Okay, so direct inflammatory anti-Semitism isn't something new in the Arab world

An astonishingly unnerving column appearing recently in the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Akhbar complains that Jews "are accursed, fundamentally, because they are the plague of the generation and the bacterium of all time. Their history always was and always will be stained with treachery, falseness, and lying. Historical documents prove it." Okay, so direct inflammatory anti-Semitism isn't something new in the Arab world - what's interesting about this column is that its author is employed by the Egyptian government. So now they're tossing aside even the half-hearted attempt at feigned tolerance?

Just in case the point hasn't been driven home yet that these people suck a lot, I'll leave you with an extended excerpt from the good Mr. Fatma Abdallah Mahmoud himself.

"With regard to the fraud of the Holocaust... Many French studies have proven that this is no more than a fabrication, a lie, and a fraud!! That is, it is a 'scenario' the plot of which was carefully tailored, using several faked photos completely unconnected to the truth. Yes, it is a film, no more and no less. Hitler himself, whom they accuse of Nazism, is in my eyes no more than a modest 'pupil' in the world of murder and bloodshed. He is completely innocent of the charge of frying them in the hell of his false Holocaust!!"

"The entire matter, as many French and British scientists and researchers have proven, is nothing more than a huge Israeli plot aimed at extorting the German government in particular and the European countries in general. But I, personally and in light of this imaginary tale, complain to Hitler, even saying to him from the bottom of my heart, 'If only you had done it, brother, if only it had really happened, so that the world could sigh in relief [without] their evil and sin.'"