Muslims have had troubling ties with National Socialism since the beginning of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Here’s how the story began. In the 1920′s there was a young Egyptian named al Bana. And al Bana formed this nationalist group called the Muslim Brotherhood. Al Bana was a devout admirer of Adolph Hitler and wrote to him frequently. So persistent was he in his admiration of the new Nazi Party that in the 1930′s, al-Bana and the Muslim Brotherhood became a secret arm of Nazi intelligence.
The Arab Nazis had much in common with the new Nazi doctrines. They hated Jews; they hated democracy; and they hated the Western culture. It became the official policy of the Third Reich to secretly develop the Muslim Brotherhood as the fifth Parliament, an army inside Egypt.
So nothing much has changed, then. Saddam was so isolated and pampered by his handlers, he was dictating his book while the Americans were preparing to come to Iraq. There are many articles out there which document and further demonstrate the similarities between the ideologies. It has always struck me very strange that Islamists are promoting, even in their children from a very young age, suicide is honorable if it happens for the sake of jihad.
But suicide for the sake of the cause, if you recall, was a very noble thing for the Nazis, also.
“The Nazi wish of death or education for death can be compared to the brand of (quite new) Moslem fundamentalism that sees death as the highest goal of life, if it is related to martyrdom,” said Omer Bartov, the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. “This suicidal urge, in which one first must destroy one’s own natural survival instincts and then justify one’s death by the extermination of others, is related to extremes of Nazism and Fascism, both in personal psychology and a theological or ideological system,” Bartov told FrontPage Magazine.
Unfortunately, fanatical adherence to the National Socialist death wish is hardly confined to mythology. Recent history has recorded two potent and alarming real-life incidents: the suicide of Adolf Hitler, accompanied by the deaths of millions of innocent civilians; and the suicides of the September 11th hijackers — accompanied by the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians.
Here’s a piece on Saddam & his Nazi background.
Saddam became absolute ruler in 1979 after assassinating over 20 leaders of his own party. He immediately proceeded to implement the Nazi vision of his uncle and the Mufti. In Iraq, Saddam annihilated all of his opponents and, using his absolute power, developed a personality-cult around himself reminiscent of the Nazi Furherprincip. Like the Nazis, who sought to implement a new social order based on socialist and nationalist principles, Saddam has sought to develop a united Arab order under his personal control. Imitating the example of Hitler, Saddam set up concentration camps and began to carry out a planned program of genocide against the Kurds.
Saddam is today’s chief disciple of the infamous Grand Mufti, the Nazi war criminal. Like the Mufti, he would have stopped at nothing in his quest to annihilate the Jews and defeat the western democracies. His regime was the Nazi principle manifested today in all its horror and inherent evil, and, like the Nazi’s before him, he had to be utterly crushed if there was to be any hope for peace.
And, sadly, the Arab nations all around Iraq continue the legacy. I just hope that they’ve heard the message we’ve sent them.
History has also recorded the physical intersection of the Muslim and the Nazi, where a shared disdain of Jews forged a queer cooperation between Muslim soldiers in Eastern Europe and Hitler’s SS during the liquidation of Jewish ghettoes in Poland and the operation of concentration camps.
“There were Muslims, especially in the later phases of World War II, in the service of the SS, such as those recruited in Bosnia and in the Caucasus,” explained Bartov, who is also a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. “I believe there was an entire Waffen-SS division made primarily of Muslims in 1944,” Bartov told Front Page.
The SS indoctrinated these Muslim fighters, variously called Trawniki men, Hilfswillige, Hiwis, or Askaris, at training camps or “Ausbildungslager” in towns such as Trawniki, Poland. The Askaris, who generally hailed from the Ukraine and the Baltic states, shared with the Nazis a rapacious anti-Semitism that may have eased their transition from mediocre combat warriors to soldiers specifically trained for the ugly task of genocide.
“The Askaris were native soldiers (Muslims) in former German colonies, mostly Lithuanians, Latvians, White Russians and Ukrainians,” writes Halina Gorcewicz, a Warsaw Jew who penned an exhaustive and hard-bitten account of life in the ghetto under Nazi occupation. “Not the best of soldiers in the eyes of the Germans, the most important thing for the SS was the fact that they were great anti-Semites.”
But then as we’ve noticed many times before, history and facts never seem to bother leftists. In fact, they jump on the bandwagon when hatred like this is spread around:
Hate literature rife with allegations of a Jewish world conspiracy — such as the infamous 19th-century forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – has gained great popularity throughout the Arab world. Even the most preposterous fables are widely believed by hate-filled extremists. Israelis have been accused of selling hormonally altered fruit to Egyptian men in order to kill their sperm; of supplying Egyptian farmers with poisoned seeds and disease-bearing poultry; of devising and distributing carcinogenic vegetables and shampoos to spread cancer among Arabs; of promoting drug consumption and devil worship in Arab society; of poisoning Arab water supplies; of trying to throw Egyptian society into chaos by campaigning for the legalization of homosexuality; and of following rabbinical exhortations to kill Palestinians as a means of ensuring their own swift entry into paradise. “Hardly a mishap occurs in the Arab world,” Daniel Pipes has written, “which does not get blamed on Jews.”
As if all that were not enough, millions of Muslims accept the notion that Jews forcibly take the blood of non-Jews for ritual purposes. No less a personage than Syrian defense minister Mustafa Tlas once alluded to that “fact” in his 1983 book, The Matzah of Zion. This past March in the Saudi government newspaper Al-Riyadh, a King Faysal University medical professor contributed an article claiming that for the holiday of Purim, Jews “prepare very special pastries” filled with the blood of a Christian or Muslim adolescent. This, the professor explained, was in contrast to Passover treats, for which “the blood of Christian and Muslim children under the age of 10 must be used.” The blood for Purim, he elaborated, is collected by placing the victim into “a needle-studded barrel” wherein his body is pierced on all sides, causing “dreadful torment — torment that affords the Jewish vampires great delight as they carefully monitor every detail of the blood-shedding with pleasure and love that are difficult to comprehend.”
Sick. I wonder how many leaves of khat you have to chew before images like that start popping into your brain.
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Great post, there are many parallels between the nazis and the Muslim terrorists.