
Refugees: Trump is like Churchill? Come on.
The Huffington Post for November 23rd (“Shocked by anti-Muslim Hysteria? Churchill Wanted to ‘Collar the Lot'”). They include an unsubstantiated Churchill quote to describe something about Syrian refugees Donald Trump said. It distorts Churchill’s record.
Anent Trump’s alleged proposal for a database of Muslims, the Post assures us this was nothing compared to that well-known xenophobe, Winston Churchill:
Churchill went even farther. He ordered the internment of tens of thousands of Jewish refugees in England, labeling them dangerous enemy aliens. … Nationals from Germany and Austria, who were living in England when World War II broke out, had already been assigned to different groupings based on their apparent threat to the UK.…