Compulsory Holocaust lessons for newcomers? A great idea!
Dutch NewsThe new coalition’s plan to include the Holocaust on of the list of subjects newcomers need to learn about as part of the inburgering process has caused a mighty fuss but is, says writer Mohammed Benzakour, a very good idea. Mona Keijzer has been attacked left, right and centre about her idea to make Holocaust lessons compulsory for new arrivals, but, to be perfectly honest, I do not understand what the fuss is about. Mind you, true enlightenment may not be around the corner, judging from the current government’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing practices going on elsewhere – albeit without Zyklon B. Anti-Semetic outrages Having said this, it is a good thing that Islamic newcomers are told what this country is capable of and how here, in this anointed Europe, the earliest anti-Semitic outrages took place. After all, it was our very own revered church father Maarten Luther, “the greatest German who ever lived” as Hitler called him, who, in 1543 wrote the edifying pamphlet Von den Jüden und ihre Lügen?