"Plus ca change...

...plus c'est la meme chose"....

Who made the following statement regarding Muslims?

....God has cast us into the midst of this people....who persecute us severely, and who devise ways to harm us and to debase us… ....No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to reduce us as they have… We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, and absurdities, which are beyond human power to bear.”

No, not Ariel Sharon, you hate-monger!

Give up? It was famed Jewish philospsher and scholar Moses Maimonides; and he said it around 1180AD.

Not much has changed in 800 years; excepting the fact that Mr. Maimonides would today likely be vilified by the media - and elected Democrats - for engaging in "hate speech", which is what the Left likes to call inconvenient truths these days....

Gates of Vienna (from whom I grabbed the above quote), points out how our own dhimmi government tries to change history to suit the Muslim nation:

The U.S. State Department has proclaimed that “during the Islamic period in Spain, Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together in peace and mutual respect, creating a diverse society in which vibrant exchanges of ideas took place.”

Incidentally, it is too bad that the study of dead white (or dead Jewish/Spanish) philosophers has been banned; for Moses Maimonides has a lot to say about a number of contemporary issues.

For instance, how about that whole assisted suicide thing?

One who is in a dying condition is regarded as a living person in all respects.

Don't tell Doc Kervorkian...and hey, you know how the Democrats have an easy answer for every problem that confronts us (and it is usually "Just let the government handle it")? Well, Moses sayeth:

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us. This is not the case.

Finally, some wisdom from the great philosospher that would greatly benefit any one politician who dared to practice it:

When I have a difficult subject before me — when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools — I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude

Alas, that courage is as rare now as it was back in Mr. M's day....