Facts. They’re important. Sometimes they’re inconvenient (*paging Rep. Weiner*) but a refusal to face them rarely – probably never – leads to a good place. So, here’s a fact. Jews have faced persecution at virtually every historical turn. Here’s another one. Before the horror of the Holocaust, a lot of people who would become enthusiastic members of the National Socialist Party, the Nazis, were saying a lot of bad things about Jews. And here’s a sad fact: A lot of Christians, as well as a lot of other people, simply looked the other way as an inferno of hatred otherwise known as Hitler’s murderous regime began to ignite.

Never again.

That Islam played a role at the highest levels of the Nazi party is also an indisputable fact. Amin Al Husseini, founder of the World Islamic Congress, was BFF with Hitler, as abundant photographic and documentary evidence attests. So it is not particularly shocking that the same Jew-hating rhetoric that poisoned Europe in the 1930s is flourishing in Islamic countries today.| MORE ›