We also need to grapple with the issue of Islam in all of this. If anything, the embers of antisemitism have been burning hotter amongst Muslims than anywhere else after WWII. To the point that it's been an almost reflexive belief that somehow Israel, and it's few million Jews, are the dominant reason that their "civilizations" are in th…
We also need to grapple with the issue of Islam in all of this. If anything, the embers of antisemitism have been burning hotter amongst Muslims than anywhere else after WWII. To the point that it's been an almost reflexive belief that somehow Israel, and it's few million Jews, are the dominant reason that their "civilizations" are in the regressive, repressive, backward state that they're in.
Which, of course, is ludicrous when one considers the Muslim world has been in a centuries-long decline that predates Israel, America, and every other boogeyman their countries conjure to deflect blame from their myriad failures to properly educate themselves and modernize.
My rubric (which I admittedly may make mistakes in following, like all of us) is that I'll support the countries that people want to live in over the country they don't. People want to live in America. People want to live in Israel. People want to live in Europe. They're great places that allow for good living, and human progress. Moreover, people who are genuinely oppressed by a country don't climb all over themselves to move to that country. Jews were not moving to Germany in the 1940s, which makes it all the more puzzling that the Muslim world so vociferously speaks against the countries that they just have to move to.
We also need to grapple with the issue of Islam in all of this. If anything, the embers of antisemitism have been burning hotter amongst Muslims than anywhere else after WWII. To the point that it's been an almost reflexive belief that somehow Israel, and it's few million Jews, are the dominant reason that their "civilizations" are in the regressive, repressive, backward state that they're in.
Which, of course, is ludicrous when one considers the Muslim world has been in a centuries-long decline that predates Israel, America, and every other boogeyman their countries conjure to deflect blame from their myriad failures to properly educate themselves and modernize.
My rubric (which I admittedly may make mistakes in following, like all of us) is that I'll support the countries that people want to live in over the country they don't. People want to live in America. People want to live in Israel. People want to live in Europe. They're great places that allow for good living, and human progress. Moreover, people who are genuinely oppressed by a country don't climb all over themselves to move to that country. Jews were not moving to Germany in the 1940s, which makes it all the more puzzling that the Muslim world so vociferously speaks against the countries that they just have to move to.