Mein Kampf for sale, in Arabic

The Telegraph ^ | 19/03/2002 | Sean O'Neill and John Steele

[grimalkin]

AN Arabic translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf which has become a bestseller in the Palestinian territories is now on sale in Britain.

The book, Hitler's account of his life and anti-Semitic ideology written while he was in prison in the 1920s, is normally found in Britain in academic or political bookshops.

But The Telegraph found it on sale in three newsagents on Edgware Road, central London, an area with a large Arab population.

The book, originally translated in the 1960s and revived by Bisan, a Lebanese publisher in the 1990s, has a picture of Hitler and a swastika on the cover and is selling for £10.

Although the Bavarian state government, which claims copyright in the text, has tried to stop its publication around the world, Mein Kampf became the sixth best selling book in the Palestinian Authority area.

Copies of the translation are understood to have been distributed to London shops towards the end of last year and have been selling well.

In the preface, Luis al-Haj, the translator, states: "National Socialism did not die with the death of its herald. Rather, its seeds multiplied under each star."

The book was on sale alongside newspapers, magazines, cigarettes and sweets at a newsagent's kiosk.

"People are interested in it," said the shop assistant. "It is legal to sell it. London is a free city and, anyway, he has been dead a very long time."

Andrew Dismore, Labour MP for Hendon, said the distribution of an Arabic version of Mein Kampf was "a very worrying trend" and he would be tabling questions to the Home Secretary.

[BrooklynGOP]

No comments necessary, I think the article speak for itself.

[ChadGore]

Who needs to bash Islam when they beat themselves up like this.

[ChadGore]

Jihad = Mein Kampf

[xm177e2]

Both mean "struggle"

[jrlc]

Another article to file under the category "Islam is a Peaceful Religion."

[Grut]

I wonder if it's any less dull in Arabic than it is in English; my definition of a fanatic is anyone who can get past about page 110 in it.

[weegee]

BUMP

[FreedomPoster]

I've been saying since early-on that we are dealing with a ruthless totalitarian political system masquerading as a religion. More proof that this is so.

[scouse]

is selling for £10.

That's a lot of money just to line a bird cage.

[nmh]

"AN Arabic translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf which has become a bestseller in the Palestinian territories is now on sale in Britain. "

Hmmmm, this will give them even more ideas. These people are as ant-Semetic and anti-Christian as you can get and so was Hitler.

[nmh]

"Jihad seeks to succeed where Mein Kampf failed."

You've said it best.

[nmh]

Think Bush might catch on soon? After all his undergraduate degree is in HISTORY. Surely he knows about Hilter and the Muslim reign of terror. Maybe, just maybe with this little tid bit he'll put it all together. My *ss that Muslims are a peace loving group. Bull.

[Catspaw]

Jihad is always called "struggle" by Arabs, but they pretend it means a day-to-day struggle (things like the struggle with rasing children). I think we all know by now that Jihad has nothing whatsoever to do with raising children - but has everything to do with killing me, you and anything else non-Islamic.

This is impossible. Why just last week, Hannan Ashwari, the Yasser's spokesmouth and Peter Jenning's former squeeze, said on MSNBC that Jihad means "peace."

I am NOT making this up.

[liberalism=failure]

Jewish people are white, very successful, Europeans are and they are up against Brown, totally unsuccessful, Third world types.

It was inevitable that the Marxists would turn anti-semitic.

Its interesting that a lot of Jews will tell you they could never be conservative because Hitler was (SUPPOSEDLY)on the right. Well guess who's sneaking up on them while they're looking the other way.

[another cricket]

I wonder if it's any less dull in Arabic than it is in English

Nothing could make that thing any less dull. I was supposed to read it to learn about evil. I learned that evil is boring and won't shut up! Three second idea = 5 hour rant.

Worst month of my life.

a. cricket