The Swastika and the Crescent

Southern Poverty Law Center ^ | Spring 2002 | Martin A. Lee

[West Coast Conservative]

As Germany's defeat loomed during the final months of World War II, Adolf Hitler increasingly lapsed into delusional fits of fantasy.

Albert Speer, in his prison writings, recounts an episode in which a maniacal Hitler "pictured for himself and for us the destruction of New York in a hurricane of fire."

The Nazi fuehrer described skyscrapers turning into "gigantic burning torches, collapsing upon one another, the glow of the exploding city illuminating the dark sky."

An approximation of Hitler's hellish vision came true on Sept. 11, when terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers in New York, killing nearly 3,000 people. But it was not Nazis or even neo-Nazis who carried out the attack — the deadliest terror strike in history allegedly came at the hands of foreign Muslim extremists.

Still, in the aftermath of the slaughter, white supremacists in America and Europe applauded the suicide attacks and praised Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the massacre.

An official of America's premier neo-Nazi group, the National Alliance, said he wished his own members had "half as much testicular fortitude." The awestruck leader of another U.S. Nazi group called the terrorists "VERY BRAVE PEOPLE."

Neofascist youth in France celebrated the event that evening with champagne at the headquarters of the extreme right Front National. German neo-Nazis, some wearing checkered Palestinian headscarves, rejoiced at street demonstrations while burning an American flag.

Jan Kopal, head of the Czech National Social Bloc, declared at a rally in Prague that bin Laden was "an example for our children."

Horst Mahler, a former left-wing terrorist and prominent member of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) in Germany, proclaimed his solidarity with the terrorists and said America had gotten what it deserved.

What's going on here?

[justa-hairyape]

America appears to be the number one enemy of the Nazi, and it probably has something to do with Americas performance in WWII. America also appears to be the number one enemy of the Islamic Terrorist, and this probably has something to do with Americas performance in the Gulf Wars.

[nathanbedford]

What's going on here?

What's going on here is an effort by an extremly left wing money machine run by Morris Dees called The Southern Poverty Law Center to gin up more money for the center. The center, operated by a former direct mailer has exploited those mailing secrets to become one of the most sucessful solicitor of liberals' money primarly through scare tatics so transparent here.

Dees was sucessful in a suit against the Klu Klux Klan thus putting them out of business (which was a good thing) by obtaining a huge money judgment by distorting the intent of the federal anti mafia statutes and taking a step toward criminalizing political thought and speech (which is a bad thing)

Now Dees is directing his activism against the Minutemen along our southern borders in an attempt to intimidate them with the same sort of lawsuit and to further leftist goals of open immigration.

Naturally, Dees is a darling of the media and is often quoteed authoritatively. By wraping himself and his Center in formulaic anti-nazi (who could be against that) and anti-racist (ditto) and now anti-terrorist (double ditto) rhetoric he makes himself and his organization above legitimate criticism.

Nothing could be more dangerous than a Leftist lawyer with a sympathetic leftist judge, a bully pulpit in the media, and very very deep pockets.

This article should have been posted only with a CAVEAT EMPTOR.

[Piranha]

Did you read the article? This could have been published in FrontPage.com (in fact, something very similar was posted here from FrontPage.com). The article is linking Islamofascists with Nazi and Neo-Nazi extremists.

If, as you say, the SPLC is left wing, and left wing groups are beginning to understand the connection, then this is great news for the US and the global war on terror. It also is devastating news for CAIR.

[nathanbedford]

This is what our Mr. Dees would leave unchecked if he gets his way: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3172142

[Condor51]

***If, as you say, the SPLC is left wing...***

"If" ?!?
With all due respect, where have you been? (that's rhetorical)

The SPLC is a freaking communist organization. They hide behind the facade of being "anti nazi". Anyone who disagrees with them gets the label of Nazi or or the ever popular 'anti semite' label.

[libstripper]

Islamists and Nazis have a long and happy history of cooperation. Before and during WWII the Arabs, including the Grand Mufti, did their level best to collaborate with the Nazis against the Allies. Indeed, this article acknowledges that fact when it states:

Even before World War II, Western fascists began to forge ideological and operational ties to Islamic extremists.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[GadareneDemoniac]

Mark my words, old Morris Dees and his crowd will find a way to use this to bash Christians and conservatives.
A real smart man once said that leopards don't/can't change thir spots.

[Calpernia]

ping

[justa-hairyape]

Even before World War II, Western fascists began to forge ideological and operational ties to Islamic extremists.

Perhaps the roots for this operational tie actually began as far back as when the King of France betrayed and attacked the original Knights Templar ? On the bad luck day Friday the 13th ? On that day the islamic extremists knew that their goals can occasionally coincide with the goals of some of Europes elite fascist.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Fedora]

Thanks for the ping!

[Alkhin]

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[Alkhin]

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[piasa]

1968 : (YOUTH FOR GEORGE WALLACE MOVEMENT IS STARTED; FROM IT WOULD EVENTUALLY SPROUT THE ANTI-SEMITIC & ANTI CHRISTIAN 'NATIONAL ALLIANCE' LED BY DR. WILLIAM PIERCE aka ANDREW MACDONALD, AUTHOR OF THE TURNER DIARIES) National Alliance grew out of the 1968 "Youth for (George) Wallace" movement. A university physics professor named Dr. William Pierce emerged as its leader, forging a Nazi-inspired movement at once both anti-Semitic and self-consciously anti-Christian. Pierce’s novel The Turner Diaries (written under his acknowledged pen name, "Andrew MacDonald") describes how its protagonists carried off a terrorist attack on a federal building when a homemade nitrous ammonium bomb planted in a parked delivery truck exploded at just after 9 a.m. Pierce went to his eternal reward on July 23, 2002. - "The Antiwar Movement's Nazi Connection," by Ben Johnson, Front Page Magazine , 4/25/2003