Friday, February 3

Well, I'll be ... 

"The protests in the Middle East have proven that the cartoonist was right," said Tarek Fatah, a director of the Muslim Canadian Congress.

"It's falling straight into that trap of being depicted as a violent people and proving the point that, yes, we are."

The story continues:
"While quick to defend freedom of expression, Canadian Muslims said the cartoons are reminiscent of the anti-Semitic depictions of Jews common in European periodicals before the horrors of the Second World War.

"'Now, it is the Muslim community that has taken up their place,' said Mr. Fatah."
Er, up to a point, Lord Copper.

See, the stuff that Nazis were saying about Jews -- that they were sex-crazed rapists; that they used the blood of Gentile children in rituals; that they monopolized the media/banks/whatever as part of a grand Commie/Masonic conspiracy...

Those things weren't actually, like, true.

Whereas...

In other words, if this is a re-run of the Second World War, then Muslims aren't the Jews this time around...

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