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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/20...t-about-nazis/
From news article:
Belgian Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck shocked the country’s Jewish community by recently voicing support for an initiative to provide amnesty to Nazi collaborators during WWII, and for his suggestion that it may behoove the government to “forget” its Nazi past. During a television debate, De Clerck said that the country should not focus on the crimes it committed as it was already in the past.

A recent study surveyed Brussels high schoolers and found “a very high rate” of anti-Jewish bigotry: 28% of students agreed with the statement that “Jews agitate for war and blame others” and 31% agreed with the statement “Jews want to dominate everything.” The study’s authors, knowing that multiculturalists would leap to insist that “root causes” were responsible for the violence-tinged ignorance, took pains to explain why that’s demonstrably false. Sociologist Mark Elchardus of Vrije Universiteit Brussel explained:Worse, [in Brussels] anti-Jewish sentiments are unrelated to the level of education or poor social living conditions. . . . Antisemitism is theologically inspired. There is a direct link between being Muslim and anti-Semitic feelings. Catholics, too, are negative toward Jews too, but their sentiments are by far not as strong.”Belgian politicians are following the theologically-grounded but nonetheless very real anti-Semitism of the Muslim voters who make up 30% of the Brussels electorate. That apparently extends to minimizing the Holocaust in deference to Muslim sensibilities, a trend that their British counterparts trailblazed by dropping the Holocaust from history lessons and reconsidering Holocaust Memorial Day on a national level.