Reply to Mr. Rosenblatt

Submitted by Seamus MacNemi (United States), Jan 1, 2006 at 19:04

Well Mr. Rosenblatt, we do have a model for the present day radical Isalm. It is Nazi Germany in fhe second world war. The radicalizing of the populace, especially of the youth is proceeding along a course established by the Hitler youth movement in prewar Germany. Though the language and ideology might appear on the surface to be different, the modes, methods and objectives are exactly the same.

History does not occur in a vaccuum. The hatred of the Jews and of Israel is a disease with a long established etiology and it has proven to be exceedingly contagious in areas where there has been no no program of early intervention in place. Like any contagious disease, the prevention lies in a program of innocculation of susceptible populations before an outbreak occurs.
Unfortunately, like any contagious disease, this also has its vectors and carriers both concious and unconscious, willing and unwilling. The disease is spread through human social contact both formal and informal and is especially virulent amongst the poorer populations who are largely uneducated and who live under conditions of duress or percieved oppression.

If we are to be successful in our fight against this contagion we must initiate a sustained program of outreach and education. The problem lies in the fact that this phenomenon has rarely if at all been recognized as a disease and treated as such. Untill we all wake up and recognize what it is that we are actually dealing with it will continue to infect our world.

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