Let's take a look at some her more colorful fabrications.
She says, "Jews have suffered, have been persecuted, yet have never advocated killing, blowing up mosques"
Of course that is false, while it is true that Jews have suffered in history so have most other groups at one time or another, Jewish terrorists bombed mosques, advocated killing and carried it out on a grand scale in furtherance of the creation of modern Israel. And Jews have been on both sides of the sword throughout their history, from the conquest of Canaan which brought the ancient Jews into the land of Israel (now called their ancestral lands), where Jews, the Israelites conquered the land and displaced the previous occupants, to infighting amongst themselves when the kingdom of Solomon was split after his death into Israel and Judah and on into modern times.
She goes on, to smear the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, MPAC.
"As an immigrant and naturalized American, I have a problem with such an organization – why should they need such an agency? What civil rights have they been denied? When immigrants arrived in this country before, they simply assimilated and no organization was established to fight for their rights. They accomplished their goals by hard work. I am one of those proud and grateful naturalized citizens."
Of course this is another lie, Immigrants to America have long created groups to advocate for their rights and protections. B'Nai Brith, Anti-defamtion leagues etc. B'nai B'rith International, the global voice of the Jewish community, is the most widely known Jewish humanitarian, human rights, and advocacy organization.
She rambles on with more crap, an offhand reference to Barack Obama (seems she is really scared of Obama also), and bunch of false references, a 'chlling' example of a muslim who knew another muslim who later sympathized with Al Queda, yada yada yada. The she writes, that to attain better interfaith understanding both parties must be honest and tell the truth, implying further that this is not possible for Muslims to do.
"This may be difficult for many Muslims because according to Islam, followers can say one thing and do the opposite – or, say one thing to us and say exactly the opposite to their people in their language. It is perfectly permissible to lie or deceive as long as you advance the cause."
Right, another lie, all the three monotheistic religions have prohibitions about deceit and bearing false witness.
She say's Islam is not "only" a religion, that it is also a political ideology. Wrong again, Islam is only a religion, just a religion. And in typical fashion for bigots somehow hatred for Jews is not the same as hatred for Muslims, Antisemitism is not to be equated with Anti-Islamic sentiment. Anti-Islam sentiment as it turns out is based in facts, while antisemitism is evil.
She goes on with more ramblings about how Rabbis and Jews who advocate peace are blind, naive and being used, and are just sad and misinformed. Peace is not a rational objective when dealing with Muslims, and these people are just kidding themselves, Peace efforts just aid the terrorists, and of course the common sickening narrative of the "Jew as victim", who always seeks to help others and is persecuted for their goodness, yada yada yada.
She writes, "We know the majority of Muslims are peaceful, but approximately 10%, about 150 million, are radical. Unfortunately, the peaceful, moderate Islamic community did not condemn the attacks prior to 9/11 or since."
Another lie, every major voice in Islam has continually repudiated violence and the 9/11 attacks. Not sure where she derives 10% as the number of radical Muslims within Islam, although I am certain her source is as suspect as the rest of her assertions. I would venture a guess that of those who self identify as Jewish there are a much higher percentage that also identify with Zionism, a radical perversion of Judaism.
"Interfaith Dialogue – A Dangerous Road down a Slippery Slope"
http://familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1907/pub_detail.asp
We hear some who like to proclaim that Islam is "bad religion". That somehow it is not equal to Judaism or Christianity. That Islam and the Koran is flawed and violent and intolerant. That somehow Judaism or Christianity are superior to Islam. Naturally, and not surprisingly, this is often proposed by Christians and Jews.
Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. This kind of bigotry and ignorance is hard to imagine in the 21st century, not to mention enormously disappointing. Many of us can remember the character of Archie Bunker on television. How we laughed at his ignorance and racism, it was funny. But there is nothing funny about real bigotry and racism, nothing at all.
Her article and those with similar sentiments are nothing but the most venal hate filled lies and homage to ignorance and intolerance. I will however borrow her parting line, because ironically it is most apropos, a line from her book about her families experience in the holocaust and the communist rule that came after in Europe.
"We must learn from the past and be prepared for the future."
Let's remember what happens when a group of people are allowed to be demonized and scapegoated.
And let's say, Never Again!
Haters must Go!
Michael Trachtenberg
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