Learning from the Jews

[Cloakedvessel]

The Holocaust has no direct link with sacred books, religion or respected personalities of Jewish religion. However, its negation (whether right or wrong) is prohibited by law in some countries. On the other hand, if someone insults sacred books or personalities of Muslims or even Christians, their act is defended on the pretext of freedom of expression. My intention here is not to advocate equal right to insult; rather, the question that intrigues me is: how did the Jewish community get that much prestige?

Another failed attempt to hide your own shortcomings by dragging the Jews in your problems.

Since the anti-Islam film controversy began, I have seen many pseudo-intellectuals write columns that cite the Holocaust for the very wrong reasons, in relation to criticism or mocking against Islam. Some were even supposed to have gone to Harvard(!).
If they stopped copying the Holocaust meme from each other, they could have easily looked up that the Holocaust denial laws in certain European countries were not enacted to spare Jewish sentiments, but they were put in place to prevent the rise of neo-Nazi's as a political power again. If they had bothered to look which countries have these particular laws, they could have easily found out that these are the very same countries that were directly or indirectly linked with the Nazi regime and their atrocities.
These laws now serve as a living memory to an era which Europeans do not want to repeat against any minority group, which can very well include the Muslim minority in Europe.
So when these writers go all ballistic against these laws, they are not doing any favors for their Muslim brothers and sisters in Europe, if you're under the delusion that Muslims are somehow victimized by virulent propaganda as the apologists often claim.

They also do not seem to know that the Holocaust is not limited to the Jews. Yes granted, as an entity the Jews were the single biggest victims of the Holocaust (5,4~6,2 millions), they were the primary target to be annihilated, but that leaves another 5,5 to 6,5 millions Poles, Russian, gypsies, communists, mentally disabled, Christians and other groups that are part of the Holocaust victims as well. So, why focus only on the Jews? Why do these writers not talk about the 'feelings' of Gypsies that were wiped out by the hundred of thousands, and the Poles and the Russians by the millions? Because it is more convenient to single out the Jews and fit them in an image where powerful Jews control the media, world politics and the financial world, and it is often suggested they use these powers for example to enact Holocaust denial laws to protect 'Jewish sensibilities'.
On this point the columnist contradicts himself further. He is implying that Jews put more faith in the Holocaust than in their own religion. That if you insult Judaism, they are not effected, but if you deny the Holocaust, they have already earned the respect by others, so out of respect to the Jews laws were put in place to prevent hurting the 'feelings of the Jews'. That's ludicrous. Clearly, according to the columnist, Jewish religious feelings are of a different type than those of Muslims and Christians. It would have been logic to compare Muslim religious feelings with Jewish religious feeling, but that does not fit in the writer's agenda, because in the West you can criticize and mock Judaism just as Christianity or Islam.

That leaves the question. If the Jews are so commendable because they are so powerful in the United States, they control the media, the politics and the financial world, why haven't there been Holocaust denial laws in place there? In the country where the anti-Islam movie was made? Are the American Jews not worthy of respect because of their high ranking positions? Or are they bottom feeders compared to the 'European' Jews? Or does being exterminated in Europe commend that respect?

By making these kind of false analogies and putting forward images of world Jewry and conspiracies these pseudo-intellectuals are simply giving more fuel to a world where fragile Muslims at large burn of hatred against the Jews, bigotry that is undifferentiated against all Jews. You're not helping to put out the fire, you're just adding more fuel.