What I find difficult to accept is the apparent ethnic insularity of
non English speaking societies. Where the English speaking world, or
much of it at least has found ways to ameliorate racial hatreds,
language exclusive nations have generally failed to do so.
Thus we continue to discover hatreds been taught to children by their
long indoctrinated parents and a quiescent school system that does
not confront the disease. The horror of the WWII caused a reset in
the anglophone world not seriously accepted elsewhere. There is
obviously far more to do.
I think that a new doctrine is in order. It is profoundly simple.
The individual either believes GOD is real or does not. It not, then
his only rationale is barbarism and all that entails. There is after
all no referee and it is all a race to the bottom.
If GOD exists, then is mankind a slave or is GOD the servant of
mankind. If a slave, then how does this differ from the above? I do
not think it does at all. That leaves us with the fundamental
understanding that GOD is the servant of mankind and certainly not a
well spring of priestly power.
Once we come to grips with the natural reality that GOD is the
servant of mankind then it becomes painfully clear that GOD will
never favor one against another at all. Thus ethnic exceptionalism
is barbaric at best and never condoned by GOD.
This all needs to be well taught.
A disgrace to Anne
Frank’s memory
Abraham Cooper,
National Post | 13/03/22
Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed
Bouazizi proved that one man’s actions can change the future. The
tragedy is that the Tunisian street vendor achieved notoriety only by
an act of despair — self- immolation — to protest against serial
government harassment and humiliation. His fiery suicide in January
2011, unleashed the Arab Spring tsunami. His name and anger fueled
millions of other people desperate for a better life, and they
eventually succeeded in driving out seemingly invincible icons of
Arab power, including Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. Whether the Arab
Spring will ultimately deliver a better tomorrow, or prove to be a
windfall for Islamist extremists, remains an open question, but
Bouazizi’s status as a political martyrs is secure.
Today, there is
another young Muslim who deserves the world’s attention and
support. He is not a martyr, and desperately wants to avoid becoming
one. But, as of now, he and his family are in hiding in an
undisclosed location in The Netherlands, because of death threats.
He is Mehmet Sahin, a
doctoral student who had volunteered to reach out to street youth in
the city of Arnhem. A few weeks ago, he interviewed a group of
Dutch-Turkish youth on Nederlands TV2, at which time several declared
their unabashed hatred of Jews and open admiration of Hitler.
“What Hitler did to
the Jews is fine with me,” said one. “Hitler should have killed
all the Jews,” said another. Watch the clip on YouTube, and
you will see that their smirks and body language betray a
deeply-embedded hatred.
From where does such
bigotry emanate? Here’s a hint. When Mehmet Sahin reprimanded the
youngsters and committed to spend however much time it would take to
debunk their ignorance and hate, here is how his neighbours reacted:
They collected signatures to demand he leave the neighbourhood. When
Mehmet began to receive death threats, the Mayor of Arnhem, Pauline
Krikke, urged him to go into hiding.
And that is where he
and his family are today.
Is this the best
solution that democratic Netherlands can come up with? A witness
protection program for a man guilty of fighting anti-Semitism and
standing up for the truth? Are there no consequences for the hate and
threats emanating from adults?
One member of the
Dutch Parliament, Ahmed Marcouch, says he will raise the scandal in
Parliament. “It is horrible that someone has to be afraid because
he has done something that we all should do — teach children not to
hate.”
How The Netherlands
deals with such deeply embedded hatred of Jews will impact, not only
on the future of Dutch Jewry, but also on the future of Dutch
society. Simon Wiesenthal, the late Nazi hunter, was much revered by
the post-Second World War generation in The Netherlands. But in the
21st century, some apparently have forgotten his oft-repeated
warning: “Hate often begins with Jews, but history proves, it never
ends with the Jews.”
Mehmet Sahin has
written these words: “Within a couple of days, I will move to
another city of The Netherlands.… After what happened in the last
three weeks, I understood the eternal loneliness and pain of the
Jewish population. In the rest of my life, I will tell the whole
world that we all must resist this aggression.”
We don’t need
another martyr for freedom. Those kids and their peers in Europe need
Mehmet Sahin and other heroic messengers of truth, peace and
tolerance, alive. We can let him know this. Send Mehmet a message of
solidarity c/o information@wiesenthal.com and together we will let
him know he is not alone.
1 comment:
I think that a new doctrine is in order. It is profoundly simple. The individual either believes GOD is real or does not. It not, then his only rationale is barbarism and all that entails. There is after all no referee and it is all a race to the bottom.
I think that I speak for all atheists when I say that we are going to hunt you down and kill you and your family. I mean we are, after all, barbarians.
Seriously though, except for the soviet union, (MOstly christian) and China, and that is ambiguous, throughout, all of history the story is the same. Religious people killing other religious people and atheists and agnostics. Agnostics and atheists do not kill others because of their beliefs. By any known measure humanists, atheists, and agnostics are more moral and better people than believers.
According to your bigoted stupidity, all those scientists who win Nobel prizes and do not believe in god are barbarians. Steven Hawking is a barbarian.
My take is that you are getting senile.
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