Nicolae Paulescu Quotes

The Jews were the first people in the Middle East who were known to the early Muslims who as a rule did not change their religions and convert to Islam. For the Fundamentalist Muslim like Khomeini, Jews espousing their religion is propaganda in as much as it differs from their view of the word of God. While the Jews did not all accept Islam, they did not physically attack the new Muslims the way the Christians did in the Crusades which have been a traumatic memory for Muslims of the Middle East. The particular enmity for the Bhai stems from the fact that this religion was an outgrowth of Islam. Christians and Jews never accepted Islam. Bhai repudiated it and changed, hence are more Satanic. Many Bhai are executed as apostates in Iran and some other countries.

The terrible discriminatory practice of forcing minorities to dress differently and distinctively so as to be easily identified for abuse, cruelty, violence and the withholding of civility and benefits was formalized by the Council as applying to Muslims and Jews. Germany imposed a the wearing of a yellow star at the beginning of the Holocaust based on the religious justification if the Council and this quotation. Similar practices were engaged in by Christian and Islamic rulers, but this was the first time that an entire religion formalized the practice as a part of its religious doctrine.

Saint Benedicta was born and brought up as a Jew and converted to Catholicism. She and a few other leading German Catholics spoke out forcefully against Nazi crimes and immoralities. She was one of the few German Catholics who wanted the Pope to act more forcefully in Germany. The most controversial aspect of the Pontificate of Pius XI was his relative silence and failure to use the powers of the church and excommunication to condemn and control the Nazi rise to power and their, aggression, discrimination, and atrocities including mass murders. The Pope did occasionally speak out condemning the worst of the German Nazi outrages to morality, but he did not do so very vigorously or order the German Cardinals and other bishops to do so. Supporters of Pius XI point out that the entire Catholic Church in Germany was in peril. The Nazis might have shut down their churches, jailed or murdered priests and seize church property. Many of the German Catholics, including the clergy, were Nazi party members or supporters, and he feared a political schism of German Catholics as well. And Italy, surrounding the Vatican was then under the control of the Italian Fascists who were allies of the Nazis, The Vatican itself and its staff were themselves vulnerable and could have been easily occupied. Apologists for Pius XI observe that the entire Church and its leadership could have been wiped out had they ignored the practicality that the Fascists were in control and would tolerate the Church just so far. Saint Teresa and other Catholics who were outspoken, along with the few Protestant Lutheran Clerics who opposed the Nazis, were indeed arrested and Saint Teresa was finally murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Even that did not galvanize Pope Pius XI to assertive anti Nazi action. The records of the Vatican for that period have not been opened for public study so it is not known for sure that the Pope even saw Saint Teresa’s letter or it was intercepted by the strong pro Nazi faction in the Vatican. That year, Pius signed a Concordat (agreement) with the Nazi Government which many in the Vatican naively believed would control and limit the worst of the Nazi actions. But by 1937, Pius condemned the “violations” of the Concordat and Nazi anti-Semitism as well (encyclical written in German, Mit brennender Sorge (With Burning Anxiety). His critics observe that he went no further, even with the Catholic Nazi clerics and other Catholics. The Carmelite order tried to protect Saint Teresa who was then just a non and leading Catholic intellectual (she had a PhD in philosophy) by sending her to a Carmelite facility in Holland. But the Germans overran the Netherlands, arrested her and sent her to Auschwitz where she was martyred. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987.

This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups. At one level, Nixon was just being political by not inviting any Jews except supporters. However, he did not maintain that same criterion regarding Protestants, Catholics, or other religious groups. The reality was that Nixon was generally very anti Semetic but saw some Jews as “good Jews” like his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Golda Meir, the Israeli Prime Minister in whose honor the dinner was being held. See {621141} as an example.

This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were relaeased. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups.

This was the first official act of the German government implementing official discrimination against the Jews. Soon, the boycott policy was replaced by a policy of murder and extermination.

At the time, the Muslim discrimination, terrible as it was, was not as bad as Christian discrimination against any non-Christians where death was very common. For many Muslims, the older historical values and practices are desirable if not mandatory today, while many others are modernists like most Christians who reject the Christian practices and morality of the past,

His quotations are very important because he wrote many of the Islamic legal opinions that governed Muslim Spain and influenced the Arabs of North Africa. This is yet another example of the classic antipathy that many Muslims have for People of the Book—Christians and Jews.

Most people are familiar with the people are familiar with the terrible persecution of the Jews in Spain by the Christians. Although there were a few examples of tolerance to Jews by Muslims when they controlled Spain and instances like modern Turkey. Generally however there is and has been Islamic persecution of Jews, Christians, and other non Muslims in almost all nations where Muslims have been in control. Until the Enlightenment, Christian persecution of other religions was just as bad if not worse.

Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti

The historical record that is available shows that while the Pope did not, actively or aggressively oppose Hitler, and he did not discipline Catholic prelates who were Nazi supporters, there is no specific evidence that shows the Pope conspired with Hitler, about the extermination of Jews or anything else. However, most of the relevant documents of the era are in the Vatican and the records have been sealed and have not been visible to historians. Apologists for the Pope’s passivity point out that a large percentage of Germans were Catholic and he had a duty to not antagonize Hitler who would retaliate against German Catholics and the German Catholic clergy and church property. Further, Fascist Italy was under Hitler’s control, and the Vatican itself could have closed and its property seized. The historical record is still very vague.

He sent this to his German agent who suggested that it not be sent and recommended not answering at all such a disgusting request.

At the time, most of the world did not believe that the Germans were literally serious in their anti-Semitic rhetoric. It was assumed that this kind of talk was just populist rhetoric to get votes and maintain power. The main lesson of Nazi Germany is when leaders of a country, threaten the existence of another country or a people, they must be taken seriously, and not just as politicians being populists and pandering to an ignorant, biased public.