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anti-Semites and enemies of Islam with Hetzer parallels
04.01. 2010, 09:32
anti-Semites of the 19th Century, and many "critics of Islam" of the 21st century work with similar resources at their enemy.
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| enemy Islam: Members of the right organization Per Kцln protested years ago against the construction of a mosque. Photo: Reuters |
The historian Wolfgang Benz, 68, heads the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin. He is the editor of "Dachau issues" with which he established the concentration camp research.
The enemy image "West" in the Arab world will be reciprocated by populists in the west with the enemy "Islam". It follows the same design principles.
use enemy widespread longing for simple explanation of the world through the rigorous distinction between good (that is always for my own) and evil (which always represents the foreign) and to win based on exclusion and blame is. Enemy images that evoke such a world relief, political and social frustrations and raise self-esteem.
enemies are products of hysteria. They construct and exploit the other caricatures. If we define hysteria as a widespread behavioral disorder, among other things, by affecting the perception, emotional Instability, characterized by theatrical gestures and self-centered habits, phobias, then explain to other cultures or different minorities in their own society as a defensive reflex.
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| The Merkez mosque in Duisburg. Photo: dpa |
reduced to Negative
are building blocks of the enemy image, generalization and reduction of real or supposed facts on negatives. Gossip subconscious, Hearsay, literary and popular tradition rise to "facts" - the only live by faith.
The classic example, the design offers the most widely used text of anti-Semitism: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ". At the end of the 19th Century, it was as anti-Semitic pamphlet, which was to prove a Jewish world conspiracy. Although the Protocols were exposed as a fake in every detail, they have the Russian Tsar and the Nazis made services, today they are in the Islamic world disseminated. They serve as propaganda against Israel as a weapon. Millions believe in the image of the Jew as the incarnation of evil in the world, which suggest the "Protocols".
Who is indignant, and rightly so, about the stupidity of the enemies of the Jews, but must also consider the enemy image of Islam-critical (which sometimes uses an aggressive, applied philo). It is a matter of science, the insights gained from analysis of the anti-Semitic resentments to make use of a paradigm. The subliminal
to coarse practiced defamation of Muslims as a group by so-called "critics of Islam" There are historical parallels. Currently Islam is conceptually connected with extremism and terrorism, which all members of the Islamic religion and culture that would be established and discriminated against an enemy image.
incitement and defamation
If you wanted to define the Catholic Church historically only about the suffering, the papal crusades against "infidels" in the Middle Ages, the Inquisition and witch trials until Modern times have brought about the unfortunate innocents (or nowadays only priest, the assault on minors), Then do you look at the charges of defamation - the generalization is deplorable excesses of agitation with the aim of discrimination. To evoke the danger of Islam act, "critics of Islam" but under increasing applause with exactly this method.
Heinrich von Treitschke (1834 - 1896) German, renowned historian and popular writer saw once in his fear of foreign infiltration Germany surrounded by enemies and by unwillingness of the Jewish minority to assimilate threat inside. By authority and eloquence, he gave the anti-Semitism Reputation and thrust. That was in 1879 when he triggered the Berlin Antisemitism Dispute. "From the inexhaustible Polish cradle," claimed the scholar urging, "a group of aspiring, beginning pants final sale youths, whose children and grandchildren will one day dominate Germany's stock exchanges and newspapers" would. The parallel is obvious
when as a tactical weapon in the battle for geargwöhnten the "Islamisation of Europe" today the confinement of the Muslim woman is summoned. Treitschke's attack against German Jewry marked the Termination of the hard-won liberal consensus on integration. The Berlin anti-Semitism dispute was essentially a debate about identity, a debate about what it should according to the emancipation of the Jews mean to be German and German to be a Jew.
intolerance for granted
Currently, such a debate is taking place again. But it's no longer about the emancipation of Jews, but the integration of Muslims. The fury with which erected barricades and positions to be defended is considerable, the intonation of the debates frightening, particularly where the refusal of tolerance to the discriminatory to minority Muslims is presented as a matter of course.
In Internet forums, in which Islamophobia is negotiated particularly shameless comments recently the murder of the Egyptian woman in the Dresden court happy. The act was condemned, one wrote, "but there is now an Islamic birthing less."
told each other, are in the Quran "in 60 verses in the murder of other believers and unbelievers, especially Jews and Christians" called. This conviction, he will defend against all the evidence about the actual contents of the Koran as vigorously as the anti-Semite does not stop the bad faith of the contents of the Talmud, in Jewish ritual murders and other delusional fantasies. A third party knows that they work with high pressure for a goal: "destruction of Germany by immigration and Islamization."
challenge to democracy
The discourse on headscarves and minarets - as symbols of a fundamentally rejected and branded as threatening culture - in such clear terms out in the public part of the Internet. But its expansion has long been underway. The equation of German citizens with Muslim religious fanatical terrorists is method and is staged with an appeal to the healthy popular sentiment on the right have the majority.
The symbolic discourse on minarets is really a campaign against people who are discriminated against as members of a group, a declaration of war against tolerance and democracy.
(SZ from 04.01.2010/sukl/gba)
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