Lest We Forget (the Holocaust)
**Rowland Croucher**
'A friend just sent me this. I am very cautious now about forwarding on
such things but having had the most sobering experience of standing in a
gas chamber in Poland where thousands died I feel compelled to pass this
on.'
Rowland.
Subject:: Lest We Forget
It appears 'Ike' was right.
It is a matter of history that when Supreme Commander of the Allied
Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps
he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German
people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and
even made to bury the dead.
He did this because he said in words to this effect: "Get it all on
record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down
the track of history someone will get up and say that this never happened"
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing. "
Edmund Burke
In Memorial
This week, the UK removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum
because it "offended" the Muslim population which claims it never
occurred.
This is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world
and how easily each country is giving in to it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.
This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the
six million Jews,
20 million Russians,
10 million Christians
and 1,900 Catholic priests
who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated
while the German and Russian peoples looked the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to
be "a myth," it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!
Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.
--
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Nazi Roots of Modern Radical Islam
DefenseWatch ^ | 12-18-2002 | Tom Knowlton
Posted on 01/03/2003 6:47:36 AM PST by Conservative News Hound
The Nazi Roots of Modern Radical Islam
By Tom Knowlton
The recent "Letter to the American People" allegedly authored by Osama
bin Laden is a virtual ideological manifesto for Islamic extremists.
It serves to outline the perceived grievances of radical Muslims
against Israel and the West.
The letter claims, "It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of
Moses," dating the conflict between Jews and Arabs back to the
Biblical conflict between Abraham's two children: his eldest son,
Ishmael (from who Arabs are believed descended), and his younger son,
Isaac (from who Jews are believed descended). Some Muslims believe
that Isaac usurped Ishmael's birthright.
Likewise, prominent imams such as Abu Qatada, Omar Muhammad Bakri, and
Abu Hamza regularly echo this claim that Arabs and Jews have been
bitter enemies from the dawn of time.
However, if one examines the history of the Middle East, there is very
little evidence of constant warring and animosity between Jews and
Arabs.
In fact, when the city of Jerusalem fell to Christian Crusaders in
1099, the defenders of the holy city had been a combined force of Jews
and Muslims. After the Crusaders captured the city, they massacred
Muslim and Jewish citizens alike and left the survivors to flee
Jerusalem. Not until the Muslim hero Saladin defeated the Crusaders in
1187, did the Jewish population even begin to return to Jerusalem.
Jerusalem's Jewish community continued to prosper under the Muslim
Nahmanides in 1267. But the community's true renaissance occurred
during the 15th and 16th centuries, when a large influx of Jews were
welcomed into Jerusalem by the Ottoman Empire after being expelled
from Spain.
For four centuries under Ottoman rule, Arab and Jewish neighborhoods
peacefully coexisted. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World
War I, the region came under British mandate. The early days under the
British also saw relatively peaceful coexistence continuing and
manifesting itself in the form of Arab and Jewish neighborhoods
springing up in the "garden neighborhoods" of Talpiot, Rehavia and
Beit Hakerem.
However, after over 700 years of peaceful coexistence, the true start
of the Arab-Israeli conflict can be dated to 1920 and the rise of one
man, Haj Amin Muhammad Al Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem. As
grand mufti, al Husseini presided as the Imam of the Al Aqsa mosque in
Jerusalem, the highest Muslim authority in the British mandate.
History shows Al Husseini to be a brutal man with aspirations to rule
a pan-Arabic empire in the Middle East. He rose to prominence by
actively eliminating those Jews and Arabs he considered a threat to
his control of Jerusalem's Arab population, and he heavily utilized
anti-Jewish propaganda to polarize the two communities.
In 1920 and again in 1929, Al Husseini incited anti-Jewish riots by
claiming the Jews were plotting to destroy the Al Asqa mosque. The
riots resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Jewish civilians and a
virtual end to the Jewish presence in Hebron.
The 1936 Arab revolt against the British is believed to have been at
least partially funded by Nazi Adolf Eichmann, and Al Husseini again
ordered armed Arab militias to massacre Jewish citizens.
When British authorities finally quelled the rebellion in 1939, Al
Husseini fled to neighboring Iraq and helped to orchestrate a 1941
anti-British jihad. As in Jerusalem, the British successfully put down
the rebellion and Al Husseini fled to Nazi Germany.
Al Husseini found the Nazis to be a strong ideological match with his
anti-Jewish brand of Islam, and schemed with Hitler and the Nazi
hierarchy to create a pro-Nazi pan-Arabic form of government in the
Middle East.
Dr. Serge Trifkovic documents the similarities between Al Husseini's
brand of radical Islam and Nazism in his book The Sword of the
Prophet. He noted parallels in both ideologies: anti-Semitism, quest
for world dominance, demand for the total subordination of the free
will of the individual, belief in the abolishment of the nation-state
in favor of a "higher" community (in Islam the umma or community of
all believers; in Nazism, the herrenvolk or master race), and belief
in undemocratic governance by a "divine" leader (an Islamic caliph, or
Nazi führer).
The Nazis provided Al Husseini with luxurious accommodations in Berlin
and a monthly stipend in excess of $10,000. In return, he regularly
appeared on German radio touting the Jews as the "most fierce enemies
of Muslims," and implored an adoption of the Nazi "final solution" by
Arabs. After the Nazi defeat at El Alamein in 1942, Al Husseini
broadcast radio messages on Radio Berlin calling for continued Arabic
resistance to Allied forces. In time, he came to be known as the
"Fuhrer's Mufti" and the "Arab Fuhrer."
In March 1944, Al Husseini broadcast a call for a jihad to "kill the
Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and
religion."
On numerous occasions, Al Husseini intervened in the fate of European
Jews, most notably blocking Adolph Eichmann's deal with the Red Cross
to exchange Jewish children for German POWs.
Moreover, Al Husseini personally recruited Bosnia Muslims for the
German Waffen SS, including the Skanderberg Division from Albania and
Hanjer Division from Bosnia. The Hanjer (Saber) Division of the Waffen
SS was responsible for the murder of over 90 percent of the
Yugoslavian Jewish population.
SS leader Heinrich Himmler was so pleased with Al Husseini's Muslim
Nazis that he established the Dresden-based Mullah Military School for
their continued recruitment and training. In 1944, Hanjer commandos
parachuted into Tel Aviv and poisoned drinking wells in Jewish
communities in an effort to stir up ethnic tensions.
After the fall of Nazi Germany, Al Husseini fled to Cairo, Egypt in
1946 rather than face war crime charges for his actions in Yugoslavia.
But he continued his operations.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Al Husseini worked closely with a
pro-fascist group in Egypt called Young Egypt. In 1952 Gamal Abdul
Nasser, a prominent member of Young Egypt, was among military officers
who seized control of the Egyptian government from King Fu'ad. Al
Husseini is reported to have been responsible for bringing Otto
Skorzeny, the Nazi commando once labeled by the OSS as "the most
dangerous man in Europe," into the employ of the Nasser government.
Similarly, Al Husseini had a strong influence over the founding
members of both the Iraqi and Syrian Ba'ath party. Strong evidence
exists that al Husseini was instrumental in the arranging of Nazi war
criminal Alois Brunner's employment as an advisor to the Syrian
general staff.
However, al Husseini's central role in the creation of the Palestinian
Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964 is perhaps his most indelible
mark on the Middle East today.
The radical Imam was the spiritual mentor of the first chairman of the
PLO, Ahmed Shukairi, and saw that much of his ideology was instilled
in the organization. More importantly, Al Husseini used his extensive
connections to recruit financial supporters for the PLO throughout the
Arab world.
Almost 30 years after al Husseini's death in 1974, the Palestinian
people still revere him as a hero and embrace his radical theology.
The "Arab Fuhrer's" close Nazi association and virulent anti-Semitism
is perhaps the reason that Hitler's Meinf Kampf is ranked as the sixth
all-time bestseller among Palestinian Arabs.
Several of his descendants remain active in Palestinian affairs
today.
Al Husseini's grandson, Faisal Husseini, was part of the PLO since
1964 and served as minister without portfolio in the Palestinian
National Authority, with responsibility for Jerusalem until his death
in May 2001.
The radical imam's nephew, Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa el Husseini, has
been a major player in Palestinian terrorism for almost 40 years. He
was the guiding force behind the merging of the Fatah faction into the
PLO. In 1990, Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa el Husseini was responsible
for the Palestinian community's support of Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
Most Mideast observers today recognize the younger Al Husseini by the
secular name he adopted as his own in 1952, Yasser Arafat.
By the late 1980's many of the PLO's radical Muslim financiers had
become disillusioned with the increasingly secular nature of the
Palestinian movement. Yasser Arafat's support of Saddam Hussein in the
early 1990s strongly angered and prompted many of these extremists in
the Persian Gulf states to reduce or all together withdraw their
financial backing of the PLO.
An astute emerging Sunni terrorist, Osama bin Laden, capitalized upon
Arafat's political misstep and transformed his al Qaeda organization
into the prime recipient of financial support from Sunni Muslim
radicals. That funding has enabled bin Laden to wage terrorist attacks
on western and Israeli interests for over a decade. His most recent
"Letter to the American People" echoed al Husseini's propaganda claim
that "the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al Aqsa mosque."
The is little doubt that throughout history the Arabs and Jews have
encountered the kind of friction that comes from any two distinct
religious or ethnic groups sharing the same geography. However, that
history has largely been one of relatively peaceful coexistence.
The divergence from that pattern occurs in 1920 with the rise of a
virulent anti-Semitic mufti of Jerusalem whose ideology embodied more
similarities to that of Nazi Germany than to the historical Islam of
Saladin or the Ottoman Turks.
The wave of extremist Islam that has plagued the world in the latter
days of the 20th century and into the opening days of the 21st, has
little to do with ancient history or Islam. The cause lays largely at
the feet of Haj Amin Muhammad Al Husseini, who utilized murder and
anti-Semitism to consolidate his power over his fellow Arabs and
further his personal quest to be caliph of the pan-Arab world.
**Rowland Croucher**
Interesting...
Someone has questioned the situation in UK re the teaching of the
Holocaust in schools. Another friend contacted a lecturer in
contemporary culture in the UK to clarificy this. Here is his reply:
'I hadn't heard anything about this, so did some searching. The upshot
is that this is a false rumour - teaching about the Holocaust remains
compulsory as part of the National Curriculum here.
Click on the following link to see how the BBC, back in April last year,
reported on the confusion generated by the misinformed chain email:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6563429.stm'
--
Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/ (20,000 articles 4000 humor)
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RedDog
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Proof of lying imbecile Capgun's shit fetish:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.flame.faggots/browse_thread/thread/be1f372eb33c5f08
Teq Hawk
<rccroucher@contactemailonwebsite> wrote:
Good post. Excellent message.
>
> --
>
> Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher
>
> http://jmm.aaa.net.au/ (20,000 articles 4000 humor)
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Sniper .308
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friend, suckboy.
Seriously faggot we all know you love shit eating and you are just
projecting that point on to others, so why don't you tell us why you
love it so much
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.flame.faggots/msg/6f75da6958c7630e...
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faggot, cappy! LMAO!
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Sniper .308
JohnH
> x-no-archive: yes
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:53:05 +1100, **Rowland Croucher**<rccroucher@contactemailonwebsite> wrote:
>
> © 2007 John D Weatherly all rights reserved; no portion of this post
> may be used anywhere else without written permission of the author.
>
>
>
> >A respected friend wrote:
>
> >'A friend just sent me this. I am very cautious now about forwarding on
> >such things but having had the most sobering experience of standing in a
> >gas chamber in Poland where thousands died I feel compelled to pass this
> >on.'
>
> >Rowland.
>
> >Subject:: Lest We Forget
>
> >It appears 'Ike' was right.
>
> >It is a matter of history that when Supreme Commander of the Allied
> >Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps
> > he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German
> >people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and
> >even made to bury the dead.
>
> ("skin heads" and other white supremacists) are alive and well in
> America.
>
> We also have a MAJOR gang problem, the Crips and the Bloods, who are
> Nazi to the extent that they are outlaws.
>
> We continue to have race crimes (anti-black, anti-Jew,
> anti-Christian) all over America.
>
> Some 10 (rough guess) churches in Washington state were torched
> (burned to the ground) last year. Graves have been desecrated.
> A Muslim walked into a Jewish Culture Center in Seattle last year,
> started shooting, shouting anti-Semitic slogans, and killed one
> person, and severely injured several others.
>
> Do not --- DO NOT-- think that the hatred of Nazism is dead.
>
> "It's alive and well."
>
> The HATRED of many in here for others who are "different" proves that
> there is MUCH hatred, MUCH bigotry in America and around the world.
>
> Which is why so many losers in here (walksalone, CB, DIANA) are
> anonymous.
All you've done,
ALL YOU'VE DONE,
Is prove that your own peculiar hatred is "alive and well."
The message wasn't that the hatred of Nazism is dead.
No, the message was "Don't forget the Holocaust."
Simple message for some,
But obviously Rocket Science for you.
Pedal harder, john w,
The Pack has pulled away from you.
>
> john w
phillipr...@gmail.com
>
> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
What Holocaust?
Phillip Ray Holmes
phillip...@yahoo.com
jwshe...@satx.rr.com
In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak
for me.
(Rev. Martin Neimoeller, German Lutheran Pastor. Rev. Neimoeller was
arrested by the Gestapo for opposing Hitler and was sent to Dachau in
1938. He was freed by Allied forces in 1945.)
Jim
Ge 4:9 - And the LORD said unto Cain,
Where is Abel thy brother? And he said,
I know not:
Am I my brother's keeper?
walks...@dastardly.dirty.deeds.done.dirt.cheap.llc
>x-no-archive: yes
>On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:53:05 +1100, **Rowland Croucher**
><rccroucher@contactemailonwebsite> wrote:
Do you recall I stated I tire of playing with your excuse of a mind?
Due to your inability to pay attention, or remember, the three ways you
were given to avoid seeing our names in the same message.
Attention ho, TWHACK <reholsters rubber chicken>
Oh, lest I forget, TwHACK vigorously & with great enthusiasm
Ain't cut & paste time saving though, & it is all your posts are worth, &
you get your narcissistic supply refilled at the same time.
drk77...@yahoo.com
mandated Holocaust education last year in response to a few schools
which chose not to each it.
See http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/holocaust.asp
I also found a similar report on Deborah Lipstadt's blog:
http://lipstadt.blogspot.com/2007/04/chancellor-gordon-brown-scotches-rumors.html
There was a link to a very interesting article on this in Ha'Aretz
(copied below) and on the perils of being overly credulous about what
we get in our inbox .
Break the chain
By Esther Solomon
"Disgrace for England!" screams the subject of the e-mail circulating
the globe. "This week in England every memorial of the Holocaust has
been removed from the schools study programs arguing it hurts the
Muslim population that denies the Holocaust." The undated e-mail goes
on to assert that this act of appeasement is irrefutable proof that
anti-Semitism is alive and kicking, 60 years after the end of World
War II, and that this is a sign of an "upcoming world disaster." And
what is the author's recommendation to the shocked recipient? "Never
to forget," and no less important, to forward the e-mail on to another
10 as-yet-unenlightened friends.
You needn't be English to be alarmed by such a news flash, which seems
to suggest not only that history curricula are the latest casualty in
the advance of cultural relativism and the collapse of liberal values,
but also that it's British Muslims who are behind the onslaught.
The problem with such whipped-up indignation is that the e-mail is
based on falsehood, a malign reading of a report commissioned earlier
this year by the United Kingdom's Department for Education and Skills
to look at how the school system contended with the teaching of
sensitive subjects like slavery, the Crusades and the Holocaust.
In setting out the case for why such a study was needed, the report
noted: "A history department in a northern city recently avoided
selecting the Holocaust as a topic... for fear of confronting anti-
Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils."
Indeed, a shocking incident. But the whole point of the report was to
provide tools and support to all the U.K.'s 4,500 high schools, to
help them avoid precisely this kind of aberrant behavior when teaching
sensitive subjects.
In fact, never before has Holocaust education in the U.K. enjoyed such
support, in terms of both policy and finances. In 2001, the same year
as Holocaust Memorial Day was first observed in Britain, the subject
became part of the compulsory national curriculum. The government has
provided funding for a fixed number of 11th and 12th graders, from
every school in the country, to visit Auschwitz with the Holocaust
Educational Trust (HET). Thousands of school groups visit permanent
exhibitions on the Holocaust around the country, and specialist
programs offer teachers skills and materials to teach their pupils
about it.
The situation is a quantum leap from the low-key and poor-quality
education we received at school 20 years ago, where, as the token
Jewish pupil in my class, I was actually invited to give "the
Holocaust lesson," as the teacher had no materials, knowledge nor,
indeed, any special interest in the topic.
If the situation is so bright, then why does this bogus message, which
has been circulating in varied e-mail forms since April of this year,
refuse to die?
In the British context, one has to see the apprehension as one element
in the fervent debates currently under way regarding the status,
identity and agenda of the country's two-million-strong Muslim
community. In the context of open European borders giving rise to a
new scale of immigration, the phenomenon of home-grown Muslim bombers
in London and Glasgow, and a focus on the consequences of the U.K.'s
policies of multiculturalism, the tone of the debate ranges from
nuanced discussions on the meaning of citizenship to a far more
uncontrolled and undiscriminating swell of anti-Muslim feeling.
But those who forward such an e-mail are unthinkingly buying into a
characterization of the Muslim community as inherently hostile to
Western and Jewish memory, as if the two communities were engaged in a
zero-sum confrontation over cultural power which, if the Jewish
community were to lose, would lead again to its threatened
annihilation.
No less interesting, though, is why chain e-mails like these garner
such traction, especially as the Internet facilitates such easy
confirmation - or repudiation - of all kinds of spurious "facts." The
answer lies in the role of the Web and of e-mail in particular in
popular culture.
In an era of lethargy and of disillusionment with conventional
politics, but also at a time in which the unknown individual can
magnify his voice virally many thousands of times through e-mail, the
idea of alternative activism at the touch of a button is clearly
appealing. For those with ideological agendas, e-mail is a perfect
weapon. It offers anonymity, speedy and effortless diffusion, the
difficulty of a wholesale refutation - rebuttals never enjoy the same
reach as the original allegation - and the networked power of
distribution (and complicit endorsement) through one's peers.
But before forwarding a chain e-mail, out of an indefinite sense of
righteous indignation, resist the herd instinct.
Consider whether you yourself really stand behind the facts and
sentiments expressed in it, or whether you are allowing yourself to be
cynically manipulated into feeling a fleeting sense of purpose and
participation that overrides your better judgment. As a talkback on
the HET Web site put it, "save the mobilization for real causes."
At the same time, you might want to spare a thought for the hapless
University of Kentucky. It appears that in an earlier version of the
"Disgrace to England!" e-mail, someone in cyberspace "translated" the
"U.K." into the University of Kentucky as the location of the
educational pseudo-crisis. Hundreds of thousands of e-mails are now
circulating accusing the university of dropping Holocaust studies,
prompting frantic denials by university authorities, whose Web site
insists that their school "is not afraid to teach students about the
Holocaust."
Who's next? The universities of Kansas, Khartoum or Kerala? Is any
more proof needed regarding the integrity of the "brains" behind e-
mail panic campaigns, and the gullibility of chain e-mail forwarders?
Esther Solomon is a senior editor at Haaretz.com.