February 01, 2003

Both Glenn Reynolds and Andrew Sullivan have expressed their outrage yesterday that the following sign or bumper sticker was alledgedly on sale at the Conservative Political Action Committee convention that was held in Washington this week:

They claim, along with another blogger named "Disgusted Liberal," who featured this image--and he's not really providing much proof as to where he got the picture, by the way--that it is the Right Wing's "answer" to the ugliness of the Left's pro-Stalinist ANSWER movement and equally as hateful...
But is it?

First of all, most of we Conservative bloggers have been calling our enemy IslamoFascists every since 9/11, including Andrew and often Glenn.

Secondly, don't Islamists have the same aims as Nazi Germany, which is to kill all the Jews?

And thirdly, like Hitler's Reich, aren't Islamic goverments with their dictatorial theocracy of the mullahs and the rule of cruel shar'ia law a form of Fascism?

Fourthly, didn't Hitler himself join common cause with Islamists and even host the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in Berlin as an honored guest during his Reich?

Isn't it peculiar how the swastika seems to "fit" in that sign now?

The only thing wrong is that is says "Islam" when it should say "Islamism," because obviously only the radical sects hold the doctrines cited above and these are not held by moderate Muslims, which constitute most of the world's Muslims.
As for the "Religion of Peace" thing, well, let's just say that the Muslim Faith has some work to do in stressing the less violent tenets of their faith as contained in the Ko'ran.
Last of all--and this isn't a justification for the use of Nazi symbols and slurs--but how many hundreds, maybe thousands now, of times have I not seen President Bush called "Hitler?"
Or seen Dick Cheney portrayed wearing an SS Officer's hat with the caption,"Dick's in the Bunker"?
And I even heard Nelson Mandela call President's Bush's potential attack on Iraq a "holocaust?"
And of course, this kind of "Right Winger as Nazi" treatment of the Bush Administration goes double for Ariel Sharon and the Israelis...
Mr. Sharon, who presides over the very country that was founded primarily by thousands of European Jews who had managed to survive Hitler's death camps after WWII, is portrayed in the Leftist and Arabic press regularly as Hitler, as a Nazi...
with no apologies ever from the Left.
I can't imagine how the Isrealis or Jews anywhere must feel who see these portrayals of themselves and their leadership as the personification of the regime that, in too many cases, wiped out most of the their families in Auschwitz, Dachau or Treblinka.
I personally would be so furious that I'm not sure what I'd do...
[I am now 46 years old and I have yet to be able to not be completely horrifed that the Holocaust was done by my fellow human beings to other human beings and only a mere 50 years ago in a supposedly "civilized" country in Western Europe.]
So, here's the deal: Either both the Left and the Right completely stop trivializing Nazism, the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust and the monstrous Adolf Hilter and quit using in their agitprop or...
The Conservatives responsible (if this was really in a vendor's booth at CPAC-- which I very much doubt!) should correct this sign to read: Islamism--and yes, keep the swastika-- and change the caption to read:"Religion of Peace? Work on it."
Now, I want all the whiners to sit down and shut up.
And the Leftist Dimocrats should quit hoping for another "Trent Lott" moment from the Right, because it ain't gonna happen.

Update: My friend, the American In London Rumsfeld lover Carol Gould, in her latest editorial from her very nice blog Jewish Comment writes that execrable columnist for the Daily Mirror, Islamist apologist and U.S.A.-basher John Pilger has called the Bush Administration the "Third Reich" and makes all sorts of "comparisons" between Bush, Blair and Sharon with Hitler and the Nazis...again.
This is getting beyond vexing and infuriating and the only result of trivilializing the evil of the real Nazi Reich and Hitler will be to change the meaning of the Holocaust from "Never again." to "No big deal. That's just something people say when they don't get their way."