Muslims have become the target of prejudice in the way Jews were once persecuted, a minister declared yesterday.
Shahid Malik, an international development minister, said he did not intend any comparison with the Nazi Holocaust.
But he added: 'In the way that it was and still is in some parts, almost legitimate to target Jews, many Muslims would say we feel the exact same way - that somehow there is a message out there that it is OK to target people as long as they are Muslims.'
The complaint by the Dewsbury MP will carry added weight because Mr Malik is regarded as one of the most measured of Muslim leaders, regularly attacking Islamist extremism and suggesting that those who want to live under sharia law could emigrate to do it.
But he added that many feel it legitimate to pick on Muslims 'and you don't have to worry about the facts... people will turn a blind eye.'
The Burnley-born MP, interviewed for Channel 4's Dispatches programme by Mail writer Peter Oborne, told how his car has been firebombed in a petrol station and he receives regular hate mail.
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Source: Daily Mail (English)
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Playing the victim card is an excellent way to earn contempt.
There is absolutely NO comparison between muslims and the persecution of jews before and during WWII. Muslims are not rejected because of their race of even their religion, but because too many muslims refuse to accept the civilised way of living in western societies. Because too many muslims want to dominate western societies. Because too many muslims commit crimes and rapings. Because ... there are thousands of good reasons to reject muslims. The jews were persecuted because they were jews.
Muslims have never been persecuted by anyone but Muslims. Period. Isn't it ironic how whenever the press or anyone tells the truth about what Muslims actually believe or about the horrible atrocities they commit, or about how Perv Mo was a patently subhuman psychopath who produced neither prophecy nor miracles and managed to screw up every historical or scientific reference he ever made on the record, they cry "Islamophobia", or even more ridiculous, "racism?" The two top-selling books in the Muslim world for the last 20 years have been Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but they petition every publishing house that dares print the truth, and issue fatwas and kill authors and publishers. When someone makes a movie about the atrocities they commit and the victims' struggle, which was a common one, and which didn't even deal with female genital mutilation, honor killing, or being reduced to a parasitic sex slave baby factory and was IMHO far too benign if anything, the director gets killed and the brilliant writer has to travel with armed security for the rest of her life. Then they print outrageous stories, comics, and propaganda in their own press regarding Jews which is based, like everything else they believe and propagate, entirely on lies, hypocrisy, and logical fallacies, and which are invariably identical to Nazi propaganda of the thirties, since they're incapable of independent thought, innovation, or creativity, as they continue to demonstrate ad infinitum. Do you ever hear Israelis bitching? Or do they rise above it like well-adjusted, self-sufficient, self-assured adults who abide by the Golden Rule? Of course they do. Do they print anything but the truth? Of course they don't, and if anything they're far too even-handed. But Muslims are victims. OF ISLAM and the horrible pre-Dark-Age cultures to which they cleave like a bunch of savages.
By the way, I just finished Ibn Warraq's 'Defending the West: A critique of Edward Said's Orientalism.' It was excellent, like everything else he writes. It largely deals with the phenomenon of Arabs and Muslims more generally being completely incapable of handling wholly valid face threats like the brain-damaged 5-year-olds they continually prove themselves to be or taking responsibility for their own lives, actions, beliefs, and fates, so that they invariably make themselves out to be victims even though they are the least victimized (by anyone obesides themselves) and most victimizing people in the history of time. He also discusses the common thread among successful, upwardly-mobile Eastern cultures (Japan, India, S. Korea, South Africa), which is what I've said again and again: they embrace the Judeo-Christian work ethic or some variation on it so as to take pride in hard work, they value education, they value individual agency and personal responsibility, and they never make themselves out to be victims, even when they often clearly are, as in the case of, for example Bengali Indians, who were the victims of the 2nd most devastating genocide of the 20th century by guess who.
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