Grotesque as it seems even to express things in such a way, there are only two questions about the mass destruction of European Jews during WW2 (the Holocaust):

  • Did it happen?         Yes/No
  • How to assess it?    Good/Bad

The mainstream line for anti-semitic and anti-civilisational fanatics of all stripes has been to say No to the first question, thereby avoiding the need to give any substantive view on the second.

Take the UK’s Catholic Bishop Richard Willamson. Has any educated, urbane person ever before been filmed proclaiming such creepily shifty dishonesty?

Gripping – in a terrifying, bland way:

 

On the other hand, we now see also something whose bottomless ghastliness is probably new to decent people in what might be called the West. The claim that Yes, the full-scale Jewish Holocaust happened – and that it was in fact Good that it did.

Take ‘Egyptian Muslim cleric’ Amin Al-Ansari, on TV: 

 

The video shows all sorts of jumbled-up horrible images from WW2 (piles of bodies, gas cannisters, weeping Jewish women, skeletal victims) accompanied by his cheery, rambling narrative describing how this fine carnage was deservedly brought upon the Jews by their own ‘corruption’. All being well, he argues, the Muslims will dish out a lot more of the same to the Jews to teach them their lesson, once the Muslims are ‘strong’ again.

This strange smirk of a man is not trying to make any sense or reveal any truth. He rather is part of the Deep Negotiation going on in that part of the world, and not only there.

This video says to Israel and to the West:

Give in. Surrender. Forget it. We must defeat you. You build your civilisation on some so-called values: Truth, Limits, Responsibility. It is doomed to fail.

Because you believe in something – but we believe in Nothing. And lo, the power of Nothing has no end, and it must prevail.

An interesting job for the State Department in Washington – drafting a letter to deal with that phenomenon.