According to Wikipedia, "First They Came..." is a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
National Review Online has an article by Mark Steyn on the Mumbai massacre asking why the terrorists devoted 20 per cent of their forces to attack the one Jewish center in the town. He points out that Rabbi Holtzberg was not murdered because of a territorial dispute over Kashmir or because of Bush's foreign policy. He was murdered because he was a Jew.
According to the article, Mark Steyn wrote in his book, America Alone
"that "reforming" Islam is something only Muslims can do. But they show very little sign of being interested in doing it, and the rest of us are inclined to accept that. Spread a rumor that a Koran got flushed down the can at Gitmo, and there'll be rioting throughout the Muslim world. Publish some dull cartoons in a minor Danish newspaper, and there'll be protests around the planet. But slaughter the young pregnant wife of a rabbi in Bombay in the name of Allah, and that's just business as usual. And, if it is somehow "understandable" that for the first time in history it's no longer safe for a Jew to live in India, then we are greasing the skids for a very slippery slope. Muslims, the AP headline informs us, "worry about image." Not enough."
If the killing of Jews in an indication of the rise of evil in the world (the canary in the coal mine, so to speak), we really need to pay attention to what is going on around us.
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