Joakim wrote:
> Ifølge de sårede selv, udtrykte tilskuere deres jubel, da to skudofre
> blev kørt væk fra skudepisode i Rosengårdcentret i Odense.
>
> Med mørke skygger under øjnene og et langt, sort hår samlet i en
> hestehale ligger 26-årige Itai i sygesengen på Odense
> Universitetshospital. Blikket er flakkende, men ordene strømmer ud.
>
> - Da vi blev båret ind i ambulancen, hørte jeg flere, der jublede
> over det, der var sket, fortæller han til Fyens Stiftstidende.
>
>
http://jp.dk/indland/krimi/article1558206.ece
>
> Og det bliver ikke meget bedre, når man skal høre følgende retoriske
> spørgsmål, stillet af en journalist på TV2news:
>
> - Nu havde israelerne jødestjerner på, så kan man ikke sige at de
> selv var ude om det? (kilde: uriasposten.net)
>
> Vi får at vide igen og igen at muslimer er vor tids jøder, det er de
> ikke, vor tids jøder er stadig jøder. Så enkelt er det.
Det må man nok sige, selv om endog anti-semitisme centre er gået over til at
hævde at det er de stakkels muslimer som bliver generet overalt i Europa.
The Berlin center adopts the neologism "Islamophobia" without any
reservation. This term is misleading because it mixes two different
phenomena -- unjust hatred against Muslims and necessary criticism of
political Islam -- and condemns both equally.
By accepting this vocabulary, the Berlin center reinforces an unfortunate
trend. In May 2005, the Council of Europe -- at the urging of Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- used the term for the first time,
condemning "all forms of intolerance . . . including anti-Semitism and
Islamophobia."
Yet this statement did not go far enough for the Muslim Council of Britain.
"The fact is that Islamophobia has replaced anti-Semitism," explained
Abduljalil Sajid, an imam and leading member of the Muslim Council, a month
later at a conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe in Cordoba, Spain. He described as Islamophobic such statements as
"Long live Israel!" and "Muslim fundamentalism is dangerous." Meanwhile,
various documents by the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the
United Nations have condemned Islamophobia as today's most important and
worst form of prejudice.
The Center for Research on Anti-Semitism does not go this far. It is,
though, surprising how naturally this institution of all places puts
anti-Muslim sentiments and anti-Semitism in the same category. While both
forms of prejudice should be fought, the differences between the "concept of
the Muslim enemy" and the "concept of the Jewish enemy" are evident.
First, while racism usually makes people "small" in order to enslave,
exploit or expel them, anti-Semitism makes the Jews delusionally "big." The
most important characteristic of anti-Semitism is a conspiracy theory that
holds the Jews responsible for both capitalism and communism, for AIDS,
revolutions and financial crises -- in short, for every "inexplicable"
catastrophe of modernity.
The concept of "redemptive anti-Semitism," coined by Holocaust scholar Saul
Friedländer, describes this phenomenon: If one assumes the Jews are
responsible for all the world's misery, only their extermination can
"redeem" the world. This paradigm of Jew hatred does not apply to racism.
Muslims are not accused of pulling the strings behind all revolutions and
wars.
Second, while we must reject any general suspicion of Muslims, it is
impossible to ignore the fact that reservations about Muslims are based on
real mass murder committed by some Muslims in the name of Islam. Events such
as 9/11 or the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh have no counterpart
in Jewish tradition.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often used to explain Muslim hatred of
Jews. But Israel's policies are not causing anti-Semitism. Rather, the way
those policies are distorted and demonized in the Muslim world, and
increasingly in Europe, is a new expression of this old hatred.
Som Steyn siger så er der efterhånden tale om "truthophobia".
A propos de jublende i Arhus, husker man de fire fnisende muslimske piger
som mente van Gogh havde fået hvad han kunne forvente, når han kritiserede
islam,- fire veluddannede danske muslimske piger. Og "Ayaan Hirsi Ali skal
ikke vise sig i Danmark" som en af dem sagde.
Der ER tale om to vidt forskellige kulturer, og vi forstår ikke ret meget af
hinandens værdier.