ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM THRIVING IN OHIO

One of the tell-tale signs of an anti-Semetic opposition to Israel, as opposed to one based on policy disagreements, is the dehumanization of Israelis and Jews. A friend of mine has recently been working for an Israeli professor, who has had the "honor" of being on the listserve of The Muslim Students Association of Ohio State University. She recently emailed me a sampling of the emails she's been sifting through.

Here's a post from "Drive the Zionists Into the Sea" (by the way, in case you want to join, the organization has a clublisting on Yahoo), on the Versailles banquet hall collapse of May 2001.

[T]he would-be "master race" of "Eretz Israel" has taken a HIT directly from the Lord of the Worlds, Allah (S.W.T.). If all the zionists were consumed by fire or an earthquake or a loathsome disease, every person who believes in justice should DANCE ON THE ROOFTOPS - something that suddenly became a LOT EASIER today in Jerusalem ...

Celebrate joyously and thankfully with gratitude to Allah (S.W.T.) the destruction of the wedding party and make du'a that it is only the beginning.

Remember, they weren't even supposed to *BE* there. They are living in someone else's homeland without their permission, and actually daring to celebrate as if they had some right to be there.

Some people wonder why a just God does not swallow up such evil as that of the zionist celebration in the midst of a Palestinian homeland. Well, HE JUST DID! Take heed, zionazis!

And here a snippet from a "Free Arab Voice" submission on why Muslims should support Holocaust Denial.

Revisionist historians do NOT deny that Jews died in the Second World War. They say, however, that hundreds of thousands of Jews died along with the forty five million who perished in that war. The revisionist historians used hard sciences like physics and chemistry in proving that the so-called gas chambers were not used to exterminate Jews systematically. Crematoria, on the other hand, were used to dispose of the corpses of people from different nationalities (after their deaths) to circumvent plagues. Of course, a crematorium is something completely different from a gas chamber. Scientific evidence indicates that the latter never existed. They proved, for example, that Anne Frank died of Typhus, like many others who supposedly died in a systematic campaign by the Nazis. The revisionist historians then dispute: a) the number of Jews who died in WWII, b) how they died, and c) the alleged uniqueness of the death of the Jews in human history. The revisionist historians dispute scientifically the received version of the ?Holocaust?, not that Jews died in WWII.

Wait...before you think that our valient Jew-haters accept what the Holocaust Deniers say uncritically, check out this beauty of a paragraph.

Historical revisionism has obtained some useful results, but it remains lacking in many points. For example, upon reading the literature of many revisionist historians, I noticed that they do not give enough attention to the role and interest of Western governments in forcibly maintaining the myths of the ?Holocaust?. The dilemma can be paraphrased like this: if we agree that the death of the Jews in WWII is neither unique nor unparalleled, and if we agree the numbers were highly over exaggerated and that gas chambers were not used to exterminate Jews but to fight diseases emanating from corpses, we are left with a big question which
is WHY DID THE JEWS COME TO PALESTINE THEN?

There are a number of explanations as to how these Hillul Hashems (yes Muslims can desecrate G-d's name as well, and these "believers" are doing precisely that) have become acceptable dialogue for Muslims at American Univeristies. It's possible, despite all the claims to contrary, Islamic anti-Semitism is just a virulent in America as it is abroad. On the other hand, and this is what I think is really happening, Muslim student organizations are currently dominated by foreign students and radical activists and the majority of American Muslims, who are NOT anti-Semitic don't feel any need to speak out against such rhetoric being passed in their name.

Well, its time for the silent majority to stop being silent. Its time for courageous American Muslims to stand for the Islam that they believe at the expense of communal solidarity. Because if they don't, they risk becoming a silent minority.