“…it is his book, Mein Kampf, which is risible if you ever read any of it…”
I don’t think any of us atheists…who ARE aware…of the insanity of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” don’t see it as SOMEWHAT laughable in its totally self-absorbed and egotistical blindness of existential reality.
BUT…
at the same time, we recognize the obvious, and proven, enormous danger of that book, given the economic circumstances that existed in Germany at the time, and the need that the German people had for finding a handy…already setup by religion…scapegoat; i.e…”Juden” (the Jews)!
The concept of scapegoat, itself, actually COMES from the Bible; and if it weren’t for the already anti-Semitic Christian believers, all too willing to be led by the admitted and never denied (or excommunicated), indeed, lifetime Catholic…Hitler, his Right Wing Nazi agenda would, most likely, never have taken off.
By the way; Austin Cline, whom I’ve mentioned on other occasions, has many great articles on that subject. You might check his archives out:
http://atheism.about.com/sitesearch.htm?terms=Nazi%20Germany&SUName=atheism&TopNode=99

Yes…
“The guy should have been laughed out of town, not elected by the people.”
But, religion…specifically, indoctrinated Christianity…laid the foundation for duping the German people into blindly…and enthusiastically…following the totally insane asshole…Hitler.
It’s no mystery to us atheists, that…
We must ALL remember, and never forget, TRUE History; and never let any bullshit re-writers…of which there seem to be many, today (albeit, coming out of the woodwork)…with their various insane agendas, dupe Humanity into repeating the STILL ever present, potential insanity of various forms of Fascism.
“Can you say…Christian Dominionism?…Islamic Fascism?…yada, yada?”

That’s one of the PRIME reasons (I’m reminding myself) for the actual existence of THIS Site!
The REAL, albeit poisoning danger for World, has ALWAYS been, and continues to be…
RELIGION!

Tell that to the native inhabitants.

Atheists, of all people, should be willing to have all views open, available, discussed and critiqued.

“Of all people”, eh? Why do you seek to impose such restrictions on atheists and imply a relaxation of them for non-atheists?

America was founded on the free exchange of ideas, right and wrong, good and bad. The idea being that good ideas will always win out over bad. Unless this guy represents an imminent danger to citizens of the US then he should be allowed in.

Anyone disagreeing with this is either not American or un-American. Or not secure in their own views and values. I am from the UK and would dearly love a constitution, especially one that enshrines the first amendment that Americans seem to take for granted.

Atheists, of all people, should be willing to have all views open, available, discussed and critiqued. The best argument against Hitler (not a reducto as hitler argument!) is not the actions of the Nazis, it is his book, Mein Kampf, which is risible if you ever read any of it. The guy should have been laughed out of town, not elected by the people.

Whilst on the subject of banning unwelcome visitors from one’s shores, here’s an example of the UK banning a Dutch MP who exposes the truth about Islam.

I disagreed with that too.

By the way, I have the whole marvelous set of retrospective…”Totally Mad”… CD-Rs that was published back in 1999. I can only imagine what the original Mad crew would be doing with the LITERAL mad shit regarding the outrageous insanity that your interesting and enlightening links, and several of GifS’ recent Posts highlight.
And thanks, indeed, for linking to your, always great, personal Posts.
I watched that Geert Wilders video link. Shocking, indeed! Incidentally, I had seen “Fitna” quite a while back. Actually, I think it was an Acharya S email that alerted me to it.
It’s really outrageous that the US media pays no serious attention at all to such REALLY important issues such as that.
Bottom-line…the Economy, etc. aside…”it ain’t gonna mean shit”, if our MOST precious freedoms get stomped into the dust by all the outrageously stupid, unfettered, ruthless, religious psychopaths.
Religions ALREADY get what amounts to a totally “free pass” from criticism…at least to my notice…on virtually ALL the major media; certainly, in the US broadcast versions.
The World seems to have ignored…certainly has not learned…the terrible lessons of history; particularly of the 20th Century. And I think we all know that there are those, currently, trying to rewrite history in order to cover up their own, all too complicit, even somewhat comparable…personal madness.

Your comment has left me truly furshlugginered.

PS: I am that scholar of Mad Magazines whom you seek.

Which reminds me, I knew a guy who was awarded a PhD from Trinity College Dublin for his thesis: ‘Why did Stephen Dedalus pick his nose?’