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[sovay]

I feel as though it must signify something that the Schweizerische Volkspartei's breathtakingly anti-Islamic poster (and its successful vote) came out in the same year as images of Nazism are being flung nonchalantly around the American political arena, but past the absolute failure of historical memory, I'm not sure what that something might be.

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[hans-the-bold.livejournal.com]

Weren't the Swiss also complicit in hiding stolen Jewish assets during and after the Holocaust? And didn't they turn Jews away from their borders during the Holocaust? Not to mention the way the Swiss helped the Nazis sell the stolen goods on the international market.

I could say more, but I would quickly slip into profanity.

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa072397.htm

[sovay]

Weren't the Swiss also complicit in hiding stolen Jewish assets during and after the Holocaust?

. . . Livejournal ate my reply. I attempt to reconstruct: It's not even that I imagined Switzerland to be the hallmark of religious welcome (because you want more from a society than tolerance) in Christian Europe and in consequence am specifically disappointed in them; it's more like enough already, globally. I know the national attention span is shrinking to whatever takes less time than a soundbite, but does it have to be planetwide?

I could say more, but I would quickly slip into profanity.

I'll turn on that Adult Concepts setting . . .

[wind05.livejournal.com]

I like the point that we want more from a society than tolerance--that "the other" really would hope for (religious, or whatever) welcome.

The law is a surprising and really troubling blow to religious freedom. If the free practice of one's religion cannot be guaranteed by Western Europe, then the West looses its moral voice in critiquing the curtailing of human rights throughout the world.