On Sep 9, 5:30Â pm, Ed
earthlink.net> wrote:> On Sep 9, 2:57Â pm, Robert Cohen
msn.com> wrote:
>>> I've skimmed some of this, including that first articulate negative
>> response bashing the book review.
>
>> I can't expect such a  book review to be particularly well-read.
>
>> The phenomena are ambiguous claims for a reader better versed in
>> Western European history, which has (apparently) always been the
>> generally required curriculum in  U.S. formal
>> education, college and high school.
>
>> If you can (at least) skim the nine pages plus the responses, I
>> solicit your opinion of the phenomena.
>
>
> I skimmed it too. Â this is superficial but his case that Muslims hate
> and persecute Jews seems well documented. Â What is less clear is
> whether Muslims hate and persecute Jews more than they hate and
> persecute Christians, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Hindus or any other non-
> Muslim religion. Â In my estimation they hate them all, they inflict
> terrorism on those that are handy or prominent.
I was influenced--as apparently many other Jews have been-- into
thinking that the Jews in Araby & Persia weren't mistreated as badly
as the Jews in European history.
In my mind, such a proposition is a ...mixed vomit bag of an absurdity
of absurdities, while the book's author
(seemingly) wants me etal to change our bias to the opposite.
B-t-w: This very excellent article in WIKIPEDIA succeeds in explaining
the term "antsemitism"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
