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What makes Islam so easy to hate?
By Bradley Burston
This ought to begin with the usual disclaimer.
It ought to begin with a Berkeley-strength apology to Muslims everywhere.
It should acknowledge their concerns, recognize their oppression, identify with
their struggles, endorse their just goals.
It ought to begin with a plea for understanding of suicide bombings,
9/11, 7/7, forced female genital mutilation, honor killings, Jew hate,
Holocaust denial, selective Islamocentric morality - all in the context of
Western blindness to Muslim suffering.
Not this time.
Just this once, let's come out with it.
There is a reason why Islam has become so easy to misinterpret, so easy
to fear, so easy to hate: those who speak evil and do evil and order others to
perform acts of evil in the name of its God and His Prophet.
Iran is as good a place as any to start. The president there has decided
that the Jews - not just some Israelis, not just Israel - must be punished.
He's decided that the crimes of all Jews everywhere are so heinous, that they
must be punished using a weapon so obscene, so horrible, that it would reach
every last Jew everywhere: using the Holocaust itself as a weapon.
Soiling the honor and the memory of six million people executed in
horrible deaths for the sole crime of being Jewish. Punishing their living
relatives.
This month, Iran marked the first commemoration of International
Holocaust Remembrance Day by condemning Israel for "routinely attempting to
exploit the suffering of the Jewish people in the past as a cover for its
crimes being perpetrated today against Palestinians in the occupied
territories."
The code is clear, and it is communicated to a billion Muslims the world
over - these Jews, these are the Nazis now. They are candidates for erasure.
Tomorrow, 50 years from now, the time frame is not the issue.
There is an outcry, of course, but from where? The West - the Great Satan
and his satraps. Which only serves to prove President Ahmadinejad's point.
The code is clear: There are a billion of us, barely a dozen million of
them, and we're the victims. Every crumb of anti-Semitic crud will be
resurrected and marshalled for this effort.
Congratulations, Islamists. you've put yourselves in the company of
imbecile skinheads who hate you only a little less than they hate us.
You, Mr. President, know very well why Holocaust denial and denigration
hurts the way it does. But just in case someone's forgotten, it goes like this:
They tried to make us extinct. Only a few years ago.
They tried to make us extinct. They nearly succeeded.
You obviously have some idea how much it hurts. That's why you do it, to
the delight of many. They're coming out of the woodwork now, the professorial
twits with their statistics and their pronouncements about the lack of proof of
gas chambers and the German Jews Who Supported Hitler and the Only A Small
Number Were Killed.
Too bad, from the deniers standpoint, that Hitler didn?t succeed in
killing all of us, every last one.
Then there would be no proof that a Holocaust took place at all.
Let's take another example, the Hamas Charter. The charter which, Hamas
has assured us, will not be changed as much as one jot or tittle.
a.. "The Nazism of the Jews does not skip women and children, it scares
everyone. They make war against people's livelihood, plunder their moneys and
threaten their honor. In their horrible actions they mistreat people like the
most horrendous war criminals."
a.. "A society which confronts a vicious, Nazi-like enemy, who does not
differentiate between man and woman, elder and young ought to be the first to
adorn itself with this Islamic spirit.
Our enemy pursues the style of collective punishment of usurping people's
countries and properties, of pursuing them into their exiles and places of
assembly. It has resorted to breaking bones, opening fire on women and children
and the old, with or without reason, and to setting up detention camps where
thousands upon thousands are interned in inhuman conditions."
a.. "The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not
come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide
behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind
me, come on and kill him!"
What's that you say? Why should you have to condemn this?
What's that? The Jews justify their acts, too?
Do we do bad things to Palestinians? Yes - often. Look where you're
reading this. We pillory ourselves, expose our failings, castigate ourselves to
the point of masochism, even, on occasion, do the right thing to correct it.
Do some Jews exploit the Holocaust for their own gain? Of course. Just
this week, Benjamin Netanyahu chose the Park Hotel in Netanya - where a suicide
bomber burst into a Passover seder in 2002 to kill dozens of people, many of
them aged Holocaust survivors - to compare the Hamas election victory to the
rise of Hitler.
Through it all, though, fundamentalist Muslims, and not only
fundamentalists, are the first to tell us Jews to search our souls, while they
magically wipe their consciences clean with the wand that is the word
Occupation.
There is a depth of self-pity here that even we Jews can't top.
While they're at it, they have redefined genocide for the benefit of us
Jews. They have also redefined occupation for the rest of the world. At this
point, the only real occupation that exists is when Jewish people here or
Christian people there in Iraq, occupy Muslim people.
They have also redefined the modern nation-state, having made it an
article of their faith in congregations from London to Indonesia that of all
the countries in the world, one and only one lacks any right to continue to
exist.
Does all this work? Does it ever.
Referring to his public declaration that Israel should be wiped off the
map, Tehran City Council Chairman and presidential adviser Mehdi Chamran told
the New York Times: "He raised the question in Mecca and he received a huge
amount of praise. The people living in these countries, within their hearts,
they are happy to hear these statements.
"If we can strengthen ties with the people that is most important. When
we hear the Egyptians take him as a role model, this is a real sign he has
reached the people."
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