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August 19, 2004

The "blood libels" re-emergence

I found a link today which once again fills me with despair and rage! On Dodgeblogium, under the title of "How charming" I found the link to a translation of extracts from an Egyptian Government sponsored daily paper. The venom of this despicable rag is unbelievable in this day and age - and equally unbelievably it is sold openly in the UK - perhaps because it is in Arabic only, their sycophants in government hope no one will notice ...and thus it goes unchallenged.

What has raised my ire? The fact that a "respected" Muslim Cleric - one of their most "learned academics" - has resurrected the ghastly forgery which was created in the 1890's by the Tzar's Secret Police, to justify the ethnic cleansing of Jews in Russia. This same trash was used by Hitler and the Nazis and, it must be said, by a lot of Left Wing parties in the 1930's to justify seizure of property and the targetting of Jewish shops and businesses by mobs incited to anti-semitic behaviour by political rabble-rousers. Now it is being cynically revived again and very deliberately used to further inflame hatred for Israel and the Jewish people within the Muslim world. Worryingly, it is not being challenged by our anti-Christian and anti-Jewish Left/Liberal political elite (who can't seem to separate their hatred of Israel from the Jewish people elsewhere) and who seem content to allow this poisonous filth to be promulgated in Arab language newspapers, on Arab language radio and television, and in Mosques in this country.

These venomous libels were created in a climate of anti-semiticism in the latter part of the 19th Century and rely on a number of forgeries for provenance. The article cited today makes reference to "Neophytus the Convert" and "secret" confessions this supposed convert from Judaism made to the Spanish Inquisition. It has been known since the beginning of the 20th Century that the person did not exist, and the document he is supposed to have signed is a forgery. The book from which this vile cleric has taken his "evidence" is also known to have been a forgery from the same period. It purports to be the secret minutes and plans of a "World Zionist" group bent on the subjugation of the world and the enslvement of all non-Jews to their service.

It is time the people who persist in peddling this trash where dragged out into the open, stripped of their credibility by the exposure of their paucity of truth in their sources and their lack of ability to distinguish between fact, and the twisted fantasy they prefer. Perhaps the phrase used at On the Third Hand, "Too tightly twisted turban crowd" ™) is an accurate reflection of the actual academic ability of these vile and despicable cretins so blinded by their own venom that they have lost all claim to being followers of any God but Satan himself. I hope he has a special place for them in Hades; they ought to enjoy the full benefits of their hatred.

Posted by The Gray Monk at August 19, 2004 11:54 AM