cleansed in the wake of NATO’s
war on Yugoslavia), and Hindus – to name but a few. If an Arab stubbed
his toe on the boot of a Christian knight sometime in the 11th century,
it’s a crime against humanity that must be memorialized throughout
the ages, according to the imams. On the other hand, the slaughter of
infidels is seen as the will of Allah, and worthy of a Heavenly reward.
The committee maintains that Britain’s Holocaust Memorial Day fuels
feelings of isolation and alienation among Muslim youth. And, well,
to have a special commemoration of the systematic slaughter of one
in every three Jews on earth (in an effort to annihilate an entire
people), is grossly unfair, the committee suggests.
Sir Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of the Muslim Council of
Britain, cautions: “We can never have double standards in terms of
human life. Muslims feel hurt and excluded that their lives are not
equally valuable to those lives lost in the Holocaust time.”
Perhaps Sir Iqbal also believes that 9/11 memorials should pay homage
to the Muslims in the planes, as well as the infidels in the office
buildings – so that his coreligionists won’t feel that their lives
have less meaning.
To understand the obscenity of Iqbal’s equation of the Holocaust with
casualties in the aforesaid armed conflicts, consider the Muslims
favorite “genocide”: that supposedly inflicted on the Palestinians.
Since the onset of the latest Intifada (started and maintained by
Muslims), 4,000 Palestinians have died, out of a population of more
than 1 million. Most were combatants. At the same time, almost 1,000
Israelis have lost their lives – overwhelmingly civilians, mostly
women, children, and the elderly. Palestinian society celebrates
jihad and suicide bombings. Israeli society unilaterally relinquishes
territory in its quest for peace.
For the Palestinian/Holocaust analogy to be valid, Israel would have
to be operating death camps – herding naked Muslims into gas chambers
and burning their remains in crematoria. And Jerusalem would have to
have slaughtered every third Palestinian in the world.
Instead the Palestinian population has increased dramatically –
as has their life expectancy and standard of living – since Israel
came into possession of the territory they inhabit at the end of the
Six-Days War. To put it in Shakespearean terms, genocide should be
made of sterner stuff.
Muslims can’t stand the thought of Holocaust commemorations, because,
with certain honorable exceptions, Islam’s attitudes toward the Jews
frequently mirror those of the Nazi killers.
Islamic polemicists have three responses to the destruction of
European Jewry: 1) It never happened; 2) It happened, but the numbers
are grossly exaggerated, and Zionist leaders collaborated with the
Nazis; and 3) It happened, and the Jews, those enemies of humanity,
had it coming.
Mahmoud Abbas, capo mafioso of the Palestinian Authority and renowned
moderate, is the author of a 1983 book entitled, The Other Side:
The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Movement. In
it, the first president of Palestine (if Washington has its way)
maintains that Hitler killed “only a few hundred thousand Jews,” not
six million. Moreover, the Zionist leadership “was a partner in the
slaughter of the Jews” – supposedly to create sympathy for the Jews,
thus facilitating the creation of the Jewish state.
Holocaust denial is rampant in the Muslim world.
In 1964, then-Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nassar (who precipitated
the Six-Days War) insisted:, “No one…takes seriously the lie about
six million Jews who were murdered.”
In 2000, a columnist for The Syria Times wrote, “The most famous myth
is that of the so-called Holocaust… We strongly believe that gas
chambers were not used for burning (sic.) Jews.”
Also in 2000, Sheikh Adel Bin Ahmad Bana’ma, a Saudi religious
authority speaking at a Jeddah mosque, charged that Jews “disseminate
everywhere the lie of the Holocaust and claim that Hitler killed six
million Jews in gas chambers…This is pure falsehood.”
A year later, Palestinian religious leader Sheikh Ibrahim Mahdi
declared, “One of the Jews’ evil deeds has come to be called the
Holocaust.” However, the Sheikh insisted, it has been irrefutably
proven that “this crime, carried out against some of the Jews, was
planned by the Jews’ leaders.”
Like other Holocaust-deniers, those of the Islamic world aren’t just
flat-Earth cranks, but virulent anti-Semites. Except for a handful
of European skinheads and Aryan Nation types holed up in Idaho, The
Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion is still taken seriously only
among Muslims – where it’s the Harry Potter of Middle East publishing.
This Czarist forgery (which purports to expose a Jewish conspiracy to
control humanity) is ubiquitous in jihad land. Saudi Arabia’s late
King Faisal often gave copies to foreign visitors. Yasser Arafat
was a fan. Arab periodicals quote it religiously, to demonstrate
the perfidy of the Jews. In 2002, Egyptian television broadcast a
41-episode, dramatized version of The Protocols, entitled. “Horseman
Without A Horse.”
The roots of Islamic anti-Semitism run deep. Mohammed never forgave
the Jews for rejecting his message. After he came to power, Jewish
tribes in the Arabian peninsula were converted by the sword, or
massacred. The Koran is rife with the Prophet’s disdain for Jews. (He
called them descendants of apes and pigs.) Alongside this are calls
to fight the Jews, who are indicted as the enemies of Allah.
Over the centuries, this theological anti-Semitism has evolved into
a conviction that Jews are the repositories of evil in the world and
Islam’s principal enemies.
It’s not surprising that the resurgence of widespread anti-Semitism
on the European continent, after years of quiescence, parallels the
influx of Middle East Muslims.
When Pope John Paul II paid a state visit to Syrian President Bashar
Al-Assad in 2001, he must have thought he’d stepped off the plane and
into a Nuremberg rally. In welcoming the pontiff, Assad proclaimed,
“They [the Jews] try to kill all the principles of divine faiths
with the same mentality of betraying Jesus Christ and torturing Him,
and in the same way that they tried to commit treachery against the
Prophet Mohammed.”
One who took the Prophet’s call to its logical conclusion was Hajj Amin
al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem before World War II. The mufti
spent the war years in Berlin as an honored guest of Adolf Hitler.
Working from his office in the capital of the Third Reich, al-Husseini
devoted himself to a Nazi victory, recruiting spies to serve in
the Middle East and raising a Bosnian Muslim division of the Waffen
SS. Described at Nuremberg as one of Eichmann’s best friends, the mufti
even visited Auschwitz and urged those who ran the gas chambers to
“work more diligently.”
In a radio broadcast from Berlin on November 2, 1943, Hitler’s partner
in genocide condemned the Jews in language that echoed Mein Kampf :
“The overwhelming egotism which lies in the character of Jews,
their unworthy belief that they are God’s chosen nation and their
assertion that all was created for them and that other people are
animals” is the reason “[t]hey cannot mix with any other nation but
live as parasites among the nations, suck out their blood, embezzle
their property, corrupt their morals…The divine anger and curse
that the Holy Koran mentions with reference to the Jews is because
of this unique character of the Jews.”
After the war, the mufti met a young Yassar Arafat in Cairo, and the
torch was passed to the next generation of Islamo-fascists. (Arafat
often referred to the Nazi henchman as “our hero al-Husseini.”)
In his book, The Myth of Hitler’s Pope, Rabbi David Dalin discloses,
“Arafat continued the mufti’s Nazi legacy by recruiting Nazis
and neo-Nazis for Fatah and the PLO. In 1969, for example, the PLO
recruited two former Nazi instructors, Erich Altern, a leader of the
Gestapo’s Jewish affairs section, and Willy Berner, an SS officer
in the Mauthausen extermination camp. Another former Nazi, Johann
Schuller, was found supplying arms to Fatah.”
There are unavoidable parallels between Nazis and Islamists. Both
adhere to totalitarian ideologies (though one is disguised as a
religion); each group trains its adherents to kill without compunction
and to show mercy to neither the young nor old; both nurse historical
grudges and long for a settling of accounts; and each see Jews as
the principal obstacle to the achievement of its utopian vision.
Of course, British Muslims are offended by Holocaust Memorials. While
Nazism was a European phenomenon, post-World War II Hitler wannabes
are found almost exclusively in the Arab and Muslim world. After the
fall of Berlin, the center of anti-Semitic agitation shifted to Cairo,
Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh, and Ramallah.
If the Blair government is really in an appeasement mode, it
could balance Holocaust Memorial Day – and lessen the awful sense
of alienation among Muslim youth – with a Hajj Amin al-Husseini
Appreciation Day.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress