Paul Berman Quotes
Genocidal Anti-Semite
See {633578} and {633579} to see some of the Sheik’s quotations on the subject.
Paul Berman, Historian, Writer & Editor of Mother Jones, Description of Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, “Decoding Double Talk”, Foreign Affairs, September / October
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It is amazing what explanations religious and biased fanatics can come up with to explain history.
The reconstruction to which he referred was the rebuilding of Germany after the First World War. Anti-Semitism distracted most of the people from focusing on the terrible policies that guided Germany into WWI and the incompetent government that was operational.
He was a brutal, sadistic war criminal who was assassinated by one of his many enemies in 2000 before he could be brought to trial.
This observation, made to the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, is more generally true of hate speech and invective towards others.
After the war Donitz was found guilty of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and using thousands of slave laborers in his shipyards. He was sentenced to 10 years, one of the lightest sentences if the German War Crimes Trials.