Islam’s Nazi Connections

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | December 5, 2002 | Serge Trifkovic

[Remember_Salamis]

Islam’s Nazi Connections By Serge Trifkovic FrontPageMagazine.com | December 5, 2002

An essay adapted by Robert Locke from Dr. Serge Trifkovic’s new book The Sword of the Prophet: A Politically-Incorrect Guide to Islam.

One of the good things one can truthfully say about Islam is that there has never been any love lost between Moslems and Marxists. Sadly, the opposite end of the totalitarian political spectrum is quite another matter. SS chief Heinrich Himmler was known to remark that he regretted that Germany had adopted Christianity, rather than "warlike" Islam, as its religion, and there is a disturbing amount of twisted but very real logic in his remark. Beyond the obvious dislike of a certain other religion, we have the plain fact that both Nazism and Islam both openly aim at world conquest. Both demand the total subordination of the free will of the individual – the very word "Islam" means submission in Arabic. Both are explicitly anti-nationalist and believe in the liquidation of the nation-state in favor of a "higher" community: in Islam the umma or community of all believers; in Nazism the herrenvolk or master race. Both believe in undemocratic leadership by a privileged knower of an absolute, eternal, and ultimately mystical truth: the caliph or führer respectively. To be fair, in strict Nazism Arabs are racial Semites and thus subhumans, but as Robert Locke has written, the Nazis did not really believe in their racial mythology when they found it inconvenient, and they exploited their commonalities with Islam for all they were worth. If the British army had not stopped Rommel in the sands of El Alamein in 1942, preventing him from conquering the Middle East, the consequences for world history might have been dramatic. What did happen was quite ugly enough.

The Nazis began by attempting to exploit Arab resentment of the British and French colonial rule that they were under during the 1930’s, colonial rule which, in light of the subsequent bloody and tyrannical history of the region, it is hard to condemn today as worse than the likely alternative. The promised the Arabs "liberation" from the French and British, a promise which the naïve Arabs, not grasping the character of a Nazi regime that would likely have reduced them to slaves in its own empire, took at face value. This gave rise to a curious Arab ditty rendered in English thus:

"No more monsieur,

No more mister.

In heaven Allah,

On earth Hitler."

Hitler himself was even given an Arabic name: Abu Ali. But Hitler’s Germany went further and sensed the demonic potentialities inherent in the mythology, reliably emotionally satisfying to persons crazed with resentment, of radical anti-Semitism. It made a concerted, and remarkably successful effort to plant modern anti-Semitism in the Arab world.

The founding of Israel helped further this project. As Bernard Lewis has written,

"The struggle for Palestine greatly facilitated the acceptance of the anti-Semitic interpretation of history, and led some to attribute all evil in the Middle East—and, indeed, in the world—to secret Jewish plots."

Thus even before Israel was created the struggle to create it was turned into an existential battle of identity, with the complete denial of the legitimacy of Jewish existence as a central component of Moslem aspiration.

The Nazis managed to recruit some Moslems directly. Several Moslem SS divisions were raised: the Skanderbeg Division from Albania, the Handschar Division from Bosnia, and smaller units from throughout the Moslem world from Chechnya to Uzbekistan were incorporated into the German armed forces in one capacity or another. This was only taking the first step in Heinrich Himmler’s planned grand alliance between Nazi Germany and the Islamic world. One of his closest aides, Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger, boasted that

"a link is created between Islam and National-Socialism on an open, honest basis. It will be directed in terms of blood and race from the North, and in the ideological-spiritual sphere from the East."

What an image: a Nazi-Moslem alliance to conquer the world! Naturally, totalitarian ideology (as shown by the Sino-Soviet and Iran-Taliban splits, for example) is a notoriously weak glue, so it is questionable how far this could have prospered. But the thought is chilling enough.

Major Nazi sympathizers of this era include Ahmed Shukairi, the first chairman of the PLO; Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat, future presidents of Egypt; and the founders of the Pan-Arab socialist Ba' ath party, currently ruling Syria and Iraq. One Ba'ath leader has since recalled of this time:

"We were racists, admiring Nazism, reading their books and sources of their thought. We were the first who thought of translating Mein Kampf."

Many of the Nazi sympathizers of this era have never repudiated their beliefs; some still openly parade them.

In 1945, one name was missing from the Allies’ list of war criminals, that of Haj Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti or supreme religious leader of Jerusalem and the former President of the Supreme Moslem Council of Palestine. In May 1941, the Mufti declared jihad against Britain and made his way to Berlin after the British put down his attempt to establish a pro-Nazi government in Iraq by a coup d’etat. When he met Hitler, on November 21, 1941, he declared that the Arabs are Germany’s natural friends, ready to cooperate with the Reich with all their hearts by the formation of an Arab Legion. Hitler promised that as soon as the German armies pushed into the Southern Caucasus the Arabs would be liberated from the British yoke. The Mufti’s part of the deal was to raise support for Germany among the Moslems in the Soviet Union, the Balkans and the Middle East. He conducted radio propaganda through the network of six stations, set up anti-British espionage and fifth column networks in the Middle East.

In the annual protest against the Balfour Declaration held in 1943 at the Luftwaffe hall in Berlin, the Mufti praised the Germans because they "know how to get rid of the Jews, and that brings us close to the Germans and sets us in their camp is that up to day." Echoing Muhammad after the battle of Badr, on March 1, 1944 the Mufti called in a broadcast from Berlin:

"Arabs! Rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor."

In 1941, he had pledged "to solve the question of the Jewish elements in Palestine and in other Arab countries as required by national interests, and in the same way as the Jewish question in the Axis lands is being solved." Bernard Lewis writes that in addition to the old goal of a Jew-free Arabia "he aimed at much vaster purposes, conceived not so much in pan-Arab as in pan-Islamic terms, for a Holy War of Islam in alliance with Germany against World Jewry, to accomplish the Final Solution of the Jewish problem everywhere."

According to German officials who knew him, The Mufti had repeatedly suggested to the various authorities with whom he was maintaining contact, above all to Hitler, Ribbentrop and Himmler, the extermination of European Jewry. He considered this as a comfortable solution of the Palestinian problem. Perhaps "the Nazis needed no persuasion or instigation," as he was later to claim, but the foremost Arab spiritual leader of his time did all he could to ensure that the Germans did not waver in their resolve. He went out of his way to prevent any Jews being allowed to leave Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, which were initially willing to let them go: "The Mufti was making protests everywhere — in the Office of the (Foreign) Minister, in the antechamber of the Secretary of State, and in other departments, such as Home Office, Press, Radio, and in the SS headquarters." In the end, Eichmann said, "We have promised him that no European Jew would enter Palestine any more."

The contemporary heirs to the Nazi view of Judentum are not the handful of powerless skinheads and Aryan Nation survivalists. They are schools, religious leaders, and mainstream intellectuals in the Moslem, meaning primarily Arab, world. Quite apart from the ups and downs of the misnamed "peace process" in the Middle East, quite apart from the more or less bellicose posture towards the government of Israel, the crude way they actively demonize all Jews as such is startling.

The most prominent and influential daily newspaper in the Arab world is Al-Ahram, a semi-official organ of the Egyptian government. In June 2001 it carried an op-ed article, "What exactly do the Jews want?"--and the answer was worthy of the Nazi newspaper the Völkische Beobachter six decades earlier:

"The Jews share boundless hatred of the gentiles, they kill women and children and sow destruction… Israel is today populated by people who are not descendants of the Children of Israel, but rather a mixture of slaves, Aryans and the remnants of the Khazars, and they are not Semites. In other words, people without an identity, whose only purpose is blackmails, theft and control over property and land, with the assistance of the Western countries."

The second most influential Egyptian daily is Al-Akhbar, which went a step further on April 18, 2001: "Our thanks go the late Hitler who wrought, in advance, the vengeance of the Palestinians upon the most despicable villains on the face of the earth. However, we rebuke Hitler for the fact that the vengeance was insufficient."

It is hard to imagine hatred more vitriolic than that which reproaches the Nazis for not completing the Final Solution more thoroughly. What is remarkable is not that such sentiments exist, but that they are freely circulated in the mainstream media and internalized by the opinion-making elite throughout the Moslem world. In the same league, we find the claim that the Holocaust in fact never happened and that the Jews and Israelis are the real Nazis is regularly made. The Jewish-Nazi theme is a favorite of Arab caricaturists, some of whom use the swastika interchangeably with the Star of David, or juxtapose them. Graphic depiction of the Jews appear to have been lifted directly from the pages of the notorious old Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer (The Stormtroooper.)

A final tidbit: it is no accident that a number of Nazi war criminals found refuge in Moslem nations. Take the notorious Otto Skorzeny, an SS officer who led the rescue of Mussolini from captivity, was described by the OSS, predecessor to the CIA, as "the most dangerous man in Europe," and later found service under General Nasser in Egypt. There were others.

Thankfully, the Nazis of course lost WWII and the abortive alliance between Islam and Nazism never panned out. Sadly, there exist Moslems today, not on the fringes but in the mainstream of their nations, who still view this as a great lost opportunity based on profound natural affinities.

[Defender2]

They flew Iraqi insurgent marked Bf-110's(probably Nazi pilots), I do have pictures in some of my history books showing them. You may be correct here as it very well may be Nazi pilots flying those Iraqi insurgent marked Bf-110's during that period in history.

[King Prout]

gee, you aren't confused - you are just not paying attention.

oh, joy: yet another round of the moral-equivalency tango.

in answer to 1, 2, 3:

Christianity and Islam are not significantly different in their holy texts, eh?

OK, try this on for size:
You tried to equate Christianity with Islam. This is why I ask you to find even one passage, relating to religion and treatment of others, which fulfills the following requirements:

1. in the "catholic" post-Nicaea Christian testament (but I'll gladly throw it open to the Jewish book)
2. a literal...
3. plain-text...
4. indisputable...
5. ongoing present-tense (as opposed to a one-shot past-tense record of history/folklore - ie: Joshua)...
6. commandment from God (not a pope or a bishop or some >a-hem!< televangelist)...
7. as a directive to the believer to take literally and actively in the temporal realm
8. to do any or all of the following:
-a. to slay the heretic and non-believer,
-b. to forcibly convert the heretic and non-believer,
-c. to enslave the heretic and non-believer,
-d. to persecute the heretic and non-believer,
-e. to wage holy war upon the heretic and non-believer
9. Directly analogous to the dozens thereof in the Koran.

(so you know, things like II Thessalonians 1:8,9 don't count - that is God kicking ass, not his faithful doing so for him. An important distinction equivocators seem to like to sweep under the rug.)

Now, turnabout:
Find JUST ONE passage in either the Koran or the Sunnah which is the direct analogue of the Parable of the Samaritan, or the directive to the witness to leave an unbeliever in peace - to "knock the dust of his home from their soles as they leave" - rather than butcher him in zealous fury, or to the believer contained in I Cor 7:12-17, or I Cor 10:32, or II Cor 6:14-18, or Ephesians 6:10-12, or... do you get the point?
Find JUST ONE comparable passage in the Koran or the Sunnah.
Good luck - I have been looking for over a year and have not found any such analogues.

Mohammed, and the death-cult he let loose in the world, is bad because he and his cult are murderously psychopathic.

4. Oh, boy, you bought the party line, didn't you? Think about what you said very carefully. Examine actual history as you do so. You will discover that Islamic civilization PRODUCED nothing at all on its own, made almost no PROGRESS at all on its own (save for one man's development of algebra), and in all other ways caused DECLINE in civilization throughout its demense. It's tax code was stolen from Khusrau the Just - a Persian Emperor. It's famed "arabic numerals" were swiped from India. It's non-Islamic philosophy and science was inherited from the Byzantines and other earlier or muslim-conquered peoples. Avarroes was an aberration whose great thinking was never incorporated into Islamic thinking, philosophy, or religion.

5. If a stereotype fits reality, use it

6. Mohammed claimed absolute infallability in all things, and is credited with absolute infallability by all muslim theology and jurisprudence throughout history. By contrast, the catholic doctrine of Papal infallability was not established until 1869, and IIRC has been invoked exactly twice: once concerning Mary's "Immaculate Conception" and one other time, the matter of which I cannot recall. Large difference between Mohammedian and Papal "infallability", which I know you can see, but do not expect you to be solid enough to admit.

7. People who repeatedly demonstrate the fact that they cannot see are blind.

You are blind.

[Defender2]

James J. Halley, The Author of "The Role of the Fighter in Air Warfare", ISBN-87165-023-1, Library of Congress Card No. 78-52523, published by Ziff-Davis Flying Books on page 97 has an illustration of a Bf-110D-3 of Luftwaffe 4/ZG 76, operating out of Raschid, Iraq, in May of 1941. "This unit operated in support of anti-British insurgent forces under Iraqi 'colors of convenience' ".

The Markings consisted of a black bordered green triangle
with a red diamondlike figure 8 in the triangle's center. The lower part of the 8 figure containing a small red diamond inside it.

So it was Nazi's operating in Iraq under the guise of insurgent Iraqi's.

FReegards, D2

[SJackson]

No. Not ignorant. I just don't care. It was 60 years ago....Keep in mind the allies of the German Nazis. The Russians, Japanese, Italians, etc etc. If your not willing to condemn Germany, Italy and Japan at this point, why would you try to connect Islam. It's a waste of time and it generates much more backlash than it moves the argument forward.

Shot to #6 on the PA best seller list. Sells well in Jordan and Egypt, in London too I've read. I presume the popularity of the Arabic version is purely a function of historical interest rather than a common mindset.

"Hitler the soldier left behind not only a legend stained by tragedy itself; the tragedy of a state whose dreams were shattered, a regime whose pillars were torn down, and a political party that was crushed. Hitler was a man of ideology who bequeathed an ideological heritage whose decay is inconceivable. This ideological heritage includes politics, society, science, culture, and war as science and culture."

"The National Socialism that Hitler preached for and whose characteristics were presented in his book My Struggle, and whose principles he explained in his speeches before he took power, as well as during the 13 years he spent at the head of the German nation - this National Socialism did not die with the death of its herald. Rather, its seeds multiplied under each star."

"We cannot really understand the efforts of this man without examining the principles enclosed in his book My Struggle that the Nazis turned into the "Gospel of National Socialism."

"This translation of the book My Struggle has never been presented to Arab speakers. It is taken from the original text of the author, Adolf Hitler. The text was untouched by the censor. We made a point to deliver Hitler's opinions and theories on nationalism, regimes, and ethnicity without any changes because they are not yet outmoded and because we, in the Arab world, still proceed haphazardly in all three fields."

Luis Al-Haj, translator.

[Defender2]

My number 63 post on this thread is for your reference. Some information it contains may be of your historical interest.

FReegards, D2

[King Prout]

nice, very nice.
the islamapologists won't see it the way it is, but my thanks to you from those of us with open eyes.

[thedilg]

(There is no "opposite end of the totalitarian political spectrum.)

The truth well said.

Godspeed, The Di lg

[A. Pole]

A document which contains exhortations to kill is bad, unless it is the Bible.

Where are the exhortations to kill in the New Testament?

Mohammed is bad because he is Allah's prophet. Jesus is also considered to be a prophet to Islam, but one must ignore that fact and blame everything on Mohammed.

Did you read Koran and New Testament? Do you see any difference? Do you see a difference between the life example Christ and Muhammad have to their disciples?

Islamic civilization was one of the world's most progressive and modern until the 16th Century, A.D.

What was so progressive and modern? Living off the sweat and blood of enslaved Christians?

[King Prout]

don't bother.
though not a christian myself, I can easily see the truth in the book, when it describes those who willfully embrace delusion being forever blinded by it.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

[ Closed For Repair ]

LOL oops

[MeekOneGOP]

He's dead, Jim.
(Click here or on the pic).

[tbeatty]

Is your point that Palestinians are anti-semitic? Or that Jordanians with a large Palestinian population or that Egyptians who fought numerous wars with Israel are anit-semitic?

Well duh! The question is, do you think it helps the argument to try and link them to Nazi's or do you think it immediately turns off 90% of the population who are tired of hearing about how everyone we don't like are Nazi's. I've heard Bush is a Nazi, Clinton is a Nazi, Gore is a Nazi, Cheney is a Nazi, Buchanan is a Nazi, etc, etc. The broad stroke of Nazi means nothing today and in fact it turns people away from the facts.

Arabs want to destroy Israel (and America by the way, it's not just Jews). Rather than just paint them with the broad brush of Nazi, we need to change their minds and heart by introducing freedoms and government reforms and overthrow. Eradicate the terrorist population and bring free enterprise to the region. There will always be the anti-Israel, anti-US groups but we can make them fringe groups by bringing a "middle-class" that is dependant on trade with other nations.

[Brian Allen]

<< There is no "opposite end of the totalitarian political spectrum."

Thank you. I was going to post that, but you beat me to it. You are 100% right. I do not see a whole lot of difference between naziism, communism, and islamism. >>

You are also 100% Right. There is no effective difference.

Not among any of those three nor between them and "progressivism," "socialism," "democratic-socialism" and/or the politics of the vast criminal enterprises known in America as the "Democratic" party and in once-great Britain as Tiny Blair's "new Labour potty"

And you DID post it, to boot!

So, thank you. Too.

Blessings -- B A

[Mark17]

So, thank you. Too.

LOL, regards.

[SJackson]

Is your point that Palestinians are anti-semitic? Or that Jordanians with a large Palestinian population or that Egyptians who fought numerous wars with Israel are anit-semitic?…Well duh! The question is, do you think it helps the argument to try and link them to Nazi's or do you think it immediately turns off 90% of the population who are tired of hearing about how everyone we don't like are Nazi's. I've heard Bush is a Nazi, Clinton is a Nazi, Gore is a Nazi, Cheney is a Nazi, Buchanan is a Nazi, etc, etc. The broad stroke of Nazi means nothing today and in fact it turns people away from the facts…Arabs want to destroy Israel (and America by the way, it's not just Jews). Rather than just paint them with the broad brush of Nazi, we need to change their minds and heart by introducing freedoms and government reforms and overthrow. Eradicate the terrorist population and bring free enterprise to the region. There will always be the anti-Israel, anti-US groups but we can make them fringe groups by bringing a "middle-class" that is dependant on trade with other nations.

You’re right, Bush isn’t a Nazi, nor is Clinton, and I’d agree the constant use of the term demeans the enormity of the evil of National Socialism.

However the connections between National Socialism and the Muslims of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, jihadists and Baathists too, is a historical fact. Recognizing the NAZI roots of their worldview, and their wahabbi roots, is certainly relevant if you wish to change their “hearts and mines”.

[finnman69]

Bump for the poor South Korean

[RightWhale]

You have an about page?

[Vigilantcitizen]

Major Bumpage.