The Mufti of Berlin
By DANIEL SCHWAMMENTHAL
One widespread myth about the Mideast conflict is that the Arabs are paying the price for Germany's sins. The notion that the Palestinians are the "second victims" of the Holocaust contains two falsehoods: It suggests that without Auschwitz, there would be no justification for Israel, ignoring 3,000 years of Jewish history in the land. It also suggests Arab innocence in German crimes, ignoring especially the fascist past of Palestinian leader Haj Amin al Husseini, who was not only Grand Mufti of Jerusalem but also Waffen SS recruiter and Nazi propagandist in Berlin. When a German journalist recently tried to shed some light on this history, he encountered the wrath of the Arab collaborators' German apologists.
Karl Rössel's exhibition "The Third World in the Second World War" was supposed to premier on Sept. 1 in the "Werkstatt der Kulturen," a publicly funded multicultural center in Berlin's heavily Turkish and Arab neighborhood of Neukölln. Outraged by the exhibition's small section on Arab complicity in Nazi crimes, Philippa Ebéné, who runs the center, cancelled the event. Among the facts Ms. Ebéné didn't want the visitors of her center to learn is that the Palestinian wartime leader "was one of the worst and fanatical fascists and anti-Semites," as Mr. Rössel put it to me.
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posted by searchlight-germany @ 4:06 AM
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This is a storm in a tea cup. The reason the exhibition was rejected by the multi-cultural institution Werkstatt der Kulturen was because Karl Rössel's exhibition was considered racist for reasons I will explain later.
The reason you are at all reading anything about this issue is because Karl Rössel is a journalist who knows exactly how to time innuendos of anti-semitism. In a later statements he admitted that he "only assumed that the reasons why his exhibition wasn't hung was because of the mufit".
This is how crazy these debates have become when it comes to Arabs, an experienced journalist who in this case is the exhibitor himself is writing inflammatory press releases, claiming that a small cultural institution in Berlin refused to hang certain images of an Arab collaborator and the press jumps at it, because everyone these days hates muslims.
The real reasons his badly researched exhibition was rejected were that Karl Rössel is exhibitin a bad colonial show in which he portrays any non-white soldier during WW2, even if thay hailed from the US, Britain, France or maoris from New Zealand and native Americans, as third worldler.
Anyone outside Europe understands that this is idiotic, but hey presto here go the unitelligent reprints of his lies.
Interestingly, the people on this blog who went to see the exhibition went there to look for only more information on collaboration, rather than what Rössel pretended the exhibition was about, namely getting an understanding of the contribution of the "now not so-called-anymore" developing world.
Haters like you are just looking for confirmation to hate.
If you haters want to continue hating Arabs go-ahead, everyone does, but don't pretend to abhor anti-semitism, because if you did you would have noticed that the exhibition lacked
- any mentioning of the holocaust, (3rd Reich without holocaust?)
- good picture research, as the pictures from Asia were embarassing, Rössel used a famous image from Asia and subtitled it with wrong locations, (doesn't matter it's not here in Europe anyway, by the way just one picture as opposed to 18 of the mufti)
-the former USSR wasn't mentioned and so on. (3rd Reich without USSR hmm)
But the only thing that matters to you haters is that a lie is propagated in which you want to believe it like real Nazis should.
Rössel wants to sell his world view into publishing houses who write text books for schools that is all he is interested in.
I cannot believe that you supposedly '"pro-semitic' peolpe here on the blog have not noticed that he is also managing to point all the blame for the 3rd Reich at Arabs. Even Nazis who have tried to aportion blame for the holocaust didn't manage to do this, and you guys in your islamophobia are really subscribing to that view - laughable.
In a minute or two you will have convinced yourself that it was not the Germans but the evil Arabs who killed all the Jews during the 3rd Reich.
By the way, a prominent German paper used a wholly fascist expression which was used during the 3rd Reich against Jewish people, but this time it was used to discredit the Werkstatt der Kulturen.
The word is 'entartet=degenerated', Lorenz Maroldt described the Carnival which takes place every year in Germany as the 'degenerated carnival of cultures'.
Just to give you an idea who you are supporting here.
http://karlroessel.blogspot.com
http://goetz-aly.blogspot.com
http://lorenzmaroldt.blogspot.com
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