tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959228.post6422741356124959855..comments2024-03-28T09:14:52.110+00:00Comments on Sinclair's Musings: The MCB and Holocaust Memorial DayMatthew Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948452770723874618noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959228.post-50667408140701317702007-12-04T18:41:00.000+00:002007-12-04T18:41:00.000+00:00I agree with the sentiments but just want to point...I agree with the sentiments but just want to point out a couple of things:<BR/><BR/><I>"Ultimately the aim of HMD is to motivate people individually and collectively, to ensure that the horrendous crimes, racism and victimisation committed during the Holocaust <B>and more recent genocides</B> are neither forgotten nor repeated, whether in Europe or elsewhere in the world."</I><BR/>http://www.hmd.org.uk/about/<BR/><BR/>Holocaust memorial day is not just about the Jews killed by Nazis, including by Muslim Nazis such as the Hanjar (Saber) Division of the Waffen SS in the Balkans (as part of the multi-century blood feud in the region). It is also about everybody else killed by the Nazis, and by the subsequent genocides. If I remember right one of the recent ones took Rwanda as a prominent theme as well as the Holocaust.chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11744649904388176606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959228.post-56230248367049042392007-12-04T14:12:00.000+00:002007-12-04T14:12:00.000+00:00"Vikram Dodd in today's edition of the Guardian no..."Vikram Dodd in today's edition of the Guardian notes that some of the MCB's affiliates may even leave over this issue"<BR/><BR/>That's pretty much all you have to quote on the issue. Sums it up pretty well.nought.point.zerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01262401202062370297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959228.post-5358841991053351152007-12-04T14:00:00.000+00:002007-12-04T14:00:00.000+00:00Clearly the position of the MCB is unconscionable....Clearly the position of the MCB is unconscionable.<BR/><BR/>What makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable about the Holocaust Memorial day though is that it doesn't include the other [non]Jewish victims of the Nazi death camps. Communists, Catholics, Poles, Disabled and a long list of people that the Nazis deemed sub-human were murdered along with the Jewish civilians and I find their exclusion from the memorial somehow not quite as sound (from a rational POV) as it could be. Unless there is something I've misunderstood? Is there?Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05820269114208456064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21959228.post-7793093179856197752007-12-03T23:55:00.000+00:002007-12-03T23:55:00.000+00:00Great fisk!Great fisk!Gracchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06344262838391424797noreply@blogger.com