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::[https://www.newsweek.com/muslim-white-evangelical-gay-marriage-907627 Majority of U.S. Muslims Now Support Gay Marriage]. Newsweek. May 1, 2018.
 
::[https://www.newsweek.com/muslim-white-evangelical-gay-marriage-907627 Majority of U.S. Muslims Now Support Gay Marriage]. Newsweek. May 1, 2018.
 
VS: <I>The traditional view among Jews is to regard same-sex relationships as categorically forbidden by the Torah. This remains the current view of Orthodox Judaism</i>[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 23:49, March 15, 2026 (EDT)
 
VS: <I>The traditional view among Jews is to regard same-sex relationships as categorically forbidden by the Torah. This remains the current view of Orthodox Judaism</i>[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 23:49, March 15, 2026 (EDT)
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:So it's your job to provide flak for the Judeans?  History's repeating itself from the Austria-Hungarian Empire:
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::Nevertheless it would be unjust to cast the blame for the demoralization of Austria on to Jesuitism and Clericalism alone. A part scarcely less deleterious has been played during the last generation by anti-Clerical Liberalism.
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::Like most things Austrian, "Liberalism" gradually acquired a significance very different from its ostensible meaning.  Its catchwords "freedom," "progress," "culture," "civilization," originally the rallying-cries of democratic enthusiasts and reformers, gradually became mere shibboleths by which a rapacious clique recognized its own partisans.  The natural and healthy reaction against the State "system" of Alexander Bach, a system that co-ordinated with marvellous skill the agencies of the Police, the Church, the Bureaucracy and the Army in the work of stamping the progressive spirit out of Austria, brought into power during the later 'sixties and the 'seventies of last century, a party that strove for a time to correct the worst anachronisms and to remedy the most flagrant abuses of the obscurantist past.
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::But "liberty" and "freedom" in Austria then meant, in most cases, liberty for the clever, quick-quitted, indefatigable Jew to prey upon a public and a political world totally unfit for defence against or competition with him.  Fresh from Talmud and synagogue, and consequently trained to conjure with the law and skilled in intrigue, the invading Semite arrived from Galicia or Hungary and carried everything before him.  Unknown and therefore unchecked by public opinion, without any stake in the country and therefore reckless, he sought only to gratify his insatiable appetite for wealth and power. The Press, which he invaded, corrupted, and dominated, denounced resistance to him as "religious intolerance," and clamour for protection against him as "anti-Liberal".
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::Little by little the "Liberal" Jew established himself, as he thought, in an impregnable position.  But the excess of the evil brought, if not remedy, at least a palliative in the ugly form of an anti-Semitic agitation that drew strength from the financial and building crisis of 1873. For that crisis the Jews were not alone responsible, though their unbridled speculative habits and mushroom fortunes undoubtedly started the speculative mania which led to the crash; and while the aristocracy and the middle classes, which had been caught by the mania, lost heavily in the inevitable catastrophe, the Jews extricated themselves more nimbly and were little the worse. Resentment and envy rapidly found vent in an anti-Jewish outcry that made of the Jew a scapegoat for the sins of the community. The Jewish "Liberal" press hastened to denounce as "religious" intolerance this not unnatural reaction; and the Catholic Church, taking the hint, added a "religious" count to the general indictment.
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::The anti-Semitic movement might have subsided as soon as the Jews had learned the lesson of prudence, had not a demagogue of genius, Dr. Karl Lueger, placed himself at its head and used it to bear him aloft to the Burgomastership of Vienna.  Though often a Jew-baiter, Lueger was no Jew-hater. He knew the Jews too well to cherish indiscriminate rancour against them, however wildly he may have talked in his political harangues. Some of his close friends throughout life were Jews, to one of whom he paid, shortly before his death, a public tribute of gratitude and admiration.
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::Had his political career not been blocked at the outset by the dog-in-the-manger attitude of the Vienna "Liberals," Lueger might perhaps have saved the "Liberal" party from itself and have prolonged its lease of power. But he was determined to find his opportunity, and found it in leading the "Christian Social anti-Semitic" forces to an assault upon the strong places of Jewish and capitalistic liberalism. His great political talent, his personal integrity, his ability to put Viennese ideas into Viennese words, his freedom from Jewish Liberal "progressive" cant, gained him an ascendancy over his native city and a prestige in the Empire such as few Austrian politicians had previously enjoyed.
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::His often ruthless agitation against the Jews, his fiery denunciations of their malpractices, rendered in the long run a service to the Jews themselves by compelling them, under pressure, to observe a circumspection of which they had previously seemed incapable. The better Jews, indeed, soon recognized that Lueger had been to them a blessing in disguise by tempering the immoderation that is a prominent Jewish failing. On the other hand, Lueger's agitation was attended by many drawbacks.
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::While it rendered an immense service to Austria by rousing an "Austrian" consciousness, and by revealing to a public opinion which decades of pseudo-liberal influence had hypnotized, the real character of the Magyar State and of the Austrian position in regard to Hungary, it tended to degrade political controversy to a pothouse level and to raise local interests and cupidities to the rank of political principles. It set party advantages above social and electoral justice, facilitated a revival of militant Clericalism in a peculiarly dangerous form, and replaced, albeit inadvertently, a system of "Liberal" corruption and Jewish tyranny by a "Christian Social" concatenation of interests and offices scarcely less tyrannical and corrupt.
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::In a word, the employment of impure means to attain ends not in themselves impure entailed consequences almost as deleterious as the evils Lueger had set out to combat.
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::Henry Wickham Steed (1913).  ''The Hapsburg Monarchy''.
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:[[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) Tuesday, 01:46, March 31, 2026 (EDT)
    
==Looks like the globalist warmongers are in trouble==
 
==Looks like the globalist warmongers are in trouble==
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