Thursday, May 19, 2005
Not a lot, but something. LGF notes, apropos the vicious anti-Semitic screed from the pulpit of a Gaza Mosque noted below, that the PA is publicly taking action against the preacher involved. Thanks to the internet, and MEMRI, things like this don't pass by quite as easily as they used to. Of course it's mostly BS for international consumption...look at the faces of the people in the video, listening as that sicko vomits on - that's what impresses me about it - they don't react at all. Blank. Like they've heard all that a thousand times before in a thousand other Friday sermons. Because they have.
Reuters: Senior Palestinian slams cleric for anti-Semitism
Palestinian Minister of Information Nabil Shaath told Reuters he had asked the Muslim Waqf and Religious Affairs Ministry, who employ the cleric, "to suspend him, investigate him and prevent him from delivering further sermons on Fridays."...
...In his sermon at a Gaza Strip mosque last Friday, cleric Ibrahim Mdaires denied that six million Jews were killed in the World War II Nazi Holocaust...[as though it's all just a quibble over the number killed in the Holocaust!]...
..."What was done to the Jews was a crime, but isn't what the Jews are doing today in the land of Palestine a crime," he said, referring to Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
That is the typical Reuters editorializing BS. Nowhere does he mention "occupation," "West Bank" or "Gaza Strip," because that's not what he's talking about. He's talking about all of "Palestine" - from the river to the sea. The reporter, Nidal al-Mughrabi, is just editorializing to give the impression that it's just the "occupation" that causes fevered minds like this to exist. As though this man, this Muslim preacher, this "spiritual leader" isn't responsible - the only one responsible - for his own hate. You know better.
This is such a joke. How many times since Abbas promised to end incitement has this same spitual leader [omission intended] spouted similar (though not quite as virulent) garbage on PATV? Meanwhile, "Palestinian Minister of Information Nabil Shaath," one of the most corrupt of Arafat old cronies (and recognized as such for close to a decade already) is standing up to confront bigotry? You couldn't make this stuff up.