Sunday, June 12, 2011

 

Recent on: Arab Racism


The Guardian Dubai’s skyscrapers, stained by the blood of migrant workers

The Guardian – ‎May 27, 2011‎

It seems to me a place where the worst of western capitalism and the worst of Gulf Arab racism meet in a horrible vortex. The most pervasive feeling is of a lack of compassion, where the commoditisation of everything and the disdain for certain …

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/27/dubai-migrant-worker-deaths



Another Tack: No Jews in Judea

Jerusalem Post – Sarah Honig – ‎Jun 10, 2011‎

The international community relishes reviling ultra-tolerant Israel while it ignores and even justifies crude Arab racism. Just try to imagine what would have happened had Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stood before some Jewish forum and exclaimed that “from now on we won’t allow the presence of one Arab in our independent Israel with Jerusalem as its capital.”



…Addressing a recent emergency session of Arab League foreign ministers in Doha, Qatar, Mahmoud Abbas unabashedly declared that “when an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital is established, we won’t allow the presence of one Israeli in it.”



Not to put too fine a point on it, this is the Arabic version of the German-minted Judenrein – “clean of Jews.” Yet no Arab diplomat was discomfited or shocked. Abbas consistently accentuates the same sentence with only trivial verbal variations. In December 2010, for instance, he put us on notice that “I will never allow a single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land.”

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=224315



The Dark World of the Arab Child Slave Trade

AINA (press release) – Stephen Brown – [June 12, 2011]

Arab racism is at the roots of Islamic slavery that has seen 14 million black Africans enslaved and sold around the Islamic world from the seventh to the twentieth century. Unfortunately for its victims, the abolition of Arab slavery will be difficult …

http://www.aina.org/news/20110611201620.htm





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