that was raling against catholics and said all sorts of things about them, they are essentially a fifth column, they are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with romanists, they ll have to be taught their place in society. there were anti-catholic lynch mobs that came up, huge movements. was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the american way of life? it s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago but today s standards. but i go back into the earlier i had middle part of the 1900s. the know-nothings rejected catholics and didn t want catholics brought into america. were they right? no, they turned out to be wrong. me being a catholic sitting here you couldn t get me to say they were right. let me ask you this. why are you so confident that they got that wrong, that we now
look with the sort of benefit of hindsight, see say clearly that s bigotry, catholics weren t infiltrating, brig orders down from the vatican. how can you be so confident that you are correct about the religion of islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now aren t going to back on what you are saying and put it that that same category? first of all, catholics came in and competed with the prot protestant work ethic. eye rishg catholic did their best to stop like they were english rather than irish. they changed their names to blend in congressman, i can cite you chapter and verse of literature at the times saying italians don t speak our language, these folks coming from other places it sounds identical to what you are saying about muslims now. it really does. but you re hearing the imams that are preaching in places like the al aqsa mosque in jerusalem. the imam preached there to the
look with the sort of benefit of hindsight, see say clearly that s bigotry, catholics weren t infiltrating, brig orders down from the vatican. how can you be so confident that you are correct about the religion of islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now aren t going to back on what you are saying and put it that that same category? first of all, catholics came in and competed with the prot sta protestant work ethic. eye rishg catholic did their best to stop like they were english rather than irish. they changed their names to blend in congressman, i can cite you chapter and verse of literature at the times saying italians don t speak our language, these folks coming from other places it sounds identical to what you are saying about muslims now. it really does. but you re hearing the imams that are preaching in places like the al aqsa mosque in jerusalem. the imam preached there to the
i was looking today, a piece in the l.a. times about a paper called the menace back in 1915 that was raling against catholics and said all sorts of things about them, they are essentially a fifth column, they are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with romanists, they ll have to be taught their place in society. there were anti-catholic lynch mobs that came up, huge movements. was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the american way of life? it s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago but today s standards. but i go back into the earlier i had middle part of the 1900s. the know-nothings rejected catholics and didn t want catholics brought into america. were they right? no, they turned out to be wrong. me being a catholic sitting here you couldn t get me to say they were right. let me ask you this.
that was raling against catholics and said all sorts of things about them, they are essentially a fifth column, they are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with romanists, they ll have to be taught their place in society. there were anti-catholic lynch mobs that came up, huge movements. was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the american way of life? it s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago but today s standards. but i go back into the earlier i had middle part of the 1900s. the know-nothings rejected catholics and didn t want catholics brought into america. were they right? no, they turned out to be wrong. me being a catholic sitting here you couldn t get me to say they were right. let me ask you this. why are you so confident that they got that wrong, that we now