Sunday, March 22, 2015

Needed: "Islamist Apartheid Week"

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Needed: "Islamist Apartheid Week"

by Uzay Bulut  •  March 22, 2015 at 5:00 am
The last thing the Middle East needs is still another genocidal, totalitarian, racist state, run by Islamic extremists such as Hamas.
"The BDS movement is immoral because it violates the core principle if human rights: namely, 'the worst first.' Israel is among the freest and most democratic nations in the world. It is certainly the freest and most democratic nation in the Middle East. Its Arab citizens enjoy more rights than Arabs anywhere else in the world. They serve in the Knesset, in the Judiciary, in the Foreign Service, in the academy and in business. They are free to criticize Israel and support its enemies." — Alan M. Dershowitz, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School.
What these dictators and tyrants evidently calculate, is that if Israel can just be made to go away, their own people will no longer be able to compare the restrictions at home to the limitless opportunities they can see so temptingly in the oasis next door.
The UN, which allows voting from countries that do not even allow their own people to vote, has, year after year, been calling for the destruction of -- not those tyrannies calling for genocide -- but the one country in the region with equal justice under law, which keeps reminding the rest of us of what we cannot get.
What the BBC did not show was the Hamas has enough money to build military training camps for 17,000 women and children in Gaza, as well as to rebuild its "military bases" near its border with Israel. That does not reflect a shortage of funds; that reflects what Hamas chooses to do with them.
Sadly, we do not see thousands of people marching in the streets, organizing protests or seminars in university campuses condemning the Palestinian Authority, the Jordanian government or Lebanon for their abuses of human rights and other unjust acts against Palestinians. But why? Because those abuses were not committed by Jews? How much more racist can one get?
The Jews are Israel's native indigenous people -- biblically, historically and archeologically.
"Christians are indeed the most persecuted religious group in the world today. But reporting it would violate the media's narrative of Christians as the persecutors and Muslims as victims." — Raymond Ibrahim, Middle East scholar.
Each month, about 322 Christians are killed for their faith.
No matter what the activists of the BDS and other Jew-hating movements claim, what they do not do is promote either peaceful coexistence or justice.
Anti-Israel protestors in Australia demand Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), June 2010. (Image source: Takver/Wikimedia Commons)
Grave human rights violations against religious and ethnic minorities have become increasingly commonplace in the Muslim world. Not only Jews are targeted, but, as the world has seen, Christians, Hindus, Baha'i, Alevis, Shi'as, Sunnis -- and anyone who does not conform to some self-appointed person's vision of Islam. Muslims are burned alive, Christians' heads are cut off on a beach, a Christian couple in Pakistan is thrown alive onto a burning kiln, churches and Bibles are not allowed in Saudi Arabia, and there are sign-posted roads and turn-offs for anyone not Muslim. It is hard to get more "apartheid" than that.

The Age of "Dangerous Turkish Criminals"

by Burak Bekdil  •  March 22, 2015 at 4:00 am
The teen's father, in comments to the press, called for the government to use its resources to crack down on corrupt government officials, rather than children expressing themselves on social media.
"It is an honor to be detained for my opinions, not for stealing or for corruption." — Atilla Tas, Turkish singer.
Can Dundar, one of Turkey's most prominent journalists, and editor-in-chief of the secular daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, was summoned after interviewing a prosecutor in charge of a massive corruption investigation that implicated Erdogan, his sons, four cabinet ministers, their sons and some government-friendly businessmen. A criminal investigation launched against Dundar alleged that his remarks in the interview had insulted Erdogan.
16-year-old Mehmet Emin Altunses (center) was arrested and charged with the crime of insulting Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, by allegedly chanting "chief of theft, bribery and corruption" during a protest. (Image source: RT video screenshot)
There seems to be an epidemic in Turkey. Dozens of ordinary citizens -- old, young, famous, unknown, even minors -- are being detained for allegedly insulting Turkey's President (and former Prime Minister), Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Abdulhamid (or Abdul Hamid) II (1842-1918), was a deeply paranoid man who rarely travelled, out of fear of assassination. Known in the West as the "Red Sultan," due to atrocities against non-Muslim minorities during the fall of the empire, Abdulhamid II ran a network of spies to crush every crumb of dissent against his iron-fisted rule. The press was heavily censored. Ideologically, he had illusions of Pan-Islamism, and loved to appear in public as the champion of Islam against a supposedly aggressive Christendom.
Sound familiar?

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