Uruba – unsuriyyah
The wild racist
virus on a vicious campaign of burning all non-Arab ethnicities down, main
victims include:
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Persians, Iran – Libya, Qaddafi (Ghadafi /Gadaffi) – Berbers –
Caucasians – Asians – Al-Akhdam – Nubians – Terror – Racializing counter terrorism – Intra-Arab racism – Slavery –
Wars – Oppression
Arabism Equals Racism
Some things change, others never will – such as the acceptance of anyone else’s political rights in a multi-ethnic region that most Arabs see exclusively as “purely Arab patrimony.” That’s the Arab-Israel conflict in a nutshell; but it is also the core of the Arab-Berber,
Arab-Kurd, Arab-Black African, Arab-Copt, Arab-Assyrian, Arab-non-Arab Lebanese conflicts, as well, among others. The Arabs’ Anfal Campaign against the Kurds and their actions in Darfur and the rest of the southern Sudan are just a few of many examples of Arab genocidal actions against all who might disagree.
To be accepted, and not literally exterminated, one must do what Egypt’s most
successful Copt did – consent to this age-old forced subjugation and Arabization. Dr. Boutros Boutros Ghali became a top official in President Anwar
Sadat’s government and went on to become Secretary General of the United Nations, as well.
“Uncle Butros” instead of “Uncle Tom”.
He also
instructed that for it to be accepted, Israel, as an entire country, must consent to being Arabized; like those Kurdish kids in Syrian Kurdistan who are
forced today to sing songs praising their “Arab identity” and so forth.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24912
Berber Leader: “There Is No Worse Colonialism Than That of
the Pan-Arabist Clan that Wants to Dominate Our People”… just as
Islamism did not need us to be born and extend, since it is the result of
educational policies installed by Arabist governments …It is ultimately the
Arabism as an imperialist ideology
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD156907
Pan-Arabism & the professor
In the words of political science
professor Adeed Dawisha, pan-Arabism at its inception was deeply
influenced by European fascism, with the result that “Arab nationalists, infused
with the illiberal ideas of cultural nationalism, had almost nothing to say
about personal liberty and freedom.”
Thus, in keeping with his
pan-Arab beliefs, Maksoud has apologized or excused the excesses of assorted
Arab tyrannies.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1308
The new world of Islam – Page 201 Lothrop Stoddard – Religion – 1922 – 362 pages
We have already seen how, concurrently with Turkish nationalism, Arab nationalism was likewise evolving into the “racial” stage, the ideal being a great “Pan-Arab” empire, embracing not merely the ethnically Arab peninsula-homeland, Syria, and Mesopotamia, but also the Arabized regions of Egypt, Tripoli, French North Africa and the Sudan
The Middle East, abstracts and index, Part 4 – Page 1111
Library Information and Research Service – History – 2004
http://books.google.com/books?id=IDAnAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA201
http://books.google.com/books?id=NM5UrQreH1kC&pg=PA169
http://books.google.com/books?id=q5ptAAAAMAAJ&q=We+have+already+seen+how,+concurrently+with+Turkish+nationalism,+Arab+nationalism+was+likewise+evolving+into+the+%22racial%22+stage,+the+ideal+being+a+great+%22Pan-Arab%22+empire,+embracing+not+merely+the+ethnically+Arab+peninsula-homeland,+Syria,+and+Mesopotamia,+but+also+the+Arabized+regions+of+Egypt,+Tripoli,+French+North+Africa+and+the+Sudan&dq=We+have+already+seen+how,+concurrently+with+Turkish+nationalism,+Arab+nationalism+was+likewise+evolving+into+the+%22racial%22+stage,+the+ideal+being+a+great+%22Pan-Arab%22+empire,+embracing+not+merely+the+ethnically+Arab+peninsula-homeland,+Syria,+and+Mesopotamia,+but+also+the+Arabized+regions+of+Egypt,+Tripoli,+French+North+Africa+and+the+Sudan&cd=2
(The myth of the Jewish race, Volume 1988 – Page 187
Raphael Patai, Jennifer Patai – Social Science – 1989 – 456 pages, Wayne State University Press)
… In 1960 the French Comite d’ Action de Defense De- mocratique published a pamphlet titled Racism and Pan-Arabism… a paper by Shlomo Friedrich on “Pan-Arabism: A New Racist Menace?”
http://books.google.com/books?id=Xt7f6WBEP0EC&pg=PA187
Anti-Semitism in Arab World Books… Mar 6, 2006 … What would happen I wonder, if someone made the claim, based on the above, that “Islam is Racism” or “Arabism is Racism?” Ami Isseroff …
http://www.zionism-israel.com/ezine/Arab_Antisemitism_books.htm
The Journal of international studies, Volumes 30-31 (By Sophia University. Institute of International Relations)
…atrocities visited on black Africans there pale into insignificance when measured against African resistance against racist Arabism currently being practiced in such places as Mauritania, Sudan and Algeria
http://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=14&id=8Fy5AAAAIAAJ&dq=racist+arabism&q=arabism
The African Liberation Forces of Mauritania Speak on Slavery and Genocide
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
The African Liberation Forces of Mauritania Speak on Slavery and Genocide in the Sahel, not only to free Mauritanians from racism and slavery but also to build a more democratic country. The Arab-dominated regime does not want to do anything to bring peace in Mauritania.
We cannot really talk about democracy when 120,000 refugees are left behind, and we cannot talk about democracy when people are enslaved. Before organizing elections in Mauritania, we must free those who are still enslaved, and bring the refugees back. That is our position.
The Arab-dominated regime does not want to do … those two governments (Sudan & Mauritania) went to the same school–the school of Arabization. The professor was Saddam Hussein, and the doctrine was developed in Egypt by Nasser. They follow the pattern of Baathism and Nasserism. In the color of their skin they may not be Arabs, they may be Black. But they want to be Arab, and they follow this policy of Arabization in Mauritania and Sudan.
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/902
While other cultures experience stints of anti-Semitism, virulent racism and fascism, these are enduring or reoccurring features of Islam. Anti-Semitic rhetoric and attitudes are rife everywhere in Islamdom, even amongst the Muslim diaspora. The Pan-Arab movement is racism to the extend that it goes beyond celebrating diversity, and Arab culture and language is forced on the unwilling such as the Maronites, Copts and Arameans. Arab racism is behind the ethnic cleansing of black Muslims in Darfur, Sudan, that started in 2003.
http://books.google.com/books?id=GB_R90_DlGEC&pg=PA107
‘Chemical Ali’ sentenced
Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam’s who is known as Chemical Ali, was sentenced to death for a second time Tuesday for his part in crushing a Shiite uprising in 1991.
Mohammed Oraibi al-Khalifa, a judge for the Iraqi High Tribunal, sentenced Majid and other senior figures from Saddam’s government.
Among them were Abdelghani Abdul Ghafor al-Ani, who headed Saddam’s Baath Party in southern Iraq at the time of the uprising and who also received a death sentence Tuesday. The former defense minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, received a 15-year prison
sentence.
Majid already faces a death sentence for his role in a 1981
crackdown on Kurds in northern Iraq.
Judge Khalifa said Tuesday that Majid was guilty of crimes against humanity.
A lawyer for Majid’s defense team said that they would not be able to comment until after an appeal is filed.
Majid remained calm, but his co-defendant Ani shouted: “I welcome
death if it is for Iraq, for pan-Arabism and for the Baath. Down with the American and Persian occupation.”
The judge told Ani to “shut up.” In later remarks to his fellow judges, he was overheard saying: “All the Baathists are this way. Baathists live as Baathists and die as Baathists.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/02/mideast/iraq.php
Ali Hassan al-Majid, notorious for commanding the use of weapons of mass destruction against civilians in Kurdistan in 1988, has been sentenced to death again. This time the death sentence was due to his role in the crushing of the Shi’ite after the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
Majid, Saddam Hussein’s cousin, attempted his own theatrics, but the judge would have no part of it:
Judge Khalifa said Mr. Majid was guilty of crimes against humanity. Mr. Majid remained calm, but Mr. Ani shouted: “I welcome death if it is for Iraq, for pan-Arabism and for the Baath. Down with the American and Persian occupation!”
The judge responded, “Shut up.”
http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=375
Chemical Ali sentenced to death – 3 Dec 2008
…Another defendant, former Baath party official Abdul-Ghani Abdul-Ghafur, was also sentenced to death Tuesday. He shouted, “Down with the Persian-U.S. occupation!” and “Welcome to death for the sake of Arabism and Islam” as the sentence was read.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/chemical-ali-sentenced-to-death/2008/12/03/1227980048820.html
Saddam cousin ‘Chemical Ali’ sentenced to hang for 1988 gas attack …The attacks were part of repeated attempts by Saddam’s government to suppress the Kurds,
http://www.newser.com/article/d9d9m6880/saddam-cousin-chemical-ali-sentenced-to-hang-for-1988-gas-attack-that-killed-5600-kurds.html
The Iraqi Special Tribunal: A Lack of Objectivity Concerns the Victim Nation…
…neither the Arab judges nor the Kurdish judges can be impartial about past cases of ethnic conflict. An Arab judge cannot be impartial toward the Kurds, as the case is related to the Kurdish genocide committed by Arabs.
[…]
Mass killing of the Kurds was motivated by eliminating a non-Arab national group, while the killing of Arab groups was not occurred due to dissimilar nationality. This tribunal makes use of rules, such as rule number 7, article 1, from 1958, which deals with the crime of occupation of another Arab country. The Arabs involve every rule that is in their own interest. This is not the same as the Kurdish interest. For instance, the Kurds have suffered under Arabization since the establishment of the Iraqi state, and there are many episodes and documents proving this.
However, there is not a single article in the statute of the tribunal regarding this crime.
Arabization should have a clear definition.
Arabization can be seen as a type of ethnic cleansing with particular characteristics. Arabism is central for Arabization, for instance a cleansed territory of the targeted group settles only by Arabs; the victims in some areas are forcibly pushed to accept Arab national identity only, and so on. Article 12 from the statute concerns crimes against humanity, which includes crimes such as extermination, but this in itself cannot encompass the crime of Arabization. The text is vague, does not give a precise definition of ethnic cleansing, and does not sufficiently deal with the ethnic cleansing committed against the Kurds.
http://www.nawandihalabja.com/en/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=98
Saddam Hussein called the Kurds infidels to enable his Muslim soldiers to gas them. …
http://www.kurdistan.org/Current-Updates/stcloud042104.html
Saddam Charged in 1988 Gas Attack on Kurds, The Iraq tribunal announced… criminal charges against Saddam Hussein and six others
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190446,00.html
Although most of Hussein’s large-scale atrocities took place during the 1980s and early 1990s, his tenure was also characterized by day-to-day atrocities that attracted less notice. Wartime rhetoric regarding Hussein’s “rape rooms,” death by torture, decisions to slaughter the children of political enemies, and the casual machine-gunning of peaceful protesters accurately reflected the day-to-day policies of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Hussein was no misunderstood despotic “madman.” He was a monster, a butcher, a brutal tyrant, a genocidal racist–he was all of this, and more.
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/internationalhumanrights/p/saddam_hussein.htm
Towards another disaster
By Aso Karim
The Kurdish Globe
Thursday,
04 December 2008, 02:04 EST
Since the Iraqi State has been established under
the hands of the English, only the Kurds asked for power-sharing,
decentralization, and autonomy, and are now insisting on federalism, democracy,
and accordance.
The Arab elite see those demands of the Kurds as separatist
and rebellion. In short, Kurds were the makers of change in Iraq, but they
couldn’t find a large front of change around themselves that can accept part of
those demands. As a result they have faced big disasters.
[…]
…of the
governing [Arab] elite, according to their ideological and political
backgrounds
[…]
The source of that is the very idea
of power hunger and centralism that were brought to Iraq by the English in the
1920s, and which was developed by the pan-Arabism movement that was developed in
80 years. This has only brought about disaster.
http://www.kurdishglobe.net/displayArticle.jsp?id=5A95C78952AE18393AD622368B94F0B6
The Arab League as a useless ideological racist Arabist institution has
existed only to promote Arabism and Arab racism against colonised non-Arab
nations.
http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=9285
Is Pan-Arabism a Nationalism without a Nation?
[2007]
For a long period of time those called Arabs were the tribes living in the Arabian Peninsula,
After the Islamic conquests, the number of Arabic-speakers began to rise. These
new Arabic-speakers could not claim descent from the Arabs, and for many
centuries they were not viewed as Arabs, nor did they consider themselves to be
such.
[…]
The problem is that this totalizing theory did not present
realistic and just solutions to the various conflicts that tear apart our region
to this day. The policies of forced Arabization; the mistreatment of the Kurdish
minority in Iraq, the oppression of the Kurds in Syria, the harassment of the
Coptic minority in Egypt and the Assyrians and Chaldeans in Iraq; the
provocations against what is left of the Jewish diaspora in a few countries like
Yemen, Syria, and Iraq; and the intimidation and cultural negation of any
minority that refuses to submit to what the peddlers of Pan-Arabism try to
impose on them ‘ all of this does nothing but generate more violence and
tragedy.
If the military intervention in Iraq and the deposing of the
Pan-Arabist Saddam Hussein regime has had one positive result, aside from the
timid beginnings of a democratic political process, it is without doubt the fact
that light has been shed on the great sectarian, linguistic, and cultural
diversity with which the Middle East is blessed. The question of accepting the
other’s difference and identity remains the greatest challenge for the Arab
nationalists.
http://www.masrifeki.com/english.4.074.0.htm
Kurdistan Observer The Arab League as a useless ideological racist Arabist
institution has existed only to promote Arabism and Arab racism against
colonised non-Arab nations. …
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/KO%20News/23-9-03-opinion-mirawdeli-kurdistani-intellec.html
The Imam and the Ommat: as seen through the illustrated messages and … – Page 1
Ruhollah Khomeini, Laleh Bakhtiar – History – 1981 – 152 pages
Pan-Arabism, Arab nationalism and racism have been nourished in these times. Aflagh made extensive use of the national socialism of the Nazis. They have made use of the Nazi idea of racism and the preference of the Aryan race. Aflagh replaces being Arab with the idea of being German. They developed slogans similar to the Nazi one… who is originally Greek, introduces the Prophet of Islam as a Prophet whose efforts were spent in establishing the greatness of the Arab race! The evil and traitorous policy of this party have shown that, under the name of Islam and the Arabness of the Prophet of Islam, they have put forth the idea …
http://books.google.com/books?id=497BAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&sig=ACfU3U0VA4TbXwjZJs8mSAAOT-szc2A5Xg&q=pan+arabism
Amir Taheri
June 6, 2003
Iraq’s Identity Crisis
The future of Pan-Arabism.
As Iraq’s political parties and groups continue their wrangling over a new constitution, consensus seems to be taking shape on at least one issue: The future Iraqi state should not be described as “Arab.” Some participants also want Iraq to withdraw from the Arab League to contemplate broader alliances in the region and beyond.
The idea of dropping Iraq’s Arabism is backed by most Shiite parties that want the nation’s Islamic identity to be emphasized.
“What binds a majority of Iraqis together is their Islamic faith while Arabism divides them,” says Abdel-Aziz Hakim of the High Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. “The Arabs will, of course, have their specific identity within the broader Islamic identity.”
The Kurds also want Arabism to go because the see Iraq as a multi-ethnic nation in which no community should try to impose its specific identity and culture on others.
“Any future constitution would have to reflect the reality of Iraq as a country where two nations, Arab and Kurdish, live together along with other ethnic and faith minorities,” says Hoshyar Zibari of the Kurdistan Democratic party. “Pan-Arabism was always used as an instrument of terror and repression against our people. It has no place in a new Iraq.”
The Iraqi left is also favorable of abandoning what the poet Fadil Sultani calls “the illusion of Arabism.” The reason is that Iraqi Socialists and Communists have been frequently persecuted and, at times, massacred, as enemies of “pan-Arab nationalism.”
Iraq’s democrats and liberals see pan-Arabism as a barrier to democratization.
“You cannot build a democracy with a tribalist ideology,” says Kanan Makiya of the Iraqi National Congress.
Most Iraqis wish to develop the alternative concept of Uruqua (Iraqi-ness) as a substitute for Uruba (Arab-ness).
They say Uruqa is not a version of classical nationalism because it cuts across ethnic and confessional divides.
“Uruqua is a big tent in which we can all live together,” says Hussein Qazvini, a mullah from Karbala.
http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-taheri060603.asp
The Ba’th movement undoubtedly shared certain characteristic featuers of European fascism…… several close associates later admitted that ‘Aflaq had been directly inspired by certain fascist and Nazi theories
http://books.google.com/books?id=nvD2rZSVau4C&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84
Arendt observed that totalitarian regimes take form or are born of an ideology, often associated with racist, as in the case of Nazi anti-Semitism, or classist struggles, as in Stalin’s communist Russia (Jacobus 86). As Hitler’s Nazi Germany grew out of and became consumed with the idea of creating a racially purified Aryan Germany and extending it to all of Europe, Saddam’s goals, formed along with his Baathist principles, were aimed at creating a pan-Arab world and a master race. David Brooks of The Review describes Saddam’s position that “Someday there will be a great historical culmination [presumably between the Arab world and the United States]. Some nation, some people, will establish permanent dominance over the earth. It will realize all values, bring to culmination all hopes, and ascend to permanent glory.” He further attributes to Saddam that “The ideology of Baathism calls for relentless struggle, ever-widening conflict, until some ideal culmination of history is achieved. The Baathist ideology makes all agreements arbitrary, just as it makes all legal standards arbitrary and all truth arbitrary.” In the fanatical pursuit of the idea, or ideology, all actions become defensible and “all principles, even Baath principles, are relative” (Brooks 1). Arendt’s observation on totalitarian states predicts this view of the ends justifying the means. According to Kohn, “Arendt saw that the “idea,” the content, of the ideology matters less than its “inherent logicality” (Kohn 2). For the Nazis, pursuing the idea and its effect became focused on Jews and led to “a relentless and unstinting policy of genocide” (Magstadt 69). The foundation or goal of a totalitarian regime depends upon strict adherence to a cause or idea despite
http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/3495.html
Iraqi author…
…damage was done to the rights and interests of non-Arab nations and ethnic groups in the Arab lands – among them the Kurds, the Copts, and the Jews. [Thus,] the Arabs still treat the numerous minorities that came under their dominion 1,400 years ago in accordance with the laws from the era of Arab conquest.
“Despite the consequences of denying the other the right to exist, not to mention other rights – that is, [despite] the oppression, conflicts, wars, and instability [resulting from this]… the Arabs have steadfastly clung to their clearly chauvinist position. All problems in the region arising from minorities’ increasing awareness of their rights have been dealt with by the Arabs in accordance with [the principle of non-acceptance]… [even] after the emergence of international institutions giving these rights legal validity, in keeping with the mentality and rationale of our time.”
… “With the strident chorus of its secretaries, the Arab League ensures that every car crash in Gaza or the West Bank is interpreted as an Israeli conspiracy against the Arab future. This is because the Arab League… was established as a pan-Arab entity whose main function was to write reports and studies rife with distortions of fact so as to quell the conscience of any Arab who dared think independently and expunge [the concept of] the Nakba from his consciousness. [It has done] this instead of devising creative strategies for cultural and economic development, so as to improve the deteriorating standard of living in the Arab societies.”
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2729.htm
Iraq and Darfur: Common Roots, Pan-Arabism authorized the enslavement of
African Muslims in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states until the mid-1960s, when
slavery was abolished due to intense Western pressure. It justified the same
horrible practices during the North-South Sudanese civil war. Like Nazism, from which its founders Sami Shawkat and Michel Aflaq drew explicit inspiration, pan-Arabism inevitably leads to violence, conflict,
and, where successful, subjugation, because it defines its identity in opposition to the other” the hapless Jew, the black, or the other pariah within its self-proclaimed Lebensraum.
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11777086&Itemid=347
SHAWKAT, SAMI… He was quite influential in the later part of the 1930s as a strong pan-Arab nationalist. He established al-Futuwa, an ultranationalist youth group.
http://books.google.com/books?id=RIB5qT9sGnwC&pg=PA220
Language planning and policy in Africa: Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire,… Robert B. Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf – 2007 – 308 pages
Messali spent several spells in prison or exile. As an expatriate, he lived six months in Switzerland (1935-1936) where he met Emir Chekib Arslan – a Pan-Arabist from the Lebanese aristrocarcy, well known for his sympathy for Nazi ideology and a yearning for the re-creation of an Arab kingdon led by a ‘King of all the Arabs’… Messali’s association with Arslan strengthened the former’s adherence to Pan-Arabism and Arab-Islamic ideology
[…]
There were, on the one hand moderates… eaded by Messaly himself who believed that the birth of Algeria coincided with the Arab invasion and the spread of Islam – their slogan: an ‘Arab-Islamic Algeria’. On the other hand, there were … of Kabylian origin – who rejected such a national conception as simplistic, racist and imperialist. They called for more secularism and an ‘Algerian Algeria’. They believed that, in addition to the Arabic and Islamic constituent parts, Algerianness should also include Berber, Turkish and… French… the government’s aim was to appease the religious fundamentalists and the Pan-Arabists. The RCD declared the law of total Arabisation to be racist and a prelude to bringing the Islamists of the FIS to power.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Sabe8l9hox0C&pg=PT69
The Arab World Makes Way for the Muslim World Aug 10, 2009 … The Ummah Arabiyah, the Pan-Arab nationalistic vision by Arab dictators who modeled themselves on Hitler and Stalin, as did Saddam Hussein, …
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13567
Pan-Arabism actively supported Hitler’s “achievements” in Europe and collaborated with him against the British in the Middle East during the war. An ideology tailor-made for Arab military men
it dreamed of the creation of a modern and unified Arab-fascist nation.
http://books.google.com/books?id=oVQ2JJy15UQC&pg=PA85
Iraq… ‘Pan-Arabism’ is one reason why the region’s a
sewer
http://www.salon.com/opinion/right_hook/2004/05/19/apology/print.html
Israelism defines its borders, respectful of alternative
cultures.
Arabism is rogue and misinformed, it believes that all cultures
must adopt its ideologies.
http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2008/06/obama-the-self.html
One thing we should do immediately is drop the lazy concept of the Arab
street: it means nothing, it doesnt exist. Like most formulations beloved by the
left, its an excuse to avoid having to learn anything hard or specific – facts,
dates, trade patterns, economic relationships. The Bahraini street has nothing
in common with the Ramallah street. The Arab street is as useless a notion as
the European street: Americans should compare, for example, France and Belgium
with Kuwait and Qatar. Who are the real allies? The difference at Arab League
meetings henceforth will be between those members of a moderate, modernizing
tendency and a dwindling number of decrepit thug states who prefer to carry on
taking refuge in pan-Arabisms perversion of traditional Arab fatalism and
celebrating their failure. – Mark Steyn
http://wso.williams.edu/~ljacobso/quotes/ME.shtml
denouncing Pan-Arabism in all its forms of practice as racism, …
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/end-darfur-genocide-21st-century-most-outrageous-crime-against-mankind.html
Arabists VS Middle East
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2005/04/arabists-vs-the-middle-east.php
By Adel Makhoul
prejudice against Islam. [Edward] Said condemns intellectuals in the West who in
his eyes are “agents of exploitation”. Yet Said himself is an agent of racism:
Arab Racism.
non-Arab and non-Moslem peoples. Said directs and manipulates the Western taste
for self criticim, and all that does is deflect the world’s attention from Arab
and Moslem atrocities committed against Christians, Kurds, Jews, Israelis,
Coptic Christians, non-Arab Sudanese, etc.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1FZS0RYTC94JP
The race taboo, The existence of racist attitudes within.. Arab countries is often denied, resulting in scandalous displays of prejudice against certain ethnic groups.
[Brian Whitaker guardian.co.uk, Friday 8 September 2006 13.43 BST] Racism is a worldwide phenomenon. In some countries it’s met with disapproval, in others with denial. The Arab countries, mostly, fall into the latter category. The A to Z of ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East embraces Alawites, Armenians, Assyrians, Baha’is, Berbers, Chaldeans, Copts, Druzes, Ibadis, Ismailis, Jews, Kurds, Maronites, Sahrawis, Tuareq, Turkmen, Yazidis and Zaidis (by no means an exhaustive list), and yet serious discussion of ethnic/religious diversity and its place in society is a long-standing taboo.
If the existence of non-Arab or non-Muslim groups is acknowledged at all, it is usually only to declare how wonderfully everyone gets along.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/sep/08/racisminthemiddleeast
Arabists, “Arab Oil Interests”, “Pro-Arab Sympathisers” – The Peace
Encyclopedia
Arabists in government do not have names like Hamadi or
Abdullah.
They can be generally defined as either motivated by money
or as Arabists: meaning they ideologically agree with Arab orders.
http://peace.heebz.com/arabists.html
Arabists vs. the Middle East
Having done hardly any independent research
on the twentieth-century Middle East, Cole’s analysis of this era is essentially
derivative, echoing the conventional wisdom among Arabists and Orientalists
regarding Islamic and Arab history…
Cole, the Arabist, expresses the views
of Arab nationalists and their Islamist allies.
Arab nationalists
express their views through the use of terrorism, financial incentives and
ethnic cleansing.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1967
Ikhwan Cole: Arabism and Islamism… There are Muslim thinkers who meld
political Islam and Arabism– this is common in Egypt, e.g. But they belong to a
different religious and intellectual … Hizbullah, also an Islamist group, has
long been using the mixed language of Islam and Arabism, which is why Chuck
Freund and I came up with the labels “Pan-Arabist
Islam/ism” or “Arabo-centric Islam” (see also Matt Frost, who has an
interest in this particular subject. Cf. Lee Smith’s old article in Slate, and,
Josh Landis’ excellent post on the Baath and whether it’s “secular”). In fact,
speaking of Nasser, that’s precisely the sort of image Hassan Nasrallah has been
projecting: a Shiite Nasser.
If you take a look at Avi Jorisch’s Beacon of
Hatred, you’ll see in the accompanying DVD-Rom the various propaganda clips on
Al-Manar which reach out to the Arabs, as Arabs, often using the term “ummat
al-Arab” (the Arab Nation), to combat Israel.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2106
The Arab League as a useless ideological racist Arabist institution has
existed only to promote Arabism and Arab racism against colonised non-Arab
nations. …
http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=9285
Pan-Arabism or the doctrine of Muslim Caliphate declares that all land that used to belong to Muslims must be returned to them. Including Spain, for example…
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/533256/the-war-against-the-jews.thtml
Islamist and Arabist-racist attitudes, refracted through the honor-shame
paradigm, greatly multiplied the scope and duration of the [Arabs vs Israel]
conflict, …
http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/06/22/writing-away-ones-future
OLD STAND-BY ARABIST RACIST
http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/jerusalem/jerusalem74.html
Justice: For Arabs Only?
By: Gerald A. Honigman
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, April 14, 2005
Well, the day has finally arrived. I now find myself in agreement with the Secretary General of the Arab League.
Recently, at the end of the Arab League Summit, Amr Mussa declared that peace could not arrive until there was withdrawal from occupied territories, the creation of another state, and the return of refugees.
He’s basically correct. Except he has a few details mixed up.
Native Copts in Egypt–millions of them—had their country overrun by conquering, settling, subjugating, and occupying Arabs.
To this day, they never know when the next murder will occur, the next church will be burned down. They have learned that to survive they must consent to the forced Arabization process. Their leaders have even written that for Israel to “get along,” it too must consent to a variation of this. Pretty pathetic. Uncle Butros instead of Uncle Tom—but the same breed, if you know what I mean. Just imagine the world-wide outcry if Israel’s Jews did this sort of thing to Israeli Arabs.
The majority Berber population of North Africa saw its lands overrun as well over the past centuries by conquering, settling, and subjugating Arab hordes creating Arab empires. Imperialism is evidently only nasty when non-Arabs indulge in it. Berbers who dared to insist on keeping their own pre-Arab language and culture have been murdered for trying to do so. A look at any number of websites dealing with Berbers on these subjects will be revealing indeed.
In 1968, Ismet Cherif Vanly wrote The Syrian Mein Kampf Against the Kurds. A Kurdish nationalist, he described the murderous and brutal Arabization policies–Syrian settling, conquering, and occupying Arabs–employed against Kurds who predated them in the land by thousands of years. Settling, conquering, and occupying Iraqi Arabs did likewise to Mesopotamia’s ancient native Kurds (the Hurrians, Guti, Kassites, and Medes of old), Assyrians, and other non—Arab peoples as well—Jews included.
Literally millions of native African Blacks have been butchered, maimed, enslaved, turned into refugees and seen their lands forcibly Arabized. All of this still going on today, and not just in the Sudan.
Half of Israel’s almost six million Jews originated in the Arab/Muslim world. They too predated the Arabs in many of those lands that they were forced to flee as refugees, leaving far more property and valuables behind than Arabs who fled in the opposite direction after the latter’s brethren invaded a reborn Israel in 1948.
The famous Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt, was prominent centuries before Jesus. The Jews of Iraq had been in that country at least since the days of the Babylonian Captivity and Nebuchadnezzar. The Jews of Yemen were on the Arabian Peninsula before Muhammad was born, and the latter Prophet of Islam fled Mecca to Medina, a Jewish date palm oasis on that peninsula where the Jews were still prominent when Muhammad sought refuge there during the Hijra. When they would neither convert to his new faith (based largely on their own), nor accept his religio-political leadership, he butchered and enslaved them. Jews also took part in the resistance against the Arab imperial invasions of North Africa in the 7th century C.E. Recorded history, replete with similar instances, is difficult to reconcile with Amr Mussa’s demand that the Jewish state submit to the will of the Arab world.
A better course for the Middle East might be the following:
It’s time that the Africans of southern Sudan gain independence from the Arabs who have butchered, subjugated, and enslaved them over the centuries—long before the hypocrites in the United Nations raised so much as a mutter.
It’s time for thirty million truly stateless people—such as the Kurds—to finally get their own state. They were promised one after World War I but saw it sacrificed at the altar of British petroleum politics and Arab nationalism. An Arab Iraq was pieced together in its stead.
Trusting Arabs—whether Shi’a or Sunni—is probably an unwise decision, given the track records of Arabs of any stripe towards these people. With almost two dozen states already—including one carved out of almost 80 percent of the original 1920 borders of “Palestine” and today called Jordan—Arabs now have an American-sponsored roadmap to help create yet another for themselves. Yet even as they demand justice for Arabs, they seem deaf, dumb, and blind to the plight of the Kurds.
It’s time for the subjugation of North Africa’s huge Berber populations to come to an end and for those folks to be able to decide if they want to remain forcibly tied to Arabs or not. If not, then why should they not get territory to create a Berber State if Arabs can get to have yet a second one carved out for themselves in “Palestine?”
You see, Mr. Musa, justice should not be exclusively for Arabs.
Unfortunately, for the Copts, not too much to offer here…So many more will become refugees.
And the above Arabs’ victims’ list is by no means complete. Just ask native Christian, Semitic but pre-Arab Lebanese–as just one other example.
The hypocrisy of the conquering, racist, and subjugating Arab League is nauseating enough. That the latter, however, is widely supported in its demands on Israel by much of the rest of the world should be appalling to anyone with any notion of fair play.
Despite all of the international pressure on it to consent to becoming a reincarnated 1938 Czechoslovakia, ready to sacrifice itself for another “peace for all time,” Israel must now muster the strength to do what it must do.
The only appropriate response of Israel to all of this should be to counter offer the Arab League peace for peace. Israel must not consent to slowly being eroded via the Arabs’ openly admitted “Trojan Horse” destruction in stages plans. And it must free itself from the belief that it must allow Arabs to determine the rules of the road if widespread violence erupts again. Abbas’ folks have said that they would support quiet only as long as Israel continues to cave in to all of their demands. And they’re the “moderates.”
Millions upon millions of non-Arabs became refugees because of the Arabs. Many of these people fled to America, Great Britain, Germany, and elsewhere. They’re not returning to those “Arab” lands. Likewise, Arabs will have to take care of their own refugees, created in a war that they started and far fewer in number.
The occupied territories Amr Musa mostly speaks of are disputed lands. They are not purely “Arab.” Jews had as many, or more rights to be on those lands as Arabs had. Much has been written about this, including UN Resolution 242, and leading experts such as Eugene Rostow, William O’Brien, Arthur Goldberg, Lord Caradon, and others have been quite vocal on these matters as well.
Jews have a word describing demands such as those made by Amr Musa. It’s called chutzpah. Israel must have leaders who will respond to such so-called Arab prerequisites for “peace” by telling them where to stuff them.
http://97.74.65.51/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17661
Their grievance is not really Russian imperialism, or the 5 to 10 percent of
the West Bank under dispute, or black African encroachment on Arab land, or
purported French insensitivity to legitimate Islamic pride, much less an
American crusade to harm Muslims.
All these issues and the hundreds of others from the right to build a reactor
in Iran to the desire for a semi-autonomous Chechnya in theory could be
discussed, argued about, and adjudicated through democratic dialogue.
But that is impossible. For you see, the real problem is the democratic
dialogue itself unknown in the Arab Middle East and much of the Islamic world,
and a hindrance to both sharia and the pan-Arabist thug with epaulettes and
sunglasses. Yet consensual government alone is the key to ending failed statist
economies, gender apartheid, religious intolerance, state-controlled media, and
tribalism. It alone might stop the self-induced misery and with it the tedious
scapegoating of the Jews and America.
Much of the Islamic Middle East continues to blame others for its own induced
catastrophe, apparently unaware thanks to the lever of oil it didnt discover,
doesnt know how to develop, and uses to intensify rather than alleviate its
poverty that its entire culture is becoming an international pariah. Islamic
young men on European flights are looked at with distrust; they are not welcome
in Russia. China wants
none of them. They are wary of visiting India. Australia learned from Bali.
The whole world is watching in disgust.
In short, the suicide bomber, the
improvised explosive device, the car bomb, the televised beheading, the wacko
fatwa, the sleazy propaganda streamer on the Internet, the new cult of death all
cowardly and lethal phenomena these are now the innovations that the world
associates with the Middle East in lieu of gene research, car production, or
computer breakthroughs. If you look for gender equity in the Middle East, you
wont find it in Arab Olympic delegations, Saudi schools, or the Iranian
government, but in the opportunity for young women to blow themselves up right
beside men. Indeed, killing infidels is the nascent womens-liberation movement
of the radical Muslim world.
http://factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000790.html
…Similarly, the assorted versions of pan-Arabism — Nasserism, Ba’athism —
were seen as alternatives to Islam, when in fact they were not alternatives at
all. They merely displayed, for quite specific and local reasons, an emphasis on
“Uruba” or Arabdom that was explicable given the impoverished state of the
“Islamic world” and the fact that there were local stumbling blocks to
pan-Islamism (including the lack of financial wherewithal). In Turkey Kemalists
were in control; in Iran there was the Shah, trying in his maladroit way to
emphasize the pre-Islamic past. Pan-Arabism was a version of pan-Islamism, a
subset, which at the time seemed to be as much as one could hope for. Nasser or
Saddam Hussein could dream of being King of the Arabs, but the idea of a much
bigger operation, especially since for both Nasser and Saddam Hussein the most
dangerous political opposition was mosque-based (the Muslim Brotherhood for
Nasser, the Shi’a clerics for Saddam Hussein), was out of the question.
http://newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm?blog_id=5685
Amir Taheri on Iraq (2003) Iraq’s democrats and liberals see pan-Arabism as a barrier to democratization.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-taheri060603.asp
the argument “who is most Arab among Arabs” remain a hotly debated topic in intra-Arab politics, particularly in Arabian peninsula affairs… Intra-Arab rivalries…. policies… discussed in the Arab League
the argument “who is most Arab among Arabs” remain a hotly debated topic in intra-Arab politics, particularly in Arabian peninsula affairs… Intra-Arab rivalries…. policies… discussed in the Arab League
http://books.google.com/books?id=NA5RP6epiIIC&pg=PA32
http://books.google.com/books?id=NA5RP6epiIIC&pg=PA32
Islamic Voodoos (Part 1) :: Faith Freedom International :: Islam’s life blood
is Arabism, precisely, Bedouinism. Once non Arab Muslims eschew this forced
Arabism on them Islam will wither away from their society. …
http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1572
Similarly, the assorted versions of pan-Arabism Nasserism, Baathism were seen as alternatives to Islam, when in fact they were not alternatives at all. They
merely displayed, for quite specific and local reasons, an emphasis on Uruba or
Arabdom that was explicable given the impoverished state of the Islamic world
and the fact that there were local stumbling blocks to pan-Islamism (including
the lack of financial wherewithal). In Turkey Kemalists were in control; in Iran
there was the Shah, trying in his maladroit way to emphasize the pre-Islamic
past. Pan-Arabism was a version of pan-Islamism, a subset, which at the time
seemed to be as much as one could hope for. Nasser or Saddam Hussein could dream of being King of the Arabs, but the idea of a much bigger operation, especially since for both Nasser and Saddam Hussein the most dangerous political opposition was mosque-based (the Muslim Brotherhood for Nasser, the Shia clerics for Saddam Hussein), was out of the question.
http://newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm?blog_id=5685
The Myth of the Jewish Race
by Raphael Patai, Jennifer Patai – 1989 –
History – 456 pages
In 1960 the French Comite dAction de Defense Democrat
ique published a pamphlet titled Racism and Pan-Arabism: A Conspiracy against
Human Liberties, …
this is followed by a paper by Shlomo Friedrich on
Pan-Arabism: A New Racist Menace? ..
http://books.google.com/books?id=Xt7f6WBEP0EC&pg=PA187&lpg=PA187
Pan-Arabism Causes Conflict in the Middle East
by Efraim Karsh
About
the author: Efraim Karsh is a professor and director of Mediterranean studies at
King’s College at the University of London. He is a coauthor of Empires of the
Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East.
Since its formation in
the wake of World War I, the contemporary Middle Eastern system based on
territorial states has been under sustained assault. In past years, the foremost
challenge to this system came from the doctrine of pan- Arabism (or qawmiya),
which sought to eliminate the traces of Western imperialism and unify the Arab
nation, and the associated ideology of Greater Syria (or Suriya al-Kubra), which
stresses the territorial and historical indivisibility of most of the Fertile
Crescent. Today, the leading challenge comes from Islamist notions of a single
Muslim community (the umma).
http://www.bookrags.com/researchtopics/the-middle-east/sub4.html
Amazon.com: Islamic Imperialism : A History: Books: Efraim Karsh, Middle East
scholar Karsh surveys for a general audience the region’s Islamic political
past. Parallel to his narrative, Karsh frequently contrasts the universalistic
proclamations of Islam with cycles of imperial consolidation and fragmentation.
After recounting the Prophet Muhammad’s religio-political establishment of
Islam, and the discord about his legacy that continues today, Karsh narrates the
battles over Muhammad’s caliphate that eventuated in the Umayyad and Abbasid
Empires. Karsh’s commentary often looks forward to contemporary ideologues of
Islam who ransack history to justify grievances. In Karsh’s coverage, the
irruption of the Crusaders into the Levant hardly provoked a jihad to eject
them; that occurred, in his account, through politically ordinary processes of
empire building, eventually by the celebrated Saladin. Islamic unity and zeal,
however, had always to be affirmed by reestablishers of the caliphate, a theme
Karsh incorporates into his chronicling of the rise and decline of the Ottoman
Empire, the distribution of its territories after World War I, and varieties of
pan-Arabism prevalent after World War II. An informative foundation for further
exploration of Islamic history.
http://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Imperialism-History-Efraim-Karsh/dp/0300106033
Arabist Indoctrination At Middlebury College…
Later Arab nationalist figures like Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser or Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein found the linguistic definition of Arabism convenient in order to neglect, if not completely reject, the reality of ethnic and cultural diversity in the Middle East. This view–also adopted by a number of social scientists and post-Edward Said Middle East scholars–holds that the Middle East is populated by a breed of culturally and linguistically homogeneous Arabs. Assyrians, Berbers, Copts, Chaldaeans, Kurds, Maronites and many other millions of Middle Eastern peoples who possess their own distinct cultural and historical heritage and who disapprove of their ascribed latter-day Arabness, are nevertheless anointed as Arabs. If they do not embrace their Arabness, they are dismissed as traitors or isolationists.
Robert Kaplan expressed this negative slant against Middle Eastern minorities in the conclusion of his remarkable book The Arabists, which examined the history of State Department experts on the Arab world. These experts, the so-called Arabists, he argued, quoting a U.S. Foreign Service official, “[h]ave not liked Middle Eastern minorities. Arabists have been guilty in the past of loving the majority and the idea of Uruba, which roughly translates as ‘Arabism.’ I remember once going to a Foreign Service party and hearing people refer to the Maronite Christians in Lebanon as ‘fascists.'” Lebanese commentator Michael Young adds, “What pro-Arab Americans couldn’t stomach was that the [Middle East’s] Christians were often estranged from [¦the Muslims] and from the Arab nationalism the region engendered. The Middlebury Program.
http://www.christiansofiraq.com/Arabist886.html
[Analysis] Peace will
prevail when economic, social and cultural rights are granted to all …
The Middle East… conflicts…
For example:
* the Israel and [so called] “Occupied Territories” (Palestine) issue
* the conflict between Hamas and the Fatah; the Iraq conflict
* the conflict in Afghanistan
* conflicts within Saudi Arabia
* the security concerns, especially the nuclear threat, that Ahmadinajad’s
Iran poses
* the Kurdish situation with serious discrimination from Turkey, Syria, Iran
and Iraq with very limited support from any powers
* the Lebanon conflict
* the rise of Islamic militancy in Egypt and Algeria
* the suppression of any opposition in Saudi Arabia and most of Middle East
countries
* the spread of fundamentalist Islam — Wahabbi style — and the attempt to
suppress any modern civil secular democratic voices in the Middle East region
* and not to forget the problems in Sudan where civilians are being massacred
in Darfur by the government and the military.
[…] Islam is at the center of all social order and of the moral and
intellectual values of Middle Eastern Muslims. In fact, it is the official
religion in most Arab and Islamic countries. Considering Arabism and Islam as synonyms embodies
discrimination against various ethnic and religious groups in the Middle
East. […]
Conclusion
Most regimes in Middle East are authoritarian, if not dictatorships, ruling
for decades by fear or reward. The elites who rule in Middle East countries used
religious faith with ideology of nationalism for blinding people and controlling
them … conflicts in the Middle East all look different, but the real cause
root is related to human rights abuses.
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=&no=383905&rel_no=1
Radical Islamic Jihad and pan-Arabism in its violent form find a common root
in Amin Al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
http://tellthechildrenthetruth.com/amin_en.html
…the Mufti “went to Germany during the war and helped recruit an international SS division of Arab Nazis. They based it in Croatia and called it the Handzar Muslim Division, but it was to become the core of Hitler’s new army of Arab fascists that would conquer the Arabian Peninsula and, from there, on to Africa–grand dreams.”
http://www.aina.org/news/2007070595517.htm
As the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, al-Husseini’s job was to look over the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem. A respected member of the Palestinian Arab community, he was staunchly opposed to any Jewish immigration to the British Mandate of Palestine. Al-Husseini supported pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism and he supported the idea of Palestine being a part of Greater Syria. He was very open about his strong hatred of the Jews.
Al-Husseini was a key instigator of bloody massacres against the Jews in the 1920s and 1930s. He was instrumental in spreading conspiracy theories and anti-Jewish propaganda that led to 1929 riots against Jews in the British Mandate of Palestine. The violence left at least 133 Jews dead. The ancient Jewish community of Hebron was completely destroyed, as the bodies of the dead Jews were mutilated and the survivors had no choice but to flee. In 1936, al-Husseini organized attacks against Jewish communities throughout the British Mandate of Palestine.
Al-Husseini’s ties to Nazi Germany go back to 1933, when Hitler first rose to power. The German Consul-General of the British Mandate of Palestine, the Nazi-supporter Henrich Wolff, met with al-Husseini on a number of occasions. During their meetings, Al-Husseini praised the Nazis’ anti-Jewish boycott and voiced enthusiasm over the spread of fascism.
http://www.fighthatred.com/hate-quotes/mohammad-amin-al-hussaini
The Mufti, after instigating a pogrom against Jews in Palestine in 1920, the
first such pogrom against Jews in the Arab world in hundreds of years, went
on to inspire the development of pro-Nazi parties throughout the Arab world
including Young Egypt, led by Gamal Abdul Nasser, and the Social Nationalist
Party of Syria led by Anton Sa’ada.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/2/20/145726.shtml
World fascism: a historical encyclopedia, Volume 1 By Cyprian Blamires, Paul Jackson, page 497
In June 1940 he had offered his services to the Reich government, and now he went to Berlin via Tehran, where he explained to the German ambassador, Ettel, his plan to bring all Arabs under the banner of Pan-Arabism over to the side of the Axis. (25 June 1942). Here he came out unconditionally for the “final solution” of the Jewish question,” calling on the Germans to wipe out all Jews, “not even sparing the children.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=nvD2rZSVau4C&pg=PA497
During the years 1948-1967, pan-Arab ideologies were the rage of
the Muslim world. The Iraqi statesman, ˜Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, a leading
proponent of conservative pan-Arabism, likened the position of the Arabs in
Islam to that of the Russians in world communism. The radical strain of
pan-Arabism, however, became far more influential than its conservative
counterpart.
http://ff.org/centers/cnsd/opeds/11820070259_radvanyi.html
Terrorism: Pan-Arabism and Islam prompting evil.
(Written roughly two
months before the September 11 Islamic attacks)
July 17, 2001. A
reader’s review on “Culture and Imperialism” (by E. Said)
Extracts:
Before E. Said can legitimately condemn Western “domination” of other
cultures, he ought to thoroughly examine the ills inflicted by Pan-Arabism and
Islam on non-Arabs and non-Muslims throughout the Middle East and world. As
mentioned by others, Arabs have subjugated–or all but eliminated–Egypt’s
Coptic Christians, Algeria and Morocco’s Berbers, Sudan’s southern Christians,
Lebanese Christians and Iraqi Kurds. Then there are the Turkish Armenians.
Sudan’s Arab government actively pursues genocide and enslavement of Southern
Sudan’s Black Christians. Meanwhile, the Taliban have imposed Hitlerian
restraints on Afghanistan’s women and Hindu minority (that regime was eliminated
by the US post 911 but Taliban’s active aspiration remain the same). In
Indonesia, Muslims are willfully murdering thousands of Christians.
Syrian
society reviles the idea of peace with the Jewish people, exhorting all children
to fight, kill and seek death, with the promise of both material reward for
their families and eternal happiness in paradise. School texts inciting racial
hatred, religious intolerance and, outright genocide to him seem emblematic of a
“fundamentalist rejectionism,” “older than the [Israeli] settlements, older than
the state of Israel,” reflecting the spirit of Jerusalem Grand Mufti Hajj Amin
el-Husseini, who during World War II fled to Berlin, blessing Muslim SS arms and
“begging Himmler to let him handle his own version of the final solution in
Palestine against the Jewish settlers in Haifa, Jaffa and Tel-Aviv.”
The
constitution of Fateh–the PLO’s “national, revolutionary” military wing–
invokes the vision of a Pan-Arab “nation” which would coincidentally eradicate
Zionism, Israel and the Jewish people there. A Friday June 6 sermon broadcast
live by the PA called for the enslavement of Israel’s 5 million Jewish people as
Dhimmis. “We welcome the Jews to live as Dhimmis, but the rule in this land and
in all the Muslim countries must be the rule of Allah.”
In this vein, the
Arafat-appointed Jerusalem Mufti on June 29 incited Muslims to prepare “armies
to fight the Jews and to remove Israel from Existence” and called for an Islamic
Khilafah State, just as he has done in myriad Al Aksa Friday sermons…
http://www.mail-archive.com/listening-l@zrz.tu-berlin.de/msg04233.html
Who is Racist in the Middle East – Zionism or Arabism?
http://www.zionism-israel.com/log/archives/00000012.html
The Problem With Darfur’s Muslims Is
They’re Not Arabs. Like Iraq’s
Kurds or North Africa’s Amazigh (Berbers).
The title of a recent AP news
brief read, “EU May Not Heed Darfur Call.”
While the European sycophants of
medieval Arab oil sheiks, who recently sentenced a gang rape victim to jail and
two hundred lashes, have and will be pouring in billions of dollars in aid and
such to support the birth of Arab state # 22 ( 2nd, not 1st, Arab one in
“Palestine”), predictably, all they mostly have to offer to support victims of
out right Arab murder and racism is hot air.
After the Arabs burst out of
the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century C.E. and slaughtered, conquered, and
forcibly Arabized millions of non-Arab peoples in the process, the Sudan (Nubia,
etc.) held out for quite some time. In other parts of non-Arab North Africa,
native Jews aligned with “Berbers” to resist this conquest as well.
Back in
the ’60s when I was starting college, the Arab-Israeli conflict, as usual, never
left center stage. After the ’67 Six Day War–when Israel turned the tables on
the latest Arab attempt on its life big time–Israel lost its status as David to
the Arab Goliath for daring to refuse to go silently into the night while the
rest of the world once again looked on¦as the latter is doing today with other
Arab victims.
At virtually the same time in the ’60s, the first modern civil
war broke out between the non-Muslim black south and the Arab and Arabized north
in the Sudan.
Sudan President Nimeiry’s stated during the slaughter of over
a half million blacks at this time (and over a million more ever since) that¦
“¦the Sudan is the basis of the Arab thrust into…black Africa, the Arab
civilizing mission (Arabism and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese Politics, Journal of
Modern African Studies, Vol. 11, #2, 1973, pp. 177-78).”
Rudyard Kipling’s
late 19th century poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” supposedly typifies Western
colonialist and imperialist attitudes towards the Third World. If that’s the
case, then what does Nimeiry and the example below, expressed in the Syrian Arab
Constitution of the Ba’th, typify¦?
“…The Arab fatherland belongs to the
Arabs. They alone have the right to direct its destinies…The Arab fatherland
is that part of the globe inhabited by the Arab nation which stretches from the
Taurus Mountains, the Pacht-i-Kouh Mountains, the Gulf of Basra, the Arab Ocean,
the Ethiopian Mountains, the Sahara, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean
Sea.”
Arabs habitually refer to most of the region as “purely Arab
patrimony”¦the Arab-Israeli and other such conflicts in a nutshell.
The more
recent full scale outbreak of violence in the Sudan has an even more revealing
twist.
While earlier violence there and elsewhere could largely be seen as
modern extensions of the fourteen century -old clash between the Dar ul-Islam
and the Dar al-Harb, the one in the Sudan’s Darfur (as those in Arab-occupied
Kurdistan and much of the rest of North Africa) is mostly about Arab racism and
chauvinism¦pure and simple. You know, those folks who like to scream about
“racist Zionism.” Over a thousand years earlier, this led to the overthrow of
the Syrian-based Arab imperialist Umayyad Caliphate.
So, in Sudan’s western
region of Darfur, it’s Arab versus black¦regardless of religion. Ditto for Arab
versus Kurd, Amazigh, and so forth.
In Sudan’s largely non-Muslim south,
it’s a combination of both Arab racism and the conquest of the Dar ul-Islam¦as
exemplified also in the expected subjugation and dhimmitude of Egyptian Copts,
Lebanon’s Christians, Near Eastern Assyrians, and Israel, the Jew of the
Nations, home to whom Arabs call “their” kilab yahud¦Jew dogs.
Think
carefully about all the above¦especially in light of the additional bare-the
necks-of-your-kids-even- further concessions Israel is expected to next make for
the sake of a post-Annapolis “peace (of the grave)” with those still dedicated
to its destruction–regardless of what the American President and his Secretary
of State shamefully proclaim.
http://www.radicalacademy.com/studentrefpolitics22gah139.htm
Symposium: Darfur – Islam’s Killing Fields
Dr. Walid Phares, Front Page Magazine
09/09/2004
…Jon Lewis, a Mid-East expert whose works on the Arab world’s persecution of minorities have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forward, In the National Interest, Middle East Quarterly and other prestigious publications…
The media in the United States is very uncomfortable in attributing religious motivations to violence. We see this in the case of the Palestinian suicide bombers who are often described as motivated by poverty and frustration, rather than by religious ideology. In Darfur, there is indeed a religious component to the violence; after all, the Khartoum government is an Islamo-fascist one.
What bothers me more about the media coverage of Darfur is its lack of historic context -Darfur is but one example of Arab racism toward non-Arabs within the broader “Arab world.” The Darfur genocide, I believe, must be viewed not solely as a case of an Islamic jihad, but also as a case of Arab racism and should be seen as parallel to Saddam Hussein’s genocide against Kurds and the Algerian government’s repression of the Kaybles.
Remember: both the Kurds and Kabyles are primarily Sunni Muslims, at least in a nominal sense. I don’t mean to downplay the Islamic jihad aspect; however, I think that we cannot understand the violence in Darfur (and Iraq, for that matter) without examining the persistence of intra-Muslim ethnic conflict in the region and Arab racism.
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11773830&Itemid=0
Falsehood of Pan-Arabism, Progenitor of Wars and Tyrannies Colonial practice
and diffusion of Pan-arabism. Because this did not happen, …. Peace depends
only on the extinction of the falsehood ‘Pan-Arabism’. …
http://phoenicia.org/panarab.html
(HALF ADMISSION BY AN ARAB WRITER…) …The
new pan-Arabism thrives on negativity By Turi Munthe Commentary by Saturday,
April 02, 2005. On February 12, Palestinian security officials reported …
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=13948
Better Mediterraneanism than Arabism… I prefer Mediterraneanism to Arabism.
An Arab friend of mine from Bahrain told me some time ago: “The Middle East as a
region is becoming increasingly …
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1215331010705&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
…Pan-Arabism should more accurately be seen as a subset, a limited version
with more modest initial goals — today Arabdom, tomorrow the world. And since Islam is a vehicle for Arab imperialism, pan-Arabism means,
necessarily, promotion of Islam, and vice-versa. The goal of a unified
Arab state, the goal that Nasser was said to embody, was merely a way-station on
the path — fi sabil Allah — to spreading Islam until it, and therefore the
Arabs (the “best of peoples”) would everywhere dominate. Pan-Arabism was not, as
so many wrong-headed analysts would have it, a movement hostile to Islam or to
what is often called, misleadingly, “pan-Islamism” (which is merely the
geopolitical dimension of mainstream Islam).
http://jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/018897.php
Arabism at its Most Ugly
http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2004/07/arabism-at-its-most-ugly_23.html
JSTOR: From Ottomanism to Arabism: The Origin of an
Ideology Islam was as much the center of Arabism as it was of Ot-
tomanism. Yet Arabism and Ottomanism were something more than recrudescences of
religious bigotry …
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-6705(196107)23%3A3%3C378%3AFOTATO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5
Arab Nationalism Run Rampant at Middlebury
By Franck Salameh
August 18, 2006
At Middlebury College’s Arabic Summer School, where I
recently taught Arabic, students were exposed to more than intensive language
instruction. Inside the classroom and across campus, administrators and language
teachers adhered to a restrictive Arab-nationalist view of what
is generically referred to as the “Arab world.” In practice, this meant that the
Middle East was presented as a mono-cultural, exclusively Arab region. The
time-honored presence and deep-rooted histories of tens of millions of Kurds,
Assyrians, Copts, Jews, Maronites, and Armenians–all of whom are indigenous
Middle Easterners who object to an imputed “supra-Arab” identity–were dismissed
in favor of a reductionist, ahistorical Arabist narrative. Those who didn’t
share this closed view of the Middle East were made to feel like dhimmi–the
non-Muslim citizens of some Muslim-ruled lands whose rights are restricted
because of their religious beliefs.
Case Studies on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: A World Survey – by
Willem Adriaan Veenhoven, Winifred Crum Ewing … – 1975 – Discrimination Case
studies… Page 88 After the 186 Syrian massacres, the Christians had tried to
promote an Arab nationalism… irritated the Muslims… Thanks to the
theologians of Al Azhar, the two movements, antagonistic at first, fused into
Islamic pan-arabism. Today it is clear that Islam and Arabism, are inseparable
terms and that in fact, pan-arabism is synonymous with the cultural social and
politica rebirth of Islam… a true Arab must be Muslim. As long as modern Egypt
will proclaim itself to be “essentially an Arab and Muslim land” uncertainty
will continue to weigh on the Copts, the only remaining native religious
minority after the forced departure of eighty thousand Jews.. When Nasser came
to power, Egypt resolutely turned its face towards Arabism …became its
staunchest champion and Cairo proclaimed Islamic unity pursued an active policy
of pan-arabism which identified Islam with Arabism. The Precarious situation of
the minorities became even ore acute. Was it possible to be a Christian and an
Arab?
http://books.google.com/books?id=tIfYPppdbeYC&pg=PA88
Case Studies on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: Page 89 …
invariable: since Muhammed was an Arab and the sacred Koran was revealed in
Arabic, only a Muslim could identify fully with Arabism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=tIfYPppdbeYC&pg=PA89
In maps, textbooks, lectures,
and other teaching materials used in the instruction of Arabic, Israel didn’t
exist, and the overarching watan ‘Arabi (Arab fatherland) was substituted for
the otherwise diverse and multi-faceted “Middle East.” Curious and misleading
geographical appellations, such as the “Arabian Gulf” in lieu of the
time-honored “Persian Gulf,” abounded. Syria’s borders with its neighbors were
marked “provisional,” and Lebanon was referred to as a qutr (or “province”) of
an imagined Arab supra-state.
Nor was the Arabic school’s narrow definition of Middle
Eastern culture restricted to the classroom. Alcohol was prohibited during
school events and student parties, and although a school official claimed the
ban reflected Middlebury’s campus policy, beer and wine flowed freely during
cookouts and gatherings organized by the German, French, and Spanish schools.
Banning alcohol is a matter of Islamic practice and personal interpretation–not
accepted behavior throughout the Middle East–and reflected the Arabic school’s
conflation of Arabic with Islamic.
Similarly, the Arabic school’s dining
services conformed to the halal dietary restrictions of Islam, an act implying
that all Arabic speakers are Muslims, and that all Muslims are observant; yet
less that 20 percent of the Arabic school community was Muslim. No such
accommodations were made for Jewish students who kept kosher, even though they
outnumbered the Muslims.
Arab nationalism was also evident in the school’s
official posture toward America’s national holidays. The Arabic school was alone
among Middlebury programs to ignore Fourth of July festivities. Worse, visiting
faculty from the Middle East cold-shouldered older students sporting the closely
cropped hair, courteous manners, and discipline suggesting membership in the
U.S. armed forces. Most students and faculty avoided contact altogether with
those dubbed hukuma (government) or jaysh (army).
Such attitudes and practices
aren’t confined to Middlebury. A former student of mine who recently took a
summer Arabic course at Georgetown University relates that one of her
professors, an otherwise excellent language instructor, refused to allow the
word “Israel” to be uttered in class. And his bigotry wasn’t confined to the
Jewish state: during a class discussion on nationalism, my former student argued
that “many Lebanese did not think of themselves as Arabs.” The instructor’s
response: “while they might say that, it’s just politics, because all Lebanese
people know on the inside that they are indeed Arabs.”
Arabism flies in the face of historical fact. Ethnic minorities in
Lebanon, as throughout the Middle East, have suffered at the hands of Arabs
since the Arab-Islamic invasions in the early Muslim period. Of the efforts of
Arab regimes and their ideological supporters in the West to de-legitimize
regional identities other than Arab, Walid
Phares, a well-known professor of Middle East studies, has written:
“[The] denial of identity of millions of indigenous non-Arab nations can be
equated to an organized ethnic cleansing on a politico-cultural
level.” This tradition of culturally suppressing minorities is the
wellspring of the linguistic imperialism regnant at Middlebury’s Arabic Summer
School.
Yet healthier models for language instruction are easy to
find. In the Anglophone world, Americans, Irish, Scots, New Zealanders,
Australians, Nigerians, Kenyans, and others are native English-speakers, but not
English. Can anyone imagine an English language class in which students are
assumed to be Anglican cricket fans who sing “Rule Britannia,” post maps showing
Her Majesty’s empire at its pre-war height, and prefer shepherd’s pie and mushy
peas? Yet according to the hyper-nationalists who run Middlebury’s Arabic
language programs, all speakers of Arabic are Arabs–case closed.
A leading Arabic language program shouldn’t imbue
language instruction with political philosophy. It should instead concentrate on
teaching a difficult language well–on promoting linguistic ability, not
ideological conformity. Academics should never intellectualize their politics
and then peddle them to students under the guise of scholarship. Those who do
may force a temporary dhimmitude on their student subjects, but in the end they
only marginalize their field and themselves.
This marginalization has never been clearer than it is
today, when Middle East studies scholars are depressingly consistent in their
condemnation of American policy in the region… Arabist
orthodoxy…
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/08/arab_nationalism_run_rampant_a.html
Since they caused both at once, the historical synonymity of Islam and
Arabism was created, and even if this identification is considered wrong in
theological terms, it became the de facto reality. As a Muslim of
Indian-Pakistani origins, Fatah sees the blending of Islam and Arabism as the
distortion of the former, and his words echo the sense of many non-Arab Muslims
that Arabs consider them to be “second-rate” Muslims.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1028326.html
Arab imperialism
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2891095/Arab-imperialism
ARAB MUSLIM RACISM TODAY
http://www.truthandgrace.com/muslimracism.htm
Arab racism
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.religion.islam/2006-09/msg00360.html
Mr. Paul Kelly, the Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, noted that “Iraqis of Assyrian, Turkman, and Kurdish ethnicity suffer additional abuses due to the ongoing Arabization’ campaign of ethnic cleansing.” Noting other abuses including the prohibition of all non-Arab broadcasting and publishing and the forced Arabization of personal names, Mr. Kelly added that “Abuses like these are a long-standing part of the Iraqi government’s decade long campaign dedicated to eliminating the non-Arab presence in villages and towns under regime control in northern Iraq.”
http://www.aina.org/releases/henryhyde.htm
When the Arab Islamic armies conquered the upper Middle East, the “Christian Arabs” were erased from Arabia, their Churches destroyed or converted to Mosques. Only few clans survived… They are the remnants of the Arab Christian clans who escaped Islamization… Arabized, non-Arabs…
http://www.arabicbible.com/christian/intro_arab_christians.htm
The Darfur genocide, I believe, must be viewed not solely as a case of an Islamic jihad, but also as a case of Arab racism and should be seen as parallel to Saddam Hussein’s genocide against Kurds and the Algerian government’s repression of the Kaybles.
http://www.wadinet.de/news/iraq/newsarticle.php?id=166
The Bullets of ‘Urubah
“I saw him without a gun, shooting at me, and his
bullets pierced me just like all the other bullets.” Rashid al-Daif, Passage to
Dusk
Two days ago I had a conversation with a Syrian friend, whom I will call
Saleem, about the merrits of “Arabist” or Arab nationalist governance. Saleem,
being from Syria and having gone through the Ba’thi nationalist school system,
for the most part defended the idea that Arabism is positive, particularly for
Arabs. “Why shouldn’t the Arabs have a country? If we are all Arabs, why should
we not all have the same country, like Italy or Spain?” Saleem asked me. My
response to this was, What about the people that live with you who are not
Arabs? And why should ethnicity be the basis for this “country”? “Because Arabs
are one nation!” I was told hotly. “We should be free from outside aggression
like Zionism and colonialism,” he continued. The last question I was able to ask
Saleem was “What do you mean? We are free from those things…, the only
aggression is against Arabs by Arab dictators,” Saleem’s response was, “Better
an Arab than a dog for that.”
http://fashadoo.blog.com/236986/
Arab Imperialism And Arab Supremacism
Posted: Apr 20th, 2009
Arab Imperialism And Arab Supremacism
Author: C. ReadArab Imperialism is designed for an Arab state to run the world. Unlike others who have tried to take over the world in the past, there is no timetable. Arab Supremacism mandates that those who follow Islam are right and everyone who does not practice this religion is their enemy. Arab Supremacism is helped along by the quest for the oil in the Middle Eastern countries. Arab Imperialism got its start when the west began to be more dependent on their oil. Since the 1970s, when Arab nations began selling oil to the west, terrorist acts have become the norm and Arab Imperialism, aided by money from oil, has grown.
Islamic fundamentalists are not content with living in countries where their religion rules. In the past couple of decades, there has been a dramatic increase of Arabs emigrating to western countries. This includes the countries in the European Union, Canada and the United States. In the past two decades alone, the number of Islamists has quadrupled in the United States alone. And the numbers are growing. Countries like the United States are welcoming in these immigrants under the impression that they want to enjoy opportunity and freedom and will assimilate with the culture. Arab Imperialism, however demands that they do not assimilate with the culture of the west.
Arab supremacism is evident in countries where there is a huge influx of the Arab population. Rules are changed and cries of racism are used if rules are not changed. This is evident everywhere, yet most westerners refuse to see it for what it is. If you mention Arab imperialism to anyone or point out the fact that terrorism in the name of Islam is rampant, you will find yourself on the defensive. Many counties are turning a blind eye to the wave of Arab imperialism that is sweeping over western civilization.
Islam demands full compliance. Those who follow Islam are taught not to befriend anyone who does not believe as they do. Those who are not Islamic are all lumped together and branded as infidels. And as infidels, they are punished. Remember the rejoicing after terrorist attacks in the United States killed thousands of people. This was a time for mourning in the western world, but in Islamic countries filled with Arab supremacism, it was a time for rejoicing.
As the Arab world grew more prosperous, it also began to change. Stricter codes were used to enforce Islam. Women, who had once enjoyed privileges and rights were stripped from their rights. In some countries where Arab imperialism reigned supreme, women were even denied a chance for an education. Arab imperialism seems to be progressing into the west and going backwards in their own countries. While some Arabs who move to western countries assimilate themselves into the culture, those who are strict followers of Islam do not. Human rights abuses that occur in the Middle East are overlooked by the media as well as the United Nations as Arab imperialism and Arab supremacism continues to grow toward dominating the world.
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The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967 – by
Fouad Ajami – 1992 (page 135)
Fascism found an expression in the Young Egypt party, which was a parody of the fascist movement that swept Europe in the 1930s and 1940s; the Muslim Brotherhood thrived at a time of crisis and continues to survive at the present…
http://books.google.com/books?id=Qj-UEPal-cwC&pg=PA135
“In almost every way — in foreign aggression, domestic terrorism, persecution of minorities and women, control of the economy, the spread of religious bigotry, elimination of personal, political or intellectual freedom — Arab governments rule under a self-perpetuating system of tyranny that can best be described as Arab fascism.’ (NYTimes 1991)
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/12/opinion/on-my-mind-how-to-lose-the-peace.html?pagewanted=1
Fascism: an informal introduction to its theory and practice – Page 89
Renzo De Felice, Michael Arthur Ledeen – 1976 – 128 pages
…speak of fascism outside the European context, of Arab fascism like Nasser’s movement or Qadaffi’s
http://books.google.com/books?id=ia2BdNGHRYoC&pg=PA89
Arab contemporaries: the role of personalities in politics – Majid Khadduri (Page 136)
…He had witnessed how the Ahali movement itself was eclipsed by the upsurge of Pan- Arabism when Fascist and Nazi ideas … when Fascist and Nazi ideas invaded nationalist circles before World War II…
http://books.google.com/books?ei=Ami4S4tLhJC2A7e8tOgM&ct=result&id=xIkLAAAAIAAJ&dq=Fascist+and+Nazi+ideas
Chadirchi… who had accepted democracy early in his political career, had begun to see its shortcomings without association with other principles. After he had joined the Ahali group, he had sought to institute by peaceful methods a combination of democratic and…
http://books.google.com/books?ei=JXm4S6mJDYz4sgOAxZDpDA&ct=result&id=xIkLAAAAIAAJ&dq=who+had
Pan-Arab propaganda, its pro-fascist and pro-Nazi aspects in America: memorandum for the Assembly of the United Nations, November, 1947
Author Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights (New York, N.Y. Publisher The League, 1947, Length 20 pages, Subjects Propaganda, Arab)
http://books.google.com/books?id=wNJBHQAACAAJ
From Nationalism to Fascism to Terror
Parallels between Germany and the Arab World
September 4, 2005
by Ray Ibrahim
Private Papers
On occasion, one finds a historical pattern that provides a paradigm useful for interpreting contemporary world events. One such paradigm is the almost eerie parallel between Germany’s history — its progress from Nationalism to Fascism and ultimately Terror — and the recent history of the Arab world.
Nationalism, of course, originated in Europe. But what nationalism came to mean or embody to any particular people varied over time and place, and its articulation had much to do with specific historical circumstances. As a result, two highly antithetical forms of nationalism eventually emerged: the one, rooted in the Enlightenment, was aligned with liberal and “rationalist” thinking; the other, child of Romanticism, came to embody everything primordial: race, “blood,” language, culture, and religion. Consider, for example, the different sorts of nationalisms espoused by France and Germany. In France, nationalism was connected with concepts of individual liberty, rational cosmopolitanism, and citizenship. Germany’s later nationalism was built almost purely on a sentimental regard for the supposedly heroic past and the mystic blood-ties of the volk.
Thus nations like Germany put more emphasis on the volk than on the citizen, and on the geist, the unique, defining “spirit” of the people, than on civic rights or political structures. According to the 18th-century German philosopher Herder, “Nature produces families; the most natural state therefore is one people [volk] with a natural character. . . . Nothing seems more obviously opposed to the purpose of government than the unnatural enlargement of states, the wild mixing together of different human species and nations under one scepter.”
As to why German nationalism developed along these lines, two considerations are important. First, when threatened, a people often find solace by withdrawing into solidarity with others who share a same common background — racially, linguistically, culturally, theologically, and historically–while viewing all who do not share in these common primordial bonds as the dreaded “Others.” Conveniently enough, during the birth of German nationalism, there was in fact another hostile Other — the French.
Secondly, prior to 1871, the “German nation” was in fact composed of many petty kingdoms and principalities. After the Napoleonic invasions, it became urgent for Germans to define and assert themselves through unification. What better way to find cohesion than falling back on common traditions and values? It is around this time that German history — or better, Teutonic myth — came to play a leading role in shaping the national consciousness: Wagnerian operas, based on the heroic Teutonic past, became popular. Historical characters like Arminius, who vanquished the Roman legions in the
Teutoburg Forest in 9A.D., became objects of veneration, if not emulation.
Similarly, Arab nationalism developed along “romantic” lines. After nearly five centuries of foreign rule — from Ottomans to the Western colonial powers, primarily French and British — the Arab peoples, in order to find cohesion and identity in the rising world of nation-states, fell back on primordial bonds of kin, religion, shared history, and culture. And just as in Germany, the liberal principles of Enlightenment nationalism came to be inextricably linked with the Arab peoples’ oppressors (the French and British), giving the Arabs even more reason to shun “Western” liberal-democratic nationalism as a foreign import, a product of the oppressive Other.
Moreover, again similar to Germany, the so-called “Arab world” was — and still is — in reality made up of some 20 different states that needed some ready-made ideology in order to unify quickly. Arab political scientist Bassam Tibi sums this phenomenon well:
Arab nationalism in the colonial period, which persists until the present time, is intellectually related to Italian and German nationalisms, which have been defined by C.J. Hayes as ‘counternationalism’. . . . Arab nationalism, once francophile and partly anglophile, changed with the British and French colonisation of the area and became anti-British and anti-French, and germanophile. . . . It [germanophilia] was closely connected with the historical circumstances which influenced Arab nationalism. Furthermore, the germanophilia was narrow and one sided. The German ideology absorbed by the Arab intellectuals at this time was confined to a set of nationalist ideas which had gained particular currency during the period of the Napoleonic Wars [i.e., when the Germans were most threatened by the Other]. These ideas carried notions of romantic irrationalism and a hatred of the French to extremes. They excluded from consideration the philosophers influenced by the Enlightenment . . . on the grounds of what was considered to be their universalism. They were particularly attracted by the notion of the ‘People,’ [Volk] as defined by German Romanticism, which they proceeded to apply to the Arab nation [emphases added].
Like Herder before them, Arab thinkers came to make similar assertions regarding the concept of the nation. For instance, Sati al-Husri (1882-1968), a very influential political figure, would “praise German Romanticism for having brought about the idea of the nation as distinct from the state, well before the French or British ever did. He then fused the German concept of the nation with the Arabic concept of ‘group solidarity’ (asabiyya), which he derived from Ibn Khaldun.” For al-Husri,
Unity was more than mere blood; there was a spiritual quality as well. Husri did not specify the form of government that could best effect the regeneration of the Arab nation he favored. He did not rule out political dictatorship, was certainly aware of the totalitarian aspects of his thinking, and, like many of his Arab contemporaries, expressed some admiration for fascism. For Husri, freedom did not mean democracy or constitutionalism; it meant national unity. For him, nation (umma) denoted a group of people bound together by mutually recognized ties of language and history. This was distinct in his mind from state (dawla), a sovereign and independent people living on common land within fixed borders. It should be emphasized that umma for Husri was a purely secular entity, not a religious one [emphasis added].
More to the point, many concepts that were embodied in German words and that were central to Germany’s nationalism — Geist and Volk — had their exact counterparts in Arabic words which also held important connotations for Arab nationalists, e.g.., Ruh (spirit) and Umma. Even today, these concepts are still prevalent in much of Arab political writings. Political scientist Hamid Rabi (d. 1989) “finds the German national school worthy of consideration . . . and admires the way the German thinkers, when faced with the humiliation of the French conquest, delved into their own Teutonic heritage in search of cultural and civilisational roots that raised the Germans’ awareness of their national distinctiveness and ‘authenticity.'”
Even though Germany and the Arab world have faced similar circumstances, thereby generating similar responses, there is one final element that helped increase radicalization: war, defeat, and humiliation, as experienced by Germany in WWI and the Arab debacle at the hands of the Israelis in 1967, the culmination of Islam’s long decline before the rising power of Europe. As a result, both Germany and the Arab world, after experiencing these defeats to their arch-enemies — their most despised Other — proceeded to fall into a stricter, more radical mode of primordial nationalist thinking.
Far from abating, German nationalism, after Germany’s defeat in 1918 in WWI would become more ossified; race, and all “authentically German” aspects (e.g., culture, history) came to have an even more exaggerated importance to many Germans in defining themselves (again, vis-à-vis the Other). This is when that ever so tenuous line separating nationalism from fascism was crossed. With the rise of the Nazi party, German nationalism went to the extreme: the supposed superiority of the Aryan race (while quite popular during the turn of the century already) became the starting point for the ensuing (and megalomaniacal) German world view. All “non-Aryans” — gypsies, Slavs, and of course the Jews — were ostracized or slaughtered; “deviants” (i.e., obviously non true-blooded Germans, such as homosexuals and liberals in general) were also persecuted. All things became black or white, good or bad, right or wrong. A “right” form of “German” conduct was expected from the people. Democracy was nonsense. Women were expected to lead traditional lives, keeping their husbands and families their first priority. Medieval German symbols and even pagan cults dedicated to the dark gods of the Teutoburg Wald (such as Wotan) became commonplace. Indeed, that the Nazi party itself was greatly associated with the swastika — a historic, Teutonic symbol — demonstrates the importance that perceived attachments with the past had for the Germans.
An ideal example of the radicalization that Germany experienced is well demonstrated by the life of an average German man who fought in WWI and underwent a profound change — that is, the Fuhrer himself, Adolf Hitler. The evidence indicates that Hitler had little personal bitterness towards Jews (not withstanding his purported vow of vengeance on the art academy that rejected him and was possibly headed by Jews). Yet after the German defeat of WWI, increasingly to both Hitler and other Germans the Jews became even more singled out as traitors to the Fatherland — after all, they were not “true” Germans. As for Germanic history/legend, Hitler was a zealous fan: his favorite books were about Teutonic gods and pure German lineages; Wagner’s wildly passionate dramas of the heroic and romantic held a special place in his heart. Hitler himself would proclaim, “Any who wish to understand me must first understand Wagner.” Thus on the eve of WWII, Germany, once defeated and humiliated a mere two decades ago, stood taller and prouder than ever, with a form of uncompromising and ruthless nationalism.
Based on this brief outline of Germany’s overall transformation after their major defeat, many parallels with Arab responses vis-à-vis the continuous Arab defeats to Israel (not to mention recent American humiliations) can be discerned. Again, an enemy Other — the Jews — helped shape a people’s nationalism. With one disastrous defeat after another — 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 (accompanied with extreme humiliation and indignation) — at the hands of the Jews, many Arabs, far from forfeiting their primordial form of nationalism, have delved deeper into their roots, seeking for elements that are glorious and heroic, and most importantly, that are authentically “Arab” — and what can be more “authentically” Arab than Islam itself, founded by an Arabian Prophet, revealed in the Arabian tongue, and preaching victory in face of oppression?
In many respects, it is precisely for this reason that there has been an Islamic resurgence in parts of the Arab world: seen by some as the Ruh of the “true” Arab Umma, many Arabs, trying to rationalize why they have fallen from once proud heights, have found the answer in Islam. In their frantic search for identity and cohesion vis-à-vis the Jewish menace, many Arabs find in Islamic fundamentalism the logical conclusion of nationalism, for it provides a divinely sanctioned identity — and a war commanded by God Himself. Thus out of an already romantic (i.e., fascist) though disaffected nationalism, Islamic Fundamentalism was born.
So even though Islam is a religion, the historic rise of Islamic fundamentalism betrays certain commonalities with the German response of Nazism. And that it is also a religion, gives it more import and legitimacy, as God himself is at the heart of it. The Jew becomes a more pronounced and hence more despised Other: for now he is no longer just a foreign invader; he is also an impious infidel defiling God’s holy lands. And just as was the case in Nazi Germany, a greater intolerance for others takes place: non-Muslims are condemned and often persecuted. Right and wrong ossify; conformity to “correct” Islamic conduct is stressed. Deviants such as homosexuals are rooted out. Jihad takes on renewed and urgent importance; talk of the crusades and heroes like Saladin (compare with Arminius) become commonplace. Osama bin Laden et. al. are very fond of musing on and evoking the prowess, dignity, and piety of Islam’s forbears — such as 7th century Khalid, “the Sword of Allah.” Women are to return to traditional roles — husbands and family are prioritized. And, just as symbols of Germany’s historic past (e.g., the swastika) played an important role in keeping the link with the glorious and “authentic” past alive, so too do Arab symbols become prominent: beards, turbans, and veils — back by popular demand — are to an extent symbolic, evidencing this link to the past.
And so, in certain respects, Islamic fundamentalism is an old phenomenon in a different form. Just as for Germany, wars and wounded egos have produced a vicious backlash in many parts of the Arab world. But these commonalities and shared histories are not only instructive regarding the causes of Nazism and Islamic fundamentalism; perhaps they can also shed some light on how to handle the latter.
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/ibrahim090405.html
Historian Howard Sachar explains the context leading up to the ‘Arab Revolt’… “… by 1935… the Nazi propaganda bureau was subsidizing a wide variety of Middle Eastern courses, institutes, and journals… One particularly successful Axis technique of winning favor among the Arabs had its basis in ideology. German journalists and diplomats constantly drew parallels between Nazi Pan-Germanism and ‘the youthful power of Pan-Arab nationalism [which] is the wave of the Arab future.’ More significantly, the Arabs were reminded of the enemies they shared in common with the Nazis. Even in the mid-1930s, when Berlin exercised a certain restraint in ventilating its animosity against Britain and France, Nazi German diplomats evinced no hesitation whatever in publicizing the Nazi anti-Jewish campaign. Hardly a German Arabic-Language newspaper or magazine appeared in the Middle East without a sharp thrust against the Jews. Reprints of these strictures were widely distributed by the [Jerusalem] Mufti’s Arab Higher Committee. Upon introducing the Nuremberg racial laws in 1935, therefore, Hitler received telegrams of congratulation and praise from all corners of the Arab world. The Palestine newspaper al-Liwa eagerly borrowed the Nazi slogan ‘One Country, One People, One Leader.’ Ahmed Hussein, leader of the ‘Young Egypt’ movement, confided to the Lavoro Fascista that ‘Italy and Germany re today the only true democracies in Europe, and the others are only parliamentary plutocracies.’ A delegation of Iraqi sporting associations, returning from a trip to Germany in September 1937, expressed their profound admiration for ‘National Socialist order and discipline.’ During a visit to Transjordan in 1939, Carl Raswan, a noted German-born journalist, was struck by the near-unanimity of Arab opinion that only ‘Italy and Germany were strong, and England and the whole British Empire existed only by the grace of Mussolini and Hitler.’ Throughout the Arab Middle East, a spate of ultra-right-wing political groupings and parties developed in conscious imitation of Nazism and Italian fascism.”
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov4.htm
Islamic Imperialism: A History – by Efraim Karsh – 2007 – History – 284 pages, Page 117
Thus it was with Fascism, Hitlerism, and Nasserism; all of them stand on a single base, which is the elimination of minds and wills other than the minds of the leader
http://books.google.com/books?id=8Rw0NokDdzkC&pg=PA177
From Hitler to the “Arab Reich”
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood would often say prayers for an Axis victory during their meetings. Moreover, some Muslims went so far as to fantasize over putative Islamic affinities of fascist leaders. For example, rumors abounded that Benito Mussolini was an Egyptian Muslim whose real name was Musa Nili (Moses of the Nile) and that Adolf Hitler too had secretly converted to Islam and bore the name Hayder, or “the brave one.” (Published in 1987, see Amir Taheri, Holy Terror: Inside the World of Islamic Terrorism, p. 50.) During the 1930s, the Third Reich had received entreaties from the Arab world. After the Nazi government promulgated the Nuremberg Laws in 1936, which greatly diminished the legal citizenship status of Jews, telegrams of support were sent to Hitler from all over the Arab and Islamic world. And Nazi Germany’s war against the British Empire next, electrified the Islamic world even more, whose people viewed it as a noble struggle against imperialism. Furthermore, Germany and the Arab world shared the same enemies (England, Zionism, and communism).
[…]
Many Arab nationalists looked to Germany for inspiration during the 1930s and 1940s and saw National Socialism as a viable model for state building. Hitler’s Mein Kamph found a receptive readership in parts of the Arabic world. Many aspiring Arab leaders sought to emulate the German fuehrer and his National Socialist movement. As far back as 1933, Arab nationalists in Syria and Iraq embraced National Socialism. In Egypt, a protofascist organization, Young Egypt, also known as the Green Shirts, attracted many army officers, The grand mufti is believed to have been instrumental in the group’s formation. The Green Shirts went by different official names during its history, including Misf alFarlit in the 1930s, the Islamic National Party in 1940, and the Socialist Party in 1946. Its leader, Mmed Hussein, also wrote a book in the style of Hitler’s Mein Kampf titled Imlini and published a rabidly anti-Semitic journal called al-Ichtirakya. During a visit to New York in the late 1940s, Mmed Hussein, the leader of the Green Shirt Party, addressed a meeting of the extreme right National Renaissance Party (NRP). Kurt Mertig, the NRP’s first chairman, hoped to get a post at Cairo University. (Kevin Coogan, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International, 1999, pp. 380, 387.)
Members of the Green Shirts, including young lieutenant colonel and future Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, along with Wing Commander Hassan Ibrahim and General Aziz al-Masri, attempted to execute a scheme in World War II in which they would link up with Rommel’s Afrika Korps and supply them with secret information on British strategy and troop movements.39 the Nazis with the help of the Palestinians also were to exterminate half a million Jews in what is now Israel plus all Jews in Tunisia and Syria. And as detailed in the recent “Wegbereiter der Shoa. Die Waffen-SS, der Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS und die Judenvernichtung 1939 – 1945”– in 1942, the Nazis created a special “Einsatzgruppe,” a mobile SS death squad, which was to carry out the mass slaughter similar to the way they operated in eastern Europe. “Einsatzgruppe Egypt” was standing by in Athens and was ready to disembark for Palestine in the summer of 1942, attached to the “Afrika Korps.” Although hopes of a pan-German and pan-Arab alliance would be dashed with the defeat of Rommel, his early military successes gained admiration from the Arab population and as we will see in part 2 of this new 4 part series, this endured after the war.
http://soc.world-journal.net/cont.html
Michel Aflaq… He was a foundational pan-Arabist in his definitions
of Arabism and his ideals regarding the formation and composition of an inclusive Arab nation-state…
In the early formulation of his theory on the ‘Arab race,’ many note a marked strain of thinking inspired by fascist and German National Socialist racial thinking, namely in his use of racial rhetoric to foster nationalist action and political unity, as well as the similarities between his state model and that of Nazi Germany.
This German strain also comes through in Aflaq’s association with the thinking of al-Husri, who was also heavily influenced by German nationalist theory, especially the work of Fichte.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/63948/1/ajlouni_adam_2009.pdf
Arabs were cheerleaders and enablers of the
Final Solution.
Max Boot
December 20, 2006
MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad has an
impeccable sense of timing. Just a week after the Iraq Study Group recommended a
heart-to-heart with him, the president of Iran convened a conference in Tehran
to examine whether the Holocaust really occurred. The answer from such
“scholars” as David Duke, the notorious former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, was a
resounding no.
surprising. A man who has repeatedly called for Israel to be “wiped off the map”
surely has no problem with the murder of Jews. You might expect him to adopt the
position espoused by the Egyptian newspaper Al Akhbar, which a few years
ago ran an editorial praising Adolf Hitler (“of blessed memory”) and complaining
only that “his revenge on [the Jews] was not enough.”
Muslim world, which is to admit that, sure, some Jews died, but it was a lot
fewer than 6 million and, anyway, what’s the big deal? A lot of Gentiles died
too. What makes these Yids so special? This is the position taken by Arab
“moderates” such as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose
doctoral dissertation pooh-poohed the figure of 6 million dead Jews (“no one can
verify this number”) while expressing great concern that “the German people
sacrificed 10 million” — implying that the killers suffered more than their
victims.
Holocaust a myth. But he is hardly a model of consistency. At the same time that
he denies the Holocaust, Iran’s president claims that Israel was established by
the Europeans as penance for … the Holocaust. But why atone for something that
didn’t occur? Never mind. Ahmadinejad says that “if the Europeans are honest” in
their claims about the Holocaust, “they should give some of their provinces in
Europe … to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe.”
others across the Middle East, whatever the Nazis did is no business of theirs,
so why inflict the “Zionist entity” on their region? It is only a small step
from this position to claiming that Israel’s destruction is justified.
Muslims were not as blameless in the genocide of the Jews as Ahmadinejad and his
ilk would have it. Arabs were, on a small scale, cheerleaders and enablers of
the Final Solution. The most famous example was Haj Amin Husseini, the grand
mufti of Jerusalem (and uncle of Yasser Arafat), who took refuge in Berlin in
World War II. A rabid Nazi, he personally lobbied Hitler to kill as many Jews as
possible and even helped out by recruiting Bosnian Muslims to serve in the
Waffen SS.
between the Arabs and the Holocaust in his groundbreaking new book, “Among the
Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach Into Arab Lands.” He
shows how the Nazis set up the machinery of death in North Africa. Although
“only” 4,000 to 5,000 Jews died before the Allies liberated the area in 1943,
many more were consigned to forced labor camps in hellish conditions.
pointing out Jews for arrest. Others led Jewish workers on forced marches or
served as overseers at labor camps.”
either apathetic or sympathetic to the Nazis, a small number helped their Jewish
neighbors. Satloff uncovered lost tales of “righteous Gentiles,” such as the
wartime rulers of Morocco and Tunisia. And on the whole, he found that Arabs
behaved no worse under German occupation than did Europeans.
was heavily complicit in the extermination of their Jewish populations.
Satloff’s research makes a mockery of Ahmadinejad’s protestations that the
Holocaust — if it occurred! — was someone else’s responsibility. Individual
Muslims were complicit in the horrors of the 1940s, even if, under foreign rule,
they were not the primary culprits.
continue to be glorified in the Middle East. (“Mein Kampf” is a perennial
bestseller in the region.) Nowhere else in the world is Holocaust denial so
prevalent. Ahmadinejad deserves thanks for calling the world’s attention to this
pervasive sickness.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-boot20dec20,0,6296362.column?coll=la-home-commentary
Germany and its collaborators — Italian Fascists, Vichy French, and local Arabs
— persecuted the Jews of Tunisia during that six-month period. Although the
Germans barely had a grip on one-third of Tunisian territory and were hounded
virtually every day by Allied bombers, they still found time to implement many
of the same Holocaust-era methods of persecution that they employed so
efficiently against the Jews of Europe. These included confiscations, mass
arrests, forced labor, deportations, and even executions. To manage the
anti-Jewish campaign, the Nazis dispatched some of their most ruthless SS
officers to Tunisia. Leading the effort was the notorious Colonel Walter Rauff,
who had already made a name for himself by inventing the mobile gas van,
responsible for the deaths of thousands.
in more than 30 labor camps. Jewish workers were often forced, at gunpoint, to
perform suicide labor, repairing airstrips or moving boxes of munitions in the
middle of Allied bombing runs. In my research, I found testimonies of grisly
torture of Jewish men, rapes of Jewish women, and the cold-blooded murder of
Jewish invalids. Outside Tunis, thousands of Jews were forced to wear the yellow
star.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=983
The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husseini – Page 31
by Chuck Morse – History – 2003 – 188 pages
In Heaven Allah, on Earth Hitler.” Many Arab intellectuals and … The Arabs
would go so far as to Islamicize Hitler’s name rendering it as Abu Ali,
http://books.google.com/books?id=HGkthBwbNg8C&pg=PA31
The Beast Reawakens: Fascism’s Resurgence from Hitler’s Spymasters to Today … – Page 122
by Martin A. Lee – Political Science – 1999 – 560 pages
… Hitler was nonetheless the idol of the paramilitary Green Shirts, Egypt’s indigenous proto- fascist movement, which referred to him as Abu Ali, …
http://books.google.com/books?id=SX4B7pNG3W8C&pg=PA122
By Julian Schvindlerman –
June 7, 2002
Forty years ago last week, SS-Oberstumbannfuehrer Adolf
Eichmann was executed in Israel. He had been arrested at the end of World War II
and confined to an American internment camp, but he managed to escape to
Argentina. He lived there for 10 years under the name Ricardo Klement until
Israeli secret agents abducted him in 1960 and spirited him to Israel.
of crimes against humanity and the Jewish people and was sentenced to death. He
was executed on May 31, 1962; his remains were cremated and the ashes scattered
over the Mediterranean Sea — outside Israeli waters. This is the only case in
which the death penalty has been carried out in Israel.
Jewish Affairs in the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945 and was chief of operations in
sending three million Jews to the extermination camps. After the war, he became
one of the most sought-out Nazi fugitives.
it was nonetheless able to see the justice in, and legitimacy of, Israel’s
action. The trial itself, marked by strict adherence to legal procedure,
elicited worldwide admiration, and the Nazi’s execution was seen everywhere as a
crucial vindication in the post-Holocaust era.
trial and execution were condemned, and Eichmann was venerated as a ”martyr.”
The Jordanian daily A-Ra’ ai praised him for exterminating ”members of the race
of dogs and monkeys.” The Saudi periodical Al-Bilar saluted him for his
courage. The Lebanese newspaper Al-Anwar published a cartoon lamenting the fact
that the Nazi officer had not killed more Jews.
Eichmann in its proper historical context.
dispatched from Arab capitals. In 1937, Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph
Goebbels praised the Arabs’ ”national and racial conscience,” noting that
”Nazi flags fly in Palestine and they adorn their houses with Swastikas and
portraits of Hitler.” In 1943, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, spoke
highly of the “natural alliance that exists between the National-Socialism of
Great Germany and the freedom-loving Muslims of the world.”
Pro-German parties and youth movements attuned to
the trappings of National-Socialism sprouted in Syria, Morocco, Tunisia and
Egypt. Even Nazi slogans were translated into Arabic. A Mideast song popular in
the late 1930s crooned: ”No more Monsieur, no more Mister. In Heaven Allah, on
Earth Hitler.” The Füehrer himself was even Islamicized under the new name of
Abu Ali.
Love of Nazism spread like wildfire in the region. Among the many
Nazi sympathizers at the time were Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem and president of the Arab Higher Committee; Ahmed Shukairi, first
chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization; Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar
Sadat, who became presidents of Egypt; Islamic fundamentalist leaders; and the
founders of the Pan-Arab socialist Ba’ath party, currently ruling Syria and
Iraq. (One Ba’ath leader proudly recounted: “We were racists, admiring Nazism,
reading their books and sources of their thought. We were the first who thought
of translating Mein Kampf.”).
1965, a Moroccan commentator on Middle East affairs wrote this in the French
magazine Les Temps Modernes: “A Hitlerian myth is being cultivated on a popular
level. Hitler’s massacre of the Jews is eulogized. It is even believed that
Hitler did not die. His arrival is longed for.”
who on behalf of the Palestinians avenged in advance against the most vile
criminals on Earth.” Two months later, Egypt’s Press Syndicate awarded
this writer its highest distinction.
Nazism. It seems that some things never change — or perhaps some things do. Now
the Arabs accuse the Jews of being Nazis. In this way, Hitler’s loyal fans are
equating the primary victims of his genocide with the Nazi executioners
themselves.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/antiholo/hitler_abu.html
http://www.ourjerusalem.com/history/story/history20020611.html
http://www.malefnin.com/ib/index.php?act=Print&client=wordr&f=37&t=11159
“Islamische Zentralinstitut” and the whole Islamic community of Germany, which
welcomed him as the “Führer of the Arabic world.” In an introductory speech, he
called the Jews the “most fierce enemies of the Muslims” and an “ever corruptive
element” in the world.
world before, during and even after the Holocaust. The Nazi-Arab connection
existed even when Adolf Hitler first seized power in Germany in 1933. News of
the Nazi takeover was welcomed by the Arab masses with great enthusiasm, as the
first congratulatory telegrams Hitler received upon being appointed Chancellor
came from the German Consul in Jerusalem, followed by those from several Arab
capitals. Soon afterwards, parties that imitated the National Socialists were
founded in many Arab lands, like the “Hisb-el-qaumi-el-suri” (PPS) or Social
Nationalist Party in Syria. Its leader, Anton Sa’ada, styled himself the Führer
of the Syrian nation, and Hitler became known as “Abu Ali” (In Egypt his name
was “Muhammed Haidar”). The banner of the PPS displayed the
swastika on a black-white background. Later, a Lebanese branch of the PPS –
which still receives its orders from Damascus – was involved in the
assassination of Lebanese President Pierre Gemayel.
Egypt,” which was founded in October 1933. They had storm troopers, torch
processions, and literal translations of Nazi slogans – like “One folk, One
party, One leader.” Nazi anti-Semitism was replicated, with calls to
boycott Jewish businesses and physical attacks on Jews. Britain had a bitter
experience with this pro-German mood in Egypt, when the official Egyptian
government failed to declare war on the Wehrmacht as German troops were about to
conquer Alexandria.
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_during_ww2.php
Their still-revered leader Haj Amin el-Husseini was a fervent Nazi. His 1936-39 terrorist bloodletting, then-unprecedented, was financed by Hitler. Husseini spent the war years in Berlin as the fuehrer’s personal guest, convened with him and the two reached a perfect meeting of the minds on the Jewish question.
Husseini – as “prime minister” of a pan-Arab government formed in the German capital – was lodged in a confiscated Zionist Hebrew school on Klopstockstrasse and awarded the equivalent of $10,000 a month (when the dollar was almighty) by the German Foreign Ministry. The sum was more than matched by the SS from its sonderfund (funds robbed from Jews). Himmler organized guided tours for Husseini in Auschwitz, and Husseini plotted a Mideastern extermination-camp near Nablus.
He was put in charge of Nazi propaganda to Arabs and Muslims and recruited Bosnians to torture, brutalize and concentrate Balkan Jews for death transports, much as Ukrainians did such dirty work elsewhere.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=167084
In 1941, the Mufti inspired a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq led by General Rashid Ali. Collaborating with his masters in Berlin, he declared a Jihad against Britain, which he called “the
greatest foe of Islam.” The British backed a successful counter-coup and the Mufti proceeded on
to Berlin where he was appointed by the Nazis as titular head of a Nazi-pan Arab government in
exile.
On November 21, 1941 the Mufti met with Hitler
http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/14111/Hitler&%2339%3Bs_Arab_Allies.html
A Never Ending War – Page 155 Michael Cappi – 2007 – 356 pages
It is important to understand that the idea of an Arab-Palestinian people distinct from the larger Arab-Islamic nation was not only utterly new, but contrary to two fundamental historic concepts: umma, the worldwide Islamic community (all part of dar al-Islam), and secondly the concept of the Arab Nation. The Arab Nation was defined within an ideology of pan-Islamism that dated from the 1890s. It promoted a pan-Arab totalitarian nationalism and proclaimed the Arab a superior people. (One can clearly see the similarity of this concept to the Nazi sense of a pan-Europe entity under Germany and the superiority of the Arian race.
http://books.google.com/books?id=MFYOnClB2pYC&pg=PA155
Islam Vs. Islamism: The Dilemma of the Muslim World – by Peter R. Demant, Asghar Ali Engineer – 2006 – Religion – 279 pages, [page 30]
Qawmiyya (qawn = nation), or pan-Arabism, grew in the 1930s into the most popular ideology in the Middle East. Fascist regimes in Italy and Germany now inspired radical nationalists, who appreciated the revisionism of the brutal regimes
[…]
Intolerance of minorities: Jews, Kurds, Armenians, Berbers, and others were sometimes persecuted, and eventually developed their own nationalisms. …
http://books.google.com/books?id=p4gyGiMeTxMC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30
A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 – by Stanley G. Payne – 1996 – History (Page
352)
The Fascist regime had him proclaimed a “hero of Islam” and “defender of Islam” in Italian Libya, where a parallel Libyan Arab Fascist Party was created.
If Mussolini supported Zionists to some extent as a lever against the British
Empire, both he and Hitler subsidized Haj Amin el Husseini, the violently
anti-Jewish grand mufti of Jerusalem. Anti-Jewish feeling mounted in parts of
the Middle East during the 1930s, as the Fascist and Nazi regimes and doctrines
made increasing sense to many Arab nationalists. King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia
sought German arms and contacts and was favorably received. Various delegations
of Syrians and Iraqis attended the Niirnberg party congresses, and there were
several different Arabic translations of Mein Kampf. Both the German and Italian
regimes were active in propaganda in the Arab world, and there was much
pro-German sentiment in Egypt. At least seven different Arab nationalist groups
had developed shirt movements by 1939 (white, gray, and iron in Syria; blue and
green in Egypt; … Syrian… Iraqi Futuwa… Young Egypt Movement … all three
were territorially expansionist, with Sami Shawkat, the Futuwa ideologue,
envisioning the “Arab nation” as eventually covering half the globe (though by
vonversion…
http://books.google.com/books?id=NLiFIEdI1V4C&pg=PA352
Modern totalitarianism arose in Europe in the years after World War I. It took different forms — Fascist, Communist and Nazi. But the movements shared a number of traits: apocalyptic and paranoid ideologies, a total police state, a taste for murder. Other versions of that same totalitarianism arose in Arab and Muslim countries in precisely those years.
One of the Muslim variations eventually emerged as the Islamist radicalism of Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and other movements. A second version evolved into Saddam Hussein’s Baath dictatorship. The European inspiration for those movements is not too hard to detect, especially in the case of the Baath, which got started in 1943 in an atmosphere of ardent sympathy for the fascist Axis.
Kanan Makiya, an expatriate Iraqi intellectual and a main author of the transition report, described in his book “Republic of Fear” how these European movements influenced Islamic radicalism philosophically and organizationally. There was, for instance, the model of the Hitler Youth for the pan-Arabist Futuwwa Youth of the 1930’s, which, Mr. Makiya pointed out, pioneered a paramilitary culture “as if presaging the Baath militas” in later years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/31BERM.html?pagewanted=all
Rethinking nationalism in the Arab Middle East – by James P. Jankowski, I. Gershoni – 1997 – History – 372 pages [Page 16]
… the influence of fascism and Nazism as a model for a unifying nationalism based on a “community of strength”; Islamic revivalism in various parts of the Arab world that also advanced identification with the idea of Arab unity; and the exacerbation of the Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine that fueled powerful sentiments of Islamic and Arabist loyalty.
http://books.google.com/books?id=m0a-AVCxWlcC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16
Rethinking nationalism in the Arab Middle East (- by James P. Jankowski, I. Gershoni – 1997 – History – 372 pages
Pan-Arab radicalism was expressed in diverse forms in 1930s Iraq. In 1935 the “Muthana Club” was established in Baghdad and rapidly became a forum for the educated from all parts of the Arab world and a center for the dissemination of Arab nationalist propaganda. Nationalist radicalization was also evident in the formation, in the late 1930s, of s paramilitary youth movement [al-futuwwa] modeled on fascist and Nazi youth organizations, sponsored by the government and officially instituted in Iraqi schools
http://books.google.com/books?id=_a1NNyZUXAgC&pg=PA18
The modern history of Iraq – Phebe Marr – 2003 – History – 392 pages (Page 52)
Pan-Arab sentiments were strongly influenced by German ideas of nationalism and were encouraged by Fritz Grobba, German minister in Baghdad until 1939.
http://books.google.com/books?id=4Ro8gfCBljwC&pg=PA52
Iran’s president has shot to the forefront of Holocaust denial in recent days, but it may seem more like self-denial: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad need only look to his country’s Hitler-era past to discover that Iran and Iranians were connected to the Holocaust and the Nazi regime, as was the larger Arab and Islamic world under the leadership of the mufti of Jerusalem.
Iran’s links to the Third Reich began during the pre-World War II years when it welcomed Gestapo agents and other operatives to Tehran, allowing them to use it as a Middle East base for agitation against the British and the region’s Jews.
Key among these Gestapo men was Fritz Grobba, Berlin’s envoy to the Middle East, and often called “the German Lawrence” because he promised a Pan-Arab state stretching from Casablanca to Tehran.
http://www.bankingonbaghdad.com/archive/IranDenial/BTJ1212205/
During WWII, Germany’s envoy to the Middle East was a member of the Gestapo named Fritz Grobba, who promised a Pan-Arab crescent from Casablanca (Morocco) to Tehran (Iran).
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=167631
The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj … – by Chuck Morse – 2003 – History – 188 pages
Page 16
In the same way that al-Husseini represented the pan-Arab point of view, Adolf Hitler, whose career parallels and intersects with al-Husseini, represented the pan-Germanic point of view. The pan-Arabist seeks a world empire based on the Islamic faith with the Arab language and culture serving as the centerpiece. Likewise, the Nazi pan-Aryan sought a world empire with a mystical concept of the Germanic race serving as the centerpiece, as opposed to faith or language. …
The pan-Arabist believes that the Arab ummah must serve as the central governing authority over the less enlightened Islamic world while the Nazi pan-Aryan believed that the German Fatherland, including a union of all German-speaking and racially Aryan peoples, …
http://books.google.com/books?id=HGkthBwbNg8C&pg=PA16
Page 31
My contention is that the popularity of Nazism in the Arab world was traceable to various authoritarian aspects of the Arab and Islamic culture and faith.
The Arab-Muslim concept of ummah or motherland has striking similarity to the Nazi concept of fatherland and lebunstrum.
The Arab-Muslim concept of the Caliph is similar to the Nazi concept of the Fuhrer. The Arab- Muslim concept of sharia is the equivalent of the Nazi concept of a centralized and hyper-nationalistic government controlling the rights of the people.
Jihad is of a similar nature to blitzkrieg. Dar el-Islam is similar to the Thousand Year Reich. Hitler’s popularity in the Arab world was intense and immediate and that popularity as well as a cult …
http://books.google.com/books?id=HGkthBwbNg8C&pg=PA31
Empires of intelligence: security services and colonial disorder … – Page 12 Martin Thomas – 2008 – 428 pages
Major Norman Bray, a former officer of the Bengal Lancers… a member of the secret Intelligence Service (SIS), Bray was widely acknowledged as an expert on pan-Islamist networks, particularly those with connections in Muslim India… on 14 September 1920, he submitted a lengthy report on the causes of unrest in Iraq… cited evidence of German financial support and Bolshevik assistance to pan-Arab and pan-Islamist sympathizers based in Berlin and Switzerland.
http://books.google.com/books?id=lgZwF1MGUx8C&pg=PA129
Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler – Page
xxiii
by Peter Viereck – Philosophy – 2004 – 530 pages
(Page xxii)
One major source (one among many) for Arab nationalists is their study of Germans, especially Fichte (1767-1814)
http://books.google.com/books?id=xJS44lXfKvYC&pg=PR22
(Page xxiii) and Herder (1744-1803) , by founders of the Baath parties (Iraq, Syria) and of Arab anti-Westernism.
For example, Sati al-Husri, father of pan-Arabism in the 1920s, was a devoted Fichte scholar. So was Sami al-Jundi, a founder of the Baath, who likewise admired Fichte and Hitler and misunderstood Nietzsche. Note
the repeated word “race” and the inclusive “we” in the following (quoted from Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism): “We were racists, admiring Nazism, reading its books and the sources of its thoughts, particularly Nietzsche … Fichte, and [Houston Stewart] Chamberlain’s Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, which revolves on race.” Earlier Arab xenophobes like Wahhab (1703-1791), … Current Arab racism and lawless terror are not traditional Islam but a recent import from Germany. A minority. But isn’t history made by intense minorities?
http://books.google.com/books?id=xJS44lXfKvYC&pg=PR2#PPR23,M1
Something Japanese ultranationalists in the 1930s, Pan-Arabists, Baathists, Islamists, Indian fascists, Russian Slavophiles, and other enemies of liberalism have in common is a fatal weakness for illiberal German ideas on race and nation. The founder of the Pan-Arab movement after World War I, Sati al-Husri, was an avid reader of the Romantic German nationalist Fichte. An early Baathist, Sami al-Jundi, said:
We were racists, admiring Nazism, reading its books and the source of its thought, particularly Nietzsche …Fichte, and [Houston Stewart] Chamberlain’s Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, which revolves on race.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16211
Fighting terrorism: how democracies can defeat… by Binyamin Netanyahu – 1997 – Political Science – 180 pages [Page 85]
The first, the Pan-Arab nationalism of Egypt’s Nasser and the Baath party in Syria and Iraq, was consciously modeled after the Pan-German nationalism which had succeeded in unifying the fragmented German people in the nineteenth century and had resurrected a defeated Germany between the two world wars.
Pan-Arabism actively supported Hitler’s “achievements” in Europe and collaborated with him against the British in the Middle East during the war. An ideology tailor-made for Arab military men, it dreamed of the creation of a modern and unified Arab-fascist nation. The second stream was that of the Muslim Brotherhood and other fundamentalist organizations…
The Islamicists claimed to be returning to the true roots of Muslim Arab greatness by advocating the unification of all the Arab realms under a “pure” Islamic regime.
What the two movements had in common was their abiding hatred of the weakness and treachery of the Arab monarchies (and of the Shah’s rule in Iran) and of the western powers…
http://books.google.com/books?id=oVQ2JJy15UQC&pg=PA85
Iraqi Arab Nationalism: Authoritarian, Totalitarian, and Pro-Fascist Inclinations, 1932-1941. SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East Series. …
http://www.amazon.com/Iraqi-Arab-Nationalism-Authoritarian-Totalitarian/dp/0415368588
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23820
Very deeply dyed in black: Sir Oswald Mosley and the resurrection of
British … – Page 47
by Graham Macklin – History – 2007 – 205 pages
Some British fascists were also eager to fight the Jews in Palestine, a
development noticed after Jamal Nasir of the Arab Office addressed a group of
fascists in Hampstead, as a result of which the 43 Group learned that some
were visiting the Arab League Office in Eaton Square, London in order to join
the Arab Legion’ with the express intention of ‘killing Jews… Azzam Pasha, the
Secretary of the Arab League, had received a letter from his friend, the fervent
pro-Arab fascist Captain Robert Gordon-Canning, suggesting that major general
JFC Fuller a former leading BUF member and expert in mechanised warfare, travel
to the Middle East ‘and lecture to the Arabs about modern warfare. …
http://books.google.com/books?id=unVfsheD430C&pg=PA47
Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israeli History Textbooks,1948-2000 – Page
100
by Elie Podeh, Greenwood – History – 2000 – 216 pages
Third, the Arab-fascist bond is less accentuated and is confined to the
field of
propaganda. Fourth, Arab “gangs” have become “guerrilla groups” or “units …
http://books.google.com/books?id=EtzwYmB41c0C&pg=PA100
Palestinian Arab leaders derive legitimacy from the accepted view that in 1948 their predecessors fought a National Liberation war against British-backed Jewish colonists. A 1948 Nation magazine study proves the opposite happened.
The British Record on Partition
Reprinted from The Nation, May 8, 1948
Comments by Jared Israel, Emperor’s Clothes
[Posted 26 July 2005]
Eye-opening Memorandum
1948 Report to the UN Explodes the PLO’s Myth of National Liberation
by Jared Israel
[…]
The 1948 Arab-Israeli war plays a key part in the Arab National Liberation tale. The Israeli victory in that war is presented as the defining event, the nakba or catastrophe. In order to claim that the PLO and Fatah are fighting for National Liberation in 2005, their promoters argue that British imperialism, using Jewish proxies, crushed Palestinian Liberation in 1948. The corollary: if the Jews will just grant Arabs the National Liberation they were denied in ’48, Arab leaders will deliver on peace with Israel.
Of course, if this story is false, if in 1948 the Arab armies fought for genocide, not National Liberation, and if it was not the Jews but Arab leaders who were agents of imperial Britain, then it certainly suggests that their protégés are not fighting for National Liberation today.
Below is our text transcription of The Nation magazine’s 1948 memorandum on Britain’s role in the Arab attempt to kill Israel in the cradle. Based on British intelligence documents and written for the United Nations, the memorandum is significant today because it contradicts widely held views about the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict, including those put forward in today’s Nation magazine.
Just for starters, the memorandum proves the falsity of the common perception that the creation of Israel was a project of Western colonialism. The Nation shows that during the half year prior to the all-out Arab invasion on 15 May, Britain incited, micro-managed and did public relations work for a campaign of Arab troop infiltration and terror. And this at a time when Britain was responsible for security in its Palestine Mandate territory.
The intelligence documents cited below show that before the 15 May invasion, British intelligence knew that the Arabs terrorizing the future Israel were being led in part by Nazi advisers. These included Bosnian Muslims from the infamous Handzar Division of the Waffen SS. According to a French intelligence document published by The Nation seven months later, the British sent thousands of Nazi prisoners of war, including top war criminals, to assist the Arab attack. This was after the Arab invasion.
Consistent with British tolerance for and apparent employment of Nazi war criminals against new-born Israel, the Nation memorandum shows that the British adopted a propaganda line reminiscent of the Nazis’ “Jewish-Bolshevik plot” motif. The British accused Jewish Holocaust survivors trying to get to Palestine of being Soviet Communist infiltrators. A 1948 article in the London Times shows that Arab leaders were saying the same thing…
http://emperors-clothes.com/history/br.htm
In Search of Truth: The Rise of Arab Nationalism Specifically, we are going to examine the parallels between the new Arab/Muslim nationalism and fascist German nationalism (Nazism). …they were able to overpower the “good Germans” and forces of civility and justice in Germany via a mixture of propaganda, lies, terror, and playing on past hurts and weaknesses in the German character. Some people the Nazis silenced by beatings and muggings at the hands of Ernst Roehm’s SA (storm-trooper) thugs (Roehm was subsequently killed by Himmler’s SS). Other’s such as Von Pappen and President Hindenburg, who were very refined Old World diplomats and generals, were deceived into appointing Hitler as Chancellor to be a figure of law and order — when in truth he was the force behind the street violence of the SA and SS.
Joseph Goebbels was Hitler’s master propagandist. Using the medium of radio and motion pictures, he crafted some of the most compelling propaganda theater of all time. Weaving together myths about the German Teutonic past, as well as exploiting traditional German xenophobia and anti-Semitism, he must be seen as one of the major fertilizing agents [manure] in allowing Nazism to take hold.
…Similar parallels exist in modern Arab and Muslim nationalism. Arab propagandists have a rich soil for spreading their lies. There are fears in the Arab and Muslim world about being swallowed in permissive secular western culture and about loss of identity. This is coupled with a deep sense of history and awareness of the fall of the Arab/Muslim world from its dominant position to one of subservience to the West. The Arab world, like the pre-war German world, is searching for a banner and champion to restore its lost pride and identity. The Arab propagandists are also aware of historic Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism, as well as the mythology of Jihad and its usefulness in mobilizing Arab xenophobia.
Today, in the Palestinian controlled areas, massive amounts of money are being poured into hate propaganda for television, the web, and the newspapers.
http://www.kesser.org/essays/arab-nationalism.html
By John
Loftus
Monday, October 04, 2004
Yom Ha Shoah.
was a fascist organization… that evolved over time into what we today
know as al-Qaeda.
al Bana. And al Bana formed this nationalist group called the Muslim
Brotherhood. Al Bana was a devout admirer of Adolph Hitler and wrote to him
frequently. So persistent was he in his admiration of the new Nazi Party that in
the 1930’s, al-Bana and the Muslim Brotherhood became a secret arm of Nazi
intelligence.
Jews; they hated democracy; and they hated the Western culture. It became the
official policy of the Third Reich to secretly develop the Muslim Brotherhood as
the fifth Parliament, an army inside Egypt.
would rise up and help General Rommell and make sure that no English or American
soldier was left alive in Cairo or Alexandria.
War II. They even had a Palestinian section headed by the grand Mufti of
Jerusalem, one of the great bigots of all time. Here, too, was a man — The
grand Mufti of Jerusalem was the Muslim Brotherhood representative for
Palestine. These were undoubtedly Arab Nazis. The Grand Mufti, for example, went
to Germany during the war and helped recruit an international SS division of
Arab Nazis. They based it in Croatia and called it the “Handjar” Muslim
Division, but it was to become the core of Hitler’s new army of Arab fascists
that would conquer the Arab peninsula from then on to Africa — grand
dreams.
crimes. Their German intelligence handlers were captured in Cairo. The whole net
was rolled up by the British Secret Service. Then a horrible thing happened.
government hired them. They brought all the fugitive Nazi war criminals of Arab
and Muslim descent into Egypt, and for three years they were trained on a
special mission. The British Secret Service wanted to use the fascists of the
Muslim Brotherhood to strike down the infant state of Israel in 1948. Only a few
people in the Mossad know this, but many of the members of the Arab Armies and
terrorist groups that tried to strangle the infant State of Israel were the Arab
Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood.
releasing the Grand Mufti and smuggling him to Egypt, so all of the Arab Nazis
came together. So, from 1945 to 1948, the British Secret Service protected every
Arab Nazi they could, but they failed to quash the State of Israel.
what became the CIA. It may sound stupid; it may sound evil, but it did happen.
The idea was that we were going to use the Arab Nazis in the Middle East as a
counterweight to the Arab communists. Just as the Soviet Union was funding Arab
communists, we would fund the Arab Nazis to fight against. And lots of secret
classes took place. We kept the Muslim Brotherhood on our payroll.
Brotherhood out of Egypt or be imprisoned, and we would execute them all. During
the 1950’s, the CIA evacuated the Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood to Saudi
Arabia. Now when they arrived in Saudi Arabia, some of the leading lights of the
Muslim Brotherhood like Azzam, became the teachers in the Madrasas, the
religious schools. And there they combined the doctrines of Nazism with this
weird Islamic cult, Wahhabiism.
think that Islam — the Saudi version of Islam — is typical, but it’s not. The
Wahhabi cult was condemned as a heresy more than 60 times by the Muslim nations.
But when the Saudis got wealthy, they bought a lot of silence. This is a very
harsh cult. The Wahhabiism was only practiced by two nations, the Taliban and
Saudi Arabia. That’s how extreme it is. It really has nothing to do with Islam.
Islam is a very peaceful and tolerant religion. It has always had good
relationships with the Jews for the first thousand years of its existence.
the new home of the Muslim Brotherhood, and fascism and extremism were mingled
in these schools. And there was a young student who paid attention – – and
Azzam’s student was named Osama Bin Ladin. Osama Bin Ladin was taught by the
Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood who had emigrated to Saudi Arabia.
Russians had invaded Afghanistan, so we told the Saudis that we would fund them
if they would bring all of the Arab Nazis together and ship them off to
Afghanistan to fight the Russians. We had to rename them. We couldn’t call them
the Muslim Brotherhood because that was too sensitive a name. Its Nazi cast was
too known. So we called them the Maktab al Khidimat il Mujahideen, the MAK.
payroll in Afghanistan, except the Saudis. But it was not true. A small section
CIA knew perfectly well that we had once again hired the Arab Nazis and that we
were using them to fight our secret wars.
to ’89, and they won the war. They drove the Russians out of Afghanistan. Our
CIA said, “We won, let’s go home!” and we left this army of Arab fascists in the
field of Afghanistan.
Ladin and his followers to stay out of Saudi Arabia. Now the MAK split in half.
Azzam was mysteriously assassinated apparently by Osama Bin Ladin himself. The
radical group — the most radical of the merge of the Arab fascists and
religious extremists — Osama called that al Qaeda. But to this day there are
branches of the Muslim Brotherhood all through al Qaeda.
Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the
results of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
There is one in Israel. The organization you know as “Hammas” is actually a
secret chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood. When Israel assassinated Sheik Yassin
a month ago, the Muslim Brotherhood published his obituary in a Cairo newspaper
in Arabic and revealed that he was actually the secret leader of the Muslim
Brotherhood in Gaza.
Middle East and on 9/11, it began to spread around the world.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID={0F956A35-69D8-4CC4-A05A-0F01651F14D9}
The situation in Germany is particularly
telling. More than anywhere else in Europe, the Muslim Brotherhood in Germany
has gained significant power and political acceptance. Islamist organizations in
other European countries now consciously follow the model pioneered by their
German peers.
East to study at German universities, drawn not only by the German institutions’
technical reputations but also by a desire to escape repressive regimes.
Egyptian ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser’s regime was especially vigorous in its
attempts to root out the Islamist opposition. Beginning in 1954, several members
of the Muslim Brotherhood fled Egypt to escape arrest or assassination. West
Germany provided a welcome refuge. Bonn’s motivations were not simply
altruistic. As terrorism expert Khalid Durán explained in his studies on
jihadism in Europe, the West German government had decided to cut diplomatic
relations with countries that recognized East Germany.
government, Bonn decided to welcome Syrian and Egyptian political refugees.
Often, these dissidents were Islamists. Many members of the Muslim Brotherhood
were already familiar with Germany. Several had cooperated with the Nazis before
and during World War II. Some had even, reportedly, fought in the infamous
Bosnian Handschar division of the Schutzstaffel (SS).]
http://www.meforum.org/687/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe
Muslim and Neo-Nazi extremists
unite
go back to the organisation’s formation in Egypt in 1928. Marking the start of
modern political “Islamic fundamentalism,” the Brotherhood from the outset
envisioned a time when an Islamic state would prevail in Egypt and other Arab
countries. The growth of the Muslim Brotherhood coincided with the rise of
fascist movements in Europe – a parallel noted by Muhammad Sa’id al-‘Ashmawy,
former chief justice of Egypt’s High Criminal Court, who decried “the perversion
of Islam” and “the fascistic ideology” that infuses the world view of the
Brothers.
branch of the Muslim Brotherhood as a young man in Egypt during World War II.
Nada and several of his cohorts in the Sunni Muslim fraternity were recruited by
German military intelligence. Hassan al-Banna, the Egyptian schoolteacher who
founded the Muslim Brotherhood, also collaborated with spies of the Third
Reich.
Brotherhood proclaimed their support for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin
Al-Husseini, in the late 1930s. The Grand Mufti, the preeminent religious figure
among Palestinian Muslims, was the most notable Arab leader to seek an alliance
with Nazi Germany.
who ought to be whipped”), Hitler understood that he and the Mufti shared the
same rivals – the British, the Jews and the Communists. They met in Berlin,
where the Mufti lived in exile during the war. The Mufti agreed to help organise
a special Muslim division of the Waffen SS. Powerful radio transmitters were put
at the Mufti’s disposal so that his pro-Axis propaganda could be heard
throughout the Arab world.
http://www.aijac.org.au/review/2002/275/essay275.html
“race”, yet praised Islam in its ‘war like’ ideology
Jews.
… –
by Victor Rothwell – History – 2005 – 244 pages (Page 41)
However,
the Nazis were clear in their minds that the Arabs were
racially inferior, and there would, therefore, be no pleasure to be had
from helping them in anything except for the extermination of Jews in their
region.
http://books.google.com/books?id=XfgLbSc94MEC&pg=PA41
Islam, Nazism, and Totalitarianism
During an interview conducted in the late 1930s (published in 1939), Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychiatry, was asked “…had he any views on what was likely to be the next step in religious development?” Jung replied, in reference to the Nazi fervor that had gripped Germany
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad. The emotion in Germany
is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.
Arabs on the one hand, and his effusive praise for Islam on the
other:
http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/61/55/
http://www.slate.com/id/2057949/
Most Arabs never realized that the Nazis would consider them racially inferior as well and that Germany had no intention of undermining British authority in …
http://books.google.com/books?id=xh4m-OMrhJUC&pg=PA85
… as Hitler was known to have described the Arabs as “lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped,” to a lower race …
http://books.google.com/books?id=HGkthBwbNg8C&pg=PA53
http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/An%20unholy%20alliance%201801%20original.doc
Even though he loathed Arabs (he once described them as “lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped”), Hitler was nonetheless the idol of the paramilitary …
According to the Nazis’ racist ideology, Arabs are racial Semites and thus subhumans, similar to Jews. In his book, Mein Kampf, Hitler described the struggle for world domination as an ongoing racial, cultural and political battle between Aryans and non-Aryans. He envisaged a “ladder” of racial hierarchy, asserting that German “Aryans” were at the top of the ladder, while Jews and Gypsies were consigned to the bottom of the order. On Hitler’s racial ladder, Arabs and Muslims occupied a servile place, held in much the same contempt as the Jews.,br>
Hitler made a personal remark in 1939 in which he referred to the populace of the Middle East as “painted half-apes that ought to feel the whip”.
As in other instances, however, the Nazis never allowed their ideological views to get in the way of more urgent political considerations. The Nazis recognized the importance of wooing the Arab and Muslim world to their side and, in their public proclamations, downplayed their real views of Muslims and Arabs. When Mein Kampf was being translated into Arabic in 1938, Hitler himself tactfully proposed to omit from it his “racial ladder” theory.
http://www.projetaladin.org/en/40-questions-40-answers/the-nazis-the-holocaust-and-muslims.html
Jews
his precious Legion d’honneur last week, proved what many Arabs have long suspected but generally refuse to
acknowledge: that bureaucrats and racists and others
who worked for Hitler regarded all Semitic people as their enemies and that –
had Hitler’s armies reached the Middle East – they would ultimately have found a
“final solution” to the “Arab question,” just as they did for the Jews of
Europe.
and around Bordeaux – 223 children among them, all shipped off to the Drancy
camp and then to Auschwitz – was proved without the proverbial shadow of a doubt
at his 1998 trial.
by his police force in Paris and hurled into the Seine in 1961. He
organised the police repression of the independence demonstration by 40,000
Algerians; in the cities of Algiers and Oran and Blida and other areas of
modern-day Algeria where this atrocity festers on among elderly relatives, they
say that up to 400 Algerians were massacred by Papon’s flics. Some historians
suggest 250. The same was always claimed of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem. From Hitler, he obtained a promise that “when we (the
Germans) have arrived at the southern Caucasus, then the time of the liberation
of the Arabs will have arrived – and you can rely on my word.” All this came
back to me last week when I received a remarkable letter from Toulouse in my
Beirut mailbag. It was a response to an article I wrote last year about Irene
Nemirovsky, whose magnificent, Tolstoyan novel of the Nazi occupation of France
was unfinished when Irene was herself sent to Drancy and on to the crematoria of
Auschwitz. My article earned a stiff call of complaint from the press attache at
the French embassy in London.
only surviving daughter, Denise Epstein, and I hope she will not mind if I quote
from it: “Allow me to present myself: I am the girl of Irene Nemirovsky . . .
and I wanted to thank you for having spoken so well about my mother.
according to what you teach me from the attitude of the French embassy when one
evokes the memory of the Jewish children assassinated with the complicity of the
authorities of the time, I realise that the memory is really diluted very easily
and which that opens the door with other massacres innocent whatever their
origin.
message to you.
of this past on the shoulders, softened by happiness to see reviving my parents,
and at the same time as them, I hope to make revive all those of which nobody
any more speaks. PS: Sorry for my very bad English!”
that the dead can be recalled in their own words along with that immensely
generous remembrance of other innocents who have died in other massacres.
message. This, of course, is what Haj Amin suffered from. Papon, too, I imagine,
before they buried the terrible old man last week.
http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/have-no-doubt-hitler-would-have-wiped-out-arabs-after-jews-56760.html)
Page 42
… the network
that had united European Nazis and fascists with Arabs before World War II was
reemerging. In the early 1950s, many Nazi criminals…
http://books.google.com/books?id=6nGivth3FqMC&pg=PA42
… and neo-Nazis. As we have seen, the Euro-Arab cooperation
and alliance was from its inception also directed against America. For the
Arabs, Euro-Arab …
http://books.google.com/books?id=6nGivth3FqMC&pg=PA75
Alfassa
Page 24
• A Pan-Arab Committee established at Baghdad in the
Spring of 1933 approached Fritz Grobba, the German Ambassador to Iraq, two years
later with proposals for closer ties and cooperation.
• Hitler’s Mein Kampf
was translated into four different Arabic translations…
http://books.google.com/books?id=T2g2XA53UOEC&pg=PA24
18 • Anti-Jewish feeling mounted in parts of the Middle East during the 1930s, as the Fascist and Nazi regimes and doctrines made increasing sense to many Arab nationalists
http://books.google.com/books?id=T2g2XA53UOEC&pg=PA25
In 1937, the Arabs almost immediately rejected the [Peel Plan for the partition of Palestine] and a pan-Arab conference in Syria in September
resolved that every Arab had a sacred duty to preserve Palestine as an Arab
country.
http://books.google.com/books?id=T2g2XA53UOEC&pg=PA27
Harry St. John Bridger Philby (aka Haji Abdullah), a leading British fascist, Arabist, and father of the KGB agent, Kim Philby. St. John Philby had been a friend of William Joyce (‘Lord Haw Haw’)
He was resident from 1937 at Coed y Bleiddiau for some time
http://www.frheritage.org.uk/wiki/Harry_St._John_Bridger_Philby
‘The merchants: the big business families of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States’ – Page 27
by Michael Field – Business & Economics
…He became a Muslims and made the pilgrimage – he was known to the Arabs as Haji Abdullah Philby. His son Kim was the notorious Soviet double agent…
http://books.google.com/books?id=YWCuAAAAIAAJ&q=Haji+Abdullah+philby&dq=Haji+Abdullah+philby
(Philby’s wartime harangues included praise for Adolf Hitler and disparagement of the British war effort, leading the Foreign Office to consider him a dangerous crackpot. In 1940, during a stopover in India on his way from Arabia to the United States.
http://www.answers.com/topic/harry-st-john-philby )
Arab Anti-Semiticism – Just A Brand Of Arab Fascism
25th April 2009Author: craigread01@gmail.comArab anti-Semiticism runs rife and is causing a whole new wave of anti-semiticism throughout the world. Jews are once again the target of fascism. Only this time, it is Arab fascism. Israel is seen as the big bad wolf by some in the western world, including the media, and the plight of the Palestinians has caused them to become the new favorite victim of those who use the situation for political purposes. While many decry fascism in theory, they turn a blind eye towards Arab fascism and take up collections for Palestinians.
Never mind that Israel has been a target for bombings for the past 40 years. Never mind that prior to the recent Gaza Strip fighting Palestinians were launching attack missiles to Israel. Never mind the bus bombs, shopping center bombs and suicide attacks that are a regular occurrence in Israel. People are quick to condemn Israel for having the gall to protect themselves against the threat of Arab fascism.
Unlike any other type of hatred that encompasses an entire group of people, Arab anti-semiticism is accepted as a matter of course. The recent waves of Arab anti-Semiticism has promoted an entire new type of behavior towards Jews and Israel that has not been seen since the early 1930s. That was when six million of them were rounded up and killed by Nazi fascists. Although the west vowed to never let that happen again, it is happening again. A leader of a sovereign nation in the Middle East has promised to blow Israel off the map and is trying to amass nuclear power to do it. And the new President of the United States is willing to sit down and talk to this leader and recently went as far to extend an olive branch to him, which was spurned. Still, people do not get it. Arab fascism is a matter of course in the Middle East and is also spreading throughout the world.
The United States is also a target for Arab anti-semiticism. Forty percent of the Jewish population in the world lives in the United States. Forty percent lives in Israel. The other twenty percent are scattered throughout the world, mostly in Europe and Canada. Arab anti-semiticism, that seems to be growing stronger, would wipe out another six million people.
Nothing is being done about Arab fascism. To the contrary, countries like the United States are willing to talk to leaders that have murderous intentions towards innocents. This is like Winston Churchill going over to talk to Hitler. People do not see the problem nor do they want to see it. In the west, it is common to teach your children to respect all people. This is especially true in the United States, a nation made up of immigrants. Yet Arab fascism does not work that way. Arab anti-semiticism runs so deep that although Arabs are allowed to worship as they please in Israel, the same is not afforded Israel or other religions in many Arab countries. There is no amount of talking that is going to change an ideology such as Arab fascism.
Arab anti-semiticism is starting to catch on around the world with the help of Arab fascism.
http://www.articlealley.com/article_868401_32.html
Palestinian Arab anti-Semitism and Racism were at their worst prior to 1948 – The worst excesses of Arab racism in Palestine were directed against the Jews of Palestine between 1920 and 1947. There had been no “Nakba” – no mass exodus or expulsion or expropriation of Arabs. During the British Mandate, the Arabs of Palestine prospered economically and demographically and benefited from Zionist investment. Only a tiny portion, less perhaps than would normally be affected in a country undergoing relatively rapid industrialization, experienced displacement Propagandists like Grand Mufti Hajj Amin El Husseini manufactured the myth of imminent expulsion from the very beginning of the British Mandate. The propaganda fell on willing ears.
http://www.zionism.netfirms.com/ArabAntiZionism.htm
Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism – by
David M. Rosen – 2005 – History – 199 pages [page 93]
Palestinian Child
Soldiers… In Palestine, apocalyptic views were nourished by two nascent forms
of totalitarianism then found in the Middle East, Islamism and pan- Arabism… both movements came under the strong influence of European fascism
http://books.google.com/books?id=zQYQ0tho6mAC&pg=PA93
[PDF] Democracy and Ethno-Religious Conflict in Iraq
During their ascent to power, the Pan-Arabist factions became radicalized and took on fascist tints in the thirties and again under the rule of the Baath …
http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/20214/wimmer.pdf
The Middle East – Page 89
by Library Information and Research Service – Middle East – 1999
After Sayyid Jamal, in Arabic countries and especially in Egypt, many individuals were found who, by leaning on racism, Arabism and pan-Arabism, …
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ma1tAAAAMAAJ&q=arabism
Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege… by Elizabeth Thompson – 2000 – History – 402 pages – Page 193
…admired the youth groups and physical discipline at the Berlin Olympics, and their Muslim counterparts, the Najjada (Helpers), promoted by Muhi al-Din Nasuli, a leader of the Muslim scouting movement and newspaper publisher… the pan-Arabism of the Najjada… of… Lebanese groups… Since at least 1933, newspapers had been printing Hitler’s speeches and excerpts from Mem Kampf. Hitler and Mussolini were viewed in both Syria and Lebanon as models of strong statebuilders… criticized “moral chaos” in public life and adopted the motto “Arabism Above All” on his newspaper’s masthead, which also printed glowing accounts of German youth’s support of Hitler…
http://books.google.com/books?id=IYfQlOu0g38C&pg=PA193
http://www.ciaonet.org/book/the01/the01_11.pdf
[CIA document THE CURRENT SITUATION IN PALESTINE, ORE 49, 20 October 1947]
There are two para-military Arab organizations, the Futuwwa and the Najjada, both of which are more or less controlled by the Arab higher Committe under the leadership of the Grand Mufti
http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs_full.asp
Nazism in Syria and Lebanon By Nordbruch Goetz (page 54)
Muslim schools that were directed by the Maqasid Islamic Charitable Association provided Najada a pool of potential members. As a Muslim ‘twin’ to the Phalangists, as the organization was often described, Najjada adopted a pan-Arab nationalist vision, calling for a suppression of all foreign influences. The ambivalent relation of such pan- Arab concepts to ethnocentric and racial nationalism became visible in its slogan ‘Arabism above all’ (al-‘uruba fawqa al-jami’).
http://books.google.com/books?id=iAWBkDAv4TkC&pg=PA54
Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, … by Keith David Watenpaugh – 2006 – History – Page 255
… and dissent from dominant forms of Arabism and Syrian citizenship. … 3 At the core of the experience with fascism’s magnetism in the era of …
http://books.google.com/books?id=Jhf3xHnJIa8C&pg=PA255
Page 256
… “We made the Christians eat it.” Abu Yasin, recalling the street fighting of 1936 In the late morning of 12 October 1936, two uniformed paramilitary …
http://books.google.com/books?id=Jhf3xHnJIa8C&pg=PA256
Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East – Page 213
by James P. Jankowski, I. Gershoni – History – 1997 – 372 pages
… of the Algerian Front Islamique du Salut (FIS) uses the 1967 defeat as proof that Arabism, being a
form of racism, cannot elicit a sense of community …
http://books.google.com/books?id=f3axNF2GdCkC&pg=PA213
Racism, Culture, Markets – Page 139
by John Gabriel – Social Science –
1994 – 212 pages
without parallel economic growth… inevitably delivers a population into some kind of ism, whether it be communism,
fascism or pan
Arabism, and weans them away from democracy
http://books.google.com/books?id=wKsxy6lioasC&pg=PA139
The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq – Page 304
by Brendan O’Leary, John
McGarry, Khaled Salih – 2006 – 355 pages
And, if it were ever to become
unified, it would be under an Arabist program, with a racist agenda for Kurds
and an Islamist one for non-Muslims and Muslims …
http://books.google.com/books?id=8rnsO3QzVacC&pg=PA304
Islamic thought; Pan-Arabism – the notion of the ‘Arab People’ as one nation;
the Palestinian movement; and the Muslim Brotherhood, and it’s descendents down
to Al Ida.
In the 1930s the rise of
National Socialism in Germany attracted the attention of numerous Arab
intellectuals and political figures who sought to free the Middle East from British and French colonial rule. Nazi Germany represented to Arab nationalists (sometimes referred to as “Arabists”) a world-class power and potential ally to have in fighting against Great Britain and France. More importantly, perhaps, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party demonstrated the potential of a nationalist movement based upon a unifying ideology. For despite having been weakened by defeat in World War I, Hitler and his party had been
able to free Germany from the limitations of the Versailles Treaty. Nazism also had fostered a rise in the national spirit of Germany from the chaos and
shame of the 1920s. To many Arab leaders and thinkers, cultivating an Arab national spirit was a prerequisite to throwing off the shackles of European imperialism.
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Total/islamfascist.htm
satellite channel Al Arabiya… The sort of Sunni Arab supremacism you are
referring to did not exist at the time of the Arab Revolt, in which Arabic
language, not sect, was the determining factor. What went wrong comes later,
from the 1930s on, with some Arab Nationalists adopting the European Fascist
mentality of exclusivity. Nazism, tragically, had much influence on Arab
intellectuals.
http://www.tbsjournal.com/Archives/Spring05/al-rasheddialogue.htm
Syrian Liberal Nidhal Na’isa On the West, Pan-Arabism, Islamism, and
Al-Jazeera
MEMRI ^ | May 17 2007
Syrian liberal author Nidhal Na’isa began his career in journalism as a teenager, at the government dailies Al-Thawra and Syria
Times,(1) but today he is a vocal opponent of the Arab regimes and the pan-Arab
ideology, as well as of Islamism and Islamist terrorism. He has written that due
to the Islamist “tsunami,” the Middle East could be declared an “intellectual
disaster zone”; that if one were to try to sell pan-Arab identity to “the
bushmen and the cannibals” they wouldn’t buy it; and that the pan-Arab media is
“a harbinger of ill, pain, and destruction.” In contrast, he praises the West
for its humanism and its respect for the individual, and writes that, given the
current state of affairs in the Arab world, the real question is not “why does
the West hate us?” but rather why it does not.
The following are excerpts
from some of Nidhal Na’isa’s recent articles:
“We Could Declare [The Middle
East] an Intellectual Disaster Zone After the Surging Fundamentalist Tsunami
Swept Through”
In an interview published April 23, 2007 on the liberal Arab
website Aafaq, Na’isa discussed the Islamist phenomenon:
“The world is swept
up in globalization, whereas our unfortunate regions are being swept up
everywhere by fundamentalism. We could declare [the Middle East] an intellectual
disaster area after the surging fundamentalist tsunami swept through it.
“This is a wave that came after the slaughter, on the debris of the failure
and disintegration of the leftist pan-Arab projects, [when] their intellectual
hollowness and the superficiality of their proposals… became evident…
“Fundamentalism is a notion that disturbs the sleep of everybody concerned
with the present and the future of this region. All of us are fundamentalists,
when fundamentalism is taken in the sense of tenacious clinging to [our] opinion
and rejection of the other. I see fundamentalism on the faces of all, in their
thoughts and proposals. Nobody comes to terms with the other; no one pays
attention to anyone else. In my view, this is fundamentalism in its more
important and fuller meaning…”
“In Our Totalitarian Societies… Leaving
[the Fold of] Collective Thought is Considered Error, Heresy, and Atheism”
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP159007
Arabism & Islamism
Pan Arabism, While Aflaq was a Greek Orthodox Christian, Ba’ath ideology adopted an affinity for Islam, and Pan-Arabists saw one of their goals as asserting the primacy …
http://www.mideastweb.org/Middle-East-Encyclopedia/pan-arabism.htm
Identities, Interests, and Pan-Arabism …the interplay among pan-Arabism (with the Palestinian issue as a bond), pan-Islam, and national interests have often produced tensions…
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p99972_index.html
Who is driving non Arab minorities out of Iraq? … This was planned by the Arab nationalist, pan-Arabists, and the Islamists, assisted by factions of the …
http://www.christiansofiraq.com/whoisdriving-assyrians-outof-iraq.html
…crisis in Darfur… calling the crisis by its real name — genocide — but its true origins in the twin ideologies of Islamism and pan-Arabism…
Pan-Arab fascism, conveniently cloaked in the pseudo-religious mystique of the Islamist jihad
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11777086&Itemid=347
We want to Islamise America and Arabise Africa “We want to Islamise America and Arabise Africa.” – Hassan El-Turabi, chief ideologue of Jellaba-Arab minority rule in Sudan, 1999, quoted in [Peter Adwok Nyaba, “Afro-Arab Conflict in the 21st century”, Tinabantu, Journal of African National Affairs Vol 1 No 1. 2002, p. 27.
Holding Islam Accountable – June 29, 2006 – Indeed, even the ostensibly secular doctrine of pan-Arabism has been effectively Islamic in its ethos, worldview, and imperialist vision. …
http://www.nysun.com/arts/holding-islam-accountable/35251/
Radical Islamism has common ideological roots with Pan Arabism, …
http://www.mideastweb.org/islamhistory.htm
Syrian Liberal Nidhal Na’isa On the West, Pan-Arabism, Islamism, and Al-Jazeera…
Syrian liberal author Nidhal Na’isa began his career in journalism as a teenager, at the government dailies Al-Thawra and Syria Times, but today he is a vocal opponent of the Arab regimes and the pan-Arab ideology, as well as of Islamism and Islamist terrorism. He has written that due to the Islamist “tsunami,” the Middle East could be declared an “intellectual disaster zone”; that if one were to try to sell pan-Arab identity to “the bushmen and the cannibals” they wouldn’t buy it; and that the pan-Arab media is “a harbinger of ill, pain, and destruction.” In contrast, he praises the West for its humanism and its respect for the individual, and writes that, given the current state of affairs in the Arab world, the real question is not “why does the West hate us?” but rather why it does not.
[…]
The lying pan-Arabist, Islamist-propagandist media will never succeed in creating saints and martyrs out of slaughterers, butchers, and hired killers…
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2207.htm
Ma’oz, M., ‘Islamic-Arabism versus Pluralism; the Failure of Intergroup Accommodation in the Middle East’, in N. Rhoudie (ed.) Intergroup Accommodation in Plural Societies (London Macmillan), 115-42.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q0KGYMTtsK4C&pg=PA178
http://gulenconference.net/files/NL/Bibliography.pdf
Demonizing the other: antisemitism, racism & xenophobia – Robert S. Wistrich – 1999 – Social Science – 373 pages (p. 315)
Underlying the viewpoint of both Pan-Arabism and Islamism is the assumption that political soveignty for minorities in the Middle East has no legitimacy. Contemporary Islamists derive this negation from classical Muslim political theory, which would extend protection and tolerance to monotheistic minorities, provided they do not attempt to transcend their legal and social inferiority.
These minorities (Jews and Christians) are denied any measure of political sovereignty on principle, since only Muslim nation is entitled to this and any alternative would undermine the subjection and inferiority of non-Muslims to Muslim rule… a profound belief in the exclusive cultural letgitimacy and superiority of Islam
http://books.google.com/books?id=iyn6JKv5tQ0C&pg=PA315
It’s an Arab Nationalist Thing
Osama’s Islamism and Saddam’s Baathism are more alike than you think.
Muslim Brethren… Hasan al-Banna incorporated pan-Arabism within his Islamic ideology in view of Arabism’s growing appeal in Egypt at the time. …
http://www.tau.ac.il/dayancenter/d&a-hamas-litvak.htm
http://www.informaworld.com/index/788895371.pdf
Arabism is also intertwined with Islam in many respects. Although many of its early champions were Christian, Arabism’s symbols often drew from Islam
http://www.comw.org/warreport/fulltext/0709todd.pdf
The Confrontation: Winning the War Against Future Jihad – Page 109
(Walid Phares – 2009 – 304 pages)
Along with Nazism in the West and Stalinism in the East, ultra-Arabism and Jihadism have been responsible for widespread persecution and genocide. But while Nazism and Soviet Communism have disappeared, Jihadi oppression of minorities is still alive. The brutal regimes and elites continue to ignore the plight of oppressed groups and to deny genocides already perpetrated… minorities are victims… among … minorities (and better known to the public in the west) are the Kurds, the Berbers, and the Africans…The Berbers, the pre-Arab native peoples of North Africa, were particularly marginalized in Algeria after the after the withdrawal of the French in the early 1960s. Denied cultural autonomy, they rose against oppression multiple times only to be suppressed by the Arab nationalist regime in Algiers… In Sudan, one can see extremism in the guise of racism merging with radicalism in ideology — another marriage of Arab ultranationalism and Islamic fundamentalism… The result, as in the previous examples, is an extreme, inhuman treatment of a minority.
http://books.google.com/books?id=DTc2ACWFt18C&pg=PA109
Sudan: A History in Three-Part Disharmony (Part I) | Human Rights …Oct 6, 2008 … The conflict is typically characterized as between the predominately Arab/Muslim North and the non-Arab/Muslim “African” South, …
http://humanrights.change.org/blog/view/sudan_a_history_in_three-part_disharmony_part_i
By Lee Smith
Posted Friday, Oct. 22, 2004, at 6:02 PM ET
… ‘Aflaq was a Christian (although he is rumored to have converted to Islam before his death), but as Joshua Landis, a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma specializing in Syria, explains in his Weblog, ‘Aflaq believed that the Baath Party “would never appeal to the broad masses of the Sunni heartland without making it perfectly clear that Baathism was not secular… He directed non-Muslim Arabs to ‘attach themselves to Islam and to the most precious element of their Arabness, the Prophet Muhammad,’ for he was the greatest Arab nationalist.”
http://www.slate.com/id/2108576/
Aflaq… Islam in its origin grew out of Arabism and as ‘the most eloquent expression of its genius’.
http://books.google.com/books?id=4xiI0Q-fHzEC&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159
Sudan defence minister breaks down crying …Bashir regime fought for Islamo fascism-arabism and islamism.
http://sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25862
Title African affairs, Volume 107, Author Royal African Society, Publisher Published for the Royal African Society by the Oxford University Press, 2008, p.27)
The Darfur conflict, raging since 2003, has given new urgency to questions about Arabism, Islam and race in Sudan…
(p. 28) …racism is manifested by Arabs’ derogatory use of term ‘abid (‘slaves’) – and what the Northern Sudanese writer Mansur Khalid called ‘a series of [other] unprintable slurs’ — to applly to western and southern peoples. This Arabism is ideological…
http://books.google.com/books?id=L9wbAQAAIAAJ&q=racist+arabism
The Near East since the First World War: a history to 1995 – Page 113
by Malcolm Yapp – History – 1996 – 597 pages
…Another Fascist style organization was… … (the Helpers) founded in 1937 and emphasising Islam and Arabism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=BextAAAAMAAJ&q=arabism+fascism
Out of step: life-story of a politician : politics and religion in a world … – Page 162
by Jack Brian Bloom – Antisemitism – 2005 – 391 pages
Extreme examples of negative moral behaviour are sown from Western media and presented as the daily reality of Western society. Such broadcasts try to prove that Arabs and Muslims in general are superior to Christians and Jews
http://books.google.com/books?id=Kr2gAAAAMAAJ&q=superior&pgis=1
A democratic kick at the evil twins [2005]… There are many historic, cultural and religious barriers to progress and the region still includes despotic regimes — such as Libya, Tunisia, Sudan, Syria, and Iran — that are frozen in time. Nevertheless, there is, for the first time in perhaps a century, with the impending death of Islamism and pan-Arabism, a chance that freedom could emerge as the big idea in Middle Eastern politics.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article425596.ece
Darfur and Islam as a vehicle for Arab supremacism. The mass-murders in Darfur (or Dar Fur, as Carl Geiger Pasha and everyone …
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/017472.php
Symposium: Darfur – Islam’s Killing Fields, The Darfur genocide, I believe, must be viewed not solely as a case of an Islamic jihad, but also as a case of Arab racism..
http://www.wadinet.de/news/iraq/newsarticle.php?id=166
Islamic Imperialism… by Efraim Karsh/Hugh Hewitt. The upsurge of Islamic jihad around the world has …. The post-colonial rise of “pan-Arabism” and the Arab imperial dream …
http://www.conservativebookclub.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6895
War of Islam against Minorities in the Middle East. The Religious Core of the
Civilizational Clash … the program of Islamization and Arabization remains at
the core…
http://www.jerusalemsummit.org/eng/full.php?speaker=111&id=43
ISLAMO-FASCISM
The fascist-Arab states of Syria and Iraq are closest to the Mussolini model, the Baath Parties that rule them having drawn explicitly on Nazism especially (we sent long commentaries and documents on this before, including the role of the Mufti of Jerusalem, the spiritual head of the Palestinian people, who lived in Berlin in WWII, was a fervent Nazi enthusiast, helped form the mass-exterminating Haader SS-Division among Bosnia Muslims, and urged that the extermination of the Jewish people be practiced in the Middle East. The Mufti in turn influenced Yasser Arafat directly, to the point he claimed that Arafat was a blood relation, and Colonel Nasser of Egypt, the leading Pan-Arabist of the 1950s and 1960s). About all that distinguishes the two regimes is that Saddam Hussein is a much more megalomanical risk-taking sociopath, as compared to his rival in Syria, Hafez al-Assad, a militarist who seized power and ruled as an autocrat in that country from 1971 until 2000 when he died, his successor al-Assad-Jr, or Jr himself. On a different level, Syria’s economy has only limited petroleum sources, and hence limited funds for its WMD programs, whereas Iraq has the largest petroleum reserves in the Middle East next to Saudi Arabia’s.
The Iranian clerical regime is much more like the clerical-fascist regimes of East Europe that allied with the Nazis in WWII. Its official hostility to the West is supplemented by its devotion to an extreme form of radical Shia Islam, along with constant support for Islamist terrorisms. Beginning in the mid-1990s, elections were held — with the mullahs-in-charge weeding out political parties they opposed — and to the diehards’ surprise, moderate mullahs and their supporters favoring more freedom came to power in parliament and the presidency. Since then, a stark backlash — including assassination of reformers, initimidation of others, and intensified secret police repression and jailings — has undermined most of the hopes attached by the masses of Iranians, shown even in government-sponsored polls to hate or oppose the regime, for peaceful change.
Taliban Afghanistan comes the closest to a brutal, violence-worshipping regime, hoping to use terrorism as a means of destroying Western influence and restoring somehow the glory of Islam and purified Sunni Islam (very close to Wahhabi Islam in Saudi Arabia) to a dominant role in the world. As with the Iranians, those in Afghanistan who lived under brutal Islamist radical-fascism have learned to hate and despite their oppressors.
http://www.thebuggyprofessor.org/archives/00000013.php
Monday, March 6, 2006
President al-Assad Speech At the Arab Parties General Conference…
President Bashar al-Assad said that
the Arabs derived their strength from two main sources, the first of which
is Islam which is strongly connected with Arabism…
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=28701
The Syria-Iran Allianceby Tony Badran
inFocus
Spring 2009
…Today, Syrian officials, including Bashar al-Assad, routinely talk about Arabism and Islam as twin pillars of strength. The product of this amalgam can be seen in the discourse of Hezbollah, which is sponsored both by Damascus and Tehran. Hezbollah reinforces this ideological marriage by marketing its brand of “resistance” to the broader Sunni Arab world via al-Manar television and other sophisticated public relations outlets. The group’s narrative of “resistance” is today the common ideological banner of the Syrian-Iranian axis.
http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/825/the-syria-iran-alliance
…As the discussion of “democratization” of the Middle East continues, an important point that must be made time and time again, is the importance in building structures that liberate the minorities of the region from oppression. Non-Arab and Non-Muslim minorities live throughout North Africa and the Middle East. Contrary to the propaganda that the region is Arab/Muslim, these minorities are remnants of the indigenous peoples, before the great Arab imperialist wars of the 7th century, and “Islamicization process” that followed. Non-Arab Muslims like the Kurds in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran; the Berbers – known as Amazighes – in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, have all resisted “Arabization” for over 1,000 years. Non-Muslims like the Assyrian Christians in Iraq – who argue that they are not Arabs – the Copts in Egypt, Christian Lebanese – many who claim not to be Arab but Phoenician – the Christians in Sudan, and other Christians throughout the region, have been persecuted minorities, since the rise of Islam. Others like the Druze and Jews have also been persecuted by Arab/Muslim regimes throughout history. And we can now see, from the recent Sunni terror attacks on Shiites in Iraq – and Bin Laden’s recent statements that Shiites are heretics – that even some Muslims – Shiites and other non-Sunnis – are persecuted minorities in parts of the Middle East.
Only Israel, the Jewish State, has fully liberated itself – in the political sense – from this Arab/Muslim oppression, although it still suffers from physical violence against her people…
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0304/0304syriakurd.htm
Arabization of Africa, and Its Killing Fields – by Bankie F. Bankie
March 27, 2009
- We Will Islamize America and Arabize Africa – Dr Hassan Abdallah Turabi from Darfur, Sudan
The whittling away of the remains of settler colonialism is proceeding with the increased development of Southern Africa. There is no parallel process of decolonisation in the Afro-Arab Borderlands, rather an internationally co-ordinated aggressive action is underway, to coral the Sudan liberation movements in places such as Darfur and in eastern Sudan, into a peace ‘laager’, with the generous dispensation of petro-dollars.
Given that the area of ‘ambiguous relations'(i.e. the Afro-Arab Borderlands) has been pushed southwards into the Sudan as a result of hundreds of years of interaction, it would be illogical to expect such a process of encroachment to stop from one moment to the other.
The push southwards by the same forces in the West African region, explains the tensions in the Ivory Coast, and the generalised fighting which took place in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Charles Taylor and Foday Sankor were trained in warfare and met in Libya.
It was Turabi, who exercised power in the first half of current Sudan President Bashir’s rule, who pursued a deliberate policy of implanting Islam in north America, whilst Arabization was spearheaded in Africa.
It was Turabi who sent some two thousand post-graduate northern Sudanese students to the US with instructions to form friendships with African Americans. Many of these graduates are now in the public service of Sudan.
As it happens, the Nation of Islam, led by Louis Farrakan in the USA, grouping Black Muslims in north America, has pursued a policy of support for the Khartoum regime, having taken material assistance from Khartoum.
Farrakan has gone so far as to say there is no slavery in Sudan, opposing the Writ issue against Bashir. This has affected African-American understanding and concerns about matters in Sudan. So that those demonstrating in the US against genocide in Darfur have been noticeably white.
In Africa, Arabization proceeds apace and now endangers African overall security. This we see in Somalia, where Sharia Law is being introduced.
Whereas Somalia has long been Islamic, it always was a united entity, before the collapse brought on by its last military ruler Siad Barre. It had one language and an African culture. This is now being changed. It will not stop in Somalia. Arabization will be pushed further south deep into Black Africa.
Arabia has used the so called ‘peace pact’ to its advantage, as a strategy to relentlessly push its influence southwards. It was used effectively by the Lord Resistance Army (LRA).
Like with the UNITA movement of Jonas Savimbi in Angola, the tactical use of the temporary cessation of hostilities, to lull the opposition into a non-combative posture, creating a breathing space, whilst restocking and preparing for the next offensive, is as old as time itself. Such ceasefires do not last.
The attempts by certain quarters to withhold the Writ to be issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Joseph Kony of the LRA, defeated the ends of justice and permitted him to relocate from south Sudan to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the bloody costs of the Congolese and the people of the Central African Republic.
This relocation needs further investigation. There was a time before 2005 and the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), between the Khartoum government and south Sudan, when Kony lived in Juba, which was then a garrison town controlled by Khartoum, under the protection of the Bashir government in Khartoum. Who is to say that Kony is still not financed by Khartoum?
The relentless push southwards by Arabia has never abated — indeed some westerners would say that the major new pre-occupation in international relations at the turn of the century was the global Jihad, which emerged as a counterpoint to the existence of Israel, spreading outside of the Middle East and African theatres, to terrorise the world.
In Africa, current developments in Somalia are cause for sober reflection. Whereas the Somalis in their majority are Muslims, Somalia was known, before the current difficulties, as an integrated society, with one culture and one language, Somali.
What is unfolding, under the noses of the African Union (AU) Peacekeepers, is the annexation of Somalia into the Arab League, Arabia and the Arabian zone of influence — that is the Arabization of Somalia.
Such annexation is precisely what the south of Sudan fought against for some 39 years.
The question is, will Africa south of the Sahara, on this occasion, yet again, be compliant, watching this process without registering protest?
The current Libyan ‘King of Kings’ of the AU, can hardly be expected to intervene in such an issue, going on his past record of intervention in places such as Tchad and Sudan. The supreme dilemma of Chairman Ping of the AU must be, what to tell the peacekeepers in Somalia, is their mission.
Apart from maintaining the peace, why are the belligerents fighting, why are they (peacekeepers) being attacked? What is the root cause of the conflict in the country? History teaches us that soldiers, at the cost of their lives, always return home to inform what were the stakes in the fighting. Usually this has a radicalising impact on the home population.
The era of denial about the truths of the Borderlands is over. If the lessons were not learnt through the history, the contemporary period is littered with case studies in southern Sudan and Darfur, not to mention northern Tchad (Tibesti), northern Niger, northern Mali, Mauritania and now Somalia. The lid can no longer be kept on. The truth is out.
The inquiries of the ICC into mass murder in the Borderlands creates the precedent, which changes the equation in the area. The attempted elimination of the Fur, the Masalit and the Zaghawa ethnic groups of Darfur is an exercise in ethnic cleansing, in the pursuit of demographic change, in order to Arabize Darfur. A similar project was run in south Sudan for some 39 years and is also now underway, which has received scant attention, in Nubia, northern Sudan, where millions are affected.
In Nubia, the intent of Khartoum is to move the Black Nubians off their lands and to resettle them elsewhere, whilst bringing in millions of Egyptian peasants, for settlement.
The purpose of all these operations is to ultimately make Sudan an Arab country, in terms of its majority population. This initiative has been on, in surges, for a millennium. Having failed to conquer south Sudan, the Arabist/Islamist global force, the same operating in Afghanistan, is moving to annex Somalia.
After Somalia they will move further southwards. Some are saying they will thereafter target central Africa.
In this connection it is worth recounting the words of Joseph Lagu, the south Sudanese Anya-nya leader, on page 339 of his book ‘Sudan odyssey through a state – From ruin to hope’, a 2006 publication. Concerning his interaction with Col Muamar Gaddafi during an official Sudanese visit to Libya in 1975, he recounts:
‘He (Col Gaddafi) told us that other Arab leaders and he would like to develop Southern Sudan, but for that to be possible we should allow the South to be Islamised and Arabised. He said that he did not mean that we leaders should change our religion, for he knew we were already Christians. He said he referred to those without religious affiliation that formed the bulk of the population. He told us that for him to get Arab funds for the development of the South, he needed to tell the Arabs that Southern leaders accepted the Islamisation of the South. He made it clear to us that Arabs consider their aid to other people in that perspective’.
In effect what is being posited here is that there can be no peace in the Borderlands, without a structural change in Afro-Arab relations and that such a realignment must incorporate not only the admission of guilt but also atonement.
There cannot be closure without an opening by the wrong-doer, to enable review and judgement. These are prima facie requirements to begin the Afro-Arab civilisation dialogue. Without atonement space is created for Great Power intervention in the Sahel.
Slavery has existed in all the ancient civilizations[…].
With both Arab and European slavery, Africans were not the machines, but the cogs in a process whose outcome was unknown to them. The denial of their languages and cultures in effect denationalised the Africans, turning them into assimilados and Black Arabs.
However, in Arabia Black Muslims are not accorded the same status as pure Arabs. They are referred, even in Mecca during the Haj, as ‘abed’, meaning slave. Whereas in the western world the human rights concept has made possible an Obama, in Arabia such a phenomenon, of a Black president is inconceivable, such is the level of racism.
In Arabia and amongst Arabs, anti-Black racism is a fact of life, be it in Libya or in Egypt. So that Africans, who, by colonial design, are ruled by Arabs, as is the case in south Sudan and Mauritania, for example, are the subjects of an apartheid system which is even more oppressive, due to Arabia’s lack of enlightenment, than the racist system which was in place in southern Africa.
All need to take cognizance of this fact, especially those concerned with human rights issues. It is only today that the moral guardians, in places such as the Hague, have steered themselves to scrutinize what is an historic reality known by all who live in the Borderlands, that over centuries Africans have been the targets of genocide and slavery in the Borderlands, otherwise known as the ‘killing fields’ for Africans, because historically speaking, that is what the Sahel has been.
It was not a melting pot, but an area of agony, sorrow, distress and death as slave convoys walked northwards to their fate. The truths of this area are now exposed in the mass slaughter perpetrated in south Sudan, Darfur and elsewhere.
Northern Sudanese, who pride themselves as being Arabs, more Arab than the Arabs of the Middle East, are considered second class Arabs in Arabia, because of their dark pigmentation. Northern Sudanese such as President Bashir of Sudan would have been classified, in the Southern African context, as ‘coloureds’. They are a mixture of Arab and African.
Indeed, Bashir is a Falata, that is a northern Sudanese of Nigerian Fulani extraction.
It needs to be said that since the time of the establishment of Islam in Mecca in present day Saudi Arabia, pilgrims from west Africa, particularly from Nigeria, have been passing through northern Sudan on their way to Mecca. Many stayed on in the Holy Lands. Many also settled in northern Sudan.
The historical links between northern Sudan and Nigeria are umbilical, such that Nigeria cannot be indifferent to developments in Sudan in general. It goes further than that. There are ties of kinship between the Hausa/Fulani of Nigeria and the people of Darfur traced back over hundreds of years.
Due to Islam/Arabization and Sudan’s strategic location on the Nile, the northern Sudanese have taken on a persona, especially under the leadership of Bashir’s National Islamic Front (NIF)/National Congress Party (NCP), of being the guardians of Arab hegemony in the eastern Sahel and of being more Arab than the Arabs of the Middle East, despite their second class status in Arabia.
Logically, it could be analysed that the northern Sudanese act as the advance guard, to protect and push forward Arab and Islamic interests into east Africa.
In that cause they have and continue to be the guardians of Arab interests in Africa, on which basis they obtain the support of Arab interests and finance worldwide.
One of the principal executioners in the promotion of this policy is Salah Gosh, Head of Sudan’s National Security and Intelligence Service, who recently told an audience celebrating his promotion to Field Marshal:
‘ We (the government) were Islamic extremist then became moderate and civilized believing in peace and life for everyone.
“However we will revert back ( if the Writ of the ICC is issued against President Bashir ) to how we were if necessary.”
He continued:
‘Anyone who attempts to put his hand to execute (ICC) plans we will cut his hands, head and parts because it is a non-negotiable issue.’
The Sudanese scholar Yusuf Fadl Hassan ‘On the historical roots of Afro-Arab relations’ stated in ‘The Arabs and Africa’ (1985):
‘Slavery is slavery and cannot be beautified by cosmetics. It left an extreme bitterness in the central parts of the [African] continent against the Arab minority which lived on the coast. Because this issue disturbs Afro-Arab relations it should be studied courageously and objectively’.
Arab-led slavery of Africans in the past and in the present goes to the core of the relationship of Africans with Arabs, it is an issue that both Africans and Arabs frequently treat as a matter to be hushed up because of the embarrassing reaction it generates…
http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=3347
“We want to Islamize America and Arabize Africa” Hassan al-Turabi told the Cairo Times. (Cairo Times 9/Feb/99)
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Newsletters/sdup104.html
THE ROLE OF ARAB-ISLAMIC ELITE IN MATTERS OF WAR AND PEACE: NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONSHIP-Conclusions By Charles Deng 6/25/2005
…The Arab-Islamic elite holds the view that it has a messianic mission to Islamize and arabize the South Sudan, in particular, and Africa, in general. The battle cry of the Arab-Islamic elite is total and comprehensive arbization and islamization of the South, and hence South becoming a stepping-stone into Africa. Our northern brothers have promised their Arabs “kinsmen”, to arabized and Islamize the South, and a lot of petrodollars have gone into this project, but with no success.
This has been the solution adopted by the ruling and non-ruling Arab-Islamic elite to the problem of diversity in the Sudan. In an interview with al-Sayyad, a weekly Lebanese magazine 1988, the Islamic ideologue, al-Turabi said: “it was our destiny that we (meaning the so-called Arabs) have been tested (perhaps, by God) with a complex structured country, almost representative of African peoples, with its languages, ethnicities, and traditions”. Diversity, which sensible people would consider as a source of power and admiration, becomes, in the view of al-Turabi, a trial by God. In a lecture in one of the Gulf emirates, titled “The Future of Islam and Arabism in Sudan” (Mustagbl al-Islam wa al Arouba fi Sudan), al-Sadig al-Mahdi proposed forcible Arabization and Islamization of Southern Sudan. The implementation of this project required Ghazi Salah Atabani to shout at the SPLM/A delegation and IGAD diplomats during peace talks in 1997 that southerners “would neither get secularism nor independence” and that “the Sudan’s mission was to islamize Africa”. It also required the philosopher of political Islam Abdel Wahab El-Effendi to admit that South can go its separate way, but the problem was the “Heathen jungles of Africa”.
Regardless of what the northern Arabs thought or planned for the country, southerners have had different ideas about the Sudan. No dignified people (and southerners are dignified people, even if the Arabs may think otherwise) could allow others to copy them like the sheep dolly. Southerners decided that they were not going to sit on their hands, blaming colonial inequities in their country or blaming invisible enemies, but to resist the new masters, while making the statement that there are better ways to govern a country in the size of a continent like the Sudan. Southern politicians made it abundantly clear that if such Sudan cannot be achieved, the partition of the country would be more justified and sensible. Over the last fifty years, the north has refused equality of the citizens of Sudan or the partition of the country. During this period millions of lives have been lost, precious and scarce resources have been wasted and the country has lost forever the opportunity of being the pioneer of diversity in Africa, a source of strength. Northerners who belong to political Islam (NIF and Umma Party of al-Sadig al-Mahdi) think that they are culturally superior and entitled to rule, and that God Himself has sanctioned their superiority through Islam. While those who belong to Arab nationalism (SCP, Baathists, Nasser followers) think that they are culturally superior and entitled to rule, and Arabic language has sanctioned that superiority.
http://www.sudaneseonline.com/earticle2005/jun25-65880.shtml
‘The Foundation for Constitutional Democracy’ – Democratizing Islam
… In short, Arabic, which supplanted Latin, Greek, and other languages, made the Arab-Islamic Empire possible. It not only endowed Arabs with their sense of superiority, but it also heightened their aggressive and imperialistic ambitions vis-à-vis non-Muslim nations. Bearing this in mind, let us turn to Turkey.
Some eighty years ago, Kemel Ataturk revolutionized Turkey, a non-Arab but Muslim regime, once the heart of the Ottoman Empire. Ataturk removed Arabic from public life in Turkey, especially from public law and public education. Turkish became the only official language of the state. This had two basic consequences. First, it served to undermine among Turkish citizens any identity with the Arab world. Second, it facilitated the separation of religion and state, the effect of which was to make Turkey the only democratic state whose population is overwhelmingly Muslim.
Accordingly, any Muslim country today whose population, like Turkey’s, is non-Arab, should be induced to remove Arabic from its public law and public education and make its own native language the only official language of the state. This will simultaneously counteract pan-Arab and pan-Islamic movements as well as international terrorism. It will also facilitate democratization of Muslim countries
http://foundation1.org/wp-en/2002/01/01/democratizing-islam-5/
In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power – by Daniel Pipes – 2003 [Page 153]
The Arab case holds special interest, … From an Islamicate perspective, however, the Arab urge for unity is simply accounted for. Pan-Arabism rather exactly includes pan-Islamic and nationalist elements; it is a nationalized version of pan-Islamic solidarity, Its appeal to the unity of Muslims recall pan-Islam, while its stress on language as the definition of political identity recalls nationalism.
The idea of Arab unity taps a key Islamicate tradition. It is no coincidence that the pan-Arabists refer to the Arab nation as the umma ‘Arabiya, the Arab umma. Pan-Arabism shares other important qualities with pan-Islam…
http://books.google.com/books?id=x4oNgMS3n6IC&pg=PA153
1943 Amin Al-Husseini is made Prime Minister of Pan-Arab Government by Nazi regime. His headquarters are in Berlin.
http://tellthechildrenthetruth.com/amin_en.html
Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini, also known to history as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was a pioneer of pan-Arab nationalism in the early part of the 20th century. Born into an aristocratic family in 1895, Al-Husseini )
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Total/islamfascist.htm
Shortly after World War II broke out in 1939, the Mufti of Jerusalem crafted a strategic alliance with Hitler to exchange Iraqi oil for active Arab and Islamic participation in the murder of Jews in the Mideast and Eastern Europe. This was predicated on support for a pan-Arab state and Arab control over Palestine.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-01-08/opinion/17275472_1_third-reich-hitler-iran
Once the mufti relocated permanently to Berlin, where he established his own Reich-supported “bureau,” he was given airtime on Radio Berlin. From Berlin and other fascist capitals in Europe, the mufti continued to agitate for the destruction of international Jewry, as well as a pan-Arab and pan-Islamic alliance with the Nazi regime.
He called upon all Muslims to “kill the Jews wherever you see them.” In Tehran’s marketplace, it was common to see placards that declared, “In heaven, Allah is your master. On Earth, it is Adolf Hitler.”
http://www.bankingonbaghdad.com/archive/IranDenial/WJW122205/
From Berlin and other fascist capitals in Europe, the mufti continued to agitate for the destruction of international Jewry, as well as a pan-Arab and …
http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/19564.html
Muftism, the poisonous and fanatic legacy of Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, continues to maintain a firm grip in the Arab mind and the Arab world today much to the determent of both the Arab peoples who are forced to live under the regressive socialist jack-boot of Mufti inspired regimes and to the possibility of peace between the Israelis and the Arabs. After the defeat of the Mufti’s Nazi sponsors in 1945, the Soviet Union and the international left largely filled the power vacuum and the left remains the primary booster of Muftism in the Arab and Islamic world today. Muftism bears a large responsibility for modern terrorism and fanatic Islamic movements. While Europe was largely de-Nazified after the war, Muftism, or Arab-Islamic Nazism remains a major political and philosophical force. Arab peoples continue to
groan under Nazi-Arab oppressive regimes and Mufti influenced pan-Arabists continue to wage war against non-Islamic nations and peoples.
http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/mohammedism/mohammedism21.html
To get allies, the Mufti emphasized pan-Arabism and Pan-Islamism, not Palestinian identity. “In the early 1930s, he stressed pan- Islamism, which was entirely consistent with the fanatical religious intolerance that had been the key to his rise to power among the Palestinian Arabs (west of the Jordan R.). But as Britain and the League (of Nations) got weak, he did call for an independent state in Palestine. (You can guess whom he expected to run it.) He also called for an end to Jewish immigration and reprisals against Moslems who sell land to Jews.
http://radiobergen.eu/jerusalem/shulmufti.html
Muslim Anti-Semitism: Historical Background by R Breitman – 2007
Arabs similar to what the Nazis had done to the Jews.. The most obvious link between the Nazis and pan-Arab radicals such as Haj. Amin al-Husseini was the …
http://www.springerlink.com/index/A3756H3575802617.pdf
Independent Iraq, 1932-1958: a study in Iraqi politics – Page 189
Haddad left Baghdad on 22 January 1941 and arrived in Ankara on 25 January. He reached Berlin via Rome on 12 February, armed with a letter from the Mufti to the Fuhrer (dated 20 January) in which he stated Arab national aspirations…
(http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=10266758)
…the Mufti became a paid agent of the Nazi Abwehr and was put in charge of counterintelligence and sabotage. When the British stopped an Abwher shipment of arms to the Mufti in Palestine, through Saudi Arabia and Iraq, the Mufti re-located to Baghdad, where he directed Arab and Nazi finance, diplomacy and propaganda. In 1941, the Mufti inspired a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq led by General Rashid Ali. Collaborating with his masters in Berlin, he would declare a Jihad against Britain, which he called “the greatest foe of Islam.” The British backed a successful counter-coup and the Mufti proceeded on to Berlin, where he was appointed by the Nazis as titular head of a Nazi pan-Arab government-in-exile.
Right after the 1942 Allied victory in El Alamein, Jerusalem’s grand mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, took to the airwaves and broadcast in Arabic from Berlin. At that time he already was “prime minister” of a pan-Arab government formed in the German capital. His foreign minister was exiled Iraqi leader Rashid Ali al-Kilani and his war minister, Fawsi al-Kaukji.
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/husseini.html
When Islamic Radicalism, Fascism and Arab Nationalism Collide: Haj …Husseini is a perfect manifestation of how jihadists, violent Arab nationalists and fascists collide…
http://www.faoa.org/journal/HajjHusseini.html
Basil H. Aboul-Enein and Youssef Aboul-Enein (2005) ‘When Islamic Radicalism, Fascism and Arab Nationalism Collide: Haj Amin Husseini, the Axis Palestinian Leader of World War II’, Foreign Area Officer Association Journal.
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=369
THE NAZI CONNECTION TO ISLAMIC TERRORISM
By Samuel Blumenfeld
April 15, 2004
NewsWithViews.com
Chuck Morse’s latest book, The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism, Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini, provides the clearest, most incisive history of how Islamo-fascism and Jihad terrorism have become the dominant political philosophy in the Arab world. It is the untold story of how Nazism took root in the Islamic world through the untiring efforts of the Mufti of Jerusalem whose aim it was to destroy the Jews in Palestine. Morse writes:
The Nazi Holocaust appears to have kicked into high gear on November 25, 1941 during a Berlin meeting between the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini (1895-1974) and the Nazi Fuhrer of Germany, Adolf Hitler. At that well-documented meeting, Hitler promised al-Husseini, the Palestinian pan-Arab leader, that after securing a dominant military position in Europe, he would send the Wehrmacht, the Nazi war machine, on a blitzkrieg across the Caucasus and into the Arab world under the guise of liberating the Arabs from British occupation.
It should be noted that merely two months after the Hitler-Husseini meeting, the famous Wansee Conference took place in which the Nazis produced their plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe…
After reading this book you will have no trouble understanding the origin of Islamo-fascism and Jihad terrorism. The author has packed the book with detailed documentation as well as photographs showing Husseini inspecting his Nazi-Muslim troops. Morse shows how Husseini’s legacy of hate and murder and his aim to destroy Israel have been carried forth by Arafat and his murderous Palestinian terrorists right to the present.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Blumenfeld
Amazon.com: Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots …Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 traces the impact of European fascism and Nazism on Arab and Islamic activists. …
http://www.amazon.com/Jihad-Jew-Hatred-Islamism-Nazism-Roots/dp/0914386360
Why Islamism is Fascism – explained by an Arab… One hears clear indications of anti-Semitism, in which Jews are singled out for hatred merely on account of their being Jews… In the absence of progressive socialist support, Arab nationalism is in danger of falling into the waiting arms of fascism….
http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2008/03/why-islamism-is-fascism-explained-by.html
The Real Arab School Fear [May 22, 2007 – The New York Sun] … real objection to KGIA involves the school’s inculcating pan-Arabism and radical Islam.
http://www.hoover.org/pubaffairs/dailyreport/archive/7627221.html
A Madrasa Grows In Brooklyn – HUMAN EVENTS Apr 26, 2007 … Opening an Arabic-language school in America seems like a good idea, … Permeating lectures and carefully-designed grammatical drills, Middlebury instructors push the idea that Arab identity trumps local identities and that respect for minority ethnic and sectarian communities betrays Arabism.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20420
The Arabist and Islamist Baggage of Arabic Language Instruction
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2007/03/the-arabist-and-islamist-baggage-of-arabic.html
The Free Copts – Arab Intellectual on the Worsening Situation of …This excludes Christians almost completely from the dominant Islamic Arabism – to the point where, in some countries, Christian teachers have been banned …
http://freecopts.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=109
Iran Politics Club: Pan Iranism and Islam (Pan Arabism)! – Ahreeman X Iranian pundit: Pan Iranism and Islam (Pan Arabism)!, Definition of Pan Arabism:
Pan Arabism = Expansion of Arab Nation via unification of All Arab countries via tool of Islam as a primary step. The secondary step will be revival and recreation of the Islamic Empire
http://iranpoliticsclub.net/history/pan-iranism/index.htm
The Middle East reader – Page 23
Michael Curtis – 1986 – 485 pages
The Arabs are, of course, also very much bound together by a common religious heritage. Indeed, Islam is a core ingredient of Pan-Arabism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=kzrFOhXDp5wC&pg=PA23
Islam and politics – Page 77
John L. Esposito – 1998 – 393 pages
Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz (1913-72) argued that Arab nationalism and Islam were in perfect harmony because Islam is the national religion of the Arabs… Al-Bazzaz maintained that the dualism (spiritual vs. temporal) of Western Christendom is unknown to true Islam. For al-Bazzaz, Arabism and Islam are inextricably intertwined because the Arabs have been the backbone of Islam — the Quran …
http://books.google.com/books?id=SlhxoTHLxeMC&pg=PA77
The Nigerian Village Square – Arab Colonization Series… Indeed, Islam is a core ingredient of Pan-Arabism
..the utility of Islam, from the first, was seen to lie in its potential as a weapon for indoctrination, domination and, thereby, the augmentation of Arab power around the globe…
even in the Third World, supposedly united by the struggle against imperialism, racism remained rife against black people. Thus, while he served in the Free French army in North Africa, “the eyes that turned to watch him in the streets never let him forget the color of his skin.”78 In Fanon’s own testimony, “I was astonished to learn that the North Africans despised men of color. It was absolutely impossible for me to make any contact with the local population.” In all, he concluded, there was no question that the Arab “does not like the African.”
How Important Is the PLO? :: Daniel Pipes In short, pan-Arabism is a “nationalized” version of pan-Islam.
http://www.danielpipes.org/165/how-important-is-the-plo
complement each other.
http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html
Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism,
America’s place in the world, and his new essay collection
Shikha Dalmia |
August/September 2005 Print Edition
…the kind of Islam that is being forced
on Kashmir is very much a kind of Arabist Islam, which is alien to Kashmir. It
is not liked by Kashmiris …
http://www.reason.com/news/show/33120.html
…So far afield in this case, that for many
second-generation British Pakistanis, the desert culture of the Arabs held more
appeal than either British or subcontinental culture. Three times removed from a
durable sense of identity, the energised extra-national worldview of radical
Islam became one available identity for second-generation Pakistanis. The few
who took it did so with the convert’s zeal: plus Arabe que les Arabes.
[…]
no nation matters save the Islamic nation and its Arab culture. Butt
spoke passionately about Arabia and wants to go there. “I believe the Arabic
language will give me that key to have access to those things I don’t have
access to at the moment.” Again, that yearning for Islam to fill the gaps in his
own identity.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6992
framework–or should I say straitjacket?–of the dominant ideology in the
Arabic-speaking world in shaping thought, speech, and political alternatives.
This shows up in the smallest of exchanges. But atoms, too, are very tiny yet
make up all the wide variety of things in the world.
disease that doesn’t just threaten the Middle East, it’s been a plague since the
1950s with few signs of a let-up. Here’s a little example that illustrates the
big picture. On February 25, Lebanese cabinet minister Marwan Hamada gave an
interview to Press TV. It is a commonplace for supporters of Lebanon’s
government to be accused of being Western agents, an implication often repeated
in the Western media referring to it as “pro-U.S.”
or opposes radical forces, or who doesn’t want a radical Arab nationalist or
Islamist state is a common weapon used to weaken non-extremist forces. While in
the West, the label “moderate” is a compliment (the “moderate” Palestinian
Authority; “moderate” states); in the Arab world it is an insult, an imputation
of treason.
[…]
Anywhere else in the world this would be a winning
argument. A man who strives for his country’s interests is a patriot; one who,
like Nasrallah, is funded by one state seeking to take over his country (Iran)
and who champions the interests of a country which did run and looted his
country for decades (Syria) is a hero. Nasrallah, after all, is the official
representative in Lebanon of Iran’s supreme guide; Hamada represents a coalition
of Lebanon’s majority, Christians, Sunni Muslims, and Druze.
patriot is perceived as being a traitor, to Arabism, Islam, and
ultimately to Lebanon itself. Like any Iraqi who rejoices in Saddam Hussein’s
downfall or any Palestinian really ready to make permanent peace in order to get
a state, in the kingdom of the ideologically blinded, the one-eyed man is king.
It is the upside-down world of the poet John Milton’s Satan who said, “Evil be
my good.”
http://www.globalpolitician.com/24239-arab
Arabist jihad invaders: displace the populations by terror to destabilize and
undermine the culture, …
http://mysite.verizon.net/rogmios/id64.html
Written by Magdi Khalil
Reactions in the Egyptian Press
http://freecopts.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=986&Itemid=9
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald examines the soul of that quintessential modern-day dhimmi, the islamochristian:
Some held out. The Copts in Egypt today are simply the remnants of a population that was entirely Coptic, and that has suffered steady and slow asphyxiation. How many of Egypt’s Arabs are in fact Copts who fail to realize this, much less have any sympathy or interest in how their Coptic ancestors, out of intolerable pressure, assumed the identity of Arabs?
Nasser
FIFTY YEARS OLD AND DYING – Amir Taheri – Benador Associates, Nasser had his dream of pan-Arabism which would make Egypt the leader… to the capital of suffering left by centuries of slavery and oppression.
…
http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/14024
Nasser’s totalitarian ideology of Pan-Arabism, the forerunner of
today’s Islamism…
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=42286
Fascism in the twenty-first century? Colonel. Nasser’s pan-Arab dictatorship in Egypt had common features with fascism–the monopoly of a state party, the role of the leader, of propaganda, …
http:/www.springerlink.com/index/D301316V520V2373.pdf
July 28, 2007
Iraq is a Test We Cannot Fail
By Robert Tracinski
…Arab nationalism was a blend of Communist and Fascist ideology that envisioned a united Arab dictatorship led by a military strongman–the role coveted by a succession of dictators, from Nasser to Saddam Hussein. Nasser’s ambitions were thwarted forty years ago in the 1967 Six Day War against Israel…
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/07/iraq_is_a_test_we_cannot_fail.html
To this day, Islam has retained its imperial ambitions. The dream of regional
and world domination has remained very much alive, despite the destruction long
ago of the last great Muslim empire, which has left the Islamic caliphate
vacant. The 20th century doctrine of pan-Arabism (exemplified by
Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser), though secular in appearance, has been effectively
Islamic in its ethos, worldview, and imperialist vision. Karsh quotes
Nuri Said, longtime prime minister of Iraq and a prominent early champion of
pan-Arabism: “Although Arabs are naturally attached to their native land, their
nationalism is not confined by boundaries. It is an aspiration to restore the
great tolerant civilization of the early caliphate.”
http://www.jewishtimes-sj.com/news/2008/0815/columns/018.html
Radical Islam in Egypt and Jordan: In Egypt And Jordan – Page 169
by
Nachman Tal – History – 2005 – 281 pages
The Six Day War ended the violent, subversive threats (to Jordan) of Nasserite pan- Arabism
http://books.google.com/books?id=PMZlKb_93AgC&pg=PA169
The Official German Report: Nazi Penetration, 1924-1942; Pan-Arabism, 1939-Today… On the Nazi infiltration into the US, based on an official report composed by the author in 1946. Pp. 363-406 discuss the impact of antisemitism on the Arab states and Abdul Nasser’s anti-Israel policies.
http://ram1.huji.ac.il:83/ALEPH/ENG/SAS/BAS/BAS/FIND-ACC/0326630
In July 1958, a military coup by nationalist officers in Iraq threatened U.S.-British control of the oil-producing regions for the first time (a threat by the conservative nationalist government of Iran had been aborted by the U.S.-British intervention to restore the Shah five years earlier). The coup set off a wide range of reactions, including a U.S. Marine landing in Lebanon. In an analysis of the crisis based on the public record, William Quandt concludes that the U.S. “apparently agreed to help look after British oil interests, especially in Kuwait,” while determining that an Iraqi move against Kuwait, infringing upon British interests, would not be tolerated, though it seemed unlikely. Quandt takes President Eisenhower to have been referring to nuclear weapons when, in his own words, he ordered Joint Chiefs Chairman General Twining to “be prepared to employ, subject to [Eisenhower’s] approval, whatever means might become necessary to prevent any unfriendly forces from moving into Kuwait.” The issue was “discussed several times during the crisis,” Quandt adds. The major concern at the time was Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser — the Hitler of the day — and his Arab nationalism.
http://books.zcommunications.org/chomsky/dd/dd-c06-s03.html
A world of trouble: the White House and the Middle East–from the … – Patrick Tyler – 2008 – History – 628 pages, page 30
The British tabloids were calling Nasser “Hitler on the Nile,” …
http://books.google.com/books?id=zBiuqNahruIC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30
A New Road for France – Page 30
by Jacques Soustelle, Benjamin Protter – Political Science – 1965 – 278 pages
Israel and French Algeria were… two barriers against which the totalitarian wave.. embodied by Nasser… a dictatorial pseudo-state type was created in Algeria, firmly tied to
a single party, dominated by the racist ideology of a Nasser-type pan-Arabism
and by the revolutionary fanaticism of the Ulemas…Algeria engaged itself in
this fundamental domain on the road traced by Nasser’s Pan-Arabism and that the
Christian and Jewish minority has been victim of a new discrimination […]
arabism, they forget or pretend to forget, that Black Africa never knew more
ferocious slave-drivers nor more violent destroyers than the Arab adveturers
whose worthy successor is Gamal Abdel Nasser… the enlightened spokesmen of
human fraternity and peace are symbolized by Gamal Abdel-Nasser, who assiduously prepares, with the Nazis around him, the revenge of Himmler and Eichmann against Israel.
http://books.google.com/books?id=vPcAAAAAMAAJ&q=arabism+nasser
Saddam
…pan-Arab leader like Saddam Hussein had to “brandish his religious credentials” to justify his invasion of Kuwait.
http://foundation1.org/wp-en/2007/03/14/islamic-imperialism-the-overriding-issue-and-challenge-of-our-century/
Hanging Saddam: New Middle East’s Aurora America’s lethal enemy: Pan-Arabism
A free Iraqi, free of the mental pestilence of Pan-Arabism. He was free of any criminal intimidation expressed by any criminal bogus-ambassador of a
Pan-Arabist tyranny! And the verdict was a victory for the long tyrannized
peoples of that land…
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/20525.html
The chorus of lamentation for Saddam consists of a few isolated figures
espousing the bankrupt ideologies of pan-Arabism and Islamism. …
http://www.middle-east-info.org/league/iraq/iraq.htm
Iraqi exiles… implied a comparison between Saddam’s regime and Nazi Germany. Certainly, Pan-Arabism is a form of fascism and Saddam shared many qualities with Hitler—the two even had similar experiences in their formative years.
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/Parameters/03autumn/ayers.htm
CNN SUNDAY MORNING
Interview With Eleana Gordon, Brian Becker
Aired February 9, 2003 – 09:14 ET
…ELEANA GORDON, FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES… if Saddam Hussein didn’t harbor open goals of dominating his region — he acted upon it twice by invading Iran and by invading Kuwait. Saudi Arabia was next. And it would have you ignore the ideology of his regime, which is a fascist ideology that believes that the supremacy of the Arab race will reveal itself through military power and violence. That’s what he wants to do with his weapons.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0302/09/sm.11.html
Letter… Dear Saddam… It is the nail in the coffin for the racist myth of pan-Arabism that you (okay, okay, you and others) propagated to justify brute force as the lowest common denominator of power in the Middle East.
Your claim to defend “Arabism” by persecuting the Kurds (and going to war against the Persians in Iran) was always a cover for the fact that you and your Baathist sidekicks also represent a minority in Iraq. Like the Kurds, Sunni Arabs make up about one-fifth of the population.
Here’s my point: The Middle East is a giant mosaic of religious and ethnic minorities that have until now known only how to persecute or be persecuted. Frequently the claim of cultural, political and religious cohesiveness contained in pan-Arabist ideology such as yours is put forward to mask the true diversity and conflicts of the people known as Arabs.
Suppressing diversity is what you were all about. The same is true for your ideological brothers yet personal enemies, the ruling Baathists in Syria, who represent a minority Alawite sect that can rule only by force. No wonder they see themselves as imperiled by democracy arriving next door. Let’s hope for once they are right.
http://www.puk.org/web/htm/news/nws/news050412.html
mujahideen everywhere; to the courageous sons of Arabism…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2944318.stm
The text of President Saddam Hussein’s message to the people of Basra on 26 January as read out by an announcer on Iraqi TV… Serving Islam and Arabism. The firm stand of jihad is the destiny of the people undertaking it and the harm inflicted and continues to be inflicted on you
…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/monitoring/263295.stm
Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq – Page 154
by Kanan Makiya –
1998 – 323 pages
(First published in 1989, just before the Gulf War broke
out, Republic of Fear was the only book that explained the motives of the Saddam
Hussein regime in invading and annexing Kuwait. This edition, updated in
1998,…)
…today, nothing can be worse for an Arab than to be acalled a
shu’ubi, because the term combines the attributes of a racist invective (most
frequently used against non-Muslim minorities and Shi’ites) and the imputation
of a treasonous… the Ba’th have used the word in this sense since the
1940s.
The specifically racist connotation…of one’s
faith in Arabism as
the measure of identity, can a fully blown racist content be invested in the
term…
http://books.google.com/books?id=MBSNs4sIYn0C&pg=PA154
What is the ideology behind Saddam Hussein’s (former) regime?
“The Ba’ath ideology mixes pan-Arabism with admiration of Mussolini and
Hitler, some ideas of state socialism and the notion of an Arab supremacy which
will be realized after the Arabs have liberated themselves from foreign – that
means mainly Jewish – influence and British and American imperialism. Ba’athism
is strongly anti-communist and anti-imperialist, and it is anti- Semitic from
its beginning. Everything in Iraq is explained through this huge conspiracy
theory against the Arabs, in general, and Iraq, in particular. Iraq is thought
to be the greatest Arab nation and the natural leader of Arab unity.”
So Iraq sees itself as the center of the Arab world?
“Yes, the leader of Arab unity. Saddam Hussein dreams of ruling a united Arab
nation that would become a superpower confronting East and West. Iraqi children
are taught in kindergarten that they have to be strong Arab fighters.”
Is Iraqi (Saddam’s) Ba’athism Islamist?
“Pan-Arabism has always said that Mohammed is the forefather of pan-Arabism
and that Islam was spoiled when it crossed the borders of the Arab world to Iran
and Turkey. The task now is to `re-animate’ the real Islam that was taught by
Mohammed as an Arab ideology. Especially during the Iran-Iraq war, when Iraq had
to face the Iranian revolution, they loaded their own ideology with Islamic
content. The Iranians and the Zionists, they said, are part of a 2,000-year-old
plot to smash Iraq and divide the Arabs. ‘We are fighting for the real Islam’
the regime said, not the kind of spoiled Islam that Iran represents. I think it
was a mistake for the Americans to believe, as they did, that Iraq was a
stronghold against Islam.”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=215930
Libricide: the regime-sponsored destruction of books and libraries … – Page 151
Rebecca Knuth – 2003 – 277 pages
While Ba’thism and its Pan-Arab philosophy still formed the doctrinal basis for Iraq’s totalitarian regime, … had been mighty and flourished, so had the Arab nation as a whole. Saddam was positioning the Iraqis as a superior race. …
http://books.google.com/books?id=d1deR-jiYJgC&pg=PA151
The Old-New Anti-Semitism
Robert S. Wistrich
….The fact that Saddam filled his speeches with references to Nebuchadnezzar (the Babylonian ruler who destroyed the first JewishTemple) and Saladin, demonstrated not only megalomania but also his determina-tion to destroy the Jewish State and teach the Western “Christian” Crusaders a lesson they would never forget. In Saddam’s totalitarian version of pan-Arabism, Jews were by definition “outsiders”, “aliens” and enemies of the Arab nation. Hence itis no surprise to find that Israelis are com-pletely dehumanized as murderers…
anti-Semitic outlook holds sway (also) in more secular Arab societies such as Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan. This hysteria cannot be adequately understood in terms of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Certainly, the cause of Palestine has periodically been hijacked by radical Islamists and pan-Arabists in order to broaden their political support in the Muslim world.
http://somebodyhelpme.info/nazimuslims/The_Old-New_Anti-Semitism_by_Robert_Wistrich.pdf
THE WORLD; Iraqi Regime Fights To Kill a Way of Life …The state-run Iraqi media have been unabashedly racist in their attacks against the marsh Arabs, describing them as “an inferior race” and “un-Iraqi. …
The Riddle of Saddam Hussein:
Although most of Hussein’s large-scale atrocities took place during the 1980s and early 1990s, his tenure was also characterized by day-to-day atrocities that attracted less notice. Wartime rhetoric regarding Hussein’s “rape rooms,” death by torture, decisions to slaughter the children of political enemies, and the casual machine-gunning of peaceful protesters accurately reflected the day-to-day policies of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Hussein was no misunderstood despotic “madman.” He was a monster, a butcher, a brutal tyrant, a genocidal racist–he was all of this, and more.,br>
The Campaign Against the Marsh Arabs:
Hussein did not limit his genocide to identifiably Kurdish groups; he also targeted the predominantly Shiite Marsh Arabs of southeastern Iraq, the direct descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians. By destroying more than 95% of the region’s marshes, he effectively depleted its food supply and destroyed the entire millennia-old culture, reducing the number of Marsh Arabs from 250,000 to approximately 30,000. It is unknown how much of this population drop can be attributed to direct starvation and how much to migration, but the human cost was unquestionably high.
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/internationalhumanrights/p/saddam_hussein.htm
Saddam book excerpt (Jan 25, 2010) … Excerpt from ‘Saddam: The Face of Evil’ CHAPTER ONE… Saddam’s bigoted ravings made it abundantly clear that his racism was in the tradition of Hitler, … especially the Jews were inferior and deserved to perish. ….. He initiated attacks on Shiite and Marsh Arab Iraqi civilians…
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/23398412/Saddam-book-excerpt
Blending history, reportage and sharp profiles of key players, this insightful
study tells how American “Arabists”–diplomats, intelligence agents,
scholar-adventurers, Protestant missionaries, military attaches–formed an
elitist, expatriate professional caste in the 19th-century Middle East. The
Arabists, in Kaplan’s ( Balkan Ghosts ) view, carried on a “romance” with exotic
Islamic cultures, and many supported pan-Arab nationalism. Blind to what Kaplan
deems the inevitability of the birth of Israel in the aftermath of the
Holocaust, American Arabists today often see Israel “in only the simplest
stereotype,” he asserts. Kaplan charges that Arabists adapted to and promoted
the Bush administration’s appeasement of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, as
exemplified by U.S. ambassador April Glaspie’s wooing of Saddam right up to
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Occupational hazards facing the latest crop of
Arabists, warns Kaplan, include rampant shallowness, careerism and an insular,
sterile embassy life divorced from local realities.
http://www.amazon.com/Arabists-American-Robert-D-Kaplan/dp/0028740238
words.” I’d also advise that a lot of heads that having talking the Saudis up,
at the State Department, the CIA especially – the
“we-love-the-Sunni-dictators-and-despots-forever-because-they-deliver-stability”
school of the three monkeys who see, hear and say no evil – should roll. The ‘Arabists’ have controlled US policy in the Middle East – and not the Likud! As every cretin, every liar and every falsifier repeats endlessly – for too long..
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19761
Arabists, “Pro-Arab Sympathisers”
What motivates the Arabists?
* Arabists in government do not have names like Hamadi or Abdullah. No, they have names like Hendrikson and Smith and they work diligently for the government of America – except when they don’t. When they don’t, they work first for themselves and then for their Arab connections. They may be in the White House, the State Dept. and the Intelligence Agencies on orders from any of the above.
Then there are corporations who have leases on Arab oil land, contracts, shipping lines, and these executives are plugged into the highest offices of government. They can be generally defined as either motivated by money or as Arabists: meaning they ideologically agree with Arab orders. (Recall how the multinational oil companies accepted orders from Saudi Arabia during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The orders were to cease delivering oil to American civilian and military depots. These American based corporations followed the Saudi orders and cut off supply.
Strangely, there was no demand for trial or imprisonment – perhaps because they were so well represented in government that they were untouchable.
How have the Arabists betrayed America?
* Perhaps the reader has forgotten the blowing up of the American Marine barracks; or the orders as recorded on tape by Arafat personally ordering the execution of American Ambassador Cleo Noel, Jr. held hostage by Arafat’s Force 17 in Khartoum March 1973; or the killing of Leon Klinghoffer off the Achille Lauro; or the bombing of Pan Am 103; or the torture murder of Marine Col. William Higgins; or the World Trade Center bombing; or a thousand other atrocities fomented by a hostile Arab world.
The address of these and a thousand other atrocities is Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya and the PLO who were all kept well-funded by Saudi Arabia. All of these nations who supported terror with money, safe houses, weapons, training bases also had confederates in America. They came from corporations who extracted billions from oil, banking, shipping and construction contracts. The value of their money increased by virtue of their phony escalation of oil prices, fueling world inflation and world hunger. They, in turn, shoveled money into our political system which influenced the Congress and the White House. They became enthusiastic Arabists, thereby opening the doors to terror in America.
Perhaps its time, before the terror begins, to weed out Arabists before we have to find them, after hundreds of Americans are killed by Islamic fundamentalists.
What does the Arabist risk?
* One day there will be payback time for those Americans who helped the Arab countries build conventional and unconventional forces…
…The American people will move from fear into rage and begin to look for those who not only carried out the operations but those in government and industry who assisted in the growth industry of those terror nations and terror organizations.
I can clearly see the day when the FBI begins to interrogate State Department employees at the highest levels. Was it not the Arabists within the State Department who have assisted and protected Syria all these many years? Was it not the State Department who worked covertly with Yassir Arafat to build his base of terrorists and establishing their cover as “policemen”
Surely, we will see such men as former President Bush questioned on his role in supplying Iraq’s Saddam Hussein with money and weapons. Former Sec. of State James Baker will be interrogated about his actions in tasking the CIA to build up the credibility of Saeb Erekat, a man now acting liaison for Arafat and the US. All of the Bush cabinet who were given waivers would be investigated for their special investments in Iraq during the Gulf War. Yes, indeed, besides State Dept. officials, former and sitting Presidents, some in Congress – we may see more than a few indictments as an enraged citizenry demands justice for the American Arabists who assisted the growth of terror for oil money…
…Clearly, in their zeal to assist their friends for the money it brings, American Arabists have become accessories to terrorist murders. If former Presidents, Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense and State Department officials have been part of the growth of terror, then they must go to prison.
http://www.peacefaq.com/arabists.html
Alarming appointment at the CIA by Steve Rosen (19 Feb 2009)…According to Laura Rozen at the Foreign Policy blog, Chas W. Freeman, Jr., the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia… chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and may at times participate in daily intelligence briefings to President Obama. This is a profoundly disturbing appointment, if the report is correct. Freeman is a strident critic of Israel, and a textbook case of the old-line Arabism that afflicted American diplomacy at the time the state of Israel was born. His views of the region are what you would expect in the Saudi foreign ministry, with which he maintains an extremely close relationship, not the top CIA position for analytic products going to the President of the United States.Here is a sample of his views on Israel, from his Remarks to the National Council on US-Arab Relations on September 12, 2005: “As long as the United States continues unconditionally to provide the subsidies and political protection that make the Israeli occupation and the high-handed and self-defeating policies it engenders possible, there is little, if any, reason to hope that anything resembling the former peace process can be resurrected. Israeli occupation and settlement of Arab lands is inherently violent. …And as long as such Israeli violence against Palestinians continues, it is utterly unrealistic to expect that Palestinians will stand down from violent resistance and retaliation against Israelis. Mr. Sharon is far from a stupid man; he understands this. So, when he sets the complete absence of Palestinian violence as a precondition for implementing the road map or any other negotiating process, he is deliberately setting a precondition he knows can never be met.” Here is another example from 2008: “We have reflexively supported the efforts of a series of right-wing Israeli governments to undo the Oslo accords and to pacify the Palestinians rather than make peace with them. … The so-called “two-state solution” – is widely seen in the region as too late and too little. Too late, because so much land has been colonized by Israel that there is not enough left for a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel; too little, because what is on offer looks to Palestinians more like an Indian reservation than a country.”According to Foreign policy blog, Freeman has told associates that in the job, he will occasionally accompany Director of National Intelligence Adm. Dennis Blair to give the president his daily intelligence briefing. His predecessor, Thomas Fingar, wore a second hat as deputy director of national intelligence for analysis.
http://www.meforum.org/blog/obama-mideast-monitor/2009/02/alarming-appointment-at-the-cia.htmlI repeat: if there are serious financial conflicts of interest, Freeman should withdraw. I also find some of Freeman’s realist statements, even as contrarian, a little too brutal for my taste. But I also believe that someone whose views push the envelope against recent US policy in the Middle East is an important asset for the United States right now. And I find the hysterical bullying of this man to be repulsive.
http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/rosner/entry/freeman_is_about_views_notFreeman under fire for ties to [Brutal regime of the] Chinese, Saudis
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91357GAFFNEY: Garbage in, garbage out Washington Times – Mar 2, 2009 For example, Mr. Freeman has viewed the Middle East through the prism of one of Foggy Bottom’s most successful Arabists. He justifies Arab enmity towards us …
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/03/garbage-in-garbage-out/Freeman: Jewish Dems and Republicans weigh in Jewish Telegraphic Agency – Feb 26, 2009 … NJDC executive director Ira Forman said Freeman, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia who has been critical of Israel, appears to be a “strong Arabist” …
http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/02/26/1003311/freeman-jewish-dems-and-republicans-weigh-in
CHAS FREEMAN: ‘HELP THE SHIITES (IRAN) WIN FAST …CNOOC is a State owned enterprise , controlled by the Chinese government. … Chas Freeman proved all too willing to serve another brutal dictatorship. …
http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2009/02/chas-freeman-help-shiites-iran-win-fast.html
Obama Administration’s Pick for Top Intelligence
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/556484.aspx
Tibet and Chas Freeman
Washington Times – Mar 9, 2009
We have always deplored China’s ongoing, brutal occupation of Tibet. The Tibetan people have suffered three-score years of Chinese communist rule, …
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/10/tibet-and-chas-freeman/
Top US intelligence pick under fire for Saudi, China ties – Mar 5, 2009
They noted that Freeman served on the board of the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), which has done business with Iran. “Ambassador Freeman’s …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h9DAC14gGSXodN8JURBDDhM7e9oQ
Another Man Down
By Kathy Shaidle
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, March 11, 2009
On Monday, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced that Charles Freeman had withdrawn his name from consideration for the post of Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), ending weeks of acrimonious debate that had been triggered by Freeman’s nomination. But while Freeman has receded from the spotlight, his selection to a critical intelligence post ‘ despite a deeply troubling political background ‘ lingers as a dark cloud over the Obama administration.
In the sensitive role of Chairman of the NIC, Freeman would have been privy to state secrets and would have advised President Obama on matters of national security. Yet Freeman’s ties to foreign powers raised obvious questions regarding conflicts of interest. Moreover, Freeman has made controversial public statements that fly in the face of official U.S. policy, on subjects like the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, and even the 1989 massacre in Communist China’s Tiananmen Square.
Since 1997 Freeman, a former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and senior envoy to China, has been the president of the nonprofit Middle East Policy Council (MEPC), an organization with “close ties to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” In a 2006 interview, Freeman explained that MEPC had received a $1 million endowment, thanks to “the generosity of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia.” The following year, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud gave another $1 million to MEPC. (Alwaleed’s offer of money to New York City after 9/11 was famously turned down by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.)
Furthermore, researcher Ashley Rindsberg recently revealed Freeman’s pre- and post-9/11 “business connections” with the bin Laden family, which have donated “tens of thousands of dollars a year” to the MEPC. Rindsberg also discovered donations to Obama’s presidential campaign by Freeman’s Projects International, “a company that develops international business deals.”
Many of Freeman’s public statements during his time at MEPC also suggest that his “ties to the Kingdom” included identifying with certain aspects of the Saudis’ worldview. Among its other activities, the MEPC proudly issued an “unabridged” version of the controversial 2006 essay “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” by professors John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. The report claimed that American Jews had a “stranglehold” on U.S. politicians and decision makers. Freeman endorsed the report and boasted, “No one else in the United States has dared to publish this article, given the political penalties that the Lobby imposes on those who criticize it.”
Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and others opposed to Freeman’s appointment had also cited a speech delivered by Freeman in 2002, in which Freeman seemed to make apologies for Islamic terrorism while condemning the United States. Said Freeman:
“Saudis and other Gulf Arabs were shocked by the level of ignorance and antipathy displayed by Americans toward them and toward Islam after September 11. The connection between Islam and suicide bombing is a false connection. Kamikaze pilots were not Muslims¦And what of America’s lack of introspection about September 11? Instead of asking what might have caused the attack, or questioning the propriety of the national response to it, there is an ugly mood of chauvinism. Before Americans call on others to examine themselves, we should examine ourselves.”
Besides his longstanding ties to Saudi Arabia, Freeman also sits on the international advisory board of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), which is majority owned by the Chinese government. The Corporation has investments in Sudan as well as Iran and “other countries other countries sometimes at odds with the United States.” During Freeman’s time on the board, the CNOOC was investigated by the State Department for violating the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act.
Freeman’s close working relationship with the Chinese government seems to have influenced his political views ‘ so much so that, in a 2006 internet post that is only now receiving media scrutiny, Freeman criticized the Chinese authorities for not moving swiftly enough to crush democratic protestors and dissidents assembled in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
“[T]he truly unforgivable mistake of the Chinese authorities was the failure to intervene on a timely basis to nip the demonstrations in the bud, rather than — as would have been both wise and efficacious — to intervene with force when all other measures had failed to restore domestic tranquility to Beijing and other major urban centers in China. In this optic, the Politburo’s response to the mob scene at ˜Tiananmen’ stands as a monument to overly cautious behavior on the part of the leadership, not as an example of rash action¦.
“I do not believe it is acceptable for any country to allow the heart of its national capital to be occupied by dissidents intent on disrupting the normal functions of government, however appealing to foreigners their propaganda may be. Such folk, whether they represent a veterans’ ˜Bonus Army’ or a ˜student uprising’ on behalf of ˜the goddess of democracy’ should expect to be displaced with despatch [sic] from the ground they occupy.”
Unsurprisingly, 87 Chinese dissidents, many of whom have served stints in Chinese prisons for their part in the Tiananmen protests, have written President Obama to “convey our intense dismay at your selection” of Freeman. The dissidents noted that “[n]o American in public life has been more hostile than Mr. Freeman toward the ideals of human rights and democracy in China.”
Freeman’s apologetics for Chinese authoritarianism fueled the fury over his nomination. Adding to the controversy was that, up until his withdrawal from the nomination, Freeman failed to submit the required financial disclosure forms required for all nominees, nor had he been formally vetted by the White House. Instead, an independent inspector had been charged with investigating Freeman’s foreign financial ties, following growing criticism of his appointment by senior members of the House of Representatives. And Freeman’s critics were only growing more vocal.
Shoshana Bryen, Senior Director for policy at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, was among the first to denounce the Freeman appointment. In a telephone interview with FrontPage prior to Freeman’s sudden withdrawal, Bryen said that “unhappiness with” Obama’s choice of Freeman “goes beyond party lines.” Bryen said that, although the Middle East Policy Council “is a non-profit, Freeman actually worked as a lobbyist,” albeit an unofficial one, “because he took his money from people with a particular point of view, so his analysis of certain issue may be distorted by the fact of where the money came from.” Bryen added that even if “Saudi Arabia’s concerns mirror our own” on occasion ‘ for instance, when it comes Iran’s possible acquisition of nuclear weapons ‘ Freeman’s relationship with the Kingdom suggests that “he may be beholden to a foreign government.”
Bryen found Freeman’s remarks about Tiananmen Square “even more troubling. He still hasn’t disavowed them, and he seems willing to consider that the requirements of an unelected government” like that ruling Communist China, take precedent over the rights of helpless ordinary citizens to life, let alone freedom of assembly.
Echoing Bryen’s concerns was Laurent Murawiec, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. In an interview conducted before Freeman withdrew his name from consideration, Murawiec told Front Page that Freeman “is part of the crowd,” the “cabal,” that includes the State Department and the CIA that under George W. Bush issued the “mendacious” National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran. The report’s conclusion that “the Ayatollahs’ regime had stopped its efforts to weaponize its nuclear program” was based on “evidence that proved to be a lie.”
The cabal’s policy, “unchanged for decades,” says Murawiec, “is that despots and tyrants in the Arab-Muslim world should be supported for the sake of stability, and stability preserved for the sake of petroleum.” Such stability, adds Murawiec, never lasts for long.
“Freeman, if head of NIC, will skew and manipulate” future National Intelligence Estimates and “consistently leverage his position in the interest of his Saudi sponsors, and more broadly, of the Washington ˜realist’ consensus.”
“The NIC does not dictate policy,” allows Murawiec, but “with an ignorant and inexperienced president like Barack Obama at the helm, the chances for a serious foreign policy-making process would be further destroyed” with Charles Freeman as the NIC’s chairman.
How telling that someone like Freeman, before his fall, had been appointed by the Obama administration for such a sensitive position, especially one that did not require Congressional approval. Given Freeman’s undisputed ties to Saudi Arabia and China, any advice he would have offered the President could well have been compromised by conflicts of interest. The results might have proven fatal. Although Freeman was not personally appointed by Obama, the administration allowed the controversy to build for days without comment. The fiasco is another embarrassment for a new administration whose brief transition period has already been marred by similar examples of confusion and poor judgment coming out of the White House.
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=BE07A5C1-7D97-486A-89DD-52ACDC145319
US intelligence candidate pulls out after objections Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5296QZ20090311
Saudi Arabia’s radical Bin Talal’s influence
“Already the world’s largest shareholder in Citigroup, the prince’s shareholding in the world’s most profitable bank is now around $10 billion,” said a press release from his Kingdom Holding group.
“At about $43, Citi’s share price was at too attractive a price,” the prince said in the statement.
And he added $450 million to existing shares in AOL Time Warner. “The price was very cheap at around $23,” the prince said.
“I believe in the power of the AOL brand and I am already a shareholder in this global media giant. Therefore, when the price reached lucrative levels, we decided to increase our stake. The weakness in AOL’s stock price is temporary as it reflects the temporary weakness in several areas in which it is involved,” Alwaleed said.
He also increased his stake in priceline.com to $100 million, or 5.4 percent of the company.
http://www.saudia-online.com/NewsMar02/news06.shtml
demanded by its Arab owners.
Alwaleed,Arab,owned,Arab,money
AOL shows political and religious bias in its news coverage. The bias is also seen in the use of AOL message board
censorship policies. Poster’s messages are deleted by AOL monitors violating AOL’s own Terms of Service, TOS.
Time Warner has taken no action to stop the bias but has looked into it. They did nothing. AOL is owned by Arab money.
Alwaleed spent $1 billion on stocks recently
RIYADH, 12 March — Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal announced yesterday that he added $450 million to existing shares in AOL Time Warner.
“The price was very cheap at around $23,” the prince said.
http://www.dicksguides.com/ZDGKN/POLS/AOLissues/AOLownedbyArabs.htm
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/comments/122382
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/011934.php
By Joe Kaufman and Jeffrey Epstein
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, January 06, 2006
Georgetown University was built with a Catholic and Jesuit identity. This bit of information is proudly displayed on the school’s website. But like Bethlehem in Israel, that identity is quickly being lost to a radical strain of Islam, as a counter-terror symposium has been abandoned and a pro-terror conference has been confirmed. Indeed, one of America’s most prestigious universities appears to be under siege.
Fearing violent reprisal from militant Muslim members of their student body, the school’s conference center rejected an educational symposium being hosted by America’s Truth Forum (formerly the People’s Truth Forum), a non-partisan, fact-based organization whose sole mission is to educate the American people on topics of national security. In this case, the subject matter to be discussed involved the “Underlying Roots of Terrorism: The Radical Islamist Threat to World Peace and National Security.”…
While the counter-terror symposium was shunned, an organization associated with violence has been awarded a forum. From February 17 – 19, the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM), an activist group that has expressed its willingness to work with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, will be holding its “Fifth Annual Divestment Conference” on Georgetown University’s campus. At past events, shouts of “Kill the Jews” and “Death to Israel” could be heard amongst the crowd. And according to a news report, during PSM’s last conference, when a resolution to condemn terrorism was voted down, “the delegates erupted in cheers.”
When PSM announced its event, it’s interesting to see who they sent a press release to. A site that devotes a page to the release, Palestine Monitor, is said by one source to be a “PRO-TERRORIST SITE.” This is easy to understand, as the website contains numerous pages glorifying the Intifada (uprising) against Israel. Another location that prominently displays the press release is Ramallah Online, a hate site that equates the Jewish Star (Star of David) with the Nazi Swastika.
Not wanting to anger its on-campus insurgency, the university has remained hush about the event. The consideration of a small matter of money may also be on Georgetown’s mind. The PSM conference is coming on the heels of a $20 million donation to the school, given by a fairly effluent Saudi sheikh, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. This is the same sheikh who had previously donated $27 million to a telethon that raised money for the families of suicide bombers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=3398EF71-9067-4C86-88D2-9A8AD51427A5
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?archive=112006
Saudi prince advocates strategy of business not boycotts to ‘influence American public opinion”
September 25, 2005
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1109
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17651_Saudis_Buying_Shares_of_Fox
March 8, 2006
Filed under: Newspapers — Hans Henrik Lichtenberg
Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, the chief executive of Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Company, has officially launched an Islamic satellite channel seeking to project Islam as a religion of moderation, the Arab News online daily reports. Al-Resalah (The Message) has been broadcasting informally since last Wednesday. At a press conference on Monday, Prince Alwaleed said the 24-hour channel would target an Arab audience, especially young people, by projecting ‘our Arab heritage through a modern medium.’. Al-Resalah will be the forerunner of a future English-language Islamic channel for Western audiences. The prince said the new Islamic network would provide a platform for a dialogue on religious, social and economic issues affecting everyday life, but its priority would be to counteract the misconceptions of Islam in other societies. Tarek Alsuwaidan, the channel?s general manager, said that 40 per cent of the programmes would be youth oriented, 30 per cent would target women and families, and 10 per cent would focus on children, Arab News reports. (AKI,March 08, 2006)
http://blog.newspaperindex.com/category/newspapers/page/7/
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002958.html
Arab Lobby (Groups) In 1977 President Jimmy Carter noted, in his diary, that the Arab lobby had … Alwaleed Bin Talal, had given at least $5 million to the Carter Center. …
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catId=178&type=group
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter and the Arab Lobby
December 18, 2006
Nothing demonstrates more clearly the defects of Jimmy Carter’s latest brief against Israel, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, than the ex-president’s reluctance to defend the book on its merits. Rather than take up that unenviable task, Carter has sought to shift the focus away from the criticism — especially as it concerns the book’s serial distortions and outright falsehoods — and onto the critics.
In particular, Carter claims that critics are compromised by their support for Israel, their ties to pro-Israel lobbying organizations, and — a more pernicious charge — their Jewish background. In interviews about his book, Carter has seldom missed an opportunity to invoke what he calls the “powerful influence of AIPAC,” with the subtext that it is the lobbying group, and not his slanderous charges about Israel, that is mainly responsible for mobilizing popular outrage over Palestine. In a related line of defense, Carter has singled out “representatives of Jewish organizations” in the media as the prime culprits behind his poor reviews and “university campuses with high Jewish enrollment” as the main obstacle to forthright debate about his book on American universities. (Ironically, when challenged last week by Alan Dershowitz to a debate about his book at Brandeis University, which has a large Jewish student body, Carter rejected the invitation.)
Bluster aside, Carter’s chief complaint seems to be that anyone who identifies with Israel, whether in the form of individual support or in a more organized capacity, is incapable of grappling honestly with the issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict. But Carter is poorly placed to make this claim. If such connections alone are sufficient to discredit his critics, then by his own logic Carter is undeserving of a hearing. After all, the Carter Center, the combination research and activist project he founded at Emory University in 1982, has for years prospered from the largesse of assorted Arab financiers.
Especially lucrative have been Carter’s ties to Saudi Arabia. Before his death in 2005, King Fahd was a longtime contributor to the Carter Center and on more than one occasion contributed million-dollar donations. In 1993 alone, the king presented Carter with a gift of $7.6 million. And the king was not the only Saudi royal to commit funds to Carter’s cause. As of 2005, the king’s high-living nephew, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, has donated at least $5 million to the Carter Center.
Meanwhile the Saudi Fund for Development, the kingdom’s leading loan organization, turns up repeatedly on the center’s list of supporters. Carter has also found moneyed allies in the Bin Laden family, and in 2000 he secured a promise from ten of Osama bin Laden’s brothers for a $1 million contribution to his center. To be sure, there is no evidence that the Bin Ladens maintain any contact with their terrorist relation. But applying Carter’s own standard, his extensive contacts with the Saudi elite must make his views on the Middle East suspect.
High praise for Carter’s work — and not inconsiderable financial support — also comes from the United Arab Emirates. In 2001, Carter even traveled to the country to accept the Zayed International Prize for the Environment, named for Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the late UAE potentate and former president-for-life. Having claimed his $500,000 purse, Carter enthused that the “award has special significance for me because it is named for my personal friend, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan.” Carter also hailed the UAE as an “almost completely open and free society” — a surreal depiction of a rigidly authoritarian country where the government handpicks a select group of citizens to vote and strictly controls the editorial content of the newspapers and where Islamic Shari’a courts judge “sodomy” punishable by death. (To appreciate the depth of Carter’s cynicism, one need only compare his gushing encomia to the emirates with his likening of Israel, the most modern and democratic country in the entire Middle East, with the racist “apartheid” of South Africa.)
On top of these official honors, Carter was offered a forum at the Abu Dhabi-based Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow Up, the country’s official “think-tank.” For his part, Carter declared his intention to forge a “partnership” with the center; in a 2002 letter, Carter praised its efforts to “promote peace, health, and human rights around the world.” Inconveniently for Carter, the center has since become famous for a different reason: It has repeatedly played host to anti-Semitic speakers who have denied the Holocaust, supported terrorism, and alleged an international conspiracy of Jews and Zionists to dominate the world. (Harvard University, in contrast to Carter’s enthusiasm for Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, rejected a $2.5 million from the ruler in 2004 due to his ties to the Zayed Center.)
Nor does this exhaust the list of Carter’s backers in the Arab world. Still other supporters include Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who sits atop Oman’s absolute monarchy. An occasional host to Carter, the sultan has also made generous contributions to his center. Prior to inviting Carter for a “personal visit” in 1998, the sultan pledged $1 million to the Carter Center, promising additional support in the future. Similarly, Morocco’s Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah, the second in line to the kingdom’s throne, has in the past partnered with Carter on the center’s initiatives.
On its face, there is nothing objectionable about these contacts. What has raised critics’ eyebrows is Carter’s immense chutzpah: In securing the financial support of assorted Arab leaders, Carter has gradually come to parrot their anti-Israel political agenda — even as he styles himself as a dispassionate mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This was nowhere more evident than in Carter’s credulous support for the late Yasir Arafat. Although Carter had championed Araft as a committed peacemaker since his presidency, in the face of ample evidence to the contrary, his apologies for the terrorist chieftain became particularly shameless in the 1990s. When Arafat and his PLO backed Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, thereby loosing the support and — more important for the corrupt Arafat — the funding of neighboring Sunni Arab powers, Carter embarked on a Middle East publicity tour to revive Arafat’s diminishing fortunes. As recorded by Carter biographer Douglas Brinkley, “together [Carter and Arafat] strategized on how to recover the PLO’s standing in the United States.” In desperation, Carter turned up in Saudi Arabia on what Brinkley called “essentially a fund-raising mission for the PLO,” pleading with King Fahd to restore Arafat to the Saudi dole.
Now that Arafat’s Fatah has been replaced with Hamas, Carter has again proven himself a reliable ally of Palestinian extremism. Scarcely had the terrorist group ascended to power last January than Carter launched a media blitz urging the United States to circumvent its own laws against financing terrorism in order to fund Hamas. As the New York Times put with exquisite finesse, Carter called on Western nations to “redirect their relief aid to United Nations organizations and nongovernmental organizations to skirt legal restrictions” — that is, to launder money to a terrorist group. When American policymakers declined to heed his advice, and Israel proved unwilling to bankroll the enemy seeking its destruction, Carter promptly denounced the both countries for their “common commitment to eviscerate the government of elected Hamas.”
With its relentless disparagement of Israel and its reckless abuse of the historical record, Carter’s latest book may fairly be seen as the logical culmination of his many years of anti-Israel incitement. There was of course no shortage of clues about Carter’s sympathies in his earlier books. In his 2004 memoir Sharing Good Times, for instance, Carter recalled the trips he has taken over the years to Arab dictatorships in Syria and Saudi Arabia and noted with evident satisfaction that he was “always greeted with smiles and friendship.”
Readers may be forgiven for finding nothing shocking in this admission. Carter may still harbor illusions of grandeur, seeing himself as an instrument of peace in the Middle East. But an altogether different element explains his enduring popularity in Arab capitals: Not for all the millions they have sunk into the Carter Center over the years could Arab elites have hoped to purchase such a prominent and willing propaganda tool.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D7B261EF-A52C-428E-9E5F-D6BBF5C49132
Anti-Semitism and the Anti-Israel Lobby [incl. Alwaleed bin Talal …Sep 7, 2007 … Alwaleed bin Talal, Middle East studies] – Campus Watch. … A crop of Israel’s critics — most prominently Jimmy Carter and now Stephen … In other words, for those who accept the Arab line on the Israel-Arab conflict …
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4075
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Daily News Alert from Israel (Newsday); The Arab Lobby “Network” – John Perazzo … The Atlanta-based Carter Center has been a longtime recipient of Arab funding. … the king’s nephew, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, had given at least $5 million to the Carter Center.
http://www.dailyalert.org/archive/2007-01/2007-01-18.html
Is Jimmy Carter being bribed by the Arabs?Dec 19, 2006 … Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, has donated at least $5 million to the. Carter Center. … Jimmy Carter and the Arab Lobby …
http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2006/12/is-jimmy-carter-being-bribed-by-arabs.html
Jimmy Carter’s Jewish Problem – washingtonpost.com, Jimmy Carter’s book ‘Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’ ignores a legacy of mistreatment, expulsion and murder committed against Jews.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011901541.html
Jimmy Carter’s Jewish Problem, Jan 28, 2007 … Jimmy Carter’s Jewish Problem Carter has repeatedly fallen back on traditional anti-Semitic canards.
http://www.aish.com/societyWork/society/Jimmy_Carters_Jewish_Problem.asp
Jimmy Carter: Too many Jews on Holocaust council
http://www.keshertalk.com/archives/2007/01/jimmy_too_many.php
Jimmy Carter: Too many Jews on Holocaust counci lJan 25, 2007 … TEL AVIV ‘ Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were “too many Jews” on the government’s Holocaust Memorial Council, …
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53954
‘Too many Jews’ Jan 27, 2007 … “Too many Jews.” That was the problem Carter saw with the names … The Nazi Holocaust took the lives of approximately 6 million Jews during …
http:/www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53958
Daimnation!: January 2007 Archives Mr. Freedman told us that Carter saw the idea of a Holocaust Memorial “principally as a political gimmick.” He “in effect politicized the idea” and saw it as a means of getting “political support from Jews” but at the same time he didn’t want to “alienate other potential constituencies,” and so wanted more Polish …
http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/2007_01.html
Jimmy Carter Hates Jews January 17th, 2007 4:27 pm. As if it weren’t bad enough that he wrote a book in support of Palestinian terrorists¦
http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2007/01/17/jimmy-carter-hates-jews/
Dec 14, 2006 … Jimmy Carter: Jew-Hater, Genocide-Enabler, Liar …. the Palestinians Arabs are filled with a racist and theocratic hate towards the Jews.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E064A534-7C85-4E30-AC1C-4AC3E8B56458
Jimmy Carter Shows How Much He Hates The Jews’Again, For the second time in recent weeks, honorary Palestinian militant and former President, Jimmy Carter, opined about Mid-East peace and offered his own.
http://www.thehotjoints.com/2008/05/26/jimmy-carter-shows-how-much-he-hates-the-jews-again
Jimmy Carter’s war against the Jews
http://adeeperlookweblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/jimmy-carters-war-against-jews.html
Newsflash: Jimmy Carter hates the Jews (oh wait, that’s not news) Apr 25, 2008 … By Christian Hartsock… Jimmy Carter perpetuates his hot shot status (which has long exceeded its expiration date of Jan. 20, 1981) by recurrently expressing his hatred of Jews and recurrently endorsing global forces of Judeocide.
This time he is meeting with Hamas leader with Hamas Leader Khalid Meshall on the 25th anniversary of Hezbollah’s terror attack in Beirut which killed 17 Americans and 35 Lebanese citizens. Where is the Michael Moore who chastised Charleton Heston for allegedly scheduling his NRA rallies as celebrations of freak gun tragedies when we need him?
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/hartsock/080425
James Baker
Understanding James Baker, Dec 8, 2006 … When Britain turned its back on the Jews, the Almighty turned His … Baker’s well-known anti-Semitic, anti-Israel pro-Arab policies …
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53280
Secretary of State James Baker’s infamous “f_ck the Jews” remark. In a private conversation with a colleague about Israel, Baker reportedly uttered the vulgarity, noting that Jews “didn’t vote for us anyway.” This was more or less true ‘Bush got 27 percent of the Jewish vote, compared with 73 percent for Dukakis, in 1988. And thanks in part to Baker, it was even truer in 1992, when Bill Clinton got 78 percent of the Jewish vote and Bush got only 15 percent’ the poorest showing by a Republican candidate since Barry Goldwater in 1964.
http://www.slate.com/id/2064424/
anti-Semitic intitutional Arabist
http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11272949.html
Arabists have launched a drive to “disengage” America from Israel…. Remember Jim Baker expressing his anti-Semitic attitude …
http://www.freeman.org/MOL/pages/july-2005/american-israeli-relations.php
…the crude anti-Semitism of Baker … f_ _ k the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway, James Baker, …. Palestinian War and the increased Arabist orientation of the Moroccan regime.
http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=492
James {“F¦ the Jews”) Baker, Reagan’s former Chief of Staff and the first President Bush’s Secretary of State (a department whose Arabist tilt is well-known), …
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5444
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Clinton’s Arab Connections Why Aren’t People Talking About It …Jan 22, 2008 … Tom Downey lobby for Dubai; so does The Glover Park Group, home of Hillary … Hillary Clinton and Saudi Funny Money: Conflict of Interest? … The royal family of Saudi Arabia gave the Clinton facility in Little Rock …
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4714
Sudan
Sudan is a perfect illustration of a mix of islamofascism and “Arabism is
Racism” gone unopposed. Want to make a movie? Here are some additional
ideas…
http://www.anti-com.com/weblog/archives/2004_06.html
Across the Bay: Arabism at its Most Ugly She left out that other still
unresolved horror show in Sudan where the victims … There you have it, Arabism
at its finest. And this deadly ideology is …
http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2004/07/arabism-at-its-most-ugly_23.html
End the Darfur Genocide ‘ 21st Century’s Most Outrageous Crime Against
Mankind… quit the Arab League, denouncing Pan-Arabism in all its forms of
practice as racism, and as a criminal colonial theory and system, …
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/17925
The Problem With Darfur’s Muslims
(“Arabism and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese
Politics Journal of Modern African … of North Africa) is mostly about Arab
racism and chauvinism, pure and simple , …
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7620
The Last Chance for Sudan to Exist: Get Out of the Arab League Now
…
Pan-Arabism: the Epitome of the most Anti-Human Racism, a Forgery aiming
at bestializing the Human Being. An inquisitive approach to the chances of the
…
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/9-4-2004-58911.asp
Deep down in Darfur – TLS Highlights – Times Online
Handicapped by the
latent Arabist racism of the leadership, which hails, as it always has, almost
entirely from Khartoum and the Middle Nile Valley, …
http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25346-1886267_4,00.html
…Sudanese Islamist dictator Omar el-Bashir, … the same Arabist Islamist regime that displaced over 5 million in southern
Sudan.
http://www.spectator.org/archives/2006/10/23/blaming-bush-for-darfur
Arab League backs Sudan on genocide charges
Posted 7/19/2008 5:07 PM
CAIRO (AP) — The Arab League on Saturday said that the genocide charges brought against Sudan’s president by the prosecutor of the International Court are not acceptable and undermine that country’s sovereignty.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-19-Sudan_N.htm
Lounsbury: Darfur – On Racism, On Ignorance, [Arabism, Arab supremacist
government in Sudan,] On Laziness and just plain stupidity (and Arab
responses)
http://lounsbury.aqoul.com/archives/2004/08/darfur_on_racis.html
‘Genocide in Darfur’ (by Samuel Totten, Eric Markusen)
Racist ideology plays an important part of the story, as it has in the history of other twentieth century genocides. And the psychology of “genocide” has become familiar through the sorry repetition of genocidal acts that the last century has witnessed. In 1987, Libya used the northwestern Darfur corner as a backdoor to attack Chad.
It had equipped and sent out the so-called Arab legion, an Arab supremacist militia, to pursue Arab expansion in the mineral-rich sub-Saharan regions it bordered and to drive out the African tribes. Libya was not orchestrating a simple border raid on a poor country; it was pursuing a new strategy of pan-Arabism, couched in an emotionally charged ideology.
The Sharp distinction between Arabs and Africans in the racially mixed Darfur region had not been drawn until the ideology of pan-Arabism that came out of the Libya made itself felt… when the GoS tried to impose Sharia Law in 1983, it triggered civil war in the South. This marked the first use of government-backed militias… some of the cattle herding… of Darfur were employed in a strategy
of brutality, starvation, rape, and pillage that was to be visited upon Darfur two decades later. Complaints of Arab militia harassment in Darfur surfaced in
2003…
http://books.google.com/books?id=S2a9bDb0qesC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30
Chronicle of a Massacre Foretold by A Azad – 2004
of Arab racial superiority for ages. The response of the Muslim world has been less than frank so far. It is high time Sudanese …
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4415585
Facing Evil: Genocide in Darfur … Islamist dictatorship… the Islamist
movement, the political expression of Islamic fundamentalism that seeks to
impose its theocratic vision on the Islamic world. Beginning in the 1930s and 1940s with the Islamic Brotherhood, this movement morphed into the National Islamic Front (NIF), which took control of Sudan in the 1989 coup and turned Khartoum into an international center for guerilla activities elsewhere. Osama bin Laden lived in Khartoum for five years before leaving for Afghanistan in 1995. Today the NIF is trying to impose its Islamist and Arabist worldview on all of Sudan, at the expense of indigenous farmers, mostly in the south and west, who identify themselves by tribe and for whom Arabic is a
second language.
Roughly speaking, the conflict is ethnic… majority is considered inferior by the privileged Arabist
minority centered in Khartoum and, in a comparison drawn by Gillian Lusk, deputy editor of the London-based fortnightly newsletter Africa Confidential, was “in the way,” much as the Jews, Roma, and other “others” were for the Nazis.
Historically, racism plays a part. Arabs refer to darker Africans as “abeed,” roughly equivalent to “slave.” These ancient antipathies go back to the Ottoman Empire, when conquerors developed the north of Sudan and neglected the more inaccessible south and earlier, under Egypt, when northern Arabs raided the south for ivory and slaves. Slavery continued as
a powerful undercurrent in the north-south war that has wracked Sudan for the past two decades, as the northern rulers kidnapped young Africans and forced them into military service.
http://www.friendsjournal.org/facing-evil-genocide-darfur
In an article titled “The Arab Silence on Darfur Revisited,” Abu Khawla, a human rights activist and former chair of the Tunisian section of Amnesty
International, points out that pan-Arabism is the chief culprit for the lack of Arab reaction to the “horrendous crime being committed
by their fellow Arabs in Sudan.” In his view, the only effective way to counter the pan-Arab “propaganda of hate-mongering and deceit” is to mobilize
the Arab liberal movement.
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD83504
Deep down in Darfur – TLS Highlights – Times Online Darfur’s Islamist leaders were already disaffected. Handicapped by the latent Arabist racism of the leadership, which hails, as it always has, …
http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25346-1886267_4,00.html
California Chronicle | The Secret Reasons of the Darfur Genocide …Pan-Arabic Anti-Nubian Racism is worse than Hitler’s Anti-Semitism. … have been another victim of the imposition of the false ideology of Pan-Arabism.
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/17560
Arab Identity and Ideology in Sudan: The Politics of Language …Amir H. Idris draws a line between what he regards as the racist ideology of Sudanese Arabism, the Arabization policies that were applied in Southern Sudan …
attempt to defend yourself against racist Arabs you are ‘the racist’
http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/adm068v1
Origin of Islam – A historical human rights guide to Islam …Today Islam’s main weapon has been oil-money serving pan-Arabism. … dictatorship and Arabic racism and the systematic killing and raping in Sudan/Darfur
http://www.geocities.com/klevius/MuslimRacism.html?1111924826171
Humiliation, Arab women are alleged to have sung mocking and insulting songs even as their own men raped black Sudanese women
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/07/21/2003179810
Religion is the pivotal factor in the conflict. The North, with roughly two-thirds of Sudan’s land and population, is Muslim and Arabic-speaking; the Northern identity is an inseparable amalgamation of Islam and the Arabic language. The South is more indigenously African in race, culture, and religion; its identity is indigenously African, with
Christian influences and a Western orientation. […]
Background: The
South
In sharp contrast, the identity of southern Sudan has been shaped
primarily by the prolonged resistance to the imposition of Arab and Islamic
culture from the North. This has had the effect of unifying the Southerners as
black Africans and has geared them toward Christianity and the English language
as means of combating Islam and Arabism.
The identity of southern Sudan has
been shaped primarily by the prolonged resistance to the imposition of Arab and
Islamic culture from the North.
In contrast to the Arabs, the British were
associated with the redemption of the South from the Arab slave raids.
http://www.meforum.org/article/22
…Darfur ” Genocide!” …on their own historic claims, such as the
self-pronounced Arabist, the Sudanese prime minister, Ismail Al- Azhari, who, in
1965, made the following declaration:
…We are proud of our Arab origin,
of our Arabism and of being Muslims. The Arabs came to this continent, as
pioneers, to disseminate a genuine culture and promote sound principles which
have shed enlightenment and civilization throughout Africa at a time when Europe
was plunged into the abyss of darkness, ignorance, and doctrinal and scholarly
backwardness. It is our ancestors who held the torch high and led the caravan of
liberation and advancement; and it is they who provided a superior melting-pot
for Greek, Persian and Indian culture, giving them the chance to react with all
that was noble in Arab culture, and handing them back to the rest of the world
as a guide to those who wished to extend the frontiers of learning.
That
lofty declaration ” never mind its hyperbolic accents – but certainly one which
Leopold Sedar Senghor would have endorsed as the ringing spirit of Arabite was
made just less than a decade after the first gathering of the black writers and
artistes of the world, impelled also by the need to situate their race and
heritage accurately in a racist world. The claims of black civilization were no
less resonant at that conference, no less proud, the mission of race retrieval
no less impassioned. And the question we must ask the government of Sudan today
is simply this: how does the current manifesto of the Janjaweed, the champions
of Arabism, its project of cultural extermination, correspond to Al-Azhariâ’s
manifesto of enlightenment ” among numerous others. Examine the tomes of
attestation with the United Nations’ fact-finding missions, examine even the
dossiers that have resulted in sealed indictments against named individuals both
in government and in the autonomous order of the Janjaweed, soulmates of the
Milesovics, the Radovan Karavics, the Radkos of eastern Europe, and tell us if
Al-Azhariâ’s banner of enlightenment has not been besmirched by his Hitlerian
apostles.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/37714
Sudan is comprised of 70 percent Muslim and only 5 percent Christian
populations, mainly in the south. The root of the north-south conflict is
described as religious based and a continuation of the “Islamization and
Arabism” of Sudan, which led to the economic and political marginalization of
southern Sudanese people
https://www.afresearch.org/skins/rims/q_mod_be0e99f3-fc56-4ccb-8dfe-670c0822a153/q_act_downloadpaper/q_obj_785c0797-63d3-4a14-8b39-bf421e41bb6f/display.aspx?rs=enginespage
explicit and illicit policies aimed at marginalizing the Nubians in both Egypt
and the Sudan by, first, driving them away from their historical homelands by
systematically impoverishing their region; secondly, re-settling Arab groups in
the lands the Nubians leave behind; thirdly, pushing the Nubians into
Arabicization through biased educational curricula at the expense of their own
languages and culture; fourth, nursing a culture of complicity among the Nubian
intellectuals so as to help facilitate these policies… racist and
Apartheid-like policy is adopted by the Egyptian government… how the Egyptian
government began re-settling them in the Nubian regions which was evacuated four
decades ago against the will of its historical people, the Nubians. In doing
this the Egyptian government is consciously pushing the Nubians into being
completely assimilated and Arabized, a policy pursued by the successive Egyptian
governments.
http://www.sudaneseonline.com/en/article_740.shtml
dominance, is resisted and its political designs rejected by peoples of non-Arab
origin.
http://www.ossrea.net/publications/newsletter/oct02/article9.htm
ideology of Arab cultural and racial supremacy that is now most evident in
Darfur
http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/107/426/21?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10
directly linked to the Janaweed in terms of arabist ideology and logistical
support. Indeed, it is not western democracies that have estimated the number of
black Sudanese murdered by the Janaweed, or who have died as a result of their
refugee status, but the UN, who put the figure much higher
http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org/stories.asp?id=227
de Gerard Prunier – 2005
situation in
Darfur a “genocide” in September 2004. Its characteristics-Arabism, Islamism,
famine as a weapon of war, mass rape, international obfuscation, and a refusal
to look evil squarely in the face-reflect many of the problems of the global
South in general and of Africa in particular.Journalistic explanations of the
unfolding humanitarian catastrophe have been given to hurried generalizations
and inaccuracies: the genocide has been portrayed as an ethnic clash marked by
Arab-on-African violence, with the Janjaweed militias under strict government
control, but neither of these impressions is strictly true. Darfur: The
Ambiguous Genocide explains what lies behind the conflict, how it came about,
why it should not be oversimplified, and why it is so relevant to the future of
the continent. Gerard Prunier sets out the ethnopolitical makeup of the Sudan
and explains why the Darfur rebellion is regarded as a key threat to Arab power
in the country-much more so than secessionism in the Christian South. This, he
argues, accounts for the government’deployment of “exemplary violence” by the
Janjaweed militias in order to intimidate other African Muslims into
subservience. As the world watches; governments decide if, when, and how to
intervene; and international organizations struggle to distribute aid, the
knowledge in Prunier’book will provide crucial assistance.
http://books.google.com/books?id=kVPkluKRKtwC&dq
The Search for Peace and Unity in the Sudan – Page 115
by Francis Mading
Deng, Prosser Gifford, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars – 1987 –
183 pages
On the other hand, the ruling elite’s attachment to the causes of
Arabism and
Islamism, in the narrow racist way they see them, inevitably
drives non- Arab …
http://books.google.com/books?id=XNpyAAAAMAAJ&q=arabism+racist&dq=arabism+racist&lr=&hl=en
and the conquest of the Dar ul-Islam’s exemplified also in the expected
subjugation and dhimmitude of Egyptian Copts, Lebanon’s Christians, Near Eastern
Assyrians, and Israel, the Jew of the Nations, home to whom Arabs call “their
kilab yahud” Jew dogs.
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_20134.shtml
non-Muslim black African south and the Arab and Arabized… north in the Sudan,
Sudanese President Nimeiry’s stated during the slaughter of over a half million
blacks at this time (and over a million more ever since) that: ‘the Sudan is the
basis of the Arab thrust into…black Africa, the Arab civilizing mission
(Arabism and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese Politics, Journal of Modern African
Studies, Vol. 11, #2, 1973, pp. 177-78).’
http://geraldahonigman.com/blog.php?id=P98
…Khartoum’s project is the Arabization of Sudan. Khartoum is determined
that Sudan will eventually become wholly an Arab land with all its diverse
African peoples converted into Arabs. Sudan is Khartoum’s pilot project, backed
by the Arab League, in the Islamisation and Arabisation of Black Africa.
http://www.bnvillage.co.uk/news-politics-village/98509-south-sudan-problem-arab-racism-black-africa-part-i.html
Robert Fisq, Darfur and the destruction of morality … And yes what has been
revealed by Human Rights Watch is only a tip of iceberg because the Sudanese
racist fundamentalist Arabist regime does …
http://www.sudanforum.net/archive/index.php?t-509.html
Terje Tvedt, Raphael … – 1994 – Business & Economics – 274 pages page 174] The Case of the Sudan late 1987, the Arabs did not even mask the so called
Arabic congregation the vehicle for the racist ideology of Arab
superiority…
http://books.google.com/books?id=DC3VbsiakMIC&pg=PA174
It has been noted by Opoku Agyeman that Pan-Arabism, in its so-called
‘civilizing mission’ perceives Africa as a ‘cultural vacuum’ waiting to be
filled by Arab culture “by all conceivable means” (Agyeman, Opoku “Pan
Africanism vs. Pan Arabism”, Black Renaissance, 1994, p.39) including
Islamisation, and the settlement of Arab populations on lands forcibly seized
from Africans. The assumptions, objectives and methods of this project may be
illustrated from the statements of its principal implementers in Sudan since the
1820s:
http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/sunday_magazine/article11//indexn3_html?pdate=300308&ptitle=South%20Sudan%20and%20the%20problem%20of%20Arab%20racism%20in%20Black%20Africa%20&cpdate=010408
The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile –
Haggai Erlich – 2002 – Political Science – [p. 174]
1987); “Red Sea Politics
and Its Implications on Ethiopia” … Egyptian influence on Sudanese politics…
and so on… Egypt had always wanted to destabilize Ethiopia”… so that
it would not be able to attend to the Nile; the Egyptians used Islam,
Pan-Arabism, imperialism, and “reaction” to undermine Ethiopia’s revolution.
…
http://books.google.com/books?ct=result&id=mhCN2qo43jkC&dq=the+cross+and+the+river+by+Haggai+Erlich+-+2002+-+Political+Science&ots=yTRua4mmIj&pg=PP9&lpg=PP9&sig=ACfU3U01RVvnrfbgM728GB1Q6tuI9bxFOg&q=page+174#PPA174,M1
On Kurds
As a wave of pan-Arabism swept the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s, the
Syrian government decided in 1962 to strip thousands of Kurds of their
citizenship. The method: a census supposedly designed to root out “alien
infiltrators” from Turkey. If a Kurd could not prove residency in Syria since
1945, he or she lost Syrian citizenship. This fate befell 120,000
Kurds.
Today over 225,000 Kurds in Syria are designated as “foreigners”, out
of a total Kurdish population of around 1.5 million. The Baath Party launched an
official Arabization campaign in 1963 that began to stamp out Kurdish street
names, Kurdish publications, and even Kurdish personal names.
http://www.ordoesitexplode.com/me/2005/10/_over_one_milli.html
Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity
Dinah Shelton – 2005 – 1458 pages, volume 2 (page 636)
Although the Kurds of Syria have not engaged in armed conflict with the state. they were targeted for ethnic cleansing beginning in the early 1960s.
http://books.google.com/books?id=8O4YAAAAIAAJ&q=Syria
A modern history of the Kurds – Page 474
David McDowall – 2004 – 515 pages
…the Government in Damascus decided to ensure Arab control. On 23 August 1962 it promulgated a special decree (No. 33) authorising an exceptional population census in the governorate of al-Hasaka. The stated purpose was to establish who had enetred the country illegally from Turkey, and it was carried out a few weeks later during the course of one day, 5 October. All non-Arab inhabitants, in practice only Kurds, had to prove by documentation that they had been resident in Syria prior to 1945. Many were unable to do so and a result, it seems that approximately 120,000 Kurds were stripped of their citizenship as were their descendants and the descendants of the progeny of male non-citizens even when the mother was an attested citizen of Syria.
The Syrian government took the view that all these were illegal infiltrators, largely from Turkey, who were changing the demographic balance of the region…
A popular programme of anti-Kurdish sentiment was launched which invoked Arabism against the Kurdish threat…
In November 1963 a confidential report was produced by the head of the internal security for al-Hasaka, a Lt Muhammad Talab Hilali. This report cast the problem in stark racist terms: ‘the bells of Jazira sound the alarm and call on the Arab conscience to save theis region, to purify it of all this scum, the dregs of history until, as befits its geographical situation, it…
http://books.google.com/books?id=dgDi9qFT41oC&pg=PA474
In addition to that legal action, symbolic violence against Kurds took on worrisome proportions. A campaign launched by the Arab media sported slogans such as “Save Arabism from Jazira” or “Fight the Kurdish Menace.” certain houses of Hayy al-Akrad were covered with anti-Kurdish graffiti (Vanly 1992:151). The foundation had been laid for a more coercive policy against the Kurds, as a “foreign group.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=ecTTlytIjswC&pg=PA52
Second-Citizens…For Many, Not Citizens at All
Erasing Ethnic Identity.
Syrian Kurds were banned from giving their
children names reflecting their ethnic identity.
Pary Karadaghi, Director of
Kurdish Human Rights Watch in Washington, says one of the most basic ways of
showing Kurdish identity was taken away. “The campaign of ‘Arabization‘
actually replaced the Kurdish names,” she says. “People could not have Kurdish
names on cities, buildings [and] businesses. Children’s names could not be
Kurdish.”
Syria’s Kurds struggled for years to survive despite government oppression
on many fronts. They closely watched their Iraqi counterparts, who achieved a
measure of autonomy in the 1990s, and pressed Damascus for their own rights.
Their demands were ignored or sometimes met with waves of repression.
http://www.khrw.org/advocate/2005/syrias_kurds_struggle_for_rights.htm
The Kurdish people in Syria has been subjected to racist Arabist policies …The racist Arabist ideology is so reactionary and aggressive that it is easily transformed into a repressive violent practice of killing, torture and genocide. The Kurdish people are not the only people who have suffered and are suffering from this policy. The people of South Sudan have been suffering from Arab genocide too. More than one million of them have been massacred in the name of Arabism and Islamic Sharia. The Western democracies have criminally supported Arab genocide of South Sudanese people for their own economic interests in the same way as they supported Saddam’s genocide against the Kurdish people. The Amazighi people in Moroco, where they represent the majority of the population, and Algeria have also been colonised and repressed by Arab chauvinism for many decades.
social backwardness and the repression of non-Arab nations and minorities
http://home.cogeco.ca/~dbonni1/18-3-03-opinion-kamal-miraddeli.html
The case for Israel – by Alan M. Dershowitz – 2003 – History – 264 pages (page 101)
3 Again, the Arab goal was to kill as many civilians as possible, despite the fact that deliberately attacking civilian targets is a war crime…
http://books.google.com/books?id=Dunx_i1P6fMC&pg=PA101
The Kurds: God’s Illegitimate Children, The Kurdish majority has been forced to either adopt the Arab identity,cede the supremacy of Baghdad or Damascus to the Kurds over their affairs or lands.
http://www.kurdistan.org/Our_Views_and_Iraq/bastard.html
What motivated Palestinian PM’s derogatory remarks about Kurdish peshmarga?
KurdishMedia.com – By Dr Rebwar Fatah 28/10/2006 00:00:00
Mind your language: What motivated Palestinian PM Ismail Haniyeh’s derogatory remarks about the Kurdish peshmarga forces?
Ismail Haniyeh, Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and a senior leader of Hamas, recently attacked the peshmarga forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in a public Hamas gathering. His unwise remarks fuelled a public outrage among the Kurds, who until recently had been very sympathetic towards the Palestinian people…
Haniyeh’s language is counterproductive. The Palestinian leadership must not walk on the Arafat’s path, if they want to serve their people, and must see the interest of the Palestinian people beyond their personal interests and beyond tickling the sentiment of Islamic radical groups and racist Arab mentality
Arun Kundnani – History – 2007 – 221 pages
Arab racism against the Kurds became a feature of Ba’athist propaganda and was institutionalised in education.
[Page 115]
Ba’athist racism led to the Anfal campaign in 1988
Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity
Dinah Shelton – 2005 – 1458 pages, volume 2 (page 583)
These two Ba’thist regimes [Syria, Iraq] — ironically, considering their advocacy of pan-Arab unity, bitter rivals — pursued a highly nationalistic pan-Arab ideology in countries that, although largely Arab, contained significant numbers of non-Arabs …
http://books.google.com/books?id=8O4YAAAAIAAJ&q=non-Arabs
[page 938]
The Ba’th regime also persecuted entire groups of people. The large-scale deportaions, destruction of villages, and executions. Saddam ordered against the country’s non-Arab Kurdish population during the 1988 “Anfal” campain rose to the level of genocide
http://books.google.com/books?id=8O4YAAAAIAAJ&q=non-Arab
What Withdrawal from Iraq Will Not Look Like
History News Network – May 31, 2009
… Kurdistan to rejoin the state, to remake it as a federation, rejected partition, and fought right-wing pan-Arab fascists and sectarian theocrats. …
http://www.hnn.us/articles/83738.html
Islam outside the Arab world – by David Westerlund, Ingvar Svanberg – 1999 – Religion – 476 pages (Page 26)
Kurds are found in northern Iraq, northwestern Iran and as a small enclave in Syria too, where they oppose Arab supremacy.
http://books.google.com/books?id=weYQMv2RqCgC&pg=PA26
US might bolster force in northern Iraq: general
Published: Tuesday March 16, 2010
The US military may set up an additional headquarters in northern Iraq even after Washington scales back its forces by a September deadline, a top US general said on Tuesday.
The possible move reflects US concerns that Arab-Kurd tensions, provoked by disputes over land and oil rights, are the biggest threat to Iraq’s long-term stability.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_might_bolster_force_in_northern__03162010.html
(2010) Allawi’s uphill climb got even steeper when Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, a key leader in Allawi’s bloc, went on al-Jazeera after the election to say that Iraq’s president must be an Arab. Kurds reacted with outrage, while Maliki aides fanned out in the media to praise Talabani and deplore the racism behind Arab opposition to a Kurdish president. This aggravated Allawi’s liabilities: Though not anti-Kurd himself, much of his bloc is.
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=5279</p.
Urgent appeal for donations ‘ http://www.amude.com, lifeline of theWestern Kurdistan uprising
KurdishMedia.com19/03/2004 00:00:00
…Throughout the past week, an uprising has been taking place in western (Syrian) Kurdistan. As Kurds in Qamishlo and other cities throughout Syria rise up to demand the human rights due to them and all human beings, the Ba’athist regime of Syria, a sister regime of the now defunct Iraqi dictatorship, has taken harsh measures against Kurdish protestors, killing hundreds and arresting and wounding thousands. The international community and media are reacting only with silence, and the majority of the world’s citizens are simply unaware of the uprising and impending humanitarian crisis currently taking place.
[…]
During this most crucial time, all lovers of freedom and human rights must do what they can to aid the uprising from afar. Increasing public awareness of the uprising is imperative, for silence from the international community will only encourage the Syrian regime to take harsh steps against the protestors and all Kurds in Syria. The racist Syrian Ba’athist regime, which massacred tens of thousands of Syrian civilians in the city of Hama in 1982, is certainly willing to engage in a massacre if it feels it will be permitted to do so..
http://kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=9530
Campaign for the international recognition of human rights of half a million Kurds ‘Buried Alive’ in Syria
10/13/08
http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=15139
Arabs’ Dream of Pan-Arabism – Besides, the Ba’th party, which sowed a Pan-Arabist ideology, was responsible for the genocide http://www.amislam.com/dream.htmf Kurdish people in Iraq as well as the genocide of Shiite …
http://www.amislam.com/dream.htm
Africa events, Volume 7 – Page 21
Africa – 1991
To him, Arabism is racism, pure and simple. Therefore to equate it with Islam is an affront on the sublime faith. The promoters of Arabism, he warned, run the risk of alienating genuine Muslims.,
Arab-Iranian relations
Khair el-Din Haseeb, K. Haseeb, Markaz Dirāsāt … – 1998 – 564 pages, (page 368)
Much ink has flowed on the issue of Arab nationalism. Some people believe it to be a racist movement, advocating the superiority of the Arabs…
http://books.google.com/books?id=UaptAAAAMAAJ&q=superiority
Rethinking nationalism in the Arab Middle East – Page 213
James P. Jankowski, I. Gershoni – History – 1997 – 372 pages
… Salut (FIS) uses the 1967 defeat as proof that Arabism, being a form of
racism, cannot elicit a sense of community, pride, and readiness for sacrifice.
http://books.google.com/books?id=_a1NNyZUXAgC&pg=PA213
Egypt in transition – Page 512
Jean Lacouture, Simonne Lacouture – History – 1958 – 532 pages
Critics will go on talking about Pan-Arabism, racism, Islamic imperialism. They
will not forget to mention Saladin…
http://books.google.com/books?id=zF5yAAAAMAAJ&q=arabism+racism+-anti-arab&dq=arabism+racism+-anti-arab&cd=8
The Rise of White Arabism, The example of Iraq, where Arabism is not capable of giving Kurds their due of equal citizenship, is particularly telling of the more advanced thought …
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2005/03/the-rise-of-white-arabism.php
Arabism.. (2 November 2008) … Of Kurds And Arabs: Beyond Ignorance…The Allegedly Free Press. If it was just another State Department … Like Iraq’s Kurds or North Africa’s Amazigh (Berbers).
http://www.north-of-africa.com/mot.php3?id_mot=39
Yawar, Referendum and Arab racism 15.10.2004
By: Dr. Kamal Mirawdeli, KurdistanObserver.com
Ghazi al-Yawar’s attack against Kurdistan Referendum Movement and Kurdistan’s right to self-determination is not of course slightly surprising. But it has certain meanings and implications which are important to analyse and understand. First let us read what Al-Yawar said. This is how KDP’s website (kdp.info) reported his statement on 6 October 2004:
Iraqi President, Ghazi al Yawar, denounced on Tuesday [5 October 2004] the pro-referendum voices in Kurdish administrated Iraq calling it “national betrayal’ from the Kurds. ” Iraq is a free country where the freedom of expression is estimated, but this does not mean that some people would try to speak about disintegrating Iraq. This is not something we could accept and we will counter this with all our power,” Mr Yawar said in a televised interview with the Al-Arabiya TV…
So what does Yawar’s threat against Referendum and through it all freedom-loving Kurds mean?
Yawar is now a feeble negligible lame-duck President. In spite of that he does not think of any political, diplomatic, moral and even tribal considerations, as a new husband of a political Kurdish woman, to restraint his essentially racist views, He frankly expresses his racist hatred of Kurds, his true Arab fascist a nature which does not recognize any form of democracy or freedom of expression, nor the rights of people to self determination and democratic determination of their future.
Yawar’s statements to al-Arabiyya satellite TV, are true racist Saddamite Arabist discourse. However, we must be grateful to Yawar for being so foolhardily frank in expressing his racism. This along with daily beheadings and killings of Kurds by fascist Arabs and the discovery of yet a new chain of mass graves containing born and unborn babies, women and their hoops, children and their toys, must be a further and final warning to all the Kurdish people including their treacherous leaders, that only independence can guarantee future safety and security of our children.
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc/yawarreferendum.htm
…in Baghdad against the Kurdish people is a clear indication that the culture of racism and fascist mentality practiced under the former Baathist regime is not quite extinct. Arab chauvinists still cannot accept the Kurdish people on an equal basis. They regress into the view of Kurds as second class citizens at the first opportunity.
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2008/8/kirkukkurdistan421.htm
Ba’athism
…the assorted versions of pan-Arabism — Nasserism, Ba’athism — were seen as alternatives to Islam, when in fact they were notalternatives at all. They merely displayed, for quite specific and local reasons, an emphasis on “Uruba” or Arabdom that was explicable given the impoverished state of the”Islamic world” and the fact that there were local stumbling blocks to pan-Islamism (including the lack of financial wherewithal).
http://jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/015313.php
Like the Nazis before them, many Baathists saw Arab nationalism as ‘true’ Islam.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/2006_03.php
The ideology behind the thuggery by David Brooks… The Baath party is not quite like the Communist parties. It bears stronger resemblance to the Nazi party because it is based ultimately on a burning faith in racial superiority.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/837uvzrs.asp?pg=2
Voting Rights in Iraq « Intellectual Conservative Politics and …Indeed, the Baathist ideology, as defined by its founder Michel Aflaq, taught that the Arab race was superior.
The Baathists and Islamists have more in common with totalitarians and racists than they do with patriots. The Iraqi insurgents are identical to the Imperial Japanese, Nazis, Fascists, Communists, and the KKK. They share the same beliefs of totalitarianism, racism, as well as a moral and political superiority.
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2005/01/28/voting-rights-in-iraq/
Islamism and Baathism aren’t that different. – By Lee Smith …, “Arab nationalism,” Kedourie explained,
“affirms a fundamental unbreakable link between Islam and Arabism.”
http://www.slate.com/id/2108576/
The Ba’ath party was founded in Syria in 1928 by Michel Aflaq and Salah
al-Din Bitar with a pan-Arab nationalist program and elements of both Marxism
and fascism. Aflaq and Bitar were influenced by Arab nationalist trends
that had begun in time of the Turks, inspired in part by the Islamic and Arab
reform ideologies of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1839-1897), his student Muhammad
Abduh (1849-1905), and Abduh’s student, Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935). These thinkers called for a renewal of Islam, with limited borrowing of concepts from
the West. Abduh in particular was active in promoting Arab autonomy within Ottoman Turkey, and had placed great hopes in the Young Turks. Rida grew increasingly anti-Western with time, and was a great influence on Hassan El-Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood. While Aflaq was a Greek Orthodox Christian, Ba’ath ideology adopted an affinity for Islam, and Pan-Arabists saw one of their goals as asserting the primacy of the Arabs in the Muslim world.
http://www.mideastweb.org/Middle-East-Encyclopedia/pan-arabism.htm
…the founders of the Baath party, Michel ‘Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, were influenced by fascist thought during their education in France during the 1930s
http://books.google.com/books?id=AmSIOJ5ekIoC&pg=PA266
Ba’athism was a deliberate copy of European Fascism; it tried to replace
Islam in the people’s minds with Arabism, a fascistic glorification af Arab
history …
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-69426.html
…as far as the Baath tradition is concerned, the existence of a strong inspiration by European Fascist thought is not in doubt. It was explicit in the original Baathist ideological writings, and especially that of the Syrian Michel Aflaq, one of the founders of the Baath Party. But Aflaq was a Christian Arab, and his pan-Arab nationalism, though violent, racist and extreme
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=15968
Syria Arrests Journalist for Condemning the Ba’ath Party
[…]
‘Ba’athists, You are Leading Syria to the Abyss, to a Bloodbath’
“Blood begets blood…
“Ba’athists, you are leading Syria to the abyss, to a bloodbath that no Syrian wants… Ba’athists, [know] that Syria is not an endowment that belongs to the desert Arabs who come from the peninsula of oil, those who take and do not give… The Ba’ath Party raises the motto ‘Arab Oil For The Arabs,’ and all Ba’athists complete [the phrase] with the following formula: ‘And the Kurds deserve nothing.’
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=syria&ID=SP69004
Encyclopedia of the Developing World: Index – Thomas M. Leonard – 2006 –
Social Science – 1759 pages
… Pan-Arabism with an emphasis on socialism
incorporating ideas from Italian fascism. Ba’ath ideology..
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3mE04D9PMpAC&pg=PA71
Iraqis, particularly the Sunni Arabs and poor Shiite Arabs […] under the
influence of the Baathist regime’s fascist “pan-Arabism”…
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6511/is_/ai_n29209274
the Baathist parties in Syria and Iraq sprang from the same fascist European
roots
http://discardedlies.com/entry/?2272_a-pretext-not-a-cause
Baath Party is a mishmash of socialism and Arabism.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/21/se.13.html
…fascism outside Europe has become a possiblity and, in some cases, a
reality. The Iraqi & Syrian regimes have pronounced fascist features…
both, the Iraqi & Syrian leadership belongs to the Ba’th Party, an elitist,
pan-Arabist group that arose in the 1930s partly as a result of the rise of
fascism in Europe.
http://books.google.es/books?id=fWggQTqioXcC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162
Like militant Islam, the major ideas of
Baathism center around racism and anti-Semitism. The Baath party stems
from the Pan-Arab movement that adopted an ideology based on the nationalist and
racist theories of Satia al-Husri. The Baath (or Renaissance) Party was founded
in 1943 as an openly racist movement. Sami al-Jundi, one of the early Baath
leaders, stated, “We were racists, admiring Nazism, reading its books and the
source of its thought…”(6) In the Baath myth about history, the Arab nation
was named to be the people of God, but had been corrupted and polluted by the
“people of evil” who were Jews. Arab television makes a considerable effort to
show a crisis of morality, culture, and values among non-Muslims. These stations
broadcast extreme examples of negative moral behaviors culled from the Western
media and present them as a daily reality of Western society. They try to prove
that Arabs and Muslims in general are superior to Westerners: Christians and
Jews.
http://www.jamestown.org/programs/gta/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=18981&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=178&no_cache=1
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-taheri082503.asp
Arab Nazism: Then and Now … Similarities between German and Arab nationalist extremes are not lost on political analysts. …
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6291
Hitler Vs. Hussein… The Baathists see the destiny of Arabs in very similar terms as the Nazis understood the destiny of Aryans. Saddam uses the Palestinians the way Hitler used the Sudeten Germans.
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZDA2MmFiYTdmMWYxMWIzMDg1MDZkOTVkMDk2ZWIyNDI=
by Dr. Abdul Khalik Hussein [Monday, March 07,
2005]
I am not exaggerating when I say the word Baath is now synonymous with
terrorism and racism. The experiments of two peoples ‘ Syrians and Iraqis ‘
prove that terrorism is a part of the Baath’s ideology.
http://friendsofdemocracy.typepad.com/friends_of_democracy_iraq/page/5/
September 17, 2005
Rubin gives
not one indication that Ahmed and his Palestinian terror cohorts, have
alternatives to the fascist, racist, genocidal, terrorist tactics they have
embraced. For her, these are the natural choices of the victimized.
Catch her portrayal of Ahmed’s older brother’s affiliation with the Baathists,
which led Ahmed down his path: ‘The Baath Party philosophy dominant in the 1950s
and 1960s emphasized a secular Arab nationalism and opposition to colonial
rule.’
Wow! Secular nationalism and opposition to colonial rule sounds pretty
reasonable, doesn’t it? No hint that Baathism developed out of Nazism,
as Yasser Arafat’s late uncle, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem sat out the war
years in Berlin, and brought back home a political model for the Baath
party. No exploration of the aim of driving the Jews into the ocean.
Nope, only just a bunch of harmless secular nationalists…
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2005/09/poor_ahmed_the_baathist_palest.html
period when Damascus was under the colonial domination of France’s government,
which was fascist in those days. And the party, conforming to the interests of
French policy and to the larger enthusiasm for German fascism that was emanating
from Europe, drew a major aspect of its inspiration from Nazism. The goal of the Baath party was to adapt the racist and totalitarian ideas of Europe for the Arab world to combine the fascism of Europe with the ethnic traditions and Islamic orientation of the Arab countries.
http://www.axess.se/english/2004/08/theme_berman.php.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=AmSIOJ5ekIoC&pg=PA266
He quotes Sami al-Jundi, who helped found the Syrian Baath Party in the 1930s:
‘We were racists, admiring Nazism…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2003/apr/20/history.politics
‘Non-Arabs arrested in Syria’
Jerusalem Post, Israel – Feb 16, 2008
COM STAFF AND AP Syria also arrested non-Arab foreigners suspected of being involved in the assassination of
Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh this week …
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1203019390293&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
On Assyrians
Who Are Assyrians – Frederick A. Aprim The Assyrians have faced increased religious, ethnic, and cultural persecutions at the hands of the Turks, Kurds and Pan Arabs. …
http://www.fredaprim.com/who_assyrians.php
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?id=22644
…In Lebanon, once a majority Christian country, Christians represent only 34% of its population of four million people, according to the World Christian Database. The database, which bases its work on church estimates, says Arab Christians’ percentage in the Palestinian territories has also dropped from 5.3% in 1970 to 2.5% of 3.7 million Palestinians today.
In Jordan, a country of 5.4 million people, the Christian population dropped from 5% in 1970s to about 3% now, according to a U.S State Department report. But, in Egypt, the number of Copts – Egyptian Christians – range from 5.6 million, according to Egyptian government estimates, to 11 million people, according to Coptic Church estimates. Nonetheless, they complain of discrimination in the most populated Arab country of 80 million people. One example of this is that the government still restricts the building of churches in Egypt.
The Christian flight from Syria occurred in part for economic reasons.
[…]
In October 1986, 22 members of the Assyrian Democratic Organisation – founded in 1957 in Qamishli to promote Assyrian rights in Syria – were arrested for opposing the government’s official policy of Arabization. They were released after six months in detention.
[…] government policies of Arabization and discrimination against ethnic minorities, including Kurds, as well as economic crises are pushing these minorities – especially Assyrians – to abandon their homes they built brick by brick.
http://www.assyriatimes.com/engine/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3326
Assyriac: Denied in Its Own Homeland, but Accepted in England …These opportunists provide a convenient spiritual cover in the legitimisation of a totalitarian policy of Assyrians Arabization.
http://www.bethsuryoyo.com/currentevents/AprimAssyriac/AssyriacDenied.html
…problems, which are facing Assyrians, such as Arabization, submission to the dictatorial regimes and phobia of declaring the real nationalist belonging.
http://www.christiansofiraq.com/faridnuzha.html
The Chaldean Assyrians Under the Arab Baath Regime of Iraq, Oct 28, 1999 … To understand the reaction (or lack of it) among the Chaldeans towards those Arab Baath racist policies one has to tackle once again the question of the absence of political movements among them.
In a social sense, political movements arise as a reflection of the need of a group of people to defend or preserve one’s own national and ethnic rights or promote one’s own “special interests”
agenda. However, in the case of the onslaught of those racist policies, no major reaction took place among the Chaldeans to fight back, hence, the question that might arise is: Was there any Arab
Baathi policies directed towards our people that demand reaction? The following is a list of some of the major policies through which the current regime used to resolve the “Chaldean/Assyrian
Question”…
http://www.chaldeansonline.org/Banipal/English/ghassan3.html
…In the following years and the pain still piercing, Bakr Sidqi, the
Baghdadi army’s chief responding to the zealous cry of the new pan-Arab fascists
organised the cold blooded massacre of innocent Assyrians with the watchful eye
of Imperial Britain, because they dared to ask for the recognition of the
Assyrian nationality and the Assyrian cultural rights within the newly formed
regime.
Betrayed and denied by Imperial Britain, the Assyrian national
uprising was suppressed and the Assyrian rights’ movement was pigeonholed. For
the next decades and under various successive regimes the Assyrians were known
by their religion as ‘Christians’ until the ascent of the new Baathists to power
in the hot summer of 1968. Then things started to change.
http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2002/7.1.02/index.php
What Happened To the 80 Millions Assyrians After the Fall of Nineveh?
By:
Paroqa D’Omta Ashoureeta
[18 April 2007]
Progenitor of Wars and
Tyrannies: the Falsehood of Pan-Arabism
The deep and hidden reason of the
tyrannical oppression practiced throughout the Middle East is the imposition by France and England of pan-Arabic nationalist cliques that intend to dictatorially arabize the various peoples of the Middle East, who are ‘ all ‘
not Arabs.
http://www.betnahrain.org/bbs/index.pl/noframes/read/15531
September 24, 1988
The fate of the Assyrians in the anfal campaign Barely two weeks after the arrival of the first deportees at Baharka, the official lowdspeakers announced that some of the camp’s inmates should present themselves at the police station without delay. Those singled out were either Assyrian and Chaldean Christians or members of the ezidi sect. What happened to these two groups remains one fo the great unexplained mysteries of Anfal: a brutal sideshow , as it were, to the Kurdish genocide. A few days later, a single khaki-colored military bus arrived, accompanied by an army officer and nine or ten soldirs, to pick up twenty-six people from the Assyrian Christian village of Gund Kosa. … None of those who was bussed from the camps ever reached their homes, and noe was ever seen in the camps, such as Mansuriya (Masirik) and Khaneq, that were set aside for relocated Christians and Yeszidis. The inescapable conclusion is that they were all murdered. An Assyrian priest interviewed by HRW/Middle East said that he had assembled a list of 250 Christians who disappeared during Anfal and its immediate aftermath. (Iraq’s Crime of Genocide, 1995, Human rights watch, pp. 209)
http://www.aina.org/martyr.html#1980%20to%201988
Husri correctly deduced that it was through education, especially children,
that the “new morality” of Arabism was to be transmitted. In this endeavor, he
achieved a great success. In this mission he was helped by a certain British
advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of education by the name of Lionel Smith. Smith
seems to have admired Husri’s passionate zeal for education, but is on record
for stating that many of Husri’s “views were wrong”. Husri’s attitudes against
non-Arabs seem to have been adopted by his son Khaldun al-Husri, a nationalist
Arab historian who has attempted to minimize the violent destruction of the
Assyrian community in Northern Iraq in the 1920s. This is reflected in:
Husri, H. (1974). The Asyyrian affair. The International Journal of Middle
East Studies, 5, 161-176, 344-360.
For an account of the Assyrian tragedy
consult: Stafford, R.S. (1935). The Tragedy of the Assyrians
http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/aFarrokhArab.html
Islamist Ethnic-Cleansing of Assyrians in Iraq
[August 13,
2008]
Assyrians are not seeking to re-establish Assyria, that is an
unrealistic dream. Assyrians simply want to live in peace and freedom, to
practice their religion, to teach their language and history. In the last 1400
years, thus has proven to be elusive, as every power that be wanted to
assimilate Assyrians. We are called Arab-Christians, Iranian-Christians,
Turkish-Christians and now Kurdish Christians… The Arabs had their Ba’ath
ideology, with its pan-Arabism, where everyone was an Arab, even if he
wasn’t
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D3CC0184-4CB4-48C5-9C98-1229267A8A52
Assyriac: Denied in Its Own Homeland But Accepted in England Therefore,
sooner or later Assyrians in their homeland will either submit to absorption
into “Pan Arabism Pot” or they will resist and be deported. …
http://www.atour.com/government/docs/20020124a.html
Assyrians and Kurds were struggling against the common oppressive Pan-Arabist regime of Saddam Hussein
http://www.aina.org/guesteds/20080416165822.htm
…about the Arab/Muslim civilization. As an Assyrian, a non-Arab, Christian native of the Middle East, whose ancestors reach back to 5000 B.C., I wish to clarify some points you made in this little story, and to alert you to the dangers of unwittingly being drawn into the Arabist/Islamist ideology, which seeks to assimilate all cultures and religions into the Arab/Islamic fold. […]
There are minorities and nations struggling for survival in the Arab/Muslim ocean of the Middle East and Africa (Assyrians, Armenians, Coptics, Jews, southern Sudanese, Ethiopians, Nigerians…), and we must be very sensitive not to unwittingly and inadvertently support Islamic fascism and Arab Imperialism, with their attempts to wipe out all other cultures, religions and civilizations. It is incumbent upon each one of us to do our homework and research when making statements and speeches about these sensitive matters.
http://www.ninevehsoft.com/fiorina.htm
By Yoab Benjamin
(Assyria) as a country no longer exists, but the Assyrian people have attachment
to, and are proud of, the soil upon which their Assyrian ancestors trod, and by
far more in the history of the land of their beloved homeland which served as
the cradle for a succession of civilizations.
our discussion and is worthy of serious consideration. In their cultural
campaign and in all instances where Mesopotamian history is discussed,
leading Arab thinkers, present the Assyrian heritage from their points of view
that are more in line with pan-Arab (al-Qawmiyyah al’Arabiyyah)
thinking.
intense system of social control and discriminatory practices against them in
some Arab countries. The aim of the governments in these countries is the
eventual extinction of Assyrian consciousness and identification. It is no
surprise nowadays to notice that the true ethnic identity of the Assyrians,
their culture and ancestral language, are gradually being denied by the
political leadership of these states.
‘arabization’ has, over recent years, worked its effect and is becoming
efficient.
to the governments of these countries, not perceived as an ethnic minority but
communities of different religious denominations. The structure of these
“religious communities” is being strengthened by the recognition given to them
by the authorities of these states. The main purpose from the point of view of
these countries’ leaderships is to make the churches responsible to the
authorities for the loyalty of their Christian subjects
Arabist ideology, the Assyrians who have for thousands of years kept faith with
their origin, are encouraged to abandon the ideology of having cultural traits
common to their people. The Arab leadership goes beyond that and forces
the Assyrians to embrace the Arabist national ideology. In other words, the
Assyrians are being asked to commit ethnic suicide by being submerged in
Arabism. The oddity is that this ideology extends the term of Arab to
every and all citizens of the entire Arab homeland, irrespective of their ethnic
origin. According to the socio-cultural criteria of these Arab states, the
Christians are an integral part of the Arabs. Thus, the descriptive name of
Christian Arabs is the current vogue.
who are conscious of the bonds that bind them to their past have some reason to
believe that undermining Assyrian culture and identity eases their assimilation
in the Arab majority. The present-day Assyrians have a national character and
are the heirs, both culturally and racially, to the earlier inhabitants of the
ancient Assyrian Empire. This is what anthropology teaches and reveals It is
also what their t tradition points to, and they passionately, believe in it. The
Assyrians have always remembered their past and have sought to keep that past
alive in the present. The roots of their culture are too deep and their
traditions are too long to allow them to forget. They, as the interested a
party, don’t have to look into a crystal ball to prove their ethnic presence.
They already know themselves. The modern Assyrians believe that their ancestors
were created from the very dust of the Land of Ashur on which their footprints
are deep and lasting.
http://www.aina.org/articles/yoab1.htm
This letter was sent to Carly Fiorina, CEO of
Hewlett Packard Corporation, in response to a speech given by her on September
26, 2001.
Hewlett-Packard
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA
94304-1185
26, 2001, titled “Technology, Business and Our way of Life: What’s Next” [sic].
I was particularly interested in the story you told at the end of your speech,
about the Arab/Muslim civilization. As an Assyrian, a non-Arab, Christian native
of the Middle East, whose ancestors reach back to 5000 B.C., I wish to clarify
some points you made in this little story, and to alert you to the dangers of unwittingly being drawn into the Arabist/Islamist
ideology, which seeks to assimilate all cultures and religions into the
Arab/Islamic fold.
follows, as it is a perspective that you will not likely get from anywhere else.
I will answer some of the specific points you made in your speech, then conclude
with a brief perspective on this Arabist/Islamist ideology.
of Muhammad began their conquest of the Middle East. We should be very clear
that this was a military conquest, not a missionary enterprise, and
through the use of force, authorized by a declaration of a Jihad against
infidels, Arabs/Muslims were able to forcibly convert and assimilate non-Arabs
and non-Mulsims into their fold. Very few indigenous communities of the Middle
East survived this — primarily Assyrians, Jews, Armenians and Coptics (of
Egypt).
…protest against Assyrians being
classified as Arabs
including Chaldeans and Syriacs, have found themselves in the bitterly ironic
position of having to defend the integrity of their identity against an
erroneous association with the Arab identity by both misinformed Americans and a
persistent fundamentalist Arabist ideology transplanted from the Middle
East.
The horrific attacks against New York and Washington served as a
painful reminder to Assyrians of the numerous massacres and genocides they have
endured throughout the centuries. Assyrians throughout the U.S. lined up to
donate blood and assistance to the victims of the attacks. Assyrian
organizations officially and unequivocally condemned the attacks (AINA,
9-17-2001) and denounced the loss of life. Still, though, Assyrians have found
themselves as victims of hate crimes presumably because of their Middle Eastern
background and a mistaken identification with Arabs. Most notable of the
hate crimes was the burning of St. John’s Assyrian Church in Chicago on
September 23rd, in a suspected arson attack (Chicago Tribune, 1, 2). Although no
injuries were suffered in the early morning attack, over $200,000 damage was
sustained. In a second incident, St. Mary’s Assyrian Church of Roselle,
Illinois, just outside of Chicago, received a thinly veiled threat in the form
of a letter asking “Are you with the U.S. or with the enemy?” Other
Assyrian individuals and businesses have received threats as well.
and Syriacs, are the indigenous Christian people of Mesopotamia and have a
history, spanning seven thousand years, that predates the Arab conquest of the
region
http://www.mafhoum.com/press2/65S24.htm
Assyrians are a non-Arab, Semitic, and
Christian people whose ancestral homeland includes parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria,
and Turkey. …
…Some Arab-American groups have imported this denial of
Assyrian identity to the United States. In 2001, a coalition of Assyrian and
Assyrian-Chaldean organizations, along with their Maronite counterparts, wrote
to the Washington-based Arab-American Institute, to reprimand them for claiming
that Assyrians were Arabs. In a terse letter signed by seven organizations and
copied to the White House, they asked the Arab-American Institute “to cease and
desist from portraying Assyrians and Maronites of past and present as Arabs, and
from speaking on behalf of Assyrians and Maronites.” In a press release of that
same year, the Assyrian International News Agency wrote that the Arab-American
Institute’s “perpetuation of Arabist ideology represents an egregious,
willful, and deliberate mischaracterization of Assyrian identity.” They
likewise pointed out that Arab nationalist groups have wrongly included
Assyrian-Americans in their head count of Arab Americans, in order to bolster
their political clout in Washington.
http://www.christiansofiraq.com/Lewis.html
The Copts were severely affected by Nasser’s nationalization policies because, although they represented about 20% of the population, they were so economically prosperous as to have held more than 50% of the country’s wealth. In addition, Nasser’s pan-Arab policies undermined the Copts’ strong attachment to and sense of identity about their Egyptian pre-Arab, and certainly non-Arab, identity. As a result, many Copts left their country for Australia, North America or Europe.
http://www.copticsaints.info/copts
The government and politics of the Middle East and North Africa – Page 420, David E. Long, Bernard Reich, Mark Gasiorowski, Mark J. Gasiorowski – History – 2007 – 567 pages
Pan-Arab Nationalism in the Egyptian context has a strong Islamic flavor and
thus acted as acted as a bridge to pan-Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhood. There was not a single Christian Copt among the ninety-four members of the Free Officers Movement, although Copts constitue 15 percent of the total population. Discrimination against Christian Copts has become prevalent, verging on persecution, especially under Sadat and Mubarak. Since 1952 revolution, the enlightened liberalism, which was the dominant ideology for three decades in the aftermath of the 1919 revolution, was undermined by pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism.
Over the past fifty years, political expression by both those in power and by the organized politically disaffected has used various combinations of these ideas, beginning with Nasser’s Arab socialism and, now, increasingly, contemporary militant political Islamism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=LpGGbueEuXsC&pg=PA420
Jordanian Columnist and Former Minister Laments the Emigration of Christians from the Middle East Caused by Their Persecution (Jun 18 2008)
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP196508
Egyptian Muslim Intellectual Criticizes Egypt’s Treatment of Copts
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP158707
Tunisian Reformist Researcher on Discrimination Against Christians in Egypt (Mar 1 2006)
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP110306
Special Dispatch – No. 1023
Egyptian Reformist Thinker Tarek Heggy: ‘Egyptian Copts are Oppressed, Oppressed, Oppressed’ (Nov 16 2005)
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP102305
During the rise of pan-Arab nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s, the economically prosperous Copts, who then represented 20 percent of the population but held more than 50 percent of the nations’s wealth, saw their businesses and factories nationalized under the socialist government of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Many of them left as a result.
http://www.freecopts.net/forum/showthread.php?t=16874
http://www.orderofmaltacolombia.org/news_files/en_News_faith_01.htm
http://www.netanyahu.org/strugaginemc.html
So while Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as an Egyptian, technically was African—and, indeed, took his country’s position within the Organization of African States very seriously—many sub-Saharan Africans never really saw him as such. In fact, because he was Copt, some Arabs also had difficulty accepting him as one of their own.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_2006/0611038.html
Who are the Copts ?
The word Copt is an English word taken from the Arabic word Gibt or Gypt. The Arabs after their conquest of Egypt in 641 A.D. called the indigenous population of Egypt as Gypt from the Greek word Egyptos or Egypt. The Greek word Egyptos came from the ancient Egyptian words Ha-Ka-Ptah or the house or temple of the spirit of God Ptah, one of the major ancient Egyptian Gods. The word Copt or Coptic simply means Egyptian, however the Muslim population of Egypt calls themselves Arabs. In contemporary usage, the word Copt or Coptic refers to the Christian population of Egypt.
[…]
Resistance for Oppression:
The Arab’s oppression led the Copts to several rebellions, but these rebellions failed to break the yoke of oppression or achieve independence. The Copts in the eastern Delta fought against the Ommayyds oppression in 725 A.D. A large-scale Coptic revolt against the Abbasids took place circa 815 A.D. El Maamoun, the Abbasid Caliph, had to bring in a large army with elephants to conquer the Copts revolution of 815 A.D. Even as late as 1176 A.D. the Copts of the city of Koptos revolted against the oppression of the Turkic rulers. The policy of heavy taxation, pillage, and violence was also accompanied by forced migration of Copts to other parts of the Islamic Empire, and settlement of Muslim Arabs into Egypt. As a result, many of the Copts were forced into Islam to escape the continued oppression and heavy taxation. The forced Isalmization policy was followed by most of the Arab rulers, and later on also by most of the Mamluks and Turkic rulers. Gradually, the population of Muslims increased and the Copts decreased. The population of the Copts decreased from 9 million at the time of the Arabs conquest 641 A. D. approximately 700,000 at the early 1900’s.
http://www.copts.net/history.asp
Never a dull moment: teaching, and the art of performance… by Jyl Lynn Felman – 2001 – Education – 233 pages (Page 198 )
I would use this example to ask the class why Boutros Boutros- Ghali was being repeatedly portrayed by the US media as an Arab rather than as a Copt. …
I had to look elsewhere for a specific definition of Coptic, which is an Afro-Asian language descended from ancient Egypt, and spoken by the Copts, …
http://books.google.com/books?id=sq2f0eU7vSgC&pg=PA198
Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: S-Z – by James Minahan – 2002 – Political Science – 2241 pages
Page 472
In recent years activists gained support in a campaign promoting a Coptic identity separate from Arabs. They point to the fact that the Copts have every element of a nation — a separate culture, history, and language. They claim that the Copts share little with the Arab majority and should not be identified with them. A small group, the Coptic Pharaonic Movement, …
http://books.google.com/books?id=K94wQ9MF2JsC&pg=PA472
The racist government killed one of the heroes of Saint Mark’s Church in Egypt. On July.25, 2000 in an intentionally planned accident Bishop McKarry was murdered in the desert of Sinai. The perpetrators left clear evidence behind them, this time; they killed the Bishop’s car driver with knives when they found him not dead soon after the accident. To hide any evidence, and leaving no witnesses behind, the accident was planned to kill all passengers how in that car. Bishop McKarry, have been fighting for long time the racist rules and regulations of the Arab-Moslem government of Egypt.
http://www.copts4freedom.com/archive5.htm
Epilogue-Al-Maqrizi (1364-1442): A witness & chronicler from the late medieval ages-Part VII
Written by Ed Rizkalla
Wednesday, 09 July 2008
In this series, the writer reviewed some of the chronicles of the Arab historian al-Maqrizi on Coptic cultural attributes, and explored some aspects of the context and milieu of his time. Al-Maqrizi was neither a Coptophile nor a friend of the Copts, and perhaps this might add more credence for his writing about the Coptic culture. His writings, like several other medieval Arab writers, tended to include unsubstantiated and racist negative commentaries about the Copts.
http://freecopts.net/english/index.php?Itemid=9&id=935&option=com_content&task=view
Libya’s Mu’ammar Qaddafi
(Page 515)
As one approaches the Middle East, however, the trail becomes
warmer. This is an area originally impacted to some extent by paradigmatic
European fascism.
Some of the new nationalist regimes which developed in the
Middle East during the second half of the century exhibited more of the
characteristics of fascism than those of any other part of the world. A first
example was the Egyptian regime under Nasser, with its Fuhrerprinzip, “Arab
socialism,” a state sector of the economy approaching 40 percent, and
bellicosity toward Israel…
At first glance a better case might be made for
the Libyan dictatorship of Mu’ammar al-Gadhafi, established in 1969. Though the
dictator of a major oil-exporting country, Gaddafi is a fanatical Muslim…
“Brother Colonel” has renounced capitalism, preaching pan-Arabism and a form of
“Arab socialism,” while his interest in militarism, violence, …
http://books.google.com/books?id=NLiFIEdI1V4C&pg=PA515
[Page 31]
Qaddafi wanted to unify all of North Africa under Arab control and had a great deal of money and military power to support the Arabs in the region.
Thousands of Libyan troops were sent to north Sudan to fight the South. Qaddafi’s belief in Arab superiority did a great deal to create hostility between the Arabs and the Africans in Sudan, especially in Darfur. Libya had stationed troops in Darfur to help the Arabs in Chad…
http://books.google.com/books?id=IoF4_7Aq9McC&pg=PA31
..The Italian colonial period proved devastating for native Libyans. Half of the indigenous population were either exiled or exterminated between 1911 and WWII. The country was reduced to a theatre of war in which huge minefields were laid, some remaining to the current day.
Italy lost Libya during WWII, and in 1951 the country became independent …
Qaddafi’s regime committed to a more equitable distribution of Libya’s enormous oil income, and billions of dollars were spent on roads, schools, housing, hospitals and agriculture. In practice, however, Libya’s government was and continues to be a strict military dictatorship.
Libya adopted a high international profile based on Pan-Arabism, its virulent condemnation of ‘western imperialism’, its support of “liberation” movements around the world and its military adventurism in Chad. What angered Western countries most was Qaddafi’s alleged support of international terrorist organisations. These activities isolated Libya from the international community. The most violent reaction to Libya’s politics came from the USA, culminating in the air strike of April 1986 that killed dozens of people, including Qaddafi’s adopted baby daughter.
Libya’s isolation deepened following the 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. Libya was accused of planting the bomb, and two Libyans were named as suspects. The US and Britain demanded the suspects be turned over for trial, Libya refused, and the resulting standoff caused the US to force the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Libya.
Recent History
After the lifting of sanctions in 1999, Qaddafi began transforming Libya’s ‘terrorist state’ image. He began styling himself as an African ‘peacebroker’, turning his back on his Arab neighbours to take a leading role in paving the way for a future Africa-wide federation similar to the European Union.
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-factsheet/libya–culture-amp-history-20081128-6lau.html
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In 1987, Libya used the region as a “backdoor” into Chad.
–”Islamic
Legion” and a new racial ideology (“Arabism”)…
http://www.state.gov/s/d/former/zoellick/rem/54090.htm
Muammar Qaddafi‘s analysis of the Arab world –
reported by the Libyan newspaper al-Shams – began with a romantic look at the
1948 war of Israeli independence, “the only time that all the Arabs fought as
one people and as one nation.” The Arab leaders of the day, Qaddafi explained,
are today seen as “reactionaries”, but “they were 1,000 times better than the
Arabs of today, who have no courage, honor, blood, or pride.” Today, however,
the Libyan dictator declared, “you cannot speak of Arab unity and pan-Arab
nationalism.” Qaddafi complained that Libya had stood up for Arab unity and the
Palestinian cause. That “Libya became the enemy of the Jews and the entire West
for the Arabs, and without this there would have been no problems between Libya
and the US and even between it and the Jews, or between Libya and Europe. If we had not gotten ourselves in trouble in battles because of
pan-Arabism and Arab unity, we would have been spared all the tragedies caused
us.”
Arabs] would not be cursing us…Leave us alone! Are you attacking us because we
are Arabs? We’re fed up. We are Africans. Treat us like Africans.” He asked,
“What is the connection between Libya and Kuwait? One country is situated in
Africa and the other in Asia.” He sarcastically called for all Arabs to leave
Africa and return to Arabia, “at least to receive their quota of oil,” Qaddafi
then continued: “The Arabs have become the joke of the world
because they do not think of their future…”
finished together with them. We will be, ultimately, in our African nation and
on the African continent…by means of which we will become stronger, like the
American continent and the European continent. The Arabs have written a mark of
disgrace in history that they will never be able to eradicate. They watch what
is happening in Iraq and in Palestine from the sidelines. They are finished.
They have no honor and they have no blood. There is no longer any Arab blood or
pan-Arab blood, Arab unity, Arab manliness, Arab femininity. There is nothing.
The situation has gotten so bad that the women are the ones who take the
initiative. Today was the most dangerous “fedaii” [terror] operation in
so-called Israel – and it was carried out by a young Palestinian woman, not by a
man.” The Libyan leader repeated, “The Arabs are completely useless. We must not
waste time. The Arabs are through. Tomorrow, Asia will es tablish great unions
and Africa is already united – and where are you, Arab?”
Somalia, and the Comoro Islands into the Arab League…Look what an injustice I
did them. I brought them into a failed nation, a failed regime, and failed
people…” And of the Libyan people he asked that they, “agree to quit the Arab
League, without wasting time. These people [the Arabs] are useless. Their
situation is terrible. We must be rid of them, of their curses and of their
problems.”
http://www.freeman.org/m_online/nov03/pasko1.htm
Of all the Trojan horses produced by Colonel Gaddafi’s stable Acyl was by far the most faithful. Although Acyl died in 1982, his pro-Arab ideology is still alive and well. For this much of the credit goes to Gaddafi. After suffering a major defeat in northern Chad at the hands of Hissène Habre in 1987 the Libyan leader turned his attention to Darfur.
To carve out for himself another sphere of influence and hold aloft the banner of the “Arab Gathering” (Al tajammu al-arabi) — a “militantly racist and pan-Arabist
organization”
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/histories/occasional/Lemarchand_Issues_in_Darfur.pdf
Sunny Igboanugo Dan Kanu Austin Oboh And Rafiu Ajakaye
11 February 2009
Pharaohs of ancient Egypt were reputed to have employed advisers, whose job was to continuously drum it in their ears: “Remember Pharaoh, you are but human.” This constant refrain, was meant to restrain them from playing God in administering the affairs of their people. In years thereafter, and even today, this critical practice, appears to be missing in the lives of leaders, especially those who want to rule the world, or at least impact on it in their peculiar manner. History is replete with them. Adolph Hitler of Germany, Benito Mussolini of Italy, Ferdinand Marcos of Philippines, Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc) of Haiti, Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Abdul Nasser of Egypt, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Idi Amin Dada of Uganda.
All these men, though in varying degrees, wielded influences within their countries at the time they were in power, that tapered towards playing God. Of course their styles were different, but the public understanding of their actions, was similar – they were men, who wanted to dominate the world, their world, some by raw display of power, others by sheer control and manipulation of the thought process of their people. Their actions not only resulted in most cases to outlandish and even bizarre outcomes, but profoundly shook the entire world. Some came with religion, while others came through politics or combined both. However the domino effect were same – the world listened.
Though most of them are now history, even though the impacts and most times scars they created, still remain as reference points to confirm man’s desire to control his environment, there is no doubt that the future would still have a lot of them to contend with willy-nilly, despite the influence of civilisation. This is the context many people are now looking at the renewed wave of activities within the African Union (AU), with the ascension of Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Ghadafi, to its leadership. But does the Libyan leader fit into the profile of these men of power and influence? No doubt. Would he succeed in seizing Africa as they seized their environments? Time will tell. But the fact remains, at least on the surface that he is working at it.
…Gadhafi’s invitation to his fellow Arabs is nothing but a declaration of race war on Africa. It is an invitation to more Arabs to invade and colonise Africa. Indeed, it is a call for the final phase of the 15 centuries old Arab lebensraum war on Afrikans – a war to Islamise and conquer all of Africa, from Cairo to the Cape and from Senegal to Somalia, and to then enslave or Arabise all the conquered Afrikans. In order to make that clear, it is necessary to first put his invitation in the context of the traditions of Arab melanophobia and negrophobia, and of Arab expansionist ambitions and conquests that go back to the time of their Arab prophet, Muhammed.” With his present pre-occupation, this fear may have been assuaged.
While rights agitators in Nigeria avoided making comments regarding the aggressive spread of Islam through Arabism, they agree with Dowden that Gadhafi’s rights records are enough ground to deny him headship of the AU. They also argued that his election says a lot about other African leaders.
By: Naiwu Osahon
Jan 13, 2009
Egypt
is still so intimidated by its glorious Black African past that its Arab
government would not allow thorough research into Egypt’s past. President Gamal
Abdel Nasser falsified Egyptian history when he declared Egypt an Arab Republic.
Egyptian authorities refused to allow American film makers to make a film on the
life of Anwar Sadat in Egypt on the ground that the actor chosen for Sadat’s
role was black. When Morocco left the OAU in 1984, it aspired to become a member
of the European Union.
Mauritania and the rest of the Arab world, Africans are treated as the scum of
the earth. They are second-class citizens at the very best in their own
countries. Blacks in these countries cannot aspire to positions of respect or
authority. There are hardly Africans in high government positions in Arab
governed African countries. Like Brazil, which is just as racially cruel against
their black natives, there is no legislation favouring slavery (except in
Mauritania). It is simply a way of life that’s all. Blacks do not really exist
or at best are not humans.
union formed by the Arab North African States. A few years ago, Mauritania
sacked all black natives from their civil service positions. Black Mauritanians
protest their plight to the African Union (AU) without receiving attention,
because AU black leaders fear offending their Arab colleagues in the AU. In
Mauritania, they have had to declare an end to slavery six times in this century
alone, and still nothing has changed for the captive majority African natives.
African slavery is still in their statute books. African slavery in Mauritania
is what the on going quarrel between Mauritania and Senegal is about. The
quarrel forced black African refugees to pour across the border from Mauritania
into Senegal.
markets and other public places. To quote Prof. Clarke, “Arabs always act as
though they are not in Africa. Once when I was visiting Egypt, I told my
Egyptian Arab host to get a cab ready for the next morning that I was going to
Kenya. ‘So you are going to Africa to visit your people? We got no diseases
here, why are you leaving us?” the host asked. Even across the Red Sea, in
Mecca, Saudi Arabia, blacks are treated worse than animals, after using their
life’s savings to go there on pilgrimage.
repatriated daily right now, after loosing an arm or leg for some minor or
trumped up offense and without regard for their comfort, welfare or rights.
Racism towards black Moslems in Saudi Arabia is so strong it makes one wonder if
making pilgrimage to Mecca should be one of the five pillars of the Muslim
faith, and why blacks bother to be Muslim.
of Princess Diana of Wales, the mother of a future king of England, and her Arab
lover. What no one remembered to ask Gadhafi was whether he himself was disposed
to allowing any daughter of his to marry even the richest black man in the world
let alone a black Libyan. If one were to ask Gadhafi why Africans are not high
up in his government, he might balk that all Libyans are Africans. In that case,
one should go and find out the truth for oneself in the poor sections of town.
One would be shocked by the plight of our African kith and kin that constitute
the bulk of the population in oil rich Libya and other Northern African
countries similarly afflicted with Arab racism. While pretending to champion
pan-African interest, he is busy getting rid of black immigrants from
Libya.
of Libya, Col. Gadhafi invaded Nigeria with his planes carrying 1,000 members of
his rag-tag army, plus 500 journalists. They strategically occupied the Kano
airport and his other reception facilities, with the connivance of the Nigerian
Muslim dictator host. The purpose was to launch a jihad in supposedly
religiously secular Nigeria, or at least precipitate a serious schism between
the predominantly Moslem north of the country and the Christian and animist
south. Right now the Moslem world is trying to use ‘Sharia’ to dismember
Nigeria. Pakistan, Libya and Saudi Arabia, to name a few, have pumped
substantial funds into Zamfara, the first of Nigeria’s Sharia states, to start
the process of Islamizing, (or at least trigger mayhem and civil war), in
Nigeria as in Sudan.
Ethiopia. It has been going on since Arabs first invaded Africa in the 7th
century CE. Recently, with Libya supporting the people of Eritrea, they
destroyed the basic structure of Ethiopia, to cut her from the sea and weaken
this section of Africa, and eventually all of Africa, for further Arabization.
They did this mercilessly with religion.
Libya’s unification with Egypt, Algeria etc, and has continued the effort since
with Sudan. He forcibly annexed the Auzon Strip from Chad, and sponsored
destabilization in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Mali, Cote d’ Ivoire, Niger,
etc in pursuance of his Arabization of Africa policy, laced with inordinate
imperial personal ambition. In 1998, his strategy got a fillip with the founding
of his community of Sahel-Savannah States (CEN — SAD), which he was hoping to
use to control the envisaged African Union (AU). The CEN — SAD, at the moment,
ropes in 25 African states from West, East, and Central Africa, and includes
Senegal, Cote d “Ivoire, Chad, Sudan, Somalia, Comoro Islands etc. Most of these
unsuspecting African countries were stable until they joined CEN — SAD.
government to be approved, set up, and launched right there and then, at the 9th
ordinary Session of the Assembly of the heads of states of the African Union
(AU), held in July 2007, in Accra, Ghana.
2001, pretending to be promoting the Pan-African agenda of Kwame Nkrumah.
Chinweizu, the renowned scholar, described Gadhafi’s Arab-Black Africa
government plan at the time, “as unification of nigger monkey with python.”
Arabs themselves divide Africa into North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to
instigate a division and as long as the invaders continue to occupy our land and
treat us as slaves in North Africa, the two segments of the continent cannot
cohabit.
in Amman, Jordan, in 2001, Muammar Gadhafi spelt out the Arabization agenda
against Africa in language reminiscent of Adolph Hitler’s Lebensraum, (Hitler’s
sick obsession to secure a living space for political and economic expansion in
Europe) for the Germans, (the superior race). Gadhafi in his address during the
Amman’s Arab conference invited his Arab brothers outside of Africa to come to
Africa in the following words. “The third of the Arab community living outside
Africa should move in with the two-thirds (about 250 million) on the continent,
and join the African Union, which is the only space we have.”
is a continuation of the Arab war against Africans and the Arabization of
African lands that started in the 7th century CE. Arabs have since settled on
one-third of Africa, pushing continuously southwards towards the Atlantic Ocean.
Arabs’ racial war against black Africa started with their occupation and
colonization of Egypt between 637 and 642 CE, decimating the Coptic or black
population.
http://www.edofolks.com/html/arabs_in_africa.htm
at the March 2001, Amman, Jordan meeting of the Arab League. … Arab lebensraum
war on Afrikans– a war to Islamise and conquer all of Africa, …
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/j13/forum/showthread.php?p=56678
by Dr. Abdul Khalik Hussein [Monday, March 07,
2005]
I am not exaggerating when I say the word Baath is now synonymous with
terrorism and racism. The experiments of two peoples ‘ Syrians and Iraqis ‘
prove that terrorism is a part of the Baath’s ideology.
http://friendsofdemocracy.typepad.com/friends_of_democracy_iraq/page/5/
September 17, 2005
Rubin gives
not one indication that Ahmed and his Palestinian terror cohorts, have
alternatives to the fascist, racist, genocidal, terrorist tactics they have
embraced. For her, these are the natural choices of the victimized.
Catch her portrayal of Ahmed’s older brother’s affiliation with the Baathists,
which led Ahmed down his path: ‘The Baath Party philosophy dominant in the 1950s
and 1960s emphasized a secular Arab nationalism and opposition to colonial
rule.’
Wow! Secular nationalism and opposition to colonial rule sounds pretty
reasonable, doesn’t it? No hint that Baathism developed out of Nazism,
as Yasser Arafat’s late uncle, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem sat out the war
years in Berlin, and brought back home a political model for the Baath
party. No exploration of the aim of driving the Jews into the ocean.
Nope, only just a bunch of harmless secular nationalists…
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2005/09/poor_ahmed_the_baathist_palest.html
period when Damascus was under the colonial domination of France’s government,
which was fascist in those days. And the party, conforming to the interests of
French policy and to the larger enthusiasm for German fascism that was emanating
from Europe, drew a major aspect of its inspiration from Nazism. The goal of the Baath party was to adapt the racist and totalitarian ideas of Europe for the Arab world to combine the fascism of Europe with the ethnic traditions and Islamic orientation of the Arab countries.
http://www.axess.se/english/2004/08/theme_berman.php.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=AmSIOJ5ekIoC&pg=PA266
He quotes Sami al-Jundi, who helped found the Syrian Baath Party in the 1930s:
‘We were racists, admiring Nazism…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2003/apr/20/history.politics
‘Non-Arabs arrested in Syria’
Jerusalem Post, Israel – Feb 16, 2008
COM STAFF AND AP Syria also arrested non-Arab foreigners suspected of being involved in the assassination of
Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh this week …
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1203019390293&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
On Assyrians
Who Are Assyrians – Frederick A. Aprim The Assyrians have faced increased religious, ethnic, and cultural persecutions at the hands of the Turks, Kurds and Pan Arabs. …
http://www.fredaprim.com/who_assyrians.php
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?id=22644
…In Lebanon, once a majority Christian country, Christians represent only 34% of its population of four million people, according to the World Christian Database. The database, which bases its work on church estimates, says Arab Christians’ percentage in the Palestinian territories has also dropped from 5.3% in 1970 to 2.5% of 3.7 million Palestinians today.
In Jordan, a country of 5.4 million people, the Christian population dropped from 5% in 1970s to about 3% now, according to a U.S State Department report. But, in Egypt, the number of Copts – Egyptian Christians – range from 5.6 million, according to Egyptian government estimates, to 11 million people, according to Coptic Church estimates. Nonetheless, they complain of discrimination in the most populated Arab country of 80 million people. One example of this is that the government still restricts the building of churches in Egypt.
The Christian flight from Syria occurred in part for economic reasons.
[…]
In October 1986, 22 members of the Assyrian Democratic Organisation – founded in 1957 in Qamishli to promote Assyrian rights in Syria – were arrested for opposing the government’s official policy of Arabization. They were released after six months in detention.
[…] government policies of Arabization and discrimination against ethnic minorities, including Kurds, as well as economic crises are pushing these minorities – especially Assyrians – to abandon their homes they built brick by brick.
http://www.assyriatimes.com/engine/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3326
Assyriac: Denied in Its Own Homeland, but Accepted in England …These opportunists provide a convenient spiritual cover in the legitimisation of a totalitarian policy of Assyrians Arabization.
http://www.bethsuryoyo.com/currentevents/AprimAssyriac/AssyriacDenied.html
…problems, which are facing Assyrians, such as Arabization, submission to the dictatorial regimes and phobia of declaring the real nationalist belonging.
http://www.christiansofiraq.com/faridnuzha.html
The Chaldean Assyrians Under the Arab Baath Regime of Iraq, Oct 28, 1999 … To understand the reaction (or lack of it) among the Chaldeans towards those Arab Baath racist policies one has to tackle once again the question of the absence of political movements among them.
In a social sense, political movements arise as a reflection of the need of a group of people to defend or preserve one’s own national and ethnic rights or promote one’s own “special interests”
agenda. However, in the case of the onslaught of those racist policies, no major reaction took place among the Chaldeans to fight back, hence, the question that might arise is: Was there any Arab
Baathi policies directed towards our people that demand reaction? The following is a list of some of the major policies through which the current regime used to resolve the “Chaldean/Assyrian
Question”…
http://www.chaldeansonline.org/Banipal/English/ghassan3.html
…In the following years and the pain still piercing, Bakr Sidqi, the
Baghdadi army’s chief responding to the zealous cry of the new pan-Arab fascists
organised the cold blooded massacre of innocent Assyrians with the watchful eye
of Imperial Britain, because they dared to ask for the recognition of the
Assyrian nationality and the Assyrian cultural rights within the newly formed
regime.
Betrayed and denied by Imperial Britain, the Assyrian national
uprising was suppressed and the Assyrian rights’ movement was pigeonholed. For
the next decades and under various successive regimes the Assyrians were known
by their religion as ‘Christians’ until the ascent of the new Baathists to power
in the hot summer of 1968. Then things started to change.
http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2002/7.1.02/index.php
What Happened To the 80 Millions Assyrians After the Fall of Nineveh?
By:
Paroqa D’Omta Ashoureeta
[18 April 2007]
Progenitor of Wars and
Tyrannies: the Falsehood of Pan-Arabism
The deep and hidden reason of the
tyrannical oppression practiced throughout the Middle East is the imposition by France and England of pan-Arabic nationalist cliques that intend to dictatorially arabize the various peoples of the Middle East, who are ‘ all ‘
not Arabs.
http://www.betnahrain.org/bbs/index.pl/noframes/read/15531
September 24, 1988
The fate of the Assyrians in the anfal campaign Barely two weeks after the arrival of the first deportees at Baharka, the official lowdspeakers announced that some of the camp’s inmates should present themselves at the police station without delay. Those singled out were either Assyrian and Chaldean Christians or members of the ezidi sect. What happened to these two groups remains one fo the great unexplained mysteries of Anfal: a brutal sideshow , as it were, to the Kurdish genocide. A few days later, a single khaki-colored military bus arrived, accompanied by an army officer and nine or ten soldirs, to pick up twenty-six people from the Assyrian Christian village of Gund Kosa. … None of those who was bussed from the camps ever reached their homes, and noe was ever seen in the camps, such as Mansuriya (Masirik) and Khaneq, that were set aside for relocated Christians and Yeszidis. The inescapable conclusion is that they were all murdered. An Assyrian priest interviewed by HRW/Middle East said that he had assembled a list of 250 Christians who disappeared during Anfal and its immediate aftermath. (Iraq’s Crime of Genocide, 1995, Human rights watch, pp. 209)
http://www.aina.org/martyr.html#1980%20to%201988
Husri correctly deduced that it was through education, especially children,
that the “new morality” of Arabism was to be transmitted. In this endeavor, he
achieved a great success. In this mission he was helped by a certain British
advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of education by the name of Lionel Smith. Smith
seems to have admired Husri’s passionate zeal for education, but is on record
for stating that many of Husri’s “views were wrong”. Husri’s attitudes against
non-Arabs seem to have been adopted by his son Khaldun al-Husri, a nationalist
Arab historian who has attempted to minimize the violent destruction of the
Assyrian community in Northern Iraq in the 1920s. This is reflected in:
Husri, H. (1974). The Asyyrian affair. The International Journal of Middle
East Studies, 5, 161-176, 344-360.
For an account of the Assyrian tragedy
consult: Stafford, R.S. (1935). The Tragedy of the Assyrians
http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/aFarrokhArab.html
Islamist Ethnic-Cleansing of Assyrians in Iraq
[August 13,
2008]
Assyrians are not seeking to re-establish Assyria, that is an
unrealistic dream. Assyrians simply want to live in peace and freedom, to
practice their religion, to teach their language and history. In the last 1400
years, thus has proven to be elusive, as every power that be wanted to
assimilate Assyrians. We are called Arab-Christians, Iranian-Christians,
Turkish-Christians and now Kurdish Christians… The Arabs had their Ba’ath
ideology, with its pan-Arabism, where everyone was an Arab, even if he
wasn’t
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D3CC0184-4CB4-48C5-9C98-1229267A8A52
Assyriac: Denied in Its Own Homeland But Accepted in England Therefore,
sooner or later Assyrians in their homeland will either submit to absorption
into “Pan Arabism Pot” or they will resist and be deported. …
http://www.atour.com/government/docs/20020124a.html
Assyrians and Kurds were struggling against the common oppressive Pan-Arabist regime of Saddam Hussein
http://www.aina.org/guesteds/20080416165822.htm
…about the Arab/Muslim civilization. As an Assyrian, a non-Arab, Christian native of the Middle East, whose ancestors reach back to 5000 B.C., I wish to clarify some points you made in this little story, and to alert you to the dangers of unwittingly being drawn into the Arabist/Islamist ideology, which seeks to assimilate all cultures and religions into the Arab/Islamic fold. […]
There are minorities and nations struggling for survival in the Arab/Muslim ocean of the Middle East and Africa (Assyrians, Armenians, Coptics, Jews, southern Sudanese, Ethiopians, Nigerians…), and we must be very sensitive not to unwittingly and inadvertently support Islamic fascism and Arab Imperialism, with their attempts to wipe out all other cultures, religions and civilizations. It is incumbent upon each one of us to do our homework and research when making statements and speeches about these sensitive matters.
http://www.ninevehsoft.com/fiorina.htm
By Yoab Benjamin
(Assyria) as a country no longer exists, but the Assyrian people have attachment
to, and are proud of, the soil upon which their Assyrian ancestors trod, and by
far more in the history of the land of their beloved homeland which served as
the cradle for a succession of civilizations.
our discussion and is worthy of serious consideration. In their cultural
campaign and in all instances where Mesopotamian history is discussed,
leading Arab thinkers, present the Assyrian heritage from their points of view
that are more in line with pan-Arab (al-Qawmiyyah al’Arabiyyah)
thinking.
intense system of social control and discriminatory practices against them in
some Arab countries. The aim of the governments in these countries is the
eventual extinction of Assyrian consciousness and identification. It is no
surprise nowadays to notice that the true ethnic identity of the Assyrians,
their culture and ancestral language, are gradually being denied by the
political leadership of these states.
‘arabization’ has, over recent years, worked its effect and is becoming
efficient.
to the governments of these countries, not perceived as an ethnic minority but
communities of different religious denominations. The structure of these
“religious communities” is being strengthened by the recognition given to them
by the authorities of these states. The main purpose from the point of view of
these countries’ leaderships is to make the churches responsible to the
authorities for the loyalty of their Christian subjects
Arabist ideology, the Assyrians who have for thousands of years kept faith with
their origin, are encouraged to abandon the ideology of having cultural traits
common to their people. The Arab leadership goes beyond that and forces
the Assyrians to embrace the Arabist national ideology. In other words, the
Assyrians are being asked to commit ethnic suicide by being submerged in
Arabism. The oddity is that this ideology extends the term of Arab to
every and all citizens of the entire Arab homeland, irrespective of their ethnic
origin. According to the socio-cultural criteria of these Arab states, the
Christians are an integral part of the Arabs. Thus, the descriptive name of
Christian Arabs is the current vogue.
who are conscious of the bonds that bind them to their past have some reason to
believe that undermining Assyrian culture and identity eases their assimilation
in the Arab majority. The present-day Assyrians have a national character and
are the heirs, both culturally and racially, to the earlier inhabitants of the
ancient Assyrian Empire. This is what anthropology teaches and reveals It is
also what their t tradition points to, and they passionately, believe in it. The
Assyrians have always remembered their past and have sought to keep that past
alive in the present. The roots of their culture are too deep and their
traditions are too long to allow them to forget. They, as the interested a
party, don’t have to look into a crystal ball to prove their ethnic presence.
They already know themselves. The modern Assyrians believe that their ancestors
were created from the very dust of the Land of Ashur on which their footprints
are deep and lasting.
http://www.aina.org/articles/yoab1.htm
This letter was sent to Carly Fiorina, CEO of
Hewlett Packard Corporation, in response to a speech given by her on September
26, 2001.
Hewlett-Packard
3000 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA
94304-1185
26, 2001, titled “Technology, Business and Our way of Life: What’s Next” [sic].
I was particularly interested in the story you told at the end of your speech,
about the Arab/Muslim civilization. As an Assyrian, a non-Arab, Christian native
of the Middle East, whose ancestors reach back to 5000 B.C., I wish to clarify
some points you made in this little story, and to alert you to the dangers of unwittingly being drawn into the Arabist/Islamist
ideology, which seeks to assimilate all cultures and religions into the
Arab/Islamic fold.
follows, as it is a perspective that you will not likely get from anywhere else.
I will answer some of the specific points you made in your speech, then conclude
with a brief perspective on this Arabist/Islamist ideology.
of Muhammad began their conquest of the Middle East. We should be very clear
that this was a military conquest, not a missionary enterprise, and
through the use of force, authorized by a declaration of a Jihad against
infidels, Arabs/Muslims were able to forcibly convert and assimilate non-Arabs
and non-Mulsims into their fold. Very few indigenous communities of the Middle
East survived this — primarily Assyrians, Jews, Armenians and Coptics (of
Egypt).
…protest against Assyrians being
classified as Arabs
including Chaldeans and Syriacs, have found themselves in the bitterly ironic
position of having to defend the integrity of their identity against an
erroneous association with the Arab identity by both misinformed Americans and a
persistent fundamentalist Arabist ideology transplanted from the Middle
East.
The horrific attacks against New York and Washington served as a
painful reminder to Assyrians of the numerous massacres and genocides they have
endured throughout the centuries. Assyrians throughout the U.S. lined up to
donate blood and assistance to the victims of the attacks. Assyrian
organizations officially and unequivocally condemned the attacks (AINA,
9-17-2001) and denounced the loss of life. Still, though, Assyrians have found
themselves as victims of hate crimes presumably because of their Middle Eastern
background and a mistaken identification with Arabs. Most notable of the
hate crimes was the burning of St. John’s Assyrian Church in Chicago on
September 23rd, in a suspected arson attack (Chicago Tribune, 1, 2). Although no
injuries were suffered in the early morning attack, over $200,000 damage was
sustained. In a second incident, St. Mary’s Assyrian Church of Roselle,
Illinois, just outside of Chicago, received a thinly veiled threat in the form
of a letter asking “Are you with the U.S. or with the enemy?” Other
Assyrian individuals and businesses have received threats as well.
and Syriacs, are the indigenous Christian people of Mesopotamia and have a
history, spanning seven thousand years, that predates the Arab conquest of the
region
http://www.mafhoum.com/press2/65S24.htm
Assyrians are a non-Arab, Semitic, and
Christian people whose ancestral homeland includes parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria,
and Turkey. …
…Some Arab-American groups have imported this denial of
Assyrian identity to the United States. In 2001, a coalition of Assyrian and
Assyrian-Chaldean organizations, along with their Maronite counterparts, wrote
to the Washington-based Arab-American Institute, to reprimand them for claiming
that Assyrians were Arabs. In a terse letter signed by seven organizations and
copied to the White House, they asked the Arab-American Institute “to cease and
desist from portraying Assyrians and Maronites of past and present as Arabs, and
from speaking on behalf of Assyrians and Maronites.” In a press release of that
same year, the Assyrian International News Agency wrote that the Arab-American
Institute’s “perpetuation of Arabist ideology represents an egregious,
willful, and deliberate mischaracterization of Assyrian identity.” They
likewise pointed out that Arab nationalist groups have wrongly included
Assyrian-Americans in their head count of Arab Americans, in order to bolster
their political clout in Washington.
http://www.christiansofiraq.com/Lewis.html
The Copts were severely affected by Nasser’s nationalization policies because, although they represented about 20% of the population, they were so economically prosperous as to have held more than 50% of the country’s wealth. In addition, Nasser’s pan-Arab policies undermined the Copts’ strong attachment to and sense of identity about their Egyptian pre-Arab, and certainly non-Arab, identity. As a result, many Copts left their country for Australia, North America or Europe.
http://www.copticsaints.info/copts
The government and politics of the Middle East and North Africa – Page 420, David E. Long, Bernard Reich, Mark Gasiorowski, Mark J. Gasiorowski – History – 2007 – 567 pages
Pan-Arab Nationalism in the Egyptian context has a strong Islamic flavor and
thus acted as acted as a bridge to pan-Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhood. There was not a single Christian Copt among the ninety-four members of the Free Officers Movement, although Copts constitue 15 percent of the total population. Discrimination against Christian Copts has become prevalent, verging on persecution, especially under Sadat and Mubarak. Since 1952 revolution, the enlightened liberalism, which was the dominant ideology for three decades in the aftermath of the 1919 revolution, was undermined by pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism.
Over the past fifty years, political expression by both those in power and by the organized politically disaffected has used various combinations of these ideas, beginning with Nasser’s Arab socialism and, now, increasingly, contemporary militant political Islamism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=LpGGbueEuXsC&pg=PA420
Jordanian Columnist and Former Minister Laments the Emigration of Christians from the Middle East Caused by Their Persecution (Jun 18 2008)
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP196508
Egyptian Muslim Intellectual Criticizes Egypt’s Treatment of Copts
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP158707
Tunisian Reformist Researcher on Discrimination Against Christians in Egypt (Mar 1 2006)
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP110306
Special Dispatch – No. 1023
Egyptian Reformist Thinker Tarek Heggy: ‘Egyptian Copts are Oppressed, Oppressed, Oppressed’ (Nov 16 2005)
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP102305
During the rise of pan-Arab nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s, the economically prosperous Copts, who then represented 20 percent of the population but held more than 50 percent of the nations’s wealth, saw their businesses and factories nationalized under the socialist government of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Many of them left as a result.
http://www.freecopts.net/forum/showthread.php?t=16874
http://www.orderofmaltacolombia.org/news_files/en_News_faith_01.htm
http://www.netanyahu.org/strugaginemc.html
So while Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as an Egyptian, technically was African—and, indeed, took his country’s position within the Organization of African States very seriously—many sub-Saharan Africans never really saw him as such. In fact, because he was Copt, some Arabs also had difficulty accepting him as one of their own.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_2006/0611038.html
Who are the Copts ?
The word Copt is an English word taken from the Arabic word Gibt or Gypt. The Arabs after their conquest of Egypt in 641 A.D. called the indigenous population of Egypt as Gypt from the Greek word Egyptos or Egypt. The Greek word Egyptos came from the ancient Egyptian words Ha-Ka-Ptah or the house or temple of the spirit of God Ptah, one of the major ancient Egyptian Gods. The word Copt or Coptic simply means Egyptian, however the Muslim population of Egypt calls themselves Arabs. In contemporary usage, the word Copt or Coptic refers to the Christian population of Egypt.
[…]
Resistance for Oppression:
The Arab’s oppression led the Copts to several rebellions, but these rebellions failed to break the yoke of oppression or achieve independence. The Copts in the eastern Delta fought against the Ommayyds oppression in 725 A.D. A large-scale Coptic revolt against the Abbasids took place circa 815 A.D. El Maamoun, the Abbasid Caliph, had to bring in a large army with elephants to conquer the Copts revolution of 815 A.D. Even as late as 1176 A.D. the Copts of the city of Koptos revolted against the oppression of the Turkic rulers. The policy of heavy taxation, pillage, and violence was also accompanied by forced migration of Copts to other parts of the Islamic Empire, and settlement of Muslim Arabs into Egypt. As a result, many of the Copts were forced into Islam to escape the continued oppression and heavy taxation. The forced Isalmization policy was followed by most of the Arab rulers, and later on also by most of the Mamluks and Turkic rulers. Gradually, the population of Muslims increased and the Copts decreased. The population of the Copts decreased from 9 million at the time of the Arabs conquest 641 A. D. approximately 700,000 at the early 1900’s.
http://www.copts.net/history.asp
Never a dull moment: teaching, and the art of performance… by Jyl Lynn Felman – 2001 – Education – 233 pages (Page 198 )
I would use this example to ask the class why Boutros Boutros- Ghali was being repeatedly portrayed by the US media as an Arab rather than as a Copt. …
I had to look elsewhere for a specific definition of Coptic, which is an Afro-Asian language descended from ancient Egypt, and spoken by the Copts, …
http://books.google.com/books?id=sq2f0eU7vSgC&pg=PA198
Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: S-Z – by James Minahan – 2002 – Political Science – 2241 pages
Page 472
In recent years activists gained support in a campaign promoting a Coptic identity separate from Arabs. They point to the fact that the Copts have every element of a nation — a separate culture, history, and language. They claim that the Copts share little with the Arab majority and should not be identified with them. A small group, the Coptic Pharaonic Movement, …
http://books.google.com/books?id=K94wQ9MF2JsC&pg=PA472
The racist government killed one of the heroes of Saint Mark’s Church in Egypt. On July.25, 2000 in an intentionally planned accident Bishop McKarry was murdered in the desert of Sinai. The perpetrators left clear evidence behind them, this time; they killed the Bishop’s car driver with knives when they found him not dead soon after the accident. To hide any evidence, and leaving no witnesses behind, the accident was planned to kill all passengers how in that car. Bishop McKarry, have been fighting for long time the racist rules and regulations of the Arab-Moslem government of Egypt.
http://www.copts4freedom.com/archive5.htm
Epilogue-Al-Maqrizi (1364-1442): A witness & chronicler from the late medieval ages-Part VII
Written by Ed Rizkalla
Wednesday, 09 July 2008
In this series, the writer reviewed some of the chronicles of the Arab historian al-Maqrizi on Coptic cultural attributes, and explored some aspects of the context and milieu of his time. Al-Maqrizi was neither a Coptophile nor a friend of the Copts, and perhaps this might add more credence for his writing about the Coptic culture. His writings, like several other medieval Arab writers, tended to include unsubstantiated and racist negative commentaries about the Copts.
http://freecopts.net/english/index.php?Itemid=9&id=935&option=com_content&task=view
Libya’s Mu’ammar Qaddafi
(Page 515)
As one approaches the Middle East, however, the trail becomes
warmer. This is an area originally impacted to some extent by paradigmatic
European fascism.
Some of the new nationalist regimes which developed in the
Middle East during the second half of the century exhibited more of the
characteristics of fascism than those of any other part of the world. A first
example was the Egyptian regime under Nasser, with its Fuhrerprinzip, “Arab
socialism,” a state sector of the economy approaching 40 percent, and
bellicosity toward Israel…
At first glance a better case might be made for
the Libyan dictatorship of Mu’ammar al-Gadhafi, established in 1969. Though the
dictator of a major oil-exporting country, Gaddafi is a fanatical Muslim…
“Brother Colonel” has renounced capitalism, preaching pan-Arabism and a form of
“Arab socialism,” while his interest in militarism, violence, …
http://books.google.com/books?id=NLiFIEdI1V4C&pg=PA515
[Page 31]
Qaddafi wanted to unify all of North Africa under Arab control and had a great deal of money and military power to support the Arabs in the region.
Thousands of Libyan troops were sent to north Sudan to fight the South. Qaddafi’s belief in Arab superiority did a great deal to create hostility between the Arabs and the Africans in Sudan, especially in Darfur. Libya had stationed troops in Darfur to help the Arabs in Chad…
http://books.google.com/books?id=IoF4_7Aq9McC&pg=PA31
..The Italian colonial period proved devastating for native Libyans. Half of the indigenous population were either exiled or exterminated between 1911 and WWII. The country was reduced to a theatre of war in which huge minefields were laid, some remaining to the current day.
Italy lost Libya during WWII, and in 1951 the country became independent …
Qaddafi’s regime committed to a more equitable distribution of Libya’s enormous oil income, and billions of dollars were spent on roads, schools, housing, hospitals and agriculture. In practice, however, Libya’s government was and continues to be a strict military dictatorship.
Libya adopted a high international profile based on Pan-Arabism, its virulent condemnation of ‘western imperialism’, its support of “liberation” movements around the world and its military adventurism in Chad. What angered Western countries most was Qaddafi’s alleged support of international terrorist organisations. These activities isolated Libya from the international community. The most violent reaction to Libya’s politics came from the USA, culminating in the air strike of April 1986 that killed dozens of people, including Qaddafi’s adopted baby daughter.
Libya’s isolation deepened following the 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 259 people on board and 11 on the ground. Libya was accused of planting the bomb, and two Libyans were named as suspects. The US and Britain demanded the suspects be turned over for trial, Libya refused, and the resulting standoff caused the US to force the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Libya.
Recent History
After the lifting of sanctions in 1999, Qaddafi began transforming Libya’s ‘terrorist state’ image. He began styling himself as an African ‘peacebroker’, turning his back on his Arab neighbours to take a leading role in paving the way for a future Africa-wide federation similar to the European Union.
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-factsheet/libya–culture-amp-history-20081128-6lau.html
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In 1987, Libya used the region as a “backdoor” into Chad.
–”Islamic
Legion” and a new racial ideology (“Arabism”)…
http://www.state.gov/s/d/former/zoellick/rem/54090.htm
Muammar Qaddafi‘s analysis of the Arab world –
reported by the Libyan newspaper al-Shams – began with a romantic look at the
1948 war of Israeli independence, “the only time that all the Arabs fought as
one people and as one nation.” The Arab leaders of the day, Qaddafi explained,
are today seen as “reactionaries”, but “they were 1,000 times better than the
Arabs of today, who have no courage, honor, blood, or pride.” Today, however,
the Libyan dictator declared, “you cannot speak of Arab unity and pan-Arab
nationalism.” Qaddafi complained that Libya had stood up for Arab unity and the
Palestinian cause. That “Libya became the enemy of the Jews and the entire West
for the Arabs, and without this there would have been no problems between Libya
and the US and even between it and the Jews, or between Libya and Europe. If we had not gotten ourselves in trouble in battles because of
pan-Arabism and Arab unity, we would have been spared all the tragedies caused
us.”
Arabs] would not be cursing us…Leave us alone! Are you attacking us because we
are Arabs? We’re fed up. We are Africans. Treat us like Africans.” He asked,
“What is the connection between Libya and Kuwait? One country is situated in
Africa and the other in Asia.” He sarcastically called for all Arabs to leave
Africa and return to Arabia, “at least to receive their quota of oil,” Qaddafi
then continued: “The Arabs have become the joke of the world
because they do not think of their future…”
finished together with them. We will be, ultimately, in our African nation and
on the African continent…by means of which we will become stronger, like the
American continent and the European continent. The Arabs have written a mark of
disgrace in history that they will never be able to eradicate. They watch what
is happening in Iraq and in Palestine from the sidelines. They are finished.
They have no honor and they have no blood. There is no longer any Arab blood or
pan-Arab blood, Arab unity, Arab manliness, Arab femininity. There is nothing.
The situation has gotten so bad that the women are the ones who take the
initiative. Today was the most dangerous “fedaii” [terror] operation in
so-called Israel – and it was carried out by a young Palestinian woman, not by a
man.” The Libyan leader repeated, “The Arabs are completely useless. We must not
waste time. The Arabs are through. Tomorrow, Asia will es tablish great unions
and Africa is already united – and where are you, Arab?”
Somalia, and the Comoro Islands into the Arab League…Look what an injustice I
did them. I brought them into a failed nation, a failed regime, and failed
people…” And of the Libyan people he asked that they, “agree to quit the Arab
League, without wasting time. These people [the Arabs] are useless. Their
situation is terrible. We must be rid of them, of their curses and of their
problems.”
http://www.freeman.org/m_online/nov03/pasko1.htm
Of all the Trojan horses produced by Colonel Gaddafi’s stable Acyl was by far the most faithful. Although Acyl died in 1982, his pro-Arab ideology is still alive and well. For this much of the credit goes to Gaddafi. After suffering a major defeat in northern Chad at the hands of Hissène Habre in 1987 the Libyan leader turned his attention to Darfur.
To carve out for himself another sphere of influence and hold aloft the banner of the “Arab Gathering” (Al tajammu al-arabi) — a “militantly racist and pan-Arabist
organization”
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/histories/occasional/Lemarchand_Issues_in_Darfur.pdf
Sunny Igboanugo Dan Kanu Austin Oboh And Rafiu Ajakaye
11 February 2009
Pharaohs of ancient Egypt were reputed to have employed advisers, whose job was to continuously drum it in their ears: “Remember Pharaoh, you are but human.” This constant refrain, was meant to restrain them from playing God in administering the affairs of their people. In years thereafter, and even today, this critical practice, appears to be missing in the lives of leaders, especially those who want to rule the world, or at least impact on it in their peculiar manner. History is replete with them. Adolph Hitler of Germany, Benito Mussolini of Italy, Ferdinand Marcos of Philippines, Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc) of Haiti, Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Abdul Nasser of Egypt, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Idi Amin Dada of Uganda.
All these men, though in varying degrees, wielded influences within their countries at the time they were in power, that tapered towards playing God. Of course their styles were different, but the public understanding of their actions, was similar – they were men, who wanted to dominate the world, their world, some by raw display of power, others by sheer control and manipulation of the thought process of their people. Their actions not only resulted in most cases to outlandish and even bizarre outcomes, but profoundly shook the entire world. Some came with religion, while others came through politics or combined both. However the domino effect were same – the world listened.
Though most of them are now history, even though the impacts and most times scars they created, still remain as reference points to confirm man’s desire to control his environment, there is no doubt that the future would still have a lot of them to contend with willy-nilly, despite the influence of civilisation. This is the context many people are now looking at the renewed wave of activities within the African Union (AU), with the ascension of Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Ghadafi, to its leadership. But does the Libyan leader fit into the profile of these men of power and influence? No doubt. Would he succeed in seizing Africa as they seized their environments? Time will tell. But the fact remains, at least on the surface that he is working at it.
…Gadhafi’s invitation to his fellow Arabs is nothing but a declaration of race war on Africa. It is an invitation to more Arabs to invade and colonise Africa. Indeed, it is a call for the final phase of the 15 centuries old Arab lebensraum war on Afrikans – a war to Islamise and conquer all of Africa, from Cairo to the Cape and from Senegal to Somalia, and to then enslave or Arabise all the conquered Afrikans. In order to make that clear, it is necessary to first put his invitation in the context of the traditions of Arab melanophobia and negrophobia, and of Arab expansionist ambitions and conquests that go back to the time of their Arab prophet, Muhammed.” With his present pre-occupation, this fear may have been assuaged.
While rights agitators in Nigeria avoided making comments regarding the aggressive spread of Islam through Arabism, they agree with Dowden that Gadhafi’s rights records are enough ground to deny him headship of the AU. They also argued that his election says a lot about other African leaders.
By: Naiwu Osahon
Jan 13, 2009
Egypt
is still so intimidated by its glorious Black African past that its Arab
government would not allow thorough research into Egypt’s past. President Gamal
Abdel Nasser falsified Egyptian history when he declared Egypt an Arab Republic.
Egyptian authorities refused to allow American film makers to make a film on the
life of Anwar Sadat in Egypt on the ground that the actor chosen for Sadat’s
role was black. When Morocco left the OAU in 1984, it aspired to become a member
of the European Union.
Mauritania and the rest of the Arab world, Africans are treated as the scum of
the earth. They are second-class citizens at the very best in their own
countries. Blacks in these countries cannot aspire to positions of respect or
authority. There are hardly Africans in high government positions in Arab
governed African countries. Like Brazil, which is just as racially cruel against
their black natives, there is no legislation favouring slavery (except in
Mauritania). It is simply a way of life that’s all. Blacks do not really exist
or at best are not humans.
union formed by the Arab North African States. A few years ago, Mauritania
sacked all black natives from their civil service positions. Black Mauritanians
protest their plight to the African Union (AU) without receiving attention,
because AU black leaders fear offending their Arab colleagues in the AU. In
Mauritania, they have had to declare an end to slavery six times in this century
alone, and still nothing has changed for the captive majority African natives.
African slavery is still in their statute books. African slavery in Mauritania
is what the on going quarrel between Mauritania and Senegal is about. The
quarrel forced black African refugees to pour across the border from Mauritania
into Senegal.
markets and other public places. To quote Prof. Clarke, “Arabs always act as
though they are not in Africa. Once when I was visiting Egypt, I told my
Egyptian Arab host to get a cab ready for the next morning that I was going to
Kenya. ‘So you are going to Africa to visit your people? We got no diseases
here, why are you leaving us?” the host asked. Even across the Red Sea, in
Mecca, Saudi Arabia, blacks are treated worse than animals, after using their
life’s savings to go there on pilgrimage.
repatriated daily right now, after loosing an arm or leg for some minor or
trumped up offense and without regard for their comfort, welfare or rights.
Racism towards black Moslems in Saudi Arabia is so strong it makes one wonder if
making pilgrimage to Mecca should be one of the five pillars of the Muslim
faith, and why blacks bother to be Muslim.
of Princess Diana of Wales, the mother of a future king of England, and her Arab
lover. What no one remembered to ask Gadhafi was whether he himself was disposed
to allowing any daughter of his to marry even the richest black man in the world
let alone a black Libyan. If one were to ask Gadhafi why Africans are not high
up in his government, he might balk that all Libyans are Africans. In that case,
one should go and find out the truth for oneself in the poor sections of town.
One would be shocked by the plight of our African kith and kin that constitute
the bulk of the population in oil rich Libya and other Northern African
countries similarly afflicted with Arab racism. While pretending to champion
pan-African interest, he is busy getting rid of black immigrants from
Libya.
of Libya, Col. Gadhafi invaded Nigeria with his planes carrying 1,000 members of
his rag-tag army, plus 500 journalists. They strategically occupied the Kano
airport and his other reception facilities, with the connivance of the Nigerian
Muslim dictator host. The purpose was to launch a jihad in supposedly
religiously secular Nigeria, or at least precipitate a serious schism between
the predominantly Moslem north of the country and the Christian and animist
south. Right now the Moslem world is trying to use ‘Sharia’ to dismember
Nigeria. Pakistan, Libya and Saudi Arabia, to name a few, have pumped
substantial funds into Zamfara, the first of Nigeria’s Sharia states, to start
the process of Islamizing, (or at least trigger mayhem and civil war), in
Nigeria as in Sudan.
Ethiopia. It has been going on since Arabs first invaded Africa in the 7th
century CE. Recently, with Libya supporting the people of Eritrea, they
destroyed the basic structure of Ethiopia, to cut her from the sea and weaken
this section of Africa, and eventually all of Africa, for further Arabization.
They did this mercilessly with religion.
Libya’s unification with Egypt, Algeria etc, and has continued the effort since
with Sudan. He forcibly annexed the Auzon Strip from Chad, and sponsored
destabilization in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Mali, Cote d’ Ivoire, Niger,
etc in pursuance of his Arabization of Africa policy, laced with inordinate
imperial personal ambition. In 1998, his strategy got a fillip with the founding
of his community of Sahel-Savannah States (CEN — SAD), which he was hoping to
use to control the envisaged African Union (AU). The CEN — SAD, at the moment,
ropes in 25 African states from West, East, and Central Africa, and includes
Senegal, Cote d “Ivoire, Chad, Sudan, Somalia, Comoro Islands etc. Most of these
unsuspecting African countries were stable until they joined CEN — SAD.
government to be approved, set up, and launched right there and then, at the 9th
ordinary Session of the Assembly of the heads of states of the African Union
(AU), held in July 2007, in Accra, Ghana.
2001, pretending to be promoting the Pan-African agenda of Kwame Nkrumah.
Chinweizu, the renowned scholar, described Gadhafi’s Arab-Black Africa
government plan at the time, “as unification of nigger monkey with python.”
Arabs themselves divide Africa into North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to
instigate a division and as long as the invaders continue to occupy our land and
treat us as slaves in North Africa, the two segments of the continent cannot
cohabit.
in Amman, Jordan, in 2001, Muammar Gadhafi spelt out the Arabization agenda
against Africa in language reminiscent of Adolph Hitler’s Lebensraum, (Hitler’s
sick obsession to secure a living space for political and economic expansion in
Europe) for the Germans, (the superior race). Gadhafi in his address during the
Amman’s Arab conference invited his Arab brothers outside of Africa to come to
Africa in the following words. “The third of the Arab community living outside
Africa should move in with the two-thirds (about 250 million) on the continent,
and join the African Union, which is the only space we have.”
is a continuation of the Arab war against Africans and the Arabization of
African lands that started in the 7th century CE. Arabs have since settled on
one-third of Africa, pushing continuously southwards towards the Atlantic Ocean.
Arabs’ racial war against black Africa started with their occupation and
colonization of Egypt between 637 and 642 CE, decimating the Coptic or black
population.
http://www.edofolks.com/html/arabs_in_africa.htm
at the March 2001, Amman, Jordan meeting of the Arab League. … Arab lebensraum
war on Afrikans– a war to Islamise and conquer all of Africa, …
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/j13/forum/showthread.php?p=56678
Gaddafi’s Libya: African brother or simply racist
(Oct. 2000)
…
During the past week, thousands of African immigrants living in Libya have been attacked by local residents. Some have had to take refuge in their respective embassies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/debates/african/953159.stm
Libya: Dreamland of “One Africa” Betrayed Oct 23, 2000 … Racism is at the core of the attacks. Libyans were amongst the most brutal of … The onslaught against Africans in Libya has been sweeping. …
http://www.theperspective.org/oneafrica.html
UN Watch Takes on Libya in Council Debate, Blasts Qaddafi Racism Against Black Migrants (2009)… 2 million black African migrants in Libya, who… (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/world/africa/23libya.html), say they are treated like slaves and animals…
http://europenews.dk/en/node/22151
Protests are growing in Morocco
over the authorities’ policy of Arabisation.
More than 60% of Moroccans
claim to be Berbers – the original inhabitants of North Africa…
‘Arab
conquest’…
Little did they realise that the pan-Arabism based in the Middle
East would expand in such fury to North Africa and result in this pan-Arab hysteria, trying to obliterate anything that is native to North Africa and especially its language,” Mr Ouzzat says.
“This Middle Eastern movement
generated a movement of culturally genocidal proportions. It is actually trying to subdue local identity in order to augment the numbersof so-called Arabs.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1097087.stm
http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=403
…the difficulties inherent in translating Arabic works into Amazigh in Morocco. Aadnani describes the hostility directed at several Berber authors (mainly from the Sous region of Morocco) for translating Mohammed Choukri’s works and even the Qur’an into Amazigh. As Aadnani points out, the translations of Arabic literary works under the auspices of the Royal Institute for Berber Culture are routinely criticized in the Arabic press, even when their authors are themselves of Berber origin and support the translation. Fatima Agnaou, a pedagogy specialist at the Royal Institute for Berber Culture in Morocco, delivered a talk on the recent efforts to legitimize the teaching of Amazigh throughout the country.
http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/ecmes/field/berbers_and_others
Moroccan Berbers Call for Independent Berber State, Say Arab League is “Racist”
In an interview with the liberal Berber website “Tamazgha,” Mustapha Berhouchi, president of the TADA umbrella group of Moroccan Berber organizations, said that the Berbers need a state of their own: “In a world where a fanatical Islam is looking to acquire nuclear capabilities, and faced with Europe’s hypocritical attitude, the Imazighen (i.e. Berbers), if they want to continue to exist as a people, have no choice but to acquire a state.”
In a separate statement, the CNCCOT, a Moroccan organization demanding official status for the Berber language in Morocco, called for a new secular and democratic constitution, guarantees of freedom of expression, and an end to Morocco’s membership in the Arab League: “The Moroccan authorities’ membership in illusory, phantom organizations like the Arab League is nothing but a waste of time and money… We demand that Morocco withdraw from the Arab League and from all the racist organizations of which it is a member.”
http://www.thememriblog.org/berbertest/blog_personal/en/806.htm
Foreign Policy: The Maghreb in Black and White.. Maghrebi racism is highly controversial… plight of the indigenous Berber people, a target of discrimination across the Maghreb for decades. …
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2765
Minorities and the State in the Arab World… Arabization… Berbers
http://books.google.com/books?id=C_pAFwXXSZgC&pg=PA31
Morocco’s Berbers Battle to Keep From Losing Their Culture… Arabic was imposed on the Berbers by the Muslims who conquered Morocco in waves of … Berber activists blame Arabization for the high illiteracy rate…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/03/16/MN145053.DTL%20&type=printable
Moroccan Berbers Call for Independent Berber State, Say Arab League is “Racist”
In an interview with the liberal Berber website “Tamazgha,” Mustapha Berhouchi, president of the TADA umbrella group of Moroccan Berber organizations, said that the Berbers need a state of their own: “In a world where a fanatical Islam is looking to acquire nuclear capabilities, and faced with Europe’s hypocritical attitude, the Imazighen (i.e. Berbers), if they want to continue to exist as a people, have no choice but to acquire a state.”
In a separate statement, the CNCCOT, a Moroccan organization demanding official status for the Berber language in Morocco, called for a new secular and democratic constitution, guarantees of freedom of expression, and an end to Morocco’s membership in the Arab League: “The Moroccan authorities’ membership in illusory, phantom organizations like the Arab League is nothing but a waste of time and money, We demand that Morocco withdraw from the Arab League and from all the racist organizations of which it is a member.”
http://www.thememriblog.org/berbertest/blog_personal/en/806.htm
Official request for an autonomy status for Kabylia [June, 2008]On the Algerian State side, actions are more serious. Inheriting of the colonial French State, the Algerian regimepursues its methods, its colonialist vision and reflexes, at least against Kabylian whose identity, language and cultureare declared as subversive and are furiously fought by the young Algerian State. The latest aims to eradicate thosepermanently by adopting a policy of cultural genocide through Arabism of their School who has half opened doors – to the amazigh language and not to the kabyle langage – for only 12 years. The Algerian constitution integrated it asnational langage in 2002 only, but not as official and without any drastic change to the fate of the Tamazight language in peoples daily life. Therefore, there culturally and linguistically exist, first class and second class Algeriancitizens.
The two colleges policy – largely disparaged during the colonial period – has been largely renewed since1962. Arabs are first-class citizens in Algeria, Amazigh in general and Kabylian more specifically are second-classcitizens. They get killed, jailed, tortured, watched, are subject to provocations, insults and racket and exposed tonational and public condemnation for their refusal of Arabism and Islamism, two elements that are for the Algerian authorities, the exclusive features of the Algerian identity.
http://www.kabylia.info/observer/spip.php?page=article_pdf&id_article=123
The Strategies of the Algerian regime to subdue Kabylia – Kabylia …We all know the drive of the Algerian state and its Arab and Islamic allies (both inside the country and the 22 or so Arab countries) to subdue Kabyles
http://www.kabylia.info/observer/spip.php?article108
Pseudo-state Algeria: A Monstrous, Pan-Arab Tyranny, Exposed by HRW (World Report 20100
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis February 09, 2010
[…]Impunity for Past Abuses
Over 100,000 Algerians died during the political strife of the 1990s. Thousands more were “disappeared” by security forces or abducted by armed groups fighting the government, and have never been located, dead or alive. Perpetrators of atrocities during this era continue to enjoy impunity. The legal framework for that impunity is the 2006 Law on Peace and National Reconciliation, which provides an amnesty to security force members for the actions they took in the name of combating terrorism, and to armed group members not implicated in the most heinous acts.
[…]
Kabylia is the area whereby the Anti-Berber policies of the colonial French and their local puppets failed most; the Berbers are not a minority either in Algeria or in the other countries of the Atlas.
The Berbers constitute the totality of the local population; some of the Berbers forgot their native tongue, due to the racist, Pan-Arab, colonial policies of the French and the Algerian tyrannies.
In fact, Arabic speaking or Amazigh speaking people in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Mauritania are all Berber.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/140861
Amazigh claim their rights in ‘Arab’ Morocco
June 23rd, 2008
Rabat, June 23 (DPA) Some years ago, a visitor to the Moroccan capital Rabat was unlikely to be reminded of the nation’s Amazigh (Berber) population by other than details of tourism interest, such as water sellers in colourful costumes with their brass cups and jangling bells. Today, however, researchers interested in the Amazigh people can visit the imposing building housing the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) in a sign that the authorities’ traditional lack of interest is giving way to a more inclusive attitude.
“Amazigh culture is part of the Moroccan national heritage,” IRCAM director Ahmed Boukouss says in his large office decorated with pictures of Amazigh representatives meeting with King Mohammed VI.
Many Moroccans still reject the suggestion that they could be of Amazigh as well as Arab origin, but Boukouss believes Moroccans are increasingly becoming “proud of the country’s Amazigh dimension.”
While Westerners usually speak of Berbers, a word derived from the pejorative term of barbarians, the people thus referred to call themselves Amazigh, the plural of which is Imazighen, meaning “free men.” Imazighen were the original inhabitants of North Africa who were conquered and converted to Islam by Arabs from the 7th century onwards.
The Imazighen are known for their resistance to foreign invaders, ranging from the Romans and Arabs to Spanish and French colonialists, who defeated an attempt to establish an independent republic in the largely Amazigh northern Rif region of Morocco in the 1920s.
Peoples related to the Moroccan Imazighen now live in more than half a dozen African countries, ranging from the Algerian Kabyles to Tuaregs in the Sahel. About 30 percent of Moroccans speak one of the country’s three Amazigh dialects as their mother tongue, and the vast majority of Moroccans have at least some Amazigh blood.
Nevertheless, Moroccans base their identity on Arab and French influences, denying their African Amazigh roots, Amazigh activists say.
“Arabs are seen as having brought civilization” despite the fact that the Imazighen had their own kingdoms before Arab arrival, explained Rachid Raha, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Le Monde Amazigh.
When 1961-99 King Hassan II was still crown prince, Amazigh analysts say, repression against the Imazighen went as far as ruthlessly quashing a revolt in the Rif. King Hassan subsequently neglected the mountainous region, leaving it mired in poverty and dependent on cannabis cultivation.
Hassan’s regime later took some timid steps towards the recognition of Amazigh culture. But it is only his son and successor Mohammed VI, whose mother is an Amazigh, that “clearly announced a new policy,” as Boukouss puts it. The Amazigh language is already being taught in some 3,500 schools, though a lack of adequately trained teachers is slowing down its dissemination, Boukouss explained.
The teaching programme has required choosing an alphabet – the Tuareg one, known as Tifinagh – and creating a standard written language out of the Amazigh dialects, a process that is still going on.
There are, however, people opposed to the promotion of Amazigh language and culture at government ministries, Raha said.
Activists say school textbooks neglect and distort Amazigh history. Some officials and judges still refuse to allow parents to give their children Amazigh names, and academic interest in Amazigh history is only picking up.
Some activists see the royal reforms as a way of trying to “tame” the Amazigh movement and to pre-empt the kind of Amazigh agitation that has occurred in Algeria.
“The Moroccan establishment only supports the cultural part in an attempt to place the Imazighen outside the political sphere,” Amazigh politician Ahmed Dgharni said at a meeting in the Spanish capital Madrid.
Dgharni’s attempt to launch an Amazigh political party was thwarted on the grounds that ethnically based parties are illegal in Morocco.
Activists like Raha and Dgharni are seeking the recognition of Amazigh as an official language alongside Arabic and its widespread use in the media.
Equality for the Imazighen would also include self-government for regions with large Amazigh populations, and even turning Muslim Morocco into a secular state, because Arabic is the language of the Koran, Raha and other activists said.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/amazigh-claim-their-rights-in-arab-morocco_10063181.html
Syria
Kurds And Arab Syrian Democrats… Farid Alghadry of the Reform Party of
Syria called for the end of the pan- Arabist Baathist oppression. “Only Kurds
can decide their own faith,” he declared. …
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11777013&Itemid=348
Interview with Etienne Saqr (Abu Arz)
Manuela Paraipan – 1/22/2008
[…]
MP: The ideology of your party, the Guardians of Cedars (www.gotc.org) speaks of Lebanon as being Lebanese. Could you brief me about it?
AA: We are not Arabs. Last year my people in Lebanon had a press conference saying exactly that. The next day Siniora sent them (a poet, lawyer and a journalist) to jail for two months and two days because they said Lebanon is not an Arab state. This was their crime. It was nothing they could accuse them of, but still they did not release them. The judge was pressured not to release them. Our big enemy is Arabism. Arabism is the first step toward the Islamization of Lebanon. The ambition of the Saudis is not only to Islamicize Lebanon but also the whole world. I read last week that in Germany 4,000 people converted to Islam. They plant these mosques everywhere and they send preachers to incite the people to Jihad. This was so in Indonesia, so was Malaysia. Who was behind the Islamic movement from day one? They went to the US and hit them inside. You see enemies such as Iran and Syria. But Saudi Arabia is hidden.
http://www.globalpolitician.com/24044-lebanon-interview
….the Maronite monks maintain that Lebanon is synonymous with Maronite history and ethos; that its Maronitism antedates the Arab conquest of Syria and Lebanon and that Arabism is only a historical accident.
http://books.google.com/books?id=8Ogp94y8CJgC&pg=PA303
Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel – Page 180
Elie Kedourie, Sylvia Kedourie – History – 1982 – 255 pages
The McDonald Diary (extracts), interview in Beirut, thursday, March twenty-first (1946), Archbishop Ignatz Moubarak and the Patriarch: “…He answered readily my question about the attitude of the Maronites and the Lebanese toward Zionism in Palestine. Expressing his pleasure at our visit, he at once launched into a vigorous statement of his views, which can be summarized as follows:
1. Zionism has been the creative force in Palestine. transforming an arid and neglected country into ablooming, prosperous and modern one. The Jews have thus made a contribution not only to Palestine but to the Near East. Both on the soil and in industry. Jewish science, money, and most important of all – hard work have been brought to this part of the world and will, if permitted, fructify this whole area.
2. The Arab leaders, especially the political and religious ones, are reactionary in their program. They fan the latent fanaticism in their people for personal and political ends.
3. The Lebanese officials who spoke to us the two days previous were not expressing the real feelings of the people. Instead, for personal reasons and a feeling of cowardice, these men are betraying their people. The Lebanese. – especially the Christian Lebanese, are not anti-Zionist. They do not fear the Jews. They fear rather the latent fanaticism of the Moslems. An Arab Palestine would be a danger to all Christians in the East.
http://books.google.com/books?id=6E3FiND9Ws0C&pg=PA180
…Libya and Lebanon can trace their twisting history to the beginning of Lebanon’s 1975-90 Civil War, when Gadhafi forcefully backed the leftist-Palestinian coalition of the Lebanese National Movement in an attempt to “replace” Egypt’s Gamel Abdel Nasser as the paragon of pan-Arabism, Khashan said.
Libya sent mercenaries to Lebanon and Gadhafi espoused mouthfuls of inflammatory rhetoric against Lebanon’s Christians, as the Phalange Party stood as a main opponent to the leftist-Palestinian alliance, Malik said. “Gadhafi and Libya were pretty vocal and pretty active on the side of the Palestinian-leftist coalition that was fighting against the Christians,” Malik added.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=112886#axzz0jnkZotTA
Egypt-Algeria rivalry growing uglier by the minute – World Soccer …27 Jan 2010 … Bitter rivalry between Egypt, Algeria spills past pitch into racism, socioeconomics. Two matchups in last three months resulted in violence …
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/world_soccer/01/27/egypt.algeria/index.html
Succumbing to the violence of your ‘enemy’ is not brave, clever or admirable. It is weak. I was recently at a demonstration against an English white supremacist group and all I can say is the resemblance it had to intra-Arab racism was chilling and shameful.
Football frictions strain Algeria-Egypt ties … hostilities between the two “brother” countries.
http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2009/11/24/feature-02
Anti Israel, anti Jews
Anti-Semitism in the Arab/Muslim World Arab Media Review
http://www.adl.org/main_as_arab.asp
Arab Anti-Semitism And the Arab-Israeli Conflict… For many years anti-Semitism in the Arab world was seen as a marginal issue.
http://www.adl.org/main_Arab_World/ArabAntisemitism_oped.htm
The roots of Arab Anti-Semitism – By David Greenberg – Slate Magazine 31 Oct 2001 … Since Sept. 11, many Americans have been surprised by the prevalence and depth of anti-Semitism in the Arab world …
http://www.slate.com/id/2057949/
Racism and Middle East Politics
… As the Imam said, ‘Israel must be
wiped off the map.’ — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as quoted by
Aljazeera
Anger towards Israel by its Arab neighbors is out of proportion to
Israel’s sins. What we are witnessing in the Middle East is anti-Semitism, not politics. It is Jew-hatred, not a dispute over borders or rights or Palestinian statehood. This present conflict is the direct result of
Arab racism and Arab intolerance.
As long as middle-eastern Arabs teach their
children to hate Jews, there will be no lasting peace.
We who once
held a similar disdain for black people should understand better than most what
sort of challenges the Middle East faces. generations have been taught hatred.
Generations have been taught that Jews are not human beings. Generations have
been taught that every piece of bad fortune has Jewish conspirators at its
heart.
That sort of irrational racism can’t be eliminated by UN resolutions.
It can only be reversed by sane and tolerant Arabs who are willing to speak out
against their brothers.
And they better speak out soon…
I doubt that
peace in the Middle East is possible. I doubt that an entire generation of Arabs
will come to repent of their anti-Semitic hatred. Jews make useful whipping boys
for the powerful but incompetent Arab leaders who can’t make the trains run on
time, or provide decent lives for their citizens.
Until Hezbollah and Iran
and Syria agree that Israel has a right to exist, and that Jews have a right to
live in peace, Israel needs the protection of the West against the Hitlerian
plans of the powers that surround it. The West, which has learned a few hard
lessons about the evils of racism, needs to come to Israel’s defense.
http://www.anotherthink.com/contents/beyond_the_shire/20060726_racism_and_middle_east_politics.html
MEMRI: Antisemitism Documentation Project 2276
http://www.memri.org/antisemitism.html
Arab and Muslim Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism – A Study… There is a problem of Arab anti-Semitism…
http://www.zionism.netfirms.com/ArabAntiZionism.htm
Arab/Muslim Anti-Semitism Cyber encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture that covers everything from anti-Semitism to Zionism…
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/arabantoc.html
‘Arabs are taught hatred of Jews with mothers’ milk.’.. journo Brigitte Gabriel, Lebanese journalist Brigitte Gabriel: “universities teach hatred of Jews”-
Lecture at Columbia University – March 6 2005
Following is Lebanese TV journalist Brigitte Gabriel’s speech before the Columbia University Conference on the Middle East and Academic Integrity in New York City on March 6, 2005 -entitled: “Environments of Hate: Indoctrination in the Arab World and Propaganda Advocacy in Americas University Classrooms”
“I’m honored to bring Columbia a unique perspective concerning the academic freedom issue. I see similarities between the issue and my personal experiences growing up. I was raised in an Arabic society in Lebanon that took impressionable young minds and filled them with propaganda. Minds that were young and didn’t know any better.
I am an eyewitness and a victim of the indoctrination of hate education, racism, intolerance, intimidation and fabricated lies by my government and religious influences.
This indoctrination was for one purpose: To eradicate the newborn state of Israel; to foment hatred and wipe out Jewish presence in an Arab dominated world. For Arabs, the simple existence of Israel was viewed as a catastrophe…al nakbah!
This pan Arab hate indoctrination was a reaction to Jews returning to their homeland after Arabic and Islamic belief for 1400 years that the Yahuds were vanquished and subjugated as Dhimmi.
I believe hate motivated indoctrination fosters irrational thinking and faulty reasoning whether it influenced my education as a child in Lebanon or the ‘advocacy education’ that roils the classrooms here at Columbia university. This is the root cause, for the controversy swirling around several members of the Middle East Asia Languages Arts and Culture (MEALAC) faculty and their alleged intimidation of students and other faculty.
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/21693
Never-ending Islamic Conspiracies… 20 Jan 2005 … African Muslims regularly accusing “Zionists” of spreading AIDS…They were told that the ‘Jews’ were behind the contamination of the vaccine which might cause Aids or infertility … In Iraq today, conspiracy theories are spreading fast and easy. Many even claim that Al-Zarwaqi is an invention of the American propaganda machine…. Arab countries also regularly host conferences where Holocaust deniers masquerading as historians claim to be able to “prove” there was no massacre of Jews by the Nazis during World War II. Whereas many Muslims worldwide praise Hitler for his services, yet almost in the same breath they deny the Holocaust as “a big illusion of the Jews”.. …Some popular theories gain credence no matter how far-fetched they seem, like conspiracy theories in the Arab world that claim Jews were behind the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, and the U.S. is behind the SARS virus. Columnists in prominent Arab newspapers, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, blamed the Madrid Spain bombings on the Jews. Indeed, the deputy editor of the Egyptian government daily Al-Gumhouriyya, wrote a March 18 2004 article accusing the Jews of perpetrating virtually every major terrorist attack throughout the world which westerners blame on Islamic extremists. Some have gone as far as to claim the CIA controls Osama bin Ladene …
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/VernonRichards50120.htm
Israel, America and Arab Delusions.. In mid-January 1991, as the first bombs began to fall on Iraq, Saddam Husayn and his … An Imperialist Conspiracy . . . ? The notion that Zionism serves as a tool of the … It is an invention of their enemies, especially the British. …
http://www.danielpipes.org/205/israel-america-and-arab-delusions
9/11 Conspiracy Theories Take Root in Arab/Muslim World, 8 Sep 2006 … The outrageous lie about ‘Jewish involvement’ in the 9/11 attacks took off … it was Hezbollah’s television station al-Manar, six days after 9/11, …. Five Years Later, Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Live On …
http://www.adl.org/ADL_Opinions/Anti_Semitism_Arab/911_Conspiracies.htm
Muslim Conspiracy Theories, According to certain reports, there are over 200 Zionist troops in Iraq … that while conspiracy theories continue to be rampant in the Middle East, Arab …
http://www.jewishtoronto.net/page.html?ArticleID=69542
Najem Wali: The dictator’s orphans – signandsight, Iraqi-German writer Najem Wali feels that the Arab Writers Union has a problem or two. … collaboration with the “Zionist enemy” is an invention of the Arabic racist lexicon, …
http://www.signandsight.com/features/1160.html
…the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Husseini,
exploited social discontent, nationalism and religion to incite the Arabs of
Palestine against the British and the Jews. His unscrupulous modus operandi and
his reliance on frequent assassinations precluded any serious political
opposition to his fascist rule. As a result of escalating Arab terrorism,
Nazi-Germany decided to support the Mufti and his movement. On July 15, 1937,
the Mufti told the German Consul-General in Jerusalem, W. Dohle, that the
Palestinian Arabs were united in their “sympathy for the new Germany”. But it
was not only the Mufti’s burgeoning relationship with Nazi-Germany that made his
ilk of fascism so dangerous. The Mufti’s views, deeply influenced by the Nazis
fascist ideology and his diplomatic initiatives quickly became the single
unifying political cause celebre of the entire Arab world. Throughout World War
II, Nazi propaganda praised the Arab terrorists as freedom fighters. In turn,
the Mufti and his followers did everything in their power to weaken Great
Britain in Palestine, the Middle East and North Africa.
During the years 1948-1967, pan-Arab ideologies were the rage of the Muslim
world. The Iraqi statesman, “Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, a leading proponent of
conservative pan-Arabism, likened the position of the Arabs in Islam to that of
the Russians in world communism. The radical strain of pan-Arabism, however,
became far more influential than its conservative counterpart.
http://ff.org/centers/cnsd/opeds/11820070259_radvanyi.html
Both pan-Arabism and pan-Islamic ideologies looked to Hitler’s Germany as a model Haj Amin al-Husseini expressed his admiration for the way the Germans have definitively solved the “Jewish problem”
http://www.science.co.il/arab-israeli-conflict/Articles/Ettinger-2003-08-16.asp
Radical Islamic Jihad and pan-Arabism in its violent form find a common root
in Amin Al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
http://tellthechildrenthetruth.com/amin_en.html
CMIP – CENTER FOR MONITORING THE IMPACT OF PEACE: REPORTS [the sense of]
Arabism is firmly established in (Arab racist textbooks) Israel is depicted as
an alien entity that Imperialism has planted in the midst of the Arab homeland
in order to crush the Arabs. Hence, it is both illegitimate and artificial.
http://www.edume.org/reports/6/5.htm
the Mufti …Husseini’s pan-Arabist, pan-Islamist character
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id4/green_nazis.html
THE GRAND MUFTI OF JERUSALEM AND THE NAZIFICATION OF THE ARAB WORLD Mufti
influenced pan-Arabists continue to wage war against non-Islamic nations and
peoples… Amin el-Husseini imported his views on pan-Arabism into Palestine
upon his return …. the Arab League, which is based on the principle of
pan-Arabism. …
http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/mohammedism/mohammedism21.html
When Islamic Radicalism, Fascism and Arab Nationalism Collide: Haj Amin al-Husseini …Husseini is a perfect manifestation of how jihadists, violent Arab nationalists and fascists collide. It is also another tragic example of an Arab leader …
http://www.faoa.org/journal/HajjHusseini.html
Islamic terrorism linked to Nazi fascists Aug 15, 2006 … They based it in Croatia and called it the Handzar Muslim Division, but it was to become the core of Hitler’s new army of Arab fascists that …
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/duncan/060815
Satia Al-Husri spawned a whole generation of men who advocated violence. One example is Sami Shawkat who is famous for his 1933 speech “Sina’at al-Mawt” (manufacture of death) in which he rationalizes mass violence and war as the way to achieve Arab aspirations. Tragically, this speech was widely distributed in Arab schools and in Iraq in particular. It is interesting that Shawkat teaches that “force is the soil which sprouts the seeds of truth”. Although not widely known, Shawkat was a main force in the organization of the Futuwwa Youth Organization – a movement modeled directly after the Nazi Hitler Youth Movement. The Futuwwa set the pace for future Arab chauvinist movements, such as the B’aath party of Iraq and today’s followers of Bin Laden. It is interesting to note that Shawkat’s ideas became somewhat too hot to handle, even for the pan-Arabists – Satia Al-Husri later disowned Sami Shawkat.
It is worth noting that Sami Shawkat’s brother, Naji, who by 1941 was a member of the Arab committee in Iraq (which had absorbed the Futuwwa), gave Franz von Papen (a high ranking German official of Nazi Germany in 1941) a letter which actually congratulated Hitler for the brutality that he inflicted upon the Jews.
http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/aFarrokhArab.html
The terror behind Iraq’s Jewish exodus
Julia Magnet
Last Updated: 10:39AM BST 28 Apr 2003
“In Baghdad, there are only 30 Jews left. Thirty. You can count them.”
…As he weeps, his wife gestures at the television set in the corner of the sitting-room, where they are constantly flicking between al-Jazeera, Sky and Fox.
“It’s because we are watching this all the time,” she says. “It came back.” Their old life has invaded their clean London sitting-room, and all the memories of persecution in Baghdad are flooding back – “like a dream”.
It wasn’t always a hard life. In the 1920s, Baghdad was 40 per cent Jewish: Jews made up the largest single community in the city and controlled up to 95 per cent of business.
The first finance minister of the country – established after the First World War, when the British drew up new borders – was a Jew, as was the justice minister. And when the British imported King Faisal I to Iraq, in 1921, one of his first visits was to the leaders of the Jewish community.
As late as 1948, after Israel’s war of independence, there were still about 150,000 to 180,000 Jews in Iraq. Now there are between 30 and 40 left in the entire country. In 50 years, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world has all but vanished.
Within the borders of Iraq, of course, is the city of Babylon, where the Jews came after their first exile from Jerusalem in 587bc. Iraq is also the birthplace of Abraham. Islam arrived only when the Arabs invaded in ad641 – more than 1,000 years after the Jews had first settled.
… “In the first half of the 20th century,” he says, “there was a sense in which Baghdad was a Jewish city: we were the educated, the middle classes.”
[…]
Sadly, what this couple remember is only an interlude: the persecution of the Jews had started 20 years before. In June 1941, there was the Farhud – or pogrom – during which “the mob wreaked havoc”, recalls Kahtan.
“For two days, they killed Jews in the streets, kidnapped girls, raped them, killed them and mutilated the bodies. They burned property, looted houses – it’s estimated that about 600 Jews were killed in those two days.”
For Jews born later, such as the Edgware couple, the public hangings of Jewish teenagers in 1969 and the omnipresence of the secret police are fresher memories. But their insistence on the “nice life” of the past echoes a pattern set long before.
… In the Thirties, the rise of pan-Arab nationalism coincided with the second King Faisal’s admiration of the Nazis.
By 1936, says Sylvia Kedourie, widow of the eminent Middle Eastern scholar Elie Kedourie, there were “episodes of Jews being killed in the streets that led to a growing sense of insecurity”. Meanwhile, Zionism was on the rise, and though the Iraqi Jews were hardly Zionists, many Arabs began to see them as hostile, intent on conquering Arab territory.
The Nazi agenda crystallised Arab anti-semitism. On April 3, 1941, the rabidly pro-Nazi Rashid Ali, a former prime minister, with a group of similarly inclined politicians and army officers, staged a coup against Faisal II. Rashid Ali’s aim was to root out British influence and ally Iraq with the Nazis.
His new “government” declared war on Britain, and was promptly defeated. On May 31, Rashid Ali fled. But his soldiers and policemen, inflamed by Nazi ideas, started the Farhud – aided by the Arab mob. Although the British Army was stationed outside Baghdad, it waited for two days before stopping the massacre: “They didn’t want to wound Iraqi pride,” says Kahtan.
“I was a very young child at the time, but certain things are imprinted on your mind. On the first day, the mob came to our door to do their business. The house was rented from a Muslim neighbour, of the old generation, and he came down with his rifle, shot in the air, and said: ‘These people are under my protection; anyone who lifts a finger will be dead’ – and he drove them off.
[…]
“When the whole question of the partition of Palestine came up,” says Dr Zubaida, “all the Arab countries sent armies to Palestine, including Iraq. This generated a kind of hysteria, and then Jews who were prominent in public life started being sacked and students in higher education started being expelled.”
Kahtan was 10 in 1948, when the state of Israel was declared. The son of his Muslim neighbour – the one who had saved his family – called him into his house.
“He was 19. He showed me a map and said: ‘Today, seven armies are going to attack Israel, kill all the Jews and throw the survivors into the sea.’ Now, that was the son – you see what a change of mentality had taken place. I’ll leave it to your imagination to think what change of mentality has taken place between 1948 and now.”
It doesn’t take much. In 1949, a court of law falsely accused Safiq Adas, one of Iraq’s most prominent Jewish businessmen, of selling arms to Israel. The charge was ridiculous: Adas sold scrap metal to Italy.
He protested his innocence and refused to pay the bribes that might have saved his life. Although he had some of the best lawyers in Iraq, his defence was not allowed to call witnesses. He was hanged in front of his house as his wife and children watched. His Muslim partner was never charged and continued the business.
This, Elie Kedourie has written, was the moment when the Jews realised the full extent of their vulnerability: they were no longer under the protection of the law and there was now little difference between the mob and Iraqi court justice. Everyone I spoke to mentioned Safiq Adas’s “trial”.
[…]
His escape on a smuggler’s boat, like all those in the 1960s and 70s, was organised by Israeli agents who mapped out the routes, paid the necessary bribes and met the refugees in Iran. “Israel was paying to save the Jews,” Kahtan said. “I owe my life to the state of Israel.”
After the Six-Day War, the Iraqi government took its revenge on the few thousand Jews left in Baghdad. The woman in Edgware recalls: “They started putting young people – youngsters of 16 years old – on trial, just because they were Jews.
“They would just catch them in the streets – whomever they could find – and take them to prison. Then they would torture them and put them on trial as spies.
“And they hanged them in the main square of Baghdad. People were dancing around the gallows there, dancing and celebrating, distributing sweets. ‘What a big day, what a happy day’, catching the Jews and hanging them.”
The silent exodus of Jewish refugees from Muslim lands
Here is the trailer for the superb filmmaker Pierre Rehov‘s Silent Exodus. Silent Exodus was selected at the International Human Rights Film Festival of Paris in 2004 and presented at the UN Geneva Human Rights Annual Convention that same year.
Here is a summary of the film:
In 1948 nearly one million Jews lived in Arab lands. But In barely twenty years, they have become forgotten fugitives, expelled from their native lands, forgotten by history and where the victims themselves have hidden their fate under a cloak of silence.
A people whom legend have always associated with “wandering” many of these Jews from Arab lands had lived there for thousands of years and accepted their fate, through good times and bad times.
But 1948, the beginning of their exodus, also saw the birth of the State of Israel.
And, while the Arab armies were preparing to invade the young refugee-country, the survivors of the Shoah were piling up in rickety boats. Meanwhile a few hundred thousand Arabs from Palestine were getting ready to flee their homes, convinced that they would return as winners and conquerors.
Soon – by a terrible twist of fate they, as well, began to fill up refugee camps and passed on their refugee status to new generations.
The Jews, however, did not receive refugee status.
They had just rediscovered the land of their birthright.
And if they came from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq or from Yemen, if they had lost everything, even their relatives and their cemeteries, they were ready to rebuild their lives in the West and for many – in Israel – and try to forget their past.
Without ever asking for compensation or the right of return, or even wishing that their story be told…
And here also is an illuminating article on the subject by Magdi Cristiano Allam, “The Arabs Without the Jews: Roots of a Tragedy” (translated from Italian by Lyn and Lawrence Julius):
Israel is the keeper of a mutilated Arab identity, the repository for the guilty consciences of the Arab peoples, the living witness to a true history of the Arab countries, continuously denied, falsified and ignored.
Seeing Pierre Rehov’s documentary film ‘The Silent Exodus’ about the expulsion and flight of a million Sephardi Jews helped me gain a better understanding of the tragedy of a community that was integral and fundamental to Arab society. Above all it has revealed to me the very essence of the catastrophe that befell it, a catastrophe which the mythical Arab nation has never once called into question. In a flash of insight I could see that the tragedy of the Jews and the catastrophe of the Arabs are two facets of the same coin. By expelling the Jews who were settled on the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean centuries before they were arabised and islamised, the Arabs have in fact begun the lethal process of mutilating their own identity and despoiling their own history. By losing their Jews the Arabs have lost their roots and have ended up by losing themselves.
As has often happened in history, the Jews were the first victims of hatred and intolerance. All the “others” had their turn soon enough, specifically the Christians and other religious minorities, heretical and secular Muslims and finally, those Muslims who do not fit exactly into the ideological framework of the extreme nationalists and Islamists. There has not been a single instance in this murky period of our history when the Arab states have been ready to condemn the steady exodus of Christians, ethnic-religious minorities, enlightened and ordinary Muslims, while Muslims plain and simple have become the primary victims of Islamic terror.
Underlying the Arab ‘malaise’ is an identity crisis that neither Nasserist nor Ba’athist pan-Arabism, nor the Islamism of the Saudi Wahabis, the Muslim Brotherhood, Khomeini and Bin Laden has been able to solve. It’s a contagious identity crisis, spreading to and taking hold of the Arab and Muslim communities in the West.
I remember that around the mid-1970s the Arab exam in civic education taken in both state and public schools in Egypt defined Arab identity thus: “the Arabs are a nation united by race, blood, history, geography, religion and destiny.” This was a falsification of an historical truth based on ethno-religious pluralism, an ideological deception aimed at erasing all differences and promoting the theory of one race overlapping with a phantom Arab nation in thrall to unchallengeable leaders. It was directly inspired by Nazi and fascist theories of racial purity and supremacy which appealed to the leadership and ideologues of pan-Arabism and Islamism. It is no wonder that in this context Manichean Israel is perceived as a foreign body to be rejected, a cancer produced by American imperialism to divide and subjugate the Arab world.
The historical truth is that the Middle Eastern peoples, in spite of their arabisation and islamisation from the 7th century onward, continued to maintain a specific identity reflecting their indigenous and millenarian ethnic roots – cultural, linguistic, religious and national. The Berbers, for example, who constitute half the population of Morocco and a third of that of Algeria, have nothing or very little in common with the Bedouin tribes at the heart of Saudi or Jordanian society. When in 1979 Egypt was sidelined from the Arab League for signing a peace treaty with Israel President Sadat restored its Pharaonic Egyptian identity which he proudly contrasted with its Arabness. Here was an isolated but significant attempt to recapture an indigenous identity – advertising historical honesty and political liberation while saying ‘enough is enough’ to rampant lies and demagogy. Before the screening of the ‘Silent Exodus’ in the Congress Hall in Milan, a gentleman in his Seventies came up to me and said, in perfect Egyptian dialect: “I am a Jew from Alexandria. I have recently been in Tunisia and Algeria. I have to say that people there are not like us, they don’t have the sense of irony that distinguishes us Egyptians.” I smiled and replied that indeed, the Egyptians have a reputation as jokers. They are capable of laughing at anything, including themselves.
What struck me was the “us” – “us Egyptians”: even if we were both Italian citizens, he a Jew and I a Muslim. It reminded me that just after the 1967 defeat, I discovered by complete accident that the girl I was in love with – we both were 15 – was Jewish. For me she was a girl like any other. But for the police who submitted me to intensive interrogation she was a ‘spy for Israel’ and I was her accomplice.
In fact ‘the Silent Exodus’ testifies that anti-Semitism and the pogroms against the Jews of the Middle East preceded the birth of the state of Israel and the advent of ideological pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism. It infers that hatred and violence against the Jews could originate in an ideological interpretation of the Koran and the life of the prophet Muhammed taken out of context.
It would be a mistake to generalise and not to take into account that for long periods coexistence was possible between the Muslims, Christians and Jews of the Middle East, at a time when in Europe the Catholic Inquisition was repressing the Jews and when the Nazi Holocaust was trying to exterminate them. In the same way, one cannot ignore Israel’s responsibility together with Arab leaders in the emergence of the drama of millions of Palestinian refugees and the unresolved question of a Palestinian state.
The fact remains that of the million Jews who at the end of 1945 were an integral part of the Arab population, only 5,000 remain. These Arab Jews, expelled or who fled at a moment’s notice, have become an integral part of the Israeli population. They continue to represent a human injustice and an historical tragedy. Above all, they are indicative of an Arab civil and identity catastrophe. That is why to recognise the wrongs committed towards the Arab Jews – as the maverick Libyan leader colonel Gaddafi has recently done – by objectively rediscovering their past and millenarian roots, by finding again their tolerant and plural history and by totally and sincerely reconciling themselves with themselves, the Arabs could free themselves from the ideological obscurantism which has relegated them to the most basic level of human development and has changed the region into the most problematic and confict-ridden on earth.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025195.php
Iraqi Author Dr. Rashid Al-Khayoun: Iraqi Jews Were Driven Out of the Country by Pan-Arab Extremists, Led By Nazi Ally Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini
http://www.memri.org/index.php/?Page=subjects&Area=antisemitism&ID=IA19804
Recognising the Jewish ‘Nakba’
Acknowledging the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries written out of history ‘ could be the key to Middle East peace
Lyn Julius guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 June 2008 09.00 BST Article history
This week, before an audience of peers and MPs, an 80-year-old Jewish refugee named Sarah told the story of her traumatic departure in 1956 in the wake of the Suez crisis. Her husband lost his job. Taken ill, she had remained behind in Egypt with her new baby, while he left to look for work in Europe. She departed with nothing ‘ along with 25,000 other Jews expelled by Nasser and forced to sign a document pledging that they would never return. In a final act of spite, the customs officers ransacked her suitcase and even her baby’s carrycot.
Sarah was speaking at a House of Lords briefing as part of the Justice for Jews from Arab Countries congress. JJAC, an international coalition of 77 organisations, is holding its inaugural congress in London, and aims to
The exodus began 60 years ago when Arab states, hell-bent on crushing the new state of Israel militarily, also turned on their peaceful Jewish communities. Street violence killed over 150 Jews. Within 10 years, more than half the Jews had fled or been expelled, following discriminatory legislation , extortion, arrests, internment and executions. Those who remained became subjugated, political hostages of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Today 99.5% – all but 4,500 – have gone. As the historian Nathan Weinstock has observed, not even the Jews of 1939 Germany had been so thoroughly “ethnically cleansed”.
The displacement of Jews from Arab countries was not just a backlash to the creation of Israel and the Arabs’ humiliating defeat. The “push” factors were already in place. Arab League states drafted a law in November 1947 branding their Jews as enemy aliens. But non-Muslim minorities, historically despised as dhimmis with few rights, were already being oppressed by Nazi-inspired pan-Arabism and Islamism. These factors sparked the conflict with Zionism, and drive it to this day.
The Jewish “Nakba” – Arabic for “catastrophe” ‘ not only emptied cities like Baghdad (a third Jewish); it tore apart the cultural, social and economic fabric in Arab lands. Jews lost homes, synagogues, hospitals, schools, shrines and deeded land five times the size of Israel. Their ancient heritage – predating Islam by 1,000 years ‘ was destroyed.
The Jewish state, which struggled to take in 600,000, many of them stateless, is both a response to Arab antisemitism, and the legitimate political expression of an indigenous Middle Eastern people. Half Israel’s Jewish population is descended from refugees from Arab and Muslim lands.
Arab governments have never admitted committing mass violations of Jewish human and civil rights, much less apologised or offered restitution. Over 120 UN resolutions deal with the 711,000 Palestinian refugees; not one refers to the greater number of Jewish refugees. Although peace initiatives have been worded to refer generically to the “refugee problem”, Jewish and Arab, Israel has been reluctant to politicise the Jewish refugee issue, having successfully integrated them as full citizens: Arab denial has thus conspired with Israeli silence to airbrush Jewish refugees out of the picture, leading to obfuscation, distortion and decontextualisation.
This April, JJAC scored a major success, however, when the US House of Representatives adopted its first resolution (pdf) on Jewish refugees; future resolutions mentioning Palestinian refugees must refer explicitly to Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
The resolution is about recognition, not restitution, although Jewish losses have been quantified at twice Palestinian losses. Such resolutions could lead to a peace settlement by recognising that there were victims on both sides. Thus justice for Jews is not just a moral imperative, but the key to reconciliation.
Moreover, a major hurdle to peace could be removed if the Palestinian “right of return” were counterbalanced by the Jewish right not to return to Arab tyrannies, recognising a de facto population exchange of roughly equal numbers.
The Jewish refugees, who spent up to 12 years in Israeli ma’abarot (transit camps), could also serve as a model for the resettlement (in host Arab countries or an eventual Palestinian state) of Arab refugees languishing in camps.
Meanwhile, awareness of the “Jewish Nakba” is growing: a Libyan Jew who fled in fear of her life has addressed the UN Human Rights Council. Jewish refugees were mentioned at Westminster and discussed on BBC radio. In the US, Canada and at the European parliament, the campaign for justice is steaming ahead.
At Tuesday’s briefing, Sarah will be testifying to the fact that two sets of refugees emerged from the Arab-Israeli conflict. The UK will be urged to look at what role it could usefully play in seeking to resolve issues affecting all Middle East refugees. Fifty-two years ago, Sarah rejoined her husband in England; they rebuilt their lives and put Egypt behind them. This does not mean that she should be denied justice.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/25/middleeast.middleeastthemedia
Mufti) did in fact have a significant relationship with the German government
during the era of the Holocaust. 2. Pro-Nazi sentiment often resulted in grave
consequences against the Jews in Arab countries during the Holocaust. 3. The
Germans influenced the Arabs resulting in incitement that led to attacks against
Jews in Arab cities during the Holocaust. 4. The Mufti promoted the idea to the
Nazis of destroying the Jews before they could escape to Palestine. 5. The Axis
powers persecuted Jews in North Africa during the Holocaust…
power in 1933, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem got in touch with the German consul
general in Jerusalem, Doctor Heinrich Wolff, and offered his services.” 1 There,
the Mufti spoke approvingly of the Nazi’s Jewish policies, particularly of the
anti-Jewish boycott in Germany.
Spring of 1933 approached Fritz Grobba, the German Ambassador to Iraq, two years
later with proposals for closer ties and cooperation.
translations and circulated between 1933-1939 in Beirut, Baghdad, Cairo and
Berlin.
frequently show posters with Arabic sayings: “In heaven God is your ruler, on
earth Hitler.” In the streets of Aleppo… Damascus a popular verse in a local
dialect said: “No more ‘Monsieur’, no more ‘Mister’-God in heaven, on earth
Hitler!”
http://www.paulbogdanor.com/holocaust/mideast.pdf
By Shelomo Alfassa
February 23, 2007
burned Nazi books, and even the fact that German Fuehrer killed himself, the
Nazi spirit lived on. This spirit of Jew hatred was brought into the Arab world
by Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
strengthened when the Mufti visited the German Consul General at Jerusalem in
1937. After that, he met with Eichmann when he visited Palestine. This was when
the Nazis were examining the possibility of deporting German Jews to Palestine.
It has been reported that based on war-crimes testimony and the Eichmann trial
transcripts, Eichmann and the Mufti enjoyed a close relationship. The Mufti
would soon become the spiritual leader of the Islamic legions that were trained
by-and-for the Nazis.
mufti?s activities. He sent a cable of congratulations to the Nazi leader and
expressed support for the Jewish boycott in Germany. Soon after Hitler’s Mein
Kampf was translated into four different Arabic translations and circulated
between 1933-1939 in Beirut, Baghdad, Cairo and Berlin. In the first few months
of WWII, shops in the towns of Syria would frequently show posters with Arabic
sayings: “In heaven God is your ruler, on earth Hitler.” In the streets of
Aleppo, Homs and Damascus a popular verse in a local dialect said: “No more
‘Monsieur’, no more ‘Mister’-God in heaven, on earth Hitler!”
as the Fascist and Nazi regimes and doctrines made increasing sense to many Arab
nationalists. King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia sought German arms and contacts
and was favorably received. Various delegations of Syrians and Iraqis attended
the Nrnberg party congresses, and there were several different Arabic
translations of Mein Kampf. Both the German and Italian regimes were active in
propaganda in the Arab world, and there was much pro-German sentiment in Egypt.
1936-1939 to portray international Jewry, including the Jews of the Maghrib,
in a negative way to the Muslims, many of whom expressed solidarity with the
Palestinian Arabs against Zionism and the British Authorities in the Mandate.
Nazi propaganda broadcasts from Berlin and Stuttgart, as well as broadcasts from
fascist Italy, added fuel to the ongoing anti-Jewish campaigns.
dismissed Al-Husseini from his post as head of the Supreme Moslem Council.
Fearing arrest, on October 12, 1937, the grand mufti donned disguise and fled to
Lebanon, where the French gave him asylum. During 1937, Damascus was center for
anti-Jewish activities. During this same year, a Nazi delegation went to Syria
where a symbiosis was developed that would lead to intensified anti-Jewish
sentiment, especially among both German and Arab youth.
1938. Germany thus became an Italian radio surrogate, providing a new
programming dimension by the addition of anti-Jewish and anti-British themes
broadcast by several prominent Arab exiles, including Rashid Ali El-Ghailani, an
ex-prime minister of Iraq, and the Mufti, Al-Husseini.
Berlin, his activities included: 1. radio propaganda; 2. espionage and fifth
column activities in the Middle East; 3. organizing Muslims into military units
in Axis-occupied countries and in North Africa and Russia; and 4. establishment
of the Arab Legions and the Arab Brigade. These groups were trained by the Nazis
and used by them. The Mufti’s radio broadcasts were some of the most violent
pro-Axis broadcasts ever produced. He had at least six stations, Berlin,
Zeissen, Bari, Rome, Tokyo and Athens. He used these radio broadcasts to tell
Muslims across the world to commit acts of sabotage and kill the Jews.
confined to Europe. As he explained to the Mufti, “his hopes of military victory
in Africa and the Middle East would bring about the destruction of Jews in the
Arab World.” In November of 1941 Hitler informed the Mufti at a meeting in
Berlin that he intended to kill every Jew living in the Arab world, including
those in Palestine as well as “Syria, Iraq, Iran, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt,
and French Northwest Africa.” Hitler asserted that, in the event of a German
advance into the Middle East, the German objective would be the “destruction” of
“Judaism” in Palestine.
Mosul, Iraq, pro-Nazi Arab activists continued to propagandize against
Jews. In Baghdad, when the war film For Freedom
showed in cinemas, audiences cheered Hitler and booed Churchill. Leaflets
circulated: “Rashid Ali, the Leader of all the Arabs, is returning with ropes
and gallows to hang a number of criminal Jews, Christian traitors and other
enemies of Islam.”
Research Institute on the Jewish Problem where he declared that Arabs and
Germans were, “Partners and allies in the battle against world Jewry.” The Mufti
beamed radio sermons to the Balkans, the countries of North Africa, and the
Muslims in India. Arabs in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Egypt were called
upon for Jihad against the British, these statements included the suggestion
Muslims could “save their souls by massacring the Jewish infidels” they came
across.
Waffen S.S. reported: “Today the Mufti came to see me for a long talk. He talked
about his work and noted happily that the day is nearing he will head an army to
conquer Palestine.” It was during this same year that the Mufti developed an
Arab Brigade in 1944 that included Arabs trained in Holland by the Germans.
death camps, he paid close attention to the efficiency of the crematorium, spoke
to the leading personnel and was generous in his praise for those who were
reported as particularly conscientious in their work. He was on friendly terms
with such notorious practitioners of the “Final Solution” as Rudolf Hess, the
overlord of Auschwitz; Franz Zeireis of Mauthausen; Dr. Seidl of Theresienstadt;
and Kramer, the butcher of Belsen.
diverted from concentration camps and even let children go to Palestine via
“illegal” ships — all in exchange for cash. Yet, Al-Husseini insisted they get
dispatched to concentration camps. That same year, liberated Yugoslavia sought
to indict the Mufti as a war criminal for his activities in Bosnia, but with
help from the Nazi SS, the Mufti had already escaped Germany with other members
of his clan.”
first hand documents, tens of thousands which show the Mufti of Jerusalem in bed
with Hitler. As Dr. Bernard Lewis of Princeton University recently said, “The
Nazi propaganda impact was immense. We see it in Arabic memoirs of the
period….”
Islamic world, fueled by the German war machine, continues to resonate today
throughout the Arab and Persian world. Incitement, instituted decades earlier,
remains a root cause of anti-Semitism as well as the reason for hostility toward
the State of Israel after its formation. This is the reason why over 900,000
Jewish people, born in Arab counries, were made refugees after 1948. Simply,
because while the Nazis were destroyed and the Holocaust ended, the intense
hostility instituted during that era lived on — and continues to live on in the
Islamic world.
http://web.israelinsider.com/views/10767.htm
Lyn Julius
Jewish Quarterly. No. 197. Spring
2005
Newly independent Iraq gave formal undertakings on minority rights
when joining the League of Nations in 1932 — and massacred thousands of Assyrian
Christians within the year. Xenophobic nationalism, together with anti-British
and anti-French feeling, gave rise to political parties and paramilitary youth
movements of the Nazi and fascist type. The German envoy to Iraq, Dr Fritz
Grobba, set about disseminating Nazi ideology and anti-Jewish propaganda,
reinforcing local prejudice. Dozens of Jews were quietly dismissed (although
some were reinstated after the community protested). Laws were gradually brought
in to deprive Jews of jobs, then education and, eventually, property, residence
and free movement. The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini, colluded with
the ex-Prime Minister, Rashid Ali, to engineer a pro-Nazi coup, eventually
culminating in the farhoud massacre of 1941. For two days and one night of
looting, rape and murder, the mob rampaged through Jewish districts of Baghdad.
One hundred and seventy Jews were killed.
the Jewish population. Menahem Salih Daniel, a Baghdad Jewish leader, expressed
his misgivings as early as 1922 in a letter to the Secretary of the Zionist
Organisation in London (quoted by Nessim Rejwan), even though there had as yet
been no active resistance to Zionism:
legitimate rights, which it is his duty to denounce and fight to the best of his
ability. Iraq always having been an active centre of Arab culture and activity,
the public mind is always stirred up as regards Palestine.
every anniversary of the Balfour declaration carrying clubs dipped in tar. It
fell to a kindly neighbour to shelter her until the mob had passed.
the Jews’ rescue, the last line of defence was again the kindly neighbour. As
Nessim Rejwan writes,
neighbourhoods were defended and hundreds of Jews were saved by the willingness
of their Muslim neighbours to protect them, in some cases at the cost of their
own lives.
world. Seven years before the farhoud, Jews had been killed in the pogrom of
Constantine, Algeria. In Libya, 136 Jews, 36 of them children, were slaughtered
in 1945. That same year, bloody riots erupted in Egypt and Aden, as in Syria in
1947.
[…]
Until this alarming religious dimension is addressed and the forces of Islamic militancy subdued, the conflict will be insoluble.
http://www.isranet.org/Israzine/Israzine_V2N21_Dilemma.htm
struggle.
http://www.justiceforjews.com/narr_2.html
In August 1929, leaflets prepared by the mufti instructed Muslims to attack the Jews
http://books.google.com/books?id=Dunx_i1P6fMC&pg=PA42
The Jewish refugees who came to live in Palestine had to overcome Turkish, British, and Pan-Arab imperialism in order to achieve self-determination. …
We’ve Come A Long Way… Let’s look back. In 1920, 1921 and 1929, there were no ’67 territories to disturb the peace. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody! Yet, the upset Palestinians killed defenseless Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Safed, slaughtering 67 one fine day in 1929 in Hebron. Why did Arab rioters kill 510 Jewish men, women and children in 1936-39? Was it Arab rage over Israeli aggression in ’67? … How do you let hypocritical racist regimes accuse us of racism? …
http://www.jewish-holiday.com/frontShav62.html
The Sephardim of Sydney: coping with political processes and social pressures – Page 34
by Naomi Gale – Social Science – 2005 – 188 pages
Jews were arrested and sentenced to death for allegedly spying for Israel …
were arrested in the wake of the Six- Day War and sent to concentration camps.
http://books.google.com/books?id=5H7pfJLQE2sC&pg=PA34
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine – Page 50
by Joan Peters – History – 1985 – 601 pages
…Anti-Jewisg publications deluged Egypt, including the infamous “Protocols” — many of them circulated by the Egyptian government — When the Six-Day War began, Jews were arrested and held in concentration camps, where they were beaten and whipped, denied of water for days on end…
http://books.google.com/books?id=5EkgDJsaGhMC&q=arab+immigration+native+jews
Six Day War Comprehensive Timeline
Sept 1st 1967
Arab summit conference in Khartoum during August 29 September 1, 1967, formulated the Khartoum Resolutions. It stated: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel and no negotiations with Israel.
*NOTE: AHMED SHUKEIRY – formerly an aide to the late Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. The Mufti notoriously sought friendship with Hitler during World War 2, requesting: ” … to settle the question of Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the national and racial interests of the Arabs and along the lines similar to those used to solve the Jewish question in Germany and Italy.” He got as far as planning a concentration camp, near Tel Aviv. He was also responsible for recruiting Balkan Muslims for infamous SS “mountain divisions” that tried to wipe out Jewish communities throughout the region.
http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/timeline.htm#sep1
Culture of Hate
A racism which denies the history and sufferings of its victims.
By Bat Yeor
August 2, 2002, 8:45 a.m.
…If the liberation movement of the Jews in their ancestral homeland is interpreted as racism, then all the movements of liberation from expropriation and servitude imposed by jihad are racist. Such a stance reinstates the imperialism of the Islamic jihad, which has claimed millions of victims over three continents during more than a millennium, deported an incalculable number of slaves, and annihilated entire peoples, destroying their history, their monuments, and their culture. Have the Copts of Egypt a right to their history and their language? Do the Kabili of North Africa have a right to theirs? We must acknowledge all the victims of the racism that jihad creates, a racism which denies the history, sufferings, and memories of those conquered.
Arab racism consists of calling the Land of Israel, Arab land, whereas no Palestinian province, village, or town, including Jerusalem is mentioned either in the Koran or in any Arabic text before the end of the ninth century. On the contrary, these locations are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, which represents the religious and historical heritage of the Jewish people. The Bible, which tells the history of this country, tells it in Hebrew, the language of the country, and not in Arabic. Palestinian racism consists of asserting that the whole history of Israel, biblical history, is Arab, Islamic, and Palestinian history.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-yeor080202.asp
By Gerald A. Honigman
Monday, March 23,
2009
positions throughout the year, he frequently comes out with his gems of Middle
East wisdom right around Bike Week here in Daytona Beach, Florida, when tens of
thousands of Harley enthusiasts arrive to also spread their hot air exhaust
around town. This year Nick was a few weeks late.
Richard Cohen, just to name a few, who are also obsessed with creating a 22nd
Arab state (second, not first, Arab one within the original April 25, 1920
borders of the Mandate of Palestine before the Brits gave some 80% away to Arab
nationalism creating Transjordan in 1922)–Kristof loves to lecture Israel,
practically invisible on a map of the world, about the need to bare the necks of
its kids so that Arabs, who conquered over six million square miles of territory
from mostly non-Arab peoples in the name of their nation, can have that
additional state as well.
his academic clones in my own graduate school days.
Rashid Khalidi, Juan Cole, et al–promoting the themes of nasty Zionists and the
need to create Arab state # 22, Carter Findley never mentioned the plight of
some thirty-five million Kurds who remain stateless to date. They had been
gassed and slaughtered by Arabs repeatedly and had their one best chance at
statehood aborted by a collusion of British petroleum politics and Arab
nationalism after World War I. Indeed, the only time Findley ever mentioned
Kurds in his doctoral seminar was when he mocked their plight in Turkey.
Israel’s new incoming government as being prone to racism, apartheid, and so
forth. Nothing new…his positions from the get-go. That has been how one gets
ahead in Middle Eastern Studies for quite some time now. Israel is routinely
placed under the high power lens of moral scrutiny, while a blind eye is
turned to literally millions of victims of Arab massacres, gassings, genocide,
enslavement, dhimmitude, subjugation, and so forth. And woe unto the
student who dares to question such duplicity. Been there, done
that…unfortunately.
doctoral seminars.
position at some university today…can’t think of her name, but remember her
well. Unlike myself, she wasn’t denied a Ph. D. dissertation advisor to finish
her doctoral work. Geez…I wonder why?
World War II in Berlin at Hitler’s side and organized a division of Muslim
Nazis, ‘the Hanzar.’ He also played a first-hand role in instigating the
genocide of Europe’s Jews, Serbs and Gypsies.
was either white-washed or ignored altogether. Findley, of course–her mentor
and featured guest at her wedding–sat through it all approvingly.
man most responsible in the early Mandate era for Jewish defense against Arab
slaughter. Findley had no problem emphasizing his alleged “fascist connections”
and so forth.
Jabotinsky was not delusional about what the Arabs’ true intentions were
regarding the resurrection of the Jew of the Nations–regardless of its size. A
reading of his Appetite Versus Starvation speech in the early 20th century
reveals a man truly concerned about justice for Arab and Jew alike. If the
so-called Arab World had produced such “fascists,” the Arab-Israeli conflict
would have been resolved long ago. But none of this makes a difference to the
Juan Coles…Kristof’s sources of enlightenment.
justice to his memory.
bemoan the end of the so-called peace (of the grave) process because at least
most Israeli Jews have finally woken up to the reality that the end game for
both the West’s alleged Fatah good cops of Abbas and the bad cops of Hamas is
the same regarding Israel. The façade of a difference is largely about who will
gain access to the billions of dollars in foreign aid that is and will be
pouring in. Arafat’s stashed $$$ millions or more are legendary. Hamas is simply
more honest.
and objective appraisal of the facts at hand. He has been virtually prophetic
regarding such things as 9/11, militant Islam, and so forth.
Israel and America as the culprits.
militant Islam and/or real Arab racism is of no concern to them.
Israel?…Thailand?… Kashmir?…the Balkans?
Berbers, Assyrians, those Kurds mentioned above, or Arab genocide in black
Africa’s Sudan have to do with Israel?
families from the “Arab World” where they were known as killers of prophets and
kilab yahud, Jew dogs–is on the front lines of the age-old war the Arabs and
Arabized have continuously waged for over thirteen centuries now, the conflct of
the Dar ul-Islam versus the Dar al-Harb.
petro-dollar sponsored, Arab, and hypocritical Lefty professors like Cole won’t
touch with a ten-foot pole…
the earlier slaughter of nearly a million blacks (over a million more since):
Arab civilizing mission (“Arabism and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese Politics,” Journal
of Modern African Studies, Vol. 11, no. 2, 1973, pp. 177-78).
Rudyard Kipling’s late 19th-century poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” supposedly
typifying continued Western colonialist and imperialist attitudes towards the
Third World, why are such Arab racist attitudes and
mindset ignored?
Recall, again, Cole’s recent blog worries about alleged Israeli “racism.”
sure, Juan Cole’s students never heard a peep about…
to direct its destinies…. The Arab fatherland is that part of the globe
inhabited by the Arab nation that stretches from the Taurus Mountains, the
Pacht-i-Kouh Mountains, the Gulf of Basra, the Arab Ocean, the Ethiopian
Mountains, the Sahara, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea.
conquest?
no evil…After all, these are Arabs we’re talking about–not Jews. And besides,
it’s all just made up fascist Zionist propaganda anyway…
purely Arab patrimony–the Arab-Israeli, Arab-Kurd, Arab-black African,
Arab-Berber, and other such conflicts in a nutshell.
realistic and objective analysis of what’s really going on over
there…
Kristof tells you, choose the opposite.
http://www.michnews.com/Gerald_A_Honigman/gh2953.shtml
Anti-Semitism: From The Holocaust To Israel-Bashing
Evening Bulletin – 04, 07, 09
In the Judenrein Arab Middle East, racist anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial are preached in mosques, featured in the media and taught in schools. …
http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/08/commentary/op-eds/doc49dc341729063188496879.txt
The Arab position on ‘details’ flows from their racist assumption of
superiority and absolute refusal to accept a Jewish right to self-determination.
http://fresnozionism.org/archives/754
MEMRI TV Project: Saudi IQRA TV Examines Public Attitudes toward Jews
The following dispatch, recorded and translated by MEMRI’s TV Monitor Project, are excerpts from a show on Saudi Arabia’s IQRA TV Channel, which featured “man on the street” interviews about feelings about Jews. To view a segment from this show, visit
http://memritv.org/clip/en/275.htm
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Interviewer: ‘Would You, as a Human Being, be Willing to Shake Hands with a Jew
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/800/1228.htm
This is state-controlled TV allowing this to be broadcast. The amount of hate, ignorance and vitriol within that community is pretty disgusting and something we ignore at our own risk. And note, this guy is not a poverty stricken member of the underclass either. This sort of thing is all too common in the Middle East. I would be interested in seeing the same sort of “man on the street” interview in Iraq. While we have skinheads in the USA who have similar views we don’t put them on TV as mainstream representatives of public opinion
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2004/09/29/memri/
Guernica / November 2008
I’m a Liberal, But…
An interview with Bernard-Henri Lévy
The celebrity polemicist on the resurgence of
anti-Semitism, an Arab brand of fascism… The brothers in
democracy, along with others particularly in Europe, must avoid the gaping
pitfalls that lie before them: anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, and
anti-interventionism. Particularly where fascism appears among Islamists or
elsewhere, it must be denounced and attacked. If fascism, or for that matter brutality
of any sort, appears in the developing world, anti-imperialism must not
interfere with the denunciations or immediate calls to intervene, as Lévy
believes has happened in Darfur
http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/800/an_interview_with_bernardhenri_1/
Like pan-Arabism, pan-Islamism is an exclusivist ideology. By rejecting the modern conception of citizenship, it rejects the idea of non-Muslim civilian participation. Absolutist by nature, its discourse excludes non-Muslims, which explains why the flame of pan-Arabism was often borne by Christian Arabs, uneasy about the hegemonic designs of political Islam. Non-Muslim Arabs (Christian Arabs, Druze, etc.), excluded from the pan-Islamic club, still have an honorable place within pan-Arabism. And non-Arab Muslims (Turks, Iranians, Kurds), excluded from the pan-Arab club, can still join pan-Islamism. But the Israelis, being neither Arabs nor Muslims, are doubly a minority.
The Jewish state is not an intruder in the Middle East. It is the extension and the representative of one of the most ancient civilizations of this part of the world. Everything links Israel to this region: geography, history, culture but also religion and language. The Jewish religion is the primary theological reference and the very foundation of Islam and Eastern Christianity. Hebrew and Arabic are as close to each other as two languages of Latin origin. The author is an Egyptian writer. (Turkish Daily News)
http://www.dailyalert.org/archive/2008-03/2008-03-14.html
A RETURN TO PAN-ARABISM – 30-Dec-94 Khaddam, like Nasser in his day, speaks
about.. about the need for pan-Arabism in order to block Israel
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Archive/Articles/1994/A%20RETURN%20TO%20PAN-ARABISM%20-%2030-Dec-94
Arab Racism
One of the accusations which the various Arab countries (including Egypt and Jordan which have peace treaties with Israel) often make against Israel is that “Zionism is racism”. Defining Zionism, the national liberation movement of jews, the victims of racism, as racism is particularly cynical, yet it seems that the Arabs have succeeded to convince the leaders of some nations, themselves victims of racism, to support this vicious accusation.
The latest attempt to define Zionism as racism was at the 2001 UNESCO conference which was held in Durban, South Africa. The resolution which was initiated by Arab countries enjoyed the support of most participants. Especially painful was the support of such African leaders as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Some Western countries, however, notably Australia and Canada, objected and accused the conference of hypocrisy. The Canadian delegation, for example, issued the following statement:
“Canada is still here today only because we wanted to have our voice decry the attempts at this Conference to de-legitimize the State of Israel and to dishonor the history and suffering of the Jewish people. We believe, and we have said in the clearest possible terms, that it was inappropriate – wrong – to address the Palestinian-Israel conflict in this forum. We have said, and will continue to say, that anything – any process, any declaration, any language – presented in any forum that does not serve to advance a negotiated peace that will bring security, dignity and respect to the people of the region is – and will be – unacceptable to Canada.”
It was for that reason that both Israel and the United States under the leadership of Secretary Colin Powell, himself no stranger to racism, pulled their delegations from the conference. The final text adopted by the conference drops all direct criticism of Israel, but does recognize the Palestinians’ right to self-determination and expresses concern at their plight under foreigh occupation.
That was only the latest attempt to define Zionism as racism. In November 1975, the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 declared that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination” In December 1991, the General Assembly rescinded this resolution through Resolution 4686.
All those years the Arab countries continued to promote this false notion. It is therefore of interest to check how different things are on the other side of the fence, namely in the Arab countries. Even though there are many blacks who live in those countries the question whether they are subject to racism was academic for a long time and one had to resort to circumstantial evidence in order to answer it. One well-known fact is that most Arabs refer to blacks as “Abed” which means “slave” in Arabic. This seems to say something about the situation of racism in the Arab world. Today, due to the recent events in Darfur and the active role that the Arab Janjaweed play in the slaughter of black Africans there, this question has become more urgent and relevant than ever before. It is time for the UN and the whole world to fight it NOW
What a world: Racist Arabs & Islamic bigots call the victims of their racism – “racists”
[Apr 23, 2009]
Forget the fact that Israel is multi-racial for all colors from the whitest of white to the darkest of black, whereas Arab countries (including “Palestinian” authorities”) asides from oppressing all non-Arab minorities, are almost entirely “judenrein”, but in democratic Israel, an Arab can get the highest office!
But the brazenness of Arab racism not only fails to admit of it’s racist war on Jews/Israel since the 1920’s, but it brands Israel’s defense from it as “racist”.
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/154334
Darwish also disagreed with the labeling of Israeli conduct towards Palestinians as “apartheid.”
“They call Israel an apartheid state,” she said. Yet who is worse, the Arab world, where not a single Jew can be free, or Israel, where Arabs are free to work with Koranic verses printed on their outerclothes?
http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2008/2/19/darwishSharesViewOfMiddleEastPolitics
Islamist Fundamentalism
A number of Islamist bookshops stock politico-religious works containing arguments that nurture antisemitism, often through anti-Zionist or anti-Jewish discourse. As of 1996, one of these bookshops (in Brussels) was selling The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics, the antisemitic and Holocaust denying work of former French communist turned fundamentalist Muslim Roger Garaudy.
Fundamentalist Islamist circles in Belgium seem to have some influence among Muslim youth in the country, some of whom chanted antisemitic slogans during anti-Israel demonstrations organized in Brussels and Antwerp. Activists within the Maghreb community have circulated anti-Jewish propaganda, despite calls for calm issued by various Islamic religious and cultural bodies. Antisemitism appears to be promoted by Islamic fundamentalist groups such as Centre Islamique de Belgique. In April 2002 the Centre pour l’égalité des chances et la lutte contre le racisme (CECLR, the federal government’s public anti-racist agency) lodged a complaint against the Centre Islamique on the grounds that it had breached the laws against racism and revisionism. The Centre Islamique had broadcast on its Internet site a short video document ‘ produced by Lebanese students ‘ equating the State of Israel with a Nazi dictatorship. In June 2002, CECLR lodged another complaint against the Antwerp-based Arab European League, also for infringing the anti-racist law.
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2001-2/belgium.htm
Another agent provocateur is Dyab Abu Jahjah, a Belgian immigrant of Lebanese origin who is the founder and leader of the Arab-European League (AEL)…. the AEL website posted a cartoon of Anne Frank in bed with Adolf Hitler
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/790
AEL spot met holocaust (“AEL ridicules holocaust”), De Standaard, 6 February 2006
http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=GHENRDR2
Muslim European group posts anti-Semitic cartoons, European Jewish Press, 6 February 2006
http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/5663
League’s anti-Israel protests in Antwerp, Belgium held on Sunday descended into
rioting and attacks throughout the Jewish quarter of the city. As a result,
Antwerp Jews are living in fear and many are afraid to venture out on the
streets.
the Arab European League a number of demonstrators went to the Jewish quarter of
Antwerp where disturbances took place.” [/source]
while conducting a campaign of wanton destruction, smashing car windows and
damaging trams and buses. Efforts by the police to close the district off were
met by violence by the largely Muslim crowd.
Joodse Aktueel, “The Jewish community is extremely upset about the presence of
Hamas-flags at the demonstration for the stopping of the bombardment of the Gaza
Strip in Brussels¦According to Freilach the green flag with the white text from
Hamas is a symbol of a terrorist organisation and is forbidden in Belgium…” http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=DMF31122008_060#
2002 a similar episode occurred where store fronts of Jewish owned businesses
were smashed while the rioters chanted, “Hamas,” and “Osama bin-Laden.” [see, http://www.defenddemocracy.org/research_topics/research_topics_show.htm?doc_id=228652%5D
of the Profit” by Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, during a debate. [see, http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/89%5D
In 2004 van Gogh was assassinated by a Muslim youth, Mohammed Bouyeri, who was
upset over van Gogh’s criticism of radical Islam.
show solidarity with Hezbollah, has also been quoted as describing 9/11 as,
“sweet revenge.”
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon “for war crimes” threatening him with arrest
if he traveled to Belgium. The organization is violent and openly supports
terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah. That they are allowed to
demonstrate and terrorize Jews in Belgium is more proof that Europe [Eurabia] is
wilting under the jihad being conducted by its Muslim residents and it remains
problematic whether the Continent has the will to protect its Jewish population
and thus halt the trend towards creation of Jewish ghettoes as a response to
violence and threats of aggression.
by Arabs. In Odense, Denmark two Israelis who were selling products from the
Dead Sea, were shot by men shouting at them in Arabic. Danish authorities have
arrested a Palestinian Arab [born in Lebanon] with Danish citizenship in
connection with the crime.
connection between the upsurge of such attacks and Israel’s Gaza operation.
[see, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129152%5D
http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=leagueid=1.6.09%2Ehtm
Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism – by Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin – 2003 – Religion – 244 pages [Page 108]
Among many Arabs the Holocaust has come to be regarded with nostalgia. On August 17, 1956, the French newspaper Le Monde quoted the government-controlled Damascus daily Al-Manar as observing, “One should not forget that, in contrast to Europe Hitler occupied an honored place in the Arab world…. [Journalists] are mistaken if they think that by calling Nasser Hitler, they are hurting us. On the contrary, his name makes us proud. Long live Hitler, the Nazi who struck at the heart of our enemies. Long live the Hitler [ie, Nasser] of the Arab world.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=VK0llzUqQ2YC&pg=PA108
During the 1961 Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt commented on the astounding degree of anti-Jewish venom and praise for Hitler in the Arab press together with regret that he “did not finish the job”. 40 years later the state-controlled Egyptian daily Al Akhbar (April 18, 2001) declared “Our thanks to the late Hitler…”,
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3Q6LETF0P31A
Hitler’s Mideast helpersArabs were cheerleaders and enablers of the Final Solution.Max Boot
December 20, 2006MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad has an impeccable sense of timing. Just a week after the Iraq Study Group recommended a heart-to-heart with him, the president of Iran convened a conference in Tehran to examine whether the Holocaust really occurred. The answer from such “scholars” as David Duke, the notorious former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, was a resounding no.
On one level, Ahmadinejad’s embrace of Holocaust denial might seem surprising. A man who has repeatedly called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” surely has no problem with the murder of Jews. You might expect him to adopt the position espoused by the Egyptian newspaper Al Akhbar, which a few years ago ran an editorial praising Adolf Hitler (“of blessed memory”) and complaining only that “his revenge on [the Jews] was not enough.”
Or you might expect Ahmadinejad to take the far more common line in the Muslim world, which is to admit that, sure, some Jews died, but it was a lot fewer than 6 million and, anyway, what’s the big deal? A lot of Gentiles died too. What makes these Yids so special? This is the position taken by Arab “moderates” such as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose doctoral dissertation pooh-poohed the figure of 6 million dead Jews (“no one can verify this number”) while expressing great concern that “the German people sacrificed 10 million” implying that the killers suffered more than their victims.
Ahmadinejad does not hide behind such equivocations. He flatly calls the Holocaust a myth. But he is hardly a model of consistency. At the same time that he denies the Holocaust, Iran’s president claims that Israel was established by the Europeans as penance for ¦ the Holocaust. But why atone for something that didn’t occur? Never mind. Ahmadinejad says that “if the Europeans are honest” in their claims about the Holocaust, “they should give some of their provinces in Europe ¦ to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe.”
This is the crux of the matter. In Ahmadinejad’s view, shared by countless others across the Middle East, whatever the Nazis did is no business of theirs, so why inflict the “Zionist entity” on their region? It is only a small step from this position to claiming that Israel’s destruction is justified.
POINTLESS though it may be to argue with a madman, it is worth noting that Muslims were not as blameless in the genocide of the Jews as Ahmadinejad and his ilk would have it. Arabs were, on a small scale, cheerleaders and enablers of the Final Solution. The most famous example was Haj Amin Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem (and uncle of Yasser Arafat), who took refuge in Berlin in World War II. A rabid Nazi, he personally lobbied Hitler to kill as many Jews as possible and even helped out by recruiting Bosnian Muslims to serve in the Waffen SS.
Robert Satloff, one of the world’s smartest Arabists, reveals other links between the Arabs and the Holocaust in his groundbreaking new book, “Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach Into Arab Lands.” He shows how the Nazis set up the machinery of death in North Africa. Although “only” 4,000 to 5,000 Jews died before the Allies liberated the area in 1943, many more were consigned to forced labor camps in hellish conditions.
“Arabs played a role at every level,” Satloff wrote. “Some went door to door with the Germans, pointing out Jews for arrest. Others led Jewish workers on forced marches or served as overseers at labor camps.”
The picture is not entirely one-sided because, although most Arabs were either apathetic or sympathetic to the Nazis, a small number helped their Jewish neighbors. Satloff uncovered lost tales of “righteous Gentiles,” such as the wartime rulers of Morocco and Tunisia. And on the whole, he found that Arabs behaved no worse under German occupation than did Europeans.
But that isn’t saying much because almost every country on the Continent was heavily complicit in the extermination of their Jewish populations. Satloff’s research makes a mockery of Ahmadinejad’s protestations that the Holocaust if it occurred! was someone else’s responsibility. Individual Muslims were complicit in the horrors of the 1940s, even if, under foreign rule, they were not the primary culprits.
Even worse, while Europe has disowned its terrible history, the Nazis continue to be glorified in the Middle East. (“Mein Kampf” is a perennial bestseller in the region.) Nowhere else in the world is Holocaust denial so prevalent. Ahmadinejad deserves thanks for calling the world’s attention to this pervasive sickness.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-boot20dec20,0,159762.column
The same regret (of Hitler not finishing the “job”…) and heartfelt wish to see all Jews finally annihilated was expressed in April 2002 by a columnist in the second largest, state-controlled Egyptian daily Al- Akhbar
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=5&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=625&PID=862&IID=1051&TTL=National_Socialism_and_Anti-Semitism_in_the_Arab_World
What kind of role does anti-Semitism play in the Middle East Conflict? At what point does opposition to Israel turn into anti-Semitism? These issues are discussed by Brian Klug, British philosopher and journalist, and Robert Wistrich, director of the International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem…
The spiritual and physical connection of Jews with Zion has been continuous, preceding by centuries the emergence of Muslim conquerors from the Arabian deserts. Not only that, but over half the Israeli population is not “European” at all. It was uprooted from the Arab Middle East by exclusivist pan-Arabism, Islamic fanaticism, and the pressures of decolonization.
http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/klug.html
Testimony at the UN – Racism and Historical Truth: Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands …
UN Watch Oral Statement
Agenda Item 9: Interactive Dialogue with
Special Rapporteur on Racism Doudou Diène
UN Human Rights Council, 7th Session, March 19, 2008
Delivered by Regina Bublil Waldman
Thank you, Mr. President.
We thank the Special Rapporteur for his work against racism, and address two areas of his report.
Dr. Diene, in Addendum 1 you mention Libya’s treatment of ethnic minorities. In Addenda 3 and 4, you envision a multicultural society based on two principles: respect for historical truth and non-discrimination against minorities.
As a victim of Libyan discrimination, I agree: only with historical truth can we build a better future.
Today I wear my traditional ethnic dress to celebrate my heritage, but also to mourn its destruction.
One million Jews lived in the Middle East at the turn of the century. Today, less than five thousand remain.
Their plight has been ignored by the international community.
Their story is my story.
In 1948, there were thirty-six thousand Jews living in Libya. Today, there are none.
During the 1967 war between Israel and her Arab neighbors, mobs took to the streets and shouted, “Edbah el Yehud!” – “Slaughter the Jews!”
They burned my father’s warehouse and came to burn our home.
An honorable Muslim neighbor stopped them, and saved our lives.
The government ordered the expulsion of all Jews from Libya, where my family had lived for hundreds of years. They confiscated our homes and all our assets.
We were given this one-way travel document never allowed to return.
My family was put on a bus to the airport. The bus driver got out, and tried to burn the bus with us in it. We were rescued from death by two Christian friends.
I come here today bearing no hatred — only these historical truths:
Jews have been an indigenous people of the Middle East for over 2,500 years.
On the basis of race and religion, Arab regimes subjected Jews to arbitrary arrest, confiscation of property and expulsions. This is fully documented in this report by Justice for Jews from Arab Countries.
The UNHCR has ruled that Jews fleeing from Arab countries were ‘bona fide’ refugees, victims of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Dr. Diene, your report envisions a future of tolerance and equality. Applying the principles you set forth, we trust you will examine the actions of Libya and other Middle Eastern countries that forced out their Jewish minorities.
Like in South Africa, only the acknowledgment of truth and history will lead to reconciliation.
Thank you, Mr. President.
http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=5118137
pan-Arab and pan-Islamic parties and movements in almost every Arab state have fomented mob violence against Jews
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/jl102.htm
George Will, “America must preempt next level of terrorism.” In 1967, on the eve of the Six-Day War, Egypt’s President Nasser
proclaimed: “We are confronting Israel and the West as well.” Netanyahu says:
“The soldiers of militant Islam and Pan-Arabism do not hate the West because of Israel; they hate Israel because of the West.” They hate “Zionism as an expression and representation of Western civilization.” And they hate America because it is the purest expression of modernity— individualism, pluralism, freedom, secularism.
http://www.omdurman.org/mideast.html
Global Terrorism and Pan-Arabism: Adelson Scholars on the Six Day War Adelson
Institute Distinguished Fellow Moshe Ya’alon. “Terror was used by the Arabs
against the Jews in the Land of Israel since the dawn of Zionism. …
http://shalem-enews.com/6_day_war_communique/day%203-4.html
CHANGING FACE OF THE KKK IN LOUISIANA! by Creole Folks (October 13, 2006)The KKK has grown in diversity. Since Sept 11 and Bush declared selective war on the enemies of his oil buddies in Saudi Arabia. The out cast middle east Arabs and the KKK have been getting very, very cozy! The Arabs just cant stretch their Muslim minds to even consider that their fellow Arab brothers in Saudi Arabia have been in bed with the Bush family for generations so they do what any Arab normally does…they blame the Jews for the invasion of the Middle East! New Orleans own David Duke being the breakout American Jew hater, all of a sudden had an army of Arabs who shared in his hatred and they had a state to immigrate into and penetrate..Louisiana.
In Louisiana where the banking system will discriminate against natives of this state but will give Arab immigrants great business loans with the best rates, they have started to monopolize business in certain areas. This isn’t a mistake! The KKK uses Arab businesses to recruit it’s members. One can always tell the KKK when they have a politician in office. When former Gov. Foster of Louisianan went into office, the confederate flags went up on bumper stickers around Louisiana. Confederate flags were raised in the suburbs and David Duke t-shirts came back into style and the same thing would have happened if east-Indian “token” Bobby Jindal would have gotten into office.
A white female whose boyfriend happens to be African-Americans was approached by an elderly white lady to attend a Klan meeting in Jefferson Parish, where she worked for an Arab man from Lebanon. The older white lady didn’t realize that her potential recruit was dating a black guy!
http://creoleneworleans.typepad.com/creole_folks/2006/10/changing_faces_.html
…Offensive term used by anti-Semites and neo-Nazis referring to the government of the United States and occasionally to Britain, implying that Jews and their supporters control the mechanisms of government.e.. the term… used to describe the state of Israel, generally by hardcore Palestine supporters and Pan-Arabists who seek the elimination of Israel… the term was coined in 1976 by neo-Nazi Eric Thomson.
http://www.zombietime.com/lgf_dictionary/#ZOG
Unlikely partners: White supremacists ally with Moslem extremists
1. United by hate
2. “Extremists joining forces, CSIS warns” (National Post, Canada, Feb. 21, 2003)
3. “Midland Nazi turns to Islam” (Sunday Mercury, Birmingham, UK, Feb. 16, 2003)
4. “German Muslim’s radical past was paved by Saudis” (Wall Street Journal, Feb. 24, 2003)
5. “Attacks on British Jews increase” (Independent, Feb. 21, 2003)
6. “Anti-Semitic Protocols published in Palestinian press” (IDF, Feb. 21, 2003)
7. “Israeli Arabs take lessons at Yad Vashem before planned trip to Auschwitz” (Jerusalem Post, Feb. 18, 2003)
…though it’s been overshadowed by the threat from Islamism and Arabism,” said Manuel … a former KKK member and a founder of the Heritage Front. …
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000237.html
In Arabists’ rule – Apparently, If you attempt to defend yourself against
racist Arabs you are ‘the racist’
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/116482
Antisemitism & racism, ARAB COUNTRIES 2003-4, Typical of the Arab
rhetoric, Palestinian preacher Shaykh Ibrahim Madayris described the attack on
Iraq in a Friday sermon at the `Ijlin Mosque in Gaza, broadcast live on
Palestinian Authority TV on 21 March, as “a Crusader Zionist war.” The Crusader,
“Zionist America,” he stated, had initiated an attack on “Iraq of Islam and
Arabism,” thus expanding the limited notion of the war to Arabs, Muslims and
Islam at large.
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2003-4/arab.htm
‘Eurabia’ Defined Arab and Islamic anti-Israeli propaganda, barely disguised
in academic and … and geopolitics of Euro-Arabism; in this process, European
anti-Americanism…
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/AndrewBostom51116.htm
What has happened to the 800,000 Jews who lived for over two thousand years in the Arab lands, who formed some of the most ancient communities long before the advent of Islam…We are being attacked by a society which is motivated by the most extreme form of racism known in the world today. This is the racism…
http://www.internationalwallofprayer.org/A-177-Zionism-is-Not-Racism.html
There are two causes of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The first is Arab racism, which rejects any presence that is not Arab in its neighborhood; the second is Islamic intolerance which leads to the same rejection…
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7268
The question of Israel is the question of what happens to all minorities in the Middle East. The Arab Muslim Middle East has 300 million people. It has a very hard time treating Coptic Christians with equality, treating Maronites in Lebanon with equality, treating Southern Sudanese in an equal way, treating Kurds in an equal way, and dealing with Jews – not only in their national expression, but even as minorities within their own countries. There was never a golden era for Jews who lived in Arab countries.
[…]
This is why I’m negative about the intentions of Palestinians. If their goal were statehood, they could have had statehood. Therefore, you have to give serious credence to the idea that their goal is not statehood, that it’s more important to rid the Arab world of Jewish nationalism than it is to have a Palestinian state that would improve the lives of individual Palestinians now.
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/07/the-real-quagmi.php
this to the “twin fascisms” – his term – that dominate
the Arab world, Islamism and pan-Arabism. The first promotes
murderous intolerance of religious minorities. It helps explain why Christians
are under siege across the Arab world and why Sudan enjoyed broad Arab support
as it killed some two million non-Muslim blacks in the south of the country.
Pan-Arabism translates into endorsement of murderous policies toward Muslim but
non-Arab groups and accounts for Arab support for Saddam Hussein as he
slaughtered 200,000 Kurds in northern Iraq, as well as backing for Sudanese
policies toward the Muslim but black population of Darfur.
The Arab world is not about to make an exception for the Jews. This broad
intolerance of minorities is further evidence of how unlikely it is the Arab
world will accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state in its midst any time
soon.
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=688A19CA-9922-45EB-A57D-B6E67266E79A
MEMRI: Special Dispatch – No. 835 ‘The Arab Silence Can Only Be Explained
Once We Understand the True Nature of the Twin
Fascisms of Islamism and Pan-Arabism’ …
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sd&ID=SP83504&Page=archives
“Tyranny is a fundamental tenet of Baathism and other Islamism. They want to reestablish the Islamic Empire. Indeed, the Baathist ideology, as defined by its founder Michel Aflaq, taught that the Arab race was superior.
The Baathists and Islamists have more in common with totalitarians and racists than they do with patriots. The Iraqi insurgents are identical to the Imperial Japanese, Nazis, Fascists, Communists, and the KKK. They share the same beliefs of totalitarianism, racism, as well as a moral and political superiority.”
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2005/01/28/voting-rights-in-iraq/
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/t/tremoglie/2005/tremoglie012805.htm
Israel as the result of the national
liberation movement of the region’s aboriginal Jews. Liberation of
the aboriginal Jews (and anyone else lucky enough
to find refuge within Israel’s borders) from the twin fascisms of
pan-Arabism and Islamism which have oppressed and even eliminated so
many of the region’s aboriginal ethnic groups. Israel’s aboriginal
Jews were not unique in accepting outside help (and even immigration) in their
liberation struggle. Lebanon’s Maronites; Egypt’s Copts, Iraq and Turkey’s
Kurds, and Iran’s Zoroastrians have all sought and received outside help in
their liberation struggles, each group according to its own circumstances.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzY4ZjgzMDY3NmExNmE4ODM5NDRmODg3N2I5YTU4YWI=
Non-Arab and/or
non-Muslims in the “Arab” world
One key element missing from the discussion is the question of non-Arab and/or non-Muslims in the “Arab” world.
The Arab nationalists have succeeded in establishing some 23 non-democratic,
ethnically (Arab) and religiously (Islam) defined nation-states in over 1
million square miles of territory, often at the expense of non-Arabs, such as
the Kurds (Muslims, non-Arabs), Assyrians (Christians, non-Arabs), Copts
(Christians, non-Arabs), southern Sudanese (Christian and pagan non-Arabs),
Maronite Lebanese (Christian and mostly identified with their Phoenician
ancestors) and Mizrahi Jews. Arab
nationalist ideology claims all this territory exclusively as “Arab” despite the
legitimate claims of non-Arabs and/or non-Muslims to ancient homelands long ago
arabized with the spread of Islam, often through
conquest.
I believe that the Arab opposition to the
existence of non-Arab, non-Muslim Israel is based on the ideological motivations
which led to the persecution of non-Arab minorities. The Assyrians
suffered massacre and expulsion by the Arab nationalists of Iraq in the 1920s
and 1930s. The Kurds have been persecuted and have suffered terribly for their
struggle to establish an independent Kurdistan (at the hands of the Turks and
Iranians as well, but that is another story.)
Arab nationalist ideology, and its Islamicist couterpart, cannot and
will not tolerate non-Arab and non-Islamic peoples organizing themselves into
their own independent nation states. Indeed, I have seen on Islamicist web sites
the goal of “regaining” Spain in the name of Islam.
I believe that we need to place
Israel’s struggle to survive into this context. Any non-Arab/non-Islamic state
in the region must rely on strength (political, moral, spiritual and military)
if it wants to survive in the Middle East. In this context can we thus place
Israel’s demand for security. It is not security for the sake of security, not
seucirty for the sake of oppressing another people, but security for the sake of
survival against two racist and exclusivist
ideologies (Arabism and Islamicism) which have succeeded in
repressing the just struggles for national self-determination of most non-Arab
peoples in the Middle East.
Arab racism must go – There will be no peace around here before Arabs view Jews as human beings.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3478505,00.html
IT’S ABOUT BIGOTRY!
The war on terrorism is a war against bigotry… Bigotry is a terrible thing; no one appreciates being discriminated against. Imagine, however, someone hating you so much that theyrefuse to even recognize your very existence. Conversely, imagine being told if you did precisely as you were instructed, your right to exist would be recognized. Israel has faced this catch-22 situation since her rebirth in 1949. Millions of Arab bigots are propagating as true the diabolical lies quoted by Hitler from Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Arab children are being taught that all wars are caused by the Jews, that the Jews invented AIDS, that Jews attacked America on September 11 than blamed it on the Arabs, and that America went to war against Iraq to appease the Jews. While this sounds ridiculous to us, it is accepted as truth in Arab lands. The truth is the “Baghdad Bobs” of the Middle East feed these myths and conspiracy theories to the masses daily. These fabrications are believed as the Gospel, and used to inflame Palestinian children to commit violent acts against the Jews. Children play death games, collect “terrorist” cards (complete with pictures of suicide bombers), and fantasize about killing Jews to reclaim al-Quds (Jerusalem.) And it doesn’t stop with pretense! At least two-dozen children under the age of 18 have perished as suicide bombers; children as young as 11 have been enlisted as “mules” to smuggle bomb-making supplies into Israel. The two young Palestinians who carried out the most recent attack in Ashdod were 17-years-old.
In 1997, I wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Where’s theOutrage?” The article outlined the fact that the world continued to tolerate Arafat’s speeches calling for one million martyrs to liberate Jerusalem. Yet today, Arafat’s Palestinian Authority uses the television airwaves to encourage children of all ages to become “Shahada” — suicide martyrs. Money keeps Arafat in power! Since 1994, he has kept a tight grip on $5.5 billion dollars of international aid that has flowed into Palestinian coffers. He dispenses his wealth to would-be martyrs, as well as to purchase 50-ton shipments of weapons from Iran. Arafat’s critics are either paid off, or murdered. According to Israeli intelligence,Arafat’s personal holdings are reported at $1.3 billion. This includes a 23 percent stake in a casino in Jericho (estimated worth – $28.5 million), 20 percent of a Tunisian telecom
[Page 2]company (estimated at $50 million), and a $55 million share of a firm that controls most of the cement imported into the territories. Every six months, President Bush has an opportunity to allow the Anti-terrorism Act of 1987 to become law. The time has come for Mr. Bush to refuse to sign another waiver on this resolution, and allow it to be enacted.This document places the PLO firmly where it belongs; on the terrorist list. This Act would hold Arafat and his entire terrorist cartel accountable, and stop PLO terrorists from entering the U.S. under diplomatic immunity. It is time for President Bush to freeze Arafat’s $1.3 billion in PLO funds, and paycompensation to the survivors of Americans killed by Arafat. As far back as February 12, 1986, a letter was sent from 47 Senators to the U. S. Justice Department demanding that Arafat be indicted for the murder in Khartoum, Sudan, of Ambassador Cleo Noel, and charge d’affaires, C. Curtis Moore. To date, no action has been taken; but there is no statute of limitations on murder. It must also be noted that the U.S. State Department has an audiotape of Arafat’s order to have the American diplomats killed… it is time to send Arafat to The Hague to stand trial alongside Milosovic. In order to win the war on terrorism, America must fight a war on bigotry. The same bigotry that kills Jews also kills Christians.
We discovered that on 9/11. For all the Arab bigots who call themselves “patriotic Americans”, and who don’t like the signing of this document, the President needs to refuse to recognize their right to exist as an American, and send them back to their countries of origin.
http://theamericanprophecies.com/pdf/bigotry.pdf
Racism in the Islamic World: How can peace prevail in the Middle East in the face of Islamic bigotry and hate? When will moderate Muslims speak out? For years, the U.N., led by Islamic …
http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_94b.html
I have always seen Israel as the result of the national liberation movement of the region’s aboriginal Jews.
Liberation of the aboriginal Jews (and anyone else lucky enough to find refuge within Israel’s borders) from the twin fascisms of pan-Arabism and Islamism which have oppressed and even eliminated so many of the region’s aboriginal ethnic groups.
Israel’s aboriginal Jews were not unique in accepting outside help (and even immigration) in their liberation struggle.
Lebanon’s Maronites; Egypt’s Copts, Iraq and Turkey’s Kurds, and Iran’s Zoroastrians have all sought and received outside help in their liberation struggles, each group according to its own circumstances.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzY4ZjgzMDY3NmExNmE4ODM5NDRmODg3N2I5YTU4YWI=
Canada: U.N. Anti-Racism Conference a ‘Gong Show’ of Hatred …That conference was marred by anti-Semitic bigotry that eventually led the United States Israel to walk out … Arab and Muslim countries ganged up in their criticisms of Israel.
Cohen Cont’d – Jonah Goldberg – The Corner on National Review Online Liberation of the aboriginal Jews (and anyone else lucky enough to find refuge within Israel’s borders) from the twin fascisms of pan-Arabism and Islamism …
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzY4ZjgzMDY3NmExNmE4ODM5NDRmODg3N2I5YTU4YWI=
Dr. Kenneth Levin… I believe that many people in the Arab world remain intoxicated with the messages constantly given them by leaders both secular and religious; a message not unlike that proffered to Germans between the world wars: That they are heirs to a superior nation which has been robbed of its proper superior status and must militantly reclaim it from those who have stolen the Arabs’ rightful place in the world. It is the message disseminated by what one liberal Arab writer called the “twin fascisms of Islamism and pan-Arabism.” For democracy to take root will require an end to the Arab romance with this fascist world view.
http://jpundit.typepad.com/jci/2005/07/kenneth_levin_i.html
This is about a 250 million strong Pan-Arab Movement seeking to drive 6 million Jews into the sea
http://www.dafka.org/content/index.php?pid=1&id=19
In an article titled “Ramon Can Go to Hell,” Hamed Salamin, a columnist for
the UAE daily Al-Bayan, wrote:
An atmosphere of sadness and shock overcame
the Israelis two days ago when NASA announced [Ramon’s] death¦ “This is enough to arouse joy in every heart that beats Arabism and
Islam.”
http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/columbia.asp
Hiding Israel’s Contribution To The U.S. Military… the racism from the
Arabs which Israel eliminated in its official policy….
http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/2004/jan/win1.htm
What kind of role does anti-Semitism play in the Middle East Conflict? At
what point does opposition to Israel turn into anti-Semitism? …The spiritual
and physical connection of Jews with Zion has been continuous, preceding by
centuries the emergence of Muslim conquerors from the Arabian deserts. Not only
that, but over half the Israeli population is not “European” at
all. It was uprooted from the Arab Middle East by exclusivist pan-Arabism,
Islamic fanaticism, and the pressures of decolonization.
Yet sixty
years ago, there were more than a million Jews in Arab lands. Their exodus says
it all. Israel integrated them, providing a haven, pride, dignity and freedom as
it did for the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Palestinian refugees, on the
other hand, were left to rot in UN refugee camps by their Arab brethren, fed
with revanchist delusions about their inalienable “right of return” to Israel.
If the Middle East tragedy is to be resolved, it is these camps ‘ the seedbed of
terrorism and an entire culture of hatred ‘ which have to be dismantled and not
the thriving Jewish state.
http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/klug.html
Op-Ed: What apartheid is and is not – The Stanford Daily Online And while
black labor was exploited in slavery-like conditions under apartheid, …..
Islam is clearly anti-Semitic and racist against the Jews. …
http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/11/13/opedWhatApartheidIsAndIsNot
Good News From Europe and the US –
Don’t let the Arabist/anti-Semitic
taint and news blackouts in the media fool you…
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/3252
Testimony at the UN… Jews have been an indigenous people of the Middle East for over 2,500 years.
On the basis of race and religion, Arab regimes subjected Jews to arbitrary arrest, confiscation of property and expulsions. This is fully documented in this report by Justice for Jews from Arab Countries
http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=5118137&tr=y&auid=3586018
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson:
[T]he atmosphere of anti-Semitism at the NGO Forum was described as ˜hateful, even racist’ by former High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson. Source: U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 1361 EH, Sept. 23, 2008, I had urged the NGOs not to adopt it. But the process was democratic and they went ahead and adopted it. But I also have a democratic right to reject that declaration dealing with Israel. . . I think the NGO Forum, by including that text on Israel, have diminished the chances of it being adopted by the conference. I don’t think it can be adopted. Source: “Israel branded ˜racist’ by rights forum,” CNN, Sept. 2, 2001. [A]fter [an activist] showed Robinson the booklet, she stood up, waved it and said, ˜This conference is aimed at achieving human dignity. My husband is a cartoonist, I love political cartoons, but when I see the racism in this cartoon booklet, of the Arab Lawyers’ Union, I must say that I am a Jew – for those victims are hurting. I know that you people will not understand easily, but you are my friends, so I tell you that I am a Jew, and I will not accept this fractiousness to torpedo the conference.’ Source: “Robinson in Durban: I am a Jew,” The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 30, 2001.
http://blog.unwatch.org/?p=221
(Feb. 2009) European Union member states may follow in the footsteps of the United States [and Canada] which announced Friday it would not be participating in the Durban anti-racism conference set to take place in April, Critics of the April conference, say Arab nations will use it as a forum to bash Israel and charge that the draft document will limit freedom of religion and speech.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067540.html
‘Racists cry racism at U.N. conference’
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=10776
Terrorism and racism: the aftermath of Durban… the ‘Terrorists’ Racist Strategy’
Arab states pressed the Durban racist strategy in …Arab states pressed the Durban racist strategy…
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp468.htm
Arab peace or Durban war? | Op-Ed Contributors | Jerusalem Post, Nov 25,
2008 … Arab peace or Durban war? By GERALD M. STEINBERG … This UN forum,
ostensibly called to combat racism and discrimination, was abused by …
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404835239&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Arab delegates led by Syria and Pakistan …
http://www.adl.org/durban
Let Us Study Racism in Durban, South Africa, Aug 8, 2001 … This is
exactly what they wish to do at the U.N. Conference on Racism in Durban. The
Arabs, hopelessly mired in xenophobic hatred of their …
http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/2001/aug/win1.htm
Jewish Activists Stunned by Hostility, Anti-Semitism at Durban …On the
grounds of the U.N. conference itself, the Arab Lawyers Union … attention on the conference’s ostensible anti-racist aim, Irene Khan, … They are also treated to lunch and dinner, courtesy of the Durban Jewish community. …
http://www.ujc.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=15621
Embracing Holocaust Deniers
In the wake of the intifada, crude Holocaust denial re-emerged as a means of delegitimizing Israel and Zionism, along with motifs that had typified the discourse of the early years of the Arab-Israeli conflict, such as regret that Hitler had not finished the job. Egyptian columnist Ahmad Rajab thanked Hitler for taking revenge on the Israelis “in advance on behalf of the Palestinians,” but noted that it was not complete.61 The PA semi-official paper al-Hayat al-Jadida published an article on 13 April by Khayri Mansur, entitled “Marketing Ashes,” which elaborates various themes common to Holocaust deniers: alleged political and economic exploitation by Zionist propaganda, and doubting the number of Jews exterminated as well as well as the existence of the gas chambers.62 The Hizballah website disseminated “The Holocaust Lie,” from Richard Harwood’s book Did Six Million Really Die?, and referred the browser to the Leuchter Report.63 Norman Finkelstein’s book The Holocaust Industry drew considerable attention in the Arab media. It was translated into Arabic, reviewed and discussed while Finkelstein himself was a welcome interviewee.64 Although it does not deny the Holocaust, the book was perceived as an anti-Jewish/anti-Zionist tract, confirming Arab claims of exploitation of the Holocaust for Zionist political ends. At the Durban conference, Arab and Muslim representatives attempted, publicly, for the first time, to trivialize the Holocaust by denying its uniqueness and turning it into one of many holocausts.
The centrality of Holocaust denial in the Arab discourse was manifested in two events ‘ an aborted conference of Western revisionists in Beirut, and an Arab forum on historical revisionism, which took place in May in Amman. The conference “Revisionism and Zionism,” co-sponsored by the California-based Institute of Historical Review (IHR), the leading Holocaust denial group in the world…
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2001-2/arab.htm
(Durban 2
Brussels –
The European Union on Monday threatened to pull out of an upcoming United
Nations conference on racism unless a controversial draft declaration, deemed
anti-Semitic, is changed.
prepared,” said Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, whose country holds
the rotating EU presidency.
declaration relating to the situation in the Palestinian territories, such as an
assertion that “in order to consolidate the Israeli occupation, (Palestinians)
have been subjected to unlawful collective punishment, torture.”
foreign ministers, said the EU would “probably” send its own suggestions for the
draft.
“If the conference will
be in line with that then we will stay, otherwise there is a strong call to
withdraw,” he said.
“complaining of unacceptable, aggressive and anti-Semitic phrases,” while
Britain has said it will not attend unless there is a “change in direction” to
the draft declaration.
gathering, dubbed “Durban II”.
walkout by Israeli and US delegates in protest against a bid by Arab nations to
adopt a resolution equating Zionism with racism.
a unified EU withdrawal from the talks unless the preparatory papers are
substantially modified.
that the conference could be diverted by the taking of one-sided positions on
the Middle East conflict, or to condemn some European and American positions
regarding the Arab-Muslim world,” he said after the Brussels meeting.
hours and days we don’t get a substantial modification of these documents,” he
said. – Sapa-AFP
EuropeNews
http://europenews.dk/en/node/21207
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gJ-jO8GITRBOpeVyJThpU1Ys7NGAD96O3MOO2
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – Mar 5,
2009
He said the statements in question “must be eliminated,” and that Italy
would not participate unless the draft document was changed. …
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/05/1003490/italy-says-no-to-durban-ii
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – [March
17, 2009] … (JTA) — Australia said it will boycott the Durban II anti-racism
conference unless the heavily anti-Israel conference draft document is changed.
…
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/17/1003772/australia-ready-to-boycott-durban-ii
…the Draft Document seeks to undercut counterterrorism and national security efforts with the accusation that they “hamper…progress in the collective struggle against racism.” Any suggestion that Islam or Muslims have anything to do with terrorism is attacked as xenophobia leading to “worsening of the situation of Muslim minorities around the world.”
resolution
Ha’aretz – March 17, 2009
Israel as an occupying state that carries out racist policies. …
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1071735.html
U.S. boycotts racism conference, says it ‘singles out’ Israel
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A major United Nations anti-racism conference was thrown into further disarray Sunday when more countries joined a U.S. boycott amid concerns it was developing into a platform for attacking Israel…
Australia and the Netherlands were the latest to pull out of next week’s meeting in Geneva, as a dispute gathered pace over a document said to single out Israel for its racism…
Canada, Israel, Italy and Sweden have also announced they are boycotting the conference aimed at creating a global blueprint for tackling discrimination. Britain says it will attend.
Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, whose past comments on the Holocaust and Israel are likely to overshadow his contributions to the debate, has reportedly confirmed his attendence.
U.S. State Department officials say redrafts of the offending document, which will reaffirm anti-discrimination commitments agreed at a 2001 meeting in Durban, South Africa, have failed to resolve outstanding issues.
America objected to the 2001 agreement — joining Israel in walking out of the Durban meeting — and says the current document “prejudges key issues that can only be resolved in negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.”
Australia’s Foreign Minister Stephen Smith echoed the concerns on Sunday, saying that Israel was being unfairly targeted..
“Regrettably, we cannot be confident that the Review Conference will not again be used as a platform to air offensive views, including anti-Semitic views,” he said.
The United States says that despite its boycott, it “will continue to work assiduously” with all nations “to combat bigotry and end discrimination.”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/19/racism.conference/index.html
Obama: Durban II risks ‘hypocritical’ Israel hatred – Haaretz …Apr 21, 2009 …
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1079354.html
Obama Skips Controversial U.N. Durban Conference
by Thomas P. Kilgannon
04/20/2009 … in two words — bureaucratic terrorism. The conference is dominated by the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and is used largely as a forum to promote hatred of Israel. The gathering in Geneva is a follow-on to the World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa in 2001 — a conference which found the American and Israeli delegates walking out in protest. It was described by the late Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, as “the most sickening and unabashed display of hate for Jews I had seen since the Nazi period.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31520&page=1&viewID=879044
Today, neo-Nazis, Islamists and Arabists as well as their supporters pursue
the traditional antisemitic aim of making the world Judenrein — i.e. cleansed
of Jews – – and… one step further, attempting also to make it Judenstaatrein
— i.e. free of a Jewish state
http://www.cjccc.ca/antisemitism/antisemitism_link_29.pdf
Attacks on Jews by Arabs in Concordia University the “centre of militant
Arabism in Canada”
http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/2002_09_08_kesher_archive.html
Hate Speech At San Francisco State University
By Richard L. Cravatts
February 24, 2009
…The virulence of anti-Israelism and antisemitism at The University of California, Irvine campus, for instance, has been so flagrant and endemic in recent years that it actually prompted an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, the findings of which were issued in a damning 2007 report. But San Francisco State University is not far behind in the ignoble way it has enabled its Muslim students’ organizations to create a veritable reign of terror on campus against Jewish and pro-Israel students, while simultaneously attempting to silence voices of opposition, a situation made evident this January when SFSU’s College Republicans were once again pushed into the limelight for their outspoken challenges to the school’s ubiquitous Palestinianism.
Playing off the recent indignity suffered by former president Bush when an insolent reporter hurled a shoe at the President’s head during a press conference, the College Republicans had set up a booth to let students who so wished to sign an anti-Hamas, anti-terror petition and throw a shoe at a Hamas flag. Deeply “offended” by the Republicans for daring to condemn terrorists, rather than the Israeli state in defending its civilians from genocidal attack, members of SFSU’s General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) and socialist club overturned the table, seized the Hamas flag, and were physically aggressive enough in their assault of the Republican students to result in two of their members, Muhammad Abdullah and Jeremy Stern, being put under arrest.
The outcome of this event, one would think, would be fairly straightforward, since the pro-Hamas protestors clearly violated SFSU’s own rules for student behavior, which clearly prohibit “conduct that threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person within or related to the university community, including physical abuse, threats, intimidation, [or] harassment,” all of which the Republican group experienced.
But in the morally-inverted world of academia, the Republican group, for the third time, find themselves the target of punishment and censure, not their attackers, and the “offended parties — the GUPS and the socialist club — have made some breathtakingly audacious demands to the SFSU administration: the College Republicans must be punished or sanctioned for throwing shoes at the Hamas flag; pending charges should be dropped against the two protestors who assaulted the College Republicans and seized the Hamas flag; and, most ominously for defenders of free expression on campus, a forum should be created to “educate” students about what forms of speech the “offended” students deem acceptable or unacceptable, including what the Left regularly tries to proscribe as “hate speech.”
The idea that one group of college students believe they can and should decide what acceptable speech is at any given moment is a particularly chilling concept, particularly when those same students have defined their political beliefs with an unwavering support for the jihadist aggression of groups that threaten not only Israel, but the West, as well.
Two years ago, the College Republicans held a similar anti-terrorism rally at which SFSU students were invited to stomp on the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah, and with similar punitive results: the complaining students accused the Republican group members of “acts of incivility” and “intimidation,” suggesting that they created a “hostile environment” by publicly walking over the terrorist flags, which, unbeknownst to the Republican students, happen bear the name of Allah in Arabic script.
While college demonstrators here and abroad regularly burn, deface, and desecrate the flags of Israel and the United States, something that the courts have repeatedly upheld as Constitutionally-protected speech, only on a campus controlled by Left-leaning faculty and radicalized students could the protest against the flags of genocidal terrorist thugs be considered, as it was here, an attempt to “incite violence,” “hateful religious intolerance” and an act by those who “pre-meditated the stomping of the flags knowing it would offend some people and possibly incite violence.” Thanks to the intervention of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a group that defends campus free speech, the Republican club was exonerated, but only after they had been dragged through proceedings by University officials who had to be reminded by FIRE that “speech does not constitute incitement if a speaker’s words result in violence because people despise what the speaker said and wish to silence him or her.”
Were only the College Republicans acting out in a provocative way on an otherwise peaceful SFSU campus, they might well be rebuked for being crude and demonstrating impolite and impolitic behavior. But not only has the campus gained notoriety for the outrageousness of some of its morally-defective protests, but the same “offended” parties who sought punishments for the College Republicans, the General Union of Palestinian Students, have continually been at the center of a succession of riots, protests, and anti-Israel, anti-American hate-fests and counter-protests at which radical speakers regularly, and with unbridled invective, denounce and demonize Jews, Zionists, Israel, Republicans, and America.
Most notorious, for example, was the Muslim student-sponsored, pro-Palestinian April 2002 demonstration that included odious flyers and posters depicting a dead Palestinian baby on a soup-can label imprinted with the words “Palestinian Children Meat, slaughtered according to Jewish rites under American license,” echoing the centuries-old blood libel of European antisemitism that accused Jews of murdering Gentile children and using their blood to bake matzos — a slander that has, not surprisingly, currently gained credence in the Arab world. Even if the perpetrators of this cruel protest consider this type of expression merely “academic free speech” and legitimate debate about Zionism, and also disingenuously claim that that there is no underlying Jew-hatred here, only debate about Israeli policies, and even if they are to be believed, might not such flyers possibly offend Jewish students on campus? Could accusing an ethnic group of infanticide possibly be construed as “intimidation” or fostering “incivility” on campus?
Not content to mount their own vile protests against Zionism, Jews, and Israel, the pro-Palestinian student groups took it upon themselves the following month to disrupt a vigil for Holocaust Remembrance Day where some 30 Jewish students who were reciting the Mourners’ Kaddish — the Jewish prayer for the dead — were shouted down by protesters who countered with grisly prayers in memory of Palestinian suicide bombers. The pro-Palestinian counter-demonstrators, armed with whistles and bull horns, physically assaulted the Jewish students, spat on them, and screamed such charming epithets as “Too bad Hitler didn’t finish the job,” “Get out or we will kill you,” “F**k the Jews,” “Die racist pigs,” and “Go back to Russia, Jews.” The violence escalated to the extent that San Francisco police officers finally had to usher the Jewish students to safety off campus. “This is not civic discourse, this is not free speech,” lamented Laurie Zoloth, SFSU’s Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the time of the incident, “this is the Weimar Republic with brown shirts it cannot control.”
Is this merely academic debate about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, or is something more insidious finding expression in the minds of these hate-filled students blinded by their obsession with the plight of the Left’s favorite third-world victims, the Palestinians? Claims by pusillanimous college administrators that hate-filled protests against Jews and Israel are merely conversations about politics are more than disingenuous; while universities see no difficulty is making moral judgments about “hate speech” when it is aimed at groups who have achieved status as victims in a world bereft of social justice — blacks, gays, Palestinians, illegal aliens, among them — that same moral recognition is oddly absent when vitriolic charges of racism, imperialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, occupation, and genocide are carelessly lodged at Israel and its supporters in the U.S. and the West. Victim status also insulates members of those groups from criticism; only the acts and behavior of the “other,” the oppressors, are subject to critique, a convenient way for SFSU’s jihad-supporting student groups to justify their ideological onslaught against the Zionism and Jews.
How has this corruption of what should be legitimate academic debate come about? Irwin Cotler, a Canadian MP and former minister of justice and attorney-general, believes that this pernicious ideology has manifested itself so “that Israel is delegitimized, if not demonized, by the ascription to it of the two most scurrilous indictments of 20th-century racism — Nazism and apartheid — the embodiment of all evil. These very labels of Zionism and Israel as ˜racist, apartheid and Nazi’ supply the criminal indictment. No further debate is required.”
Given this false sense of moral superiority by the libelous framing of Israel as the singularly most evil nation on earth, its campus enemies at SFSU and elsewhere feel free to speak against it in the most destructive and hurtful way possible. At the same time, pro-Israel, anti-terrorism voices are marginalized, disregarded, shouted down, or, as in the case of the College Republicans most recently, denounced as hate speech, unworthy of being part of an ongoing, vigorous debate, and deserving only of being punished and silenced by those who want only one side of the debate to be heard in what should be a vigorous, thoughtful debate in the ˜marketplace of ideas.’
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/hate_speech_at_san_francisco_s.html
Jewish students warned of growing threat of violence
Posted: February 26, 2009, 4:47 PM by Chris Boutet
By Craig Offman, National Post
The Canadian Federation of Jewish Students warned Thursday about the growth of violence and threats against Jews who overtly support Israel or who are wearing clothing that identifies them as Jews.
“Such dangerous including swarming, confinement, verbal and physical abuse poses threats not only to Jewish students but also to the fabric of civil discourse that Canadians proudly cherish,” said CFJS chair of Israel Affairs, Noah Kochman, at a Toronto press conference…
On February 11, York University students blocked the entrance to the office of Hillel, a Jewish campus group, shouting anti-Israel and allegedly anti-Semitic statements. Campus and city police had to escort the students through the swarm. The Toronto Police Service are investigating a potential hate crime.
The RCMP is investigating an incident at the University of British Columbia, in which a pro-Palestinian student allegedly assaulted two Jewish students after pro-Hamas and PLO posters on a dorm-room door were pulled down.
During the conference, Mr. Kochman, a McGill student, claimed he has seen a spike in complaints from Jewish students across the country in recent weeks. He also alluded to several incidents–including the dissemination of posters that featured anti-Semitic caricaturesbut declined to identify where the events took place or who was involved.
Mideast Narratives Have Changed Over Time
News Analysis
By David Bedein & Shmuel Sokol, For The
Bulletin
Published: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Jerusalem During the
course of the 20th century, and especially in the years since the 1967 Six Day
War, there has been a dramatic change in the academic and popular historiography
of the Middle East.
The traditional narratives have been supplanted by new and fundamentally
different and revisionist ways of looking at the region and its conflicts.
A case in point: In 1977, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein told the Dutch newspaper Trouw that “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing
our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.”
In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians,
Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical
reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since
Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct
“Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.
In actuality, during the period of time in which Judea/Palestine was under
the yoke of Ottoman imperialism, the dominant national identification of the
“Palestinian Arabs,” a group of scattered peasants (fellahin in Arabic), was
that of members of the Arab people, and more specifically as residents of
greater Syria.
Palestinian nationalism as such did not exist. There has never been an
independent Palestinian state, nor has Jerusalem ever been the capital of an
independent Arab polity.
These facts, while undeniably true, do not in any way form the basis for
modern thought and diplomatic practice in regards to Israel and its long-running
conflict with its Arab neighbors.
Though Arab governments in a spirit of Pan-Arabism
founded the PLO, the acknowledged historical chronology relegates such
inconvenient facts to the dustbin.
Instead, fiction assumes the realm of fact while
charges of racism are leveled against anyone who denies the veracity of
“Palestinian claims.”
Instead of the Palestinians being perceived as a group
of immigrants from various Arab states that have only recently coalesced into a
semi-unified community, they are acknowledged as a group deserving of equal
rights to the historical Jewish homeland.
It is to combat these myths that Professor Steven Carol has published his
new book, Middle East Rules of Thumb (iUniverse 2008). Professor Carol examines
the underlying assumptions behind popular support for the “Palestinian” cause,
and the policy ramifications of such ideas.
A good example of this would be his treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict
as the sole source of Middle East instability. It has been contended, by both
the Arabs and the international community, that the underlying problem in the
region is Israeli intransigence and that a negotiated peace with the
“Palestinians” would lead to a better climate for economic growth and the spread
of democratic values.
However, in the spirit of Josef Joffe (see “A World Without Israel,”
Foreign Policy, 2005 http://tinyurl.com/atltvk), Dr. Carol has
compiled a list, chart, six pages in length, that lists the various religious,
national and ethnic conflicts in the Arab/Muslim world that predate Israeli
independence in their root causes, or, having begun since the inception of the
Zionist enterprise, still have no connection to the settlement of Jews in their
ancestral homeland. Dr. Carol does the general public a great service in
providing historical, religious and political context to what one sees every day
in the newspapers.
The book is written in a light and breezy style, making it easy to read.
This is quite an accomplishment, given the subject matter.
As a companion to such books as Myths and Facts or From Time Immemorial,
rather than a self-contained work in and of itself, Middle East Rules of Thumb
proves itself to be a both a highly entertaining read and a good source of
information.
Having taught at such schools as Adelphi University and Long Island
University, written previous scholarly and popular works and consulted for
radio, Dr. Carol certainly knows his subject material and is familiar with
writing for a popular audience. Dr. Carol supplements the main body of his work
with generous and well-written appendixes that are both entertaining and
informative.
http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/02/17/news/world/doc4998f9c1e482f146216741.txt
media, in wall graffiti and by Arab organizations in Venezuela such as FEARAB
(Arab Federation for Latin America) were directed at de-legitimizing the State
of Israel, which was accused of causing the Palestinian tragedy.
The radical
language used against Israel was not infrequently antisemitic, for example, the
comparison of Israeli soldiers with Nazis…
http://antisemitism.tau.ac.il/asw2000-1/venezuela.htm
and his anti-Israel actions echoed across the Arab and Muslim … Chavez Fosters
Atmosphere of Intimidation and Fear for Venezuelan Jewish …
http://www.adl.org/main_Anti_Semitism_International/Chavez_Venezuela_Under_Threat.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_10
…
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/mideast-watch/2009/1/16/venezuelas-chavez-the-new-hero-in-the-arab-world.html?s_cid=etRR-0224
ramblings have always found a ready audience in the Arab world. But since the
Venezuelan leader referred to Israel’s operation in …
http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090126-chavez-hero-arab-world-gaza-israel-war
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7oi23/nasrallah_arabs_have_much_to_learn_from_chavez
Arabs have appreciated Chavez’s declarations of support, and the Arab League has
promised to lobby in behalf of Venezuela in the United Nations.”
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/23/MNG18K43KL1.DTL
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=74748
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070019909
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30350
http://thebosun.wordpress.com/2006/08/07/venezuelan-president-chavez-on-al-jazeera
http://www.sandmonkey.org/2006/12/08/al-arabiya-supports-chavez/
that Zionist, criminal and terrorist state, the Arabs who are supposed …
Report: Anti-Semitism on Rise in Venezuela; Chavez Government “Fosters Hate”
…
http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/venezuela_anti_semitism_report.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_5
with Arabs Chavez said he and Syria shared a “decisive and firm” stance against
“imperialism” and American attempts for “domination.” …
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14583678/from/RS.3/
among Arabs. Using Israel and the United States as punching bags …
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/30/sitroom.03.html
between Venezuela and Israel has been strained ever since Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez began adopting an increasingly pro-Arab.
http://www.forward.com/articles/10895/
…Intelligence sources familiar with the cover-up say Chavez is withholding
information on the Arabs, some of whom were important financial contributors to
terrorism
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2_19/ai_96238181/pg_2
Ahmadinejad of Iran and Chavez of Venezuela revel in each others’ … than is
usual with Western or Arab leaders in this security-conscious age.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6265190.stm
…Exhorting his countrymen to return to their “Arab roots,” Chavez has paid
state visits to Libya, Iraq and Iran and signed a series of mutual-cooperation
…
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_6_19/ai_98415813
with … has illegally given more than 270 Venezuelan passports to Arab
extremists. …
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=265102
http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2006/11/fleischman.php
control’. President Hugo Chavez The president of Venezuela’s Catholic Bishops
Conference, Baltazar Porras, has accused the …
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/3341771.stm
(CWNews.com) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has renewed his attacks on the
country’s Catholic hierarchy, saying that the Venezuelan bishops’ …
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52171
http://www.medindia.net/news/Chavez-Threatens-to-Nationalize-Private-Hospitals-in-Venezuela-23043-1.htm
http://www.freerctv.com/blog-entry.php?entry=17
place, Chavez will get the legislature to “vote” for dictatorship. Chavez’s
dictatorship will squash those foolish enough to express …
http://www.davidbruceallen.com/strategyoped/2007/05/hugo_chavezs_fi.html
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=a3z63_HrIvtc
http://www.franz-lee.org/files/pandemonium00915.html
Seat.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/9/20/123752.shtml
…Venezuela has a flourishing Arab community of about 1.5 million… business
and commerce. Shop names like Flower of Palestine are a common …
http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/14/int14.htm
look at CNN, the americans are grooming Chavez to be Castro’s replacement. ….
They were all for taking out one of Chavez’s Arab buddies. …
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/395474/all
…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080401768.html
Chavez dictatorship
http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2007/06/constitutional-changes-draft-has-been.html
21, 2009 … Worldwide Condemnation Pours Down On Venezuela After Synagogue
Attack in Caracas … of Palestinian and Arab supporters in Venezuela were
responsible. …. The American Jewish Committee stands with Congressman Engel in
…
Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador over Gaza World News …Jan 6, 2009 …
Chavez’s government says it’s expelling the Israeli ambassador in response to
… Justice Minister Tarek El Aissami, who is of Arab descent, … http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2009/01/venezuela_expels_israeli_ambas.html
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Expels Israeli Ambassador …Jan 6, 2009 …
Venezuela Expels Israeli Ambassador, Staff …. as a sizable population of Arab
descent, hundreds of people marched to the Israeli Embassy … http://cbs5.com/national/Venezuela.israel.gaza.2.901451.html
Moroccan Islamist Daily: “Amazighs of Morocco, Where Do You Stand on Palestine?”
On January 15, the Moroccan pro-Hamas Islamist daily Al-Tajdid published a column by Hassan Bouikhf titled “Amazighs of Morocco, Where Do You Stand on Palestine?” The article took to task Berber activist groups that did not show support for the Palestinians in Gaza:
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Columnist Ahmed ‘Asid: We Don’t March Because Islamists and Pan-Arabists Have Monopolized the Public Sphere
Columnist Ahmed ‘Asid responded to Al-Tajdid’s accusations in the Moroccan Bayan Al-Yawm daily on January 23, 2009: “¦We know the Moroccan people’s solidarity with the Palestinian people, and we [the Amazighs] join in this. It is in the hearts of people of all ages and in all sectors [of society]. It is a true and spontaneous solidarity¦ But there is nowhere for this to be expressed apart from the private sphere. As for the public sphere, it is monopolized by others who have other aims in expressing solidarity¦ The author’s second error is that he has limited solidarity with Palestine to participation in marches organized by the political current to which he himself belongs [i.e. the Islamists], in cooperation with the pan-Arab current – whether in its left-wing, nationalist salafi, or right-wing liberal forms. Everyone knows that these marches are held in the framework of these two political ideologies [Islamism and pan-Arabism], both of which we reject completely and irrevocably. These marches are organized in the name of the Moroccan people, but in truth they only represent their organizers, and promote a ‘solidarity’ of a different sort, and a struggle of a different sort – [that of] agitators for jihadi Islam and preachers of pan-Arabism, whose feelings are roused only when it is Arabs who are wronged¦
“Thus, we are for Palestinian rights and against the instrumental political use to which they are put; we are for the Palestinian people but against Hamas, [Islamic] Jihad, and all the peddlers of Palestinian blood¦ We are against the savagery of brutal revenge demonstrated by Palestinian political Islam in the Gaza coup, and against all the maneuvers aiming to derail political talks through missiles – which kill no one apart from the Palestinian dream of an independent state. We believe that the Palestinian cause is a human one that is larger than the Arabs and the Muslims, and that those who have Arabized it and Islamized it have cost it the world’s forceful solidarity and have turned it into a wearisome play of which all have tired¦” [4]
Berber Activist Moha Moukhlis: “The ‘Arab Street’ Is Jubilant When an Indoctrinated Palestinian Child Blows Himself up in Tel Aviv” – And Ignores Crimes in Darfur and Kurdistan
An article by the Moroccan Berber journalist Moha Moukhlis posted on the amazighworld.org website expressed in starker terms what some Berbers feel is the gulf between themselves and the Arab world: “¦I want first to emphasize that I am writing as an Amazigh deprived of my most basic and legitimate rights: to be myself in the land of my ancestors and to express myself freely without constraint.
“I am not part of the flock that bleats as it is being led to the slaughterhouse. I am allergic to totalitarian ideologies and impassioned rhetoric. I hate confusions and ambiguities: I am an Amazigh, a free man.
“I can thus affirm that the tragedy of the Gaza Palestinians serves as fuel for Hamas, a gang of fundamentalist criminals who are perpetrating self-genocide, with the assistance of genocidal Arab regimes. [They are] mentally disturbed people who hate life and use the blood of their fellow Muslims to perpetuate their macabre aura.
“What can homemade and primitive rockets do against the fifth [largest] army in the world? ‘[They can bring us] Paradise,’ say the Islamists and their dark networks, and they have the Quranic verses and hadith to prove it! [These are] criminal Islamists who conceive of their own people as cannon fodder destined to build up their bogus ‘glory’¦
“Death is their ideal, their culture, and the pillar of their values. The society that it [Hamas] dominates is indoctrinated to murder, to kill in jubilation and in horror. They are vampires who suck the blood of their citizens¦ It matters little to them if hundreds of children die or are torn to shreds. They think that they will go straight to Paradise. How morbid!
“And the so-called ‘Arab street[?]’ A brainless herd that has been indoctrinated and riled up and that has lost all sense of gravity and direction. They express their hatred for the Jews, whom they hope to exterminate from the face of the Earth¦ Yet this ‘Arab street’, which sees itself as the voice of the [world’s] peoples, never dared to lift a finger against the crimes committed by the Hamas fundamentalists, or by the Arabo-Islamist regimes against non-Arab populations in Darfur, Kurdistan, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Algeria, or Niger. No! [And] the rights of the Amazigh people are supposed to be sacrificed on the altar of [this] Arab fundamentalism ¦
“It is striking that the denunciation of the massacres in Gaza by the ‘Arab street’ and the Arab ‘intellectuals’ is not meant to defend the Palestinians’ right to live in peace, but to denounce the identity of the aggressor: the Jew. Who cares about the massacre perpetrated by the Hamas gangs against their brothers in Fatah? This macabre [attitude] is taken to extremes: The ‘Arab street’ is jubilant when an indoctrinated Palestinian child blows himself up in Tel Aviv.”
“The Amazigh People¦ Will Never Give in to the Siren [Songs] of the Peddlers of Death”
Moukhlis continues: “They criticize the Amazigh movement for its ‘silence’ on Gaza! This is because its position [on Gaza] is determinant [of its status]: either it goes along with the herd, or else it is condemned and accused of high treason against the fundamentalist Arab nation. To rehabilitate itself, it is expected to send its children to blow themselves up in Tel Aviv, to teach them to hate Jews, and to express the wish, after every prayer, that they [the Jews] will disappear from the Earth!
“No! The Amazigh people love life and work to perpetuate it. They will never give in to the siren [songs] of the peddlers of death and human flesh. They will always know to defend just causes without hatred and without vengefulness. While for the ‘Arab street’ and the Arab fundamentalist groups the death of dozens of children and women means nothing – since their death is a means of entering Paradise – for the Amazighs the life of every human being is sacred and must be defended by legal means and with respect for the other.
“In order to develop, the Arab fundamentalists and [pan-]Arabists need to start by changing. This change, which will allow them to build a future for coming generations, needs to be based on the total and definitive rejection of the culture of death.”
Kabyle Writer: “Selective Humanism and Compassion Are the Expression of an Unspoken Racism”
The same attitudes could be observed in Algeria as well as Morocco. In an article on the Kabyle (Algerian Berber) website kabyle.com, Azouaou Azeggagh wrote: “The Palestinians, taken hostage in the Gaza Strip, suffer martyrdom while serving as a human shield in a war imposed on them by Hamas’ Islamist militias and their allies in Damascus and Tehran. The media are at the source of the clamors of indignation heard from the four corners of the world when faced with the horrors of a war broadcast live¦ They would do better to turn against the persecutors of the Palestinians’ liberty -namely, the Hamas fundamentalists, disciples of Khomeini and bin Laden¦
“The method remains simple and terribly effective. First, you must make Israel commit an error, by launching rockets from crowded neighborhoods, schools, or hospitals, so that the return fire will inevitably hit the largest number of civilians possible – preferably women and children. Then, you show the TV [crews] the shredded bodies, and there you go. The condemnations pour in and the world looks at Israel as the barbarian of the 21st century, when it did nothing but defend its right to live – a right openly and unambiguously contested by Islamists of all stripes.
“Nonetheless, Western opinion, which often stops at the emotional level, wants neither to see nor to understand the reasons for the Israeli military reaction. [According to them], all Israel had to do was not fall into the trap of its enemies. What Western opinion forgets is that with such a reaction, it encourages in Gaza what it condemns at home: Islamist terrorism¦
“Other tragedies – in Darfur, Kivu, Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Kabylia, Somaliland, Sri Lanka, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, and the Touareg lands ([in] Niger, Mali, Lybia, and Algeria) – are largely minimalized, and do not give rise to mass movements [of sympathizers]. Selective humanism and compassion are the expression of an unspoken racism. The victims of political and military violence are equal in death, whatever their identity.”
“The Majority of Kabyles Cannot Show Solidarity with Hamas – When It Is Arab Islamism that Remains the Principle Menace to the Survival of the Amazigh Peoples”
Another author, D. Messaoudi, wrote on the same website: “The violence of the fighting, the mistakes [on the battlefield], and the proportion of civilians killed by the IDF in Operation Cast Lead have traveled the world round. Both in Europe and in the so-called Arab countries, the tragedies of the Kabyles, the Kurds, and the Darfurians have not excited the same compassion. In this context, it should be added that no one in Algeria or in [other] Berber countries cared when, for eight years, the Islamic jihadi militias of Hamas and Hizbullah tore Israel to pieces with Qassam rockets and Grad missiles.
“The majority of Kabyles cannot show solidarity with Hamas when it is Arab Islamism that remains the principle menace to the survival of the Amazigh peoples¦
“To be sure, the slaughter being carried out by the Israeli army against the Arab Palestinian residents of Gaza is condemnable. Thus it is normal that the Arabs of other country would express solidarity with their blood brothers, try to bring in non-Arab Muslims on a basis of religious solidarity, and try to swell their ranks with people of different ethnicities and faiths on the basis of human solidarity.
“But a question has been bothering me for quite a long time and holds me back from expressing solidarity with the Palestinian cause, though I am Muslim and a human rights activist: Have the Arab peoples and regimes, whether Muslim or Christian, ever demonstrated their support for oppressed non-Arabs, whether around the world or in their own countries? The answer is ‘no’¦”
Messaoudi then reviews the cases of the Kurds and Darfur before going on to address that of his own people in Kabylia: “¦ In the Black Spring (2001-2004), Kabylia was invaded by government troops and 126 Kabyle civilians were murdered, and hundreds of others were crippled for life. Yet the Kabyle tragedies have never aroused the compassion of Arab figures, regimes, or simple Arab citizens, either nationally [in Algeria] or in the so-called Arab world¦
“In sum, the Arabs believe that only their causes are noble and only their populations are to be classed as human – this being the justification for [why] one [should] support them and surround them with love and compassion. It is unfortunate that many people have let themselves be carried away by this wave of hypocritical inter-Arab solidarity.”
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP226209
Believe it… Hamas are using the population of Gaza as human shields/bomb fodder… What people in the west find almost impossible to believe is that Hamas exult in and glorify the death of Palestinians as the highest form of spiritual attainment. The more Palestinians die, the greater they believe their achievement to be. That is why this man gloats that ˜death has become an industry’…What is also being almost totally obscured by the western media jihad against Israel is the murderous onslaught by Hamas against the Palestinians themselves. Also obscured by the media jihad is the fact that Hamas are not parochial Palestinian terrorists but Islamists bent on global domination… video they say in terms that the wish to annihilate not just Israel but Europe and America and conquer the entire world for Islam… Israel’s triumph in this battle with jihadi Islam and racist pan-Arabism will also benefit precisely those nations as well. …
http://www.spectator.co.uk/email/melaniephillips/3219301/believe-it.thtml
Doing Zionism – Resources and articles on Israeli Arabs
There was a
certain degree of anti-Jewish rhetoric present in these protests. … Once the
Israeli Arabs had re-encountered their Palestinian brethren in …
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So much for the good Israeli Arabs | Jewish Journal
Sam – The word Ultra
Orthodox is an invention of the anti Jewish media that seeks ….. Israeli Arabs
feel the same denial of Israel as a Jewish State as do …
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The rise of ‘Bish-Arabism’ | Features | Jerusalem Post BISH-ARABISM COULD be
defined as a radical and rapid shift among Israeli Arabs – especially their
representatives in the Knesset – from relative moderation …
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Arab Workers Attack Use Hammer to Injure Jewish Electrician
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126950″ target=blank>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126950
Arutz Sheva | April 29,
2009 |
A Palestinian Authority military court on Tuesday sentenced a Hevron
Arab to death by hanging for the “crime” of selling land to Jews in Judea and
Samaria, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported. The three-member
judicial panel heard the case last week and handed down its verdict and
conviction on Tuesday.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131090
now the majority on the Jewish-owned land. U.S. protesting Jewish construction.
The PA is not the only agency that is monitoring …
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95853
fatwa (religious decree), banning the sale of Arab and Muslim property to Jews.
Anyone who violated the order was to be killed. At least seven land dealers were
killed that year. Six years later, the head of the PA’s General Intelligence
Service in the West Bank, General Tawfik Tirawi, admitted his men were
responsible for the murders.
announced that the death penalty would be imposed on anyone convicted of ceding
“one inch” to Israel. Later that month, two Arab land dealers were killed. PA
officials denied any involvement in the killings. A year later, another
Palestinian suspected of selling land to Jews was murdered. The PA has also
arrested suspected land dealers for violating the Jordanian law (in force in the
West Bank), which prohibits the sale of land to foreigners.
Jews, but the prohibition remained in effect. Now that the war is over, the
persecutions have begun again. In April 2006, Muhammad Abu al-Hawa was tortured
and murdered because allegedly sold an apartment building in Israel’s capital
city to Jews. Since the Mufti forbade Muslims accused of selling land to Jews
from being buried in a Muslim cemetery, al-Hawa was laid to rest in a makeshift
cemetery on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/exclusives.html
Apr
13, 2006 21:02 | Updated Apr 14, 2006 0:27
Jericho man murdered over home
sale
…Fatah gunmen claimed responsibility for the murder.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498851964&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Apr. 18,
2006
Eight young children were orphaned last Wednesday night because their
father allegedly sold an apartment building in Israel’s capital city to Jews.
…Muhammad Abu al-Hawa was buried in a makeshift cemetery on the road between
Jerusalem where he lived, and Jericho where he was murdered. His body was buried
there because the Palestinian Authority’s mufti in Jerusalem, Ikremah Sabri, has
barred all Muslims accused of selling land to Jews from being buried in a Muslim
cemetery.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498874080&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
The PA
Mufti of Jerusalem issued a ‘fatwa’ (religious decree) several years ago
prohibiting Palestinians from selling land to Jews, …
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‘Palestine Belongs to Arabs, Not Jews’. Reported: 15:30 PM – Jul/29/07.
(IsraelNN.com) Israeli Arab Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi …
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/130741
Arab MK: ‘Palestine Belongs to Arabs, Not Jews’ – News Briefs …Arab MK: ‘Palestine Belongs to Arabs, Not Jews’. Reported: 15:30 PM – Jul/29/07 …
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/130741
Arabic edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” distributed by Palestinian Authority in 2003; Yasser Arafat in Fatah militia; Hamas children in military indoctrination; Palestinian Fatah militia salute
http://www.ifapray.org/NaziIslamicFacism/NaziIslamicFascism.html
Jordan: Israeli tourists asked to hand over Jewish paraphernalia
Jordanians confiscate travelers’ … bibles to ‘protect tourists from terrorist elements’
Itamar Eichner Published: 08.13.08, 13:09 / Israel Travel
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3581963,00.html
[Pew Poll on] How Muslims Think
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
June 27, 2006
…Likewise, Muslims are widely prejudiced against Jews, ranging from 28% unfavorable ratings among French Muslims to 98% in Jordan (which, despite the monarchy’s moderation, has a majority Palestinian Arab population). Further, Muslims in certain countries (especially Egypt and Jordan) see Jews conspiratorially, as being responsible for bad relations between Muslims and Westerners.
http://www.danielpipes.org/3706/pew-poll-on-how-muslims-think
Under-fire UAE likely to give Israel’s Andy Ram a visa
Israeli doubles specialist Andy Ram is likely to be granted a visa by the United Arab Emirates to play in the Dubai Championships next week, which could prevent a major crisis for tennis…
“To discriminate as the UAE did against one player in this way smacks of bigotry and racism,” the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations said in a statement. “This must be declared unacceptable by the WTA and all international sporting associations. As we learned in the past, failure to condemn such actions and take corrective measures, proves destructive to international sporting competition.”
Sponsors pull out of Dubai Open after UAE deny visa to Israeli
RACISM ROW: The Wall Street Journal Europe and the Tennis Channel have revoked their sponsorship of the WTA Dubai Open because the UAE denied a visa to Israeli player Shahar Peer.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,25072951-5005401,00.html
Tennis: Racism Rears Its Ugly Head Shahar Peer is an Israeli tennis player. The United Arab Emirates barred her from participating in the Barclays Dubai tournament
http://ballhype.com/story/tennis_racism_rears_its_ugly_head/
The Journal Editorial Report, February 21, 2009… Hits & misses… STEPHENS: This is a hit to the Women’s Tennis Association to players like the Williams sisters, to the American tennis channel, to everyone that did not allow the Arab Emirate of Dubai from getting away of barring women from playing in the Israeli tennis player, Shahar Peer, from playing in the Barclays Dubai tennis championship. Instead of shrugging it off, the tennis world insisted that Dubai reverse its decision or be kicked off the tennis calendar. Dubai folded. And while it’s too late for Shahar Peer to play, Israeli tennis great, Andy Ram is on his way to Dubai. It’s a victory for sports and it’s a defeat for bigotry.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,498645,00.html
History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression
by David Meir-Levi (Author)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Upside-Down-Palestinian-Aggression/dp/1594031924
DiCaprio To Convert to Judaism To Marry Bar: Arab World Says To Hell With Him
[23 Feb. 2009]
Israeli journalist, Guy Bechor, writes on the Israeli website gplanet (Hebrew language) that the Arab world is going crazy over reports that Leonardo DiCaprio is converting to Judaism in order to marry Sports Illustrated cover girl, Bar Rafieli, an Israeli.
The report appeared on Al-Arabiya website and, according to Bechor, is quite vicious. Apparently, Leo is a hero in the Arab world (everyone loved Titanic) but that the combination of his relationship with the Jewish beauty, and his conversion, should it happen) instantly transforms him to dirt in their eyes.
I thought the Arab world had changed? I thought that their objection is only to the occupation not to Israel itself, let alone the Jews.
But now Leo is being attacked the same way Elizabeth Taylor was when she became a Jew 45 years ago and was boycotted by the Arab world. I think she still is.
Anyway, if you know Arabic, read the 144 nasty contacts about Leo (and Bar) in Al Arabiya. It appears that they may hate us. They really do!
But who can hate Leo and Bar?
http://www.israelpolicyforum.org/blog/dicaprio-convert-arab-world-says-hell-him
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/dicaprio-to-convert-arab_b_169141.html
A Diary of Four Years of Terrorism and Anti-Semitism: 2000-2004 – Page
249
by Robert R. Friedmann – Political Science – 2005 – 633 pages
Now a
new phase is evident in the nationalization of Israeli Arabs… This latest
development points out the danger that Israel is facing from inside, as well as
the danger of Pan-Arabism and Pan-Islamism which are forces that are not easily
–if at all– changeable. And similar threats are aimed at the US.
http://books.google.com/books?id=UBavSQq-2tEC&pg=PA249
Palestinian racism exposed – The civilian targets are selected on a racist
basis all Jews are fair game, and if a non-Jew is killed, that is an unfortunate
accident. …
http://www.likud.nl/extr312.html
The Palestinians’ genocide campaign The civilian targets are selected on a
racist basis – all Jews are fair game, and if a non-Jew (Arab) is killed, that
is an unfortunate accident.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/3533.htm
Are the Israeli Arabs a Trojan Horse… The P.L.O. and its leader, Arafat.. a
macro concept of “Pan Arabism,” espousing the idea of a “Greater Palestine” in
which every Arab is considered to be an integral part of a territorial dream…
Their “liberation” means first of all the espousing of a Palestinian identity
and national consciousness. After all they, they have loyalty to their brothers
and sisters in the West Bank and Gaza or in the U.N. refugee camps in Lebanon
and Syria. They also have loyalty to the great idea of Pan Arabism.
http://www.jewishpost.com/archives/news/are-the-israeli-arabs-a-trojan-horse.html
BISH-ARABISM COULD be defined as a radical and rapid shift among Israeli
Arabs – especially their representatives in the Knesset – from relative
moderation to extremism, spearheaded by Azmi, who himself went from being an
advocate of peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Israel to a preacher
against Israel’s existence.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152783641&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Arab MK: Too Many Jews in Galileeby Maayana Miskin
(March, 30, 2009)(IsraelNN.com) Israeli MK Taleb A-Sana of the United Arab List (Ra’am Ta’al) accused the government Monday of “Judaizing the Galilee and the Negev” by encouraging Jews to move to those areas. A-Sana called on the government to encourage Arab life in those areas…
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130689
The Israeli-Palestinian Version of “Back to the Future”… NJ – Jan 31, 2009
Mr. Klein said the notion that Palestinians, but not Jews, may live in Judea and Samaria is blatant “racism.”
http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com/a/JVO20090201.html
Have the “Arab Palestinian” Knesset members turned racist?
By Ariel Natan Pasko March 26, 2006
Has the former Arafat mouthpiece and longtime “Palestinian” voice in the Israeli Knesset, Dr. Ahmed Tibi, (Ta’al party), turned away from integration?…
One thing we know, even before Hamas was elected to rule the Palestinian Authority, is that the Arabs want “Palestine” to be a Judenrein (Jew-free) Arab-only state.
And Ahmed Tibi is not alone. Not long ago, Israeli Arab leaders met with a group of forty foreign diplomats. They insisted that twenty percent of all foreign aid to Israel, be earmarked for the “Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel.” They want 20% of international donor money to be for Arabs only, while other the 80% of aid to Israel, should be for both communities as it has been till now.
So who are the real racists?
…No, it’s not the vicious mass murder of Jews in malls, cafes, and on buses by Arab terrorists that causes Jews to feel uncomfortable around Arabs. Not the apartheid-style (or is that Nazi-style?) demand for a Judenrein Gaza, a Judenrein Palestine, even by so-called moderates like Mahmoud Abbas. Not the consistent polls for the last five years, showing 50-80% “Palestinian” support for suicide bombings, or the fact that Hamas garnered 58% of the vote in the recent elections in the PA. Not the recent announcements by Hamas leaders of their intention to continue what they euphemistically call the “resistance,” better called genocidal attacks against Jews in Israel. Not the public support Israeli Arabs, both leaders and led, both educated and not, have voiced for Hamas’ victory in the PA. Not the growing active participation of Israeli Arabs in terrorism against Israeli Jews. Not their own admission of disloyalty toward the State of Israel. Not their own call for apartheid-style segregation, and Arab supremist rights in Israel itself. No, it’s not any of the above reasons why many Jews have negative feelings toward Arabs in Israel.
No, it’s all the Jews’ own fault, according to Tibi, el-Sana, Barakeh, and others. How intellectually “honest” of them. It sounds to me like classic racism and anti-Semitism.
Can you believe Israel is letting these anti-Semitic racists run..?
http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/8109.htm
Essentials of Terrorism: Concepts and Controversies – Google Books Resultby Gus Martin – 2007 – Political Science – 343 pages, Page 59
Abu Nidal: Ruthless Revolutionary… (ANO) Abu Nidal (known terror leader among the Palestinian Arabs) long argued that Al Fatah membership should be open to all Arabs, not just Palestinians. In support of the Palestinian cause, he argued that Palestine must be established as an Arab state and that its borders must stretch from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean sea. According to pan- Arabism, however, this is only one cause among many in the Arab world.
http://books.google.com/books?id=7-GiXqccL1IC&pg=PA59
Lieberman is no racist
By Yehuda Ben-Meir
Last update – 11:01 26/04/2009
I did not vote for Avigdor Lieberman and never will. I do not agree with some of his political positions and do not accept his framing of certain issues. But I am appalled by the left’s delegitimizing of Lieberman and anyone connected with him. I do not believe that Israel’s Arab citizens must be required to declare their loyalty to the Jewish state. What must be demanded of them and of all Israeli citizens, whether Jewish, Druze or other, is unflinching loyalty to the State of Israel and its laws. But even if one can, and sometimes should, disagree with Lieberman on his approach and statements on this sensitive issue, he’s still not a racist. Lieberman is neither a racist nor a fascist, and depicting him as such does an injustice to his voters and harm to Israel.
What’s racist is denying the Jewish people a state of their own. Certain Arab Knesset members talk incessantly about the Palestinian people’s rights, including their own state. But in the same breath they refuse to acknowledge Israel as the state of the Jewish people and deny the very existence of a Jewish people as a nation with national rights. The person who deserves the racist epithet is MK Jamal Zahalka, who attended the conference of hate in Geneva and called himself “a victim of Israel’s racist apartheid” while serving as a member of the Israeli parliament.
The left’s tendency to delegitimize and demonize people …
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1081038.html
No Arab land is occupied by Israel
Thursday, 8th January, 2009
By Ben Okiror
THE current fighting in the Gaza Strip needs clarification for people to understand its genesis. I accept that the situation is complex, and that might explain why even the US President-elect, Barack Obama has so far opted to remain silent since the war broke out.
However, I would like to bring out what seems to have been ignored and yet it is important for a balanced analysis of the conflict.
Whereas on the surface it is the terrorist group, Hamas, fighting the only Jewish nation, Israel, it is in fact a continuation of the war that Arabs have waged against the Jews since Israel was created in 1948.
The geographic area called “Palestine” was governed by the British after it took it from the Turks at the end of the First World War.
The League of Nations (precursor to the United Nations), according to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, mandated Britain to create a Jewish state in all of “Palestine” due to historical right.
Tragically, Britain did not fulfill its mandate and instead created a formerly nonexistent Arab-Palestinian state called “Transjordan” (now Jordan) on 77% of the Jewish soil in 1922.
Even when the United Nations decided on the Partition Plan on November, 29 1947, Britain voted against it and all the Arab states boycotted the vote.
Never mind that the Plan that gave the Jews only 23% of its original land was not legally binding since the UN Security Council did not ratify it.
In 1948 Britain abandoned Palestine without fulfilling its primary responsibility. Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948 but was attacked by six Arab states the next day.
Ironically, Jordan was led, armed and trained by Britain. It invaded occupied and annexed Samaria and Judea (now called the “West Bank”) as well as East Jerusalem.
On the other hand, Egypt invaded and occupied Gaza. These are the so-called “occupied territories” after Israel recaptured them in 1967.
Incidentally, for 19 years when Egypt and Jordan were in charge of those territories, nobody cared about creating a Palestinian state.
Instead Jordan destroyed 58 synagogues in East Jerusalem and desecrated 38,000 of the 50,000 ancient and modern Jewish graves in the cemetery on the Mount of Olives. They used the stones for latrines and walkways.
In 1967 when Egypt and Syria announced on national media their intention to attack Israel, Jordan joined and attacked Israel.
However, Israel defeated them all and took back Gaza and the “West Bank”, including capturing the Golan Heights from Syria from where it was shelling Israeli territory for sometime.
Due to international pressure, Israel, under prime minister Ariel Sharon, about two years ago, uprooted Jewish settlements from Gaza, from where Hamas has been firing rockets at Israel.
Last week alone it fired about 500 rockets. To those calling for peace talks, how can you talk peace with a person who does not recognise your existence and seeks to destroy you?
The goal of Arabs is simple: to wipe out the state of Israel from the map and create the twenty-second Arab state. If anyone doubts me, just listen to what Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, told a reporter, Arianna Palazzi in 1970:
“The question of borders doesn’t interest us…From the Arab standpoint, we mustn’t talk about borders. Palestine is nothing but a drop in an enormous ocean.
Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it….The PLO is fighting Israel in the name of Pan-Arabism. What you call ˜Jordan’ is nothing more than Palestine.” Need I say more?
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/459/667425?highlight
Arab terrorism, with its commitment to the eradication of Israel, is the principal cause of the collapse of the peace process. Terrorism’s primary targets are virtually all the Middle Eastern regimesnot just Israel’s but those of the surrounding Arab countries as well. Fear of being overthrown by terrorists leads those regimes, in an effort to divert their people’s attention toward external targets, to inundate them with anti-Israel propaganda. Israel’s willingness in recent years to abandon its formerly nonnegotiable positionsand the withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces from southern Lebanon and the offer to give up the Golan Heights to Syriahas created a conviction among Arabs that terrorism is working and that no accommodation of Israel need be considered.
The Arab world today consists of 21 countries, all members of the League of Arab States. Few seem comfortable with their own statehood except as a means of casting a veil of international legitimacy over their own version of power politics. Some, such as Morocco, are hereditary paternalistic monarchies whose royal heads are uneasy indeed. Some are secular regimes on the national socialist model, dominated by the Ba’th Party. Still others, such as Egypt and Syria, borrowed Western constitutional forms but have never achieved legitimacy because they have not been accompanied by democratic freedoms. A look at the region as a whole reveals inauthentic “states” attempting to function within the concept of pan-Arabism (one Arab nation) within the wider body of statesmembers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, where, if anywhere, the unfilled office of the caliphate resideswith a commitment to pan-Islam. All these concepts hamper the full participation of the region in the contemporary international system of states. The absence of credible political systems and the inability to participate in a world of state powers incite protests under the banner of Islam.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3437241.html
Judenrein Palestine?
Rachel Neuwirth
January 09, 2003
Why is it that people are proposing a Middle East peace plan that will make Judea and Samaria Judenrein (the Nazi term for a place with no Jews)?
It is the historic homeland and birthplace of the Jewish people, yet many world leaders – including every American president – believe that the removal of Jewish communities from Judea and Samaria is a crucial prerequisite for a peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Unfortunately, every Israeli prime minister has been pressured to follow this policy.
Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria for thousands of years. In fact, the Jewish religion and people were birthed in Hebron. We know of the ancient Jewish presence there from both the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and from abundant archaeological and documentary evidence.
No one denies that the oldest document showing the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel, including Judea and Samaria (a.k.a. the West Bank), is the Bible. Genesis 24:18 says: “And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre, which are in Hebron.” And the world’s oldest documentation of real estate being purchased for full price is also in the Bible (see Genesis 23:9). And for those who doubt biblical references, there is substantial evidence in archaeological findings (see http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/History\_of\_ancient\_Israel\_and\_Judah).
Historically, the Jewish homeland included what is today called Judea and Samaria, the Golan Heights, and a considerable part of today’s Jordan. The land was inhabited mainly by Jews and was ruled by Jews. Therefore, Lord Robert Cecil, former acting British foreign secretary, was right to use the name “Judea” for the whole land in his famous remark: “Our wish is that Arabian countries shall be for the Arabs, Armenia for the Armenians, and Judea for the Jews.” (December 2, 1917; see http://www.esek.com/jerusalem/iudaea.html.)
The Jewish presence there has been continuous, except for 19 years from 1948 to 1967 when the area became Judenrein. And during that 19 year period, the Jordanians and Arabs of the remaining portion of “Palestine” desecrated Jewish holy sites and cemeteries in an attempt to deny that the Jews ever lived there.
Those who advocate the dismantling of the Jewish communities in this territory are advocating a policy of ethnic cleansing. This may sound extreme, but from the early 1900s, the Arabs carried out a policy of ethnic cleansing that included the massacre and pogroms in 1929 and 1936 in Hebron. Both the spirit and practice of ethnic cleansing are being continued in the current conflict (see http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf\_mandate\_grand\_mufti.php).
So, what did UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan mean in his 2001 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech when he said, “A genocide begins with the killing of one man not for what he has done, but because of who he is. A campaign of ‘ethnic cleansing’ begins with one neighbor turning on another.”
Does this not also apply to the Israeli Jews who have re-established homes in Judea and Samaria? Should they be ethnically cleansed from the heart of their historical homeland? Does the Nobel recipient not know a real victim of ethnic cleansing when he sees one?
The same people and countries that condemned ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, Cyprus, Rwanda and Tibet totally reverse themselves when it comes to the right of Jewish people to live in the lands of their historic patrimony. If Chinese people were forbidden to live in China, Buddhists barred from Tibet, or Irish-Catholics banned from South Boston, there would be a tremendous outcry against such injustices. But where is the outcry against the removal of Jews from Judea their historical homeland?
Is there any other nation on earth that has such a legitimate birth certificate as Israel? And if the Jews have no such document, then the Old and New Testaments are worthless.
The war for Israel’s independence ended in 1949 with the Jordanians in full control of Judea and Samaria and the Old City of Jerusalem (the “West Bank”), cutting the Jewish people off from their most holy religious sites. The official status of these areas, then, was disputed territories, as no one had held sovereignty there since the defeat of the Ottoman Empire. Only two countries, Pakistan and Britain, recognized the 19-year Jordanian “illegal occupation”. Even the entire Arab world refused to recognize it and, consequently, it was illegal and illegitimate ab initio.
After the 1967 war, the Jewish people have simply been returning to the land from which they were forcibly expelled during the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948-49.
This territory has always been known as Judea and Samaria. Do the names “Jew” (for Judea) and “Samaritan” (as in “good Samaritan”) sound familiar? In fact, Shemer, founder of Asher, a clan of one of the twelve tribes of Israel, was the owner and eponym of the hills of Samaria. Is there anything Arab or “Palestinian” about either? Even UN Resolution 181, the Partition Plan of 1947, refers to these territories as Judea and Samaria (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mideast.htm).
The word “occupiers” does not apply to the Jews. Prior to the illegal Jordanian occupation of 1948-67, Jews had maintained several thousand years of continual residence in the area. However, the term does apply to both the Jordanians and the “Palestinian” Arab squatters of today (http://www.tzemachdovid.org/Facts/islegal1.shtml).
In the early part of the 20th century, the Arab population carried out a war against the Jewish inhabitants of the area. This resulted in a series of massacres in Hebron, the birth place of Judaism, in 1929, as well as numerous other violent attacks, such as the 1936-39 pogroms against Jews, ending in the total expulsion of the Jewish population from much of Judea, Samaria and the Old City of Jerusalem.
As a result of the Israeli victory in 1967, Jewish people returned to this area and re-unified the historic capital of Jerusalem. Many of the Jews who had been expelled from this territory, or whose parents and grandparents were murdered by rampaging Arabs, have merely returned to their previous homes. And in subsequent years, additional Jewish communities (not “illegal settlements”) were built, mainly for security purposes, and others for historical and emotional reasons on mainly state-owned land and historical outposts.
Judea and Samaria were liberated, not stolen or occupied, from Jordan (see http://www.tzemachdovid.org/Facts/islegal3.shtml and http://www.internationalwallofprayer.org/A-143-A-Settlers-History-of-Settlements).
Since 1967, 261 new Arab settlements have been built in Judea and Samaria. According to international law, all of these are illegal, as no sovereignty was ever recognized over these territories; yet no one calls for their removal. Why is it that no one talks about those Arab settlements as obstacles to peace especially when they are bases for carrying out terrorism, and their inhabitants are constantly taught virulent hatred toward the Jewish people and the West?
Dismantling the Jewish communities in these territories will only reward terrorism.
The Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, are a litmus test of Arab intentions. Why can’t Jews live in their historic homeland if there really is peace? After all, there are 1.2 million Arabs living as citizens of Israel in the one Jewish country in the world, while there are only a handful of Jews living in any of the 22 Arab countries. In fact, in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, not only is it illegal for Jews to be citizens, they are not even allowed to live there.
Therefore, instead of Israel being the “apartheid state” in the region, it is the Arab world that is not only apartheid, but also racist and religiously exclusive.
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/rneuwirth_20030109.html
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Who are the Maronites? 6 Aug 2007 … Its early
stance was pro-Western and opposed to Pan-Arabism. It once formed ties with
Israel.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6932786.stm
“Palestine” – [REAL] Apartheid
state’ in the region, it is the Arab world that is not only
apartheid, but also racist and religiously exclusive …
http://www.betar.co.uk/articles/betar1073431322.php
by Ariel Natan Pasko
22 December 2004
Why does the Palestinian “Peace Plan” call for the expulsion of so many Jews from their homes?
bodek_tzitziyot wrote:
Once again we hear criticism
of democracy in Israel from the Independent, and a call to suppress minority
opinion and deprive it of representation and power. Once again the Independent
chides Israelis for not believing in the “peace process”, even though it has led
to unprecedented carnage and death in the streets, restaurants and schools of
their country since 1993. And once again the Independent smears and defames Jews
who oppose surrender of their rights in order to satisfy the vanity of an
ignorant US President – a President who believed that his GI uncle liberated
Auschwitz, no less.
support Jewish rights, and tell the Arabs that ethnic cleansing of Jews from the
West Bank is illegal and won’t be tolerated. Creating
an apartheid judenrein West Bank Palestinian state, which current EU
policy is working towards, will not lead to peace, but will just whet the Arab
appetite for more war.
http://opinion.independentminds.livejournal.com/318891.html?thread=1770155#t1770155
future Palestinian state will not be? After all the Jews will have deserved
everything they get for their 100+ year struggle to defend themselves and find a
few thousand square kilometres of land where they can exercise
self-determination in their ancestral homeland.
America and Europe where they will face a growing Islamist threat and once again
become a persecuted minority in the lands of their great grandparents or swell
the former “Israel lobby” which will now be honestly called the “Jewish
lobby”.
http://www.raymondcook.net/blog/index.php/2009/04/01/
to have committed national treason and will receive the maximum punishment.
harming the national interest and will receive a life sentence.
Palestine are considered null and void.” –
Palestinian Legislative Council, outlawing land sales to “the government of
occupation, its civilian and military institutions and its individual citizens”.
“Imagine the world-wide denunciation had it been a warning of execution to
Jews from Israel, for selling land to Palestinians. America and Europe erupt in
justified fury.
come to the PA self-rule areas, conjuring up memories of apartheid South
Africa, the former Yugoslavia–or indeed, of PLO-controlled Lebanon.
Abu Meddein, announced the PA would start to enforce an old Jordanian law, which
made the selling of land to Jews a capital offence. (Jordan rescinded the
statute when it signed a 1994 peace treaty with Israel.)
Olives–in a part of the city Palestinians want for the capital of a future
independent state–had been sold to a Jewish businessman, and then donated to a
Jewish religious seminary.
during a radio interview by warning: “Whoever sells his house to Jews, has sold
his soul to Satan and has done a despicable act.”
to the law from Israelis and some US Congressmen–although not yet the State
Department–the violence was set to begin.
Jerusalem, was reportedly involved in the closing of the Mount of Olives land
deal.
told him she had buyers for two houses in Ram’Allah he was trying to sell. From
there it appears he was abducted.
security unit, Force 17.
Ram’Allah telephoned his wife and told her she could come and pick up his body.”
mouth sealed with plastic tape.
mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, refused to allow Bashiti a Muslim
funeral: “Such a person is not a Muslim and according to our religion we
shouldn’t pray over the body in a mosque. He should not be buried in a Muslim
cemetery.”
Israelis, was found in Ram’Allah on May 16. He had been shot several times in
the head.
http://christianactionforisrael.org/medigest/jul97/hitsquad.html
Who Sold Land To Enemy Religion
[April 29, 2009 ]
http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275571.html
Who is the Apartheid
state?
Palestinian gets death sentence for selling land to Jews
A
Palestinian military court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for selling
land to an Israeli company.
Land sales are considered treason by the
Palestinians because of their long-running dispute with the Israelis, however
the sentence is unlikely to be implemented.
Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas routinely withholds the required approval for executions. Several others
are on death row as suspected informants for Israel.
The sentence was handed
down Tuesday in a military court in the West Bank city of Hebron after two days
of closed-door hearings.
http://www.viciousbabushka.com/2009/04/who-is-the-apartheid-state.html
PA: Death penalty for
those who sell land to Jews
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian
Authority, Jerusalem, Salaam Fayad
The Palestinian
Authority has issued yet another warning to Palestinians against selling their
homes or properties to Jews, saying those who violate the order would be accused
of “high treason” – a charge that carries the death penalty.
The latest
warning was issued on Wednesday by the Chief [Islamic] Judge of the Palestinian
Authority, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, who reminded the Palestinians of an
existing fatwa [religious decree] than bans them from selling property to Jews.
51. Nothing
in South African apartheid came close to this racism. Where is the UN Human
Rights Commission? Rhetorical question. They probably wrote it.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPTalkback%2FCommonFrame&tbId=1238345346389&tbNum=51&type=Show
people for selling land?
The Muslim countries (yes every single
one of them) practise the aspects of apartheid that go beyond anything the South
African government ever considered.
Death for selling land to a person based
upon the buyers religion is one of the most racist acts.
And morons here
defend this racism and then those same individuals attempt with pathetic
comparisons and lies to claim that we somehow are the racists.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/objects/data/TalkBackResponse.jhtml
Arutz Sheva | April 29,
2009 |
A Palestinian Authority military court on Tuesday sentenced a Hevron
Arab to death by hanging for the “crime” of selling land to Jews in Judea and
Samaria, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported. The three-member
judicial panel heard the case last week and handed down its verdict and
conviction on Tuesday.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131090
now the majority on the Jewish-owned land. U.S. protesting Jewish construction.
The PA is not the only agency that is monitoring …
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95853
fatwa (religious decree), banning the sale of Arab and Muslim property to Jews.
Anyone who violated the order was to be killed. At least seven land dealers were
killed that year. Six years later, the head of the PA’s General Intelligence
Service in the West Bank, General Tawfik Tirawi, admitted his men were
responsible for the murders.
announced that the death penalty would be imposed on anyone convicted of ceding
“one inch” to Israel. Later that month, two Arab land dealers were killed. PA
officials denied any involvement in the killings. A year later, another
Palestinian suspected of selling land to Jews was murdered. The PA has also
arrested suspected land dealers for violating the Jordanian law (in force in the
West Bank), which prohibits the sale of land to foreigners.
Jews, but the prohibition remained in effect. Now that the war is over, the
persecutions have begun again. In April 2006, Muhammad Abu al-Hawa was tortured
and murdered because allegedly sold an apartment building in Israel’s capital
city to Jews. Since the Mufti forbade Muslims accused of selling land to Jews
from being buried in a Muslim cemetery, al-Hawa was laid to rest in a makeshift
cemetery on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/exclusives.html
Apr
13, 2006 21:02 | Updated Apr 14, 2006 0:27
Jericho man murdered over home
sale
…Fatah gunmen claimed responsibility for the murder.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498851964&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Apr. 18,
2006
Eight young children were orphaned last Wednesday night because their
father allegedly sold an apartment building in Israel’s capital city to Jews.
…Muhammad Abu al-Hawa was buried in a makeshift cemetery on the road between
Jerusalem where he lived, and Jericho where he was murdered. His body was buried
there because the Palestinian Authority’s mufti in Jerusalem, Ikremah Sabri, has
barred all Muslims accused of selling land to Jews from being buried in a Muslim
cemetery.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498874080&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
The PA
Mufti of Jerusalem issued a ‘fatwa’ (religious decree) several years ago
prohibiting Palestinians from selling land to Jews, …
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1097136933331
‘Palestine Belongs to Arabs, Not Jews’. Reported: 15:30 PM – Jul/29/07.
(IsraelNN.com) Israeli Arab Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi …
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/130741
zeal after Oslo, we chose to refrain from making our own case. At first this
decision, made at a governmental level, was intended to demonstrate our
eagerness for peace. But after a time it was almost as if we had forgotten how
to speak for ourselves with vigor and forthrightness.
their positions – you’ll find no concessionary zeal on their part. And today the
international community swallows those positions whole – without either setting
them into historical context or doing a fair and reasonable analysis of
precisely what it is that is being promoted as a “given.”
scant reason for them to analyze the validity of Palestinian Authority premises
as we haven’t been doing so ourselves. This situation must change, and that
change must begin here at home with a forthright challenge to several
Palestinian presumptions. The Netanyahu government, at long last, gives hope of
being ready to do this. Among the many issues that require a public airing are
these:
Palestinian position, regularly refer to the “June 4, 1967 border.” What Abbas
et al have in mind is the line, commonly called the Green Line, behind which
Israel operated before the Six Day War that began on June 5, 1967. Implied is
that this line constitutes Israel’s “real” border, and that Israeli presence
beyond this is automatically “illegitimate.” Thus, goes the PA argument, there
can be no justice, no fairness that will lead to peace, unless Israel returns to
her border.
border at all, but merely an armistice line. It was drawn when hostilities
ceased at the end of the 1948-49 War of Independence — a war initiated, it
should be noted, by the Arab League, which attacked the nascent state of Israel
as soon as independ¬ence was declared.
signed armistice agreement with Jordan (which was on the other side of that
line) there was a clause stating that this line would not prejudice future
negotiations on a permanent border. Thus the case cannot legitimately be made
that the Green Line has any legal status in determining Israel’s “true” border.
It does not. That border has yet to be determined. In negotiations.
Even more egregious
is the claim made by the PA regarding the land on the other side of the line
that it sees as defining Israel’s border. Its leaders maintain that it must be
totally Judenrein. This is a position that is inherently morally
offensive, and yet it is accepted wholesale by the world.
“settlements are an obstacle to peace,” what they are actually pushing for is
the total removal of Jewish presence on the land they are seeking for their
state.
that Israel is an “apartheid” state. “Apartheid” is a buzz word, utilized
spuriously to delegitimize Israel: anyone who has spent time in Israel and seen
the freedom with which Arabs walk the streets and secure equal services knows
full well that there is nothing remotely resembling apartheid here.
just rejected the demand of Israeli Prime Minster Netanyahu that the PA
recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
official, declared that, “We reject Netanyahu’s demand to recognize Israel as a
Jewish state. This demand illustrates the racist nature of Israel…”
representatives to the Knesset and provides them with full health care and other
rights – is “racist” for insisting that the nation must be recognized as having
a Jewish character, what, precisely does this make the PA – which seeks to
totally drive out every Jew from the land it envisions to be part of a future
state?
those who are promoting that “two-state solution”?
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3703694,00.html
Wars
Arab Christians and their right to coexist
GulfNews, United Arab Emirates – Dec 31, 2008
Even Pan-Arabism and nationalism have become empty of any meaning of unification, and are being used for conflicts with a neighbouring Muslim or Arab country…
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10271492.html
The Palestinian Conflict: Brought to you by the Arab League.
Richard D. Molfese
The term unite is to put together to form a single unit. That “unity” is the quality or state of being made one: Unification is the resulting singleness of effect or symmetry and consistency of style and character (Merriam-Webster online).
The Arab League is not a union of Arab States working for unification toward Arab solidarity or peace. It is rather a fragmented group of power, status and wealth seekers trying to keep what they have and dumbing down their neighbors. Since 1947, these statesmen are always vying to elevate themselves in the eyes of the Arab people, while they negotiate with Western and Soviet governments secretly for economic gains. These Arab leaders have created obstacles in their unification process for their personal gain. So they do not care that their talk is cheapened when, as states, they show their elitism against their neighbors, or when they flaunt their wealth on poor nations. The reigning Monarchs and Arab leaders claim their intellect and birthright justifies their positions as leaders…
… I will focus on the Palestinians, who I believe they are made to bleed to keep all Arabs consciously united through their pain, while the Arab leaders keep the people’s focus away from what they do. I see the parallel of the American Indian and their reservation lands they were shipped off to, as the Palestinian refugee camps are walled prisons for an indigenous people.
I would mention the Kurds also, but they have somehow denied the partitioning of outside influences, and have grown. Though they are still without a real bordered homeland they do have much land in which they can roam freely. I try to understand why America is looked at as the real evil and make suggestions of the future of the Middle East and peace.
ReasonsThe Arab League is fragmented by the boundaries and agendas, of their individual state mentality. The Arabs talk of peace and unity but negotiate alone. It is this individuality that prevents the Arab League from being cohesive and standing as one voice. Furthermore, the Arab League states align themselves with the United States or Russia either for monetary gain, status or power usually undermining the Arab position. The Arabs themselves place economic and social barriers between their people. The haves, do not want to give, to the have nots. Further separation occurs in the Arab community, from intellectual superiority, money, degrees in devotion to Islam and history of the people themselves. Yes, even in Islam racism does exist. To try and understand the vast differences we must look at the geography of the Middle East.
The LandArab lands are vast and range some 5,000 miles and encompass some 5.25 million square miles. The lands border on the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Arabian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Arab territory in Africa is 72% with the remaining 28% in Asia. While the region is dominated by dry climatic conditions, it is the natural land bridge from Asia to Africa and to Indonesia. The Arabs have enjoyed so many different cultures mingled into their past, their minds are torn between the individual state they are, and the Arab unity for which they long to have. Contrary to popular belief, relatively few Arab countries possess petroleum and natural gas resources. They are mainly agricultural and have other natural resources: including iron-ore, lead, phosphate, cobalt and manganese. These stats were on the Middle East New web site. The harshness of the desert and the oppressive heat has kept development of the Middle East down and to a minimum. Water is a scarce resource and well regulated by governments. The Middle East is a gate way three continents and largely desert and barren rock. The temperature swings can range from 32 degrees at night to 130 degrees with a 12 hour period. The climate drives the people, restricting activities by day, slowing the region and the people down.[…]
Islamic History and LawThe Middle East was also the birth place of the three great monotheistic religions — Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The followers of those faiths lived in harmony throughout the centuries in the same land; each considered themselves the people of one God. The Arabic term Islam literally means “surrender,” or “submission.” Islam’s believers, accept surrender to the will of Allah. Allah is viewed as a unique God–creator, sustainer, and restorer of the world. Muhammad, it is claimed, was the last of the great prophets which included Adam, Noah, Moses, Jesus and some others. The basic belief of Islam is expressed in the shahadah, the Muslim confession of faith, “There is no god but God; Muhammad is the prophet of God.” … Allah’s presence is everywhere, he does not imbue into anything or anyone. He is the sole Creator, and sustainer of the universe, wherein every creature knows his lordship and unity. According to the Qur’an, God created two apparently parallel species, man and jinn. Man was created from clay and the jinn were created from fire. The jinn are endowed with reason and responsibility but are more prone to evil than man. The Qur’an is primarily directed at man, and is self described as the guide for the human race. Despite man’s lofty position, the Qur’an describes human nature as frail and faltering, a view share by the two other religions. Man is viewed as rebellious, arrogant and full of pride. The cardinal sin of man, is mans likeness in aspiring to God and thereby violating the unity of God. True faith (identified as iman), consists of belief in the immaculate Divine Unity and Islam is in one’s submission to the Divine will. There are three different sects that follow, to different degrees; Islam thought their basic beliefs are the same.
Religious DisunityThe Kharijis sect believed that the basis of rule was righteous character and piety, any Muslim, irrespective of race creed or color could become ruler, provided he or she satisfies the conditions of piety. This is in contrast to the claims of the Shi’ah that the ruler must belong to the family of the Prophet, and in contrast to the Sunnis that the head of state must belong to the Prophet’s tribe. Sunni political theory is essentially a product of circumstance-an after-the-fact rationalization of historical developments. So, between the Shi’ah legitimism that restricts rule to Ali’s family, and the Kharji democratic beliefs, Sunnis holds to the position that the rule belongs to the Quraysh (the Prophet’s tribe), the condition that actually existed. The Sunni sect… making it possible for diverse sects to recognize and coexist with one another. Sunni theologians place emphasis on divine omnipotence at the expense of the freedom and efficacy of the human will. The Sunnites support the concept that “Muslims must obey even a tyrannical ruler.” While the Islamic community throughout the world is united by the two essential beliefs in (1) the Oneness of God and (2) the divine mission of His Prophet, there developed shortly after Muhammad’s death a debate within the Islamic community over who should succeed the Prophet as leader of the faithful. This debate split the community into Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. It is important to remember, however, that on fundamental issues, Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims are in basic agreement since they both draw on the Qur’an and the Shari’ah, body of Islamic Law. Even in their religious views they have unique sects that further fracture, an Arab unity.
Islamic Law and ReformThe Law covered the vast range of the Middle East and held in check all the tribes that roamed within, for centuries. Islamic Law (Shari’a) is swift, brutal and severe, is considered barbaric by Westerns. The inequality toward women has been a catalyst for, the world to request reforms be made to Islamic Law. During the early 20th century, the Western powers came in and brought their form of government and punishment the degrees of Shari’a followed have changed. Today, Arabs are split between following the Shari’a as it has been for centuries and reforming it to reduce the harshness. The Arabs are worried that if there is a change to Shari’a it will become slow and ineffective, as they perceive Western Law to be. Though Arabs would want Shari’a, without the harsh barbaric punishment, i.e. stoning, beheading etc., to be their law… Wahbabism: which is the extreme form of Islam is practiced in Saudi Arabia and Nigeria further threatens the stability of the region, through intolerance for other beliefs.
The Arab LeagueSince the creation of the Arab states from 1909 to the present, the Arab Leaders have always been guided by their own national agenda. They have rarely remained cohesive and usually fight among themselves. The Arabs are distracted from a focused unity because of their separate agreements. The Arab League of Nations created in 1945, was a compromise that recognized the sovereignty of each Arab state. In 1945, the Arabs had put forth many proposals for a unification plan: “Fertile Crescent Unity,” “Greater Syria,” and “the Arab Federation.” these plans were not to survive. It was the Arab League’s promise to help its member nations but none would sacrifice their prerogatives of sovereignty, which the Arab League charter upheld. Article 8 of the charter upheld the principle of non-intervention: “Each member state shall respect the systems of governments established in the other member state and regard them as the exclusive concern of those states. Each shall pledge to abstain from any action calculated to change established systems of government. (12)” This portion of the Arab’s League charter, which embodies 20 Articles and 3 annexed provisions, points to its greatest weakness. The Arab state can justify its actions to advance its own ambitions under the greater Arab cause. Presently, there are 22 states in the Arab League. The Arabs are further fragmented by their separate agreements with each other. The United Arab Republic which was a political union of Egypt and Syria formed in 1958 and lasted until 1971. This agreement was the initial step toward creating a pan-Arab union, the republic abolished Syrian and Egyptian citizenship. The Arabs were to live in “Arab Territory”. The Arab Maghreb Union was established in 1989 to promote cooperation between and integration among the Arab states of North Africa. The cohesion of the Arabs is ever fractured by their constant search for commitment between each other.
The Palestinian IssueThe Arabs are searching for a binding coalition to unite them as a nation, and the Palestinians have been used to keep the memory alive. My belief is that the Israeli and Palestinian conflict was a joint debacle in which Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Britain and France all played a major role. The subjugation of the Palestinians by Arabs was far more damaging and demeaning in the worldview then what the Israelis have done. After Britain, France and Russia split the Middle East, the Palestinians who had settled all over the land, were separated. Their lands were diminished and now called by other names. “The land called Israel and Palestine is a small, (10,000 square miles at present) land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. During its long history, its area, population and ownership varied greatly. The present state of Israel formally occupies all the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean ocean, bounded by Egypt in the south, Lebanon in the north, with Syria (larger border area) and Jordan in the East. The recognized borders of Israel constitute about 78% of the land. The remainder is divided between land occupied by Israel since the 1967, 6-day war and the autonomous regions under the control of the Palestinian autonomy. The Gaza strip occupies an additional 141 square miles south of Israel along the sea coast, and is mostly under the control of the Palestinian authority with small areas occupied by Israeli settlements(9).” Similarly the Native Americans found boundaries where none were before. Both the Palestinians and Native Americans believed that they were members in their respective communities. The Palestinians and Native Americans were angered, but did not mass in numbers, and so were dismissed as people who would fight for their lands. The lands where they settled were still theirs, or so they thought. Since the Palestinians were a roaming population, and they had had the largest free range. The Palestinian people had no leadership and were not organized as other Arab “states” was. They had worked side by side with Arabs and Jews alike, for generations. Now the Palestinians were to be partitioned off by their own people. “The Arab League, at the instigation of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, declared a war to rid Palestine of the Jews. In fact however, the Arab countries each had separate agendas. Abdullah, king of Jordan, had an informal and secret agreement with Israel, negotiated with Golda Meir, to annex the portions of Palestine allocated to the Palestinian state in the West Bank, and prevent formation of a Palestinian state. Syria wanted to annex the northern part of Palestine, including Jewish and Arab areas. (9).” In my opinion the Arab handling of the Palestinian plight caused more people to look away for such a long period of time.
Westerners and Americans are DevilsWhy have the Arabs taken to a kind of Marxism that denounces Western capitalism and America as the most dangerous to their well being? What has America done to earn the Arab’s hatred? The Arabs have found it easy to believe that we have no morals and that we are imperialists. Yet our history shows that we have never been aggressive to the Middle East. The Russians ravaged Afghanistan for years, and have been looked at as allies, by the Arabs. The British, French and Italians have all controlled areas of the Middle East, yet they are looked at in a different light, evil but not as evil as America. In 1947, the partitioning of the Middle East was the master plan of the United Nations, the major powers were France, Germany and Russia. The announcement of the Israeli state brought immediate and swift Arab response. Five Arab states launched an attack. America stayed away, and Israel was saved by the Russians, who supplied the weapons that helped Israel beat off the attack. The fledgling Israeli State not only beat the invaders back, but took over land, the West Bank from Jordan and the Gaza Stripe from Saudi Arabia. In 1956 it was America that intervened forcefully to secure the withdrawal of Israel, British and French forces from Egypt. The Americans opened their country to Arabs for schooling, to live and we gave assistance to the Middle East. Yet the Middle East purchased weapons from Russia and continually denounced America…
DisunityThe Arab world can not find a common ground under which to unite. The Arabs look for binding issues to unify them and want to model their union after the European Union. One rallying point for them has been the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, however, history and circumstances indicate that Arab disunity, and in-fighting are contributing factors to the Palestinian situation. Will the Arab League realize a unity and lasting peace, and settle the Palestinian conflict within the framework of the Arab League? The Arabs are separated from one another by their leaders, their beliefs and their states. They have to overcome these separations, internal to their pan-Arab community in order to thrive. Still, there is a separation that transcends the Arab community and separates them from the rest of the world…
The Arab League must support and give land to the Palestinians. Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia, in particular, must be substantial land donators…
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/joe/molfese.htm
The Philosopher of Islamic Terror
By PAUL BERMAN
The Islamists and the Pan-Arabists tried to cooperate with one another in Egypt in those days, and there was some basis for doing so. Both movements dreamed of rescuing the Arab world from the legacies of European imperialism. Both groups dreamed of crushing Zionism and the brand-new Jewish state. Both groups dreamed of fashioning a new kind of modernity, which was not going to be liberal and freethinking in the Western style but, even so, was going to be up-to-date on economic and scientific issues. And both movements dreamed of doing all this by returning in some fashion to the glories of the Arab past. Both movements wanted to resurrect, in a modern version, the ancient Islamic caliphate of the seventh century, when the Arabs were conquering the world.
The Islamists and the Pan-Arabists could be compared, in these ambitions, with the Italian Fascists of Mussolini’s time, who wanted to resurrect the Roman Empire, and to the Nazis, who likewise wanted to resurrect ancient Rome, except in a German version. The most radical of the Pan-Arabists openly admired the Nazis and pictured their proposed new caliphate as a racial victory of the Arabs over all other ethnic groups. Qutb and the Islamists, by way of contrast, pictured the resurrected caliphate as a theocracy, strictly enforcing shariah, the legal code of the Koran. The Islamists and the Pan-Arabists had their similarities then, and their differences. (And today those two movements still have their similarities and differences — as shown by bin Laden’s Qaeda, which represents the most violent wing of Islamism, and Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, which represents the most violent wing of Pan-Arabism.) […] the Muslim Brotherhood… Many years later, Osama bin Laden would be one of Muhammad Qutb’s students.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/magazine/23GURU.html?pagewanted=2
The Muslim Brotherhood, The Nazis and Al-Qa’ida, Al-Qa’ida is the product of an Arab fascist group that was set up in the 1920s, …. and we left this army of Arab fascists in the field of Afghanistan. …
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_muslimbrotherhood01.htm
Sayyid Qutb’s America
Al Qaeda Inspiration Denounced U.S. Greed, Sexuality
by Robert Siegel
Sayyid Qutb… trial… Eqypt on charges he was helping an effort to overthrow the government. He was hanged in 1966.
Egyptian writer and educator Sayyid Qutb spent the better half of 1949 in Greeley, Colo., studying curriculum at Colorado State Teachers College, now the University of Northern Colorado. What he saw prompted him to condemn America as a soulless, materialistic place that no Muslim should aspire to live in.
Qutb’s writings would later become the theoretical basis for many radical Islamic groups of today — including al Qaeda. Qutb increasingly saw the redemption of Egypt in the application of Islamic law.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1253796
THE GRAND MUFTI OF JERUSALEM AND THE NAZIFICATION OF THE ARAB WORLD
…Muftism, the poisonous and fanatic legacy of Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, continues to maintain a firm grip in the Arab mind and the Arab world today much to the determent of both the Arab peoples who are forced to live under the regressive socialist jack-boot of Mufti inspired regimes and to the possibility of peace between the Israelis and the Arabs. After the defeat of the Mufti’s Nazi sponsors in 1945, the Soviet Union and the international left largely filled the power vacuum and the left remains the primary booster of Muftism in the Arab and Islamic world today. Muftism bears a large responsibility for modern terrorism and fanatic Islamic movements. While Europe was largely de-Nazified after the war, Muftism, or Arab-Islamic Nazism remains a major political and philosophical force. Arab peoples continue to groan under Nazi-Arab oppressive regimes and Mufti influenced pan-Arabists continue to wage war against non-Islamic nations and peoples.
http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/mohammedism/mohammedism21.html
The Millenarian-Eschatological strain very present in Islam was powerfully revived in the second half of the 19th century by the so-called Muslim “reformer,” “progressive” and “modernizer,” Jamal al-Din al Afghani, father of pan-Islamism and pan-Arabism, but most of all, reviver of the old Mahdist creed. He turned it into a workable, modern political ideology of a radical sort. As the British Islamologist H.A.R. Gibb wrote: “The heresy of Mahdism is its belief not only that the minds and wills of men can be dominated by force but that truth can be demonstrated by the edge of the sword.” Further: “Mahdism has linked up with extreme nationalism to produce the swelling tides of popular discontent and revolutionary ardor which are familiar to all observers of the Muslim world today.” Anti-imperialist al-Afghani loudly proclaimed that England hoped in vain “to stifle the voice of the Mahdi, the most awesome of all voices, since its power is even greater than the voice of the Holy War, which issues from all Muslim mouths. Does England… think herself able to stifle this voice making itself heard in all the East… proudly proclaiming the coming of the Savior whom every son of Islam awaits with such impatience? El Mahdi, el Mahdi, el Mahdi.”
http://www.wilberforce.edu/cdsp/journal_art_2.html
This document is the original version of the Palestinian National Charter, agreed to by Palestine Liberation Organization
… ‘We, the Palestinian Arab people, who believe in its Arabism and in its right to regain its homeland, to realize its freedom and dignity, and who have determined to amass its forces and mobilize its efforts and capabilities in order to continue its struggle and to move forward on the path of holy war (al-jihad) until complete and final victory has been attained…’
http://www.mideastweb.org/peacechild/palestinian_charter.htm
[US’ defeating] al Qaeda. Its defeat finally pricked the Muslim myth that the
jihadists were a military match for the U.S., just as Israel’s victory in the
Six-Day war of 1967 made a mockery of the martial pretensions of pan-Arabism and dealt Nasser a near-fatal blow.
http://europenews.dk/en/node/14249
Trends in Islamic Terror The terrorist groups of the ˜70s and ˜80s were
primarily motivated by nationalism, separatism, Marxist ideology, pan Arabism,
racism, nihilism, and economic …
http://www.bvandenb.com/tiit/chapter11.php
Saddam, the terrorist’s friend…
“At times these organisations worked together, trading access for capability. In the period after the 1991 Gulf War, the regime of Saddam Hussein supported a complex and increasingly disparate mix of pan-Arab revolutionary causes and emerging pan-Islamic radical movements.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/saddam-the-terrorists-friend/story-e6frg6v6-1111115857485
…the larger war on terrorism will end only when both Pan-Arabists and Islamists abandon their desperate desire to
turn back the calendar to the year 1000, when they accept that
neither ethnic purity not scriptural fidelity can serve as the
raison d’être of a modern state.
http://spectator.org/archives/2003/04/09/winding-up-matters
“A must read for those who want to understand the jihad radical Islamists are waging against democracies.” – Oliver North
The War of Ideas
by Walid Phares
…From China’s borders to the Atlantic Ocean, masses are being taught to hate the other side of the world and blame it for all evil.’ Phares, a Lebanese-born policy analyst and television commentator, is no alarmist; in public discussions of U.S.-Middle Eastern affairs, he is a voice of calm and reason. Yet, he urges, there really is such a thing as a terrorist Muslim enemy, a class of person he calls a jihadist, who takes literally Islam’s call for jihad, or war against the infidel. This term, Phares argues, has been denatured and defused: An academia friendly to Saudi interests (because it’s funded by them) has assured worried Americans that ‘jihad is essentially a spiritual experience,’ just as Harvard think-tankers once called the Taliban ‘elements of stability.’ ‘Since 9/11,’ he concludes, ‘many Western political and academic establishments have generally caved in to the jihadi intellectual offensive.’ Well, jihad is jihad, the author says, wrapped up in a pan-Arabist, Islamist (though jihadists and Islamists aren’t necessarily one and the same), Baathist, generally fascist ideology that demands the restoration of the caliphate to wage endless war against all nonbelievers.” – Kirkus Reviews
http://www.hebookservice.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c7015
MEMRI: “America will be destroyed, Allah willing” – Friday Sermon on Palestinian Authority Television (Tuesday, March 25, 2003)
Friday Sermon on Palestinian Authority Television
The following are excerpts from a Friday sermon which was delivered at the
Sheikh ‘Ijlin Mosque in Gaza by Palestinian Authority preacher Sheikh
Ibrahim Madeiris and was broadcast live on Palestinian Authority TV:(1)
“…Allah drowned Pharaoh and those who were with him. Allah drowns the
Pharaohs of every generation. Allah will drown the little Pharaoh, the
dwarf, the Pharaoh of all times, of our time, the American President. Allah
will drown America in our seas, in our skies, in our land. America will
drown and all the oppressors will drown.”
“Oh, people of Palestine, Oh, people of Iraq. The Crusader, Zionist America
has started an attack against our Iraq, the Iraq of Islam and Arabism
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=16308
Saturday, March 22, 2003MEMRI: The Arab Press on the War and News from Iraqi Television
…Another clergyman said: “… The truth is that this crime that was committed
by the enemies of Islam, the infidels and the polytheists… demonstrate the
sentiments of the infidel enemy towards Islam and Muslims. Islam’s message
is the most important monotheistic message. The enemy wants to obliterate
Islam, to obliterate Allah’s edicts, to obliterate everything that Islam
brought about… He burned the Koran, and by that wanted to burn the faith
of Muslims and their ties with Allah. This crime is no different than the
rest of their crimes against Islam and Muslims. We are not surprised by this
crime, because the enmity towards Islam and Muslims is apparent. Their
attempt to burn the Koran is as severe as their attempts to kill the Muslim
nation and to shed Muslim blood… All these acts demonstrate the animosity
of the infidels towards Muslims in general, Arabs in particular, and
particularly towards Iraq…”
An Iraqi officer, who stood in front of a group of soldiers engaged in
marching drills, said: “Oh, Jihad fighters and Arab believers… we greet
you with the greetings of Arabism and Islam. We are happy to show you some
of the drills of our brothers the Arab volunteer.”
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=16262
Theories of Terrorism …Fascism supports terrorism at home and abroad. Charismatic leaders are usually given supreme powers to crack down on dissidents, peacemakers, and anyone who doesn’t abide by the “cult of the individual” which worships a He-man mentality and the party line. With the frequent wars and militaristic ventures that come with fascism, an effort is made to demonize the enemy as sub-humans who deserve extinction. These enemies are also made into scapegoats for all the past problems a country has had. Fascism appeals to the frustrations and resentments of a race of people who think they ought to have a bigger place at the global table. When combined with an anti-western slant (the United States as Great Satan), fascism becomes a means of social identity (… Pan-Arabism, Islamo-Fascism) as well as a facilitator of terrorism.
http://www.apsu.edu/oconnort/3400/3400lect02.htm
Terrorism and (Arab) Racism: The linkage between racial hatred and terrorism
is a phenomenon which democracies ignore at their peril. Durban uncovered racism
as a real root cause of terrorism, a motivation which the terrorist seeks to
camouflage by the accusation of racism itself.
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=2&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=1117&TTL=Terrorism_and_Racism:_The_Aftermath_of_Durban
Arabism and the on-going Palestinian terrorism
http://media.www.mustangdaily.net/media/storage/paper860/news/2006/04/27/LettersToTheEditor/Arabism.And.The.OnGoing.Palestinian.Terrorism-2100073.shtml?sourcedomain=www.mustangdaily.net&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com
IMRA , November 18, 2007…PFLP, a marxist, pan-Arabist revolutionary group was, until the rise of. Hamas, the second-largest Palestinian faction after Fatah’
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=36857
Bin Laden’s Sleight of Hand: Sign of His Decline [2004]… It harkens back to the same narcissitically defiant pan-Arabism and fascism of Gemal Abdel Nasser, the tyrant of Egypt in the 1960s who after having his entire military handed to him in the Yom Kippur war of ’67 gave a speech to his brainwashed populace that “we have actually not lost the war since you still have me as your leader.” Bin-Laden’s resurfacing seems to imply the same thing.
http://www.aifdemocracy.org/news.php?id=1710
“[The Islamists, the pan-Arab nationalists, and the Arab regimes] are the ones who hate America. The ordinary Arab and Muslim citizens are mere blindfolded hostages in the hands of this alliance.
“The U.S. must respond [to the hatred against it] not by appealing to the hostages and convincing them of the good things in the U.S. – because they are incapable of seeing them even if they wanted to.
“They must be helped first of all by freeing them of their [Islamist, pan-Arab, and Arab government] abductors.”
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1514.htm
The Wrong Words (December 17, 2004) Moral and linguistic clarity are crucial in this conflict By Steven Vincent… I repeat — words matter. Terms like “paramilitaries,” “death squads,” and “fascists” clarify the nature of our enemy and underscore a fundamental point that the American media has inexcusably ignored: it is the Iraqi people who are under attack. They are the victims, their future is threatened, they are bleeding from wounds inflicted by pan-Arab Baathists and pan-Islamic jihadists. By calling these neo-fascists the “Resistance” the media reverses the relationship of assailant and defender and renders a terrible disservice to the millions of Iraqis who oppose, in ways large and small, these totalitarian forces. Hadeel gave her life resisting fascism. Yet to the Ted Ralls and Michael Moores of this world, she was a Quisling who deserved to die.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/vincent200412170843.asp
‘Global Terrorism’ – by James M. Lutz, Brenda J. Lutz – 2004 – Political Science – 289 pages [page 253]
Ba’ath… The party has favored pan-Arabism and has been supportive of violent action…
http://books.google.com/books?id=0YUCtOTEjncC&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253
Saddam, the terrorist’s friend | The Australian Mar 22, 2008 … Richard Clarke, who was director of counter-terrorism… wanted to glorify himself as the centre of a new pan-Arab nation …
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23413246-7583,00.html
Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi …The relationship between Iraq and forces of pan-Arab socialism was well known … State sponsorship of terrorism became such a routine tool of state power …
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/saddamterrorrep.html
A friend sent me this link to the al-Islah (“reform”) forum where a statement is posted by radical Islamic ideologue Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, a Palestinian, labeling al-Zarqawi, his former student, not just “al-batal” (hero) but “al-batal al-mujahid”. This goes to show that the sharp distinction Cole has been trying to maintain between “secular Arabism” and Islamism and their terminologies really doesn’t hold water. If one wishes to push this further, one could argue that just like “the nation of Islam and the nation of Arabism” were combined in that first statement, “al-batal” and “al-mujahid” were combined here. I’m not going to load this point with much more than it can carry, but the point is clear: Juan has no clue what he’s talking about in this instance, and the proof is in the pudding as they say.
I also mentioned in my “Terror and the Experts” post that Hizbullah, also an Islamist group, has long been using the mixed language of Islam and Arabism, which is why Chuck Freund and I came up with the labels “Pan-Arabist Islam/ism” or “Arabo-centric Islam” (see also Matt Frost, who has an interest in this particular subject. Cf. Lee Smith’s old article in Slate, and, Josh Landis’ excellent post on the Baath and whether it’s “secular”). In fact, speaking of Nasser, that’s precisely the sort of image Hassan Nasrallah has been projecting: a Shiite Nasser.
If you take a look at Avi Jorisch’s Beacon of Hatred, you’ll see in the accompanying DVD-Rom the various propaganda clips on Al-Manar which reach out to the Arabs, as Arabs, often using the term “ummat al-Arab” (the Arab Nation), to combat Israel.
In fact, as I showed in my “Lieven Let Die” post, this amalgamation has a long history. I also recently found this review of Bashir M. Nafi’s Arabism, Islamism, and the Palestine Question, 1908-1941: A Political History. The reviewer writes:
Although several major studies were written on Hassan al-Banna and the Ikhwan, no study highlights Banna’s indebtedness to Arabist ideas as Nafi does in his book. [10] Nafi contends that Banna’s Pan Islamic and Arabist ideas developed from his serious intellectual and political contact with several Syrian émigrés in Egypt, especially Rashid Rida and Muhib al-Din al-Khatib. Banna was then able to express Arabism in ‘an Islamic framework’ (p. 161).
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2106
Process but No Peace… A bomb goes off in Tel Aviv and, presto, Arafat is on his way out of the country, incommunicado as the inevitable American censure looms. An American secretary of state wants badly to produce a breakthrough and is left to cool his heels on the Damascus tarmac: Thus the old cutthroat Assad makes Warren Christopher sweat for an audience. Throughout Ross’s patient description, we are unable to ignore the Orwellian nature of it all: anti-Western zealots checking in for medical treatment at American or European hospitals, Mrs. Arafat fighting the intifada from Paris fashion shows, or a diplomat busy on shopping sprees in big city malls before assuming the mantle of the pan-Arabist fatwahist for consumption back home on state-controlled television.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3432401.html
Baathism (pan-Arabism and Arab supremacism) is largely a spent force but its remnants have merged both with bin Ladenism
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDQ4NzgyNjgxYzNlY2JiMTRjY2IwYjZiNDRmNWFhZmE=
“Terrorism and Racism: The Aftermath of Durban,” by Anne F. Bayefsky Durban
uncovered racism as a real root cause of terrorism, a motivation which the …
by the victims of anti-Arabism in the United States and elsewhere. …
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp468.htm
Dec 28, 2006 22:06 | Updated Dec
31, 2006 12:57
…This Arab-Islamic union was given ideological heft last
week at a two-day conference in Doha, Qatar. “The Sixth Pan-Arab and Islamic
Conference” brought together some 270 leading pan-Arab and jihadist leaders from
throughout the world. The jihadists, led by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, included
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, Hizbullah leader Hassan Hadroug and the Iraqi Sunni
jihadist ideologue Sheikh Hathir al-Dari.
Among the pan-Arabists was Khair
al-Din Haseeb, who the US Army refers to as the “father of pan-Arab
nationalism.” Iranian and Iraqi Shiite ayatollahs also reportedly attended.
Qaradawi announced that the goal of the conference was to merge the pan-Arab
and Islamic wars against the US and Israel specifically and against the infidels
generally. In his words, “All Arabs, Kurds, Sunni, Shia, right-wingers,
left-wingers should be united in the full-scale battle with the enemies. They
are launching a political, economic, social and civilizational, and cultural
battle against us and we should unify our efforts to stand up to it.”
The
participants all echoed Qaradawi’s call for Fatah and Hamas to formally merge
and so reflect the wider trend of consolidation in the cause of jihad that is
occurring throughout the Arab world. As Qaradawi put it, “Pan-Arabism and Islam
are very closely linked. There is no contradiction between them. Whoever is
seeking to separate Pan-Arabism from Islam is trying to separate the soul from
the body.”
That the pan-Arabists and Islamists are military allies in the
global jihad was made clear this week in the Horn of Africa as Sunday Ethiopia
invaded Somalia.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164882001703&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
TV network Al-Arabiya, on its Web site, solicited readers’ responses to the
attacks. Several expressed happiness, with comments such as “Allahu Akbar,
thanks be to God,” “More power to al Qaeda leader Osama (bin Laden),” and “What
did you expect? This is only a response to the what the British government has
done to the group regardless of which group it is.”
In response, these notes
were posted: “To the heroes of Arabism and Jihad, since you are sparing no
method to attack the West and you gloat as you try to kill the largest number of
civilians. How would you like it if the West relieves itself of your headache by
hitting you with one of its nuclear weapons. It takes only minutes and then
there will be no heroes, no men and no shish kebab.”
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/08/london.muslims/index.html
Group claims 3,000 fighters
Al-Arabiya, United Arab Emirates – Jan 8, 2009
Husseini told AlArabiya.net that the group manufactured a rocket called Oroubameaning Arabismand that it will be very special. Despite being a competitor …
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/01/08/63817.html
LOG head accuses Hizbullah of following Iran’s orders
Daily Star – Lebanon, Lebanon – Jan 8, 2009
“We want to revive the values of Arabism and resistance,” Husseini told the audience during a ceremony to launch the group in the Southern port city of Tyre …
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=98890
New Resistance Group Conducts 1st Training Maneuvers in Lebanon
Naharnet, Lebanon – Jan 11, 2009
Earlier this week, Husseini announced the launch of the Arab Islamic Resistance, which he said was aimed at confronting the enemies of Arabism.
http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/9844C62DECB60DDBC225753B003D993B?OpenDocument
Lebanon: Hezbollah Rival Group Established
January 8, 2009 | 1347 GMT
Mohammad Ali Al Husseini, Lebanon’s Arab Islamic Council Secretary-General, announced the establishment of the Arab Islamic Resistance, Naharnet reported Jan. 8. Husseini said the Arab Islamic Resistance is a rival of Hezbollah and has more than 3,000 members.
http://www.stratfor.com/sitrep/20090108_lebanon_hezbollah_rival_group_established
Racialization of counter terrorism
CJC – Canadian Jewish Congress Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Anti-Arabism: The False Link … There neither is nor can there be such phenomena as “Islamophobia” and “anti-Arabism.” …
http://www.cjc.ca/template.php?action=issues&item=10&Type=1
Counter-terrorism, Islamophobia
Pakistan wanted to include even more language to equate counter-terrorism with racism. Pakistan, Algeria, and Iran also wanted the words, “Islamophobia” and “anti-Arabism” to remain in the document.
http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1316871&ct=6645721&printmode=1
Israelis aren’t racists, they’re worried
jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1167467807212
Anti Iranians
Undoubtedly, Iranians of all stripes are offended at the “Arab Gulf” scandal,
not to mention pan-Arabist attempts at fomenting Arab racism against Iranians.
Arabs have complained (with justification) that they are portrayed
negatively in western press, media and education, yet so many in the Arab world
are unaware of the Husri-Shawkat-Aflaq legacy of racism within their own ranks.
http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/aFarrokhArab.html
Race and slavery in the Middle East: an historical enquiry – Bernard Lewis, page 32
the Persians, alone , among the conquered peoples, offered a serious challange to Arab supremacy.
http://books.google.com/books?id=WdjvedBeMHYC&pg=PA32
Pan-Arabism’s Legacy of Confrontation with Iran … Arab racism against
Iranians
http://www.ghandchi.com/iranscope/Anthology/KavehFarrokh/index.htm
a state dominated by Sunni elites whose pan-Arab aspirations have in the past led to tense relations, and even war, with Iran
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/nov/19/opinion/op-takeyh19?pg=2
Muslims won’t play together
by EFRAIM KARSH
Published: February 27, 2010
The Muslim World Is Divided Even by Sports
[…]This is not the first time that Arabs have challenged the internationally accepted name of the waterway that separates Persia (or Iran, as it has been called since 1935) from the Arabian Peninsula. Pan-Arabist thought — which dominated Arab political life for most of the 20th century — insisted on the creation of a unified vast empire “from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arab Gulf,” provoking sharp confrontations with Iran since the late 1960s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28karsh.html
…such as pan-Islamism and pan-Arabism which pushed the dilemma to where we
… of anti-Persian campaigns and forged the controversial name of Arabian Gulf
…
http:/www.strategicsinternational.com/Sem_RASTBEEN.pdf
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The Economist
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rebel.
trying to win friends across the border. They enjoy good relations with some
members of Iraq’s American-appointed Governing Council, and are cosying up to
moderate Shia groups such as the Dawa party. Long before the uprising started,
Mr Sadr, as the scion of a distinguished clerical family, was received by Iran’s
supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
a pan-Arabist bigot, and fear that he plans to end a long tradition of
Iranian influence over Iraq’s main Shia seminary, in the town of Najaf. They
much prefer Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Najaf’s senior ayatollah, who is of
Iranian origin.
clerics who took refuge in Iran for fear of Saddam Hussein are back home. So
holy is Najaf that, given stability, Iranian clerics could follow. An exodus of
senior ones to Iraq would embarrass Mr Khamenei.
unpredictability, make him an impossible ally. But the choice is limited. For
any Iraqi leader, too close an association with Iran is a liability. Mr Khamenei
would love to have Mr Sistani, the grandest of all ayatollahs, in his pocket,
but he is not co-operating. He disapproves of Iran’s theocracy. Mocked by Mr
Sadr’s supporters for his Iranian accent and birth, he is keeping his distance
from Iran’s establishment.
eliminated most of the native (Berber) inhabitants. The Berbers that escaped death ran westwards and southwards towards the Sahara. In the 11th century CE,
fresh Arab migrants of nomadic origin, migrated into North Africa to displace and drive the remaining pastoral Berbers deeper into the Sahara desert. With
Arab consolidation and backing in Northern Africa, new waves of Arab invaders
and migrants pushed deeper into the Nile banks, inhabited then by the Nilotic
Shiluk, and continued all the way down to where Dueim stands today, belonging
then to the Dinka and Furnawi autochthons. The entire territory was known at the
time as Bilad as-Sudan (the Arabic for land of the Blacks), and currently
includes the Republic of Sudan. Continuing with their Arabization of African
land policy through elimination, displacement, separation, marginalization and
suppression, the Arab invaders of Bilad as-Sudan, over the passage of time,
decimated the population of (the Nilotic Shiluk, Dinka and Furnawi autochthons)
, owners of the land, and pushed to restrict the rest waiting for elimination to
Darfur area and the South of the country, which the Arab invaders are now intent
on taking from the native Black Africans. This is the genesis of the war in
Sudan. It is a racial war. The Arabs want the Republic of Sudan, which by land
mass is the largest country in Africa, to be an entirely Arab state, by
exterminating the Black native population gradually to the last person.
and our recent fight against apartheid. Arabs are carrying out ethnic cleansing
right now in Southern Sudan, with the financial support of the Arab world,
particularly Libya and Saudi Arabia. China is backing them against Africa. The
Janjaweed, with Sudanese and Arab governments’ backing, are trying to wipe out
the black population so as to expropriate their lands, but Africans, including
Nigerians, do not know where their interests should reside. The Arabs succeeded
in doing the same thing in Northern Africa where the original Nubian African
owners of the land have almost all been wiped out and the rest marginalized
(enslaved) by their Arab invaders/settlers since 642 CE.
people of Darfur are Moslems. Arabs do not consider Black
Moslems authentic or of consequence. At best, they concede to blacks, the role
of ordained slaves or animals, to be used as beasts of burden by the “superior
Arab race.” The rule applies to all blacks, whether Moslems or non-Moslems and
whether of Nigerian (Hausa/Fulani or Yoruba extractions) , Tanzanians, Ugandans,
Malians or African-Americans.
of Sudan, the black slaves were simply animals given by
Allah to make life of Arabs comfortable.” Osama Bin
Laden, in a discussion with the Sudanese-American novelist, Kola Boof, in
Morocco in 1996 said, “when next you meet an Arab, you should ask what is the
Arabic word for slave, you’ll discover that the words are the same “abeed.”
Which is why, when an Arab looks at a black African, what he sees is a
slave.”
his troops to the war front against black Africans in South Sudan, declared: “We
don’t want these black slaves… what we want is their land.” Arabs’ attitude to
blacks derives from Genesis’ racist fiction of the three sons of Noah — Ham,
Japheth and Shem. Arabs claim that “the accursed Ham was the progenitor of the
black race; that Japheth begat the full-faced, small eyes Europeans, and that
Shem fathered the handsome of face with beautiful hair Arabs,” of course.
December, 2008, confirming what the world already knew that the Janjaweed and
the Sudanese army, with the backing of their government, during joint or
individual attacks, raped, tortured and killed Sudanese Africans and razed their
villages to repopulate them with Arab nomads. They rounded up and abducted
escapees from hide-outs in the bush, and at other times raided refugee camps to
kidnap Africans as sex and labour slaves, working them to the bones as domestic
and farm labour. The army flew their captives in planes to Khartoum at night and
shared them among soldiers, like you allocate bags of commodities, and used them
as sex and domestic servants. Kidnapped victims interviewed, said their captors
told them that ‘they were not human beings and that they were there to serve
them.’
were killed, 100,000 abducted and 2.7 million rendered homeless refugees, with
their land appropriated by Arabs. The Khatoum government admitted 14,000
kidnaps. You can imagine what happened when the world turned a blind eye on
Sudan, in the twenty years between 1983 when the conflict began, and 2003. You
have to ask yourself what African leaders are doing in AU with Arabs. Arabs are
Africans’ mortal foes.
260 black civilians that included 12 Americans, dead. Over 4,000 Kenyans and
Tanzanians were wounded. A remorseless top Arab journalist justified the attack
by quoting Stalin: “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”
philosopher/ scientist in Islam, described blacks as “people who are by their
very nature slaves.” He wrote: “All African women are prostitutes, and the whole
race of African men are abeed (slave) stock.” He equated black people with “rats
plaguing the earth.”
levity and excitability and great emotionalism,” adding that “they are every
where described as stupid.”
communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their
complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal.
Their brains almost boil from the sun’s heat…”
people, “…the zanj (the blacks) are overdone until they are burned, so that
the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and
crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved
passions”
http://www.edofolks.com/html/arabs_in_africa.htm
Why black Africa should resist Arab domination of African Union
http://afgen.com/arab_domination.html
It is true that the population of most North African countries is mixed, but it is not a secret that in these countries there is a gradation of human valuation that corresponds directly to skin color, with the most privileged status being accorded those perceived rightly or wrongly as being of “pure” Arab stock while those with the darkest skin and curliest hair are located on the lowest rung of the social hierarchy.
In fact, Arab racism is deeply embedded in the history of North Africa itself and in the Arabic language. The Arab conquest of North Africa and the subsequent conversion and marginalization of the original Berbers and Moors of North Africa and parts of the Sahel were undergirded by a racist ethos. Till this day, the descendants of the dark-skinned Moors, the Berbers, and other non-Arab peoples are confined to the fringes of North African and North-west African society–in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, etc. The plight of the descendants of blacks (some of whose inhabitation of the Maghrib predated the Arab conquest of the 9th century and others who came to North Africa as slaves, captives, and free migrants) is worse than that of the Berbers. In Morocco, Tunisia, and throughout much of the Arab world, the only ticket to social visibility for blacks is soccer. Becoming a soccer star gives a black person access to coveted corridors of society and enables them to “marry up”, racially speaking. This is a sad commentary on the state of race relations in any society. So, while Harik is right that a uniquely complex racial taxonomy is at work in much of the Arab world, this reality hardly detracts from the presence of an unspoken, normalized, and stealthily institutionalized racism which casts black people as the dregs of society who must prove themselves worthy of social recognition and privileges.
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/moses-ebe-ochonu/arab-racism-against-black-afr.html
Salafi Imam: We Must BELIEVE Arabs are “Master Race” « A Singular …Feb 19, 2008 … In part five of my series Why Blackamerican Muslims Don’t Stand For Justice, I mentioned the racist beliefs held and taught by one of the major leaders of the 1990’s Salafi Movement (cult), Imam Abu Usamah Ath-Thahabi (a Blackamerican), that the Arabs are superior to the non-Arabs (or in other words: the Arabs are the “Master Race”)
http://singularvoice.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/salafi-imam-we-must-believe-arabs-are-master-race/
Racism in Arabia: A paler shade of black
[Mar 09, 2008]
Arabs like to imagine that their countries are comparatively free from racism. But it exists, nonetheless
The word ‘abd – Arabic for “slave” – was often used in our household when I was a child. In fact, it was so common that I had no awareness of its negative connotations until well into my teenage years. My father’s family, a proud northern Sudanese clan, used it to refer to anyone who had darker skin than themselves – from southern Sudanese house servants to migrants from Darfur. Sometimes there was a clear intent to demean, but at other times it was used almost affectionately – for example, when addressing a particularly dark-skinned or thick-lipped child.
This was a kind of racism that no one ever challenged or addressed, and it was, through a child’s eyes, very straightforward: on a scale of colour, lighter was good, darker was bad. The word ‘abd, although strictly meaning “slave” or “servant”, became synonymous with negritude. Even my Islamic heritage reinforced this with quotes from the Prophet Muhammad such as “You should listen to and obey your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian [ie black] slave whose head looks like a raisin” (Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 89, Number 256).
When we moved to post-colonial East Africa in the 1980s, ‘abd was seamlessly transferred to the locals with whom we interacted only in their capacity as domestic staff or grounds-keepers at international schools. While I myself was “black” of North African descent, my family believed its Arab roots were somehow genetically dominant, giving us smaller features and a marginally lighter skin tone – thus deeming ourselves to be an entirely a different race from the “pure” Africans.
Our next move was to Saudi Arabia, where the Arab ethnicity with which I identified so strongly was suddenly cast into doubt: now it was my turn to be the “slave”. My belief that I was an Arab, racially superior to non-Arab Africans, became laughable in the heartland of Arabia – a place where “Arabness” was not only determined by skin colour but by whether you could uninterruptedly trace your lineage back to the founding father of your clan. In fact, ancestry is so important in Saudi Arabia that courts have the power to annul a marriage if gaps are later discovered in a person’s lineage, opening up the possibility of blood line pollution.
Beneath the unforgiving scrutiny of such standards, my proud North African Arabic identity crumbled. Somehow, however, it still made some sense and fell into place in a racial spectrum where, at least, I was not on the bottom rung. I could scarcely complain, since among Saudi women themselves there was a brutal selection process where lighter-skinned women were preferred as wives, who in turn were trumped by the blonde blue-eyed babes from Lebanon who dominated satellite TV and the second-wife market.
Eventually, back in Sudan, I was introduced to another logic that negated all that had gone before. In some inverse double bluff, a new word was added to our lexicon: halabi, a pejorative term for Sudanese who are much lighter-skinned than the rest. Halabi actually means a person from Halab (Aleppo) in northern Syria but for some curious reason it was applied to the descendants of Egyptians or Arabian Bedouins who had settled in Sudan.
Apparently, the halabis were just as contemptible as “slaves” and the categorisation of individuals as such seemed even more arbitrary. A marriage suitor would be dismissed if he came from a tribe of slaves, regardless of the colour of his skin, but would equally be frowned upon if he were of Levantine or Egyptian origin. The former was due to his race (irrespective of its physical manifestations) and the latter to his dubious ancestry. There seemed to be such a limited optimal colour/race/culture combination, all underscored by some vague definition of honour (which, naturally, everybody else lacked) and rooted in an even more intangible notion of “origin” (asl), the dubiousness of which implied a lack of breeding. Never mind bemoaning the lack of a common Arab identity, there seemed to be categorisations ad infinitum and constantly moving goalposts. The prejudices cannot even be explained away as reflecting different cultural perceptions of beauty. Throughout Sudan, halabi girls are universally regarded more attractive than their darker counterparts; it is the whiff of a questionable origin – a visceral suspicion of difference – that condemns them, somehow, as less than honourable.
All this plays out against a backdrop of political and media messaging within the Arab world asserting that the Muslim Arab man, in human terms, is far superior to the occidental man. Bilal ibn Rabah, a black disciple of the Prophet Muhammad and first muezzin (caller to prayer) of Islam, is often held up by religious clerics as a symbol of the inclusiveness of Islam, while much is made of the perceived plight of African-Americans in the US.
Egyptian and Syrian soap operas set in colonial times paint the western colonisers as one-dimensional pillagers while western media and films are accused of depicting Arabs in a poor light. Historically, the lack of a modern institutionalised slavery system in the Arab world in addition to the absence of laws enshrining racial segregation (like those that existed in the US until the 20th century) enhances this sense of superiority in comparison to what is perceived to be the “modern” occident.
This sentiment in turn precipitates its own racial stereotype: that of a white man who is fundamentally racist … polite and patronising … but ultimately arrogant and fastidious in his belief that all other races are inferior.
Even if that were the case, it is a welcome relief to know where one stands.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/nesrine_malik/2008/03/a_paler_shade_of_black.html
http://www.eutimes.net/2008/03/racism-in-arabia-a-paler-shade-of-black/
Equal rightsMy second crunch point is equal rights. I think it’s fair to say that most Arabs accept equality as a principle, in a very general, theoretical sort of way, and most Arab states pay some sort of lip-service to notions of equality. For instance, the constitution of Jordan says:
Jordanians shall be equal before the law. There shall be no discrimination between them as regards to their rights and duties on grounds of race, language or religion.
And the constitution of Yemen:
The state shall guarantee equal opportunities for all citizens in the fields of political, economic, social and cultural activities and shall enact the necessary laws for the realisation thereof.
The problem is that equality, as a principle, also has to compete with other social principles – often more powerful ones – pushing in the opposite direction: the obligation to help your own kind; the high value placed on conformity and the low value placed on diversity; the desire to assert identity; and the need to keep up appearances of national unity (whatever the underlying reality) in the face of perceived threats from outside.
Discrimination is closely linked to ideas about family, kinship and ancestry – especially in the moder traditional parts of the Arab world.Nesrine Malik talked to me about her experience growing up in Sudan. She said:
My father’s family is very obsessed that we’re the Maliks. We have land, our ancestor was the founder of this tribe … You’re indoctrinated with the superiority of the tribe. My father’s tribe, they say things like: “We’re taller and our skin is softer.” My dad’s family would say: “This guy doesn’t look like he’s free” – meaning: “Were his family slaves?” If there is even a hint, then it’s a problem. It can be appearance – if you have a slightly bigger nose, slightly kinkier hair, if you are less Ethiopian, less Eritrean-looking, more southern Sudanese, you’ve got a problem, even if you have no slave background at all …
These issues would come particularly to the fore whenever a marriage was contemplated. In Nesrine’s view, it was all about maintaining a consistent family tree. She said:
Birth and lineage, at least from what I’ve seen in Sudan – it’s a massive thing. Because you know that you are from a pure stock, it gives you a sense of superiority and snobbery. It’s so accepted, so normal.People would limit their choice of partner and their choice of who you mixed your blood with. Basically it’s a fear, a terror of this blood line being polluted, and I think it’s entirely in people’s heads. It’s a tribal legacy.
But the Malik family’s confidence in their social status was suddenly shaken when they moved to Saudi Arabia where ideas of “pure” breeding are taken to even greater extremes. Nesrine continued:
My little sister, she’s got a really fat nose. The first week we were there, we were sitting in a car and a little Saudi girl walked by with her mother. The Saudi girl pointed to her and said to her mother:
“Abda! Shufi abda!” (“Look! A slave-girl!”). My little sister was just … she was in tears, coming from this really proud Sudanese family. She was teased in school, and they used to call her
“khubza mahruqa” – which means burnt bread – because she was dark.
It was a similar story a few years later when Nesrine continued her studies at university in Egypt and shared a female dormitory with a mixture of Sunni Muslims and Coptic Christians. She said:
The Sunni girls wouldn’t eat with the Coptic girls and they wouldn’t take their clothes off – they wouldn’t change – in front of the Coptic girls, because they had this kind of fear that they were impure, the devil was in them, or something like that, and there was very, very clear friction between the two.
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/articles/text/soas100126.htm
Africans in Medieval Europe: Part II – Perceptions and Legacy
The perception of blacks in Muslim Spain by their Arab allies is not a topic that has received much attention. Rather there is more interest on how Arabs in other parts of the Muslim world regarded blacks. Historian Bernard Lewis has probably done the most specific work in this area. He remarks that color prejudice against blacks began to increase in the 7th Century AD.His reasoning for this included Arab ethnocentrism and the increasing role of blacks as slaves. Lewis points to poetic satire aimed at the black son of one of the Prophet Mohammad’s close companions, who was appointed governor of Sistan in 671 and again in 697. Writing of him, an Arab poet calls him a “stinking Nubian black – God put no light in their complexions!”
Bernard makes the argument that this negative view of blacks had begun to extend throughout the Muslim world.
Brunson and Rashidi note that in Spain, the Arabs have disdain for their Berber allies. This bias is especially reserved for the darker Berbers whom Brunson and Rashidi believe were black. They cite a reference of bias by a high-ranking Arab who refuses to work next to an equally high ranking Almohad, “because the dark-skinned Berber seemed to him far below his own intellectual standards”.
Such bias towards Berbers is the most frequently discussed by historians. But as most of these writers do not consider the possibility of black Berbers, this bias is blamed upon Arab ethnocentrism as opposed to racial animosity. Brunson and Rashidi contend that the Arab view of their superiority over the nomadic Berber groups resulted in many forms of bias directed against the Berbers. They point out that Berbers were given poor land allotments and levied heavier taxes. Fletcher cites this unequal treatment as the cause for a large Berber revolt in the Maghreb in 739. Brunson and Rashidi assert that a partial reason for this bias may have been the heterogeneous (mixed) nature of some Berber populations.
Brunson and Rashidi cite such bias as a cause for a reactionary 9th century work “The Superiority of the Black Races Over the Whites” by a black Muslim scholar, Uthman’ Amr ibn Bahr al-Jahiz. They point out that al-Jahiz included the Berbers and Moors among these blacks.
http://playahata.com/pages/bhfigures/bhfigures20.html
Pan-Arabism is a destructive political theory because it bills itself as a
moral imperative without regard to the morality of its consequences.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=156779&disqus_reply=4072253#dsq-alerts
“…the Sudan is the basis of the Arab thrust into…black Africa, the Arab civilizing mission (Arabism and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese Politics, …
http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=455Darfur Genocide and Arab Racism
April 20, 2009 by Kezia Dewi
Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. The ethnic groups in Sudan are: black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1%. The Sudanese Arabs find their heritage in the Bedouin who wandered the deserts of Saudi Arabia centuries ago. Aspects of pure Arab life, such as rigid codes of honor, loyalty and hospitality, discrimination to the women have remained strong in their culture. They are also believed to be the largest group living in Northern and Central Sudan, with a population currently numbering over 16,000,000.
Government of Sudan dominated by Sudanese Arab. Sudan previously had an authoritarian government in which all effective political power was in the hands of President Omar al-Bashir. Sudan also has had a troubled relationship with many of its neighbours and much of the international community owing to what is viewed as its aggressively Islamic stance. The United States goverment has accused Sudan of harboring members of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Jamaat al-Islamiyya, and Egyptian Islamic Jihad. All of them classified as a terrorist organization. The legal system in Sudan is based on English common law and Islamic sharia.
While, Darfur is a region in West Sudan. It covers an area approximately the size of France. This region have a variety of tribal people, from all religions. Darfur genocide has come about from a rebellion against domination of Sudanese Arab in the Sudanese government. The rebels are ethnic Africans. The rebels say the government is oppressing black Africans in favour of Arabs. In the ongoing genocide, African farmers and others in Darfur are being systematically displaced and murdered at the hands of the Janjaweed. Who are the janjaweed? Janjaweed militiamen are primarily members of nomadic “Arab” tribes. The government of Sudan supported this militia. Janjaweed were trained and armed by Sudanese soldiers, ordered by the Government to attack Darfur’s villages and given military support. The Sudan government using the Janjaweed to restore its full control on the region. So far, at least 400,000 people has been killed (65-75% of them are civilians) and 2.5 millions have been obliged to leave their houses. Janjaweed also using rape and slavery as ‘integral’ weapon in Darfur. Ironically, under Sudanese law /Islamic Sharia, to prove rape, a women needs four male witnesses. While, a woman proven to have had sex outside of marriage can be stoned to death. According to Sudan’s culture, a child’s identity is determined by the ethnicity of the father. Thats why, the rapists (Janjaweed) have a ready-made excuse for their crimes on the battlefield: to replace the black communities with a new generation of Arab children. The Janjaweed, with Sudanese and Arab governments’ backing, are trying to wipe out the black population so as to expropriate their lands.
The recent violence also has its roots in the cultural legacy of slavery. There are Arabs racist attitudes towards Africans. The ‘Arab’ trade primarily harvested the women of East Africa to serve as domestic slaves, wet nannies and sex-slaves in the infamous harems. Arabs concede to blacks, to be used as beasts of burden by the “superior Arab race.” The rule applies to all blacks, whether Moslems or non-Moslems. Its logic if Arab leaders have concluded their annual summit by showing their support for Sudanese President who is wanted for Darfur genocide.
sources :
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2489206.ece
http://www.red-alerts.com/islamic-expansionism/the-bloody-legacy-of-arab-islam-in-africa/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1640836/darfur_genocide_and_arab_racism.html
Racism at root of Sudan’s Darfur crisis … Race
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0714/p09s02-coop.htmlhttp://www.law.buffalo.edu/Faculty_And_Staff/submenu/MutuaM/newspapers/csm071404.pdf
The Emergence and Impacts of Islamic Radicalists – Professor. Dr. Girma Yohannes Iyassu Menelik – 2009 – 112 page (page 36)
The origin of Arab superiority ideology and racism is one of the main causes of the present ethnic cleansing and genocide in Darfur. This can be traced back to 1981, when a Libyan supported Sudanese group al-Tajammu’ al-‘Arabi (the Arab alliance) distributed pamphlets declaring that ‘the Zurga (blacks) had ruled Darfur long enough and that it was time for Arabs to have their turn,’ if neccessary by resorting to force, in 2004, under the leadership of Musa Hilal, one of the most powerful leaders of the Janjaweed militias Tajammu’ al-‘Arabi issued a dfirective that called upon its supporters to change the demographics of Darfur and clean it of its African tribes…
since early and mid-1980s; Arabism has become sharper as a racial ideology in Sudan. The Darfur conflict raging since 2003, has given urgency to questions about Arabism, Islam, and race in Sudan. On an everyday level this racism is manifested by Arabs’ deragetory term abid (slaves) attached with sexual violence and a series of rude slurs’ — to apply to western and southern.
http://books.google.com/books?id=D2VYLxY9mqQC&pg=PA36by J Pekkinen – 2009…
From 1500 to roughly 1800, most of what is now present-day Sudan was considered the Funj Sultanate of Sinnar. The Funj, an Arabized and Islamicized group, overthrew the Christian Kingdom of Nubia in 1504 and institutionalized Islam as the nationa religion. The Sinnar Sultunate and its sister sultuante in Darfur were well-known, an Arabized and Islamicized group, overthrew the Christian Kingdom of Nubia in 1504 and institutionalized Islam as the nationa religion. The Sinnar Sultunate and its sister sultuante in Darfur were well-known slave-raiding kingdoms, and the Muslim slaver-raiders of Sinnar and Darfur became a dominant regional force. Islam and Arabism were seen as the carriers of civilization, as Amir Idris calls it, and those who were not part of either were subject to subordination, exploitation and enslavement. At the time, agricultural and other “menial” labor was considered socially humiliating. Thus non-Muslim and non-Arab slavers, who did much of that work, were looked down upon and the Arabic-speaking riverain Muslims came to see themselves as culturally superior. Idris… argues that while Arabism was a product of enslavement…
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/bin/k/q/jennifer-pekkinen-program-paper.pdf
Arab Identity and Ideology in Sudan: The Politics of Language …by HJ Sharkey – 2007
These scholars agree that Arabism in Darfur is increasingly racial or racist in the sense that it assumes a certain hierarchy of peoples, which in turn …http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/adm068v1
African affairs, Volume 107, Author Royal African Society, Publisher Published for the Royal African Society by the Oxford University Press, 2008, Original from the University of CaliforniaFrom 1500 to roughly 1800, most of what is now present-day Sudan was considered the Funj Sultanate of Sinnar. The Funj, an Arabized and Islamicized group, overthrew the Christian Kingdom of Nubia in 1504 and institutionalized Islam as the nationa religion. The Sinnar Sultunate and its sister sultuante in Darfur were well-known, an Arabized and Islamicized group, overthrew the Christian Kingdom of Nubia in 1504 and institutionalized Islam as the nationa religion. The Sinnar Sultunate and its sister sultuante in Darfur were well-known slave-raiding kingdoms, and the Muslim slaver-raiders of Sinnar and Darfur became a dominant regional force. Islam and Arabism were seen as the carriers of civilization, as Amr Idris calls it, and those who were not part of either were subject to subordination, exploitation and enslavement. At the time, agricultural and other “menial” labor was considered socially humiliating. Thus non-Muslim and non-Arab slavers, who did much of that work, were looked down upon and the Arabic-speaking riverain Muslims came to see themselves as culturally superior. Idris… argues that while Arabism was a product of enslavement…
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/bin/k/q/jennifer-pekkinen-program-paper.pdfFARROW ATTACKS SUDAN’S ‘CRUEL’ LEADERS 2007-12-04…
Actress MIA FARROW has blasted Sudanese leaders for jailing a British schoolteacher accused of blasphemy, calling their treatment of her a typical act of “palpable insanity and cruelty”.
The UNICEF goodwill ambassador hopes the imprisonment of Gillian Gibbons who was incarcerated for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad will highlight the tyrannical control the downtrodden people of Darfur are forced to live under and, in turn, prompt Westerners to help them.
However, Farrow – who was in London on Sunday (02Dec07) to launch new campaign Fund4Darfur – is outraged that Gibbons’ plight grabbed the headlines when the bigger issues facing the war-ravaged folk of Darfur are still being ignored by the media.
She said, “One white woman in peril with a teddy bear has captured more media attention than the past three years of our brothers and sisters in the Darfur region.
“This is the first genocide of the 21st century and the one genocide that is ongoing as we speak. We have a regime that launched a military campaign on an unarmed population for no other reason than that they are not Arab.” Fund4Darfur will aid the survivors of the fighting between Sudan’s government and Darfur’s rebels, who have been at war for four years, resulting in 200,000 casualties and 2.5 million being forced from their homes.
http://www.pr-inside.com/farrow-attacks-sudan-s-cruel-leaders-r331622.htmThe shameful Muslim silence on Darfur In Darfur, the government’s drive to “Arabize” a country that is made up of myriad ethnic groups has found a full and willing partner in Arab nomads…
http://www.healingthebody.net/articles/shameful%20muslim%20silence.htm
RACISM
The Arab world’s dirty secret
By Mona Eltahawy Published:
December 10, 2008NEW YORK: I was on my way home on the Cairo Metro, lost in thought as I
listened to music when I noticed a young Egyptian taunting a Sudanese girl. She
reached out and tried to grab the girl’s nose and laughed when the girl tried to
brush her hand away.The Sudanese girl looked to be Dinka, from southern Sudan and not the
northern Sudanese who “look like us.” She was obviously in distress.I removed my headphones and asked the Egyptian woman “Why are you treating
her like that?”She exploded into a tornado of yelling, demanding to know why it was my
business. I told her it was my business because as an Egyptian and as a Muslim
who was riding the Metro, her behavior was wrong and I would not stay silent
about it. I knew she was Muslim because she wore a scarf.I told her that the way she was treating the Sudanese girl made the scarf
on her head meaningless. Her mother asked me why I didn’t cover my hair and I
replied that I didn’t want to be a hypocrite like her and her daughter.Today in Opinion
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small and dangerous spatAs distressing as I found that young woman’s behavior, I
was even more distressed that the other women in the Metro car watched and said
nothing. They made no attempt to defend the Sudanese girl nor to defend me when
I confronted the Egyptian woman.After the Egyptian woman got off at her station, I asked the other women
why they didn’t do anything. One woman said she stayed silent because the racist
woman would’ve yelled at her. So what, I asked? If enough of the women had
confronted her, she would have been outnumbered.I apologized to the Sudanese girl for the Egyptian woman’s behavior and she
thanked me and told me “Egyptians are bad.” I could only imagine other times
she’d been abused publicly.We are a racist people in Egypt and we are in deep denial about it. On my
Facebook page, I blamed racism for my argument and an Egyptian man wrote to deny
that we are racists and used as his proof a program on Egyptian Radio featuring
Sudanese songs and poetry!Our silence over racism not only destroys the warmth and hospitality we are
proud of as Egyptians, it has deadly consequences.What else but racism on Dec. 30, 2005, allowed hundreds of riot policemen
to storm through a makeshift camp in central Cairo to clear it of 2,500 Sudanese
refugees, trampling or beating to death 28 people, among them women and
children?What else but racism lies behind the bloody statistics at the Egyptian
border with Israel where, since 2007, Egyptian guards have killed at least 33
migrants, many from Sudan’s Darfur region, including a pregnant woman and a
7-year-old girl?The racism I saw on the Cairo Metro has an echo in the Arab world at large,
where the suffering in Darfur goes ignored because its victims are black and
because those who are creating the misery in Darfur are not Americans or
Israelis and we only pay attention when America and Israel behave badly.We love to cry “Islamophobia” when we talk about the way Muslim minorities
are treated in the West and yet we never stop to consider how we treat
minorities and the most vulnerable among us.The U.S. television network ABC recently staged a scenario in which an
actor worked in a bakery in Texas and refused to serve an actress dressed as a
Muslim woman in a headscarf. The scene was an experiment to see if other
customers would help the Muslim woman.Thirteen customers defended her by yelling at the clerk, asking for the
manager or walking out in disgust. Six customers supported the bigoted clerk and
22 looked away and did absolutely nothing.I wonder now which Egyptian television channel would dare to stage such an
experiment? And which Arab television channel would dare to stage a program that
so boldly confronts us with the question “what would you do?”For those of us who move between different worlds – where one day we are a
majority as I am as a Sunni Muslim in Egypt and another we are a minority as I
am as a Muslim in America – it is clear that to defend the rights of a Sudanese
girl on the Cairo Metro means to defend my right on the New York Subway.We live in a world that is connected in unprecedented ways. And that
connection now extends to rights. If we want our rights to be respected we must
do the right thing, everywhere.Mona Eltahawy is a columnist for Egypt’s Al Masry Al Youm and Qatar’s Al
Arab. She is based in New York.
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