What’s a day, or an hour, in the Muslim world without a Jew-hating conspiracy theory to stoke the masses? The latest lunacy: Syrians slaughter Syrians, says Adnan Azzam, a French-Syrian writer, not because they are a bunch of fratricidal clans and tribes with competing visions of Islam, but because Jews and, er, Napoleon are in control.
Or something.
This spellbinding theory comes not from some ignorant, unhinged imam, but an ignorant, unhinged Syrian-French intellectual, a Knight of the Légion d’honneur, the highest honor France can bestow.
I presume Azzam is not even aware that the Légion d’honneur was established by Napoleon, whom he accuses of being a secret Zionist.
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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It says a lot about the French and Syrian intelligentsia, no?
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Quit confusing these people with the facts. They are so inconvenient to contemplate.
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Napoleon was a great man and for all his greatness possibly undervalued in our time. My late wife, back in the seventies, gave me The Age of Napoleon by Will and Ariel Durant. I’ve not reread it since, but it is on my agenda. It details the liberal constituions he wrote for various Euopean nations, which they have yet to live up to, and how he diffused French anti-semitism. Probably the trigger for this moron.
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The Syrian rebellion is actually a Zionist movement? The man must be utterly deranged if he really believes that.
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Rahel:
But — but, the man is a recipient of the Legion of Honor. Surely the French wouldn’t give such a coveted award to a genocidal lunatic.
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Israel is compelling the Assad regime to murder its own citizens? The French Revolution was derailed by Zionists? Louis XVI was beheaded by Jews? Napoleon was part of an international Jewish conspiracy? Yes, yes of course. Makes perfect sense.
Or not.
I always wind up feeling like I’ve taken some kind of trip to the Twilight zone when I watch these clips. Beggars belief that they’re actually being serious.
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Maya:
As you well know, this intellectual twilight zone leads directly to such atrocities as the Mumbai massacre.
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