German archbishop apologizes to Jews after comparing the slaughter of the innocents known as abortion to the Nazi Holocaust. It seems Jews were outraged that the destruction of hundreds of millions of babies worldwide would be even mentioned in the same breath as the Shoah.
Message from the Jewish group: "We have a trademark on suffering, nothing compares to what was perpetuated against us on the scale of human evil," and "How dare you compare abortion to genocide." The weakest and most vulnerable of society are still us!
Message from archbishop: I will back-down and hedge on the plain truth in the face of small, senseless pressure groups.
Eeeiuwww.
One further note, there was a great book put out about five years ago entiled, The Holocaust in American Life, chronicling the marketing of Jewish oppression during World War II. It was a worthwhile book, and makes the excellent point that even sympathetic movements can be twisted for advancing personal and unnecessary ideological agendas. One can be sympathetic to accounts of anti-semitism while at the same time deplore the "crying wolf" strategy espoused by Abe Foxman (remember "The Passion"?) and this German group.