re: Italy may seek "nuclear option" in dealing with migrants

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I've said it before in a couple of other threads a while back, I think the Muslims in Germany will become the Jews of the 1930s-40s.

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What do you mean? Scapegoated for problems for which they were not responsible? Then systematically murdered?

While the scapegoating might happen, there are some key demographic differences. Jews had been persecuted in Europe for centuries, and had been scapegoated before. The Muslims in Europe do not have that history of persecution, and the problem with outright persecution is that it is the precisely reaction Islamists want, to justify their actions post hoc. In addition, Jews made up only 0.75 percent of Germany in 1933, about 500,000 out of a population of nearly 70 million. The Islamic population of Germany is much larger, at 4.2 percent, with most Muslims being of Turkish origin. Unless they repatriate the analogies to Jewish persecution do not hold in my estimation.