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June 4, 2006
Israel: What Makes Islam So Easy To Hate?
Today, Haaretz has an article, entitled "What makes Islam so easy to hate?" that pulls no punches, written by Bradley Burston.
This ought to begin with the usual disclaimer.I will not quote any more from this article, or even tell you where Mr Burston takes his argument. It should be read in its entirety. Written from a Jewish perspective, it has self-deprecating irony, but is powerful nonetheless. And it contains no bull. Click to read: What Makes Islam So Easy To Hate?.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.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at June 4, 2006 11:43 PM
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