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"A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]
@Nothanks, the analogy with Nazi Germany and the Jews is perhaps well-meaning, but faulty and easily misunderstood as "historical relativism"!
The Muslims are non-German speaking, recent and unwelcome arrivals to Germany, brought in by boatload (potential future voting block, don't forget) with one momma of time required to integrate...if they ever can:-) A number have steadfastly and openly REFUSED to do so.
The Jews had been living, working and contributing to the host culture for nearly two-thousand years, practically since the fall of the Roman Empire, a people who assimilated to the point of nearly losing their own identity, JUST to do their host culture proud because they grew to love Germany. Furthermore, the German-Jewish symbiosis was as nearly complete as any other in history; they displayed Christmas trees in their homes, they joined the army to fight against England, gave their lives for THEIR Fatherland and some received the Iron Cross, while many became some of the leading scholars of Goethe, Lessing, Schiller and other Enlightenment figures with a love of the German language second to none, perhaps even the gentile Germans themselves. Mendelssohn, Mahler and others remain staples of our concert repertoire and until Hiler's lunacy, Jews were on the surface as "German" as any German Christian. And that's how it should be, as the Jews truly earned their "place in the sun", merely to paraphrase out of context.
You should reconsider your comparison, as some of us might easily get the wrong ideaLOL
