AN INTERFAITH VIEW: The rise of political Islamophobia
- Lawrence Swaim - InFocus
- Dec 8, 2007
A hundred years ago, the political use of anti-Semitism had just taken off in Europe. In Vienna, all the politicians used it — rightwing nationalists, the center parties, even the left Social Democrats. "It’s just rhetoric," people said. But there was a young man in Vienna at that time who didn’t think it was just rhetoric. His name was Adolph Hitler. Before he was finished, European Jewry had been destroyed, and Europe lay in ruins.
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