Islam Radio

Namesake Confusion

It bears no relationship to RadioIslam.com, ^[3] has a live streaming website for daily Muslim talk radio program on public affairs. Radio Islam tunes in Chicago on WCEV 1450 AM every day from 6-7 PM CST. ^[4] It is produced by Sound Vision Foundation. ^[5] Its executive producer is Abdul Malik Mujahid who also chairs the board of Parliament of the World’s Religions .

History

In September 1973 Ahmed Rami , to form Moroccan army officer, came to Sweden from Paris . He took part in the failed coup attempt against King Hassan II in August 1972. In 1987 Rami began using a public access Swedish radio station to broadcast “Radio Islam”, ostensibly a public relations program for Sweden’s Muslims . However, the content of the shows focused on Jews , and the station was accused of being a vehicle for anti-Semitism . In 1990 Rami was sentenced to 6 months in prison for “incitement against a group of people”, and Radio Islam’s transmission was revoked for a year. The station resumed broadcasting in 1991 under the direction of the Swedish Nazi David Janzon ; however, in 1993 Janzon was convicted of the same crime. Radio Islam was off the air from 1993 to 1995, but the program returned in 1996 under Rami’s direction, the same year that it established the Radio Islam website . Rami was again convicted and fined by the Swedish court in October 2000. Rami has been investigated for hate crimes in France and Sweden for his role in the Radio Islam website. The latest investigation ended in 2004 when the Swedish prosecutor was unable to prove that Rami was responsible for the content.

Mission

The Radio Islam website states that it is “working towards better relations between the West and the Muslim World”. It also states that it is “against racism of all forms, against all kinds of discrimination of people based on their color of skin, faith or ethnical background”. As a “consequence”, Radio Islam states that it is “against Jewish racism towards non-Jews”. It asserts that “World Jewish Zionism ” constituted “the last racist ideology still surviving” and that Israel is “the last outpost of Apartheid in the World “, which,” by its mother existence “demonstrates” a complete defiance to all international laws, rules and principles. “As well, it insists that” the open racism manifested in the Jewish State is a violation of all ethics. morals known to Man “.

Contents

The focus of the Radio Islam website is the influence of Jews and “Zionists” on society, and in particular on politics in Western countries and the Middle East . It proposes that there are conspiracies of Jews / “Zionists” to control Western society and oppress and / or kill Muslims (among other groups), and that these actions are a historic feature of both Jews and Judaism (which it describes as Jewish ” Religion “ ). It considers the Holocaust to be a fraudulent “Zionist” attempt to turn away from the ongoing Zionist war waged against the peoples of Palestineand the Middle East “Zionist massacres”, “Zionist terrorism”, “Jewish Power”, “Jewish racism”, “Jewish racism against Blacks”, Holocaust denial , “Jewish hypocrisy”, “Jewish propaganda” “,” Jewish war against Iraq “, and” Jewish war against Lebanon . ” The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (which Encyclopædia Britannica describes as” a fraudulent document that served as a pretext rationale for anti-Semitism in the early 20th century “),Adolf Hitler ‘s Mein Kampf , Henry Ford ‘sThe International Jew , Arthur Koestler ‘s The Thirteenth Tribe , Israel Shahak ‘ s Jewish History, Jewish Religion, and Roger Garaudy ‘s The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics .

Holocaust denial

Radio Islam denies the view of all scholars relating to the Holocaust, claiming that most of those who died were non-Jewish victims of typhus , and that many more people died than what mainstream scholars say. ^[6] Their website claims that “[m] ost people in the West accept the last Jewish / Zionist claim to the so-called” holocaust “without any challenge as if it were a” divine truth. “This holocaust hoax has been These are the ones who are educated and educated and Westerners alike, whether they are from the far right (such as Christian fundamentalists), or from the so-called “moderates”, or even from the far left (such as socialists and communists). ^[6]

They criticize the general public for tolerating criticism of political mistakes of the President, but not of denying Holocaust took place. ^[6] They claim the whole Holocaust was fabricated by Zionists, as a pretext for the establishment of an Israeli state. ^[6]

Radio Islam also attempts to downplay the Holocaust by claiming that Jews were not single out for any sort of offense and that their deaths should be regarded as equivalent to any other victim of the Nazis. It claims the number of people who died in the Holocaust was actually around 240,000. It also denies the existence of gas chambers , and claims that Nazis only ever used cremation for the body of victims of typhus and other infectious diseases, as a method of epidemic prevention. ^[6]

Radio Islam claims that its position is supported by “scholars and historians”, quoting Arthur Butz , a tenured professor of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University who claims the Holocaust was a Zionist manufacturing, and “father of Holocaust revisionism” Paul Rassinier , and to form Lyon University professor Robert Faurisson , who has asked The Diary of Anne Frank to be a hoax.

Criticism

A 2003 report commissioned by the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia described Radio Islam as “one of the most radical right wing anti-Semitic homepages on the net with close links to radical Islam groups”, ^[7] one of a number of ” racist and xenophobic sites ” ^[8] which” used the denial of the Holocaust as a component of anti-Semitic agitation “and” make use of the entire spectrum of anti-semitic stereotypes “. The Southern Poverty Law Center has described Radio Islam as “a Stockholm -based neo-Nazi propagandaoutfit “which” contains a treasure trove of antisemitica “and Ahmed Rami has a” key IHR ( Institute for Historical Review ) ally “and” a key promoter of anti-Semitism worldwide “. ^[9] The Stephen Roth Institute lists it among a Number of “Holocaust denial and / or neo-Nazi pages.” ^[10] The Anti-Defamation League notes that the site “promotes a myriad of anti-Semitic works,” and states that it “demonstrates the implicit connection between Holocaust denial and other forms of anti-Semitism ” Per Ahlmark , co-founder of the Swedish Anti-Semitism Committee , has described Radio Islam as”the most vicious anti-Jewish campaignEurope since the Third Reich . ” ¹

Footnotes

^ 1 “Reflections on Combating Anti-Semitism,” in Yaffa Zilbershats, ed.,The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism(Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University, nd), pp. 59-66. [1]

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