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'Victims' Who Persecute

Ahadhaamoratsim Wrote: Apr 18, 2012 5:41 PM

Dreadnought, I can't agree that every Muslim is an anti-Semite; I've met any number who aren't. That's not to minimize the risk -- and the anti-Semitic nature -- of Islamism and of many recognized Islamic leaders, clerics, theologians, and activists. Nor is it to minimze the terrorism that emanates from that camp. But every Muslim? Sorry. But anyone who wants proof that anti-Semitism is on the rise in the US only needs to look at how many places tolerate comments (and commentors) of the likes of HermanBB, and ask themselves whether similar comments would have been tolerated in polite society 10 or 20 years ago.

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'Victims' Who Persecute

HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY always falls during the week that follows Passover. At first glance, the two would seem to have little in common -- one memorializes the millions of European Jews annihilated by Nazi Germany; the other commemorates the deliverance of the Jews from slavery in ancient Egypt.

Yet for all their obvious differences, a fundamental similarity links these two crucial chapters in Jewish history. Both were attempts at genocide, and in both cases the perpetrators justified their savageries by claiming that they were the real victims, threatened by the people they intended to wipe out.

At the Passover Seder,...

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