WAKE UP, FELLOW-AMERICANS!
Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Dear Friends,
I have a worrisome sensation in my gut, a bad feeling of deja vu. In plain English that means “been there, done that”.
On March 12, 1938, Hitler pressured his native Austria into unification with Germany. I was a nine-year-old Jewish child living with my family in Wr. Neustadt, when the Nazis took over Austria. My feelings today, as an elderly woman, are the same as when I was a nine-year-old childfeelings of helplessness and of impending doom.
Hitler had been in power in adjoining Germany since 1933. Most people soon realized Hitler’s hatred of the Jews, especially after reading his book MEIN KAMPF. However, very few people realized the extent of his psychopathic hatred of the Jews.
On the day when Hitler took control of Austria, I overheard my parents’ whispered conversationnot meant for the ears of a nine-year-old“This is the end of everything, we must get out of here at all cost, or it will be the end of us.”
Through a series of actual miracles we escaped the fate of six million other Jews. My parents managed to find places for my brother, my sister and myself on a Kinder Transport to Sweden.
After we arrived safely in Sweden, my parents escaped “illegally” over the Italian border.
Miraculously, we were all united in the United States three years after the war ended. As a seventeen-year-old, I was proud to become a citizen of the United States.
Because of my childhood experiences, I have had an almost irrational feeling of owing a debt because my parents and siblings were saved. The rest of my family were exterminated.
By profession I am a designer and craftsman of Judaica and jewelry in Israel. One might ask why did I abandon this work which I love? Very simple! I felt I had to do this in order to protect the future of all Jewish children. That is why the name of our organization is Women for Israel’s Tomorrow.
Part of my present fulltime work as Co-Leader of Women in Green stems from my determination not to let our children experience what the Jews went through at the time of Hitler and the Nazis.
Are President Ahmadinejad of Iran and his Jihadists less dangerous than Hitler and his Nazi followers?
I think they are even more dangerous! As passionate as the Germans were in their hatred of Jews, it is a step further in fanaticism to be willing to blow oneself up in order to kill Jews! President Ahmadinejad has even said that he is willing to lose half of his own country in order to wipe Israel off the map.
In this connection, please do not forget that Israel is considered by the Arabs to be only the “Little Satan”. The final plan is to destroy the “Great Satan”, America.
Be honest with yourselves, fellow Americans! Aren’t you getting a mite uncomfortable, or even alarmed, about the subtle encroachment of Islam throughout the United States?
Something that has alarmed me personally is the controversy surrounding America’s first Muslim congressman Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota. This controversy was, no doubt, generated by Keith Ellison himself. Was his widely publicized statement that he intended to be sworn in as a Congressman with his hand on the Koran just a publicity stunt? As a lawyer and a law-maker, he must have known that NO ONE takes the oath of office in Congress with their hand on ANY religious book!
Another matter of concern about Ellison. Ellison was at the conference of the North American Imams’ Federation, which the Imams were in Minneapolis to attend.
Six Muslim Imams were kicked off the US Airways flight in Minneapolis because they acted suspiciously. After this airport incident, Ellison called for a meeting with executives of US Airways and the Metropolitan Airport Commission to discuss the Imams’ unjust removal. He threatened to bring other legislators and other community members to the meeting.
For more details, I am including in its entirety Joseph Farah’s article “Imams and Apple Pie”.
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Imams and apple pie
by Joseph Farah, Worldnetdaily.com
December 2, 2006
Can you believe the six imams kicked off the US Airways flight in Minneapolis are threatening to sue?
Can you believe they’re walking around free rather than being held and investigated for “probing” on behalf of terrorists?
Can you believe most of the media coverage of this incident focuses on possible civil rights violations and inappropriate religious “profiling”?
Let’s review the facts of the case:
Several passengers on the flight complained to the crew about excessively loud “praying” by the Muslim “holy men.” They complained that they were moving around the plane. An air marshal characterized their behavior as a “[political correctness] probe.” Even before they boarded the flight, passengers and the flight crew reported the imams prayed loudly, then, once boarding began playing musical chairs – switching from their assigned seats in a configuration used by terrorists in previous incidents. Two even moved to the front of first class, while two others moved toward the middle of the plane and the last two moved toward the back – effectively giving them control of exits. They asked for seat-belt extensions, which could conceivably be used as weapons, and then threw them under their seats rather than use them. Both before boarding and after, they made a spectacle of themselves chanting about “Allah and the United States.”
What would you do if you were on that flight?
What would you do if you were part of the crew?
What would you do if you were the air marshal?
Apparently, what you would be expected to do by second-guessers not actually on the flight would be to smile and think pleasant thoughts about multiculturalism and pluralism.
We’re supposed to believe that this wasn’t planned?
We’re supposed to believe these guys didn’t know what they were doing?
We’re supposed to believe that this wasn’t a deliberate effort to test the boundaries of tolerance?
These imams are now on a national publicity tour trying to persuade us that they are as American as apple pie – that they did nothing wrong or even suspicious. Don’t buy it.
And if these imams are permitted to win a lawsuit against US Airways, say goodbye to airline security in America.
Five years after Sept. 11, 2001, political correctness appears to be a more powerful force in our country than the safety and security of American citizens.
It’s really quite unbelievable.
It’s quite clear that these six imams have an agenda beyond acceptance of their religion by Americans.
Most Americans don’t pre-judge Muslims as terrorists. But when they act like terrorists, when they don’t act like good Americans, when they clearly test our tolerance, when they “probe” our defenses, then Americans have the right and duty to treat them with the utmost suspicion.
What do you think would happen to you if you acted this way on a flight?
It seems like these activists don’t really want to be treated equally, they want to be treated in a special way – with more deference, with more understanding.
I don’t like traveling any more in this country. I don’t like it because of the extra security that is in place – much of it by necessity – because of what happened Sept. 11. I minimize my travels because of the inconvenience and hassle.
But we’re at war. And the hassles are a small price to pay to ensure we save American lives and emerge from this war victorious some day.
Americans must not succumb to the temptation to be “politically correct” by overlooking suspicious behavior. That would be a grave – if not fatal – tactical error in this war.
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IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP, FELLOW-AMERICANS, TO THE DANGERS FACING, NOT ONLY ISRAEL, BUT AMERICA AS WELL!
With Blessings and Love of Israel,
Ruth Matar
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