Bradley Burston asks in Haaretz, "what makes Islam so easy to hate":
"There is a reason why Islam has become so easy to misinterpret, so easy to fear, so easy to hate: those who speak evil and do evil and order others to perform acts of evil in the name of its God and His Prophet."
Let me clarify. A tiny handful of Muslims are fundamentalists who hate Jews, hate the West and want to inflict great damage on "us." The vast majority of Muslims are law-abiding, compassionate, tolerant and understanding people.
A tiny handful of Jews are fundamentalists who hate Muslims, Palestinians and Arabs and want to inflict great damage of "them." The vast majority of Jews are honest and decent people.
Perhaps Burston would like to extend his theory to other religions. In Israel, however, such racism is not only accepted, it's encouraged.
"There is a reason why Islam has become so easy to misinterpret, so easy to fear, so easy to hate: those who speak evil and do evil and order others to perform acts of evil in the name of its God and His Prophet."
Let me clarify. A tiny handful of Muslims are fundamentalists who hate Jews, hate the West and want to inflict great damage on "us." The vast majority of Muslims are law-abiding, compassionate, tolerant and understanding people.
A tiny handful of Jews are fundamentalists who hate Muslims, Palestinians and Arabs and want to inflict great damage of "them." The vast majority of Jews are honest and decent people.
Perhaps Burston would like to extend his theory to other religions. In Israel, however, such racism is not only accepted, it's encouraged.
1 Comments:
Hatred is a seductive addiction. When we hate we define an 'other' as evil and by extension, that means we are 'good' or at least dramatically better than they are.
Burston conveniently overlooks the fact that if you took the most radical Jews, Christians, Hindus etc., you would get the same sort of 'licence to hate' if you were looking for it.
As you say, he completely overlooks the fact that many Muslims, maybe most, are not like this. But never let the facts get in the way of a good hating.
Understanding is a tool which can bring resolution. It doesn't always, but it can. Hatred never brings anything but more hatred, more violence, more death and more misery.
One presumes that if he can make a case for 'hating' Islam, well, the fundamentalist version of it, he is therefore completely accepting of Palestinians who hate Israel and Israelis for their brutal occupation and colonisation.
Or would that be another case of: One rule for me and another for everyone else?
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