Posted on 09/26/2016 5:02:50 AM PDT by SJackson
On February 27, 2016, Dr. Entesar Al-Banna, a columnist for the Bahraini daily Al-Watan, wrote that she had discovered, much to her surprise, that many young Arabs idolize Adolf Hitler, mainly for his strength and steadfastness in fighting the entire world. She assessed that this phenomenon stems from the wave of violence afflicting the region and the sense of helplessness that it causes, as a result of which people look to someone who challenged the rest of the globe. According to her, this worship of strength reflects the instability and the crisis of the Arab world, a crisis which is manifested in many ways, ranging from suppression of free expression to the use of extreme violence on all levels.
The following are excerpts from her column:[1]
"In a course for teenage girls, where I was present, the instructor asked the girls an ordinary question: 'Who is your favorite figure?' Most of the answers were interesting, and included new media figures with whom I am not familiar, especially from Snapchat. But the shocking answer given by several of the girls – which compelled me to argue with them – was that they were fans of Hitler!
"I interrupted one of the girls who said that Hitler was her favorite figure, asking her: 'Are you serious or joking?' She looked at me, amazed, and replied: 'Yes, I am serious.' This led another girl to add: 'I too love Hitler's personality.' I asked the first girl: 'What do you like about Hitler's personality?' She responded, very confidently: 'His strength, and his ability to unite his country's military and leadership and to stand fast in war.' I asked her: 'Do you realize that his strength caused an entire world war, and the destruction of Germany and France?' She responded: 'Yes. I read his book Mein Kampf and was impressed by his strength, his faith, and his perseverance.'
"Her answer surprised me still further, because I myself haven't read Hitler's [auto]biography, nor am I curious to read it. I told her: 'But Hitler was a dictator who heeded nothing but his inner voice, and was a racist who recognized only the German Aryan race.' She responded: 'So what? It was enough that he was strong!' Then she changed the subject, saying: 'I also like the strong militant personality of Che Guevara.' Here I took advantage of the difference [between the two figures] in order to fulfil my formal role as a teacher, and told her that there is a difference between Hitler's racist and dictatorial values and Che Guevara's universal values, which favor the oppressed peoples and strive for justice and liberation. I suggested that she see the movie about Che Guevara's life story, even though I, in all honesty, haven't seen that either. And then she surprised me a third time by saying that she had read his [auto]biography, which had more depth than the movie. I didn't even know that Che Guevara had written an autobiography.
"The young girls' admiration of Hitler's personality and their inclination towards powerful [figures] led me to search for [material] on 'Hitler adoration' and fandom, and indeed, I discovered a wide spectrum of young Arabs who love Hitler. Some said they admired him for killing the Jews, but most were enchanted by his strength, determination, and steadfastness. This begs the question: What is behind these young peoples' love of strength? Are they fans of the violence engulfing the region? Or does the sense of helplessness and weakness [cause them] to adore of a figure who challenged the world with his strength and led an entire people to fight the world?
"We are facing a generation of young people who read [books], in an age when reading is considered obsolete – except that these [young people] read [material] of a very worrisome stripe, and acquire twisted values that could impact their future awareness, the extent of their control over things, and their situational assessments. The desire for acquiring and expressing power and for challenging the other has become a secret wish that steals into the hearts of these young people and which is expressed in many ways. This wish reflects the reality of a crisis-ridden, unstable society, [a reality whose expressions] range from suppression of free expression to the use of extreme violence on all levels – verbal, physical, and electronic [media violence]."
Endnote:
[1] Al-Watan (Bahrain), February 27, 2016.
1915 - Amin Al Husseini (1895-1974) as an officer in the Ottoman Empire army
1920 - Jerusalem, Palestine, Amin Al Husseini's birth place. He was appointed to the position of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem by the British occupying government and held the position from 1921-1937. The Grand Mufti was the Sunni Muslim cleric in charge of Jerusalem's Islamic holy places, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount (also thought to be Mt. Moriah). During his tenure he incited riots that pitted Palestinian Arabs against Palestinian Jews.
December 1941 - Berlin. Amin Al Husseini spent WWII by Hitler's side where he actively encouraged the extermination (the Holocaust) of European (Ashkenazi and Sephardic) Jews.
Amin Al Husseini meets Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS
November 1943 - Muslim members of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) at prayer during their training in Neuhammer, Germany. The 13th Waffen Mountain Division was a mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS created by the Germans to restore order in Yugoslavia. It was given the title Handschar after a local fighting knife or sword carried by Turkish policemen during the centuries that the region was part of the Ottoman Empire (the division emblem is shown below at right). It was the first non-Germanic Waffen-SS division, and its formation marked the expansion of the Waffen-SS into a multi-ethnic military force. The division was composed mostly of Bosnian Muslims (ethnic Bosniaks) with some Catholic Croat soldiers and mostly German and Yugoslav Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) officers. Amin Al Husseini was the spiritual leader of the Handschar Division. It was Hitler's largest SS Division and was responsible for the genocide of Serbians, Gypsies and Jews within Yugoslavia while fighting the partisans. Its history lies at the root of today's ethnic/religious unrest in Serbia/Bosnia-Hercegovina/Croatia.
Members of the Handschar Division during training. Note their unique Islamic fez hats which display the Reichsadler (Nazi Party eagle-and-swastika = Nazi Germany's national symbol) and the SS totenkoph (death's head) emblems. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk banned the fez in Turkey in 1925 as part of his modernizing reforms.
November 1943 - Amin Al Husseini, alongside SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen SS Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig, reviewing troops of his Handschar Division with the Nazi salute.
Amin Al Husseini, future President of the World Islamic Congress (1961) and founding father of the Arab League (1944) inspects the troops of his Handschar Division while giving them the Nazi salute.
Bosniak soldiers of the Handschar Division, reading Husseini's pamphlet, Islam Und Judentum (Islam and Judaism).
The Handschar Division uniform right collar emblem (see the photo above) that was worn in place of the SS Sig runes worn by Germanic SS divisions (below right).
Che Guevara, darling of all Leftist scum, was a mass murder just like the other Communist dictators everyone on the Left loves so much.
Here I took advantage of the difference [between the two figures] in order to fulfil my formal role as a teacher, and told her that there is a difference between Hitler’s racist and dictatorial values and Che Guevara’s universal values, which favor the oppressed peoples and strive for justice and liberation.
Just WOW. This woman should not be near any students.
But Marxist murderer Che Guevara=GOOD?
SMH...
Vote Trump!
“Do Islamics know peaceful people have peaceful lives, unlike violent Islam?”
Yes, but they interpret that peace as being submitted to a sinful system that must be destroyed and dominated by Islam.
This guy actually admires Che Guevara, and he wonders why the kids he teaches like Hitler? Universalism...racism...whatever. The body count’s lower in the case of the former, for now, I guess (so long as you’re only talking about Che, and not Mao or Stalin).
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