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| 2007-05-07 |
| All those Jihadis seemed like nice guys, like Himmler did to his wife and family.... Three weeks old, from Robert Spencer, at Jihad Watch, but I just got it earlier this week from American Congress for Truth. The heart of the matter - But they may be genuinely decent fellows. It was the Nazi genocide mastermind Heinrich Himmler who told a group of SS leaders: “Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have gone through this and yet -- apart from a few exceptions, examples of human weakness -- to have remained decent fellows, this is what has made us hard…” Were these SS mass murderers really decent fellows? To their friends and family, they probably were. After all, they weren’t interested in undifferentiated mayhem. They were adherents of a totalitarian, genocidal ideology that convinced them that the murders they were committing were for a good purpose. As far as they were concerned, their goals were rational. It was a necessity for them to remain “decent fellows,” for they were busy trying to build what they saw as a decent society. That their vision of a decent society included genocide and torture did not trouble them, for it was all for -- in their view -- a goal that remained good. |
| Posted by:Nancy and Harry |
| #2 They have the same perspective on their work that the Orkin man has on his. He (they) is cleaning up a noxious nuiscence and should be lauded. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2007-05-07 14:45 |
| #1 It comes down to "us" versus "them". To "us", we're nice. I'm sure some of the most spittle-flecked Bush haters are nice to their friends. But any contact with the Other, and the screaming and intolerance starts. |
| Posted by: gromky 2007-05-07 01:00 |