Inexcusable Comparison

Julia Gorin analyzes a Salt Lake City newspaper article which somehow manages to compare a Holocaust survivor to the killer of people in a Utah shopping mall. Doesn't anyone stop and think before they speak or write? How was this story even approved for publication? "The author doesn’t even make a bland comparison of this victim of an atrocity to the victims of the killer. No, she compares a Jew who survived death to a Muslim who caused it. She is equating a villain with a victim, with someone who actually witnessed the Holocaust and didn’t go about killing people later as a result, to someone who left an enclave — which was not a labor or death camp — before any killing of its inhabitants took place. And this is a villain who is guilty of the kind of genocidal behavior and religious persecution that the other person was a victim of."