[Austin Willard Wright]

BTW, you misunderstand my point entirely. It is that those who disparage the liberties of some (in your case Muslims) only create an atmosphere in which the liberties of themselves and others are ultimately undermined. A victim of Nazi oppression made this point this point many decades ago when he warned "They came for the Catholics but I wasn't a Catholic so I didn't speak up, etc."

[Lent]

BTW, you misunderstand my point entirely. It is that those who disparage the liberties of some (in your case Muslims) only create an atmosphere in which the liberties of themselves and others are ultimately undermined. A victim of Nazi oppression made this point this point many decades ago when he warned "They came for the Catholics but I wasn't a Catholic so I didn't speak up, etc."

Who is disparaging the liberties of Muslims? Muslims in the free world have infinitely more liberties than the all their millions of fellow Muslims have in the Islamic world. For you, pointing out the work of the Grand Mufti in rallying and creating an Islamic SS division in Bosnia - the leader of the "palestinian' Arabs during the British Mandate period - is construed by you to entail some sort of slight against Islamics. As if historical allusions which aren't flattering to Islamics create a slight against Islam which guys like you rush to minimize and relativize. The additional concurrent story here is that several emerging/newly created Islamic states in the ME and North Africa were openly sympathetic to Nazism. We all know about Europe and the Nazi movements there. What most don't realize is that the "religion of peace" adherents had a love affair with Nazi ideology. Stories like the above seek to open this historical book obfuscated so long by those historians empathetic to Islam.