Jihadist crayon: “mightier” than the sword

Finally, the BBC in the form of Newsnight (their only decent news programme) has investigated the centuries-old phenomenon of islamic Jew-hatred and its sidekick, holocaust denial.

In Iran there is a competition for the twelve best cartoons that satirise the holocaust. The Brains of Iran are therefore busy drawing cartoons of naked Jewish kids in gaschambers with “witty” one-liners.

Why is there a whirlpool of holocaust denial in some parts of the Muslim world?

The answer seems to lie in the one thing some Muslims connect with the justification for the State of Israel (their nemesis) and the fact that tasteless cartoons of the Holocaust are the only thing they can think of that might actually offend some of us westerners. After all, Jesus, Moses, and now Muhammed have been satirised in the west; religion’s been done before. What else could Iran do that might raise at least one eyebrow in the west?

[Iranian Brain-storming scene, Act 1]
Abdelaja-nuni (whatever the crank’s name is): I know! Let us satirise da ‘Olocaust, init!
Iranian Intelligentsia: Brilliant idea, and then can we get back to licking your jackboots, sir?

It seems the equation that two wrongs don’t make a right translates as badly into Persian revisionist mathematics as the 200,000+ documents pertaining to the Nazi genocide of over 12 million civilians on racial/genetic grounds translate into Persia’s history classes.

Our resolve lies not in being offended by Iran’s hours of intellectual desperation, but instead in treating their stupidity with the contempt it deserves and go elsewhere for our oil and gas. No protests, no violence, no real acknowledgement, just shop elsewhere!

Judging by the antisemitic way in which some Muslims’ fanatic reaction to the Danish cartoons has turned, namely that a considerable amount of the anger is targeted at Jews or Israel or denying the holocaust - even though the Danish cartoons have nothing to do with Israel or Jews or the holocaust - methinks we’ll be visiting this topic a lot over the next few months, if not years.

And that could be a good thing because the Arab press has so far got away with fermenting Jew-hatred for too long and now the world may be beginning to pay attention - and even take offence.

However, will the world unite against this modern obsession with an old problem or will the world stand idly by like it did more than sixty years ago?

Newsnight’s programme for last night:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4698552.stm

Probably the best Holocaust education website on the Internet (the evidence it presents you may find disturbing): http://holocaust-history.org