The Berlin center adopts the neologism ‘Islamophobia’ without any reservation. This term is misleading because it mixes two different phenomena -- unjust hatred against
Tuesday, 9th December 2008
The truth phobia
5:08pm
Matthias Kuentzel, author of Jihad and Jew-Hatred, has an article in the Wall Street Journal about the troubling lurch into moral equivalence by Berlin’s Centre for Research on Antisemitism, which has equated Jew-hatred with Islamophobia. The Berlin centre is but the latest body to fall into this trap. People who are concerned about prejudice in all its forms, including many Jews, often make the false equation between the two – as Suzanne Reyto described here -- without realising that the intellectual laziness and moral sloppiness involved lead directly to both a downgrading of real prejudice and a demonisation of the truth in order to bring about the suppression of that truth. Kuentzel writes:
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008
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