Thursday, 25 September 2008

ISLAMOPHOBIA-ANTISEMITISM CONFLICT II

ISLAMOPHOBIA: THE DREAD OR HATRED OF ISLAM AND THEREFORE THE FEAR AND DISLIKE OF MUSLIMS. THIS INCLUDES THE PRACTICE OF DISCRIMINATING AGAINST MUSLIMS, WHICH IS A CONTINUATION OF ANTI-ASIAN AND ANTI-ARAB RACISM.

ANTISEMITISM: COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE PREJUDICE AGAINST OR HOSTILITY TOWARDS JEWS.

SEMETIC: REFERENCE TO A LANGUAGE FAMILY LARGELY OF MIDDLE EASTERN ORIGIN, INCLUDING ARABIC AND HEBREW. THIS PROVES THE FORMER AS AN INCORRECT REFERENCE TO THE TERM.

THE POEM IS CALLED ISLAMOPHOBIA-ANTISEMITISM CONFLICT AS IT CONNOTES TO THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT RESPECTIVELY.

BROTHER MAKES REFERENCE TO THE WESTERN WORLD, WHICH IS PREDOMINANTLY CHRISTIAN, BY WHOM THE LAND [PALESTINE] WAS ONCE CONTROLLED BY AND DIVIDED THUS GIVING BIRTH TO ISLAMOPHOBIA.
IN THE EYES OF THE ARAB, THIS LAND WAS NOT JUST DIVIDED BUT IT HAD BECOME OCCUPIED. AS THIS LAND [ANTISEMITISM] WAS REDUCED TO ALMOST A THIRD OF WHAT IT ONCE WAS, THE LAND KNOWN AS ISLAMOPHOBIA BECAME GREATER AND WAS GREATLY ACCEPTED BY BROTHER.
HOWEVER, ONCE HAVING LOOKED AT THE ACTUAL DEFINITIONS OF THE TERMS, ONE QUESTIONS THAT ARE BOTH NOT THE SAME THING? A FORM OF ANTI-ARAB RACISM? AND NO MATTER WHAT NAME A LAND IS REFERRED TO BY, IS IT STILL NOT THE SAME LAND?

BROTHER DWELLS IN THE MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST, IN THE NUMBER OF DEATHS,WHICH WERE A PRODUCT OF ANTISEMITISM. ONE WONDERS, HOW MANY ARAB DEATHS MUST BROTHER BEAR WITNESS TO IN THE NAME OF THIS NEW LAND IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE RECOGNIZED AS A GENOCIDE? IS THIS BLINDNESS CAUSED BY THIS ACCEPTANCE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA AND DISREGARD FOR ANTISEMITISM?

IN THE NAME OF ITS SUPPORT AND ACCEPTANCE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, BROTHER COMMITS ACTS OF VIOLENCE TOWARDS ARAB WOMEN, WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN SUCH CASES WHERE WOMEN HAVE HAD THEIR VEILS TORN OFF IN PUBLIC AND HAVE GENERALLY RECIEVED HOSTILITY BECAUSE OF THEIR ATTIRE. ITS IRONIC, HOW A WOMAN WHO CHOOSES TO REVEAL HERSELF IS PROTECTED IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM DESPITE WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES OF HER CHOICE MAY BE. BUT IF A WOMAN CHOOSES TO CONCEAL HERSELF, SHE IS NOT ENTITLED TO THAT SAME FREEDOM. OUR WE FORGETTING THAT THE WOMAN WHO WE RANK ABOVE ALL OTHERS, ALSO MADE THE LATTER CHOICE?

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