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Daniel Schwammenthal skriver hos Wall Street Journal skriver om hur politiskt korrekta krafter försöker skriva om historien. En utställning om andra världskriget stoppades, eftersom den kunde anses vara stötande för araber.

Karl Rössel’s exhibition ”The Third World in the Second World War” was supposed to premier on Sept. 1 in the ”Werkstatt der Kulturen,” a publicly funded multicultural center in Berlin’s heavily Turkish and Arab neighborhood of Neukölln.

Outraged by the exhibition’s small section on Arab complicity in Nazi crimes, Philippa Ebéné, who runs the center, cancelled the event. Among the facts Ms. Ebéné didn’t want the visitors of her center to learn is that the Palestinian wartime leader ”was one of the worst and fanatical fascists and anti-Semites,” as Mr. Rössel put it to me. […]

Berlin’s integration commissioner, Günter Piening, initially seemed to defend her. ”We need, in a community like Neukölln, a differentiated presentation of the involvement of the Arabic world in the Second World War,” Der Tagesspiegel quoted him as saying. He later said he was misquoted and following media criticism allowed a smaller version of the exhibit to be shown.

Det är intressant att det politiskt korrekta kan förvrida historien så pass grovt som det gör. Om människor inte tänker till kommer vår historia att förvridas och alla misstag upprepas igen.

it is often claimed that the mufti’s Hitler alliance later discredited him in the region. Nothing could be further from the truth.[…]

Far from being shunned for his Nazi past, he was elected president of the National Palestinian Council. The mufti was at the forefront of pushing the Arabs to reject the 1948 United Nations partition plan and to wage a ”war of destruction” against the fledgling Jewish state.

The mufti ”invented a new form of Jew-hatred by recasting it in an Islamic mold,” according to German scholar Matthias Küntzel. The mufti’s fusion of European anti-Semtism—particularly the genocidal variety—with Koranic views of Jewish wickedness has become the hallmark of Islamists world-wide, from al Qaeda to Hamas and Hezbollah.

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