December 08, 2005

A Letter to the President of Iran

The president if Iran has been pushing that tired old Islamic agenda of "Let's push the Jews into the Sea" and "Kill all Jews!"

Apparently, cooler heads prevail. Today the president of Iran called on the nations of Europe to open their doors and lands to house the Occupiers (that would be us Jews), and, oh, by the way, the president of Iran went on to say, he doesn't believe the Holocaust ever happened.


Dear President of Iran,

What do Christian high school students and madrassah students have in common?

Neither can pass history or science tests.

So, here's a little history lesson for you.

2000 BCE: Abraham, a Hebrew
Canaan occupied by Phoenicians, Amorites, and Hebrews, collectively known as Canaanites. Note absence of any entity called Palestine, or Islam, or Muslim, or Allah.

1100-1200 BCE: Moses, also a Hebrew
~1446-1211 BCE: Hebrews flee the Pharaoh

Canaan occupied by Phoenicians, Amorites, and Hebrews, collectively known as Canaanites. Note absence of any entity known as Palestine, or Islam, or Muslim, or Allah.

1100-1085 BCE: Ramses XI
Tries but fails to colonize Canaan (thus starting a trend that will continue well into the future), thus leaving part of the Judean and Israeli coastal regions to the Sea Peoples, aka, the Philistines, a literate, traveled people, likely descended from Greeks who fled the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization.

In Canaan, the Philistines freely mingled and intermarried with their Canaanite neighbors, adapting their religious practices and gods' names to those of the Canaanites…except the Hebrews, who continued to live more in the hilly regions and kept their own religion. The Philistines tried to run Dan, one of the Hebrew tribes, out of their homes. Samson, one of Dan's leaders, fought back.

Note absence of any entity known as Islam, or Muslim, or Allah, although Palestine is a corruption (no pun intended) of the name Philistines, a people who worshiped a pantheon of deities, not one of which was the as yet to be 'discovered' Allah.

After a period of battles won and lost between Philistines and Hebrews, the Hebrew King David wins back lands temporarily lost to the Philistines, with the land of the Hebrews now stretching from the Red Sea to Damascus, from the Mediterranean eastward to the Euphrates. The resident and immigrant Amorites, Philistines, Cretans and neo-Hittites intermarried with the Hebrews, eventually losing discrete identity, blending into the overall dominant Hebrew and pagan cultures.

And still no Islam, no Muslims, no Allah. Just a land ruled by the Hebrews, populated mostly by Hebrews.

480 BCE
During these same centuries, the Hindus, Jains and Buddhists were all following their deities, writing great works of literature and art as their civilizations and cultures evolved.

In the Far East, as the Zhou dynasty declined, the scholar Kongfuzi (Confucius, born 551 BCE) espoused a new conservatism. Mozi, feeling that was all too pretentious, walked a different path. Laozi and Zhuangzi, founding fathers of the Taoist way, felt both Kongfuzi and Mozi were inappropriate, and counseled a withdrawal from social strife.

And still no Islam, no Muslims, no Allah. And in the Middle East, still a land ruled by the Hebrews, populated mostly by Hebrews.

The next 1000 years, to 500 BC, brings to the world stage more sociopolitical upheaval and changing borders and leaders. The Greeks infiltrate, then conquer the lands in the Middle East, including the Hebrews and other Canaanites, now more often all called, collectively Palestinian. As the Greeks wane, the Romans wax, encountering yet again Jews who, while interested in many things, are not interested in converting to anyone else's gods.

And, still no Allah. Christians, but no Muslims. Hebrews, but no Muslims. Greeks, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Persians, Zoroastrians, and Sassanids…but no Muslims.

Is the point here coming through? Or is that dense block of crap the Madrassah filled your brain with still lodged firmly in place?

By 600 CE, monotheism has taken full hold over the Middle East. People are Jewish, or they are Christian, with smaller numbers still following various pagan holdouts. Ever since the Jews came up with the wacky idea of a messiah, various false ones have proclaimed themselves (or been proclaimed as such, like Yoishke, whose followers to this day call themselves Christians), and little cults here and there have always populated the landscape, some more peaceably than others.

The remaining pantheistic groups in the Middle East and its environs are heavily influenced by all this dominant One God-ness. Just as the Philistines adapted their religion to the dominant Hebrew religion, so too are the people living on the fringes of the Hebrew and Christian empires around the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Middle East, and up through Turkey (with its Christian emperor awaiting the Second Coming of the Christian messiah).

613 CE: Finally!
A guy named Mohammed starts preaching that One God thing that his Jewish and Christian neighbors have been doing for millennia and centuries, respectively. Only instead of the Yahweh of the Hebrews, or the Trinity of the Christians, Mohammed, like so many before and so many after him, has decided that HE and HE only has the line on the only true god. Like so many before and so many after him, he is dismissed as a crackpot or ignored.

623 CE: The Mohammedian Tradition of Whining Begins
When the sizeable Jewish community in his new place of residence fail to succumb to Mohammed's blandishments, in a snit he stops praying facing Jerusalem, and starts praying while bowing towards Mecca. That'll show those damned Jews! Yeah!

When Allah fails to provide Mohammad with a sustainable living, Mohammed gathers together a group of similarly underemployed cult members, er, followers, to start attacking merchant caravans, killing the traders and taking their goods. When he attacks a large caravan of merchants from Mecca, Mecca gets a wee bit pissed off at Mohammed, and so they go to war. Note the traces of the now tiresome recurring theme of Islam: Mohammad does a bad thing, gets spanked, and then goes after the spanker, attacking Mecca. By now, you see, all his stolen wealth, including that stolen from those damned Jews who refused to willingly become his followers (oh, excuse me, worshipers of Allah), has bought him a gang who support themselves by continuing to attack others who refuse to pay tribute, literally and figuratively, to you-know-who.

631 CE: Mohammed dies.
With the Arab peninsula (Note to Muslims: NOT the Hebrew- and Christian-dominated historic lands of Israel & Judea, aka Canaan, aka Palestine) in a serious recession (Note to Republicans: there is only so much you can steal from the have-nots before the whole structure collapses), and feeling a bit cranky and in need of more bling and cult members, Mohammed's followers branch out and begin attacking peoples farther afield, combining pillaging with forced conversion.

One of countries they conquered was Persia, Mr. President, where the Muslims deemed Zoroastrianism to be evil.

So, if anyone is going to demand the occupiers leave anywhere, Mr. President, how about we start with you moving yourself and all other Muslims out of Iran and back to Mecca, where this whole mess started.

And while we are talking about occupiers getting out, that would apply to Muslims everywhere. Out of Israel. Out of Northern Africa. Out of Syria and Lebanon. Out of Jordan. Out of Indonesia. Out of Turkey. Out of the various -istans from The Country Formerly Known As Russia to China. Out of every country Muslims conquered by force, returning all properties to the peoples they subjugated and murdered.

Now, do you really want to debate the Holocaust, or do you just want to crawl back into the dark hole of willful and persistent ignorance and brutality that is the hallmark of far too many leaders, civil and religious, in times past and in the present. Unfortunately, since such ignorance and brutality is not genetically linked with infertility, people like you will make more ignorant and brutal people.

Some god, Allah, if you and your ilk are representative of the type of follower He favors.

Ignorance isn't punishable by death, but you and those like you make a good argument in favor of it.

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For those who are not aware of the systematic, institutionalized and politicized persecution of Jews in Arab lands through the centuries since the advent of Islam, nor of the Arab pogroms and flight of 1 million Jews from Arab lands to other countries, including Israel, I highly recommend a new documentary, The Forgotten Refugees.

While you read about it and watch it, ask yourself: Why, 57 years after the British Mandate ended and the U.N. recognized the new (yet again) state of Israel, and the Arabs once again failed to eradicate the Jews, are there still "Palestinian refugee camps", but no Jewish refugee camps?

The President of Iran's position on the Holocaust is actually pretty funny, since it was a Muslim attorney and religious leader, Mohammed al-Husseini, who met with Hitler with whom he planned how best to eradicate the world of Jews. While in Germany, Husseini issued a call for all Muslims to begin the eradication by slaughtering their Jewish neighbors, something which the Muslims did quite cheerfully. But, hey! Don't believe this Jew, read about it for yourselves, something the President of Iran clearly hasn't bothered to do.

From the Muslim Brotherhood to the Third Reich

Who Was the Mufti (Haj) Muhammed Amin al-Husseini?

Hitler's Mufti

11 Comments:

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6:50 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

wow... you said a lot.. but the gist of it was between the lines... I sure hope you dont ever have to find a way to live side by side with a muslim.. because there seems to be a whole lotta hate brewing inside of you

8:22 AM  
Blogger Melissa said...

Oh, please. If I can live alongside evangelical Christians who tell me I am so going to hell because I don't believe I need to be saved, I can live alongside Muslims - at least, ones not set on killing Jews and who do not support the eradication of Jews.
Unfortunately, I don't see any Muslim political or religious leaders coming out against this continuing institutionalized hatred. I don't see any Arab leaders taking the PoI to task. Just the opposite, in fact.

The problem isn't me, and it isn't the Jews, especially not Jews trying to educate the non-Jewish public about a history they've so conveniently forgotten. The problem is the continued hatred fomented by the vast majority of Muslims, still pissed off at the non-Muslim world that we still haven't accepted their Johnny-come-lately religion as the only true path to whatever.

I mean, haven't you given any thought to who they will come after if they do manage to kill off all the Jews? Better get back your history books: Islam doesn't care for Christians, either, because Christians, also around long before Mohammed existed, also refused to convert, and so Christianity in all its forms continues to this day. It is only because anti-Jewish sentiments still burn deep within the hearts of so many Christians (though they are better hiding it than Muslims are) that the Muslims haven't gone so much after Christians in the last 70 years or so. But do not think (assuming you are not Jewish or Muslim) that Christians are safe - once the Jews are gone, my bet is that Christians will be next.

Have you bothered to check out MEMRI - the Middle East Media Research Institute? The latest Arab press headlines covered there: Lebanon's Largest Government University Hosts Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV Symposium Calling to Wipe Israel Off The Map: "Just Like Hitler Fought The Jews…We Too Should Fight The Jews and Burn Them". And how about Jordanian TV Airs Antisemitic Ramadan Series, and Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV Interviews Head of Swedish 'Radio Islam': The Muslims' War is with the Jews; Judaism is a Criminal Mafia, Not a Religion?

So, please don't tell me that I am the one who is intolerant or filled with hate.

Here's a suggestion: Go live in Israel for a year. Of course, things have quieted down for the time being. (Not that things will continue as they are, since the "Palestinians" are once again gearing up to miss an opportunity, choosing instead to reclaim anti-Jewish terrorism as their primary mandate, instead of hey! making a real life for themselves, using the money the Arab countries give them for terror to instead build a society based on learning and religious tolerance for non-Muslims. So, go live in Israel where every person that boards the bus, every person who walks into the restaurant, or into your hotel lobby, might be someone trying to kill you. And then we'll talk tolerance and hate.

9:29 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hate is hate dear... no matter what there has to be a way to say things without it... to do things.. to find a way to be.. through all the crap... that is based in love.. acceptance,,, and yes I am a jew.. though I dont buy into any of it... one side or another.. just that it aint gonna work without we find a way to do it all together... period

my take.. all religion is crap... all differences bull pucky.. and any time we focus ob them.. the differences.. we loose!

10:26 AM  
Blogger Melissa said...

Ah! So you're saying, relax and enjoy it. It occurred to me, as I was writing my last response, that telling Jews to stop trying to educate others about the realities of institutionalized Islamic hate, and being blamed for whatever Muslims do, is quite like rape victims being blamed for having been raped in the first place.

People--countries--stood by during WWII while Hitler was busily putting his Final Solution to work. Hell, the same countries stood by while the British allowed Arabs to possess arms but not the Jews - at the Arabs behest, of course, during the British Mandate.

The problem is that it really doesn't matter what kind of Jew you are, or whether you are even a practicing Jew. Just being a Jew made you a target then, and makes you a target now.

Those who just go along to get along now, just like those who get blown to pieces by a homicide bomb or burned in the ovens then, or whatever conflagrations the Islamic clerics and political leaders are calling for now, have no cheeks to turn.

10:45 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey Im not saying just go with the flow... far from it. action... education... all... but do it in such a way that those who have to change can do so while still saving face. trivial as it seems... but nbody seems to be willing to loose it

12:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You sound like you hate Muslims. Not all Muslims support terrorism. Not all Muslims are terrorists. Coming from an american Muslim who has traveled the Islamic world/lived in the Islamic world without any problems or fear.

8:33 AM  
Blogger Melissa said...

>>You sound like you hate Muslims.

Just the fundamentalists who propagate ignorance, terrorism, and subjugation of womem.

>>Not all Muslims support terrorism. Not all Muslims are terrorists.

Believe it or not, I know that. But I also know that damn few of them are doing anything about it.


>>Coming from an american Muslim who has traveled the Islamic world/lived in the Islamic world without any problems or fear.

I take it you are a male? Try being female and living and traveling in the Islamic world. Try being an American Jewish female traveling in predominantly Arab neighborhoods in Israel. Try being a Jewish male in any Islamic country, for that matter, and tell me how comfortable and safe you feel.

9:39 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I really like the way you speak your mind. I totally agree with you about muslims hate towards Jews. I am a muslim by birth and not by my choice. A conditional muslim who's brain being washed from childhood.
Things needs to change with muslims but if the kids are conditioned from childhood in a certain way, it is hard to wash away too easy.
I fully agree with your analysis of muslims treating other people even their fellow muslims, women and people from other religions. It is pathetic. It is hard to live with them and the way they think. They are close minded. They don't see anything else but superiority of their religion.
But at the same time, i question why life has to evolve around religions. Why we all should just live a normal life without making religion.
Why Israel has to be a country based on region and race.
If Jews are people of book and consider themselves chosen people then why they are killing inocent Palestanians. Denying them life. Surrounded them with walls, putting guns at their heads. Jews never had a state and government of their own. Now they have one, where is a just government.
Israel will go as tyrannical state in history. Blood on every Jewish hand, who supported it financially and who actively participated in it.
Show me one country, who will come to a neighbourhood and create so much hovac.
Lets have peace.
Jews are better off doing businesses in different capitals of the world. controlling commerce and trade. They are not fit governing nation state.

9:25 PM  
Blogger Melissa said...

>>>Why Israel has to be a country based on region and race.

It isn’t, not any more than, say, Iraq, or Jordan, or Syria or Egypt is. Well, with one exception. Arab citizens, be they Muslim or Christian, aren’t persecuted as Jews and Christians are in all the Arab countries.

>>If Jews are people of book and consider themselves chosen people then why they are killing inocent Palestanians.

The only ones they are going after are the ones who are first trying to kill them. Show me an Israeli Jew strapping a bomb vest on him- or herself, and I’ll change my mind. Show me an Israeli Jew blowing up cafes, restaurants, buses, and schools, and I’ll change my mind. The fact is, you are still brainwashed.

>>Denying them life. Surrounded them with walls,

Hello!! Read history books not written by Nazi, neo-Nazi, or Muslims trying to brainwash others. It was the Arab leaders in 1948 to told Muslims to leave Israel for a bit until the Arab armies could push the Jews into the sea, those that they didn’t first kill, of course. So stupid, brainwashed Muslims did, and were forced into ‘temporary’ camps. Camps which became permanent when a) the combined Arab armies lost the war they started, and b) forced the people they urged to flee to stay in the camps, refusing them citizenship, refusing to allow more than a trickle to settle elsewhere in their country, and refusing to support them. So, guess who has been keeping them alive, helping them feed themselves, get medical care, etc.? The rest of the world, including us dirty Jews.

>>>putting guns at their heads.

Only to the ones who have first tried to kill us. The information is out there. If you truly want to unwash your brain, read the sources I’ve already posted. Seek out other sources. Not all correct accounts of history have been written by Jews, but for sure none has been written by those feeding the likes of the Midrassahs, mosques, and other places where people are supposed to learn but instead get fed the same old hate year after year.

>>Jews never had a state and government of their own.

Like I said, go read. Jews were farming and transacting business and governing themselves and all the other peoples who lived in and traded with the countries called Canaan, Israel and Judea, but most often, Israel, long before Mohammed had a vision that ultimately led to the formation of Islam, thousands of years AFTER Jews were there and governing.

>>>Now they have one, where is a just government.

Certainly not in Egypt, Syria, or most of the other countries around there. One of the reasons hate is institutionalized throughout the Arab world is that they are threatened by any form of democracy.


>>Israel will go as tyrannical state in history. Blood on every Jewish hand, who supported it financially and who actively participated in it.

In a word: Bullshit. The fact that you can say such a thing in all sincerity is because you are still brainwashed by a religion who gained most of its converts by the sword, who tremble at the thought that their followers and subjects will actually learn the truth.

>>Show me one country, who will come to a neighbourhood and create so much hovac.

Try reading noon-Muslim sources about the spread of Islam through the middle east and Spain.

>>Lets have peace.

I couldn’t agree more.

>>>Jews are better off doing businesses in different capitals of the world. controlling commerce and trade. They are not fit governing nation state.

As I said, you do not have a clue. You are merely spouting the same propaganda the Muslims and Nazis, and now the President of Iran, have been spouting for centuries.

If you truly want to learn, you have to step outside the walls you have allowed others to build in your mind.

6:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Melissa, I agree with what you said.

Remember that G-d give Israel the land and those that try to take that land from Israel will be in hell.

Bless Israel and be blessed. Curse Israel and be cursed (Gen 12:3)

What the devil is trying to do is to use "Islam" to get people into hell - made for himself and the fallen angels.

I am not a Jew but I can see the truth

6:26 PM  

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