Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly said that Israel should be wiped off from the world besides commenting that Holocaust was doubtful and Israel ought to be shifted to Europe.
Not very simple comments indeed but the figure of deaths attributed to Holocaust has been disputed for long. Head of states are not supposed to issue such statements, more so when it concerns Israel. It is not politically correct!
The West (Europe) perpetrated Holocaust and six decades later the mention of the word unsettles them to no end. What a moral guilt!
They created Isreal, the rogue state in Palestinian land. And Muslims who for centuries gave refuge to Jews fleeing the excess of Christian west have been paying the price. But see the shock on the faces of many self-styled intellectuals in countries who have nothing to do with either Israel/Holocaust or Iran. The collective guilt of Europe has brought tremendous suffering for Palestinians.
At least, Ahmadinejad has the courage to call a spade a spade. After all, Jews of the present generation must know that it was the Muslim community that had safeguarded their interests and rights for centuries when there was hatred for them in the Christian world that perpetrated atrocities on the followers of Judaism. In those days Jews were burnt and codemned across the Europe.
Examples of intolerance towards Jews in Christian world:
1. In Spain, every child born of marriage between Christian and Jew was to be baptised. Later at the height of inquisition all Jews were given the option to convert or leave Spain. Thousands were burnt alive and many lived as crypto-Jews.
2. When epidemics like plague spread, the Jews were always blamed and charged with the spread of diseases. Like in 14 th century when thousands of Jews were held responsible for Black Death and killed.
3. In 1215 Jews were ordered to wear distinct dress from Christians so that they could be identified. At many places they were made to wear yellow badges or specified dress.
4. Almost 13,000 Jews were burnt in Spain alone during inquisition for not converting to Christianity in 15th-16th centuries.
5. Popes through out history condemned Jews. Pope Julius III publicly condemned their holy book Talmud.
6. For two millennium (2,000 years) Jews were persecuted in one form or the other in Europe. Always harassed and thrown into ghettoes.
But forgetting all this the Jews after getting the state turned against the new enemy--Muslims, who had always welcomed the Jews who fled the European persecution. I wonder if Jews ever think about it or they are really too selfish and driven by avarice to have forget the humiliation of centuries!
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Do Jews ever recall the historic role of Muslims in saving them?
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This is a valid question. Good to know about the instances when Jews were persecuted by Christians...
But I think that the Zionists are getting avenged when they are using the US (Christian dominated) against the Muslims where all the muslim backlash will be directed towards Christians.
What do you really mean by "It is not politically correct!"?
Is it correct otherwise to say this - and just not correct for a political leader?
well written
I read somewhere a while back that the reason most American unconditionally support Israel is because most people in America genuinely believe that Jesus Christ will be resurrected, and that this will happen in Israel.
The Israel issue is a bit of a mess. But from a practical viewpoint, it would make sense to simply divide the land. Whereas Israel was created out of a kind of utopian vision and that whole idea is now fading away, it is a reality nevertheless. Just as India has accepted Pakistan as a reality (despite the RSS's call for an Akhand Bharat), it is in everyone's interest to recognize Israel.
it's sad that middle east doesn't recognize that israel belongs to the jews. they were there 1st and without judaism , christinity and islam would not exist. shame on you to condemn this most authentic religion. shame on you to keep persecuting and putting yourself above these more righteous but humble people.
Firstly I think you need to make the distinction between Ashkenazi (European) Jewry and Sephardic or Mizrachi Jewry. The latter lived for many years in Muslim-majority lands, often in much better circumstances than their Ashkenazi cousins in Christian Europe. A large part of Mizrachi cultural identity has been influenced by the Islamic societies in which they lived. It also needs to be remembered that Zionism was essentially an invention of Ashkenazi Jews as a response to rising nationalism in Europe.
That's not to say life for Jews in Muslim lands was always free of persecution. Jews were considered second class citizens in many societies and with the conquest of parts of North Africa by the Nazis, many Muslims turned on their Jewish neighbours.
As a mixed Ashkenazi/Mizrachi Jew myself, I am fully aware that my Mizrachi ancestors were significantly better off under Muslim rule than my Ashkenazi ancestors. But the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is essentially a conflict of competing national narratives. It is a fight over land and sovereignty, rather than a conflict over religion. Seeing the conflict as a fight between Jews and Muslims is wrong. It is a conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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really this is a good blog, but we cannot accept those articles which are simply written in favour of its own community.
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Though its quite obvious that christans have persecuted the Jwes in the past more than what muslims did to Jews, it is interesting to note that Jews trust the christans more than muslims in the world.I dont understand the reason for behaviour.The Holy Quarn has also said that Jews will never mend their path to staright and they are cursed in this world and hearafter also. Though in the process they are causing much of suffering to muslims in . one day things will change for better. Inshallah.
I don't understand why the distinction between Ashkenazi and Mizrachi Jews is important in this discussion. Most Jews from both cultural spheres reacted positively to the idea of returning to Zion.
It is also well known that the Muslim world was for the most part less dangerous for jews than the Christian world. But that has nothing to do with the current conflict in the Middle East. Jews in Israel and elsewhere have no problem with the Islamic religion as such. The problem is that Arab countries and the Palesitnians (including Christians) are trying to destroy Israel as an independent country and Israel is trying to continue to survive as the only homeland of the Jewish nation.
With all due respect to the usually tolerant attitude of Islam toward Jews, please note the history of Meshed in Iran in the 19th century, where Jews were forcibly converted to Islam and had to practice their religion in secret for several generations.
To criticise Europe's excesses of the past is no excuse for the contemporary antisemitism in so much of the muslim world.
Muslims should aim for higher moral standards than "generally better than the worst excesses of our rivals".
I worry that the only reason there is no current extermination programme of the jews is because of the lack of military power and intellectual development in muslim states.
You are right .In Bolywod movies acted by mainly Muslim Stars Yehudi And Yehudi ke Beti were favourable presnted as they being victim of Romans and Hitler .
Is this a joke? Muslims have hated and always conspired to kill the Jews. Perhaps you should need to read more Islamic history.
Ibrahim,
I think you have only read the history of the last 60 years. Go a few centuries behind.Or may be you want to interpret it just the way you want. Naturally nobody can help it then.
If Jews today are closer politically to Christians than to Muslims, it has nothing to do with the history of either religion or their past behaviour. It has everything to do with the fact that the Muslim world has decided to oppose Israel's existence since 1948. Why do Muslims side with the Palestinians just because most of them are Muslims? That doesn't make their cause any more just. They want exclusive control of the country, while the Jews agreed to partition in 1948. The parallel in Indian history would be if the Hindus rejected Pakistan's right to exist as a separate country and insisted on one greater India ruled by Hindus.
PPl are waking up to the dangers of zionism.This global economic collapse is because of the greed of the world elite international bankers.You will find their connections to all wars fought in this century plus who were the masterminds behind major terrorists attacks aka 911.and do you know who controls the worlds mainstream media?....which we beleive is the truth.
Jews have suffered both from Chritian love and Muslim love throughout history.Your revelation of Jew prosecution under Christians is commendable but unfortunately you have convinently ignored the jew prosecution under Muslims probably to assert and re-inforce your point about the unholiness of the jews in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Now Mr Ahmedinajad says he doubts the "Jewish holocaust" but why does he need to do this since muslims had nothing to do with the holocaust? Well this is the common Arab perception and policy that acknowledging the extent of the brutality of the "Jewish Holocaust" would create sympathy for jews and undermine the Palestinian sympathy in the eyes of the world.This is the least kept secret of Arab policy.
Many muslims assert that their deep dislike for the Zionest regime is not to be confused with anti-semitism but often the lines are more blurred.For Example even in the recent Mumbai attacks a "Jewish house" - Nariman house was specifically targetted.We can find similar examples throughout the world if we care to look.
Though the Palestinian migration(or expulsion) from their lands after the establishment of Israel is a bitter fact however it is also a fact about the migration(or expulsion) of jews from Arab lands post 1948 Arab-Israel conflict.
There is also a popular perception among muslims that JEWS were living just fabulously in the Arab world pre-Israel creation.This Sir, is just a mirage...numerous instances of violence against the Jews and their persecution have been well recorded in history.Though there were periods of peacefull co-existence but even these came at a cost of paying "jizra" to practise their faith and numerous restrictions.Usually these assertions are dis-missed as Zionist conspiracies but this is like "putting head in the sand".
Most places that Arabs/Muslims went were already devoid of Jews i.e Persia, India, Iraq etc. So the question of persecution did not arise at the same level as Christians. But whenever and where the Muslims felt Jews were a threat they did massacre them.
Islam needs some serious & good leadership today. Look at Pakistan..first they killed/eliminated Hindus, then they went after Shias (other non sunni muslims). You had Muslims killing Muslims in Pakistan and they talk of RSS being communal.
Now we see that they want to go after women also (SWAT etc), soon enough some madman mullah will kill even sunnis with no beard...because at that point no one else will be left to hate or kill..this will continue until people left look and think like them and I am sure there also they will find an excuse to kill.
All this will happen the name of the religion of "Peace" .... and we are supposed to keep quite and not offend these idiots by calling them what they are.."terrorists"
my friend if you do some research about the 1300 year mistreatment of Jews in Yemen, u might want to reconsider your essay. In the rest of Arab lands, Jews were a super-tiny minority so there's little question of persecution.
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Isnt it true that Jews have not mend their way still also and will never. Its a fact which is what is stated in Holy Quran.
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