Blair taking my advice?
Advisers appointed by Tony Blair after the London bombings are proposing to scrap the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day because it is regarded as offensive to Muslims. They want to replace it with a Genocide Day that would recognise the mass murder of Muslims in Palestine, Chechnya and Bosnia as well as people of other faiths.
At last the government has found some common sense. It is about time we had a genocide memorial day. I have been wanting this for more than 2 years and in my blog posts I have been calling for one. Do the government advisers read my blog?
I am glad that we will be remembering all the genocides and not just the holocaust as the jews should never have a monopoly on genocide rememberance.
However the government is taking it a bit too far. They are going to have multiple genocide memorial days. One for each faith. That is not needed one bit. It will reduce the significance of the genocide memorial days. To have one is better as it is remembering the hundreds of millions that have been massacred through the years.
Showing posts with label holocaust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holocaust. Show all posts
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Holocaust pops up again
Once again the holocaust is part of politics again as the Queen has agreed to become patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Holocaust Memorial day trust, the charity which has taken over responsibility from the Home Office for the annual remembrance of the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
I can't believe people are still going on about a minor detail of the second world war. Sure it was tragic but 56 million people died altogether in the war and a minority-6 million were jews. Why should we have a special day for a minority of people?
Where is the remembrance day for 96 million people that died because of communism? I don't see one but that genocide was far more terrible.
Instead of Holocaust memorial day why can't we have a Genocide memorial day for the victims of all genocides including the holocaust and the communist genocide?
Its time we stop going on about the holocaust as much more worse genocides have happened since then and they are more worthy to remember than the holocaust.
Once again the holocaust is part of politics again as the Queen has agreed to become patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Holocaust Memorial day trust, the charity which has taken over responsibility from the Home Office for the annual remembrance of the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
I can't believe people are still going on about a minor detail of the second world war. Sure it was tragic but 56 million people died altogether in the war and a minority-6 million were jews. Why should we have a special day for a minority of people?
Where is the remembrance day for 96 million people that died because of communism? I don't see one but that genocide was far more terrible.
Instead of Holocaust memorial day why can't we have a Genocide memorial day for the victims of all genocides including the holocaust and the communist genocide?
Its time we stop going on about the holocaust as much more worse genocides have happened since then and they are more worthy to remember than the holocaust.
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