In 1926, Hitler published Mein Kampf which detailed his plan to exterminate Jews and anyone who did not share his ideology. When he published it, he was an obscure politician in a minority party that no one took seriously. It was first translated into English in 1931 – 7 years prior to the beginning of the Holocaust during which the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews (2/3rd of the Jews in Europe) and more than 5 million non-Germans, homosexuals, and disabled individuals among other groups of people.
It all began on November 7, 1938, also known as Kristallnacht, with a citizen uprising of rage towards Jews because one lone 16 year old Jewish boy assassinated a Nazi diplomat in Paris. In response, the Nazi’s sponsored a night of violence towards Jews in Germany killing many and destroying every Jewish temple in Germany in addition to Jewish businesses. The Nazi’s claimed the uprising was spontaneous, but Jews were immediately carted off to concentration camps.
My question: What if Mein Kampf had been taken seriously when first published?
A good lesson: When people tell you they want to kill you, you need to take them seriously.
Examples: The Columbine School shooters created a website that detailed the violence they wanted to perpetrate against fellow students and teachers. The Tucson shooter wrote what he intended to do. The U.S. government had warnings of Bin Laden’s plans prior to 9/11. The Underwear Bomber wrote about his “jihad fantasies.”
Warning: The Muslim Brotherhood has consistently expressed its Anti-American sentiment.
Here is a link to a Muslim Brotherhood document entered into evidence in a terrorist funding trial in Dallas, Texas, in 2008. It is their plan for America in their own words. The English translation begins on page 16.
Here’s the English version of the Muslim Brotherhood’s website. See the cute little girl at the top next to the word “Freedom?” Here’s the Arabic version of the Muslim Brotherhood’s website. See the circle with swords in place of the girl? The word under the swords says “Prepare.”
We can argue the virtues and vices of the Muslim Brotherhood. The liberal media can tell one story and the conservative media another. The government can start out not anti-Brotherhood and then change their minds and recognize them as a "potent political and religious force." For me the debate is over. Today I saw that Iran’s Ahmadinejad is excited over what is going on in Egypt. He supports it and notes the similarities between it and 1979 Iran. He sees something some Americans refuse to acknowledge. By the way, Iran has a terrible human rights record which includes torture and disappearances of citizens. He believes (as many extremists do) that by creating global calamity he can help usher in the 12th Imam – a perfect human being who will set up Islamic rule throughout the globe – including America. The system of government is called a Caliphate. A world-wide Caliphate is what the Muslim Brotherhood aspires to as well.
It would be dangerous to ignore their aspirations or belive it impossible to create a world-wide Caliphate. In 1926, who would have believed that just 12 years later the then obscure Hitler could engineer the Holocaust and murder more than 11 million people?
I happened upon an amazing man who’s done an amazing thing. His name is Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser.
Picture from http://www.aifdemocracy.org/about/members.php
Dr. Jasser’s parents moved here from Syria so that their children might know true freedom and have a chance at the American Dream. Dr. Jasser has taken full advantage of the opportunity. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and an M.D. After 9/11, he founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. He's a devout Muslim with a kind and gentle spirit. He is also a devout American, a freedom-lover, and a Capitalist. Despite his devotion, Dr. Jasser believes in separation of mosque and state. Please read his articles at the links below. I could summarize what I’ve learned from him, but it would be a shame if you missed out on experiencing him through his own words.
After the Tuscon shooting, a "church" that claims to be Christian threatened to protest the victims’ funerals and applauded the shooter as having delivered God’s justice. I was furious! I expressed my outrage to Ann and shared my fear that people would mistake those awful people for Christians. I didn’t want to be lumped in with them. She comforted me and told me that there are extremists in every religion. She assured me that no one would mistake me for them. Do not mistake Islamic extremists like the Muslim Brotherhood for Muslims like Dr. Jasser or other fellow citizens whose religion has been hijacked by evil people.
Don't you think the ad hitlerum fear mongering is laying it on a little thick?
ReplyDeleteIf you are trying to find the Muslim Brotherhood's current point of view, digging up a 2008 court document of a 1991 translation of a 1987 memorandum from a file cabinet in Dallas seems like a real stretch. There were plenty of radical Muslims in the 80s. How is that relevant 35 years later?
From Shannon: Aryan Brotherhood and white supremacist morons still use Mein Kampf as their bible more than 80 years later. 35 years is not that long in the grand scheme of things. Show me where they've repudiated their prior stance towards America in the ensuing 35 years and I'll happily post it as well.
ReplyDeleteI think that in Germany the contents of the book were taken seriously, by at least the majority voters there, as this convicted felon was subsequently elected there. He sold it and they (German sheeple) bought it. Keep "sheeple" in mind.
ReplyDeleteBy the time a reasonable true copy was published here in the US (about 1939) it was too late to do anything to stop the out of control freight train of hate.
Before the war, Mussolini reportedly read the book and dismissed it as nonsense. Well,well well!
Bottom line? Sheeple! "The implication of sheeple is that as a collective, people believe or do whatever they are told, especially if told so by a perceived authority figure believed to be trustworthy, without critically thinking about it or doing adequate research to be sure that it is an accurate representation of the real world around them." Sheeple here? How about the ill-informed, often uneducated....NITWITS.....who believe that providing healthcare or any assistance for that matter, to the needy in our country will be the ruination of this great country. I see them gathering now.....going to the polls to STOP this out of control freight train that bearing down on them and will mean the end of life as they know it! As they step over their neighbor who is slowly dying because they are too weak or poor to take care of themselves. Do away with the weak so that the strong may prosper! Mein Kampf!
ANYONE see a correlation here!
Wow! If you let the liberal elite just talk they will reveal to conservatives how they dispise you and how they think themselves better than you... "... ill informed, uneducated, NITWITS" ! Really? The ones who read the bill themselves compared to the ones who didn't, then carelessly passed it and even said, "We won't know what all is in the bill until we pass it." The liberals are the modern day self proclaimed "Sophists". Well trained To fetch but not think for themselves. Can anyone else read the hate expressed in the previous post? Must be lonely living in a world where you are the only perfect one.
ReplyDeleteHey Shannon. I think 35 years is a long time. Was Germany in 1939 the same as Germany in 1974? Anyway, your whole argument is flawed in thinking Mein Kampf was some sudden historical aberration in German history. You can go back hundreds of years to find the root populist pseudo-intellectual anti-Semitism in Martin Luther's On the Jews and Their Lies. Sadly, Luther is still held up as a heroic figure is some quarters. So maybe no one took Hitler's book seriously, but it's not like no one ever picked up a copy of Luther's Collected Works.
ReplyDelete(Of course this doesn't mean that all Lutherans are blood thirsty folk out for Jewish blood. Although I'd be comforted with some statement of explicit refudiation from them as well!)
The Muslim Brotherhood has likewise said some over the top things in the past, but I try to remember the words of Jefferson when it comes to demonizing foreigners, that we should regard such forces "in times of war enemies, and in times of peace friends" whatever their rhetoric. Since they have never attacked us, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Conan776... Put the Koolaid down...
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