A U.S.-born Israeli author and Middle East expert is disturbed that the German city of Hamburg will now officially recognize Islamic holidays.
Earlier this month, the Hamburg officials signed an agreement with the city's 150,000-strong Muslim community to officially recognize three official Islamic days as holidays, allowing Muslim workers and students to take those days off and Islamic classes to be taught in public schools.
David Rubin, former mayor of the Israeli city of Shiloh and author of The Islamic Tsunami: Israel and America in the Age of Obama, cautions about what the city has gotten itself into.
"Islam says that Jihad is a holy war against all non-Muslims -- that's a problem, because by giving them off their holidays, you'll recognize an ideology of hatred and violence against all those who don't agree with them," he reasons.
Rubin finds this move particularly disturbing in light of the similarities between Islam and Nazi Germany.
"They're actually frighteningly similar," he states about the two. "It's a religion or an ideology that seeks to do away with all other ideologies. That's what Nazism was, and that's what Islam is today."
But he concludes that many Germans today are either unaware or do not care about the Islam-Nazi connection because they are too concerned about appeasing Muslims.