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To: Travis McGee
If HItler had called Naziism a religion, would we have permitted Nazi "priests" to build Nazi "temples" across America in the 1930s?

What a concept. Actually Hitler was very clever at using symbols and rituals but stopped short of declaring Naziism a religion. But in the 30s, we weren't as stupid as we are now, so no, I don't think we would have allowed Nazi temples. Today? Terrorist mosques dot the landscape. Tolerance may be our downfall.

37 posted on 06/19/2002 9:29:28 AM PDT by PoisedWoman
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To: PoisedWoman
We have elevated ultra tolerance to such a level that it will be very hard to regain the mental toughness needed for national survival.

Our de facto "open borders" policy is another example of suicidal ultra tolerance.

39 posted on 06/19/2002 9:34:42 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: PoisedWoman
Hitler's great regret was that he frittered away too much time on the buffoonish Italian dictator, Mussolini, when he could have forged an alliance with the muslims. In his bunker in Berlin, Hitler analyzed his error as follows:
Our Italian ally hampered us almost everywhere. For example, he prevented us from employing revolutionary policies in North Africa . . . for our Islamic friends suddenly saw in us voluntary or involuntary accomplices of their opressors. The memory of the barborous reprisals against the Senoussis is still very much alive among them. Moreover, the Duce's ridiculous claim to be regarded as the "sword of Islam" arouses just as much laughter today as it did before the war. This title rightly belongs to Mohammed and to a great conqueror like Omar. Mussolini had it conferred upon himself by a few poor devils whom he paid or terrorized. But we missed that opportunity, like so much else, because of our loyalty to the Italian alliance...

-- quoted in Hitler by Joachim C. Fest


42 posted on 06/19/2002 10:41:33 AM PDT by The Great Satan
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