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The anti-Semitic blogosphere and many Arab and Muslim media outlets are aflutter in recent days over accusations of an international Jewish conspiracy to kidnap Algerian children and harvest their organs.
Unlike the multiple conspiracy theories about Jews circulating among radical fringe organizations online, this one seems to be gaining momentum on mainstream Arab and Muslim Web sites.
According to the story, first reported by Algeria's Al-Khabar daily, bands of Moroccans and Algerians have allegedly been roaming the streets of Algeria's cities kidnapping young children, who are then transported across the border into Morocco. From the Moroccan city of Oujda, the children are then purportedly sold to Israelis and American Jews, who then harvest their organs for sale in Israel and the United States. The organs are said to fetch anywhere from $20,000 to $100,000.[...]
There was an Iranian TV series in 2004 called "Zahra's Blue Eyes" that depicted Israelis, and the Israeli goverment, running a human organ trafficking ring that preyed on Palestinian children. I wonder how much airtime this show got in the Muslim world outside of Iran. I can only imagine that a significant portion of the show's target audience felt that the show's plotline, while fictional, possessed a certain degree of believability.
ReplyDeleteLinks for information on the show:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahra's_Blue_Eyes
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP83304