At the risk of invoking Godwin, Roland Emmerich is Hollywood’s answer to a dutiful Sturmabteilung. He was only following orders. And he will be rewarded for his hubris and ignorance by the considerable cash that this film will generate worldwide.
A Somalian group is accosting women in public to check whether they’re wearing bras. (The way this story is written up, what’s troubling the Sharia nazis is the “deception” of having perky breasts underneath the robe; if they’re perky without a bra, well, OK.)
(From News of the Weird, 10/19/2009)
Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler’s later seizure of emergency powers.
The threat posed to the national security of the United States by Iran was likened only to the one posed by Nazi Germany in the 1930s, by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who suggested Tehran could be planning for a pre-emptive nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack on America that would turn a third or more of the country “back to a 19th century level of development.”
Prominent linguist Noam Chomsky bashes the ‘imperialistic’ foreign policies of the US, likening Washington to the Nazis in Germany.
Chomsky compared US foreign policies to the conduct of Nazis within Germany, citing the Nuremberg trials as an example of the contradictions between US political speech and government-sanctioned actions.
Respected German historian Guido Knopp has compared a speech by US actor Tom Cruise to the Church of Scientology with a call to war by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
The German Green Party in Saxony and Hesse has an unusual poster for their municipal election campaign – an image of a cat that resembles Adolf Hitler with the tagline “you can’t always recognize Nazis at first glance.”
CANADA is acting like a Nazi-style regime if it deports Helmut Oberlander of Waterloo without a right to appeal a court decision against him, says Kitchener-Waterloo MP Andrew Telegdi. He derided the law by which “politicians make decisions on citizenship. That’s what Hitler used to do.”
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh compared President Barack Obama’s health care logo to Nazi imagery Thursday on his afternoon show.
And I realize I’m Godwinning this article, but that phrase found on that site calls to mind the words Arbeit macht frei, which ironically graced the Nazi concentration camps. The fact that that statement is correct does not imply that reading Dr. Koren’s material will lead to being well informed.
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