Strangling Einstein: What The Tourist Saw At The Waxworks

American attorney and writer Ben Shapiro has been visiting London.  On Christmas Eve he and his wife visited the world-famous waxworks founded by immigrant Franco-Swiss modeller Marie Tussaud (1761-1850):

 "As we strolled the halls filled with famous cultural figures, most from the 20th century, we came across the wax doll for Albert Einstein.  And there, crowded around the figure, stood five young Muslims – two male, three female.  While other guests stood next to the model and smiled, or put an arm around it, these Muslim worthies stood next to the wax model – and put their hands around its throat, simulating strangling it.  At first, I couldn’t believe what I was watching – did Einstein do something to offend these people? – but then it dawned on me that they were doing this because Einstein was a Jew.  In fact, Einstein was the only prominent Jew in Tussaud’s.  And who wouldn’t want to strangle a prominent Jew, after all?

That suspicion was confirmed a few minutes later when we reached the wax statue of Adolf Hitler​.  Britons and Americans tried to choke the figure, or pointed their fingers at it in imaginary guns, or yelled at it.  These young Muslims happily stood next to it, and took smiling photographs with it as though they’d stumbled upon a friendly uncle. Which, in a way, they had.

And, of course, nobody said anything to these delightfully diverse young people.'

Read more of Ben Shapiro's "Postcard From Islamic London" here
Update: see Edgar Davidson's remarkably similar experience at Tussaud's yesterday here