"Wiesenthal Centre to Spanish Prime Minister: Donning the 'Hamas Scarf' and Obstructing the Blockage of Hezbollah TV in Spain Encourage Terrorism," from the Wiesenthal Center Los Angeles (thanks to Tex Schwartz):
In a letter to Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, expressed shock at Spain's leader wearing the so-called "Palestinian scarf" at last week's Socialist Youth Movement Assembly.Samuels noted that "This scarf is not a symbol of religious respect, as in the donning of a skullcap on entering a synagogue or a hijab or removing shoes at the door of a mosque."... "This apparent sympathy for those most hostile to peace and most extreme in incitement to hate goes beyond the Middle East context."
Samuels stated further that "We are advised that, following the French closure of EUTELSAT's transmission of Al Manar Hezbollah television due to its calls for the murder of Christians and Jews, our Centre's efforts for a similar shutdown of such hate programming via HISPASAT to Latin America, were obstructed by your administration."
The Centre urged the Prime Minister "to publicly clarify these positions."
The letter concluded: "Whether these are based on a naive misreading by your advisors or a conscious policy of appeasement, such acts - if accurate - can only encourage further assaults by the terrorist forces associated with the perpetrators of the 11 March 2005 atrocities in the railway stations of Madrid. Undoubtedly, they would disqualify Spain from a role in the Middle East peace process."
This is disgusting. Perhaps he will offer Spain back to the muslims as well.
Zapetero is a disgraceful man whose misguided leadership is causing problems for Spanish society.
He supports gay marriage, has refused to meet with the Pope for official events in Spain, and is generally supportive of the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas.
Madrid terrorist bombings --> Zapatero elected Prime Minster of Spain.
Terrorism works!
The Spanish press has not been kind to Zapatero, and has given him what he deserves for this unacceptable act of misplaced solidarity.: Papers of left and right -- "El Mundo," "La Gaceta," "ABC," "La Razon" have denounced him, as did the leader of the opposition Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy. Morally unacceptable, geopolitically dangerous to Spain and to the West, is Zapatero. This is one cobbler who should most definitely stick to his last.
Zapatero's conduct likely goes far beyond dhimmitude. A recent frontpagemag.com item describes an account of a dinner conversation that took place Zapatero and his wife and a Sephardic Jewish couple, which included expressing sympathies for the Nazis. Vidal Quadras, a rep to the European Parliament characterized of Zap's comments as anti-Semetic as well as anti-Zionist on radio.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23471
The article to which a link is given above, all about Zapatero's anti-Israel (and antisemitic) words and deeds, deserves to be read.
Zapatero is well known for ant-Semitic and anti-Catholic slanders. In an exchange with some young Spanish "Rightists" he asked them how they could admire that "damned Marano Jew Franco and his fanatic Catholic followers".
Nice! Now lets see Zapatero in a burkah
Is Zapatero negative on all religions? Or just Catholicism and Judaism? Is the photo just a typical pol photo op? Or does Zapatero genuinely find Islam congenial?
Someone needs to strangle that SOB with the very same scarf he's seen wearing in the photograph!
If a man is known by the company he keeps, Zapatero can be seen as a de facto terrorist. Hamas is a murderous and brutal Islamic terrorist organization--and this pitiful excuse of a man has freely chosen to affiliate himself with it.
Nobody's THAT stupid! If he's voluntarily playing a terrorist network like Hamas, he's become an accessory to global terrorism himself! And he knows it!!
This guy has absolutely disgraced his country. Americans can disassociate themselves with Spain and its government now. Without regret.
At least Bush never publicly befriended a murderous terrorist organization! I doubt that even he will stoop as low as Zapatero did here.
"He supports gay marriage, ..., and is generally supportive of the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas."
Well, he'd better choose between the two, because they sure aren't compatible!! Unless married gay couples will be easier to target when sharia comes in.
Sounds like you'd agree with the jihadis on gay rights. I don't.