Moshe Holtzberg
Moshe Holtzberg
This is a picture of Moshe Holtzberg. He is two years old. If anyone from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) happens to be reading this post, I would like you to study this picture carefully. The same request goes out to the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and all Muslim Student Association (MSA)chapters on our university campuses around the nation.
Do you know who this little boy is? Maybe you don’t know. Maybe you don’t care. After all, it is clear from his name that he is a Jew. Perhaps, you have been taught that he is no better than an ape or a pig. However, you all need to know something about this child. He is the son of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.
Do you know those names? Maybe not. They are two of the Jewish victims who were murdered by Islamic terrorists last week in Mumbai. Not just murdered, mind you. The Jewish victims were taken hostage at the Chabad House, bound, and tortured. Then as Indian commandos stormed in, they were murdered in cold blood. Little Moshe only escaped the same fate because a nanny managed to carry him to safety.
What kind of people tie up innocent victims, torture them and kill them in cold blood? Can any of you at CAIR explain why this happened? How about the ISNA or any of our myriad MSAs? Maybe you can explain to me why a Jewish center was chosen by Islamic terrorists in India.
Why? That is what millions of people around the world are asking in the wake of this barbarity. I am asking you. I know that ISNA and CAIR have put out generic statements condemning Mumbai-without mentioning anything about Islamic perpetrators or Jewish victims, by the way. If any MSA has put out a statement, I am not aware. At the University of California at Irvine, where I teach, the local MSU (which is a radical group)insists that they are not anti-Jewish-just anti-Zionist. Yet, this same organization invites speakers to campus like Imam Mohammed al-Asi, who has stated at UCI that, “Jews are low-life ghetto-dwellers” and “You can take a Jew out to the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the Jew.” My question to them is why Jews were singled out for murder in Mumbai. What in God’s name did that have to do with fighting Zionism? Don’t you ever imagine for a minute that the words of Imam al-Asi contribute to the mind-set that commits such horror?
While you are reading this, take another look at Moshe. Do you really believe that he is just a pig or an ape? Had he not been whisked to safety during the attack, would those Islamic terrorists have tortured and murdered him also? You bet they would have.
I would like to ask my Muslim readers if they were really taught that Jews (and Christians) were nothing more than pigs or apes. It is clear that many, if not most Muslims believe this or some shade thereof. Isn’t this what young schoolchildren are taught in the madrassahs of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and who knows where else in the Muslim world? Isn’t that also in the Qu’ran? Is it any surprise that when children are taught to hate in this manner, that they grow up to be barbaric killers of Jews? Isn’t it really true that the whole dispute over Israel is not about land, rather about religion?
I know that you people at CAIR are very sensitive to the issue of Islamophobia-sensitive to the point of filing lawsuits whenever a Muslim is discriminated against or Islam is “disrespected” even while your co-religionists living in Europe threaten native people who “disrespect” Islam with death by beheading-in their own countries. But do you really wonder why so many people have become “Islamophobic”, as you call it? Americans and Europeans were not brought up to fear or hate Muslims. Our school books didn’t teach us that Muslims were this or that. No, Islamophobia has been created by your religious brethren who have carried out atrocity after atrocity after atrocity in the name of a God who is supposed to be the same God that I and Jews also worship.
Finally, I ask you to take one last look at Moshe. I hope you never forget his face. Think what he experienced last week in Mumbai. Think what he witnessed happening to his parents. How do you think this horrific experience will affect him as he grows up and goes through life? Maybe you don’t care. Maybe you will consider him just another “Islamophobe”.
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As a mother of a child almost the exact same age, this baby's cries (on youtube) ripped me apart. Watching my baby girl has taught me just how much babies love and need their mommies and I have seen utter terror on my baby's face when she doesn't know where I am for only a moment. Poor Moshe must be living in utter horror right now. I hope all the Islamic militant freaks pay for every single one of Moshe's tears!!!
i wish there is some way in which i could help this child. it breaks my heart knowing that he will never get to see, hear or touch his parent again. it breaks my heart even more knowing that the chances of the perpetrators of this massacre being brought to justice are nil.
Thanks for posting on Moshe, he is a beautiful child, God's child. We cannot give him what he has lost. God Himself is sculptoring Moshe's life, and he sure will shine one day like his parents.
I am from mumbai, and was shocked to see such cruel things happening in my city, and i couldnt do a thing.
The militants will sure have to pay for what they have done.
Please keep posted on the latest news about baby Moshe.
Once again, thanks.
God Bless You
Akshay
Firstly, words cannot express the sorrow felt for Moshe. May God bless him with a long prosperous life, and may he bless his parents.
I want to commend the writer of this well-written article for articulating the same exact thoughts that I have, and that I'm sure many others share as well. You are absolutely correct in stating that the anti-Semitism that is preached to so many Muslims results in these acts of violence.
In fact you are right in that the MSA and all those other Islamic organizations that spew hatred for the Jews on college campuses across the U.S. ultimately foster and contribute to the anti-Semitism that culminates in brutal massacres such as this one that rendered an innocent child an orphan.
Let the image of Moshe be a symbol and those cries be battle cry for the Indians, Israelis, and Americans to step up and eliminate Islamic terrorism on the planet.
I am Guru from India. I just hope that perpetrators of this massacre will be punished by the GOD since real culprit are hiding in a different country. I wish to contribute some thing for Moshe. I see my son's tears in his eyes.
CAIR Condemns Mumbai Attacks
Muslim Civil Rights Group Demands that Hostages Be
'Released Immediately and Unconditionally'
Press Release
Council on American-Islamic Relations
November 27, 2008
A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today condemned attacks on a number of sites in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai that left at least 100 people dead and many more injured.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages taken during the attacks. Witnesses say the attackers sought out American and British citizens.
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In a statement, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
"We condemn these cowardly attacks and demand that all hostages taken by the attackers be released immediately and unconditionally. We offer sincere condolences to the loved ones of those killed or injured in these senseless and inexcusable acts of violence against innocent civilians. American Muslims stand with our fellow citizens of all faiths in repudiating acts of terror wherever they take place and whomever they target."
The Washington-based group also asked the Indian government to protect all its citizens from the type of retaliatory attacks that have taken place following similar incidents in the recent past.
CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties group, has 35 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.