This is not just an insult to the memory of the Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. It’s also a common Leftist talking point. Many, many others have made this claim, including Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders; the notorious non-Muslim Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong; Jeffrey Goldberg, “journalist” at The Atlantic; Leftist media darling Reza Aslan; Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison; Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times; Canadian Muslim leader Syed Sohawardy; and Philadelphia chapter leader of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations Jacob Bender. Many others have repeated it.
The blazingly brilliant Daniel Greenfield takes it apart in this video.
The idea that Muslims are the new Jews is put forward by the Left, but it also has opponents on the Left. In 2014, as part of his ongoing awakening to the nature and reality of the jihad threat, Bill Maher noted:
Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren’t 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for being gay.
Indeed. Further, no one is calling for or justifying genocide of Muslims. No individual or group opposed to Islam is remotely comparable to the National Socialists. Not that facts have ever gotten in the way of a good meme.
Maher isn’t alone on the Left in having pointed out the absurdity of likening opposition to jihad to the lead-up to the Holocaust. The late Christopher Hitchens also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the notorious Ground Zero Mosque proposal:
“Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,” Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like.
“Extremist Islamic leader compares the extermination of six million Jews during the Holocaust to the way Muslims are treated now,” by Brianne Tolj and Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail Australia, July 16, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A leader of a hardline Islamist group has compared the treatment of Muslims to the massacre of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust.
Muslims have become an ‘existential threat’ in the world today, Hizb ut-Tahrir media representative Hamzah Qureshi was recently recorded telling fellow group members.
The growing fear of Islam is comparable to Germany’s declaration that the Jewish people ‘needed to go entirely’ almost 70 years ago, Mr Qureshi argued.
‘In Europe during the 19th and 20th century the ‘Jewish question’ interrogated the status of Jews and soon morphed from an allegedly neutral inquiry into a question of serious threat,’ he began.
‘Numerous answers were proposed – resettlement, integration, assimilation, deportation and so on as Jews were labelled an obstacle to the German nation and the insidious enemy within.’
As fears grew, the Holocaust was offered as a ‘final solution’ to the ‘Jewish question,’ he said.
‘Today though brothers and sisters there is a “Muslim question”,’ he said.
‘The same answers that were given for the Jewish question are now being suggested for the Muslim version – integration, assimilation, deportation and so on. Muslims have become that existential threat, that enemy within and that persistent danger,’ Mr Qureshi said.
‘Muslims are told that in order to be accepted they must conform to a certain set of values different to their own.’
‘All this begs the confronting question. What will be the final solution to this ‘Muslim Question?’
Mr Qureshi’s comments come after fellow Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar was captured on camera saying Muslims who leave the religion should be put to death.
‘The ruling for apostates as such in Islam is clear, that apostates attract capital punishment and we don’t shy away from that,’ Badar said in Sydney in May. An apostate is someone who decides to leave Islam….
Dawn says
Really and I just don’t know what else to say ! Nuff said !
John Forbes says
The MUSLIMS are ratcheting up the VICTIM card to ridiculous heights now !
Hopefully the BOLT REPORT & others will stop this nonsense !
I for the life of me cannot understand this official REVERENCE for ISLAM when it is just replacing a MORE INTOLERANT ideology that ROMAN CATHOLICISM is & WAS & WOULD be if it COULD BE !
The support for the 1930 Fascists put paid to the Catholic Church & it will probably never recover !
WHY ON EARTH SUPPORT ANY IDEOLOGY WITH A HISTORY ABUSE OF OTHERS AS BAD AS ISLAM ???
ISLAM IS AFRAID OF QUESTIONS & EXAMINATION BECAUSE IT STANDS UP VERY POORLY UNDER SCRUTINY & ITS FOLLOWERS & SOME SUPPORTERS KNOW THIS & ARE HARD AT TRYING TO PROTECT THIS ABUSIVE IDEOLOGY FROM THIS !
DO NOT LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS !!!!!!! DEMAND THAT QUESTIONS & SCRUTINY HAPPEN IN THE PUBLIC FORUM & EXPOSE THE FRAUD !!
Joe says
He should be hung!
Robert Wagner says
Yes Muslims are being murdered in droves. By who? Muslims!
Donald R Laster Jr says
It is the nature of Islam and ideologies that are based upon indoctrination. Just deviant a little bit and these ideologies will eat their own. Especially, when they can not focus outward.
john spielman says
HMmmmm> an actual existential threat to muslim’s very existence? i guess that’s why they need to breed like rats and files and are into jihad to take over the world! it all makes sense now! ( sarc)
Todd Schiebel says
One of thier tactics is to continually whine and complain as though they are undeserving of the criticism, all the while they continue to do exactally what they are accused of. Liers and haters to the core of thier belief system.
marina says
Boo hoo…Muslims are the perpetual whiny victims.
Ren says
Muslims are professional victims.
mohamonator says
What crap! Have any mohamedans been forced to sew a crescent on their clothing lately?
mortimer says
“mohaminator” … I like that. We only need to kill one Mohammedan and he (Mohammed) is already dead. So we just need to convince Mohammedans that their role model is a moral and psychological disaster and that no decent or sane person would follow him.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Mortimer, pious Muslims have no desire to be decent or sane–just Islamic.
mortimer says
This is the usual ISLAMIC MELODRAMA 101 !
Muslims love to SWOON about every micro-aggression (real or imagined) is the end of the world.
A supremacist wants SUPREMACISM and will do or say ANYTHING to get it.
It doesn’t have to be factual… it just has to be MELODRAMATIC !!!
The Muslim world LOVES MELODRAMA and PSYCHODRAMA… and they know that themselves.
mortimer says
correction: Muslims love to SWOON about every micro-aggression (real or imagined) and PRETEND IT is the end of the world.
Barry says
How insulting to the holocaust. How revolting to humanity. islam has no shame because it operates on a collective ‘superiority complex’, when in fact islam is inferior in every aspect/phase – ‘religious’, political and militant….islam’s insane egomaniac founder was, amongst lots of demonic traits, a ‘religious’ leader, political leader and military leader/ warlord. No human being has caused more death, destruction, terro, misery, pain than that evil founder. islam has no shame.
Mockingjay says
“islam has no shame because it operates on a collective ‘superiority complex’, when in fact islam is inferior in every aspect/phase… ”
– EXCELLENT COMMENT!
mortimer says
Hizb ut-Tahrir media representative Hamzah Qureshi IS DESPICABLY VILE to make this comparison.
Six million Muslims have not be sent by trucks and trains to CONCENTRATION CAMPS to be gassed in the last 3 years.
The comparison of Nazi concentration camps with Muslims coming to Europe to collect JIZZYA is ludicrously stupid.
harbidoll says
Jizzia camps-unemployment checks will set you free! LOL
mortimer says
The absurd stupidity and amoral repulsiveness of Islam is clearly visible in the life of Mohammed and his followers in the Sira and hadiths. Anyone who truly imitates Mohammed would have either to go to jail or to a mental institution or to a psychiatric jail.
makeamericagreatagain says
This is seriously sad. What’s sadder? People will believe it .
mohamonator says
OT: News Flash! Officer who shot and killed unarmed Justine Damond, an Australian native living in Minneapolis, is identified as Mohammed Noor, a Somali immigrant. Possibly jihadi infiltration of MPD?
mohamonator says
OOPS! Here’s the link
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/07/17/mpd-officer-shot-woman-identified/
Shmooviyet says
Isn’t mayor ‘wear-a-hijab-to-work day’ going to be flustered..
gravenimage says
Yes–this story was just covered here at Jihad Watch:
“Minneapolis: Muslim cop who shot woman in cold blood had three complaints against him”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/minneapolis-muslim-cop-who-shot-woman-in-cold-blood-had-three-complaints-against-him
Shmooviyet says
“Muslims are told that in order to be accepted they must conform to a certain set of values different to their own.” By whom?! Not by elites in Europe & North America, nor by the ‘equal cultures’ gang.
Mr. Beard, Jews and others weren’t scrambling to get IN to 30s/40s Germany. You’re the ones demanding conformity to YOUR ‘values’, and are desperate to keep the old ‘phobia’ dungball afloat.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Of course what these Islamics and supporters will do their best to avoid is the fact that the Jews were loyal to Germany – not the National Socialist or International Socialist – but to the country of Germany and they obeyed the laws as they do in all of the countries where the have lived. Islamics are not loyal citizens of any non-Islamic State and they do not obey the laws – just look at the rape problems where Islamics have invaded. Islamics are the ones who are not loyal to the non-Islamic countries they are located. Once again the Jews, an actual ethnic group, are being victimized by a political system, this one called Islam.
gravenimage says
Yes–Jews in Germany were not raping and murdering German people.
This comparison is utterly false. That Muslims are now threatening Jews in the West makes this all the more perverse.
Mike says
And obviously, the #1 genocider of Muslims is Israel, where the Muslim population has (approximately) GROWN BY 10x SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE STATE.
Retarded.
I have a strange prediction: Europe isn’t “done”. One day, the placid Europeans *will* wake up into a genocidal frenzy against Muslims. It would be much better if they did something non-genocidal about the problem *now*, but it doesn’t look like it will happen. Nothing in that direction has happened yet, but I can imagine that it might in the future. So these guys might actually have a point. Europe *does* have a history of this sort.
I have another prediction: if it happens, the two safest places to be Muslim at the time will be the Great Satan (USA) and the Little Satan (Israel). Those are the places where Muslims will remain unmolested through whatever horror happens.
gravenimage says
Yeah–the problem is not Muslims murdering us, but a phantom threat of Infidel genocide against Muslims. Try again…
ItsReallyQuiteClear says
Mike,
That’s a really interesting, and astute, observation about the safest places to be Muslim in the event of…resistance. Of course, the best place to be a…I’ll say jihadi…at any time, is “paradise”. Works for them. Works for me. Because I wouldn’t think of trying to impose my values on them. So I have no problem with them going there, I just have issues with how they plan to get there.
Mike says
I’d say that it’s 50/50 at this point whether there will be “resistance” in Western Europe, or whether they’ll “go” quietly.
A likely scenario is that many will convert or just demographically diminish into irrelevance. Perhaps some more right-wing ones will find refuge in Eastern Europe.
But I do think that there is a possibility that Western Europe will at some point react genocidally. Those Muslims who claim that it’s already a problem are idiots at best. But let them cry wolf long enough, and they may turn out to be right. I don’t think that it’s very likely, but it’s within the realm of the possible.
And yes, I’m quite serious in thinking that it’s more likely in Europe than in the USA or Israel. The absolute worst that I can see either of those countries engaging in would be internship (like with the Japanese in WWII) or “transfer”. It’s just not “in them” to engage in a mass slaughter.
The Germans have already done it in the past. Right now, they seem like they’re suicidal. But I could imagine them turning homicidal again.
Or “joining the enemy”, more likely, making a nasty “marriage” between Germanic and Islamic methods. That would be truly scary.
ItsReallyQuiteClear says
Mike,
I agree with you that, at some point, Western Europe will wake up and actually react. I’m thinking that, with all of the countries in the world that could have a stake in this — whether to knock back Islam, or to help Western Europe, or to profit from the damage that would likely be done to European infrastructure — one or more countries will mobilize their oxymoronic intelligence services to speed up, slow down or alter the nature of the “resistance”. If that happens, I would expect their intervention to be oxymoronic (in this case, I mean for that word to mean what it sounds like it should mean, not what it really means).
P.S. I didn’t mention the human cost of the struggle against the struggle(tm). Not because I don’t care, but because I don’t think that the elements that may initiate that struggle will be motivated by the human cost.
jewdog says
There are no limits when it comes to the self-serving vulgarity of some people. The irony here is there is a significant impetus for the genocide of the Jews, not just Israelis, from many jihadist-sympathizing Muslims. Then they accuse anyone opposed to their agenda of being a Nazi. Shameless.
Sarah says
Well said.
All we hear from them is the braying for the death and destruction of the Jewish people and the state of Israel. They would stamp their feet and cheer from the rooftops if the Holocaust 2.0 started up today.
To consistently show so much hatred, loathing and disgust for the Jewish people – and then blatantly turn around and say ‘Oh but we’re victims – as BAD as what they went through’ is absolutely mind boggling.
Thank God for the Jews, I say. Their contributions to culture, to science, medicine, engineering and education have largely shaped the modern world today. We have so many innovations, creations and advancements thanks to the Jewish. They’re not perfect – no group of people are – but they’ve done so much more than a lot of other groups of humans. And they’ve suffered terribly for a long time when they shouldn’t have had to.
There is something about being Muslim and being a hypocrite, clearly. They seem to have no real sense of self awareness – or they are very aware of the hypocritical nature of what they’re vomiting forth – and they are just so selfish and arrogant and greedy that they don’t care about the judgement that comes.
Jesus Christ – none of that is an indictment for Islam or Islamic culture. A bunch of freeloading, selfish, violent, arrogant, greedy, lazy, self-entitled vicious animals – and all that can be seen just by observing their own words and actions, deeds and behaviours.
Robeaver says
So make it real. Just sayin yawl.
Eur says
Then why do hundreds of thousands of Muslims continue to come to the West and none of them are going?
Irene Brekelmans says
Do muslims even know the Holocaust , I don’t think so. By your speeches and your behaviour I sometimes wonder. Are you really members of the human race and on the same earth as the rest of us?
gravenimage says
Most Muslims *love* the Holocaust and Hitler. Muslims frequently taunt Jews with threats to “finish the job”.
Darryl Kerney says
‘Muslims are told that in order to be accepted they must conform to a certain set of values different to their own.’
here we can see the attitude, that, even though they are coming to our country, they expect us to conform to their ways, and that they shouldn’t have to change or adapt to our world, but we must adapt ours to suit them.
gravenimage says
Australia: Muslim leader compares extermination of Jews in Holocaust to how Muslims are treated now
……………………..
Yeah–because the occasional yahoo leaving bacon on a Mosque doorhandle (when these don’t turn out to be fake “hate crimes”, that is) are just the same as the genocide of six million innocent people. sarc/off
jacob aiken says
He is a Historical Imbicile
Mike says
Let’s call him an “Imbecile of Historical Proportions”.
But actually he’s not. Deep down, what he’s stating is what HE would do if he were in “OUR” place.
I’m sure that a lot of these winners are wondering how come they’re not getting a massive negative reaction yet and are puzzled by it. Frankly, I agree with them on that!
Phil Copson says
“Muslims have become an ‘existential threat’ in the world today……..The growing fear of Islam…….”
Maybe Qureshi hasn’t got a perfect command of English or maybe it’s the Daily Mail Australia reporters, but I’d say that those comments are spot-on……..Islam threatens the existence of the non-muslim world and the rest of us should beware – thank you, Mr Qureshi, for your accidental honesty.
Donafugata says
If only.
Aussie Infidel says
This is just another ploy Muslims are using to portray themselves as ‘victims’ of Western imperialism, by association with holocaust survivors. But actions speak louder than words. Did Jewish jihadis wage ‘holy war’ against the Third Reich? How many Jewish suicide bombers were there? Do Jewish Rabbis preach ‘hatred of unbelievers’ in their synagogues? Do the Jews try to impose their religious mores on their host countries? Do the Jews treat their women as second class citizens? Do the Jews enslave and rape captive women? Only the Muslims are guilty of such detestable behaviors.
Islam is a totalitarian, fascist ideology which will not tolerate any other religion or culture – and is hell-bent on subjugating them all. The present day mullahs and imams are simply following the example of their psychopathic Prophet Muhammad who thought nothing of beheading anyone who opposed him. No wonder Hitler preferred Islam over Christianity. And Hizb ut-Tahrir is the Muslim equivalent of Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda.
The Muslims are not the ‘new Jews’, but the ‘new Nazis’!
Mirit says
How many Muslim countries are there in the world? 57
How many Arab countries? 22
How many Jewish countries are there ? 1
How many Jewish countries were there in the days of the Holocaust?0
I rest my case.
Robert Wagner says
Just who is killing Muslims? Other Muslims .
Steven says
Enough with the muslim’s lies….. Bloody unbelievable!!
Lioness says
The filthy lier! Someone should show this nut job a photo from inside Auschwitz, and see if he can spot the difference between how Jews were treated during the holocaust and how Muslims are treated in the West today.