Showing posts with label Judaism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Judaism. Show all posts

Friday, February 15, 2008

But on closer inspection, both kiosks openly stock the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious anti-Semitic text that purports to be an account of Jewish plans to rule the world, but was actually written by Tsarist secret police in 1905.

They also sell Hitler's autobiography, Mein Kampf.

in another part of the article

But it's clear that some publishers in Egypt do not practise the kind of respect for religious groups that Mr Mousa is calling for from the West.

This silly BBC correspondent doesn't seem to realise the difference between the Danish cartoons (not that I care about either of these issues) and the sale of Mein Kampf by book vendors in Cairo. Not only that, but he might be surprised to realise that Mein Kampf is on sale at Amazon and the "Protocols" are available freely on the internet through a quick search on Google. Now, did his erudite majesty find anyone drawing satirical pictures of Moses or Abraham in Cairo? No...now go away and do some real journalism.

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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Sound familiar?: "Apparently her interpretation of tzniut (a sort of Jewish version of the Islamic concept of hijab) is so strict that her followers do not wear high heels lest their loud footsteps should attract unwanted male attention."

Of course the similarity is only superficial:

"Another follower interviewed by the newspaper, Miriam, 32, said: “People are asking: ‘Who is it? A Muslim? An Arab?’ But there are people in the Orthodox public who insult us, and that hurts us most. Only an Orthodox person knows what an insult it is for a woman to be told that she’s a Christian or an Arab.”"

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