Islamist Takeover of Manhattan, No Bullets Fired

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
April 8, 2010

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/731/islamist-takeover-of-manhattan

Excerpt:

Tonight, Manhattan surrendered. Tonight, Manhattan, my own home town, was "taken" by its own desire to turn Arabs and Muslims into heroes.

On the upper east side, where I now live, I saw a very important documentary about three—three!– known North African Muslims, (referred to throughout as "Arabs"), who saved a number of North African Jews whom the Vichy French and German Nazi armies hunted down in Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. The audience was packed, eager.

The filmmakers and their funders actually hope that this view of Arab-Jewish relationships (based on three cases) will somehow "heal" the tattered relationship….which once was so Golden. Well, I don't think so. Yes, Biblically, the Jews and the Muslims are half-siblings, cousins; we are both Semites. Yes, things were always easier for wealthy Jews in Arab lands but most Jews were very poor. Yes, things were better for everyone, both Muslims and Jews, when modernization, feminism, and the separation of mosque and state were afoot, at least in Turkey and Egypt, at the turn of the early twentieth century.

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