Unholy Alliance Quotes
As the United States showed increasing interest in joining the European theatre, Hitler turned to Japan even though an alliance with Japan seemed to betray Nazi nationalist/racist doctrine.
The cartoon—see image—depicts a virulently anti-Semitic Jewish vampire embracing and dripping blood on the United Nations. This newspaper and most of those of the Arab Muslim world constantly run such anti-Semitic material and then complain about the insensitivity of a single Danish newspaper that ran cartoons that were insulting to Muslims.
As paranoid as this quotation may seem, there are large numbers of Muslims who are being taught that this is true. Saudi Arabia is paying for large numbers of Wahabi Muslim Clerics to travel the world and “unify” the Muslims of the world.
Reaction when the Dutch heard that the English King Charles I had been beheaded. The regicide was very shocking to most people in Europe—even in the Netherlands which then had a republic.
Jerusalem has been holy to the Jews, Christians and Muslims. It was the Capital of the ancient Jewish kingdom from ~1000BC. In ~960BC Solomon built the first Jewish Temple. Babylonians conquered and destroyed the temple which was rebuilt and completed in 68 BC under the Jewish King Herod and then destroyed by the Romans 2 years later. In 135 the city was sacked and the Byzantine Christians controlled the city. In 638 the Muslims conquered the city and built The Dome of the Rock Mosque on the ruins of the sanctuary of King David. In 1099 Crusaders conquered Jerusalem slaughtering the Muslim & Jewish inhabitants. In 1187 the Muslims retook the city and held it till the fall of the Ottomans in 1917. England ruled it until the 1948 partition; then Israel & Jordan ruled but Jews were not allowed to worship at the temple site. In the 1967 War Israel retook Jerusalem. Although Muslims can still worship at their Mosque, the President resents anyone but Muslims controlling the Holy City.
Oliver Cromwell’s Puritan Parliament was opposed to the celebration of Christmas on religious grounds. See {629849} for more on the Puritans and Christmas. Generally, it was the Catholics who celebrated Christmas and typically they had a Christmas Mass. The anti-Catholic bias was so great that the Pope was often accused of being the Anti-Christ - a terrible insult.
