(August 12, 2015 at 12:51 pm)abaris Wrote: Wow, that's simplistic to use a friendly word - and only based on some select quotes. For starters it doesn't take into account how the party changed over the years. The program has been written in 1920. It also doesn't take into account how figures like Rosenberg, Himmler and Hitler himself defined themselves.
I take offense with that kind of simplistic views, since it's as stupid as theists saying that Communism was an atheist movement.
Well, this also cuts to the core as to gross generalizations when dealing with the climate of the Middle East in modern times. Any empathetic human should rightfully condemn the acts of Hitler. And while some westernized Muslims and liberals who support pluralism, can be over protective to the point of calling all criticism falsely as bigotry, I still warn people that taking a Trump demagoguery approach to dealing with Islam is a s bad as what Germany did with Jews in WW2. I have conversed with many over the years from the East who do want that part of the world to get with the modern west. It still remains for me, protecting the ability to blaspheme any religion worldwide, and any world leader, should never rise to the collective political level of scapegoating as we saw from Hitler and unfortunately from Trump. The only upside is that we still live in the west where we can condemn such political demagoguery.
There is a huge difference between blasphemy and political demagoguery. There is a huge difference between offending a bad claim or bad idea, and demonizing on a blanket level as a solution. There is lots to be criticized and blasphemed in Islam, sure, but it is the same group think and blind loyalty that leads their fundies to the point of violence that Hitler successfully sold to lead to the murder of 6 million Jews as well as 50 million lives worldwide by the end of the world. I still refuse while going after bad claims, to use carpet assumptions of guilt of individuals I have never met. Claims do not deserve to be scrutiny free or blasphemy free, but humans are still just that, and are individuals to me first.
