Tuesday, February 10, 2009

What's 'Extremist' In Today's Germany?

Story here.

Was there any outrage in the case of the Iranians as there was in that of Bishop Williamson? German journalist Malte Lehming of the daily Tagesspiegel explained that Holocaust denial and genocidal hatred is not allowed if it derives from the Western world, like British Williamson. If Muslims do the same thing, nothing happens. This hypocrisy paradigm applies particularly - but not only - to today's Germany.

If Arabs, other Muslims and their German friends scream "Death to the Jews," or "Israel - children killer", that's fine. If two lonely guys stick an Israeli flag in a bedroom window on a street where such anti-Semites pass, the police react immediately and confiscate the flag. That's what happened in the city of Duisburg on January 10. In an interview with the Ruhr-Nachrichten newspaper, the head of the Verfassungsschutz (protection of the constitution) in the German Federal Land North Rhine-Westphalia, Hartmut Möller, accused a group of so-called "anti-Germans" of being a dangerous element, "extremists". Those particular anti-Germans are otherwise known as friends of Israel and the US.

Is it extremist to wave an Israeli flag in Germany today when more than 10,000 Palestinians and their friends shout "Death to the Jews" or similar slogans and burn an Israeli flag? According to a recent BBC poll, Germany holds the most negative views of Israel among Western countries surveyed, with 9 percent seeing the Jewish state as "mainly positive" and 65% as "mainly negative" (compared with 47% positive and 34% negative in the US.) ''

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Germany witnessed probably the biggest anti-Jewish rallies since 1945 during the Gaza war. Meanwhile research centers keep silent, refusing even to discuss such events with Jewish journalists, focusing instead on "Islamophobia." Why? Are Muslims threatened on German streets by Jewish gangsters screaming, "Death to all Muslims?"

The reality is the opposite, yet no one is listening. Scholars are to take a wait and see attitude as to whether Iran is really dangerous

See, the reality is that the Islamists are hateful and dangerous but are regarded and treated as if victims, whereas Jews/supporters of Jews/Israelis/supporters of Israelis and Israel are considered and treated as dangerous extremists. It's totally wrong and backwards. It's the same thing as it would've been if the world saw Nazis as victims and the Jews as the aggressors. Oh, wait... I believe that the world did indeed see the two sides in that light back then... and that's why they chose to appease Hitler and ignore and dismiss the warnings of Churchill.

Oooohhhh... did you just feel that shiver run up and down your spine, that familiar state of deja vu? Well, if you did, that means you're normal and that you understand. For today this is happening all over again. The fools, however, they don't see it.

Why is it politically correct (at least for Hard-Leftists and Muslims) to hate and openly express hatred of Jews?

Why is anti-Semitism so powerful, so politically-correct, so protected-by-the-police-state a movement today?

Why are the anti-Semites getting away with expressing their hatred of the Jews by disingenuously cloaking it in their politically correct, police-state-protected hatred of Israel, whilst deceptively claiming that they "don't hate Jews, they hate Zionists" (while they say that, they keep in their minds that, as far as they're concerned, all Jews are Zionists, therefore they hate 'em all)?

Isn't it a little bizarre that someone who looks like a skinhead or a neonazi rightly won't be tolerated if caught spewing anti-Semitic hatred and incitement, but if a Muslim or Hard-Left extremist does the same stuff, he's incredibly allowed to do it and even enjoys the protection of police bodyguards to do it? I wonder if Leftists ever noticed that... if they ever wondered why that's so?