Sunday, December 18, 2005
Be sure to read Jeff Jacoby today:
Jeff Jacoby: Obsessive anti-Semitism
Outsiders are rarely aware of how intense the Muslim world's Jew-hatred is. ''What has surprised me is the virulence of this new anti-Semitism throughout all the Muslim countries," the distinguished journalist and editor Harold Evans wrote in 2002. ''It is frenzied, vociferous, paranoid, vicious, and prolific, and is only incidentally connected to the Palestinian conflict." Obsessive anti-Semitism almost always characterizes the most dangerous threats to America and the West. Nazism, Communism, Islamofascism -- all have been intensely anti-Semitic. Which is why Ahmadinejad's strident rhetoric should be setting off urgent alarms. Dictators who talk about wiping nations from the face of the earth generally mean what they say. We should know by now that it isn't only Jews who are endangered by the mullahs and their threats. All of us are. And time is wasting.
One of our problems is that we've come to think everything is so relative, everyone has the same motivations if we can just sit down and talk about it, that we don't know what to do when we come across a growing evil. George Bush did, and look at the thanks he's gotten. As this post at LGF points out, Iran is testing the limits of tolerance...and finding out it runs deep: Multiculturalism Intersects with Holocaust Denial