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Herzl Melmed's avatar

"Islamophobia" is perhaps the most dangerous word today. It stops any criticism of Islam & it's militant progress against our Western freedoms & democracies. By pairing it with Anti-semitism they succesfully confuse. Anti-semitism is racist hatred of Jews while Islamophobia is fear of Islam which as the article above shows is fully justified.

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Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin's avatar

The need to hate and the need to have an enemy is in place by age 3. This is according to the famous Muslim Turkish psychiatrist Vamik Volkan. Ideologies are late developmentally and they merely package the rage left over from a very very unhappy childhood where the kid's psychological needs were not met for whatever reason. Unmet psychological needs should not be confused with economic needs for they are very different. However, there are many many in this world who never got passed age 3 harboring murderous rage. Hamas - a rage that exceeds murder itself. The Islamic Crowds and Power (E. Canetti ilk) compose the campus hatred. I experienced it back in 1978. Sweat rolled down my back when I met my dissertation advisor knowing that I did not see eye to eye with what he had to say and that there was no way of getting around him. It was a "woke" panic attack rightfully grounded in fear not phobia. Nevertheless we (Israel and global Jewry) will get through this.

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