Islamic promise of a new genocide.

Genocide is maybe the most overused and meaningless word in the mouths of most polemicists.

It is not without meaning, however. Dr. David Reich describes the call from Islamic society and government for the extermination of the Jews:

And I do mean genocide. The call last October by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Israel to be wiped off the map . . . . [I]t wasn't the first by an Iranian leader. Four years before, the chairman of Iran's Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, said that "the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything," and that "it is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality."

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Nor has much comment been stirred by the numerous statements emanating for years from Muslim pulpits, as well as from Arab governments, organizations and media outlets, justifying and inciting the destruction of Israel and its Jews, as well as the murder of Jews everywhere. . . . Last week, on its Web site, the "military wing" of Hamas, the political party that recently won a majority in the Palestinian legislature and that's backed by Iran, posted an animated cartoon of a Star of David, the symbol of Israel, being obliterated, again and again, by an atomic bomb. Yet Russia is doing business with Hamas (and Iran), and Europe seems ready to stand in line.

Europe and Russia -- and, indeed, America -- ignored Hitler's promise, eight months before he launched World War II, that in such a war he would annihilate the Jews of Europe. . . .

[Instead of prosecuting David Irving,] Europe would do everyone a far bigger service by acknowledging and battling the threat of another genocide against the very people who, at the hands of Europeans, suffered so massively during the Holocaust.

"For some down and dirty Jew bashing, check out this informative video of a "sermon" by Sheikh Ibrahim Medeiris, in a mosque in the territory of the Palestinian Authority:

Examples:

• "Israel is a cancer spreading through the body of the Islamic nation,"


• "Jews are a virus resembling AIDS,"


• "we have ruled the world before, and by Allah the day will come when we will rule the entire world again,"


• "The Jews will not enjoy a life of tranquility under our rule because they are treacherous by nature," and


• "The stones and trees will want the Muslims to finish off every Jew."

(This prior to the election of Hamas.)

"In Denial." By Walter Reich, Wall Street Journal, 3/2/06 (emphasis added; subscribers only).