print“Hajj Amin el-Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, and Muslim jihadist, who became, additionally, a full-fledged Nazi collaborator and ideologue in his endeavors to abort a Jewish homeland, and destroy world Jewry, was also a committed supporter of global jihad movements. Urging a ‘full struggle’ against the Hindus of India (as well as the Jews of Israel) before delegates at the February 1951 World Muslim Congress, he stated:
We shall meet next with sword in hand on the soil of either Kashmir or Palestine.”
SO WRITES ANDY BOSTOM AT THE AMERICAN THINKER. The article, “Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in Mumbai,” fills in the lacunae left by the media, which “offered no speculation about Islamic Jew hatred as an obvious potential motivation for the transparently selective attack on Mumbai’s Chabad House — a focal point symbol of the miniscule [sic] Jewish community of 5000 (or 0.03%) in a city of some 15 million inhabitants. More egregiously, this neglect of any hateful Islamic motivations for the targeted murder of such innocent Jews — including a young Lubavitcher Rabbi and his wife — was accompanied by consistently dehumanizing and demeaning references to these victims as ‘Ultra-Orthodox,’ and their entirely false characterization as ‘missionaries.'”
MOST POIGNANT WERE THE ASPIRATIONS OF “Sir Jadunath Sarkar (d. 1958), the preeminent historian of Mughal India,” who “wrote admiringly of what the Jews of Palestine had accomplished once liberated from the yoke of jihad-imposed Islamic Law. The implication was clear that he harbored similar hopes for his own people, the Hindus of India, and those of their Muslim neighbors willing to abandon the supremacist, discriminatory, and backward mandates of Islam”:
Palestine, the holy land of the Jews, Christians and Islamites, had been turned into a desert haunted by ignorant poor diseased vermin rather than by human beings, as the result of six centuries of Muslim rule. (See Kinglake’s graphic description). Today Jewish rule has made this desert bloom into a garden, miles of sandy waste have been turned into smiling orchards of orange and citron, the chemical resources of the Dead Sea are being extracted and sold, and all the amenities of the modern civilised life have been made available in this little Oriental country. Wise Arabs are eager to go there from the countries ruled by the Shariat [Sharia; Islamic Law]. This is the lesson for the living history.
The complete article is “Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in Mumbai.”
Mr. Bostom says that calling the Rabbi and his wife, may their blood be avenged, “ultra-Orthodox” is dehumanizing and demeaning. I agree. But there’s more.
They were totally normal, typical, garden variety Jews in terms of their practice. They happened to have affiliated with Lubavitch, just as I affiliate with Lubavitch, but they were holding by the same ground-rules that all Jews hold by. It’s just that the secular “Jews” have coined this term “ultra-Orthodox” in order to validate their own failure to actually practice the religion. They call themselves “Reform” or “Conservative” or “cultural”, while they call those who actually practice Judaism “ultra-Orthodox.” The true distinction that should be made is between “practicing Jews” and “non-practicing Jews.”
Anywhere that the term “ultra-Orthodox” is used, it is offensive and misleading. This Friday, I will celebrate the Shabbat, not because I am “ultra-Orthodox” but because I simply practice Judaism.
As for calling them “missionaries,” that too is misleading, for missionaries seek to convert people to different religions; they do not seek to inform people of their own religions.
Pakistan is the hot bed of Jihadi Terror. Whether it was 9/11, or Nuclear leak to Iran, war in Afghanistan, it has been aiding and abetting terrorism. The world has been fooled by the double speak of its government and Military. ISI is the root of global terrorism.
When will the world see the truth and get rid off the root cause of terrorism!
Ms Mercer: You write: “this neglect of any hateful Islamic motivations for the targeted murder of such innocent Jews…” Cannot what you refer to be called what Charles Johnson has referred to as “pre-emptive Dhimmitude?” In other words, to be frank, the media are — at root — not so much motivated by overwrought political sensitivities as they are by fear…. a cold fear that creeps into the stomach when one is alone and in mortal danger. Fear of what? Fear of the Islamists, of course. When will some prominent politician call them out for the cowards that they are?