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Like his message or not, Aaron Zelman speaks the truth - and it does not apply exclusively to those of the Jewish faith. Insert the word "American" in every passage where he uses the word "Jew" and his words still ring true.
Will the administrators of this site tolerate the stating of some unattractive and politically incorrect facts about Islam to be found in Zelman's writings as presented here, or will it be deleted under the pretext of "Islam bashing?" We shall see.
Two things are certain -
1: Aaron Zelman is not and has never been one to lie or fabricate his assertions. He states the facts for what they are and does so with courage and integrity.
2: If the truth about Islam will not be tolerated on this forum, that tells us something about the people who operate this site.
The Next Holocaust: One spark could set off a hellish conflagration
By Aaron Zelman
Executive Director
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
The acts may be large or small. But the trend is ominous:
At a Muslim school in Ottawa, two teachers praise a student for writing a story in which fantasy “heroes” assassinate an Israeli official and bomb Israeli soldiers. The eight-page story, whose cover features a star of David in flames, was showcased for days in a school display before “shocked” school administrators noticed it.
The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, hosts (and warmly praises) Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, who hates Jews and supports Palestinian suicide bombers. Then Livingstone likens a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration-camp guard.
In 2004 alone, 77 violent anti-Semitic attacks are recorded in Britain, along with several hundred acts of anti-Semitic vandalism and verbal assaults.
In France, acts of violence and vandalism against Jews double in the course of a year. Perpetrators appear to come from both the Arab-Muslim population and the “far right.” Anti-Semitism is becoming so common and so frightening in France that Aliyah Day (an annual event for Jews considering migration to Israel) draws 4.5 times more participants in 2005 than in previous years.
Even in peaceful, tolerant Switzerland in March 2005, a synagogue is badly damaged and a Jewish-owned clothing store destroyed -- both on the same night, both by arsonists.
The problem is not only in Europe or Canada:
The Medium, an entertainment weekly published at Rutgers University in New Jersey “celebrates” Holocaust Remembrance Week 2004 with a full-page cover cartoon of a frightened, bearded man sitting on the edge of an open-doored oven. The caption reads: “Knock a Jew in the oven. Three throws for one dollar.”
Brandl Rifka, serving time in a Florida prison, requests a kosher meal to break her Yom Kippur fast. Instead, she is served ham. It is part of a pattern of ostracism by guards and inmates, who try to hinder her practice of Judiasm.--
In California, former prosecutor John Quatman tells investigators that for years he conspired with a judge, Stanley Golde, to keep Jews off juries in death-penalty cases, because the judge believed Jews wouldn't vote for capital punishment.
At the University of California at Irvine, officials are silent when a Holocaust exhibit created by Jewish students is vandalized. But they vehemently protest when someone burns a Muslim group's cardboard replica of Israel’s security fence.
The twenty-first century is already the most dangerous time for Jews since World War II. Expect the prejudice and violence against us to get worse as the decades roll ominously forward.
The reasons are legion. And many ominous signs are screaming for our attention -- right here, right now, in the “civilized” world.
Holocaust survivors and their liberators are dying off. New generations are less concerned with the horrors Hitler inflicted, less aware of how those horrors were permitted to blight the world. To the young, the Holocaust was an anomaly. A freakish, once-in-history event. Something that happened long ago to people they didn't know and don't particularly care about.
The twenty-first century has also already been called “The Muslim Century.” As populations in the Judeo-Christian western world stagnate or decline, populations in the Muslim world burgeon. Muslim countries are often crowded with unemployed or underemployed young men -- exactly the demographic most prone to violence. These cultures also tend to encourage a culture of righteousness and vengeance against all perceived enemies -- of which we Jews are Enemy Number One.
Hungry young Muslims from the Middle East or Africa flood into Europe. The resulting cultural disruptions also tend to create climates of violence, hatred, and fatal misunderstanding.
The United States once seemed isolated from all this. Then we received an explosive wake-up call on September 11, 2001, when we realized that Americans, too, can be the target of rage from abroad.
Yet even that wake-up call hasn't really opened our eyes.
Those 19 suicidal hijackers and their wealthy backers weren't attacking only America and its policies. They were attacking Jews. Or rather, they were attacking what they perceived to be a “Jewish” economic system and “Jewish” foreign policy.
Many people -- even a few “respectable” voices in the media have gone so far as to hint that Jews or Israel masterminded the September 11 destruction in some devious attempt to further gain sympathy and manipulate U.S. policy.
So the 9-11 attacks have, in a multitude of ways, been publicly aimed at Jewish people.
Instead of condemning this violent hatred, however, many more Americans -- especially on always-influential college campuses -- have joined in the hate-fest.
More and more intellectuals and members of the media condemn Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians. Questioning the motives of any government is politically fair game, and is often necessary. Israel should have no special exemption from criticism. But the dirty little secret is that many of the critics of the nation of Israel use that political stance as a publicly acceptable way of venting dislike for the Jewish people -- as shown by the example of the University of California at Irvine officials, who apparently considered bigotry against Muslim students to be a problem but bigotry against Jewish students to be acceptable.
In this country, some of the apparent bigotry may seem merely distasteful rather than violently harmful. The Rutgers University student publication, The Medium, features a lot of offensive humor, aimed in many directions. Their cartoon inviting readers to “knock a Jew into the oven” appeared to be drawn by someone with ninth-grade skills and sixth-grade mentality. And the editors of the publication later apologized for their grotesquerie.
But as far as we heard, those supposedly educated university students never apologized for earlier writing “Die, Jew, Die!” in a mock classified ad. And it's clear that they never really understood why their cartoon was an ominous sign of the times, rather than merely the irreverent bit of “wit” they might have intended it to be.
Growing anti-Semitism isn't the only danger signal
Anti-Semitism was merely one part of a whole culture of attitudes and activities that led to the Nazis' “final solution.” Many of those same traits are growing in America today.
First is the widespread worship of the state -- the belief that central government knows best and that government must (and can) solve all problems. In our country, we see galloping growth, not only in the federal budget, but in central control. A nationalist government now inserts itself into everything from the schooling of our children to decisions about our health. Even our churches and synagogues are beginning to turn to the state for handouts to fund their traditional social programs (and obligating themselves and their members to the inevitable control that goes with government funding).
Along with state-worship comes an inevitable surrender of personal morality. Already it's common for mindless millions to assume that if something is illegal, it must therefore be immoral, and if something is legal, it must be moral -- even if their own upbringing, religion, or conscience tells them the opposite.
This is a surrender of a very deep part of the individual soul to the state -- and an extremely dangerous trend. As detailed by Richard Lawrence Miller in his book Nazi Justiz, every horror Hitler's minions committed was scrupulously legal -- under an immoral concept of law.
[Continued below]
Will the administrators of this site tolerate the stating of some unattractive and politically incorrect facts about Islam to be found in Zelman's writings as presented here, or will it be deleted under the pretext of "Islam bashing?" We shall see.
Two things are certain -
1: Aaron Zelman is not and has never been one to lie or fabricate his assertions. He states the facts for what they are and does so with courage and integrity.
2: If the truth about Islam will not be tolerated on this forum, that tells us something about the people who operate this site.
The Next Holocaust: One spark could set off a hellish conflagration
By Aaron Zelman
Executive Director
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
The acts may be large or small. But the trend is ominous:
At a Muslim school in Ottawa, two teachers praise a student for writing a story in which fantasy “heroes” assassinate an Israeli official and bomb Israeli soldiers. The eight-page story, whose cover features a star of David in flames, was showcased for days in a school display before “shocked” school administrators noticed it.
The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, hosts (and warmly praises) Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, who hates Jews and supports Palestinian suicide bombers. Then Livingstone likens a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration-camp guard.
In 2004 alone, 77 violent anti-Semitic attacks are recorded in Britain, along with several hundred acts of anti-Semitic vandalism and verbal assaults.
In France, acts of violence and vandalism against Jews double in the course of a year. Perpetrators appear to come from both the Arab-Muslim population and the “far right.” Anti-Semitism is becoming so common and so frightening in France that Aliyah Day (an annual event for Jews considering migration to Israel) draws 4.5 times more participants in 2005 than in previous years.
Even in peaceful, tolerant Switzerland in March 2005, a synagogue is badly damaged and a Jewish-owned clothing store destroyed -- both on the same night, both by arsonists.
The problem is not only in Europe or Canada:
The Medium, an entertainment weekly published at Rutgers University in New Jersey “celebrates” Holocaust Remembrance Week 2004 with a full-page cover cartoon of a frightened, bearded man sitting on the edge of an open-doored oven. The caption reads: “Knock a Jew in the oven. Three throws for one dollar.”
Brandl Rifka, serving time in a Florida prison, requests a kosher meal to break her Yom Kippur fast. Instead, she is served ham. It is part of a pattern of ostracism by guards and inmates, who try to hinder her practice of Judiasm.--
In California, former prosecutor John Quatman tells investigators that for years he conspired with a judge, Stanley Golde, to keep Jews off juries in death-penalty cases, because the judge believed Jews wouldn't vote for capital punishment.
At the University of California at Irvine, officials are silent when a Holocaust exhibit created by Jewish students is vandalized. But they vehemently protest when someone burns a Muslim group's cardboard replica of Israel’s security fence.
The twenty-first century is already the most dangerous time for Jews since World War II. Expect the prejudice and violence against us to get worse as the decades roll ominously forward.
The reasons are legion. And many ominous signs are screaming for our attention -- right here, right now, in the “civilized” world.
Holocaust survivors and their liberators are dying off. New generations are less concerned with the horrors Hitler inflicted, less aware of how those horrors were permitted to blight the world. To the young, the Holocaust was an anomaly. A freakish, once-in-history event. Something that happened long ago to people they didn't know and don't particularly care about.
The twenty-first century has also already been called “The Muslim Century.” As populations in the Judeo-Christian western world stagnate or decline, populations in the Muslim world burgeon. Muslim countries are often crowded with unemployed or underemployed young men -- exactly the demographic most prone to violence. These cultures also tend to encourage a culture of righteousness and vengeance against all perceived enemies -- of which we Jews are Enemy Number One.
Hungry young Muslims from the Middle East or Africa flood into Europe. The resulting cultural disruptions also tend to create climates of violence, hatred, and fatal misunderstanding.
The United States once seemed isolated from all this. Then we received an explosive wake-up call on September 11, 2001, when we realized that Americans, too, can be the target of rage from abroad.
Yet even that wake-up call hasn't really opened our eyes.
Those 19 suicidal hijackers and their wealthy backers weren't attacking only America and its policies. They were attacking Jews. Or rather, they were attacking what they perceived to be a “Jewish” economic system and “Jewish” foreign policy.
Many people -- even a few “respectable” voices in the media have gone so far as to hint that Jews or Israel masterminded the September 11 destruction in some devious attempt to further gain sympathy and manipulate U.S. policy.
So the 9-11 attacks have, in a multitude of ways, been publicly aimed at Jewish people.
Instead of condemning this violent hatred, however, many more Americans -- especially on always-influential college campuses -- have joined in the hate-fest.
More and more intellectuals and members of the media condemn Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians. Questioning the motives of any government is politically fair game, and is often necessary. Israel should have no special exemption from criticism. But the dirty little secret is that many of the critics of the nation of Israel use that political stance as a publicly acceptable way of venting dislike for the Jewish people -- as shown by the example of the University of California at Irvine officials, who apparently considered bigotry against Muslim students to be a problem but bigotry against Jewish students to be acceptable.
In this country, some of the apparent bigotry may seem merely distasteful rather than violently harmful. The Rutgers University student publication, The Medium, features a lot of offensive humor, aimed in many directions. Their cartoon inviting readers to “knock a Jew into the oven” appeared to be drawn by someone with ninth-grade skills and sixth-grade mentality. And the editors of the publication later apologized for their grotesquerie.
But as far as we heard, those supposedly educated university students never apologized for earlier writing “Die, Jew, Die!” in a mock classified ad. And it's clear that they never really understood why their cartoon was an ominous sign of the times, rather than merely the irreverent bit of “wit” they might have intended it to be.
Growing anti-Semitism isn't the only danger signal
Anti-Semitism was merely one part of a whole culture of attitudes and activities that led to the Nazis' “final solution.” Many of those same traits are growing in America today.
First is the widespread worship of the state -- the belief that central government knows best and that government must (and can) solve all problems. In our country, we see galloping growth, not only in the federal budget, but in central control. A nationalist government now inserts itself into everything from the schooling of our children to decisions about our health. Even our churches and synagogues are beginning to turn to the state for handouts to fund their traditional social programs (and obligating themselves and their members to the inevitable control that goes with government funding).
Along with state-worship comes an inevitable surrender of personal morality. Already it's common for mindless millions to assume that if something is illegal, it must therefore be immoral, and if something is legal, it must be moral -- even if their own upbringing, religion, or conscience tells them the opposite.
This is a surrender of a very deep part of the individual soul to the state -- and an extremely dangerous trend. As detailed by Richard Lawrence Miller in his book Nazi Justiz, every horror Hitler's minions committed was scrupulously legal -- under an immoral concept of law.
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