Michael wrote:Anyway, it doesn't take genius to realize that if a Muslim went into a church on Sunday and shot fifty Christians, there would be no clamor to force people to read the IS manifesto or the Quran.
I don't quite follow. Forcing people to read the manifesto isn't really the issue, or do you just mean the same as I-Mon, that it wouldn't be popularized and put on the front page?
My point was simply that the murderer did it so that people would read his manifesto. It was/is blackmail. Ted K planted bombs that killed people and said that he would stop if it were published. So, if you think that murder is a legitimate way to gain attention for one's views, ok. To me, it's simple terrorism. So, I would specifically not read it, and I agree with the NZ government who understands that publicizing the manifesto (no matter what it's about) can only encourage someone else to do the same. We wouldn't know what was in the manifesto until we read it, would we?
I'd prefer that someone put a bullet in his head, frankly. I'm not a monster. I just believe he and his should be treated the same way the prez talks about Muslim terrorists, or the way Israel deals with them. They try to destroy root and branch in order to deter and discourage further terrorist acts.
Anyway, as for the Nazi book burnings, the Nazis were allegedly very conservative about sex. However, that included encouraging SS officers to have as many children as they could. There were even breeding farms created, and there were thousands (if not more) children born who had no idea who their parents were. Look up the Lebensborn.
The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (the "DSt") to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism. These included books written by Jewish, pacifist, religious, classical liberal, anarchist, socialist, and communist authors, among others.[1] The first books burned were those of Karl Marx and Karl Kautsky.[2]
Here's a report from the period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHCmiWaHUCw
Here's something about the guy given the speech in German.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbak304MA6g