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September 11, 2005
UK Muslims Want Holocaust Memorial Day Banned
In what is, for, me, one of the most disturbing new reports since the London Transport bombings of 7/7, today's Sunday Times has on its front page an article entitled "Ditch Holocaust day, advisers urge Blair".
The Holocaust Memorial Day was discussed below. This commemoration of the 6 million+ Jews who died in the Shoah has been attended by the Queen, who is now its official patron, and has caused no controversy in the minds of the public. Now, the Muslim advisers to Tony Blair's government and the Home Office have decided that is does not meet with the needs of Muslims, and should be scrapped. These advisers wish for the event to replaced with a memorial they wish to be called "Genocide Day".
This proposed replacement for the Shoah memorial should, it is reported, acknowledge the mass murder of Muslims in Palestine, Chechnya and Bosnia, as well as other faiths.
This dilution of the systematic horrors of Nazi crimes of factory-style production lines of torture and murder is required, according to one of the Muslim committees, because
"The very name Holocaust Memorial Day sounds too exclusive to many young Muslims. It sends out the wrong signals: that the lives of one people are to be remembered more than others. It's a grievance that extremists are able to exploit."
The recommendations have been approved by Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the Secreary General of the Muslim Council for Britain. Interestingly, even though the recommendations state that extremists may exploit a day to commemorate Jews killed, Sacranie has always tried to block any punitive actions against extremist organisations, as reported in the Financial Times, after a BBC programme exposing the MCB's affiliate organisations:
Sir Iqbal was challenged on the programme about his decision to attend a memorial service at London's Central Mosque for Sheikh Yassin, the ideological head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas.Sacranie was conspicuously absent from this year's Holocaust Memorial Day event. He is quoted in today's report as saying that "Muslims feel hurt and excluded that their lives are not equally valuable to those lives lost in the Holocaust time".Justifying his attendance, Sir Iqbal condemned suicide bombings by British Muslims but said: "Those who fight oppression, those who fight occupation, cannot be termed as terrorist. They are freedom fighters, in the same way as Nelson Mandela fought against apartheid, in the same way as Gandhi and many others fought British rule in India."
Another of the proposal's supporters is Ibrahim Hewitt, of the charity Interpal. Hewitt stated: "There are 500 Palestinian towns and villages that have been wiped out over the years. That's pretty genocidal to me." Hewitt, a convert to Islam seems to think the bulldozing of villages in Israel is the same as systematic murder of 6 million people.
Louise Ellman, a Jewish MP from Liverpool Riverside and a trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Trust has stated that Muslim groups should not avoid the enormity of the Holocaust. Mike Whine, a director of the British Board of Jewish Deputies, and also a member of the Jewish Security Trust has condemned the proposals, which are to be presented to the Government officially on 22 September.
Hopefully the government will have recovered from its recent bout of Islamist appeasement by then, and will place these proposals where they belong. With the garbage.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at September 11, 2005 6:10 PM
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I disagree with having a Holocaust Memorial Day. We do not need any more over-exposure to the Holocaust. It should be a private thing. Having a day like this will cheapen the whole existence of this dark time. It will just be another day to go to the mall, smoke-up and drink like a bunch of idiots instead of actually remembering the millions that perished. We do not need this holiday, name it something else or have it so it remembers EVERYBODY that lost lives in any war.
Posted by: Raymond Leeman at September 15, 2005 6:37 PM
So Raymond, a day of remembrance for EVERYBODY who lost his life on a war? You mean we should remember the Khmer Rouge killers? The Nazi stormtroopers? The Toltec warriors who got killed by the Mexica?
Spare me your grandiose, touchy-feely crap. If you really were against having another cheap day for Holocaust remembrance, how come you don't mind it for your moral equivalence day?
If you don't like a special day set up for the murdered Jews, just go ahead and say it.
Posted by: Ruy_Diaz at September 15, 2005 10:11 PM
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