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Originally Posted by Betonov
The satirical media responded well. More satire means less fear.
I fear what the mainstreams will do. They'll overanalyse, overblow, overcomment and sell another few truckloads of fear to a population (not just France) that could do without.
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That cartoon is spot on, as indeed many cartoonists and comics are.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Most Germans did not kill a Jew or abused or dealt with a Jew themselves during the Nazi tyranny, seen that way they were "innocent" and peaceful. To say that the rise of the regime and Nazism had nothing to do with the Germans, nevertheless would be wrong. The Third Reich was not just anybody or nobody, it was the Germans.
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Does this mean that it is acceptable to call all Germans Nazis and that there was no resistance against the Third Reich?
Let me answer that, no it is not acceptable to call all Germans Nazis because not all of them were, many of them just wanted to survive without being noticed by the state, and some of them thought that some of the things that the Nazis said about the Jews and Communists was not necessarily incorrect. Did they want the Jews exterminated? Most likely not, but they were happy to see Hitler take the power back from the fat cat Jews and tackle the threat of international communism.
So...does that mean that all Muslims are radicals? According to more than a couple on here, yes...and so therefore, one must conclude that all Germans were Nazis.
There was also resistance against the Third Reich, from within Germany itself, the much publicised attempts on Hitlers lives, as well as the attempts of the White Rose movement, as doomed as they were. There is also resistance against Radical Islam from within Islam, as well as attempts at reformation, attempts that frighten and scare the radicals and the old Imams who hate change in any manner. Therefore these brave men and women who lead these movements often find themselves imprisoned, tortured and killed, and yet others continue in their place. So rather than push Muslims towards extremism by treating them all as extremists, we should encourage them away from extremists and towards reformists, of course our good friends in Riyadh probably wouldn't approve of us doing that...
