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I see that the mother of the two suspected bombers from Boston believes that the whole business was faked. Unbelievable. Is she serious? Does she think that people dying was faked? That people losing their limbs was faked? For what purpose would this have been faked?
My question is really will people in Boston and those who have seen the truth of the situation have an inkling of understanding of how absurd Holocaust denial is?
Great question. I always wonder if terror bombings like these will help someone understand the absurdity of talking peace with arabs.
Nechomah: Sadly this ‘person who has some high position at the UN’ is Richard Falk, a Jew who bears the same name and is possibly descended from the Pnei Yehoshua.
It shows you how strong emotion can be binding. Sadly, Holocaust denial, which is purely based on sinas Yisroel, will not become any less rare.
She’s their mother.
Yishmoel-like behavior. The don’t have gedorim for truth. Anybody there can say the most outrageous, preposterous lies with a straight face.
If they didn’t learn from several wars, 9/11, jihadist terrorist bombings throughout the world, and now this, they will NEVER learn. We cannot make peace with the Arabs. The only peace they want is a piece of us. And yes, there may even be one or two exceptions who are good and decent people and even may be makir tov to Israel. Yishmael did teshuvah at the end also. But they are few and far between.
Ha’Levi, there are limits to that also.
As their mother she can feel sorry for them and continue loving them unconditionally. Saying they were framed when she knew that they chose a culture where this is accepted is just ridiculous.
I’m sympathetic to the sentiment that making peace with Arabs is impossible (at least for the foreseeable future). I just wanted to point out that Chechens, while Muslims, are not Arab. Of course, similar ideologies are spread through the Muslim world. But we shouldn’t necessarily assume all Muslim ethnic groups are representative of Arabs.
The bombers’ mother lived through Soviet times, when the government was not to be trusted and the justice system was a farce, and Russia is not much better now. Add to that the paranoid thinking associated with radical Muslims, and it’s not hard to understand why she may be spouting these conspiracy theories.
More broadly, conspiracy thinking may be quite common in the region. After “Borat” made fun of Kazakhstan, the president of that country claimed it was some plot from Western governments to harm his country. Right after the older Boston bomber died, the president of Chechnya (republics in the Russian federation have presidents) suggested that the government killed him on purpose in order to calm society “at any cost.” He may not have read the news very closely, because it’s hard to survive when you’re shooting at police, lobbing explosives at them, and getting run over by your brother!
To answer the original question, it’s possible this will help some people see how absurd Holocaust denial is — hopefully that will happen. But the people who deny the Shoah are also the same kind of people who may believe that the bombers really were set up, and that there was some kind of government conspiracy. There is apparently a very serious Facebook page with 1000 or more members claiming that at least the younger brother is innocent.
Yytz, they act like that in all situations.
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