Kristallnacht in New York?

On November 10, 1938, the Gestapo, the SS and various Nazi Youth and other brown-shirt militias launched a massive pogrom against Jews in Germany. The "Night of the Broken Glass," the attacks resulted in nearly 100 Jews murdered and tens of thousands rounded up and shipped to concentration camps. Kristallnacht is widely considered the initial stage of the Nazi regime's "final solution" to the Jewish problem.

It would seem pretty evident to any reasonable person in America today that the country's treatment of Muslim Americans doesn't even remotely resemble the persecution of Jews during the interwar period of German history, and then into WWII and the Holocaust. But if we've learned anything about the political left in the last few years (if not sooner) it's that the one political gambit that continues to pay off for Democrats and radicals is the claim of "discrimination." We're fortunately seeing some very successful pushback against the left's incessant claims of racism, but it's going to take continued efforts to beat back the lies and slanders that form the central discourses on the left-wing today.

My latest case in point is Andrew Sprung's entry,"Kristallnacht in New York?"

Sprung points to the New York Times' coverage yesterday, highlighting the passage suggesting that opponents "aggressively scrutinize" donors to the Cordoba Project. The highlighted section also quotes Dan Senor, who said there'd be "a real stigma associated with this project." Senor published one of the more thoughtful essays on the whole debate at yesterday's Wall Street Journal, "An Open Letter on the Ground Zero Mosque."

Your stated goal of interfaith and cross-cultural understanding is a good one-one that we all share and have devoted considerable energy to furthering. It may well be that this goal would be furthered still by the building and operation of Cordoba House. However, while we will continue to stand with you and your right to proceed with this project, we see no reason why it must necessarily be located so close to the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

I hardly see how such concerns warrant vicious comparison to Gestapo anti-Semitic pograms in the 1930s, but that's where we are with today's radical left. Everything's about racism, discrimination, homophobia, hate speech, etc. Unreal. But one more example of a refusal of anti-conservatives to look at the issues dispassionately, and discuss things reasonably.

RELATED: At National Review, "Not at Ground Zero," via Memeorandum.