* When you look at the majority of terrorist attacks in the United States, according to the FBI, the majority of domestic U.S. terror attacks are actually committed by white, male Christians. When those things occur, we don’t suspect other people who are from the same faith tradition and ethnicity of condoning them. We assume that these things outrage them just as much as they do anyone else. And we have to afford this same assumption of innocence to Muslims.’
* Ever since 9/11, the vast majority of Muslims have been continually repeating that they oppose violent extremism. Despite this, anti-Muslim prejudice has only increased to the point where it is now mainstream in U.S. society.
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| Jewish families surrender to the SS during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising of April 1943. |
"While Hitler did attempt to take weapons away from Jews, Communists and Social Democrats, he also armed private citizens to better terrorize those same political opponents. To reduce Nazi gun policy to confiscation of weapons is to miss at least half the story.
Further, the gunowner registry from 1928 that Hitler relied upon was limited and far from comprehensive. It was so incomplete, in fact, that many Jews retained their weapons.
Dagmar Ellerbrock, an expert on German gun policies at the Dresden Technical University, states that, 'In my records, I found many Jews who well into the late 1930s possessed guns.'"
"Even if arms had been distributed to every member of Germany's Jewish population — which in the early 1930s numbered some 500,000 out of a total population of 65 million — they would have been severely outgunned by their vicious and far more numerous enemies.
Outside Germany, armed Jewish resistance to the Nazis merely underlined its futility, and the fatuity of Carson's call to arms. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising in the Spring of 1943 ended with 13,000 Jews dead, while the Nazis who crushed it lost just 20 lives."
