Anti-dhimmitude in Britain. An update on this story. From the Jerusalem Post, with thanks to Kemaste:
British Prime Minister Tony Blair notified Monday that he would not adopt the proposal to change the British Holocaust Memorial Day to a British Genocide Day, which would serve as a memorial to Muslim deaths as well as Holocaust victims.
Radical Muslims were uncomfortable with the Holocaust because of the infamous role played by some of their leaders during World War II, said former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Israel Meir Lau on Monday in response to proposals to do away with Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain because Muslims find it offensive.
“The so called ‘religious’ leader Haj Amin el Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, went out of his way to come all the way to Berlin to encourage Hitler to kill Jews. He did everything in his power to help the Nazis in their diabolical plot.”
“So I do not buy it when Palestinians argue that they were victims of the Holocaust because it led to the establishment of the state of Israel.”
“Before there was ever a state of Israel there was rabid anti-Semitism among radical Muslims.”
“I call on Tony Blair, who was the man who is responsible for creating Holocaust Memorial Day back in 2001, not to bow down to pressures made by these radical Muslims,” said Lau, himself a survivor of Buchanwald. “He should be faithful to his own convictions.”