Conspiracies against Muslims and Arabs?

Yunus Yakoub Islam aka the Anarchist Muslim, or was it Muslim Anarchist? It's one of those. Anyway, he's set up a new blog - Muslims against Mumbo Jumbo - specially to debunk the absurd conspiracy theories doing the rounds about Jewish responsibility for all manner of disasters from 9/11 to the tsunami. Personally I don't see much need for this but then Yakoub is concerned that some of the conspiracy theories are both offensive and harmeful to any cause associated with Muslims and Arabs; certainly, he feels, they undermine legitimate, that is most, criticism of Israel. The way I see it is that the zionists actively want anti-semitism. There are clearly some people who feel that zionism cannot be defeated and so they like to say things that are offensive to Jews since, if they can't defeat zionism they can at least make zionists feel bad about themselves. This betrays a complete lack of understanding of what zionism is all about. It's true that zionism came into being as a response to anti-semitism but it has long since been a reaction to the assimilation of Jews and so zionism wants anti-semitism and where it can't find it, it invents it. In this sense anti-semitism is the enemy, not of the zionists but of the Arab and Muslim communities.

Anyway, let's have a look at some of Yakoub's instances of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories around 9/11. I am simply using Yakoub's headings and then googling them.

Blaming the Mossad.

Punching "Blaming the Mossad" 9/11, into google we find 296 sites all of which claim that this rumour is doing the rounds. Googling Mossad 9/11 we draw 304,000 sites, many of which do accuse the Mossad of responsibility for 9/11 but few that you could call credible. The most plausible story is that the Mossad knew what was happening and did nothing to alert the US.

"Israeli Art Student" Spy Ring

Is this so bizarre? The fact that Israel spies on America is well known. One spy for Israel, Jonathan Pollard, is serving time in America for his espionage. Also, some AIPAC seniors are currently under investigation for spying on America. I can't find anything weird about this story.

"Jewish Ownership" of the World Trade Center

This one clearly relies on an anti-Jewish stereotype involving insurance fraud on a near unthinkable scale but I can find no sites on this. True, googling whole sentences can yield imprecise results but where are these theories?

Four Thousand Israelis Told to Stay Home

Punch that statement into google and it yields 3 sites only. [update] A zionist has suggested that I was being deliberately dishonest in framing the search in the way that I did so I should point out that googling different but similar words and different permutations of words will yield different results - OBVIOUSLY!

I know many Muslims and many Jews and the only people who have said anything to me about these silly theories, where indeed they are silly, have been zionists. I have only read of them in the Jewish Chronicle. In fact, a couple of years ago a guy in the JC wrote of how he was sitting in an amusement arcade and a man "of Middle Eastern appearance" (not an Israeli then) came and sat beside him. He began to speak about 9/11, as people "of Middle Eastern appearance" do, and told the JC guy of how 4,000 Israeli stayed at home. In fairness I remember Abu Hamza saying on TV that the planes that were flown into the WTC were unmanned and when asked who he thought was responsible for 9/11 he said something like "who is the lobby who has most to gain etc?" But widespread? I'd say not. Worth devoting a new blog to? Maybe. It could be fun and it could direct people of goodwill to use their time more fruitfully than wasting it on silly stories that only serve to cheer the zionists and demoralise their victims. So check out the site - Muslims against Mumbo Jumbo - and try to find the origin of the stories. You might just find that conspiracy theories are themselves a conspiracy, but that's just my theory.