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policy by anecdote?
Number of Syrian refugees let in to Israel: ZERO And it's right next door.
Not yet, but soon [0]. [0] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38755946
Sweden and Israel both have populations of about 10 million. Sweden has taken in 200-300 THOUSAND. Israel promises to take in 100 and pats itself on the back.
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> Islam is a religion, not a race. ... Calling someone a racist Statement: "Since Islam is a religion and not a race, Islamophobia is not racism" That sounds logically true, but in your heart you know it's false. > Calling someone a racist every single time we disagree "every single time we disagree" is more misdirection in this context.
That sounds logically true, but in your heart you know it's false. Can you see into peoples hearts? Are you using alternate logic?
What does this have to do with hacker news?
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Because it's no longer over the top?
If you mean that "elected president is literally Hitler" and related themes have been mainstreamed so thoroughly and quickly as to be the new normal already ... I think you should be afraid of the power of the press more than of any merely elected president.
A multi-car pile-up isn't one 5 minutes before it happens either.
I agree that one shouldn't cry wolf and exaggerate too often, but it's equally ignorant to not take things seriously, whether it be a fact-opposing president, mass surveillence legislation or anti consumer net unneutrality, that are all just steps that are hard to reverse once in place, and are building towards something much worse.
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Expect to see lots of recently converted Christians...
I wouldn't put it past the authorities to implement something along the lines of a "bacon test". These were common during the inquisition to test convert Jews.
Looks like it works, but you simply force people to lie - be that via false confessions or going against halal/kosher practice.
And I do think that Western countries (such as the US and my own country of Australia) should take more refugees, including Syrian refugees.
However, I'd question the parallel the article tries to draw between between victims and survivors of the Holocaust and contemporary Syrian refugees – every Jew fleeing the Nazi regime was under a very serious risk of falling victim to genocide, whether or not they realised it at the time. By contrast, I don't think the vast majority of Syrian refugees are fleeing genocide. While genocide has been occurring in Syria (e.g. ISIS' genocide of Yazidis), the actual or potential victims of those genocides are a small minority of the total Syrian refugee population.
Under the British Mandate of The League of Nations Britain was obligated to allow Jewish immigration to what is now Israel. In fact originally Hitler wanted European Jews to go there. But the British broke their mandate with "The White Paper" in 1939 which severely limited Jewish immigration to their land. If America had run the mandate instead of the British there probably would not have been The Holocaust and many…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%9339_Arab_revolt_...
> "...their land"
The sentence is unclear if you're referring to it as British land or Jewish land, but either way it's contentious to say the least!
The way the US and other countries abandoned Jews to genocide was shameful. And I do think that Western countries (such as the US and my own country of Australia) should take more refugees, including Syrian refugees. However, I'd question the parallel the article tries to draw between between victims and survivors of the Holocaust and contemporary Syrian refugees – every Jew fleeing the Nazi regime was under a very s…
More soviets died there than Jews, and in fact more Non-Jews died there than Jews. Why does everyone ignore that?
Number of Deaths Jews: up to 6 million Soviet civilians: around 7 million Soviet prisoners of war: around 3 million Non-Jewish Polish civilians: around 1.8 million Serb civilians: 312,000 People with disabilities: up to 250,000 Roma (Gypsies): 196,000–220,000 Jehovah's Witnesses: Around 1,900 Repeat criminal offenders: at least 70,000
The way the US and other countries abandoned Jews to genocide was shameful. And I do think that Western countries (such as the US and my own country of Australia) should take more refugees, including Syrian refugees. However, I'd question the parallel the article tries to draw between between victims and survivors of the Holocaust and contemporary Syrian refugees – every Jew fleeing the Nazi regime was under a very s…
Everyone in the west always forgets thats Jews were not the only ones that were victimized by the Nazis, and I feel that this is too often misrepresented from the general knowledge pool of most people in society. More soviets died there than Jews, and in fact more Non-Jews died there than Jews. Why does everyone ignore that? Number of Deaths Jews: up to 6 million Soviet civilians: around 7 million Soviet prisoners of…