Observing the Post-Kristallnacht Berliners – Right here in Chicago!

As a child I often wondered why the Jews of Germany stuck around during the early years of Hitler and his third Reich. As I got older I saw that there are many reasons that people stay someplace in the face of such rhetoric and actions; we have family, we have friends, we have our work and this is our place, we were born here! Besides, our neighbors will surely come to their senses. Obviously many German Jews saw the writing on the wall and fled to other counties (however not to FDR’s America as his Democratic administration wouldn’t even let in one boatload of Jewish refugees on the SS St. Louis).

During the past several years I have felt as if I am witnessing that phenomenon as it rears its ugly head once again. As I noted in the post below some educated Americans are so oblivious to the world around them that cannot see the writing on the wall; they think of islam as harmless and all adherents of islam as just good people who have really cool looking churches. They are fooled because they know some muslims who were nice to them. Clearly not all muslims aim to turn the US into a nation controlled by islamic law, I hope. The rhetoric of many native islamic groups includes the desire to put islamic law (sharia) into practice in the US. It is interesting that these Americans who are channeling those Post-Kristallnacht Berliners are exclusively liberal and largely Democratic. Ironic because sharia is a caste system that places Arabic speaking muslims at its pinnacle; sharia also makes women a half of a legal entity. Please save the “half-bitch” jokes and give that one a little bit of thought; these are liberal people who are often lecturing us on the plight of women in our society and how women are so often under compensated in the workplace. They are now excusing a legal regime that makes women into a half-person. To all of them I say “here’s your 50 cents, now shut-up.”