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Saturday, 11 July 2009

Method in their madness: The National Post explains what’s behind the Zion-haters’ deranged attempt to claim the Dead Sea Scrolls--now on display at the Royal Ontario Museum--as Muslim property:
…An odd assortment of groups are protesting the exhibit on the grounds that the scrolls are stolen artifacts and really belong to Arabs, not Jews. Yes, you read that correctly: Hebrew manuscripts of the Jewish Bible that were written centuries before Muhammad was born are, apparently, Muslim property.
It's easy to see what's going on here. Just as Holocaust denial circulates in some corners of the anti-Israel movement, there is a parallel effort to deny the Jewish people's ancestral connection to the Holy Land. The idea is to de-legitimize Israel by denying the indigenous rights of Jews. Some Israel-haters have even taken to arguing that Palestinian Arabs are the real descendants of "ancient Hebrews."
It was interesting, for example, to see an online magazine called the Canadian Charger go after the Royal Ontario Museum for declining an "interview" with one of its correspondents. The Canadian Charger just a few days earlier published a strong defence of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, praising his "social justice policies."
So the point remains: When you see a campaign like the one against the Dead Sea Scrolls, take a look at who -- and what -- is behind it.
The Canadian Charger, it should be pointed out, is former Canadian Islamic Congress boss/censorhip buff Mo Elamsry’s new website--and Elmo, apparently, is the author of the article praising A-jad. I can't find it on the Charger site--the flatulent horsey seems yet to be up and running--but here it is in an "alternative" Vancouver paper. 

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