I was readin in "The Nation" last night that the Blair government is thinking of scrapping he national "Holocaust Memorial Day" because offended Muslims feel excluded. It seems that they feel as if their history and its travails are not as strongly appreciated as those of the Jews, and this causes them emotional distress.
So, the British government is thinking of changing the Holocaust Memorial Day to a more generic and simple "Genocide Remembrance Day".
This because, of course, in a socialist society where liberalism has run amok for years, no one should EVER feel excluded or be offended for any reason whatsoever.
I agree with the London Guardian that the Jews better deserve a memorial to their Holocuast, simply because they were the victims of the first official policy of extermination wherein a entire machine was developed toward expediting this goal as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Of course,the Guardian advocates an end to all such officially sanctioned memorial "hoidays", but I disagree. Such things need to be officially remembered, so we never really are allowed to forget, because we will; it's our nature as a race.
Give the Muslims their own day of remembrance, if, like spoiled children throwing a tantrum becuase 'I want it because they have it!', they insist. But remember the Jews suffering above all. When a people is persecuted to the extent that an entire industry is built to that end, that's something to be remembered.