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Of course people use the Nazis as a deliberate comparison for several reasons a) many people struggle with any knowledge of history before 1939 b) if you're comparing the Islamists to something like the French Revolutionaries and Napoleon there's plenty of people who think the French Revolution, I suspect there's less who would say the Nazis are good
But what Dis didn't do was compare Nazism and Islam.
Oh.
There were plenty of other things dis could have used. The fact he chose the Nazis is very telling.
Not directly he didn't, no.
Kaiser's Germany perhaps? before 1918 with the extension of the franchise its hard to make a comparison about groups being a danger to UK democracy - simply because its arguable that we weren't a full democracy before 1918.
As I also said its got to be a group people of heard off. There may be a comparison between radical Islamics today and the threat that radical Catholicism posed during Elizabeth and James I and VI, but how many people know enough about the intracies of Tudor and Stuart England/Scotland to get the allusion
So why raise it? Unless you're starting to pick up every allusion to Hitler and the Nazis and complain - in which case I fully expect your ire to be raised the next time someone compares Bush to Hitler.
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I didn't raise it initially, if you read the thread.
Dis didn't directly make a comparison, no. But he did indirectly make one.
OK I'll rephrase - 'why comment?'
Frankly the claim that he compared Moslems to Nazis is a bit tenous and is a bit like me (to labour the Nazi point) to say the SS were a bad lot and for people to complain that I'm anti-German
Well yes, it one he makes no comparison and in another he uses something to show what type of threat they are. Lots of things are threats of one type or other, by comparing to Nazis he suggests they're a major threat as compared to EU directives, which are a minor threat.
Because I've been sick off work for 3 days and I'm bored.
I'm not claiming that he is comparing them directly (as you'd know if you bothered to read my posts). However, mentioning the Nazis unnecessarily is quite telling as to what dis's opinions are.
Bollocks. Minor Threat are a US punk band.
I know the feeling - I am work and bored
That he thinks radical Islam is a big a threat as Nazism? Possibly slight hyperbole, but certainly nothing like as bad as the howls of mock outrage make it seem
You're not the only one. Interns don't have much to do around here.
How is it telling? What are my opinions?
Who's howling in outrage?
To compare a disparate, disorganised political/religous cult to a nation state with all the weight of a military-industrial complex behind it is rather stupid.
You don't know what your own opinions are? How odd.
I was interested in discovering the falsehoods of your assumptions.
Well if that's the case what was telling about my previous post?
So how is it telling?
dis you think that radical Islam is in some way comparable to Nazism.