Chicago Jewish Leader Hits Back Hard
January 13, 2009 Immigration, Jewish Community
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago executive vice president Michael Kotzin said it was ironic that he was on a solidarity mission in southern Israel when he heard about the attacks back home.
“I wouldn’t say that we’re in the front lines in Chicago like here, but there are people who are hostile to and hate Jews here and there, and we have to address it,” Kotzin said.
How, exactly, are you going to address that, Kotzin? You didn’t even address WHO hit your community. What are you going to do, exactly? Write a press release of condemnation?
Chicago Muslim fundamentalists, you better run. Because this is going to be one very stern press release of condemnation of hatred and violence generally, and anti-semitic acts specifically. You are really going to be sorry you didn’t behave when you read this. And you will. Right after the federation’s board approval, that is. Obviously, there will need to be consensus about the precise wording, and everyone needs to feel satisfied that the language in no way shape or form wrongly accuses any specific community of a role in these isolated incidents. But then you’ll be sorry. You just wait. Heh. Those vandals” will be scared out of their wits.
Here’s a simple formula to remember. Never forget. Always remember this formula. It’s true for all western countries, including this one. Yes, what is true in England, France, and Holland is–go figure–true here as well.
Greater mass Muslim immigration = More problems.
It’s “simple to remember.”
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Hilarious.
American Jews are something else, pathetic. All I have heard from them is blather about Bush/Cheney/Iraq/Guantanamo etc, while Ahmandinjehad plots the next Holocaust and Hamas fire thousands of rockets into Israel. What are they going to do now that Bush is out of office and Muslim terror remains and worsens? Oh call for understanding and tolerance blabla.
One of the talking points of Americans when discussing immigration, from left to right (I’ve even heard Pat Buchanan arguing this), is that the US has a better history of immigration than Europe. Because of this, the US should somehow be better at integrating the most different kinds of peoples and cultures in their midst.
It’s high time and over time to refute this fallacy. The immigrants who used to come to the US were predominantly Europeans, some East Asians and a marginal amount of elitist other non-Whites. That’s it. The US assimilated Westerners into a Western country with a Western culture when multiculturalism was thought off as a curse by politicians, media and intellectuals, not a *plus* to their boring Western culture.
On top of that, the amount of immigrants was much smaller in absolute numbers and many immigrants returned back to Europe (I don’t think this happening right now.), the welfare state didn’t exist, and the West (and the US) was unrivalled as a world power and civilization.
Somehow, all these very important ifs and buts are irrelevant when millions upon millions of Hispanics, Africans, Muslims and others now immigrate to the US.
And what about Karl Popper? Didn’t he once write about the poverty of historicism? Past accomplishments are never a guarantee for future success. Yes, the US assimilated Europeans into Euro-Americans. Well done.
Good luck with the non-Europeans.
It’s a matter of who is coming in. My ancestors who came as colonists and those emigrated after the US was founded did not come with a tendency for animosity towards the world, culture, and society to which they were coming.
If any of them had, I’d not think it wrong to think twice about letting them come.
It’s not Islam itself that is the problem, but the current modern state of Islam which is that the religion is dominated by an anti-western, anti-non-Muslim, anti-Jewish, pro-Jihad mindset. The Islamists are running wild, their acts generating quite understandable resentment, and then when that happens they use it to justify to the moderate Muslims their fiery anger and calls for hate and self-righteousness.
As long as the Muslim world continues to be dominated by this dynamic, we’d do well to think twice and watch carefully.
DK did you make that post to me on my blog? O.o
“It’s not Islam itself that is the problem”
Yes, it is Islam that is the problem. It is the Quran that says in certain terms that Jews are pigs and dogs. It has been the rulings of Fatwahs for generations that Jews should be spat on in the streets, can’t go out in the rain, should be beaten if they are caught in the rain. The benefit of the doubt can only be offered when there is doubt.
The Quran says that adherents of “book religions” are to be respected. Just that the adherents only adhere to parts of their writings that fit their political / social agendas.
The Quran, like many books of faith, contradicts itself many times over.
Mohammad had some personal beef with the rabbi of his times.
rabbis*
Very well written and true.
With only a few individual exceptions, most American Jews and American Jewish organizations would rather have Muslim extremist throw fire bombs at American Jewish houses of worship then consider saying or even thinking a politically incorrect, negative thought about any Third World immigrants to America.
But, people should understand that Michael Kotzin had more serious issues to consider in Chicago this winter.
Some Anglo supposedly said “Merry Christmas” to one of his children in a public school or walking in front of some church.
We need EU style/Canadian Hate crime laws to ban anyone in America from saying anything bad about Muslim immigrants or saying “Merry Christmas”, singing Christmas Carols in public, if we don’t, America could turn into Nazi Germany overnight.
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