Why Does Anti-Semitism have its own word? isn’t it racism?

by JacopoBelbo84

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2003-10-27 13:46:00

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This is from Anas Altikriti, a ‘Guardian’ columnistin the UK, as well as director of media and public relations for the British Muslim Association of Britain.

‘In a world that has skewered the terms “terrorism” and “Terrorist” so that they imply Islam and Muslims respectively, the cheapest shot is to accuse a Muslim adversary of being a terrorist and to sanctify one’s own aggression by declaring it a “War on Terror”…Earlier this month investigative reporters from the L.A. Times and NBC Television published a number of ferocious comments made by Leuitenant-General William Boykin, the newly promoted under-secretary of defence for intelligence…Boykin had publicly declared that Muslims followed a god that was no more that an “idol”…And he believes that, in order, “to defeat our spiritual enemy” Christians must fight it “in the name of Jesus”…Had such an attack been against any other religious or ethnic group, there would of been an uproar. In deed, we witnessed just such a reaction when Malaysia’s prime Minister, Mahatir Mohamad, spoke of a world governed by the jewish people and called on Muslims to use brain as well as brawn in order to assume their rights throughout the world. Everyone was understandably up in arms…Why then did Boykin’s remarks fail to stir any official reaction outside the US?’