Reply #8: I understand what you are saying, about anti-Islamic...

[Colorado Blue]

prejudice. It's very real especially among those who have been terrified by Bushco and have lost all perspective. I've experienced it personally, being grabbed at the airport, publicly humiliated and felt-up, getting wanded with my feet up in the air in view of hundreds of people.

This happens to me because I look Semitic and am therefore threatening. The bus is beginning to look good, I'm telling you.

And of course far more sinister things occur as well as you state. With Gonzales being AG everybody I know is afraid, Jews and Muslims alike.

However, just because people now hate Muslims also doesn't mean they don't still hate Jews. In fact, a friend tells me that people who are sick about the warfare in Iraq and rally against the war are painting swastikas on the Israeli flag, defacing the Star of David with the symbol of Nazi evil in order to protest the deaths of Islamic innocents.

Huh?

Sometimes I feel like I am living in a funhouse mirror.

Fact is, there are an awful lot of people in the US and Europe who hate Jews AND Muslims. What makes me ill people saying it's OK to trash Jews BECAUSE THEY ARE UPSET ABOUT BIGOTRY TOWARD ISLAM.

That really ISN'T OK, is it?

And believe me, a Jew that gets killed in the 21st century is just as dead as a Jew who died in the 20th, even though antisemitism might be officially passe by your reckoning. And the pain of seeing ones synagogue ruined isn't lessened by the fact that it is now 2005.

Bigots hate ALL of us. That's why I desperately hope we can clasp hands, realize we are in this TOGETHER.