The Road to the Muslim Holocaust

By Ghali Hassan

"We are being challenged by Islam these years -- globally as well as locally. It is a challenge we have to take seriously. We have let this issue float about for too long because we are tolerant and lazy. We have to show our opposition to Islam and we have to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on us because there are some things for which we should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction."
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, 15 April 2005

"Tolerance is a falsehood often pronounced with difficulty in all of Western societies. Small countries such as Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, and Sweden are leading the pack in the war on Muslims at home, and may be on the road to encouraging a new Holocaust against humanity.

"While these countries are part of the U.S.-led coalition, which is responsible for the mass murder of Iraqis, they have also introduced discriminate and draconian immigration laws which are specifically directed against Muslims fleeing war and economic hardship. The pretexts are always the phantom of the 'War on Terror'.

"Historically, Muslims have been at the receiving end of Western-Christian violence for centuries. Following the 9/11 attack on the USA, Western Europe joined the U.S. in its anti-Muslim crusade: 'We are all Americans now' united against Muslims. Although, 9/11 stills a mystery, it is used to legitimise a new form of Western-Christian fascism. Media pundits such as Christopher Hitchens and Daniele Pipes, who support the anti-Muslim ideology, are springing up like mushrooms all over the Western world. Using the cliché of 'free speech', they are fuelling a vicious and violent war against Muslims around the world.

"The recent blasphemous images of Prophet Mohammed published in the Danish right-wing Christian, Jyllands-Posten (J-P) newspaper are nothing more than a campaign which promotes racism, violence and the marginalisation of European Muslims. Islam is a peaceful religion, and Muslims are not 'terrorists'. The insult to Prophet Mohammed, who is revered by over a billion people around the world, has nothing to do with 'free speech'. Had the Danish cartoonist shown instead George Bush and Tony Blair slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi women and children, he would have had lost his job by now and would be condemned by the same people who are barking about 'free speech'. Would any newspaper in Europe dare to discuss Europe’s strict censorship laws of discussing the Holocaust?

"Barely a month ago, in early January 2006, Flemming Rose, the 'cultural' editor of the Jyllands-Posten, told Dan Bilefsky of the International Herald Tribune, that, 'he would not publish a cartoon of Ariel Sharon strangling a Palestinian baby, since that could be construed as "racist"'. In the past, Jyllands-Posten has also refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ submitted in April 2003 by Danish illustrator Christoffer Zieler, because they were 'offensive, not funny'. Zieler was also advised by the editor, Jens Kaiser: 'I don't think Jyllands-Posten's readers will enjoy the drawings. As a matter of fact, I think that they will provoke an outcry. Therefore, I will not use them'. (The Guardian, 06/02/2006). It is 'free speech' only if Westerners agree, otherwise, it is 'offensive' or 'anti-Semitism'. Flemming Rose has now offered a helping hand to Iran in drawing cartoons depicting the Holocaust. Rose will work together in assistance with the Iranians who want to draw the Holocaust and that the paper (J-P) would publish and print the Holocaust cartoons. It is also against the Danish criminal code (Article 140) to publish the blasphemous cartoons.

"I should also add that Ambassadors from at least twelve Muslim nations in Demark requested to meet (last October) with Mr Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Prime Minister of Denmark to explain their opposition the blasphemous cartoons, but Mr Rasmussen refused and rejected their request ..."
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Update: Anne from Copenhagen has left a comment on this post:

"Hey, i would like to tell you that the quote that you bring here from the danish queen is a result of wrong translation.

"I must correct this wrong quotation that you bring! it is a mistranslation!

"The queen Margrethe of Denmark is NOT talking about 'opposition' but about 'response'.

"The danish word for response is MODSPIL and the danish word for opposition is MODSTAND. The translater have not been aware from this differense. And has thereby been putting more wood to the fire, like many of the other acuses that we suffer from these days."

Thank you, Anne.

Tagged: muhammad+cartoons, racism, islam, terrorism, war+on+terror