I'll be the first to admit that I haven't read the article. I'm simply commenting on the headline.
The Yated, in it's coverage of the unrest in France has an article titled A Realistic Solution to the Moslem Problem.
Is it just me, or does anyone else have a real problem with this? The headline sounds an awful lot like "A Final Solution to the Jewish Problem." While I don't doubt that the Yated probably has problems with Muslims in general, I find it very odd that they chose just this sort of headline. Mind you, if a Muslim newspaper had a similar headline about Jews, I'm fairly certain we'd be hearing about it all over the media.
The Wolf
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In fairness, "the Jewish problem" and the search for the "solution" occupied much of Europe for the 19th century,including many Jews who recognized the "Jewish problem" and also sought a solution.
Nazi Germany didn't invent the phrase, and their answer was the "Final Solution" i.e. murder.
There IS a Muslim problem in Europe today, just as there WAS a Jewish problem--namely, how to integrate the Jewish population--then.
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Brother Wolf:
While I understand you feeling on the headline, and I agree if the headline said Jewish instead of Moslem, that Jews all over the world would be going crazy. I am not sure that I personally have a problem with the headline, actually I think the headline is vaguely humorous mostly do to the venue in which it appeared. (Sort of due to the Juxtaposition that you are pointing out.)
I see what you're trying to convey about the headline, but I think that what's more amusing about the article is what it advocates: "The only solution that seems reachable and practical is an application of the venerable Jewish "golus mentality" of reaching an accommodation with a difficult reality and learning to live with it — to make the best of things." Please, if you consider that you don't have a right to statehood or sovereignty right now - don't say that nations cannot claim sovereignty.
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