Hate Week

(With apologies to George Orwell.)
As I was mulling over what to post about today, it struck me that a number of hatreds are rearing their heads over the past couple of days.

This is the 17th anniversary of the Montreal massacre in which 14 female students of Ecole Polytechnique were gunned down. The murderer was apparently motivated by his misogyny.

More recently, Dennis Prager has decided that it's a bad thing to have a Muslim congressman swear an oath on the Qur'an. Fortunately, almost every quarter of American society has called Prager out on this stupid idea that everyone should swear on the Bible. Significantly, the Anti-Defamation League came out very strongly against Prager. (Prager is also the winner of the Godwin's Law award this week, for comparing the Qur'an to Mein Kampf.) Jews standing up for the rights of Muslims or vice versa (or indeed anyone standing up for someone else's religious rights) gives me hope.

Now we are off to Iran, where Napoleon complex sufferer President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is planning to host a conference on the Holocaust. Apparently he's not sure if it happened. Ahmadinejad insists (with a straight face, I assume) that he's not creating a platform for anti-Semites, neo-Nazis or anyone else like that. Really though, this is akin to having a conference on whether or not the world is round. The very premise means you will be inviting the flat-earth society for their views.

Now someone find me some good news... please?
Tags: hatred, The Holocaust, Iran, Dennis Prager, Anti-Defamation League, Godwin's Law.