by Sophie McAdam at trueactivist.com
This guy drew an important parallel between Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany and Islamophobia in 2016.
A Jewish man who emailed a London radio show on Holocaust Memorial Day last week said we should honor the victims by making a stand against growing anti-Muslim feeling in the Western world. “Jews, more than anyone, need to stand up for the Muslim community”, wrote Josh.
He made reference to the popularity of bigots like Donald Trump, pointing out that the fact we laugh at him instead of being horrified by his beliefs shows just how deep-rooted Islamophobia is right now. Josh wrote:
It feels like we’re descending into a society that is happy to say ‘No Muslims.’ Just look at what is happening in the States with that lunatic Donald Trump. We simply cannot tolerate this. We need to remember that not long ago it was us [Jewish people] who were on the receiving end of this treatment, and we all know where that ended up.”
Josh called for all Jewish people to stand up against what he called the “vile rubbish” against Muslims in the press, and asked people to “leave the Middle-East nonsense to one side for the moment.”
Josh suggested history could repeat itself if we’re not careful. In the not-so-distant past, signs all over London read: ‘No dogs, No Irish, No Jews‘. His parents had to deal with that kind of bigotry on a daily basis, so why should his generation stand by and watch the same treatment of Muslims? He wrote:
Today being the 71st anniversary of the Holocaust, which is very personal to me for obvious reasons, I think we really need to make the link as to how Muslims are being subjected daily to such lazy prejudices, just as my ancestors were, all those years ago.”
Let’s not forget, the Holocaust didn’t happen overnight. It couldn’t have occurred without years of anti-Semitic propaganda and legislation: sowing seeds of division in German society was a key part of Hitler’s evil plan. After 9/11, the media screamed we were at War. Muslims were avoided in the streets. Bush declared countries (and individuals) were either with the USA, or against it. Debates sprang up, people’s vocabularies shifted. Suddenly, the words ‘extremist’, ‘fundamentalist’ and ‘terrorist’ jumped out of every newspaper, every letters page, every political speech. 9/11 signalled the start of a slow slide into Islamophobia as the norm, a transition towards the ‘us vs them’ fear-based mentality we’ve gotten to in 2016.
9/11 changed the world, it immediately created division between Muslims and non-Muslims, but should it have? Aside from the massive holes and peculiarities in the official story, inexplicable lies by Bush, and experts lining up to testify the impossibility of it happening the way they told us, 9/11 also paved the way for a lot of white men to get very rich. If it weren’t for the terror of 9/11,would patriotic Americans have supported their troops being involved in over a decade of military coups and invasions in the Middle East and Africa? Probably not.
Fast-forward 14 years and Nobel Peace Prize winner ‘O-Bomber‘ has dropped over 23,000 bombs on Muslim countries in the past year, following in the footsteps of his war criminal predecessor, George W Bush. Anyone who hasn’t realized we are fighting these wars purely for the oil revenue is probably reading the wrong magazine- as soon as you start questioning 9/11 and the pre-planned War on Terror, it becomes more difficult to argue that 1.7 billion Muslims deserve all the bad press they get.
So is the man who emailed LBC radio station right to draw a comparison between the prejudices faced by Jews in the 1930s and Muslims in 2016? It’s a controversial parallel to make, but as long as Guantanamo remains open, as long as the US-led coalition continues invading and bombing Muslim-majority countries, as long as the mainstream media continues to stoke Islamophobicfeeling, and as long as haters like Trump get cheered for wanting to kick Muslims out of the USA, we can’t safely say history won’t repeat itself in years to come.
Josh signed off his mail with the words “keep the peace,” which is good advice as we remember the innocent Jewish victims of hatred and bigotry. Because no matter what you think you know about Islam, the carefully-orchestrated dehumanization of an entire group of people is happening again…and too many of us are falling for it.
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muslim ideoligy isnt the same
Nor was the Jewish ideology the same as German- just because it’s not the same (btw-same as what? Same as yours?) it doesn’t make it right for you to demonise it… Does it? If you think it does- maybe you think your “ideoligy” is superior? Does that sound a little supremacist to you?
The Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Maybe he should talk to Israel about what they are doing to the Muslims of Palestine.
Nor was the Jewish ideology the same as German- just because it’s not the same (btw-same as what? Same as yours?) it doesn’t make it right for you to demonise it… Does it? If you think it does- maybe you think your “ideoligy” is superior? Does that sound a little supremacist to you?
I don’t think that what is happening right now can even be compared to the Holocaust… or that a Jew like this Josh has any real perception of what the Holocaust or what is happening with this migrant crisis.
It is very simple, Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews and so he persecuted them with that goal, now what’s happening is that we are being “invaded” with non-deserving migrants who come here to do nothing but cause ruckus, nothing but cause problems, not to mention that the most part came to Europe expecting Europe to ADAPT TO THEM !!!!! We need to adapt to the Muslim cause in our OWN COUNTRIES?… sorry but no … they are the ones who need to adapt to our culture …
If the EU is thinking about a “Muslim solution” that is nothing but normal… but we’re not chastising the Muslims, they can be what they want to be in their countries of course just dont force their habits onto us.
This is where the Josh guy got it wrong and compared in a monumentally stupid way these cases.
He also forgot to mention that his own country stole the very own soil they now call as Israel …
omg you stupid infidels will see what Islam will make with your country….come on blame the jews and christians….
fucking idiots, all of this “this have nothing to do with islam” pisses me off…
IT HAS TO DO WITH ISLAM!
Maybe you will wake up, but if, then it´s already to late.
(btw: Muslims were Nazis, they were fighting for Hitler, just search “hitler al Husseini” in Google)
Go die you cunt you fucking racist piece of shit
muslims were nazis are your mentally disabled, muslims helped the jews to escape and hide (ex: Palestine welcomed the jews to their land when every other country were refusing them, go outside dumbass
You are stupid as shit if you talk about “invasion” from refugees who happen to be muslims mainly, because “we” the “good guys” from the western civilisation, lead by our own interests, have caused destabilization and brought war over the entire middle east region, thus causing people to flee by millions from their home countries, and now, with a few years delay, they finally arrive in central Europe. No one cared as long as they did not cross the mediterranean see in large numbers, but now the refugees are called a problem, while they are just a symptom of the problem we created in the first line.
if you dont want them in your country stop bombing theirs
Unless you were in lala land. The world doesn’t hate nor islambia anything. You probably would consider actions create reaction. Any fault play wrongdoing would be condemn and met reaction from the world and thats include anyone whose put aside inhuman. Hitler met his due.