tinydancer
Diamond Member
opinions are not facts. exactly what legacy lives on today? you gave me a timeline of al-husseini's activities from about 1940 on. he was fighting for arab nationalism and against european colonialism. i think that is a legacy that lives on...and it is not a legacy of islam. it is a legacy of a people who have fought for their independence, primarily against the british, long beore hitler came along.
you mentioned haj amin al-husseini and that is one muslim. that was to whom i was responding in YOUR post.
shall we discuss france's historical ties to hitler or shall we think of degaulle and the free french forces helping to liberate paris.
there is no historical connection between islam and the NAZIs and you cannot seem to understand that. islam is a non centralised religion not unlie judaism organisationally. neither religion has a central authority.
With all due respect, you are missing the point I am making.
The Grand Mufti and other exiles and the Nazi propaganda machine collaborated on a major propaganda effort using selective portions of the Koran and Islamic traditions to poison the Arab world against Jews and against the west.
I have to address this. I gave you early on in the thread his activities before 1940. He was appointed Grand Mufti by the First High Commissioner to Palestine strangely enough by a British Jew.
His greatest talent was not as a freedom fighter, but whipping others into a frenzy. A demagogue if you will. He ran in the middle of the Arab Revolt. 1937. He always let others do the fighting.
so what. it didn't work. he raised an army of what, 10,000 troops in bosnia, maybe. tell, me, how many troops did he raise in senegal? mali, turkey. he did not represent islam.
right now, we have a rabbi on the west bank, a very well respected talmudic(interpretation.of jewish law) scholar, preaching that it is alright to kill arab children...it is a mitzvah.
so ok...if islam has a historic connection with the NAZIs, then judaism has a historic connection with the infanticide of gentile babies?
all we are doing now is going in circles by the way. is their any reason to prpolong this? you have not proved that islam has a historic connection with the NAZIs. you have proved that small, isolated factions of islam, or muslim individuals used the NAZIs to further their own ends of nationalism.
or pwrhaps you actually think that hitler, in his desire for a genetically pure german race, actually thought muslim peoples, some as black as the ace of spades, would fit in nicely with the genetic purity he was trying to achieve.
He was using Islam. I'm proving that with quotes. By his actions. I've not even gotten into the radio broadcasts yet.
The Grand Mufti and others were using Islam working in collaboration with the Nazis. It is history.