The ridiculous Malaysian obsession with Jews
OCT 24 ? Malaysians are a funny lot. In Selangor its easier to find someone who knows more about Israels political situation than that of Sabah or Sarawaks. Last I checked, Israel is much farther away than East Malaysia.
Just last year, I walked into a local bookstore at Great Eastern Mall to find a special display dedicated to Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf, his biographies and Henry Fords The International Jew.
Dear Adolf Hitler admirers, please look at yourself in the mirror. Is your hair the colour of gold? Your eyes as blue as the Barisan Nasional flag? Your skin, a prone-to-burning Caucasian white? If you can answer Yes to all those questions, feel free to continue your private Heil, Mein Fuehrer chants with the other White Power activists.
Otherwise, what is wrong with you people?
Adolf Hitler was many things but he was no paragon of virtue. He was, instead, one of the most rabid anti-Semites of all time.
Anyone who hero worships a person who champions genocide clearly needs his morals examined.
Ive read Malay blogs extolling Hitler as someone who supposedly respected Islam; after all, he did conscript Muslim soldiers as his troops.
Would those bloggers still be Hitler fans if they knew that Hitler despised Arabs as much as he did any inferior race? He referred to Arabs as lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped. And before you start a mob to protest outside my house, Hitler said that. Not me.
Unscientific Malaysia had a good article about how Muslims admire Hitler more than he did them. One commenter missed the point of the whole article, saying instead: I couldnt (sic) careless. He shoulda wiped those fags off the face of the planet. Pro-Muslims or not, the guy was one of the greatest men in all of history.
Again with the Hitler worship.
I suppose its easier to blame the Jews, the Chinese, the West, rather than admit that we havent gotten very far as a nation because we cant acknowledge our own mediocrity.
Japan didnt start out a centre of innovation. When the United States declared independence from the Crown, the rest of the world had no inkling it would become the economic superpower it is today.
All countries had to start somewhere, as do we. As a nation, Malaysia is a comparatively young one. We have potential but we have a long way to go before we could rank among world leaders in any respect.
But were never going to move ahead if we spend our time standing on our little soapboxes yelling about how the other is bringing us down.
We seem to care a whole lot about Israel when Israel likely doesnt care about us. To them, we are but insignificant gnats.
Theres nothing wrong with aspiring to greatness. But were never going to get there by making excuses and creating bogeymen.
So quit blaming the Jews and take a little more responsibility for who we are and where we are as a nation.
By Erna Mahyuni
The Malaysian Insider
24 October 2012
The ridiculous Malaysian obsession with Jews
Malaysia's obsession with Jews, love affair with Hitler
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Often, in the aftermath of antisemitic attacks on Jewish communities, hateful and apologetic claims are somtimes made that the victim was in fact the instigator of hatred and provoked the attackers. "They brought that upon themselves...
In her op-ed Mahyuni refers to a chain letter "historically proving" that Hitler was an admirer of Islam (see translation in 'My tribute to the great man, Adolf Hitler,' 25/07/2010 - unmsia.com/2010/07/my-tribute-to-the-great-man-adolf-hitler/), which was widely circulated in Malaysia through email, Facebook and blogs. The letter, originally in Arabic and translated to Malay (and then English), argues that the crimes of Nazism are just a part of greater crimes carried out by other nations:
"Well, the British had done even worse things than them [the Nazis]. The Emperor of Japan during the their Imperial period were the same. But why is the world punishing Hitler, and even insults the name of Nazi as if Nazis still exist today? Meanwhile, they overlook what the British did to the Scots, the Japanese to the world and South African's [sic] apartheid?"
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