Posted on 03/15/2011 5:12:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is very difficult to hate babies.
It takes a special person.
As morally wrong as it is to murder innocent adults, mankind seems to have a built-in revulsion against killing babies. If a baby does not evoke any tenderness, if a baby is regarded as worthy of being deliberately hurt or murdered, we know that we have encountered a degree of evil that few humans -- even among murderers -- can relate to.
That is why what Palestinian terrorists did to a Jewish family on the West Bank this past weekend deserves far more attention than it received.
Normally, Palestinian atrocities get little attention -- certainly far less attention than Israeli apartment-building on the West Bank receives. But this particular atrocity got even less attention than usual because the world was focused on the terrible tsunami that hit Japan.
On Friday night, Palestinian terrorists slipped into a Jewish settlement, entered a home and stabbed the father, the mother and three of their children to death: an 11-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a three-month-old baby.
In order to understand what those actions mean, a seemingly separate incident needs to be recalled: the prolonged sexual attack by up to 200 Egyptian men on Lara Logan, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, in Tahrir Square, Cairo a few weeks ago. It was reported that after stripping her naked and then molesting and beating her, the men kept shouting, "Jew, Jew!"
The two incidents tell the same tale. In much of the Arab Muslim and some of the non-Arab Muslim world today (such as Iran), "Jew" is not a person. "Jew" is not even merely the enemy. In fact, there is no parallel on Earth to what "Jew" means to a hundred million, perhaps hundreds of millions of Muslims.
Think of any conflict in the world -- Pakistan-India, China-Tibet, North Korea-South Korea, Tamil-Sinhalese. There are some deep hatreds there, and atrocities have been committed on one or both sides of those conflicts. But in none of those conflicts nor anywhere else is there something equivalent to what "Jew" means to millions of Muslims.
There really is only one historical parallel, and it, too, involved the word "Jew." The Nazis also succeeded in fully dehumanizing the word "Jew." Thus, for Nazism, it was as important (if not more so) to murder Jewish babies and children -- often through as cruel a means as possible (being burned alive, buried alive or thrown up in the air and impaled on bayonets) -- as it was to murder Jewish adults.
The human being does not have to learn to hate. It seems to come pretty naturally. Nor does the human being have to learn to murder, steal or rape. These, too, seem to be in the natural human repertoire of evils.
But the human being does have to learn to hate children and babies, and to regard the torture and murder of them as morally desirable acts. It takes years of work to undo normal protective human attitudes toward children.
That is precisely what the Nazis did and what significant parts of the Muslim world have done to the word "Jew." To them, the Jew is not just sub-human; the Jew -- and his or her children -- is sub-animal.
Palestinian and other Muslim spokesmen and their supporters on the left argue that this unique hatred is the fruit of Israeli policies, not decades of Nazi-like Jew-hatred saturating Islamic education, television, radio and the mosque. But for this to be true, unique hatred would have to be matched by unique evil on the Israelis' part.
Yet, among the injustices of the world, what the Israelis have done to the Palestinians would not even register on a moral Richter scale. The creation of Israel engendered about 750,000 Palestinian refugees (and an equal number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries) and the death of perhaps 10 thousand Palestinian Arabs. And all of that came about solely because Arab armies invaded Israel in order to destroy it at birth. Yet, when Pakistan was yanked from India and established as a Muslim state at the very same time Israel was established, that act engendered 12.5 million Muslim refugees and about a million dead Muslims (and similar numbers of Hindu refugees and deaths). Why then doesn't "Hindu" equal "Jew" in the Muslim lexicon of hate?
Here are some answers in brief:
First, many groups have been hated, but none have been hated as deeply as the Jews.
Second, Jew-hatred is often exterminationist, which is why Jew-hatred has little in common with ethnic bigotry, religious intolerance or even racism. Rarely, if ever, do any of them seek the extermination of the disliked or hated group.
Third, exterminationist Jew-haters are particularly dangerous people. Non-Jews who do not recognize Jew-hatred as the moral cancer it is are fools. Nazism was born in Jew-hatred and led to the death of more than 40 million non-Jews. Islamic terror started against Israeli Jews but has spread around the world. More fellow Muslims have now been murdered by Islamic terror than Jews have.
That is why the tsunami the world ignored this weekend -- the Palestinian-Arab-Muslim flood of Jew-hatred -- is the one that will prove far more dangerous to it than the Japanese one it understandably focused on.
muslim fanatics (mothers) raising their children for martyrdom, and “honor” killings, are part of the extreme aberration in human nature we see in ISLAMic preaching and practice.
If mothers will send their own children to die in the process of killing others, what hope is there for “moderation”? If fathers and brotehrs will strangle or bury alive their own daughters, why would they hesitate to cut the throats of Jewish children or burn Catholic families and priests alive during a mass?
I believe it was Golda Meir who said something like “There will be no peace until the arabs love their own children more than they hate us”
” - mankind seems to have a built-in revulsion against killing babies.”
That’s one more thing the Muzzies have in common with the Lefties. They don’t mind killing babies.
That also means that the bulk of world Jewry actually does trace roots from ancient Israel and does in fact have a right to that territory, contrary to what muslims teach and believe.
“They don’t mind killing babies.”
nail on head
Bought and paid for by $audi money.
Preached daily in the Zillions of mosuqes they build evereygoddamnwhere.
it predates islam
the valley surrounding Jerusalem’s old city is called “Gehenna” and used to be the ancient site of temples to Mollech where first-born children were burned in ritual sacrifice
This practice is mentioned and condemned in the Old Testament. Perhaps the story of Abraham being tested to sacrifice his son Isaac, and then being spared, represents a turning point in the nature of what God “expects” from man
(ironically at the site atop Mt Moriah now covered by the al-Aqsa mosque of the moon god who still demands such submission)
no no no NO
do not pin abortion on the Jews
imho, the defenders and enablers of abortion are largely CATHOLIC
look to the legislators and Governors who are pro-abortion
Pelosi, the Kennedy’s, my own state of Maryland and the CINO governor Martin O Malley
and to the chuch officials who continue to embrace and offer these politicians the sacraments with no repentance on their part
Perhaps we could pin the blame where it belongs - on the left: left-wing Jews, left-wing Catholics, left-wing Protestants and left-wing Secularists.
Thanks you.
And we can also thank so many on the left of all faiths for enabling the kind of anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian sentiments that allows this kind of hideous violence to flourish.
Good article by Dennis Prager. Thanks for posting.
The other tsunami, with the exception of 9-11 (to a lesser extent Madrid and London), isn’t wiping out thousands of innocents of western civilization in a single act. There wasn’t enough bleeding to lead. The irrational mindquake pre-meditatedly picking off lives for nearly 1400 years gathers strength with each life extinguished by each murderous mind. The constant of an anti-life collective unbound by geographic location with waves of worshippers soon-to-be affecting, infecting or altering an innocent life near you...and me.
That is true, because Islam didn't exist until the 5th century AD
You’re welcome
Those people you speak of are not Catholic. They may think they are but somewhere they turned agaisn their church and turned ther souls over to satan
Islam creates rabid animals out of the human genome.
They are devolving right back to the slime.
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