And FDR rounded up and interned Japanese Americans. Using a President’s unconstitutional actions from over 150 years ago to justify Zelensky shutting down churches is insipid.
Again, imagine if Zelensky was a Christian and shuttered synagogues.
No churches are closed, they simply cannot be affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church, since the leader Patriarch Kirill, has told his followers that "sacrifice in the course of carrying out your military duty washes away all sins."
Kirill’s crusade against Ukraine is more jihadi than Christian
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has again preached to the faithful of the Russian world. He told them that if they heed their president’s call to arms, they shall be absolved of their sins and avoid any possibility of Hades.
Kirill’s call to violence with the promise of salvation might sound familiar to some western ears. It has something in common with Islamic clerics who encourage their fellow Muslims to become suicide bombers and slaughter the Kuffar – the non-believer – with the promise of martyrdom that will wash away all their sins for the glory of the Ummah (the Muslim world).
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/kirill-s-crusade-against-ukraine-is-more-jihadi-than-christian/
I’m confident that if some Ukrainian Rabbis were supporting Russia, Zelensky would have them arrested or shot. And if the Orthodox Church stopped supporting Russia, they wouldn’t have any problem with Zelensky. It’s about a national life or death struggle and nothing else.