Brits Respond to Muslim Fanatics by Forgetting the Holocaust
Blair's advisers are suggesting that he should respond to Muslim terrorism by rewarding Islamist anti-Semitism:
Advisers appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder of Muslims in Palestine, Chechnya and Bosnia as well as people of other faiths. The draft proposals have been prepared by committees appointed by Blair to tackle extremism...
"The very name Holocaust Memorial Day sounds too exclusive to many young Muslims. It sends out the wrong signals: that the lives of one people are to be remembered more than others. It’s a grievance that extremists are able to exploit."
In no particular order:
(1) Forcing you to read an articulation of how brazen this proposal's appeasement is - appeasement to anti-Semitism, to fanaticism, to Islamist ideology - would be insultingly pedantic.
(2) While we have no doubt that the Muslim fanatics who murdered British citizens celebrated rather than mourned the Holocaust, the existence of Holocaust Memorial Day was probably not high on their list of grievances. The existence of secularism and Jews in Britain, on the other hand, probably played a not insignificant motivating role.
(3) British WWII related appeasement hurting Jews? Ironic.
(4) Not for nothing, but Britain is among the last countries that should be neglecting Holocaust memorials. They have a lot to remember:
RAF bombers 'ignored Auschwitz'... The numerous wartime photos of Auschwitz taken by RAF reconnaissance pilots have been published on the internet by The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive based at Keele University...
"It's certain that the British collators [of the pictures] knew of the existence of the concentration camps at that time," the tabloid newspaper wrote. "Why therefore were the extermination camps not destroyed after the reconnaissance planes of the Britons and Americans photographed them in such detail? At the very least, the railway tracks on which the Jews were transported into the extermination camp?"
Advisers appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder of Muslims in Palestine, Chechnya and Bosnia as well as people of other faiths. The draft proposals have been prepared by committees appointed by Blair to tackle extremism...
"The very name Holocaust Memorial Day sounds too exclusive to many young Muslims. It sends out the wrong signals: that the lives of one people are to be remembered more than others. It’s a grievance that extremists are able to exploit."
In no particular order:
(1) Forcing you to read an articulation of how brazen this proposal's appeasement is - appeasement to anti-Semitism, to fanaticism, to Islamist ideology - would be insultingly pedantic.
(2) While we have no doubt that the Muslim fanatics who murdered British citizens celebrated rather than mourned the Holocaust, the existence of Holocaust Memorial Day was probably not high on their list of grievances. The existence of secularism and Jews in Britain, on the other hand, probably played a not insignificant motivating role.
(3) British WWII related appeasement hurting Jews? Ironic.
(4) Not for nothing, but Britain is among the last countries that should be neglecting Holocaust memorials. They have a lot to remember:
RAF bombers 'ignored Auschwitz'... The numerous wartime photos of Auschwitz taken by RAF reconnaissance pilots have been published on the internet by The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive based at Keele University...
"It's certain that the British collators [of the pictures] knew of the existence of the concentration camps at that time," the tabloid newspaper wrote. "Why therefore were the extermination camps not destroyed after the reconnaissance planes of the Britons and Americans photographed them in such detail? At the very least, the railway tracks on which the Jews were transported into the extermination camp?"
