How much knowledge of the holocaust do people in the Middle East and other muslim countries have?
481991
Id say people in the Middle East have an extremely biased view (if any) on the Holocaust. Im Lebanese, living in Lebanon, and i can say that the Holocaust is praised (unfortunately) in most Arab countries since Israel is viewed as the main enemy (along with the US). It's sad to see educated people praising Hitler and the horrible genocide he commited against Jews. Being an Arab Christian, my backgroud education gave me the right idea about the genocide. However, most Muslims have this haine for Jews (mostly because the Sheikhs and Arab leaders examplify Israelis and Jews as the force of evil and war in the world). I dont want to sound too pessimistic but a better education will not be the solution because Imams (or Sheikhs, as in muslim religious leaders) will still endoctrinate their followers... The only solution in my opinion is the creation of two states (Israel and Palestine) after both forces recognize one another according to international law. It's a shame extremism (whether ultra-orthodox jews or fanatic muslims) is the obstacle of bringing people together..
503572
Israel is the only country in the middle east that has a Judeo-Christian ethic and belief system.  Many Christians and Jews in the US support them because of that.  Also, they are of strategic importance to us militarily.
1085925
the Holocaust and Christianity.
625606
Have you not had any history lessons yet?  The Holocaust is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.\n(There is more info about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust\n\nAlso read the book "Diary of Anne Frank".  See if you can find a copy of the tv miniseries "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance".  They were made from books written by Herman Wouk and had actual footage from the concentration camps, etc.\n\n\nTry these sites for movies about the holocaust:\nhttp://www.thirdreich.net/Holocaust_Movies.html\nhttp://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/MOVIES.htm\nhttp://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/schindlers-list.html
147401
I dont think it was so much their beliefs but the state of the area.  Europe was very close if not the poorest area of the world in the middle ages.  The world of Islam was wealtheir and were taking time to translate ancient greek and roman works.  With this also comes a desire for new ideas and thinking.  The only literate people in europe were some nobels and clergy.  Most of their works were focused on religion and the bible.  Because of this alot of science and the like was ignored until the crusades and the contact with Islamic people.
448781
the only thing I know about it is 10 or 15 years ago was a lot of killing between sectarian war. (holocaust or massacre)
84584
From the Unites States web site http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jan/14-260933.html :::\n\n""A total of 2,071 occupants of the World Trade Center died on September 11, among the 2,749 victims of the WTC attacks. \n\nAccording to an article in the October 11, 2001, Wall Street Journal, roughly 1,700 people had listed the religion of a person missing in the WTC attacks; approximately 10% were Jewish. \n\nA later article, in the September 5, 2002, Jewish Week, states, "based on the list of names, biographical information compiled by The New York Times, and information from records at the Medical Examiner's Office, there were at least 400 victims either confirmed or strongly believed to be Jewish." \n\nThis would be approximately 15% of the total victims of the WTC attacks. \n\nA partial list of 390 Cantor Fitzgerald employees who died (out of 658 in the company) lists 49 Jewish memorial services, which is between 12% and 13%.\n\nThis 10-15% estimate of Jewish fatalities tracks closely with the percentage of Jews living in the New York area.""\n\nHOWEVER, the antisemites among us wont ever believe this truth, and the ones on and off the internet who keep the lie going that the Jews were forewarned, are usually tied to the Arabs.
983017
The Jewish people have been quite successful in surviving many centuries of hatred, prejudice and the Holocaust. And maintain an unproportionately high role in society. There are only about 13 million Jews worldwide, about 1% of the total population.\n\nAs a good guideline to a healthy and prosperous lifestyle, I feel the Jewish culture is one worth passing on down to ones children.
134544
yes it seems that way some people are naive enough to think it almost over but some of the leaders involved are too arrogant to see where it is headed so they wont back off and at this point I would say the middle east in general and definately the US most of the other nations are too chicken or to underpowered to make a stand but if things get worse they might like the US ignored the holocaust until they hit our backdoor
625570
Anyone involved in WWII, Poland, the UK, Germany, Austria, Hungary. It wasn't just the Jewish people sent to the Death Camps, the Nazis hated everyone. \n\nTry this link but not if you get upset easily.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
184631
it is so complex problem...and i think almost the terrorism in the world now comes from this problem...i live in the middle east ...and i do not understand yet why Jews have the right in the land of the Arabic people...they think God give them the land of Israel just coz you are Jews?\nwhat about the rights of the Plestine people???\ni just want to tell you before the years of 1948 before they were given the land of Plastine...the Arbic Muslem people never fight or hate jews...that is historical fact ..and the jews used to live in the Arbic countries...the Westrian World supported you in taking Plastine coz they feel sin about what they did in jews..especially after the 2end world War...sorry they sow jews as a problem in their contries so they sent you away in the Middel East...and do not care that they make the most complex and bloody problem in the human modern history...a lot of people died and suffered becuse of this great problem ..and the blood still go on here in the Middel East..\nand please some one help me really if God really gave the land of Arbic Plastine to the Isreal can any one show me the contrect or the document of buying...????? \n?but Arbic people will never forget their land...even after 100 years i will not forget my home that was taken from me...never...by the way i do not hate jews...i just live in the mad Middle East....\nNOTE:some people tell a BIG LIES here about the the Plastine`s land was empty before 1948...but the dead bodies of the innocent people who were killed by the Ireal proves that this land was not empty....and that really so silly explanation to take the land of Plastine....is that a fair law.... any one find a empty land ..just take and pertend that it was your home that God gave it to you before 4000 years...what a silly lie...
88057
many people were killed in WWII including the Jews.\nbut the story of holocaust was made up by the Jews to pretend they were not safe in Europe and they needed their own homeland.that was the main pretext for invading and occupying palestine,a country that had no role in the war.but let it be said that there are some Jews who oppose occupation of Palestine.
947523
I am incredibly pleased that there is a school somewhere in the world that teaches its students about the reality of the holocaust, and that only 1in3 people killed during it were Jewish.\nHitler was a Roman Catholic, and his Nazi Germany was endorsed by the Papacy, and as a result the Nazis persecuted anyone whom the RC church was against. The nazis not only rounded up Jews, but also Slavs, Gypsies, Communists, the Disabled and Gay people for their concentration camps. All these people were seen as unsavioury by the church, and as unbeneficial to the German society. During 1943, the Nazis started killing people in the concentration camps, for several reasons, one simple one being that too many people meant too many guards, who could be fighting on the frontline. The first people to be butchered in these camps were Russian prisoners of war, then Slavs. Finally, Jews, Gays and disabled people were also slaughtered. Approx 1/2 a million gay people were killed in the Death Camps.
502627
about 6 million i think- the same amount of Jews that were killed in the Holocaust...
676141
The Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to eleven million. Many non-Jewish people were killed as well.\nAbout 220,000 Sinti and Roma were killed in the Holocaust (some estimates are as high as 800,000), between a quarter to a half of the European population. Other groups deemed "racially inferior" or "undesirable": Poles (3 million Polish Jews, and 2 million Polish gentiles, total 5 million Poles killed in Holocaust), Serbs (targeted mostly by Croat Nazi Puppet Ustashas, from 100,000 to 700,000 killed; estimates disputed), Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, and some Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed. Many scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, with some scholars limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews; some to genocide of the Jews, Roma, and disabled; and some to all groups targeted by Nazi racism.[2] Taking all these other groups into account, however, the total death toll rises considerably, estimates generally place the total number of Holocaust victims at 9 to 11 million, though some estimates have been as high as 26 million.[3]
313664
You have to understand, friend, that people are ignorant. An no, not just Americans either. We as humans just have simple and one-tracked minds. Some more seriously than others.\nWhen it comes to the Israel thing, I have a good friend from Egypt, but she looks African America (Black). Mind you, she's beautiful. When people see her, they smile, guys buy her drinks, really hang on her tit like she's so fine. Then when she says that she's Muslim, cats get nervous. I understand it, because I'm Christian. And listening to most American Christians, post-911 mind you, they are really delicate when it comes to Middle Easterners, believing they had hands in US terrorist attacks. But remember, turning the other cheek and ignoring stupid people is a much more powerful jester than to reply with anything else.
803202
Too many to name, or to even know.  There are Jews all over the earth, from America to China, from Israel to India, from Spain to England.  They are all over the earth.