War & Peace Quote by Tom Metzger

Bigotry rarely travels alone; it carpools. Tom Metzger’s line, “Moslems are no less an enemy than the Jews,” isn’t a thought so much as a recruitment tool, engineered to stitch separate hatreds into a single, portable worldview. The phrasing is doing deliberate work: “no less” implies a prior, already-normalized hostility toward Jews, then expands the target list by treating Muslims as an interchangeable add-on. It’s comparative prejudice, a ladder built to help the listener climb from one demonized group to the next without noticing the moral drop.

The word “enemy” is the linchpin. It doesn’t argue policy or behavior; it declares a permanent adversary status, the language of war rather than disagreement. That move erases individuality and citizenship in one stroke, making suspicion feel like self-defense. It also invites a paranoid political imagination: if there’s an “enemy,” there must be a “we,” a threatened in-group that needs discipline, unity, and eventually action.

Context matters because Metzger is not a random provocateur; he’s a prominent figure in American white-supremacist organizing and propaganda. This kind of line sits in a broader tradition of scapegoating that consolidates power by simplifying a messy society into a melodrama of invaders and victims. The intent isn’t persuasion through evidence. It’s emotional conditioning: train the audience to associate whole populations with danger, then offer the speaker’s movement as the only “realistic” response.