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It's HOW one uses religion... [1]
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Date: 2022-12-23
Pray for peace
It's HOW one uses religion...
Happy, Peaceful, Blessed New Year!
* Though, "Hitler hated Judaism, but he loathed Christianity, too," [1] Nazi / their collaborators reiterated, in order to inflame, earlier Christian tropes, even infamous blood libel, [2] and overwhelmingly Europe's Churches acknowledge their failure at the time, [3] yet, there were some Christians who saved Jews, they are called Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.
* Though the Nazis used the Mufti and he himself abused Islam to link it with Nazism, there were (non-Arab) Muslims who saved Jews.
Even before the war, when the Mufti's gang, with the help of his brother Ahmad Shukeiri, murdered Dr. Anwar Shukeiri on June 8, 1939 for being on the Nashashibi side wanting peace with the Jews, the moderate Arab leader R. B. Nashashibi eulogized him as being a true Muslim: "The people of Palestine knew him as a sincere patriot and a true Moslem." [4]
* Deir Yassin, though disputed, even if it was exaggerated in order to strike fear at the Arabs, still, it was not kosher, to say the least. It marked the worst misdeed in 1948 on the Zionist side. Perpetrated by inexperienced radical youths. But who protested it at the immediate time? Haredi (very ultra-orthodox) people of Giv'at Shaul decrying that they had a peace pact with the Arabs and denounced them. So did the Rabbinate upon learning of the case. [5].
Worth mentioning the murder of Haredi: Yaakov Yisrael De Haan on July 1, 1924 by radical secular Zionists. For pursuing peace negotiations with the Arabs. [6].
The 1960's Tacuara in cooperation with Arab League's Hussein Triki 'Heil Hitler' era. Radicals used Catholics' patriotism for racism.[7] Again, it was abuse of religion.
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[1]
Hitler hated Judaism. But he loathed Christianity, too.
Washington Post, Apr 20, 2019.
[2]
Christianity and the Holocaust
Bibliography.
United States, Holocaust Memorial Museum
[3]
'Blood Libel,' Holocaust Encyclopedia.
The term blood libel refers to the false allegation that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish, usually Christian children, for ritual purposes. The Nazis made effective use of the blood libel to demonize Jews, with Julius Steicher's newspaper Der Stürmer making frequent use of ritual murder imagery in its antisemitic propaganda.
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[دكتور أنور الشقيري - דר. אנואר שוקיירי] Dr. Anwar Shukeiri
'MURDER OF SHUKEIRI DIRECTED AGAINST ARAB YOUTH'
The Palestine Post, June 13, 1939
Condemnation of terrorist methods was voiced by Fakhri Bey Nashashibi, deputy leader of the Arab National Defence Party, in a telegram of condolences to Sheikh Assad al Shukeiri, of Acre, on the death of Dr. Anwar Shukeiri who was shot by terrorists in Acre on Saturday. The which is similar to message, that sent by Ragheb Bey Nashashibi President of the Defence Party was as follows: The monstrous crime which has caused the death of Anwar must be considered as directed against the courageous, loyal and educated youth. Anwar had accomplished outstanding tasks...
The people of Palestine knew him as a sincere patriot and a true Moslem . It pains me deeply, not to be able to join those who will today be honoured by carrying Anwar's coffin. Down with the criminals who have destroyed the country and caused the suffering to its inhabitants."
Aryeh Disenchik, 'Night at Shukeiri's Home in Acre', Maariv, Friday, October 21, 1949, pp. 2, 11.
Dr. Anwar Shukeiri, who was murdered by the gangs.. in the Acre market, for - according to the gangs, not only a Nashashibi man, but also a friend of the Jews, therefore - a "traitor." ... Mutual hatred reached its peak when the youngest member of the family, Dr. Anwar Shukeiri, was murdered in the Acre market by two gangs of gang emissaries... The two murderers were apprehended and at trial confessed that they had been sent by the Mufti to murder the young Shukeiri. Further investigation revealed that the hand of his brother, Ahmad Shukeiri, was involved in the murder of Dr. Anwar Shukeiri.
The Palestine Post, 11 June 1939.
FUNERAL OF DR. ANWAR SHUKEIRI ARAB PHYSICIAN MURDERED BY ARABS IN ACRE
ACRE, Saturday . — Thousands of mourners joined in the funeral procession, which took place at one o'clock yesterday, of Dr. Anwar Shukeiri, who was murdered on Thursday.
Shops throughout the town were closed, and the mourners included men and women from many neighbouring villages, where Dr. Shukeiri was particularly well-loved among the poorer classes whom he, had often been known to give free treatment.
The young doctor, a graduate of the American University of Beirut, was the son of Sheikh Assad Shukeiri, the noted Moslem leader of Acre who is a leading supporter of the National Defence Party, and at one time an aspirant to the Presidency of the Moslem Supreme Council. DECOYED It is learned that two Arabs came to the house of Dr. Shukeiri on Thursday morning and asked him to visit a patient. He followed them into the street, and when he stepped out of his car at Fakhoura Square, several shots out and he colrang lapsed, unconscious. After being given first aid treatment at Acre he was rushed to the Haifa Government Hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds an hour and a half later. His body [today] was taken to Acre for burial. At the grave-side several eulogies were delivered, and a sister of the murdered man was heard to out cry, "Down with the Mufti and his followers ." The funeral took place on the day when Dr. Shukeiri was to have become engaged to the daughter of Haj Nimmer Naboulsi, a notable of Nablus. 'Falastin', the Mufti's organ reported the murder of Dr. Shukeiri very briefly, publishing only the official communique.
[5]
Zionism’s original sin? Deir Yassin, Passover, and the long road to Jerusalem
TOI, Apr, 10, 2017
Deir Yassin was one of the villages that had made a peace treaty with the Jews of the Yishuv, and in particular, with the Haredi community of Givat Shaul, just across the valley. According to Meir Pa’il, a Palmach officer, a crowd from Givat Shaul even intervened on behalf of the villagers. He says they “came into the village and started yelling ‘gazlanim, rotzchim‘ — thieves, murderers — ‘we had an agreement with this village. It was quiet. Why are you murdering them?' ”
[6]
90 years since the murder of R. Yaakov Israel de Haan
Bhol, Jul 10, 2014.
[7]
Sociological Abstracts. United States: Sociological Abstracts, 1967. p. 479
0400 Group Interactions
10 Interactions between (large) groups
(Race relations, group relations, etc.)
Adin, Julio, NATIONALISM AND NEO - NAZISM IN ARGENTINA,
In the Dispersion, 1966, 5/6, Spr, 139-160.
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