re: #86 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Yeah, I love how they’re so flippant about Christian treatment of Jews back then versus Muslim treatment of Jews back then, as though such things are unheard of today. Might be because, between now and then, outright hostility and murderous intent was replaced with depraved indifference and secret loathing. I’ve lost track of the number of stories I’ve read over the years from such bastions of “tolerance” as France, where people turned a blind eye to the beating, rape, and murder of Jewish citizens because it “wasn’t their problem.” Or that figure of high-minded journalism, Helen Thomas, telling Jews to “go back to Germany and Poland.”

It’s not that there isn’t, today, at this moment in time, really scary stuff coming out of the Muslim world.

It’s that people like, well, Newt, rewrite history so that today’s bad guys have always been the bad guys, world without end, Islam is inherently bad, mmmm’kay? and dismiss the hope that we’ll come through this time too and maybe get to a better one.