Let me ask you a question, an honest question. How many Jewish terrorists have blown up stadiums full of excited, innocent teenagers in recent years? How many Jews have strapped bombs to their bodies and detonated them on Tube trains and buses?
How many Jewish paramilitaries have tortured or executed women for not wearing a headscarf, or for listening to music, or for daring to leave home without their husbands?
How many Jewish people have stabbed people peacefully going to their place of worship?
How many have flown aeroplanes into buildings full of innocent people? Driven cars into crowds of Christmas shoppers? Filmed themselves raping and mutilating ‘infidels’? Kidnapped entire schoolrooms of teenage girls and taken them as sex slaves?
Answer: none.
And here’s another. What is the common denominator in all these attacks?
The answer is radical Islam. The glorification of death in the pursuit of a global jihad; the branding of non-extremist Muslims as ‘apostates’; the rejection of Western culture, and in particular the rights of women and minorities; the belief that only an all-encompassing Islamic state ruled by Sharia law can be legitimate – and the pursuit of that state by any means necessary.
No other faith on this planet has such an agenda. The Catholic Church may have been guilty of similar crimes in the past, but those days are long gone. Certainly not Christianity in its current form.
And certainly not the Jews. All they are asking for is the right to exist, peacefully, to go about their business and practice their religion without being hounded out of existence. As they were in Europe in the 1930s. As they are being now, in the Middle East – but also, increasingly in traditional places of safety such as Britain and the US.
