GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Monday, March 16, 2009

Are the Jews in Denmark being used???

I like it when Jews and Muslims cooperate - but is this a case of the Jews accepting the concept of Islamophobia (and hence not being allowed to criticize Islam) for some words against anti-semitism???
Using the slogan ‘Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - Not in Our City!’, the Jewish Community in Denmark and the United Council of Muslims (MFR) have created an unlikely alliance with the hope of learning more about each others’ concerns.

As part of the campaign to mark the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination posters bearing the slogan will be put up across the city, and representatives of both organisations will meet with racism and religious experts to further dialogue between the groups.
But Finn Schwarz of the Jewish Community in Denmark emphasised that the campaign is not about Jewish-Muslim relations.

‘It’s a collaboration on racism and deals with anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. For the Muslims the campaign is aimed at Danish society, while Jews want to address both the general prejudices and pre-conceptions in society as well as Muslims’ anti-Semitism,’ he told The Copenhagen Post.
This whole thing doesn't sit right with me. Islamophobia has nothing to do with racism. It's really about the ability to criticize Islam - and there's lots to criticize. If this report is true, is the Jewish community making a huge mistake here???

Your comments, please.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It won't be the first time. Tragically, all too often some of them have allowed themselves throughout history to be exploited as "useful idiots" by those who persecute them. From the traitor Josephus (albeit a good historian) to the kapos of Hitler's concentration camps to the Orthodox rabbis who praised Pres. Ahmadinajab about a year ago to the Noam Chomsky types who have been so virulently critical of Israel and Judaism and Israel as to earn the well-deserved title of "self-hating Jews."

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