Secularism dies

By Ali Hassan Salameh

March/April 2006

NEW YORK: British historian David Irving was jailed for three years by an Austrian court yesterday, despite finally admitting the reality of the Nazi Holocaust and the existence of gas chambers after a career spent denying both.

This is just plain ridiculous and stupid on many counts:

 1. It will strengthen all the holocaust deniers, they are gonna go from being a fringe group of idiots that everyone laughs at, to becoming a more mainstream group of radicals that people take a bit more seriously since now they have a martyr and a hero who has suffered. And since he has suffered, then surely there is something to what he says that must be true.

2. It will strengthen all the radical anti-semetic theories in Europe about the Jews ruling the world, meaning more anti-Semitism, which is something that is the worst for Palestinians.  It unites Zionists more together, and gives people more reason to believe that Zionism is right, since Europe and Christian societies are all anti-semitic.  Joseph Massad’s forthcoming book discusses this idea, and talks about how there can be no end to Zionism and the conflict in Israel/Palestine unless anti-Semitism is defeated, so that Jews no longer feel they are hated all over the world, and have a reason to oppress Palestinians to keep their own homeland. 

3. It will give radicals in the Muslim world a reason to continue burning embassies, boycotting Lurpack and exaggerating about how much they love Mohammad.  Now it is plain to them that Europeans only like Jews and protect them but hate Muslims.

Thankfully, we are living in an age, where thousands of years of advance in liberal secular thinking across the world is being undone, as we return to the medieval ages: from Bush to Ahmedinajad to Sharon to confused Europeans and millions of misinformed Muslims. We are reverting all together back to the 11th century.  Secularists like us are becoming a dying breed.

Ali Salameh was on the team of the website www.sorrynorwaydenmark.com. He wrote this analysis for Alternative