Hey remember that conference last week, “A World without Zionism,” where Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised to wipe Israel off the face of the earth? Well, you may recall that the conference was held in anticipation of Al Quds Day. Al Quds is one of the names for Jerusalem in Arabic, it means”holy city,” similar to the hebrew version, Ir Ha Kodesh. So turns out that Al Quds Day, which is listed on many interfaith and University calendars is not a religious holiday. It is, in fact a made-up holiday, created by the late Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran. The purpose of Al Quds Day is to call for the destruction of the state of Israel.
I know, it seems like in some places, every day is Al Quds Day! Anyways, a group of Berlin-based activists has been hard at work getting the “holiday” removed from calendars around the world.
The point is not just to clean up calendars, political scientist Arne Behrensen, a co-founder of the activist group, told JTA, but “to engage the political left in confronting Islamism and Islamist anti-Semitism.” … Behrensen chose to focus on the calendars after reading a lecture by Mansoor Limba, an Iranian, in Malaysia in December 2004. Limba spoke with pride of how Al Quds Day was becoming accepted as an Islamic holiday around the world, recognized by a long list of organizations, including some Jewish ones.
Damn. There go my plans for a combo Al Quds Day/Halloween blowout for this time next year in Jerusalem. Muffti was gonna show up dressed as Haj Amin Al Husseini and I was gonna come as Pontius Pilate. It woulda been so cool! Aw man …
Ranking Spicey
11/1/2005
Well, Zionism is well alive in stockholm
See link (((street-art)))
Ofri
11/1/2005
ugh. i wish she’d go back to Hinduism or whatever it is she was doing before and take her little protege with her. this klavte is starting to piss me off.
Jobber
11/1/2005
Now is this another spoof, because Halloween is not celebrated in Israel at all, except in the foreign embassies. Even in Europe I was reading they are not into that nonsense.
Geoff
11/1/2005
hmm… wouldn’t that mean muffti dressing up as himself? Hardly originial…
ck
11/1/2005
Geoff – Haj Amin Al Husseini was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Grand Muffti of Jewlicious just really likes muff… ins. Bran, Blueberry, Banana, he’s wild about them. If I were to see our Grand Muffti dressed as the Grand Mufti, well… that would be something!
grandmuffti
11/1/2005
Wait, there is a Grand Muffti of jewschool? And he likes muff….ins too?
esther
11/1/2005
Hey, do you think anyone has ever dressed up as “Pontius Pirate”?
How does he spell Jesus’s “last name”? C…H…aRRRRRR…I…S…T….