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understand who are spreading hate...

https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1322074507742380032

"And who has taken center stage in the Muslim world’s response? Two so-called champions of selective, often hypocritical, outrage against ‘Islamophobia.'The Islamist populists leading the charge are Pakistan’s Imran Khan, and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan"▶️

". And their favored rhetorical strategy is to insist on a disturbing equivalence between Holocaust denial and blasphemy."▶️

"Angst over lack of "freedom of belief" and "minority rights" is indeed pretty rich coming from Turkey and Pakistan, the two countries currently leading the overheated Islamist rhetoric"➡️

"Pakistani premier prefers validating anti-Semitic conspiracy theories instead of ever uttering a single condemnation of any of the, (), sweeping statements blaming "world Jewry" for any of the ills afflicting Pakistan or the Muslim world, or"▶️

" of the clerics who lead calls in Pakistani mosques for the destruction of the Jews"▶️

"Amidst all the talk of Islamophobia, Pakistan remains the only country in the world that actually criminalizes the recitation of Quran, and the Islamic call to prayer, when they deny the Ahmadiyya sect the right to self-identify as Muslims"▶️

"Khan-led Pakistan, like other Muslim-majority states, will never condemn what is the closest approximation today to the Nazis’ concentration camps – the "re-education camps" established by China in which one million Uighur Muslims are currently detained"▶️

"ex-Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, who self-identifies as a "proud antisemite," tweeted Wednesday that "the Muslims have the right to punish the French"▶️

"only last year, Mahathir was rhapsodizing about free speech, but for antisemites: "When you say, ‘No, you cannot say this. You cannot be anti-Semitic’ then there is no more free speech," he declared, and followed up by querying how many Jews actually died in the Holocaust"▶️

"Had Pakistan accepted its own genocide of Bengalis in 1971, or Turkey its genocide in Armenia, their leaders today might have better standing▶️"

"We can’t ever have confidence in the critical faculties of "moral" leaders who, in the aftermath of the killings of cartoonists, can only bring themselves to condemn the cartoons"▶️

check another "moral" leader news.artnet.com/art-world/vati… "Using God to justify hatred is blasphemy, says Rome" "Pope Francis Speaks Out on Charlie Hebdo: 'One Cannot Make Fun of Faith'"

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