Radio Islam

Radio Islam

Radio Islam, was a Swedish radio channel, now a website, which is dedicated to "the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people against Israel". The EU's racism monitoring organization has called it "one of the most radical right wing antisemitic homepages on the net." It bears no relationship to RadioIslam.com, a website and radio program based in Chicago.

History

In September 1973 Ahmed Rami, a former Moroccan army officer, came to Sweden from Paris. He gained political asylum by claiming that 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was sentenced to 6 months in prison for "incitement against a group of people", and Radio Islam's transmission permit was revoked for a year.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 he 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 maintaining 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 to promote 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 colour 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" constitutes "the last racist ideology still surviving" and that Israel is "the last outpost of Apartheid in the World", which, "by its mere 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 and morals known to Man".

Contents

The focus of the Radio Islam website is the alleged influence of Jews and "Zionists" on society, and in particular on politics in Western countries and in 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 "the Jewish "Religion"). It considers the Holocaust to be a fraudulent "Zionist" attempt to turn attention away from "the ongoing Zionist war waged against the peoples of Palestine and the Middle East". Major topics of the website include "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". Radio Islam's online library contains several complete works, including "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (which "Encyclopædia Britannica" describes as a "fraudulent document that served as a pretext and rationale for anti-Semitism in the early 20th century"), Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf", Henry Ford's "The 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" (which a French court found guilty of Holocaust denial and racial defamation).

Criticism

A 2003 report commissioned by the [http://eumc.eu.int/eumc/index.php E.U. 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", [http://www.winsomegifts.com/win/Archive/114_eu_anti_semitism_report.pdf] [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/report_sweden.html] one of a number of "racist and xenophobic sites" [http://eumc.eu.int/eumc/as/PDF04/AS-Country-IT-PDF04.pdf] which "utilis [e] the denial of the Holocaust as a component of anti-Semitic agitation" and "make use of the entirespectrum of anti-Semitic stereotypes". The Southern Poverty Law Center has described Radio Islam as "a Stockholm-based neo-Nazi propaganda outfit" which "contains a treasure trove of antisemitica" and Ahmed Rami as a "key IHR (Institute for Historical Review) ally" and "a key promoter of anti-Semitism worldwide". [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=181&printable=1] The Stephen Roth Institute lists it among a number of "Holocaust denial and/or neo-Nazi pages". [http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw99-2000/belgium.htm] 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 Committee Against Antisemitism, has described Radio Islam as "the most vicious anti-Jewish campaign in Europe since the Third Reich."fn|1

Footnotes

fnb|1 "Reflections on Combating Anti-Semitism," in Yaffa Zilbershats, ed., "The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism" (Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University, n.d.), pp. 59-66. [http://www.ajc.org/InTheMedia/Publications.asp?did=503&pid=1205]

References

External links

* [http://www.radioislam.org Radio Islam]
* [http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27731 "The mother of all anti-Jew sites"] , World Net Daily, 27 May 2002
* [http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/rami.asp "Holocaust Denial: Ahmed Rami"] . Anti-Defamation League
* [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=83 "Between Friends: U.S. Holocaust deniers help unite neo-Nazis, Arab extremists"] Southern Poverty Law Center
* [http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/WistrichAntisemitism.pdf Muslim anti-Semitism: A clear and present danger] . (pdf)
* [http://www.radioislam.co.za Radio Islam South Africa]


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