Language:
German
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Religionen in Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,2-4 (2004) 45-59
Keywords:
Islamic fundamentalism History 21st century
;
Islamophobia History 21st century
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Antisemitism History 21st century
;
Arab-Israeli conflict 1948-
;
Jewish-Arab relations History 1945-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
A lecture delivered in Düsseldorf on 11 June 2004. Analyzes Islamism and its spread in the Muslim states and beyond in the 20th century. It differs from moderate Islam in its drive to extend the rule of Islam all over the world (a not-impossible ambition, considering the weakness of the West), and in its absolute intolerance of other religions and even other Islamic sects to the point of slaughtering their adherents (a potential that Islam shares with Judaism and Christianity, as history shows, and to which there is a parallel in the attitude of some ultra-nationalist Jews toward the Arabs). The Holocaust, as the epitome of genocide, plays a symbolic part in the conflict. The Islamists either deny the Holocaust or claim that it was a collaboration between Jews and Nazis, while also comparing the behavior of the SS toward the Jews with that of the Israeli army toward the Palestinians. For the Jews and world opinion, memory of the Holocaust creates a foreboding of a new genocidal threat. Contends that the advance of Islamism can be arrested only from within Islam; this is possible on condition that Muslim immigrants to the West absorb the relevant Western values. Interreligious trialogue may also contribute, though very slightly.
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