Posted on 09/26/2016 5:02:50 AM PDT by SJackson
On February 27, 2016, Dr. Entesar Al-Banna, a columnist for the Bahraini daily Al-Watan, wrote that she had discovered, much to her surprise, that many young Arabs idolize Adolf Hitler, mainly for his strength and steadfastness in fighting the entire world. She assessed that this phenomenon stems from the wave of violence afflicting the region and the sense of helplessness that it causes, as a result of which people look to someone who challenged the rest of the globe. According to her, this worship of strength reflects the instability and the crisis of the Arab world, a crisis which is manifested in many ways, ranging from suppression of free expression to the use of extreme violence on all levels.
The following are excerpts from her column:[1]
"In a course for teenage girls, where I was present, the instructor asked the girls an ordinary question: 'Who is your favorite figure?' Most of the answers were interesting, and included new media figures with whom I am not familiar, especially from Snapchat. But the shocking answer given by several of the girls – which compelled me to argue with them – was that they were fans of Hitler!
"I interrupted one of the girls who said that Hitler was her favorite figure, asking her: 'Are you serious or joking?' She looked at me, amazed, and replied: 'Yes, I am serious.' This led another girl to add: 'I too love Hitler's personality.' I asked the first girl: 'What do you like about Hitler's personality?' She responded, very confidently: 'His strength, and his ability to unite his country's military and leadership and to stand fast in war.' I asked her: 'Do you realize that his strength caused an entire world war, and the destruction of Germany and France?' She responded: 'Yes. I read his book Mein Kampf and was impressed by his strength, his faith, and his perseverance.'
"Her answer surprised me still further, because I myself haven't read Hitler's [auto]biography, nor am I curious to read it. I told her: 'But Hitler was a dictator who heeded nothing but his inner voice, and was a racist who recognized only the German Aryan race.' She responded: 'So what? It was enough that he was strong!' Then she changed the subject, saying: 'I also like the strong militant personality of Che Guevara.' Here I took advantage of the difference [between the two figures] in order to fulfil my formal role as a teacher, and told her that there is a difference between Hitler's racist and dictatorial values and Che Guevara's universal values, which favor the oppressed peoples and strive for justice and liberation. I suggested that she see the movie about Che Guevara's life story, even though I, in all honesty, haven't seen that either. And then she surprised me a third time by saying that she had read his [auto]biography, which had more depth than the movie. I didn't even know that Che Guevara had written an autobiography.
"The young girls' admiration of Hitler's personality and their inclination towards powerful [figures] led me to search for [material] on 'Hitler adoration' and fandom, and indeed, I discovered a wide spectrum of young Arabs who love Hitler. Some said they admired him for killing the Jews, but most were enchanted by his strength, determination, and steadfastness. This begs the question: What is behind these young peoples' love of strength? Are they fans of the violence engulfing the region? Or does the sense of helplessness and weakness [cause them] to adore of a figure who challenged the world with his strength and led an entire people to fight the world?
"We are facing a generation of young people who read [books], in an age when reading is considered obsolete – except that these [young people] read [material] of a very worrisome stripe, and acquire twisted values that could impact their future awareness, the extent of their control over things, and their situational assessments. The desire for acquiring and expressing power and for challenging the other has become a secret wish that steals into the hearts of these young people and which is expressed in many ways. This wish reflects the reality of a crisis-ridden, unstable society, [a reality whose expressions] range from suppression of free expression to the use of extreme violence on all levels – verbal, physical, and electronic [media violence]."
Endnote:
[1] Al-Watan (Bahrain), February 27, 2016.
Anyone who has done any studying outside of a public school knows this. Hitler persecuted Jews. Muslims persecute Jews. They were natural allies and he was welcomed in the Middle East as a hero and that legacy endures.
Why wouldn’t it? A megalomaniac with dreams of world domination and who hates Jews. Sounds like an Islamic wet dream.
Anyone who has done any studying outside of a public school knows this. Hitler persecuted Jews. Muslims persecute Jews. They were natural allies and he was welcomed in the Middle East as a hero and that legacy endures.
Why wouldn’t it? A megalomaniac with dreams of world domination and who hates Jews. Sounds like an Islamic wet dream.
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Could it be their education?
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Saddam was on his way to fill this role until he ran afoul of Bushes. Which is better, Saddam's empire or Jihadi caliphate?
The million dollar question:
Do Islamics connected their violent, non peaceful world, as justice for their violence toward others??
Do Islamics know peaceful people have peaceful lives, unlike violent Islam??
Cancer or AIDS...I suppose the Jihadi caliphate because I don’t think Saddam would’ve been infiltrating the West as such.
Saddam's empire would be more preoccupied with its regional rivals, Iran, Turkey, and Egypt.
Have to agree. Saddam was more of a grand chessboard wannabe imperialist, not a subversive conqueror.
He is stupid then. Nazis worked with Muslim radicals in the 30s. They are united by hate for Jews and Christians. Easy to figure out they would like each other.
“Do Islamics connected their violent, non peaceful world, as justice for their violence toward others?? Do Islamics know peaceful people have peaceful lives, unlike violent Islam??”
Muslims actually believe the world is divided into two spheres: 1) Dar al-Salam which essentially means House or Abode of Peace in Arabic, and 2) Dar al-Harb which essentially means the House of War.
Countries not under Sharia law are in Dar al-Harb and are, therefore, subject to warfare, violence. Those under Sharia law are at peace (even if they are actually experiencing constant war) because they are obedient to Allah’s law. So, for the Muslim, peace is about being obedient to Allah. It really doesn’t matter if that entails constant killing and dying. They will still call it peace. It’s like something right out of 1984: “War is Peace” http://literarydevices.net/war-is-peace/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisions_of_the_world_in_Islam
They were allies of the nazi socialists in WWII. Why the shock. I guarantee the Obamas idolize hitler too.
Dr. Entesar Al-Banna is a hothouse twit. She has no knowledge of the culture of which she is a part. She is massively uninformed about historical figures. Her little diatribe about Che is nuseating in its imbecilic naivete. The simple fact that she has no knowledge of the historical connection between Islam and National Socialism is sufficient to question the credibility of her degree.
Don’t say arab when you mean muslim.
In other words, he was a modern, German Mohammed.
In a few rare areas, he was more virtuous than Mohammed. For example, Eva Braun was more than 9 years old. Also, Adolf liked dogs.
Do they care?
Not a wit.
I agree. I was rather startled to see how ill-informed she was regarding Che too.
This sort of massive ignorance is to be expected in the Arabic world, however. Remember, Spain, in one year, publishes more translations of foreign language books, than the entire Arab speaking world has done in 1400 years. You read that correctly - in one year.
Proof: “The report was only diplomatic concerning implicit criticisms of extremist Islamist movements as a cause of the culture of backwardness and absence of fertile ground for democracy. Interestingly, the report found that the total number of books translated into Arabic yearly is no more than 330, or one-fifth of those translated in a small country like Greece.
“Indeed, the total number of books translated into Arabic during the 1,000 years since the age of Caliph Al-Ma’moun [a ninth-century Arab ruler who was a patron of cultural interaction between Arab, Persian, and Greek scholars—WPR] to this day is less than those translated in Spain in one year.”
http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/663.cfm
https://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/2009/08/10/a-note-on-arabic-literacy-and-translation/
Scary to say that your entire 2nd paragraph also describes Obummer.
Why not?? Their grand-fathers were very much a part of Hitler’s regime.
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