Posted on 10/31/2007 4:02:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is under fire from Jewish groups after a speech he gave at a pro-life event the weekend before last. In the address to the Family Research Council, the former Arkansas governor referred to the deaths of 45-50 million unborn children from abortion as a holocaust.
In the speech, he linked the issues of abortion and illegal immigration -- saying the destruction of tens of millions of unborn children has left the U.S. with a worker shortage.
“Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our work force,” Huckabee said in the speech.
“It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our work force had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973," he explained.
Following the speech, the Anti-Defamation League called on presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to refrain from invoking Holocaust imagery in future comments on the campaign trail.
In a letter to Governor Huckabee, ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said: "The Holocaust was a unique tragedy in human history."
"We find the use of analogies to the Holocaust in other contexts deeply painful, disturbing and offensive," Foxman said. "Such analogies can only trivialize and diminish the horror, and cause further pain to Holocaust survivors and to those alive today who lost friends and loved ones."
But pro-life advocates have now come to Huckabee's defense saying that his use of the term was not meant as an offense to Jewish people but to underscore the equal tragedy in the destruction of human life.
Kristi Hamrick, a spokeswoman for the Campaign for Working Families, told The Jewish Daily Forward, “I’m surprised that it’s considered controversial when that is a common reference."
“Among pro-lifers, both events are seen as tragic, but the death toll now from abortion is between 40 and 50 million in the United States since 1973," Hamrick explained. "Now that’s a huge number of people who are dead and gone.”
Asked if he approved of Huckabee’s use of the word “holocaust,” Marvin Olasky, a conservative columnist and onetime Bush adviser, told the newspaper, he believed the word was “objectively” accurate.
Olasky said Huckabee used the term “honestly and respectfully" but he is generally “subjectively uncomfortable” with the word’s adoption by those who oppose legalized abortion.
Huckabee has been picking up more support lately in the polls, in part because some of the pro-life advocates who had been in Sam Brownback's camp shifted to him.
Abortion is the Holocaust of an entire generation.
You are So Right! God Bless you. I have seen first hand the mass murder that Saddam was guilty of in Iraq but that pales to the infantacide our system is currently guilty of. God help us.
Greek holos means "whole" or "entire." Greek kaiein means "to light," "to set on fire," "to burn up," or "to burn." Kaustos means "burnt" or "red-hot."
A number of words combining the two roots (more often without the s before the t) are found in pagan authors at least as early as Xenophon, as well as in the Septuagint and in Josephus.
In Exodus 10.25, Moses tells Pharaoh "Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God"--the Greek word for "burnt offerings" is holokautomata.
Leviticus 6 lays down the law for burnt offerings. For example, at 6.23 (6.16 LXX) it says "for every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt; it shall not be eaten"--the Greek for "wholly burnt" is holokautos.
Somewhere around 45 million little babies murdered since Roe v Wade was approved by the Supremes. Oh, and Hitlery is fully in favor of these murders and just said so again. Think of her in the WH again! GAG!
Abortion can be compared to slavery, the Holocaust, and genocide. Each of these things discriminated/discriminate against a particular group of people for arbitrary reasons. Slavery discriminated based on skin color, the Holocaust discriminated on faith, and genocide dicriminates people based on the national, ethnical, racial, or religious group people belong to. The unborn are discriminated against and declared not worthy of life because of their size and location.
The response form the ADL illustrates Ann Coulter’s point in her new column exactly.
And no, Mr. Foxman, the Holocaust was not a unique event in human history. It is one of many Holocausts, some known and many unknown, as long as man as been on the earth.
I surprised Mr. Foxman has trademarked “The Holocaust”TM.
And yes, 55 million children eradicated in 35 years come January is one hell of a pile of blood.
It is a Holocaust in every sense of the word.
A holocaust is a mass slaughter, i.e. done “in mass”. Abortions are individual offenses done one at a time, by people with no connection to one another. I think that is what they mean.
B1 Bob Dornan...had the best line, and it sticks with me to the day (although not verbatim), “...I can be right or wrong on a lot of issues, but when I get to the pearly gates, I know I can’t be wrong on abortion.”
The same reason they object to anyone applying the term 'holocaust' to the murdered unborn, they are pro-abortion and don't believe that the fetus is a human life.
I'm Jewish, and I am in 100% agreement with Huckabee on this issue. On the other hand, I don't recall Foxman getting his nose out of joint when others, like Jackson or Sharpton used the exact same term for slavery and Jim Crow, as well as their perceived "racism" today. Though Foxman did get upset when PETA compared the poultry industry to the murder machine that was NAZI Germany... So I guess this does prove that even a broken clock can be right once a day...
Mark
The last number I heard was over forty million murdered babies since Roe V. Wade. This is a HOLOCAUST!!!
But, the original meaning is to sacrifice by fire.
And a common use in writing was as a synonym for "inferno."
I think that the key feature here, at least as it was reported in the original article is that the phrase used was "a holocaust," rather than "The Holocaust." The first refers to your run of the mill genocide, while the later refers to a specific event. Sort of like "an internet" (internetwork) versus "The Internet."
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I think that Huckabee hit the nail right on the head.
Mark
I haven't studied Hebrew, but I have a Langenscheidt's Hebrew-English Pocket Dictionary. Under the letter Shin it has a word spelled shin-aleph meaning "destruction" and a word spelled shin-aleph-he meaning "to become desolate." (I'm ignoring the Masoretic points that indicate vowel sounds because I don't know the terms for them.) These two words seem to be related and I would guess that Shoah is a form derived from one of them.
Widespread,voluntary abortion is the most short-sided,stupid policy any society could undertake;it means destroying your own future.
Good man, that Huckabee.
The death of 50 million American babies fits that description.
It's the American holocaust.....and we can't deny it happened ... or that it continues to happen each and every day.
And...the fact they are murdering babies still in the womb OR waiting for them to be born THEN MURDERING THEM is beyond the pale. I’ll tell ya this much...I sure wouldn’t want to be in their shoes. How could anyone murder a baby? How could anyone murder anyone much less a baby. God forbid...God forgive and yes, God help us all.
So, ADL supports killing babies. This is not a surprise. They’ve managed to lose their grasp on what had been their core principles.
So now only dead Jews count?
Don’t call it mass murder. We’ll get alienated high-schoolers mad at us.
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