(At least applying to those Muslims who hate Jews and do not seek peace with Israel)
>From the latest edition of Newsweek: A SPECTER OF A NEW ANTI-SEMITISM A columnist in the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh took it on herself this month to explain the rituals of Purim and Passover. The first holiday (which took place in February) commemorates the story of Esther�s saving the Jews of Persia from extermination. It�s a rollicking, hard-drinking, happy time for most celebrants. Some call it the Jewish Mardi Gras. Passover is more somber, as Jews commemorate the night that the Tenth Plague was sent by God to smite the firstborn children of Egypt but passed over the homes of Jews and allowed Moses to lead them to freedom. Each part of the ritual meal is full of symbolism. But that is not what the columnist, a medical doctor at King Faisal University Hospital, told her readers. For the Purim pastries, she said, �the Jewish people must obtain human blood.� And for Passover, there are some special requirements: �the blood of Christian and Muslim children under the age of 10 must be used.� And so, in almost clinical detail, Dr. Umayma Ahmad al-Jalahma recounted a hideous libel that dates back to the Crusades. �A needle-studded barrel is used,� she told us. �The victim suffers dreadful torment�torment that affords the Jewish vampires great delight ... � You get the idea. The column appeared in the government-sanctioned newspaper shortly before Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks. Since the Saudis are proposing a plan for peace with Israel, the screed was, to say the least, an embarrassment. �That column was 100 percent wrong,� Al-Riyadh� s editor Turki al-Sudairi told NEWSWEEK. And yet�the shadow of a doubt was allowed to linger. �Jews everywhere in the world are one thing,� he wrote in his official retraction, �while Jews belonging to the Zionist movement that acts to annihilate the Palestinians are something else, and completely different.� In the face of such monstrous mythologies, that distinction is without a difference. The Saudi diatribe is hardly an isolated incident. In recent years, and with a quickening tempo, the Egyptian press has led the way toward conspiratorial madness. (And Egypt, one must recall, has a peace treaty with Israel.) Papers have featured stories denying the Holocaust, accepting as fact the sinister fiction called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and even repeating a Nazi-authored �prophecy� attributed falsely to Benjamin Franklin that Jews would take over America if allowed to immigrate. ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
