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Feb 23, 2009

<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/arts/design/24muse.html?pagewanted=3D2&r=
ef=3Ddesign>

[...T]he Nazis financed anti-Semitic broadcasts by Haj Amin
al-Husseini, =93an Arab nationalist and prominent Muslim religious
leader.=94 Now no sponsorship seems needed. Major Middle East media
outlets have asserted that Jews use children=92s blood to bake matzos.
In recent weeks we have heard that Jews are following the nefarious
plot outlined in the Protocols to exterminate all gentiles, this from
the poet and former member of the Lebanese Parliament Ghassan Matar.
An Egyptian cleric, Safwat Higazi, has described Jews being =93as smooth
as a viper=94: =93Dispatch those son of apes and pigs to the Hellfire.=94

And an Egyptian cleric with strong ties to the West, Sheikh Yusuf
al-Qaradhawi, has described Jews as =93a profligate, cunning arrogant
band of people=94: =93Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down
to the very last one.=94

The extent of these visions (chronicled by the Middle East Media
Research Institute), the historical distortions they codify and the
readiness with which they are taught to children and are secularized
into political action suggest that [they are] the strongest
contemporary analogy to Nazi propaganda [...]"

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ef=3Ddesign>