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Qatari daily: 'Holocaust of Homs' worse than Holocaust of Jews

I suppose we should be happy that they recognize that there was a Holocaust of Jews. Iran doesn't even recognize that.

What's going on in Homs is horrible. It is estimated that the city is being hit with four rockets per minute around the clock for the last two weeks. But to compare that with six million Jews rounded up and systematically murdered - many in gas chambers - over the course of nearly six years is exaggerated.

"The tragedy experienced by Syria today – and especially by the proud Homs, city of Khaled bin Al-Walid[3] – and the brutal acts of massacre carried out against [the Syrian citizens] are unmatched [even by Roman emperor] Nero [and Mongol ruler] Hulagu Khan,[4] [let alone by the leaders of today], in an era in which human rights and international law are touted.

"The holocaust of the steadfast Homs surpasses what the Nazis did to the Jews. The random bombardment of the Bab 'Amru [neighborhood], and especially of the Al-Insha'at neighborhood; the killing and wounding of hundreds of children, women, and elderly; the destruction of property; the interruption electricity and running water; the tainting of food; the attacks on field hospitals; the shredding of body parts; the sectarian attack on Sunni families, like the slaughter of three families of Homs' finest, 19 people in all, and other atrocities by Assad; in addition to the murder and violations taking place in the steadfast Dara; the violations in the fighting [city of] Hama, which are manifest in the arrest of over 300 families and the bombardment of homes; and what is occurring in the fighting [cities of] Idlib and Jabel al-Zawiyya, as well as in the defiant [city of] Al-Qurayya and the rest of Syria's bastions – [all this,] and the continuing oppression and the ongoing flow of the rivers of blood... are decisive proof that the international community's shame has been exposed for all to see, for it is unable to stop this gang, and that the legal and shari'a responsibility is on everyone's shoulders, even if the [guiltiest] are Assad's wild beasts..."

Yes, it's a horrible slaughter, but it's nowhere near the scale of the Holocaust.

Labels: Holocaust, Syrian uprising

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:26 PM