Posted on 01/30/2011 3:01:09 PM PST by RC one
Thanks. You obviously agree with me. The alliance between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Nazis was by definition one of convenience only. Their goals were mutually compatible. If together they destroyed their enemies, then one would sooner or later destroy the other.
Given the relative competence of the two groups, I know which one I’d put my money down on.
While the MB was obviously willing to take elements from Nazi ideology and use them where convenient, it is obvious the ideologies are no more compatible with each other than either is with freedom.
way back when in college during WW2 history clsss, I remember reading that Hitler was using the Arabs but was basically holding his nose as he did so. He did not regard the Arabs as part of the master race and, as such, there was not probably a place in his vision for them beyond their immediate usefullness. Interesting that they survived the third reich as they did. The Croations of Yugoslavia also sided with Hitler and that legacy endures today as well. Google: Ante Pavelic.
The Croats can also be explained as “enemy of my enemy” alliances. Enemies of the Serbs = friends of the Croats. Although they were a particularly nasty bunch of fascists, shocking even the Germans.
As can the Finns, who fought alongside the Germans against the USSR. I’m sure the Finns really had to hold their noses to do so.
But then we really don’t have a great deal of right to be self-righteous on the subject, as we allied ourselves with the Soviets.
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