Worry Over Islam Like Hitler’s Hatred of Jews?
Joining the Islamic week in 2011 itself supports Sharia, because Islamic banking is a core issue of this Islamic week. Islamic banking is part of Islamic economics, introduced by leading Islamist Sayyid Abul-Ala Mawdudi (1903-1979). Mawdudi was not interested in economics as such. Rather, he wanted to use the economy as a tool to spread Islamization, as scholar Timur Kuran has shown in his 2004 book Islam and Mammon.
Benz became a supporter of Islamism and anti-Semitism when he spoke to German Islamist website Muslim-Markt in November 2010. Muslim-Markt is a German-Turkish project with close ties to the Iranian regime. They propagate a boycott of Israel on their homepage and are a forerunner of the BDS movement. They promote pictures from rallies in Germany which read “Zionists out of Jerusalem” and “Israel — Pseudo state,” and on their page they have entries like “Zionists are racists,” “Crimes of the Zionists,” etc. One of the protagonists of Muslim-Markt lost his job at the University of Bremen due to his extremism. But it was no problem for Benz to talk to him in a very friendly manner.
Benz was also criticized last year after it was revealed that he earned his PhD in 1968 under the auspices of Prof. Karl Bosl, who had been on the payroll of the Schutzstaffel (SS) during Nazi Germany. Bosl was a member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and the Stormtroopers (SA), among other National Socialist organizations. After 1945, he was still committed to supporting former leading Nazis and edited volumes in honor of individuals like Theodor Mayer and Karl Alexander von Müller.
Benz himself honored Bosl in 1983 and 1988, and said in 2010 at an event in the Bavarian city of Erlangen that Bosl “was not a Nazi.” In fact, Bosl even equated the Holocaust with the expulsion of the Germans from the East after 1945 in a lecture in front of a right-wing extremist group called Witikobund in 1964.
While Benz is silent about the Nazi legacy of his PhD advisor, he is eager to denounce critics of anti-Semitism and Islamic jihad.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the largest Islamist organization worldwide, and anti-Semitism is a core element of its ideology, from its founder Hasan al-Banna, through Sayyid Qutb to Hamas and Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Equating criticism of Islamic anti-Semitism like that of the Muslim Brotherhood with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories is beyond discussion. In doing so, Benz supports Ikhwan’s anti-Semitism.
Supporting anti-Semitism and attacking its critics, one might think, could not possibly be the purpose of a state-funded institution of higher education in today’s Germany, more than 65 years after Auschwitz. In fact, it is.
Those who are intolerant towards islam are now accused of being Nazis?
Only those who wilfully ignore the facts could say that.
All over Europe, anti-Semitism is on the rise with muslims being the main perpetrators.
Jews are leaving Holland, Sweden…
Neo Nazis (…. Benz) and their old allies, the muslims, are now trying to finish the job Hitler started.
Holocaust-inspired anti-Semitism in Arab and other Muslim countries is not a new concept, but rather dates back to 1937 Nazi-conducted propaganda campaigns in the region.
In fact, during WWII, the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, tried to create an alliance between Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Arab nationalists “for the ultimate purpose of conducting Holy War of Islam against ‘international Jewry.’
Arab leaders have repeatedly made clear their animosity toward Jews and Judaism. For example, on November 23, 1937, Saudi Arabia’s King Ibn Saud told British Colonel H.R.P. Dickson: “Our hatred for the Jews dates from God’s condemnation of them for their persecution and rejection of Isa and their subsequent rejection of His chosen Prophet.” He added “that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew ensures him an immediate entry into Heaven and into the august presence of God Almighty.”
When Hitler introduced the Nuremberg racial laws in 1935, he received telegrams of congratulation from all corners of the Arab world.Later, during the war, one of his most ardent supporters was the Mufti of Jerusalem.
There were lots of proud muslims serving in ISLAMIC divisions
Aserbaidschanische Legion en de 450th Turkestanisches Battalion,
Ostmuselmanische SS-Regiment,
Osttürkischen Waffen-Verbände der SS,
Kaukasischer Waffen-Verband der SS,
Arabisches Freiheitskorps
21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg
The last division was used in Albania to hunt Jews under SS-Gruppenführer Josef Fitzthum, Höhere SS und Polizeiführer Albanien.
Do you think all the Nazi war criminals went to South America?
The worst ones went to the Middle East and were welcomed with open arms.
Since WWII, Egypt, Syria, and Iran have been accused of sheltering Nazi war criminals.
Fritz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka, lived in Damascus for several years;
Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s aide, spent almost all of his post-war years in Egypt and Syria, where he is still believed to live today
Franz Bartel, assistant Gestapo chief of Katowice, along with numerous Nazi doctors, including Dr. Herbert Heim and Dr. Willerman, who were responsible for the “experiments” on concentration camp prisoners, have all been welcomed into and found employment in Egypt.
In fact, Egypt went beyond merely offering refuge and asylum.114 Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser stated: “We will use the services of those who know the mentality of our enemies.”
Furthermore, some Arabs have gone so far as to embrace Nazism itself and to applaud the Nazis’ attempted genocide of the Jews.116 A recent article in the Egyptian newspaper, Al-Akhbar, read: “[Give] thanks to Hitler . . . . He took revenge on the Israelis in advance, on behalf of the Palestinians. Our one complaint against him was that his revenge was not complete enough.”
As early as January 1952, the ODESSA network was in contact with “influential” Egyptian army officers and the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who had lived in Egypt since the fall of Nazi Germany. According to the Israeli intelligence agency MOSSAD and French intelligence files, numerous former SS officers held key positions in the secret service and political police in Egypt. These included:
Joachim Däumling, former Gestapo chief in Düsseldorf, and later engaged in SS operations in Croatia. He was employed to set up the Egyptian secret service along the lines of the SS Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Himmler’s Reich Security Main Office); he was helped by the former Gestapo chief of Warsaw who organised the security police.
SS General Oskar Dirlewanger, chief of the infamous SS penal brigade;
SS Major Eugen Eichberger, battalion-commander in the Dirlewanger brigade;
SS Colonel Leopold Gleim, chief of the Gestapo department for Jewish affairs in Poland;
SS Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard Bender, Gestapo official in Poland the USSR, whose knowledge of Yiddish enabled him to penetrate Jewish underground organisations;
SS General Heinrich Selimann, Gestapo chief in Ulm;
SS Major Schmalstich, Gestapo liaison officer to French collaborationists and organizer of Jewish transports from Paris to Auschwitz;
SS Major Seipal, Gestapo official in Paris;
SS General Alois Moser, a war criminal who was involved in the extermination of the Soviet Jews in the Ukraine;
SS officer Johannes von Leers (1902-1963), who had been responsible for anti-Semitic campaigns at Goebbels’ propaganda ministry;
SS officer, Alois Brunner, who had held senior position in Adolph Eichmann’s “Jewish Department”, and is now believed to be living under the protection of the Syrian secret police in Damascus;
SS Major Walter Bollman, Nazi espionage chief in Britain before the war, and also involved in crimes against humanity and genocide against the Jews of the Ukraine;
SS official Louis Heiden, who was transferred to the Egyptian press office during the war;
Franz Bartel, and “old fighter” in the early days of the NSDAP in Germany, and Gestapo officer;
Walter Birgal, an SS officer from Leipzig;
Erich Bunz, a former SA major and expert in the “Jewish Question”;
Albert Thielemann, a regional SS chief in Bohemia;
SS Captain Wilhelm Böckler, a war criminal who had precipitated in the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto;
Wehrmacht General Wilhelm Fahrmbacher, who took over the central planning staff in Cairo . . . .
Added to this were a number of former Nazi officials and sixty military experts, mostly former Waffen-SS men, who assisted in the training of the Egyptian army. Several of them were also linked in 1958 with the then Algerian government-in-exile.
At least 200 German and Austrian scientists and other personnel were deployed in the new aircraft and missile centre at Helwan, where new staff physician was Dr. Hanns Eisele, SS Captain and medical torturer in the death camp at Buchenwald. Goodrick-Clarke says that President Gamal Abdel Nasser was “well disposed” towards the Nazis, all the more because they wished to take part in the destruction of Israel. The presence of so many Nazi’s in Egypt under the Nasser regime was exposed in the world press in October 1962, and precipitated a crisis in the Israeli government (who had ordered MOSSAD to make try and kill several of the Nazi’s), and embarrassment in West Germany, over the exposure of postwar Nazi collaboration with the Nasser regime.
Benz has Nazi sympathies?
Quelle surprise………
While your wealth of knowledge is impressive, you completely miss the point. The point is that Islam is being used as a scape goat much as we, the Jewish people, were used by the Nazis. Anti Islam fever went up as the economy went down and the republicans lost power. I do not think it is a coincidence. It was an easy focal point for politicians. Xenophobia or picking on one group, is always a win in troubled times. I am not calling anyone a Nazi or Hitler, or that anyone is calling for an extermination. I think the point Benz is making is that the political tactic is the same.
If you equate all acts of pointing out very real dangers and evils that exist within certain populations with “scapegoating”, you corrupt all meaningful use of the scapegoat concept, as many do. Scapegoating is an irrational and unjust form of singling out; if you are unwilling to make the case for the latter you should keep quiet, because damning all forms of singling out, or differentiating, is in fact demanding the end of all thought and speech.
And, if you compare anti-Islam sentiment to antisemitism, it just suggests that you, like Benz, fail to appreciate what it is about antisemitism that makes it quite unlike other forms of racism or religious prejudice. Why the authors here insist on calling Benz a leading expert on antisemitism, without noting that he clearly does not live up to his academic billing is beyond me. Such people make the ground for a massive return of antisemitism because they never learned the lesson of the Holocaust in the first place. Hitler had no problem with the Jews being seventy percent of the prison population.
The bottom line is that only one, not both, of the concepts of antisemitism or Islamophobia can be central to the public discourse of “liberals” because they speak to quite different visions of what is the concern of liberal society. You have to choose, in reality if not openly.
He’s just another Islam loving name caller. There is no point in arguing with him. He is on the side of the religion of war and conquering. He can call me all the names he wants. I will not argue with him or talk to him. The truth is good enough for me.
In the name of his religion, people committed the acts of September 11th, 2001. A truly peace loving spokesman for Islam would be ashamed that people hate his religion for that and for what they have learned about it since. A truly peace loving spokesman for Islam would not attack people for thinking of the religion as an enemy. For calling people who now hate Islam as a result of what has been done in the name of Islam “the equivalent of anti-Semites” he reveals himself to be nothing but another Islamist continuing the project begun by Mohammed as described in the Koran and the Hadiths, and as known to history.
Just as Churchill refused to talk to Hitler when all the saps were visiting him and coming away saying things like “I feel that Hitler and I are kindred spirits” (Prime Minister King of Canada – paraphrased from memory), there is no need to talk to people who represent a religion whose founder councilled lying and hatred. If you sit down with charming con artists, you are going to get conned.
I don’t care what these bastards call me. That’s the first fear to get over if you want to defend civilization.
Hold on, truepeers. I think that Brian N is right in his premise of what Mr. Benz was purporting. I think it is petty clear from the limited amount of actual facts and quotations that were in this piece that Benz’s angle derives from a distorted theory of historical returns. One can argue (and should) that Benz is wrong in his assessment of the situation of Islam in Germany and Europe, but one cannot or, rather, should not distort or change what Benz’s thesis is.
And, if you compare anti-Islam sentiment to antisemitism, it just suggests that you, like Benz, fail to appreciate what it is about antisemitism that makes it quite unlike other forms of racism or religious prejudice. Er, sorry, but what is that which makes it so different and so much more heinous (I infer by the structure of this sentence that more evil is an implicit given). I ask this in complete sincerity and do not wish to pick a fight. For me, both the Jewish person tortured and killed and the Chinese person tortured and killed on the precept of sub-humanness during WWII were equally evil acts. For me, no race or religion holds a copyright on evil bigotries. Evil is evil. Yes, there are degrees of “evilness,” but do not feed me the bull that an anti-Semitic act of aggression is ipso facto more evil.
You are reading more into my comment than you should. We are all God’s children; one murder is just as evil as another. But there is nothing quite like antisemitism for self-righteous resentment, except perhaps for anti-Americanism. Antisemitism is hatred of those carry the message that we are all the one God’s children, but that His historical messenger of this truth is this particular people, who were made witness through these prophetic (Biblical) events, which they are particularly charged to remember (or so they insist, in their religious practise which they refuse to merge with the later religions of the West and Islam), and after which the rest of humanity can only know this monotheistic truth (our God is everyone’s God) in a way that can never repeat the historicty or experience of those who knew it first. In short, antisemitism is hatred of those who are seen to be unduly pushy, aggressive, successful, conspiratorial, corrupting, in shaping history. Other forms of racism are generally not a resentment of the unduly successful but of those who are seen to be unduly slow in keeping up with the cutting edge of civilization or history. The implications are accordingly different, and should not be reduced to simple if true pieties about all lives being valuable. All lives are valuable but we all play different (if increasingly interchangeable) roles on the stage of history and life.
How many acts of terrorism did the Jews commit in Germany or any other country and proudly praising their god while doing it, how many riots did they conduct over a cartton, how many heads did the Jews cut off, how many women did the Jews proudly stone in public places, how many children had their hands cut off by Jews ?
The point is that you were not ‘used’ by the Nazis – you were rounded up and exterminated by the Nazis and they did it as calmly as a butcher does his work complete with tally sheets and inventory.
Muslims in Europe are not being scapegoated but looked at for what they are actually doing. You are not watching a lying propaganda film about Germans being exploited in the Czech Rump but reality you can see on video – video of cars burning in France and ambulances being attacked in Malmo.
You can watch video of the Twin Towers being assaulted by passengers jets til the cows come home and it will not reveal itself to be a special effect. What did Jews ever do in Europe that one can document? Did they riot and burn things down and blow things up before ‘crystal night’? Did they rape women out of all proportion to their population?
What is at stake here is not something that will probably result in a Holocaust or a civil war. What will probably happen is simply a slow descent into a dystopian nightmare. Large cities full of crime committed by a permanent underclass that will never be able to compete because they are either incapable of it or are culturally dismissive of having anything to do with the only value system that can pull them out of the muck.
” The point is that Islam is being used as a scape goat much as we, the Jewish people, were used by the Nazis. ”
Pure nonsense.
http://vimeo.com/16779150
Unfortunately Brian N its Jews like you with your pathetic ‘Moral Equivalence’ that gives just the cover Mohammedans need to continue their anti semitic outrages. In my opinion in another time you would have been one of the Jewish Kapo Guards willing recruits of the NAZIS in the Concentration Camps and herding your OWN people in to the Gas Chambers.
He started off likening fear of the Muslim Brotherhood to fear of a Jewish world conspiracy, as written in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a complete fabrication. The Muslim Brotherhood has on a number of occasions stated its support for worldwide Sharia. Not an apt comparison, unless one wants to deliberately deceive.
Brian would be another Judenräte for the Islamic fascists. Better Ahmed than dead, right Brian?
Counting prisoners by their ethnic backgrounds has no useful purpose except to those that think it is important. The crimes they are in prison for are ignored by these counters of beliefs. When the final tallies are printed out they say, “See I was correct” blah blah blah ignoring the crime. We could analyze this to no end.
And since when did ‘muslim’ become an ethnicity?
So.. to criticize an anti-Semitic world wide organization that wants to sink its hooks into the workings of the West and use their presence to promote and inflict more misery and anti-Semitism IS evidence of…. anti-Semitism. Gotcha. Mr. Benz needs to get a real job. He’s running on empty and instead of admitting he as reached the limit of his cognitive abilities to justify his position he has to go one further and plant his new raison d’etre in lalaland. This is the typical pattern of many organizations today which started out with purpose and ended up as farce. And so many of them have cadavers at the helm, clinging and clinging to their place in the spotlight needing to invent another reason for their continued importance. Need proof? Jimmy Carter is to visit Fidel. Two alter cockers gabbling at one another and thinking the world will stand still in awe and expectation.
One thing to realize is that people who use the term “Islamophobia” as if it were legitimate are Islamists. I don’t care what their name is, their political affiliation, or even their religion.
You see, we who hate Islam because we believe that is founded as, and continues to be, a project of world conquest have come to believe this as a reaction to a horrendous attack against us carried out in the name of Islam. Even if we are wrong, we deserve to be treated with understanding, to be conciliated, and to be shown our errors with infinite patience. We do not deserve to be attacked with hatred and name calling, which only confirms our fears.
Anyone who accuses me as a phobia because I have learned to hate Islam is a friend of all Islamists. While I have explained the logical way to approach people like me be we wrong, I do not for one second think there is a single thing wrong with what I have learned since 09/11/01, and believe about Islam.
Call me names for this, and you are an enemy of my civilization.
Well the Ayatollahs make the perfect bogey men, and the name of Iran has been destroyed. In the mean time the US military has sold so much equipment to all the people who are scared. Imagine who would lose out if there were civilized Iranians in charge.
This is all part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s propaganda war against the west. And many of the multicultural fools in Europe actually buy into it. But finally, the prime ministers in both Britain and Germany are getting wise to these Muslim fanatics and have actually made speeches against multiculturalism, which is truly a big deal.
But soon there will be a major civil war in Europe and, trust me, the Europeans will wake up and decide to take a stand against the radical Islamists within their midst. The days of empire are over and the Europeans have no place else to run to, so if they really feel threatened by the Muslims, they will strike out against them. Don’t believe me? Just look at what happened to the Muslims in both Bosnia and Kosovo. It could easily happen in the rest of Europe, especially in France, where tensions between the radical Muslims and the rest of France are about to explode. The Islamists are pushing their luck in Europe and, if pushed too hard, the Europeans will push back. Hard.
No they won’t, Liberty…because they don’t have the stomach for it. Much like most of America and Canada. And that is why Islam will prevail in all three places.
Benz (any relation to the car makers?) has apparently never bothered to go to the MidEast. Even today, you can walk through about any market in the “Arab street” and find booksellers hawking both the “Protocols” and “Mein Kampf”. Which have been never-out-of-print bestsellers in the region since they were first published in Europe. The fact that the “Protocols” are a world-famous fraud is never mentioned in any Arabic-language edition. (Another local fave-read? Jimmy Carter’s “Palestine; Peace Not Apartheid”.)
As for his equating Western unease about the aims and means of Islam in “spreading the faith” with anti-Semitism, one need only compare the Torah and Talmud to the Qu’ran. Nowhere in the two Hebrew texts does it call for Jews to kill or enslave everybody else on Earth for not being Jewish. The Qu’ran, by comparison, is replete with exhortations to the faithful to do exactly that to any and all peoples with the “poor judgment” to not be Muslim. Benz apparently does not consider this a significant factor in (a) Muslim cultural behavior toward other cultures for the last 14 centuries or (b) other cultures’ rather understandable concern about what the post- Sayyid Qutb “returning to its roots” version of Islam has done in the last forty-some years, and what it might do next.
There are some people who are so far out there in left field that you wonder if they even know where the ball park is. You also have to wonder why anybody takes their opinions seriously, never mind their supposed academic credentials.
As Orwell said, there are some ideas that are so stupid that it takes a highly educated person to take them seriously.
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Truth be told, many Jews tasked with being protectors against anti-semitism end up being the ones who sanitize said danger.
Dr Kenneth Levin, Harvard psychiatrist and Princeton historian(but we won’t hold his Ivy pedigree against him because he is VERY clear headed)penned the penultimate book on Jewish self loathing.’The Oslo Syndrome:Delusions of a People Under Siege’, explains in full psychological and historical detail the genesis of Jewish self denial, hence, the heretofore inexplicable self loathing.
While besieged communities often find it harder than others to operate with a ‘full deck’, the most besieged community of people throughout history-Jews-are primarily infected with said delusions.
IF people wonder-as they should-why Jews, more than others, operate against their own best interests, look no further than this book.
In short, the researcher in Germany who was supposed to protect hatred against Jews(which is mainly coming from a fusion between Islamists and leftist revolutionaries)jumped on the Sharia bandwagon without nary a thought to Islamic Jew hatred.Huh and duh?
Even if others are not concerned with Islamic Jew hatred, those who do care for western ideals and a capitalist way of life should be equally alarmed.
Championing Sharia equals death to the west and capitalism.
Simple as that.
He compared the attention that critics of Islam give to the high number of Muslim inmates in Berlin prisons (about 70% according to Benz) to Adolf Hitler’s ranting over the high percentage of Jewish Berlin pediatricians in the 1930s (89% according to Benz). Both “attentions” he put on the same level of condemnation.
It takes a sick Nazi mind to equate academic success and discipline (which is what it takes to become a pediatrician) with lack of values and character (which is what it takes to become a criminal.
Benz also said that some critics who deal with the Quran and Islam remind him of Nazi anti-Semites attacking the Talmud or the Torah. Finally, he claimed that fear of the growing influence of the Muslim Brotherhood is similar to anti-Semitic fear and conspiracy thinking like that of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Well sure, let’s pretend that the core principle of the Jewish faith is to kill those who won’t convert.
Muslims see others as prey. Prey for rape, robbery, domination and control. This comes from the example of Mohammad himself.
So wrong, I can’t believe it. The Jews of Germany were in the main an asset to the German State and Culture. Show me the Muslim Einstein, and I will show you a Left hooved Unicorn. Except grunt labor, Muslims have contributed NOHING to Germany whatsoever.
Dr. Shalit
seems most people can be bought. wonder how little it took in this case.
OT …shaira compliant loans is an excellent example of double speak. what is the fee for a loan if not interest.
funny how liars cannot see their own lies.
There should be no doubt.
Comparing the “plight” of Muslims to Jews is as anti-semitic as it is possible to be, short of the ovens.
Here in the US, we’ve seen the likes of Lyndon LaRouche, the KKK, and, of course, Fundamentalist Islam. Each uses a cult of personality backed by religion of a sort to advocate a hatred of another group. In fact the religion can be almost arbitrary. I’ve even seen Ultra-Orthodox Judaism used as a pretext for hatred.
However, certain religions lend themselves toward this behavior more than others. Fundamentalism in general tends to be very dogmatic and very easily turned toward this sort of hatred. Unfortunately, that describes much of what Islam has become in the last 50 years. Oil money from wealthy Arab states has been propagating this ugly version quietly for a very long time. It has reached a critical mass and now it is generating lots of hatred even for other Muslim sects, as well as other religions. However, thanks to some awfully specific and ugly parts of the Koran and the Hadith, there is a disproportionate hatred for Jews.
The West faces a terrible quandary. We do attempt to maintain a separation of church and state. Funding an interpretive version of Islam to counter the fundamentalists is not something we would easily subscribe to. The only other option is to isolate the countries where Fundamentalist Islam is rampant.
We can not stop these people from hating others. However, we can keep them out of Western Society. Their views are simply incompatible with ours.
Being against the virulent strain of Islam known as Islamism is the same thing as being anti-Semitic? Here you have proof positive that unremitting Islamic hostility toward the West has finally driven some European ‘intellectuals’ insane. I challenge anyone to show me better proof that Euros can at least be entertaining while being unable to get anything else right.
Euros have a pathetic hatred for their own culture and in the name of accepting (or appearing to accept) other cultures will do anything, including comparing an intellectual appraisal of the dangers of radical Islam to anti-semiticism…
Unfortunately, eating exotic food and marrying exotic women does not one a multi-culturalist make…
If they cannot sand for their own culture, will they stand up to the savagery pushed by sharia law (without American help once again?
Unfortunately, it was foreseeable that Holocaust scholars and their scholarship would be subject to the same corrupting tendencies as all of the other Humanities subjects. I am fairly well read on the Holocaust, but not familiar with Benz’s work, I wonder how well regarded he really is among serious scholars.
Hating Israel — really the Jews — and apologizing for Islam — is in fashion in academia, especially so in Europe. No surprise that academics seeking acceptance among their peers would jump on the bandwagon.
People named Benz should stick to making cars.
While it is not an exact comparison, I agree with him. People in this country are using the fear of Islam to garner political support and money.
“While it is not an exact comparison…”
Sorry Brian but there is NO comparison.
While I am not afraid of islam, I know what it stands for and I can see the results of its spread.
Where islam takes hold, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech and freedom of religion disappears.
More and more people are standing up to Islam, this hateful, violent, joyless, fascist ideology.
They will no longer defend an ideology that suppresses the freedom of speech.
They will no longer defend an ideology that persecutes minority religions.
They will no longer defend an ideology that treats women like chattel.
They will no longer defend an ideology that persecutes homosexuals.
Don’t compare my loathing of fascist ideologies to anti-Semitism.
As for “People in this country are using the fear of Islam to garner political support and money.”
Are you serious?
The reality is that most people who are speaking up against islam, questioning the ideology are prosecuted, persecuted and receive death threats.
Muslims who follow the example of Muhammad kill or issue death threats against anyone who says the “wrong” thing. Many people and groups censor themselves and/or go into hiding and/or hire bodyguards. For example,
Molly Norris; the producers of South Park; journalist Lawrence O’Donnell; cartoonist Lars Vilks; philosopher Robert Redeker; filmmaker Theo Van Gogh; authors Hirsi Ali and Salman Rushdie; Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten; atheist Sabri Husibi; lyricist Javed Akhtar; cartoonist Kurt Westergaard; the Yale University Press; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the director of the film 2012; the comedian Penn Jillette; the British potter Grayson Perry; lawyer Majed Moughni; author Taslima Nasreen; disc jockey/musician Jakub Rene Kosik; and countless others.
It definitely doesn’t pay to rally against the fascists and their enablers.
BrianN’s intellectual NOTHINGNESS. You are projecting a total collapse of your own intellect.
And appart issuing short meanigless barks, you are unable to present any coherent argument that would counter the “impressive wealth of knowledge” applied by other posters.
Since 7/11 Islamo-fascist have conducted 17 000 terrorist acts against the Western world as well as their own fellow Moslems.
That is perhaps thousand times more than the “extremist” (they exist) Jews have comited throughout the entire 3000 years of their existence as an identifiable human tribe.
By the way, is the name BrianN real or is some sort of a pen-name to hide your own religious associations?
Unbelievable. Uh, Mr. Benz? The Protocols are fiction. The Koran is not. Useful idiot, I suppose.
Correction..
They are BOTH fiction.
Only anti-semitsts think they are not.
The Protocols do not actually exist as they are described. The Koran does. Okay? Quibblemeister?
This should work well for them because it always does. Don’t underestimate the power of blame. It is Satan’s favorite tool, so to speak. Look at the Palestinians, their mobster government has deflected from the fact that they can’t pick up the garbage by blaming the Jews from everything from a stubbed toe to the squalid conditions their citizens live in. You would think at some point the rock throwing grannies would wake up and say, “Hey, wait a minute, how come they can do it in Israel and America – but they can’t do it here?” But they never…ever…EVER.. do.
It already works well in Chicago and the American media works feverishly day and night to repeal the mindset that made it difficult to play this game in the West. Watch Fox News or any TV channel and note how they spend all day, every day, playing this game. A child choked on a hot dog, ate some lead, died of something other than old age…who is to blame??? Who is to blame for this, who is to blame for that? They even found blame for bad weather.
Instead of a mindset of forgiveness, now every car accident, every bad event that is caused by someone doing something that we have all done at least once in our life (but by the grace of God didn’t have anything bad happen) now demands we permit a legal stoning of our not so lucky neighbors. Forgive? Bah! My lawyer is promising me the big bucks!
And since there seems to be no interest in turning back to the mindset that stopped these blame charlatans, I’m sure this tactic will work as well for all radicals as it has since time began.
German Holocaust studies have always been interesting, to say the least. There’s always been an attempt on the part of German historians, while they deplore the excesses of the Holocaust, to “put the event in context”. This typically involves lengthy recountings of the Allied bombings of German cities during the war, and the raping and pillaging of various portions of Eastern Germany by the Soviets in the last months of the war. The point that these events weren’t connected to the Holocaust (the Allies bombed to cripple German industry, whether the attacks were well-conceived or not, and the Soviets were retaliating for German atrocities in their country, not restricted to just Jews) seems lost on German historians, who desperately grasp for a cultural reletavism thing, and try to insist that the bombings, for instance, were morally equivalent to the killing of the Jews at Auschwitz.
So this latest round of cultural relativism silliness doesn’t surprise me. Much of the previous generation of Germany wasn’t a Nazi the same way this Bosl character wasn’t. They were Nazis when it was convenient, and probably were what I call “courteous anti-semites” before the advent of Naziism and then acquiesced in the Holocaust when it was proposed by others. A “courteous anti-semite” wouldn’t try to kill all the Jews, and he might have business dealings with one (buying a wedding ring for his wife from the Jew who runs the jewelry store, for instance) but he would never allow his children to play with Jewish kids, and he’d certainly not invite any Jews to that dinner party he’s holding next week. Anyway, this type of anti-semite acquiesced in the Holocaust, but at the end of the war was indignant at the idea that they would be held responsible for anything anyone else did. The point that an honest, decent, honorable person would have *stopped* what occurred never seems to have entered their minds.
The irony here is that Muslim extremists, themselves, are among the current world’s worst anti-semites themselves. Equating their prejudice with criticism or caution when dealing with them is perverse, to say the least.
If these muslim incarceration rates are true for Berlin and similar in other parts of Europe, and I believe there is a problem there in this regard, then it is truly staggering. 750 no-go zones in France, and similar areas in Germany, where they have asked policemen of Turkish descent to help control uncontrollable areas, Sweden, Belgium, England, the Netherlands…
What morons have the West turned into that they simply turn a blind eye to such things in the name of keeping up appearances and being dedicated to the idea that all cultures are in fact the opposite of what they actually do? The West is a success and therefore must be achieving this through exploitation and minorities are a failure and therefore need their crimes to be ignored because they are the exploited. By any other name this is madness not to say suicide.
It reminds me of the story, possibly apocryphal, of the young white woman who went to Haiti to help after the earthquake and was raped. As she was being raped she told the black man that she was a Malcom X scholar, as if he would feel some sudden solidarity with her. Needless to say, it had no effect. Her name is Amanda Kijera if you care to look it up; she says it’s true and it’s still on line. It is possibly the funniest rape story you’ll ever read if such a thing is possible because she blames the entire incident, not on her attacker, but on the West.
Given the events in Europe, it is no wonder the Jews fought tooth and nail to found their own country; one becomes the ultimate pragmatist within the confines of a concentration camp dedicated to working you til you starve or your outright murder; who is doing the crime is who is doing the crime and there is no coulda, woulda, shoula about it, no Jews saying, well, if only we hadn’t done such and such – what utter madness. What is it that Europe is apologizing for in regard to Islam and why do Jews seemingly get the completely opposite treatment?
The overflow from the population explosion in the middle east and Latin America is slowly overwhelming Europe and America. 1 in 4 kids in America is now a Latino and we will regret that as sure as I’m sitting here. Even if you closed the door it is probably too late for Europe and America and the sad part of that is that there is no sign of any doors being closed.
The West are traitors to their own cultures and especially to their own children. Things are still, relatively speaking, not so bad but in 100 years there is going to be a terrible price to pay for letting people from cultures which are simply incapable from doing anything into the chicken coop.
Statistics don’t lie but the people who make excuses for them DO lie and in this case it is a lie that will echo down the coming decades. One better get used to seeing even more chants of “Down with…” whatever country these Third World geniuses are in at the time.
I honestly believe, that if the men who created the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were here today and had the power, that they would line every one of us up against a wall and wonder whether they should have us shot or simply start crying. The only reason I am not crying is that the whole thing is so amazingly unbelievable and has happened in such a short time that I am literally unable to take it in as if it is real.
“It is possibly the funniest rape story you’ll ever read if such a thing is possible….”
In November 2008 a Dutch journalist, Joanie de Rijke, was abducted by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. She was held captive, raped repeatedly, and released after six days for a ransom of 100,000 euros ($137,000). After her ordeal, she acknowledged that her captors ‘did horrible things to me,’ but added in several media interviews ‘They also respected me,’ and emphasized ‘They are not monsters.’
Bizarrely, de Rijke said this ordeal didn’t make her angry. de Rijke said, “They also respected me.” How did she say they demonstrate this immense respect? Believe it or not, by giving her tea and biscuits between rape sessions.
What about the rapes of European leftist activists, a female Red Cross volunteer and a young Arab woman from Yafo by Palestinians?
Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the “peace camp”: female “peace” activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the phenomenon has gotten worse lately and that many foreign women end up as wives of local Arabs against their will, but cannot escape their new homes.
Roni Aloni Sedovnik, a feminist activist, penned an article in News1 – an independent website run by respected investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak – under the heading “The Left’s Betrayal of Female Peace Activists Who were Sexually Assaulted.”
this time the rape victim is europe ..the americas turn is coming next
What’s funny is that 100 years ago everyone in America took it for granted a young woman needed a chaperone. Today, even in wild, nutty land, young women take it for granted they don’t need one, apparently even after they have been raped. Darwinism would weed them out but we are now very modern and the stupidest among us owns houses and drives cars and makes a lot of money instead of just dying.
Is there a better example of deluded liberals sticking to their, “I’m okay, you’re okay unless you’re a white man” philosophy? I’m surprised such women don’t go around poking bears and bee hives with sticks to show how human bees and bears are even after they attack you. They could write an essay called, “Bears Are People Too, Even If They Never In One Single Instance Give the Slightest Indication Of It and Attack You 100% Of the Time On Sight”.
Mr. May,
I agree completely with your summation.
I am a European, lived there, from birth, until I was twenty four then lived in the USA for another forty (+) years. I now live in Venezuela, for the last three years.
The difference in culture is beyond calculation.
The lack of drive to achieve is so restricted, “leave well alone, everything is broken, but don’t even attempt to fix it”.
Some step outside this mold but expect to arrive at where their expectations are through corruption and exploitation.
I fear this is true for most of South and Central America, even Mexico.
The education here is in the “language and symbols” of the culture.
New immigrants to the US should have been, for the last thirty years, required to assimilate themselves to the local cultures including the mastery of English not the other way around.
Language and symbols cannot be changed at the same time without disastrous consequences.
It is necessary that the official language of the US becomes English or the American version.
If the language becomes a requirement, then the symbols will follow, but only one at a time.
More than a single language should not be encouraged in schools, except as a foreign language within the the curriculum.
Gerry.
Benz is silent about the Nazi legacy of his PhD advisor
By your own citation in the paragraph above, he is not silent – he denies it, which is worse than silence.
>>>>He compared the attention that critics of Islam give to the high number of Muslim inmates in Berlin prisons (about 70% according to Benz) to Adolf Hitler’s ranting over the high percentage of Jewish Berlin pediatricians in the 1930s (89% according to Benz).
Because being a pediatrician and being a criminal are equally useful to society, you know — just think of all those cops and jailers the criminals keep employed! Why are you JUDGEMENTAL like that?!
(Yes, I am sarcastic.)
>>>>>>The gist? Critics of Islamic anti-Semitism and Islamists share the same mental or political mindset.
And they say Israel uses “you’re an antisemite” as an excuse to silence criticism…
Ok please correct me if I’m wrong but
Jews didnt fly a plane killing 3000 people
Jews dont throw acid into girls faces for the crime of going to school
jews dont stone women for the crime of being raped without 3 male witnesses.
Jews didnt kill 30 people at ft hood
jews didnt bomb the america embassy or attack a navy ship
jews dont cut peoples head off or threaten to do so for the crime of burning the torah
jews dont say they will take over the world an kill all thoes who dont believe in judiaism.
jews dont say they want ‘kosher’ law implimented and to superceed american law.
Should I go on? Its quite easy. So NO ‘islamiphobia’ is not like jews and hitler, its not fear mongering, is not made up, open to negotiation or a passing fad. Islam IS a real and dangerous threat to AMerica and the world. If you cant get that then you are dead. Wake up and arm yourselves!Anyone disagree with me?
Worrry over Islam like worry over Nazism.
Fixed your OP
We can draw a very obvious and simple conclusion from the above presentation of Prof. Benz; One can be highly “artificially” educated, tittled, even multi-languaged and have an encyclopedic knowledge of some narrow subject and still be a complete MORON.
Just like Prof. Wolfgang Benz.
There have been thousands upon thousands like him in my own Poland when she was still under the boot and whip of a communo-fascist regime.
And, unfortunately, still are.
The same observation applies to the so called “billionares” businessmen like Buffet, Gates, Balmer, Jobbs, Allen, Schwarzenegger; A perfect money-making machine can also be a political imbecille.
And some of them like Soros, Immelt, Bing, Katzenberg, Madoff, Spielberg can be outright EVIL.
Close, Bogdan. But those gutless stood-over and shaken-down guys — and Bill Gates fearsome and loathsome spouse –are actual, not “so-called” Billionaires.
That part’s real.
But, once the vast RICO-racketeering criminal enterprises that prefer to go by their street name the “Democratic” (National Socialist Workers’ and Gangsters’” potty (known in Australia as ‘Labour’ and ‘The Greens’)got them by their short hairs, they’re only so-called “businessmen.”
Just like Australia’s cap-in-hand Labour-line-toeing crony corporatists.
Hey everybody, Soledad O’Brien the ‘Racist Hunter’ is making a new special for CNN, “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door”. It is about Islamophobia and how all Americans who are white are hateful bastards who don’t like anyone different from themselves or have ashtrays for hats and wish they could go back to watching “Andy Griffith” and having Jim Crow and Presidents whose names are Bill instead of one sounding like a parrot wanting a cracker.
A few years ago the mavin for justice O’Brien made 2 specials about being black in America that looked at how tough black people have it living here with us white racist little shits who devote much of our energies to making black Americans feel like they are living in a carnival fun house.
The biggest evidence of racism Miss O’Brien discovered over 2 specials was some guy who said the cops planted dope on him so be sure to tune in to see how many muslims had Bibles planted on them by Christians so the muslim’s families would break out their home video cameras and cut their heads off.
James, your question “What morons have the West turned into that they simply turn a blind eye to such things in the name of keeping up appearances and being dedicated to the idea that all cultures are in fact the opposite of what they actually do?” deserves a fairly careful answer. Besides the merely idiotic multi-culti religion of the sincere useful-idiot liberals who live to be thought of as fair to everyone but their own culture and conservatives, plus the calculations of the stealthy hard left which truly believes of Islam that the idea that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” applies in their effort to bring down truly liberal market economy capitalism, there is another less obvious but tremendously influential factor causing this slide into Sharia acceptance, anti-Semitism and a poor, uneducated, unassimilated Latin-dominated American Southwest.
That factor is what Mark Steyn might call the principle that demography is destiny. The wages of the 1960′s – anti-male work-centered feminism, the “sexual revolution,” the idea that everyone needs at least an extended stay in academia to be truly successful, left wing notions of egalitarianism, group victimhood, socialism-by-any-other-name and other various utopian schemes, calculated ignorance of real world economics and history – all conspired in their own ways to create our current leviathan welfare state and the lack of future populations to support it. The same has been true in Europe, only more so and faster.
When Germans and French, Swedes, Danes, Spaniards and even British looked at their population growth and saw, to their horror, way too few future taxpayers to support the post WWII generation’s promised cradle-to-grave social welfare benefits, they frantically looked to Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan and North Africa, where they were having the opposite problem – too many people being born. A mostly unstated but very well understood deal was struck. Immigration from these Muslim territories was encouraged; these would be the workers who would fill the tax coffers of the European welfare state, despite the native Europeans’ stubborn refusal to reproduce at a rate sufficient to even replace themselves, much less grow their populations. Not very much thought was given to what would happen when these tribal people, with very strong ties to their homelands and almost no desire to fully assimilate into their host country culture, stayed, reproduced at the same very high rates as they had in their native lands and decided that they would not abide by many of their hosts traditions, mores, or even laws, and that they would, in fact, come to feel that they were entitled to do quite the opposite – change all of those things to resemble those they left behind and had escaped from in their emigration to their new European homes. What choice does this now leave Europeans with? When the most popular surname to newborn babies in London, England is Mohammed, just exactly what can ethnic English people do who still believe in their own political culture – free speech, the right to criticize religious intolerance and even religion itself, equal rights for women, equal rights for homosexuals and other less popular minorities, and no special treatment under the law or usurpation of the established law to suit one particular ethnic group? They cowardly huddle under the label of mealy-mouthed multi-culturalism, while meekly accepting their own defenestration and the slow cumulative assertion of dhimmitude, lest the whole welfare state house of cards come tumbling down in catastrophic ruin. Even now, as they are anyway running short of money to feed the maw of the state, and this ruination is happening despite their cultural surrender to Islamic prejudice and its concomitant anti-Semitic tropes, they still cannot bring themselves to fully stand up for the old principles which had led them to all of the successes they had ever garnered as advanced cultures and economies.
As far as someone like the German Benz is concerned, this is merely evidence the age-old progression of tragedy to farce to possible tragedy again, as he apparently prepares the field for some of that good old-timey German Holocaust-enabling anti-Semitic academic theorizing, now so fashionable among the toniest precincts of leftwing (what else is there?) academia all over the Western world. The man’s reasoning lies somewhere between laughably bad and obviously craven; except to condemn the possible effects of his Orwellian pronouncements, he should merely be ignored if at all possible.
This is Europe now. If we do nothing but accept the slow accretion of our own welfare state, the same socialist claptrap peddled by our new would-be community organizing masters, and the fearful, even cowardly, admonitions to avert our eyes at Islamist demands and lawless, borderless immigration from Mexico, we will soon be joining Europe in the same boat. We must start now to battle the demands for us to accept all cultures as equal and to surrender our own liberties and freedoms to calm the fires of those who do not want to share our ideals.
We can welcome all the fine Muslims, Mexicans and whatever other peoples want to immigrate to our great country, if they come here legally and agree to be bound by our culture, our laws, our customs, and we are not afraid to make that demand. People who come here should be able to have pride in their own heritage, but not be able to force the unworkable pathologies of their former lands upon the very place to which they have fled to escape them. We would not be evil or prejudiced to protect our laws, mores and culture, only confident and proud of upholding the best, most free and successful political and economic culture ever to have so far existed on this earth.
We need to shrink the State and reverse its ever-growing demands upon our labor and individual behavior, maintain control of our borders, defend our culture, our unique traditions of individual liberty and our constitution. Looking forward to 2012!
There are so many fine replies to this post,that I find myself wanting to answer most in agreement, but I find you summed it up for me:
“The man’s reasoning lies somewhere between laughably bad and obviously craven;except to condemn the possible effects of his Orwellian pronouncements, he should merely be ignored if at all possible.”
How could it be that this Benz person is dumber than dirt-yet there it is ?
Intellectual honesty has been so diluted and moral ambiguity has so corrupted that many people are willing to discuss enemy propaganda as opposed to simply dismissing it. Thus we sow the seeds of our own destruction. Freedom of speech allows for the utterances of complete nonsense. There is no moral or legal obligation to continue listening once said speech reveals itself to be either evil or factually wrong.
Of course Barak Hussein Obama would differ. He is the ultimate end product of the moral and intellectual dumbing down of America. He sat through twenty years of Jeremiah Wright without a second of protest. He supports the Islamist ” palestine narrative ” without opening a history book. He represents the quintessential New Man.
The great solace is that anyone with a library card understands that this is simply a phase. That the pendulum will ultimately swing the other way. That you can not run, build or lead a country with your eyes closed. And that no matter what false promises are made as to the road newly traveled hitting a pot hole wakes everyone up.
“What is it that Europe is apologizing for in regard to Islam and why do Jews seemingly get the completely opposite treatment?”
simple. It’s the extraordinarily powerful bond of antisemitism. It’s more powerful then western ideal bonding.
This guy must be swilling cognac that’s been stored in lead crystal decanters for a couple hundred years, and at a pretty good clip at that. His “reasoning” beggars description. And the msm and self-appointed elites criticize clear-thinking folks like Sarah Palin and her supporters for lack of branded degrees! If this is what a world-class education produces, let’s save ourselves a lot of money and outfit our kids with shovels and coal so they can teach themselves to read the way Abe Lincoln reputedly did. We sure as hell could use a few more leaders like him in this world! If it were not all so unutterably tragic, it would be laughable.
Like all humans, I have many personal failings, but one thing stubbornly defies my understanding, and that is the need for people in post-jungle societies (we’ve been losing ground way too fast in my lifetime for me to call it “civilization”) for a group of “others” to hate, exemplified by the hellish, mindless tortures endured by the Jews since their beginngs . It is like that applied to no other people on earth in volume, kind, and pervasiveness, present-day claims by today’s trendy parvenus to victimhood notwithstanding. It is particularly diabolical because the aggregate contributions by the Jewish people to civilization (and *here* it is appropriate, thanks to them and the societies they’ve leavened) represent intellect and culture at their highest levels. I hesitate to mention that, because it is totally irrelevant–and yet the terrible irony is there. For something for which no “reason” exists, can that possibly be part of this madness? If so, it adds nothing to comprehension, but only makes it even harder, for what can there possibly be in a person that makes him want to smash or kill everything beautiful, good, uplifting, and inspiring? These can only spring from the basest drives within us—those very things education and civilization should serve to refine and transmute. Thus not only is this ominous resurgence of hatred beyond comprehension, it is beyond sickening.
The courage of the owners of this website in publishing articles like this (and Roger Kimball’s excellent “Us and Them” piece!), and of the many stalwart comment writers here, is truly shining a light unto this darkness.
…. Worry Over Islam Like Hitler’s Hatred of Jews …?
No!
Correct country/People – wrong analogy:
But exactly like Jews fear and loathing of Hitler!
…. השואה-HaShoah-inspired anti-Semitism in Arab and other Muslim countries is not a new concept ….
Nor even really an accurate one.
Hitler and his death-worshiping pantheist/pagans were far more likely to have been — and were — far more “inspired” by their observations of and passion for the thirteen hundred and fifty years of the blasphemously-heretical islam-a-Nazis persecutions, rapes, sexual mutilations and murders of Christians and Jews, than were the islamists to need lessons from a not-untypical-of-his-era barbarian Euroweenie.
In case any wonder at my lack of capitalization of “islam,” by the way, he likely needs to be reminded that “islam” is the name of the Moslem religion because islam it\s the Arabic word whose meaning is, “submission.” Moslems and other islamists tell us their use of the word “submission” relates to their submission to what they call their god. Rubbish! What it and they actually mean to describe by its usage is the submission of “infidels” to them.
What islam must mean for we “infidels” and/or True Believers, therefore, is the absolute conversion and/or submission of Moslems to civilized behavior.
One of the major weapons in this propaganda war against Israel is the “Remember these Children” website which compares the numbers of Arab children who have been killed in the conflicts to the number of Jewish children murdered by terrorists. The Arab list totals 1,437 since 2000 and the Jewish list totals 130. Not withstanding that such reporting is unsubstantiated, After visiting the site, I noticed that according to this report, most of the Israeli children were murdered in drive by shootings and human bombs exploding themselves in restaurants, buses and markets. In other words, the Arab terrorists targeted those children and murdered them in cold blood. For all of the Arab children, on the other hand, the site identifies the causes of death as gun shot wounds or explosions during the firefights with Arab Hamas fighters. What were their children doing in the middle of a war zone? That is clear and convincing evidence that the Hamas thugs where using the local children as human shields. Soldiers are trained to return fire when fired upon. The bushwhacking urban guerrillas who fire at enemy troops from a neighborhood full of children are the ones causing the deaths of those children. More at http:moshesharon.worpress.com
EUropeans never change. Tired of slaying Jews themselves, thus have hired Palestinians and Moslems to do it for them. When that funding comes under attack, the Europeans defend themselves by shouting, “No, you’re the Nazis!” EU socialism is the future, as Obama and Madison, WI have proved. Get used to it and it’s anti-Semitism.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center published a piece on the Muslim Brotherhood which was incredible to read. It contains a few golden nuggets (Quotes) such as this:
“Ayatollah Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint.”
———Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young (1979)
http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7b54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7d/HITLER-PUT-THEM-IN-THEIR-PLACE_BRACKMAN_FINAL.PDF
I don’t want to steal anyones thunder here, so I hope you all get a chance to read it!
SHALOM;
The irony is that ISRAEL will survive because the HOLY ONE of Israel is the GOD of TRUTH [Jer.10.10-16].All nations who maket their business to murder the people of the BOOK will be made to regret to tackle the GOD of Abraham,Issac and Jacob eternal promise to them and is available to read in detail the past and future given forth by the GOD of Israel with conclusion of all that will come to pass to herold the coming KNGDOM of the KING of Israel YESHUA of Nazareth [Zechariah 12-14,Acts 1.1-12]. of events in the HOLY SCRIPTURE of TRUTH [Isaiah 11,Ezekiel 37-39,Daniel 7-12,Joel 3,Revelation 19-22] .
John
In a recent interview with Hitler, he claims that he was misunderstood. What he actually said was, “I hate juice”. /sarc off
If history were fiction, Benz would be right. Meanwhile it is obvious that he is an Islamophobiaphobic.
MANUFACTURING THE MUSLIM MENACE IN AMERICA: The Five Ideological Frames
1) The ‘Islam-is-Evil Frame’ or ” Muslims are inherently violents and Islam is a savage religion”
Anti-Muslim bigots and Islamophobia pushers, brands Islam as the enemy in the “war on terror.” They define the threat using ideological and theological terms that link Islam inextricably to terrorism. Within this frame, the problem is not simply terrorists who are Muslim but an “evil” Islam itself, describing Islam and all Muslims around the world as inherently violent and savage, recounting an endless litany of violent acts committed by individuals, or fundamentalists minorities, in a manner that implies an irredeemably violent culture.
2) The ‘Fifth-Column Frame’ or “Stealth Jihad is Subverting the U.S. from Within”
Under this frame, anti-Muslim bigots and Islamophobia pushers inject an existential threat to the United States, claiming that the domestic rise of political Islam aims to transform the United States into a Muslim country ruled by Sharia law. The argument is supported by a conspiracy theory in which Muslim-American advocacy groups act as front organizations for foreign Islamists, such as the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Another version substitutes the puritanical religious movements Wahhabism or Salafism as the foreign puppetmaster. The argument encourages law enforcement to focus on alleged front organizations, chilling the exercise of constitutional freedoms and potentially diverting attention from illegal, terrorist activity. The theme resurrects McCarthy-era anti-Communist countersubversion doctrine, substituting a current Muslim menace for the former Communist one, and justifying once-discredited witch-hunting practices.
3) The ‘Terror-Ties Frame’ or “Mainstream Muslim Americans Have Terrorist Ties”
Anti-Muslim bigots and Islamophobia pushers routinely categorize such civil rights groups as the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a support network for terrorists. For this charge they lean heavily on guilt by association, citing a few instances of members or former members with troublesome associations as evidence of organizational complicity. In spite of extensive and ongoing scrutiny, none of these organizations HAVE EVER been convicted of terrorism or formally charged with providing material support to terrorists. Anti-Muslim bigots and Islamophobia pushers tend to use invented or highly improbable story lines, to characterize the widespread support for Palestinian statehood and opposition to the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands among Muslim-American leaders as evidence of sympathy for terrorism.
4) The ‘Lawfare Frame’ or “Muslim Americans Wage Violent Jihad by Other Means”
The Lawfare Frame holds that Muslim extremists use litigation, free speech, and other legal means to advance a subversive agenda and silence opponents – using democracy to subvert democracy. The Lawfare Frame utilizes a kind of Orwellian double-speak in which “terrorism” is not the use of terror, but the use of legal procedures. Law becomes warfare when used to oppose Islamophobia or assert Muslim-Americans’ civil rights. Accordingly, anti-Muslim bigots and Islamophobia pushers, use the ‘lawfare charge’ to recast Muslim Americans claims that their rights are being violated as crafty tactics to keep their subversive agenda hidden from the public.
5) The ‘Sharia Frame’ or “Muslims Seek to Replace the U.S. Constitution with Islamic Law”
Under this frame, anti-Muslim bigots and Islamophobia pushers are moving the strings of an elaborate conspiracy theory that raises the menace of a global Islamic dictatorship and promotes the specter of a repressive ‘Islamic Caliphate ruling over America’. They preach under the suggestion that support for Sharia is the “the most dangerous threat” to the American way of life and Constitutional rights.
Islamic Sharia is a set of ideals and jurisprudence interpretations that define a properly constituted Islamic existence. It applies only to Muslims (never to non Muslims) and in many aspects is remarkable similiar to Judaism Halasha or Catholic Canonical Law.
Anti-Muslim bigots and Islamophobia pushers have clinched to this word ‘Sharia’ as a memetic flag, using it to instigate fear, hysteria and repulsion. The Sharia Frame ignores the ongoing domestic transformation and accommodation of Islam to American legal, cultural, social, and economic norms, and is used to stigmatize civil rights advocates who fight religious discrimination by vilifying religious accommodation as capitulation to Islamic rule.
Cute. All the world’s a frame-up! Islamophobia is just one elaborabe conpiracy theory, but the notion that Islam might be an anti-kafir conspiracy is hogwash. (If one is true, then why not also the other?) Maybe, when you actually get down to considering the Islamic texts that relentlessly divide the world into believers and kufr, and look at the often violent historical effects of that, you will have to consider that there is no great conspiracy on either side, but just the sad reality that our frames (which allow us to look at the world) sometimes fail to do their job in helping us control both our and their great and all-too-human capacity for resentful violence.
Democracy is Dangerous if it is used in a Muslim Country.
Democracy is very dangerous if it is used in a Muslim country. It brings Muslim brothers or anti-Westerners to power. Muslims don’t understand or know democracy. It contradicts their beliefs and it goes contrary to the teachings of the Qur’an and the hadiths. Democracy grants human rights and the Qur’an and hadiths violate human rights.
Germany never really quit being anti-Semitic; they just had their butts handed to them in a war and had to back down. Being beaten into submission by a superior power isn’t the same thing as repenting… While I realize that not all Germans hate Jews (they did produce a few Bonhoffers) the overall culture of Germany is largely anti-Semitic. Culture is hard to change, and the current residents of Germany are almost without exception the descendants of Nazi war criminals who were just lucky enough to survive and have kids…
@fish
Well, I am not.
But Benz is an anti-German, pro-Muslim, pro-EU leftist swine, who uses the bestial murder of six million Jews – eternal peace and glory to their hallowed souls – as a tool to smear everybody critical of Islamism by equating him with the Nazis.
But after all, he is nothing but a leftist: a Nazi painted red. Just look at his ugly mug, and you know it all.