Background
Radioislam.org is an anti-Semitic web site run started by Ahmed Rami. A Moroccan seeking political asylum, Rami immigrated to France and eventually to Sweden. There, Rami ran a show on a public access radio station from 1987 until 1990. The show was rabidly anti-Semitic and led to the arrest and imprisonment of Rami. Rami brought the show back in 1996, only to have it shut down in 2000 for the same charges. During this time, Rami created the Radio Islam website. Due to the anti-Semitic contents of radioislam.net, Rami has been investigated for hate crimes by both Sweden and France.
Themes
The website actually focuses very little on Islam, but rather deals with of Jews and Judaism. While presenting itself simply as an "anti-Zionist" and claiming that it is not a racist website, radioislam.org is a portal for all things anti-Semitic. The word Jew and Jewry is used extensively throughout its contents. Among things that Jews are accused of on the site include racism, controlling world affairs, manipulating the media, laundering drug money and fabricating the holocaust. Radio Islam also features articles in many different languages.
The website contradicts the notion that it is not anti-Semitic by including full versions of notoriously anti-Jewish fictitious texts: Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Henry Ford's The International Jew and the Protocols of Elders of Zion are featured in several different languages. Radioislam.net also features plenty of Holocaust denial literature. Among the many and varied claims on Radio Islam, the Ann Frank Diary was a fabrication, while the holocaust acutally took the lives of 240,000 non-Jewish typhus victims.
In an example of its blatant anti-Semitism, radioislam.org states that "The Old Testament (the Torah) and the Talmud constitute the basics of Judaism and contain the principles by which today's Jews live. But see what an abyss of racial hatred and intolerance they contain, as one closer studies these Jewish scriptures."
Scope
Radioislam.org is yet another example of a growing trend to mask anti-Semitism by hiding behind supposed "anti-Zionism". It is one of the more popular and aggressive anti-Semitic websites today. Radioislam.org has been criticized by multiple groups, including the U.N. The ADL has stated that the website "demonstrates the implicit connection between Holocaust denial and other forms of anti-Semitism."
