'Jews are descended from pigs and apes!
No, this isn't Nazi rhetoric. This is Mohammed's.
Those sentiments are found in the Quran, and in the mouths of Muslims even to this day.
Let's look at both Islam and Nazism, and you'll see the similarities.
Why was Islam so attractive to Arabs? It established Ishmael's precedence over Isaac. The Arab race has been defined by Abraham choosing Isaac in Ishmael's stead. They felt abandoned, castoff, and rejected. That's where Mohammed enters the scene. He told them that they were superior to Jews, and to anyone else. He promised them greatness at the expense of others. Mohammed went to great lengths to dehumanize Jews, and his enemies in general. He claimed that Allah had turned Jews into apes and pigs. He massacred an entire Jewish settlement, claiming that Gabriel had appeared to him and told him to do so. That's just ONE example. The Quran itself is full of commands to kill 'infidels'(usually Jews or Christians), and to slaughter them wherever they are hiding. Sounds pretty similar to the relentless hunting of Jews practiced by the S.S.
The Quran also says that those Muslims who do not join the fight are 'hypocrites', and that they will burn in hell for not doing so.
Ironic isn't it? Christianity says you'll go to hell if you don't accept the sacrifice of Jesus, who gave His life for you. Islam threatens to send you to hell for refusing to kill infidels.
But you say, that was a long time ago! Islam is much more civilized now!
Really?
Even today, despite years of white-washing by historians to hide Islam's brutal history, the truth still slips out, usually from the mouths of Muslims themselves.
In 2005, a popular Saudi lecturer repeated the claim that "Jews are the sons of monkeys and pigs". In 2009, a prominent Egyptian political figure took it a step further(or mixed up his history) when he claimed that the pigs living today are descended from Jews, and as such, should be killed. A Syrian official made a similar statement in 2007. Most damning of all, the highest ranking cleric for the Sunni Muslims(their pope, basically) called Jews the "T
he enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs."
Very tolerant indeed!
Now, what about Nazism?
The German nation wast quite possibly at its lowest point in their history. They had lost World War I, been forced to give up vast amounts of territory, military power, etc. They were under a crushing burden of debt, and faced a terrible depression. Their self-esteem as a people was at an all time low. Then Hitler came. He told them that they were the master race, that they were genetically superior, and that as such, they should rule the Earth. Everyone who wasn't Aryan would either serve them, or be killed, as was the case with Jews. He possessed an especially strong hatred for Jews.
The Nazis, like Mohammed before them, tried to dehumanize the Jews. They were considered as low as animals, and Himmler, head of the S.S, had this to say, "
Antisemitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology. It is a matter of cleanliness."
Even more telling, Hitler tried to make an alliance with
Haj Amin Husseini, the leader of the Muslim population in the British Mandate of Palestine. Here is some of what he had to say to Husseini:
"The FŸhrer made the following declaration, requesting the Mufti to lock it deep in his heart:
1) He (the FŸhrer) would carry on the fight until the last traces of the Jewish-Communist European hegemony had been obliterated.
2) In the course of this fight, the German army would - at a time that could not yet be specified, but in any case in the clearly foreseeable future - gain the Southern exit of Caucasus.
3) As soon as this breakthrough was made, the FŸhrer would offer the Arab world his personal assurance that the hour of liberation had struck. Thereafter, Germany's only remaining objective in the region would be limited to the annihilation of the Jews living under British protection in Arab lands."
So in both Nazism and Islam before it, Jews and those who support them are compared to animals, and in both cases, they were treated like animals. The methods, beliefs, and goals were the same, and the results were only different because Hitler had the means and the technology to kill and enslave more Jews than Mohammed and his followers ever could.
Who knows though? Hitler is dead, and the few Nazis that still remain are essentially powerless.
There's still plenty of time for Islam to catch up.
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