Beryl Ratzer Veteran Israeli Guide and author of A Historical Tour of the Holy Land - in English, Russian and Spanish The murderous events in France last week and the demonstrations in their wake have highlighted double-standards and bias and raised many “points to ponder”. On the one hand we are told that Islam is a peaceful religion and Moslems as a group cannot be held responsible for the actions of the “fanatics” and must be protected. On the other hand we are given to understand that terrorism against Jews is acceptable and understandable because of the actions, often falsely reported, attributed to Israel in her attempt to protect her citizens from the same terrorism now threatening the complacent western world. No one protested when a young Jewish boy was tortured for days and his partially burnt but still live body was thrown on the railway tracks in France, when four Jews, including three children, were killed at a Jewish day school in Toulouse, when four Jews were killed at the Jewish Museum in Brussels or when four elderly Jews were butchered while at prayers in their synagogue in Jerusalem all by those same “fanatic terrorists”. No one demonstrated when hundreds of Nigerian school girls were kidnapped, when thousands of Nigerians are butchered by Boko Haram, when innumerable Christians are persecuted and killed throughout Africa and the Middle East, to mention but a few atrocities perpetrated in the name of Allah, invariably quoting chapter and verse from the Quran, Hadith or the life of Mohammed. Not even Moslems in the free world have demonstrated against the bloodbaths committed by Moslems against one another, all in the name of different brands of Islam, whether in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon or Pakistan, when tens of thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands made refugees. How long will it take the politically correct western world, unable to call a spade a spade, to use the “M” or “I” words – Moslem and Islam – and acknowledge that more than 90% of the atrocities in the world are perpetrated by Moslems in the name of Allah? The silence of a billion non-radical, peaceful Moslems merely confirms this. Beryl Ratzer Please register at ratzer to receive “Points to Ponder” directly.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:56:58 +0000
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