Yes, aside from those six million dead on one side, and a number of terror attacks and supremacist declarations on the other, they're just alike, aren't they?
"For Dutch educators, Islamophobia can be a teaching aid for Holocaust studies," by Cnaan Liphshiz and Ruthie Pliskin for Haaretz (thanks to JS):
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority this week hosts a week-long seminar for 21 teachers, the first run by the museum for Dutch educators, with one day devoted to discussions about teaching Holland's Muslim minority about the Shoah.When teaching Holocaust studies to Dutch Muslim teenagers in Amsterdam, Mustafa Daher says he first has to defuse his pupils' own hostility toward Jews and Israel.
"If I don't capture their interest, then I have done nothing. So I use the rising Islamophobia to help them connect to the persecution of the Jews," the seasoned educator says.
"For example, I tell them that when the Nazis suspected someone was Jewish, they would pull down his pants to see if he was circumcised. Then I remind my Muslim students they are also 'snipped.' So they, too, would've ended up in a concentration camp," says Daher.
Judith Whitlau, who teaches groups about the Holocaust at the Dutch Theater in Amsterdam, says she has to contend with another analogy.
"Some point to media reports from the occupied territories, and they want to know what exactly Israel itself is doing to internalize the Holocaust's lessons as it preaches others should do."
But not all the teachers in the group have Muslim students. Franca Verheijen teaches at an affluent school in Leiden, some 35 minutes by train from Amsterdam. There, drawing parallels between Islamophobia and anti-Semitism can be counterproductive.
"If I make this connection, some students usually reject the analogy, saying that unlike the Muslims, the Jews never engaged in terrorism," she says.
Uh, yeah.
"But not all the teachers in the group have Muslim students. Franca Verheijen teaches at an affluent school in Leiden, some 35 minutes by train from Amsterdam. There, drawing parallels between Islamophobia and anti-Semitism can be counterproductive.
'If I make this connection, some students usually reject the analogy, saying that unlike the Muslims, the Jews never engaged in terrorism,' she says."
-- from the article above
Isn't that something? Despite those two moral handicaps -- being non-Muslim and being better off than the Muslim students -- Dutch students at an "affluent school" ("affluent" being the transferred epithet -- hypallage -- meant to mean "affluent students" at that school), "some students" reject the analogy.
Good for them. Those students who note that "unlike the Muslims, the Jews never engaged in terrorism" are rejecting not only the analogy, but the campaign to make them moral idiots.
Now if they would extend their objection to the analogy a bit further, to point out that "islamophobia" consists of people writing articles depicting the dangers to non-Muslims that clearly can be located in the texts (Qur'an, Hadith, Sira) of Islam, as demonstrated further in the historical record, the behavior of Muslims toward non-Muslims in the non-Muslim lands they conquered (what happened to the art, science, music, monuments religious and non-religious, of those non-Muslims, and what happened to them, physicaly), over 1350 years, from Spain to the East Indies.
The Holocaust, per contra, consisted of the portable killing machines, those little gas chambers on wheels, and along with them the hanging-ropes, the rifles, the prussic acid, of all those high-stepping Wehrmacht troops who were in it, up to their necks, as they marched through Poland and the Ukraine and western Russia, and fo course, of those unforgettable places, where now German teenagers, brought to visit by their high-schools, bored out of their minds (oh, why do we have to spend a day looking at this? besides, everyone does it -- just look at what Israel does to the "Palestianians"? And the Americans -- look how they treated us after the war.), joke and chew gum, at places with such names as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec.
It's going to require doubleplusboringlectures to whip the sense of fairness out of the young human. Even monkeys and dogs have an innate sense of fairness. But by college it is possible to make them stupider than dogs. Just tie their grades to it.
This is sick.
Comparing the Jewish Holocaust with the critical examination of Islam that is occuring in Europe and America is obscene.
The connections between the Nazis and Islam are well documented and, one would hope, be known by a history teacher.
This stuff is too obvious and too disgusting.
But with non-muslim students.
This dainty solicitude toward mohammedan racism is revolting.
It smacks of deference and collaboration.
There is no connection between the Holocaust and Islamophobia. None.
The Jews didn't deserve what they got. Conversely, Islam deserves critical examination.
And, right, Jews have never been Terrorists.
Muslims? I rest my case.
How Muslims are encouraged, and taught to bring Islam into the public school systems (DAWA).
http://www.dawanet.com/methods/publicschool.dawapublic.asp