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The Bronx and Morocco this week, and elsewhere, all over, on an ongoing basis – and why is it that fanatical Muslims so relish attacking Jews? Is it really all about Israel?

Anti-Semitism in the Islamic world has often been attributed to the baneful influence of Christianity. Many analysts assert that the Islamic designation of Jews (as well as Christians) as ‘People of the Book’ indicates a higher level of respect for them than was manifested by Christians who derided Jews as bestial ‘Christ-killers.’ Journalist Lawrence Wright writes in this vein in The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11: “Until the end of World War II [...] Jews lived safely – although submissively – under Muslim rule for 1,200 years, enjoying full religious freedom; but in the 1930s, Nazi propaganda on Arabic-language shortwave radio, coupled with slanders by Christian missionaries in the region, infected the area with this ancient Western prejudice [anti-Semitism]. After the war, Cairo became a sanctuary for Nazis, who advised the military and the government. The rise of the Islamist movement coincided with the decline of fascism, but they overlapped in Egypt, and the germ passed into a new carrier.”

This is a common view, but in reality there is a strong native strain of anti-Semitism in Islam, which is rooted in the Qur’an. The Muslim holy book contains a great deal of material that forms the foundation for a hatred of Jews that exists independently of the Christian variety. It is also, in many ways, more virulent and harder to eradicate. The Qur’an portrays the Jews as the craftiest, most persistent, and most implacable enemies of the Muslims – and there is no Muslim equivalent of the Second Vatican Council to mitigate against destructive interpretations. The Qur’anic material on the Jews remains the prism through which far too many Muslims see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – and Jews in general – to this day.

[Article continues at link. See also more about the Bronx bombing, the Morocco bombing, fascist / Muslim collaboration in WW2 [1][2][3], fascist / Muslim collaboration today, antisemitism in the Qur’an, and antisemitism in the Bible. Religion brings people together – to hate each other. – Trevor Blake]

“Every effort must be made to combat anti-Semitism wherever it is found.”

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Pope decries ‘ugly’ anti-Semitism

Did this group make the “Hate” animation I’m looking for?

Men Of Reform Judaism: Jewish Chautauqua Society

The Elders of Zion, the venerable and shadowy Jewish organization that controls the international banking industry, news media and Hollywood, has announced that it is disbanding so that members can retire to Florida and live out their golden years on the golf course.

Elders of Zion to Retire – Forward.com

“movements based on racism and discriminatory ideas, in particular the Zionist movement, which is based on racial superiority”. [As in "G_d's chosen people," you mean?]

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US may boycott racism conference

Fifteen years ago today, a follower of Meir Kahane, named Baruch Goldstein, was beaten to death after he perpetrated the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre.

Jewish Extremism | MetaFilter

Israel is in fact the most aggressive and belligerent nation in the region, having invaded pretty much everyone it shares a border with. The following maps show what Israel has actually done.

THE MAPS TELL THE TRUE STORY

Because you can’t say “Religious couple sentenced to long prison terms” and still sell papers.

Abusive couple sentenced to long prison terms

An Israeli MP has blamed a spate of recent earthquakes in the Middle East on gays. [Unfit to lead]

Israeli earthquakes are gays’ fault, says MP – Telegraph

A gang of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rampaged through the heart of the Jewish community on Wednesday evening, attacking businesses and assaulting a motorist. [DON'T SAY MUSLIM DON'T SAY MUSLIM DON'T SAY MUSLIM DON'T SAY MUSLIM DON'T SAY MUSLIM]

Gaza: Gang on rampage in Golders Green | TheJC.com – The Jewish Community Online

Religion Clause: Jewish Charities Are Victims of Madoff Wall Street Fraud

almost every part of the Chaunukkah story is either wrong or completely misleading.

The True Story of Chanukkah | MetaFilter

This website is trying to help more than 70 child survivors of Holocaust find information about their past.

Missing Identity

the nearly ten-year effort by the Israel-Holy See Permanent Bilateral Commission to work out the Catholic Church’s tax status and agree on protection of Church properties and ownership of several sacred sites.

Religion Clause: Israel-Vatican Negotiations On Taxes, Property Resume

“it takes Orthodox people too long to get ready, and than they sometimes give up the idea, and they are often too kind.”

Moscow Patriarchate urges Muslims, Jews and Buddhist to form voluntary people’s guards

The boy’s parents, who are Orthodox Jews, have retained a lawyer who says the boy’s circulatory and respiratory systems are functioning, although with mechanical and other assistance. [They've made a golem.]

FOXNews.com – Hospital Seeks to Pull Plug on Brain-Dead Boy, 12 – Health News | Current Health News | Medical News

A Southern California county will allow jailed Muslim women to wear headscarves after settling a lawsuit with a woman who claims that deputies violated her religious freedom by making her remove her hijab. The settlement agreement signed by the county last week and released Monday specifies that Muslim women must be provided a private area to remove their headscarves after arrest and must be provided with county-issued headscarves to cover themselves when they are in the presence of men. [...] Medina, 30, was arrested in December 2005 in Pomona for having an invalid train pass. She spent 12 hours in jail but was never prosecuted.

[Article continues at link. I predict that a Muslim group will demand to authorize the county-issued headscarves mentioned above to make sure that they are appealing to their particular invisible monster that lives in the sky, in the same way that Jewish groups authorize slaughterhouses to make sure that they are appealing to their particular invisible monster that lives in the sky. The difference is that eating meat from a slaughterhouse is optional while (for better and for worse) being arrested is not optional. Thus for the State to issue headscarves is the establishment of religion and a Constitutionally questionable act. On a site note, the arrest itself and processing afterwards is of some concern to me. Spending 12 hours in jail for riding on an invalid train pass seems excessive, as does a trial requiring three years to play out. - Trevor Blake]

The Dutch cabinet gave the nod Friday to a bid to scrap a legal ban on blasphemy, opting to expand hate speech beyond religious boundaries to include all groups of people. “The cabinet gives the prohibition of blasphemy a new form and place in the law,” said a statement from the justice ministry. “In future, it will be punishable to give serious offence to any group of people. There is no need any more for a separate provision for blasphemy.” The statement said there was no difference between insults aimed against people based on their race, religion, sexual orientation or handicap.

[Article continues at link. The natural and necessary outcome of this solution is its own dissolution. Because while attempting to protect religion as a generic concept it confronts the specifics of religion. Jews have hate speech in their Torah, Christians have hate speech in their Bible, and Muslims have hate speech in their Quran. The Torah commands Jews to kill everyone who isn't a Jew. The Bible commands Christians to kill everyone who isn't a Christian. And the Quran commands Muslims to kill everyone who isn't a Muslim. To enforce this law the Dutch must now ban the Torah, the Bible and the Quran. But of course this won't happen. What will happen is that the law will be on the books - as clear in its intent as are the Torah, the Bible and the Quran when they command their faithful to kill everyone else - but the law will not be enforced. I do not support hate speech laws and I do not call for the Torah, the Bible and the Quran to be banned. Just the opposite. I encourage everyone to read these books because there is no more sure path to abandoning them as a moral guide than to read what they actually advocate. - Trevor Blake]

We are a non-violent protest group who share concerns about antisemitic online content, as well as content which promotes terrorism on sites including Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Google Earth, Blogger, and other sites and forums throughout the internet.

The Jewish Internet Defense Force

The incident comes amid a row with the Vatican over Israeli claims that the late Pope Pius XII could have done more to prevent the Jewish holocaust.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Israel website in ‘Nazi pope’ row