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The Lessons of History: Kristallnacht in Egypt
PJ Media ^ | August 20, 2013 | Hans A. von Spakovsky

Posted on 08/20/2013 12:23:55 PM PDT by jazusamo

To embrace the Muslim Brotherhood is to endorse a direct descendant of the Nazi Party.

As the military (with the support of secular groups that don’t want an Islamist state) battles the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Americans argue over how to react, we should look back at history to understand why we should support the military as the lesser of two evils and hope for its success. Those who know the history of the Muslim Brotherhood and see the murderous attacks it has launched on the homes, businesses, schools, and churches of Coptic Christians, who represent about 10 percent of the population, will recognize that we have seen this type of behavior before.

The Brotherhood is simply using the same tactics and ideology of the political party that it allied itself with in the 1930s and 40s: the Nazi Party. What is happening to the Coptic Christians being beaten, kidnapped, and killed all over Egypt is similar to [1] what happened to Jews in Germany during Kristallnacht [2] on November 9-10, 1938, when Jews were killed and beaten and their homes, stores, schools, and synagogues ransacked, looted, and demolished in Germany and Austria.

The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Sheikh Hassan al-Banna, who was a great admirer of Adolph Hitler and who formed an alliance with the Nazis. The Brotherhood helped distribute translated copies of Mein Kampf and other Nazi propaganda. The ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood is eerily similar to Nazi fascism, including its ultimate objective of world conquest and a new caliphate. The only difference is it believes in the supremacy of Islam instead of the supremacy of the Aryan race.

The Nazis even helped fund the Great Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 against the Jews and British in Palestine, which was led by Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was al-Husseini who met with Hitler in 1941 [3] and helped augment the traditional Arab hatred of Jews with plans for a genocidal campaign against Jews.

The fascist origins of the Muslim Brotherhood are fully ingrained in everything it does. Its hatred for Jews has migrated into a hatred of all non-Muslims, particularly Christian Arabs. In the Muslim Brotherhood’s eyes, Coptic Egyptians are traitors to their race and the only true religion, Islam. Many Americans refuse to understand that jihadists like the Brotherhood do not accept any separation between church and state — the only acceptable government is a Muslim theocratic state based on Sharia law.

There is another parallel to Nazi Germany in the situation in Egypt that Americans should also keep in mind. Adolph Hitler and the Nazis were democratically elected in the 1932 elections just like Mohamed Morsi was in 2012. Hitler then set out to destroy Germany’s democracy [4] and make himself and the Nazi Party its supreme ruler. Morsi has spent the past year taking the same type of steps, slowly throttling his opposition and media critics, and working to make his formally banned fascist party, the Muslim Brotherhood, sovereign over all of Egypt.

Just like Hitler and the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood wants full dictatorial control of the country and the elimination of Jews, Christians, and all non-Muslims. There is no question that if they can gain control of the military, they will do everything possible to prepare for and launch a war to destroy Israel. That is a fundamental tenet of their ideology.

Many forget that Hitler had a very uneasy relationship initially with the German military. It was the only viable force in Germany that could have deposed Hitler and the Nazis as they started to consolidate power. But the military never did so and Hitler acted quickly to take control of the military to prevent any such opposition from developing. It was only late in the war in 1944 that a small number of senior military officers finally tried to assassinate Hitler to get rid of him and end the war.

But what if the German military had acted much earlier? Hitler in essence consolidated his power [5] in the two years from 1932 to 1934 through a complicated series of actions, including plots like the Reichstag fire, the Night of the Long Knives, and the passage of various laws that effectively swept away all of his opposition. If the German military had crushed Hitler, his SA Brownshirts, the Hitler Youth, the SS, and all of the other Nazi Party affiliates in 1933, perhaps millions of people would not have died in a genocidal war and Nazi concentration camps. The history of Europe might have been completely different.

Fortunately, the Egyptian military has acted before Morsi and his own Muslim Brotherhood Brownshirts had the full opportunity to consolidate their power. Morsi and his clan are thugs with views no different than those who stood in the docks at Nuremburg from 1945 to 1949. If we can learn anything from the history of the 1930s and Nazi Germany, we should be hoping that the Egyptian military is successful in crushing the new version of the Nazis in the Middle East. That is the only way that a real democracy will ever have a chance to be born in Egypt.

Even if a western-style democracy never takes hold, one can hardly dispute that Egypt was much more peaceful under Hosni Mubarak despite the human rights failings of his government and military. Things will be much worse if the Muslim Brotherhood consolidates its power. While there has always been hostility by some Egyptian Muslims towards the Coptics, there was an exponentially sharp increase in attacks on Coptic Christians during the one year that Morsi was in power.

As the Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria has said, Morsi was Islamicizing Egypt and no doubt would have prosecuted all non-Muslims under blasphemy laws as he consolidated power. The Muslim Brotherhood is using the Coptics in the same way that Hitler used the Jews as scapegoats. In fact, the Facebook page of Morsi’s Islamist party, the Freedom and Justice Party,blames the Pope [6] for the “removal of the first elected Islamist president” and incites the burning of Coptic churches. The pervasive bloodshed throughout the former land of the Pharaohs against the Coptics over the last month is, in many respects, a copycat Krystallnacht instigated by the Brotherhood.

Ultimately, the interests of the United States in this region are best served by a policy focused on stability. Wouldn’t we rather see a relatively peaceful Egypt even under military rule with no interest in attacking Israel or supporting terrorist attacks than some democratically elected dictator (one man-one vote-one time) hell-bent on eradicating Jews and other blasphemous non-believers from the face of the Earth? Is there really some strategic utility in supporting — particularly financially — Egyptians who want to impose an Eighth Century, barbaric, antidemocratic Islamic theocracy on its population? To embrace the Muslim Brotherhood is to endorse a takeover of Egypt by a direct descendent of the Nazi Party. The United States, Egypt, and the world deserve far better.

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This piece was written independently, and is not sanctioned by the Heritage Foundation.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazibarry; copticchurch; copticchurches; copts; egypt; islam; israel; kenyanbornmuzzie; kristallnacht; morsi; muslimbrotherhood; nazis; obama; radicalislamists; randsconcerntrolls; redwhite; waronterror

1 posted on 08/20/2013 12:23:55 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
This guy makes a lot more sense to me than McCain.

And I can't make any sense at all of our Dear Leader's position. So far as I can tell he supports and opposes both sides.

2 posted on 08/20/2013 12:33:55 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: jazusamo

BookMark


3 posted on 08/20/2013 12:35:50 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: jazusamo

Dear Leader supports the very worst, most antiChristian, antiJewish, antiAmerican elements in the Islamicist world.
In each and every country he meddles in

bringing chaos today
and very likely nuclear (or worse) war tomorrow

his behavior is consistent, you might say it is even “transparent” about this. indeed, it is one of his most consistent policies, activities, supported with our fine intelligence community, our fine military forces, our tax money galore, and by sending our best new weapons to all of his terrorist or MuslimBros pals


4 posted on 08/20/2013 12:36:54 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (E)
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To: jazusamo

The Nazis were peddling Mein Kampf, Arabic edition, throughout the Middle East from the 1930’s on, and it remains a bestseller in the region to this day.

Many Arabs are pro-Nazi because it makes them feel `whiter’.


5 posted on 08/20/2013 12:40:02 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: colorado tanker

He sure does. McCain, Graham and Obummer want it both ways, typical lib politicians.

Sowell and von Spakovsky look at this realistically and tell it like it is.


6 posted on 08/20/2013 12:40:25 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: colorado tanker
And I can't make any sense at all of our Dear Leader's position. So far as I can tell he supports and opposes both side

Just replace the name Morsi with Obama in the above article and you will see the picture.

7 posted on 08/20/2013 12:42:55 PM PDT by spokeshave (While Zero plays silly card games like Spades - Putin plays for keeps.)
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8 posted on 08/20/2013 12:44:48 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Read this:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Farhud-Arab-Nazi-Alliance-Holocaust/dp/0914153145/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1377028019&sr=8-7&keywords=edwin+black


9 posted on 08/20/2013 12:47:10 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: jazusamo

Posted this before:

Here’s what I want to see.

A full scale Broadway style production.

To the theme song and in all it’s glory of:

“Springtime for Hitler” from “The Producers” 1967 ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmYIo7bcUw

I’ve taken the liberty to re-write the words.

“Springtime for Islam and the Middle East”

The Caliphate’s in trouble
What a sad, sad story
We need the 12th Imam, to restore
Its former glory

Where oh where is he?
Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
The Jihad for you and me….. and ……..now ……..it’s

Springtime for Islam and the Middle East
Mohamed is happy.. not gay
We’re bombing at a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race

Springtime for Islam and the Middle East
Winter for Jews at last
Springtime for Islam and the Middle East
Come now Kafirs, join us in our trance

I was born in Ali Baba
That is why they call me Ali Baba
Don’t be stupid, get respect
Come and join the winning sect

Springtime for Islam and the Middle East
Five times, the right times to pray
Swords of the martyrs will rule the day
Sharia and Islam, the only way

Springtime for Islam and the Middle East
Stonings and dhimmis once more

Springtime for Islam and the Middle East
Means that soon we’ll be going
We’ve always been going
You know we will win this war


10 posted on 08/20/2013 12:50:54 PM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: jazusamo; Fred Nerks; ntnychik; potlatch; onyx
It was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who convinced Heinrich Himmler he must gas and burn Jews, not merely deport them.

It was this Grand Mufti whom Malcolm Little aka Malcolm X aka El Hajj Malik Al Shabazz found "congenial" meeting him in the Middle East in 1955.

The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree.

The Arab Spring has been a joint Qatar-CIA operation specifically to arm the Muslim Brotherhood.

It is an open secret Huma Abedin's mother is tight with Morsi.

The "Obama"-Hitlery-Huma lie of Benghazi was intended to conceal the gun-running at the root of the incident.

Now comes the bleating for the poor innocent civilian victims of the big, bad military.

Saudi has issued a veiled warning to "Obama" to let the military set-aside of the shari'ia fool stand.

Will Hussein defy his Saudi sponsors?

While this geostrategic farce is played out, the US populace is to be content with episodes of Big Brother.

Ha.


11 posted on 08/20/2013 1:01:05 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
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To: elcid1970
"Many Arabs are pro-Nazi because it makes them feel `whiter’."

Actually, do a little research on the origins of the term "Aryan"

The word Iran is the Persian word for land/place of the Aryans...

12 posted on 08/20/2013 1:09:29 PM PDT by haywoodwebb (Keep your focus on the TRUTH and we will prevail . . . One Day at a Time, Mates!)
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To: jazusamo

Elie Weisel call your office.


13 posted on 08/20/2013 1:09:39 PM PDT by irish_links
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To: PhilDragoo

BTTT


14 posted on 08/20/2013 1:13:14 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: haywoodwebb

The term `Aryan’ originally designated the region later known as Persia as the point of origin from which all human branches would spread. It was replaced with “Indo-European” when `Aryan’ got its Nazi taint. But the Shah of Iran was also known as “His Aryan Majesty”.

It appears that the Indo-European theory of human origin has been replaced by the east Africa theory of Dr. Leakey & others.

Anent your post, Arabs are ethnically classified as Semitic Caucasians. The point of this thread is the Nazi-influenced origin of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the continued warm regard for the Third Reich (”O Hitler of blessed memory”) in the region.

Given the Jew-hatred that is a central tenet of Islam, and the reality of the Holocaust carried out by Hitler’s minions, it is probably safe to say that Islam & Naziism go together like sugar and tea.

Throw in the history of the Arabs having had their @sses handed to them repeatedly by the hated Jews in Israel, and the Islamo-Fascist hate brew reaches the superheated boiling point it has been at for more than six decades.


15 posted on 08/20/2013 1:28:30 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: jazusamo

If I remember my history right, the world didn’t give a $h!t for the Jews either.


16 posted on 08/20/2013 1:38:52 PM PDT by I want the USA back
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To: jazusamo

bookmark


17 posted on 08/20/2013 1:56:01 PM PDT by DFG ("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))
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To: PhilDragoo

“A cordial man of great dignity”
That’s how Malcolm X described the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

The Mufti aided in Operation Odessa, which was a ratline smuggling thousands of Nazi war criminals into Egypt and Syria. Many Nazis, once settled in Arab capitals, changed their names, converted to Islam, and involved themselves in war against Israel. The Mufti promoted the so-called “right of return” for Palestinian Arabs, this after having exhorted Arabs to leave Palestine during Israel’s war of independence. The Mufti worked to keep Arabs in refugee camps to be used as recruiting centers to fight against Israel. In his last public appearance in a speech before a World Islamic Conference in 1962, the Mufti called for the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from the Arab world. He died in Beirut July 5, 1974.

http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2008/04/a_cordial_man_o.html


18 posted on 08/20/2013 2:53:29 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: I want the USA back
No one will care. What are the gun laws in Egypt? Can the Christians arm themselves?
19 posted on 08/21/2013 7:10:15 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: jazusamo

BM


20 posted on 08/21/2013 7:48:21 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45 (Happily in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians.)
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