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Jewish Holocaust a Major Tragedy |
Jewish HolocaustThe Holocaust happened in modern times' it was intellectualized, well planned and exactly calculated in account books by cultured Europeans who pampered their dogs and adored Chopin, Diaghilev and Rembrandt. Germany at the time had an outstanding education system. The men, women and children gassed, tortured, starved, scientifically mutilated and hurled into mass graves were mostly Jews and all those the Aryan puritans declared "the other" - gays, blacks, mixed-race people, those with broken bodies and disoriented minds. Nazism reminds us how thin the coat of European civilization is and that it can be thrown off by the slightest provocation or none at all. Today the new Jews of Europe are Muslims, and ironically Sir Iqbal Sacranie is forever pointing this out. He has modeled himself on the Chief Rabbi, and both remind us constantly of the real and imagined discriminations against their flocks. Before Europe relocated its guilt and shame to the Middle East and cut up Palestine, before the present hatreds that now divide the two Semitic tribes, Muslims and Jews had much in common, and still do in many Middle Eastern countries in spite of the exploding anti- Semitism and the unjust politics of right-wing Israelis. Fahima Huda, the only Muslim on the Holocaust Memorial Trust, reasserts these ancient bonds and deep connections. Since the organized massacres of Muslim males in Bosnia , 16 million European Muslims live with a menacing whirr at the back of the head, ghostly fears that the fires next time will burn with our bodies. They are today's despised "other", blamed for all the ills of the world which is still largely controlled by Christians. We have to atone ceaselessly for the Taliban and al-Qa'ida and home-grown men of violence. They are expected -just as Jews were in the thirties- to bend our heads and take the slurs, looks of hatred, to accept the burden of shame. By remembering the Holocaust with past victims, we remind ourselves of what could happen in the future. And strategically the snub is self-defeating. Envious Muslims believe Jewish people in the West are now in positions of unbeatable power and influence. This boycott will not be forgotten by a people with a long memory. When the boots kick down the doors and they come for us Muslims or our children, perhaps good Jews will not speak up and we will rue the day we callously refused to pray for their lost generations. We also Recommend:
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