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September 3, 2010
Germany’s Curious Century of Islamic Relations
Germany was late in empire building too—unlike Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands. Part of the injured pride that spurred Hitler’s World War II was the lust for empire—which Germany enjoyed in its brief explosion as Nazis.
Even before 1871, German scholars were fascinated by the Muslim world, particularly the Turkic Muslim world of Central Asia and Persia. In Sino-Iranica (1919), Berthold Laufer devoted an entire book to the agricultural gifts exchanged by the Persian and Chinese emperors across the Silk Road (300-600 AD). To do this, Laufer had to read and understand both Persian and Court Chinese—and many of the dialects between. Dazzling German scholarship.
During World War I, the Germans were allies with the Turkish Ottoman Empire—both losers of that war. But the fascination with Turkic Central Asians continued, and one scholar, a devoted Nazi during World War II, recruited Tatar, Uzbek, and Kyrgiz Muslim subjects of the Soviet empire and used them to fight the USSR. They were a fierce and effective fighting force, especially when using German armaments. Nazi propaganda emphasized Communist irreligion, bolstered the age-old anti-Semitism of Muslims, and attacking Russian, British, and French colonialism. In North Africa, Nazi propaganda promised Muslims freedom from colonialism after the war and the death of all Jews living among them. This was a powerful argument for Muslims supporting Germany.
During that same period, Palestinian Arabs, formerly Turkish subjects and then under British mandate, were chafing at the resurgence of Jewish life there. The Grand Mufti, the chief cleric of the Palestinians, was not only rabidly anti-Jewish, but was also a devout Nazi—even honored with a personal meeting with Hitler (and a flood of German money).
After World War II, Arabs hid Nazi war criminals and absorbed so much fascist doctrine that it is no surprise that the movement of resurgent fundamentalist Islam should be married to fascism—this giving truth to calling Militant Islam “Islamo-Fascism.” This murderous movement threatens not only the West, but also Muslim states in various stages of modernization.
The book to read is Ian Johnson’s A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West (2010). The United States, like the Germany before them, recognized that they could prevent inroads of Communism among Muslims by supporting Islam—thus one of the reasons for our support of Muslim countries whose culture is antithetical to everything we believe in. Because of Cold War ideology, the “enemy of our enemy” became our friend. We are now paying the price for this folly.
If Militant Islam were only a Muslim problem, we could commiserate but not worry. However, Islamo-Fascism has moved to the west, entrenched in ever-increasing mosque building, Muslim Student Associations, and legal muscle that manages to use our own legal institutions against us.In Chapter 8 of A Mosque in Munich, an Egyptian law professor, Said Ramadan (above), was accepted by Cologne University to do his Doctoral dissertation. He was not just a law student interested in Islamic Law, but an active revolutionary agent. He was the son-in-law of Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, and tireless in pursuit of a political agenda for Islam, including justification for violence.
Ramadan’s son, now a Swiss citizen, has continued his father’s work. However, he has bamboozled a generation of European university students and has sought entry to the United States as a visiting scholar for Notre Dame University. The question for our State Department is whether this man is merely a benign academic or does he fit the description of a militant Islamist pied piper. Had 9/11 not happened, he might have been seen as the former.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman is an historian, lecturer, and author who also writes for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. You may contact her at Lfarhat102@aol.com or http://www.globalthink.net/.
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I much suspect it's the other way around - Mazism actually was influenced by Islamism; very much a taboo topic, but should be reopened for investigation by brave historians and scholars! To blame Nazism completely is actually, a strategic propaganda 'weapon' used by Muslim fanatics to absolve blame from themselves and Islam for their past and continuous hatred and crimes against the Jews! Anti-Semitism, I suspect, was constructed originally by Mohammed, the Arabic founder of Islam. In order to annihilate the Jews completely, he ‘racialized’ the Jews, as enemy of the Arab race. Besides, the history of the first brutal and systematic Genocide of the Jews in history, that include the wiping out the last village of the Jews in 627AD in Khaibar, is by Mohammed, in his goal to construct pure Arabian-Islamic Caliphate – see http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf15.html#23 or http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/25/1/ or in the book Dr. Andrew G. Bostom (Ed.), The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, Reprint edition, (Prometheus Books;, 2008, New York).
Mohammed’s army (even after his death in 632AD) then went on to conquer Christian Kingdoms in 718AD until the 15th. century, in the Iberian Peninsula, of what is now Portugal and Spain – See http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/history/world/2876-when-christendom-pushed-back and http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=ebv#1741.
Later on, more Genocide of the Jews, by Mohammed’s Muslim army when “…hundreds of Jews killed between 1010 and 1013 near Cordoba, and other parts of Muslim Spain; of the massacre of the entire Jewish community of roughly 4000 in Granada during the Muslim riots of 1066…†– see foreword by Ibn Warraq, a former Muslim and scholar at – http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/25/1/ . The Jews were spared earlier as they were forced or exploited to be used as soldiers, intellectuals (I suspect Mohammed used the intellectuality and writing-skills of the Jewish intellectuals, where many were also forced to convert to Islam, to plagiarize from the Bible and the Torah) and craftsmen, against Christian majority. Thus violent Arab-Muslims, is suspected to have sowed the seed for extreme hateful and racialized anti-Jew belief and attitude amongst the Christians, who have co-existed with the Jews, although amidst religious conflicts, before in ancient Europe.
posted by: Katharina Sri (ex Noor Aza)
Friday, September 3, 2010 at 10:24 PM
Dear "I suspect"
Your so much of suspect from the start shows you are not talking about topic but trying to prove one new theory as you know in the west they like theory that does not effect them .
come with the facts and proves and Please read Life of Prophet Mohammed (Peace and Blessing Upon Him) , and go and have a look at the History of Islam in Europe Documentary and all the other sources
"i suspect" you just wake up lol whoever you are without knowledge
posted by: Ali
Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 07:05 PM
