A depressing thought on my birthday.

Islamic Anti-Semitism: "It's hard to know what is more alarming %u2014 a toxic statement of hatred of Jews by the Malaysian prime minister at an Islamic summit meeting this week or the unanimous applause it engendered from the kings, presidents and emirs in the audience. The words uttered by the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, in a speech to the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference on Thursday were sadly familiar: Jews, he asserted, may be few in number, but they seek to run the world.



'The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews rule the world by proxy,' he said. 'They get others to fight and die for them.' Muslims are 'up against a people who think,' he said, adding that the Jews 'invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others.'"