Why they deny the Holocaust

LA Times ^ | 12/16/06 | Ayaan Hirsi Ali

[Enchante]

With great conviction, my half-sister cried: "It's a lie! Jews have a way of blinding people. They were not killed, gassed or massacred. But I pray to Allah that one day all the Jews in the world will be destroyed."

She was not saying anything new. As a child growing up in Saudi Arabia, I remember my teachers, my mom and our neighbors telling us practically on a daily basis that Jews are evil, the sworn enemies of Muslims, and that their only goal was to destroy Islam. We were never informed about the Holocaust.

Later, as a teenager in Kenya, when Saudi and other Persian Gulf philanthropy reached us, I remember that the building of mosques and donations to hospitals and the poor went hand in hand with the cursing of Jews. Jews were said to be responsible for the deaths of babies and for epidemics such as AIDS, and they were believed to be the cause of wars. They were greedy and would do absolutely anything to kill us Muslims. If we ever wanted to know peace and stability, and if we didn't want to be wiped out, we would have to destroy the Jews. For those of us who were not in a position to take up arms against them, it was enough for us to cup our hands, raise our eyes heavenward and pray to Allah to destroy them.

Western leaders today who say they are shocked by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's conference this week denying the Holocaust need to wake up to that reality. For the majority of Muslims in the world, the Holocaust is not a major historical event that they deny. We simply do not know it ever happened because we were never informed of it.

[Enchante]

Iran's Islamo-fascist nutjob is just the tip of the iceberg of Muslim ignorance and depravity, not only with regard to the Holocaust but as pertains to anything and everything to do with infidels, and especially with Jews.

[Enchante]

How will we ever pierce through the fog of mis-education and cultivated idiocy and depravity throughout the Muslim world? If we think our politically correct schools are bad enough, they are beacons of sanity compared to what passes for "education" throughout the Muslim world.

[MizSterious]

Everything they attribute to the Jews seems to be exactly true of the Muslims.

[Always Right]

She was not saying anything new. As a child growing up in Saudi Arabia, I remember my teachers, my mom and our neighbors telling us practically on a daily basis that Jews are evil, the sworn enemies of Muslims, and that their only goal was to destroy Islam. We were never informed about the Holocaust.

And if it wasn't for Bush's illegal Iraq War, Muslims would all love us.

[MizSterious]

I don't think we can. They've been indoctrinated from the crib onward. I hate to say this, but one day I think there will be all-out war, and either we will destroy them, or we'll be destroyed and enslaved by them. Or maybe I'm just being too morbid today.

[samtheman]

"It's a lie! Jews have a way of blinding people. They were not killed, gassed or massacred. But I pray to Allah that one day all the Jews in the world will be destroyed.

All Holocaust-Denial is driven by the same "logic":

It didn't happen but we want it to.

[Enchante]

"maybe I'm just being too morbid today"

I'm pretty morbid, too, when I think about articles like this one.... the scope of carefully cultivated ignorance (and worse) throughout the Muslim world just staggers the imagination. If President Ah'ma'whackjob is simply all-too-typical of what passes for an "educated" person in the Muslim world then we are in even greater danger than we can imagine. Allow dangerous bozos like that to have nukes and catastrophe cannot be far away.

[Dog Gone]

We'll never be able to co-exist with Islam until they quit indoctrinating their young people with lies.

[Farmer Dean]

Pray to Allah? Might as well pray to the walls.Either way-nothing is gonna happen.

[Kurt_D]

That's a racist statement about our Muslim brothers and sisters.

->That's what members of ANSWER, World Can't Wait, etc. would say.

[etradervic]

Their denial of the Holocaust is not solely attributable to ignorance. World sympathy, after the Holocaust, was the catalyst for the creation of Israel.

[stickandpucknut]

Was NOT a illegal war.12 years of no fly zone ect...get your facts straight.Bush didnt lie either ask clinton,allbright,kennedy ect in 1998.So if bush lied he lied last.

[Rummyfan]

With great conviction, my half-sister cried: "It's a lie! Jews have a way of blinding people. They were not killed, gassed or massacred. But I pray to Allah that one day all the Jews in the world will be destroyed."

How to respond to such ignorance and blind hatred? A lot of muslims probably share that mindset. And you know what tha means....

[samtheman]

Something's going to happen. They'll make it happen. Praying to Allah is what you do just before you murder a bunch of innocent people. You don't need an actual Allah. Just the prayer... and a well-made suicide belt (or some other suitable WMD).

[technomage]

It is astounding how:

1,200,000,000 Arabs/Muslims worldwide are so threatened by:

15,000,000 Jews worldwide.

[Always Right]

sarcasm is lost on some people.

[Dutch Boy]

They are projecting and deflecting. There was also a large number of arabs that were part of the Waffen SS. They were trying to exterminate the jews before Israel was even a state.

The Middle East will never be at peace until they are allowed to fight, without restraint, until there is an overwhelming victory over the other side. There has not been an overwhelming victory in any war since WW2. Each time a conflict happens the world community steps in and the problem never gets resolved. It just sits and festers until another war happens.

[mockingbyrd]

Everything they attribute to the Jews seems to be exactly true of the Muslims.

Funny how that is....

[Logical me]

You got it right. Reality of the Muslim teaching is morbid by itself.

[Slings and Arrows]

You missed the invisible sarcasm tag.