Radical Islam is escalating a campaign of murder, beheadings, kidnappings, torture, the burning of churches and the targeting of Christians for extermination. In his recent speech at a prayer breakfast, U.S. President Barack Obama told those who would criticize such actions to get off their high horse because of the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and Jim Crow in the United States. Dennis Prager called this “moral idiocy,” and more of the same is now appearing.
Consider “Flowers to remember: Honoring Japanese Americans and Armenians,” by David Mas Masumoto in the February 15 Sacramento Bee subtitled “Never to forget atrocities against Japanese and Armenians.” Masumoto is a UC Berkeley grad, peach farmer, author of Wisdom of the Last Farmer, and a nominee for the James Beard Award for Writing and Literature. He draws a parallel between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese Americans, launched by Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, and the Turkish effort to exterminate the Armenians in 1915, during the First World War.