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On this day in 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today. < > It is a poorly-written mess, according to literary critics, but the ideas contained within Adolf Hitler's 1925 tome "Mein Kampf" (or My Struggle) sadly would resonate well beyond the book's quality of prose. < > ...Hitler's original title for his work, "Four Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice," was also changed to the more marketable "My Struggle."...

The Koran and Mein Kampf: From Winston Churchill, to Geert Wilders March 4th, 2008 (5 hours ago) by Andrew Bostom  Their Agreement on the Koranic KampfUpdate (hat tip Jihad Watch): Wilders Steadfast Wilders said Monday (yesterday) he has begun negotiations with Dutch broadcasters about airing the 15-minute film, “Fitna” He said he will only allow them to show it in its entirety, and if they refuse, he plans to show it to the media and post it on the Internet.#####While we await the release of Dutch MP Geert Wilders 15 minute documentary on the Koran and Violence, it is worth...

The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf   By Raymond IbrahimFrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, November 09, 2007 A number of book reviewers have recently pointed to the similarities between The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf. For instance, writing in the New York Observer, James Buchan notes that, “In their [al-Qaeda’s] brutality and candor, their fulminations against democracy and loose morals, their obsession with territory, their finicky racism and absolute disdain for the material needs of the public, these documents are a strange echo of Hitler’s writings from prison.” Writing for Slate, however, Reza Aslan disagrees: The comparison between the...

The Koran should be banned as a “fascist book” alongside Mein Kampf because it urges Muslims to kill non-believers, says Dutch populist MP Geert Wilders. The leader of the far-right Freedom Party, which holds nine of the Dutch parliament's 150 seats has called for the ban after an alleged Islam inspired attack on a Labour councillor who had renounced the Muslim faith. Mr Wilders claims that the Koran “calls on Muslims to oppress, persecute or kill Christians, Jews, dissidents and non-believers, to beat and rape women and to establish an Islamic state by force”. "Ban this wretched book like Mein...

The Islamic Mein Kampf (Flash video exposes the genocidal threat of radical Islam - A MUST SEE) By FrontPage Magazine Frontpage Magazine | January 31, 2007 In a rational world, American universities would lead the way in exposing the noxious roots of Islamic terrorism. Instead of psychoanalyzing Rush Limbaugh or President Bush, they would devote their attentions to what makes terrorists tick. Readers of FrontPage Magazine are uniquely educated about the unholy alliance between academia and jihadists. Thus, we have launched the Terrorism Awareness Project -- www.TerrorismAwareness.org -- to educate college students directly. In conjunction with the organization and website,...

Sayyid Qutb's MilestonesEverything You Always Wanted to Know About Sayyid Qutb's Milestones, But Couldn't Be Bothered to Find Out Elmer Swenson 1. Introduction: Who is Sayyid Qutb, and what's so special about his book Milestones, aka Signposts? 2. Qutb and the Muslim Community 3. Qutb and Shari'ah Law, the Islamic Vanguard and Slavery 4. Qutb on Sex, Women and the Family 5. Qutb on Politics: Progressive Islam, Nationalism, Democracy, Socialism 6. Qutb on Politics: Racial Equality and Freedom 7. Qutb and non-Muslims: The West 8. Qutb and non-Muslims: Christians, Jews and Freedom of Religion 9. Qutb and Peaceful Co-Existance with...

I have posted on my blog this morning a video of a Palestinian Imam preaching a sermon - followed by an excerpt from a recent column on "The New Anti-Semitism" by Victor Davis Hanson and some of my comments. It helps to explain the actions by Reuters and the AP during the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict and some other questionable incidents.

LET US SUPPOSE, for the sake of argument, that the war declared by al-Qaeda and other Islamists is under way. Let us further suppose that thousands of “terrorist” attacks carried out in Islam’s name during the past decades form part of this war; and that conflicts that have spread to 50 countries and more, taking the lives of millions — including in inter-Muslim blood-shedding — are the outcome of what Osama bin Laden has called “conducting jihad for the sake of Allah”. If such war is under way, there are ten good reasons why, as things stand, Islam will not...

Examining which issues raise its organizational blood pressure, it is easy to see that the Anti-Defamation League chiefly represents two categories of Jews. One, Jews for whom the doctrines of secular fundamentalism and of the Democratic Party have replaced the authentic principles of Judaism. Two, Jews who consider Christian conservatives to be a far greater peril than Islamic extremism. It now turns out that the ADL represents yet a third category of Jews: those passionately dedicated to defending Darwin. Once again, like a friendly and frolicsome puppy with a large, bushy tail that constantly knocks down expensive vases, the ADL,...

Juan Peron was an Argentinian president who was a dictator who Fascist tendencies from 1946-1955 and 1972-1974, when he died. He was a soldier originally who in a coup became Secretary of Labor in 1943, then he went to prison, because some military personals feared he was getting powerful in 1945, which he goes to jail. Then in October 17th, a large rally occurs calling for the release of Juan Peron, which he is released. He marries Maria Eva Duarte, who becomes Evita Peron. This was Juan Peron's second marriage. His first wife died of cancer. He is elected in...

May 15, 2006 issue - For the past 14 years, I've had a photo of a young man named Ricky Ray in my office. I met Ricky and the rest of the Ray family on the campaign trail in 1992. Ricky and his brothers were hemophiliacs who contracted HIV through blood transfusions. When I first met Ricky, it was clear that he was very ill. After I was elected, I spoke to Ricky on the phone and invited him and his family to my Inauguration. His family came, but sadly, Ricky died just weeks before. When I was president I...

The infamous manifesto penned in prison during the 1920s by one of history’s greatest despots has become a bestseller in Turkey, a troubling sign of increasing anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. Since January, Mein Kampf has sold more than 50,000 copies, rising to No. 4 on the bestseller list. The book outlines Hitler's plans for world domination and his intense hatred of the Jewish people. "A lot of people in the West don't realize this has always been a popular book among radical Muslims," says Steve Hagerman, founder of Turkish World Outreach. "They think it’s a tragedy Hitler didn’t win the war....

A German lawyer is filing a lawsuit against American and British soldiers for treating captured German soldiers' copies of Mein Kampf "like a rented mule" during the Second World War. According to sources close to the case, the lawyer, a man named Wolfgang Kleinerschmidt, has become emboldened by recent reports of Americans abusing the Koran. Mr. Kleinschmidt sees "a potential goldmine" in legal compensation for soldiers who had their "guiding texts cruelly neglected." Mein Kampf, presently a popular text in Turkish bazaars, was Adolf Hitler's foray into literature before he attempted world domination. The book describes the author's anguish over...

LONDON (Reuters) - A signed first edition of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" goes under the hammer later this month with a price guide of up to 25,000 pounds ($45,370), auction house Bloomsbury said Thursday. Bloomsbury said the book comes as part of a lot with signed postcards, some of Hitler's personal thank-you cards and other stationery from high-ranking Nazis. One of the signed postcards shows Hitler and then British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Bad Godesberg in September 1938 on the eve of the countdown to World War II. Hitler penned his autobiography and political manifesto when he was in...

NEW YORK — In the paperback edition of "My Life," former President Clinton acknowledges that his memoir may have been too long, recounts some friendly faces from his book tour and some odder ones sighted under the influence of anesthesia as he underwent heart surgery last September."At first I saw a series of dark faces, like death masks, flying toward me and being crushed," writes Clinton, whose book comes out May 31 in both trade and mass market paperback. "Then I saw circles of light with the faces of Hillary, Chelsea, and others I cared about flying toward me,...

Dr. Dow Pursley, Ed.D, returned home from teaching an ethics class Monday night at Baptist Bible College and Seminary and told his wife Joanne he was flying to Florida to protest against Terri Schiavo's impending death. The family counseling professor booked the first flight out of town -- a 4 a.m. red-eye Tuesday -- and the couple of 37 years then spent the balance of the night praying. Advertisement Click Here! Later Tuesday morning Dr. Pursley, 56, was shocked with a Taser stun gun and arrested by Pinellas Park (Fla.) police on charges of attempted burglary and resisting arrest without...

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish bookshops have a best seller, but some of them are hesitant about giving it too much display. It's "Mein Kampf." The popularity of Adolf Hitler's book, filled with anti-Jewish diatribes and dreams of world domination, is puzzling some Turks. Does it reflect rising anti-Semitic or anti-Western sentiment in Muslim Turkey? Or anger over Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and the war in Iraq (news - web sites)? Is it a backlash against the country's moves to join the European Union (news - web sites)? Or does it simply offer a cheap thrill? At least two new...

Mein Kampf is becoming the book of the month at the D&R bookshop at the Migros shopping centre in downtown Ankara. Adolf Hitler's infamous work is selling so fast it has entered the bestseller lists. Rukan Binerbay, store manager, says he has sold at least 1,000 copies in the past few weeks. At the Remzi bookstore in the rival Armada shopping centre, the book has sold out. Manager Emre Demirok says it has been the third highest seller in the past month. Sales took off after a new edition was published at 5.90 liras a copy ($4.90, €3.50, £2.40). But...

BERLIN -- A German state that holds the rights to Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" said Tuesday it was seeking legal action to prevent the book from being published in Poland. The book, which details the Nazi dictator's anti-Semitic views and other beliefs, is due to go on sale in a few days. Polish publisher XXL said it wants to make a historical record available, but it also cites "a 1,000-year-old worry" among Poles about "the German dream of vast fertile lands and natural resources in the east." Authorities in the state of Bavaria, which the victorious World War II...

Clinton book selling well locally – but he's no Harry08:26 PM CDT on Tuesday, June 22, 2004By APRIL KINSER / DallasNews.com Although the books weren’t flying off the shelves like copies of Harry Potter, Dallas-area booksellers were reporting brisk first-day sales of My Life, the lengthy memoirs of former President Clinton. At the Bookstop on Lovers Lane, a few people were waiting at the door before the store opened at 10 a.m. Tuesday. “It’s been phenomenal. As soon as we opened the doors it was just boom, boom, boom,” manager Laura Church said. To promote the book, Clinton was signing...

dolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf is as vile as any book ever published. Written in 1923 while he was in prison as a revolutionary agitator and at that point unlikely ever to be anything else, Hitler built on the connected emotions of hatred and self-pity. It is the work of a failure, what is more of a man who knows himself to be a failure. The failure is everyone's fault except his own. And all these people are against him because they belong to different races: That is the key. In the book he invents a "racial ladder" with Germans...

The broadcast and cable network newscasts led once again Monday night with multiple stories on the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal and calls for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to resign as all touted how the International Committee of the Red Cross reports from last year prove the abuse was widespread, not corrected and long-known by top officials. NBC went so far as to air a claim that Rumsfeld reminds one Egyptian journalist of a "neo-Nazi character" and how an Arab businessman thinks U.S. treatment of prisoners "is not Jeffersonian democracy. It's more like a lesson from Hitler's book, Mein Kampf." CUT...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The publisher of a Czech translation of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" received a three-year suspended sentence Wednesday on charges of promoting Nazism, Czech radio reported. In 2000 Michal Zitko published a Czech-language edition of the book in which Hitler expressed his hatred of Jews and desire to conquer territory in Eastern Europe. He received a three-year suspended sentence in 2001 on charges of promoting Nazism. The sentence, however, was overturned by a higher court, which ruled that the first trial had been riddled by procedural errors. Last August, a district court in Prague again found Zitko guilty,...

Hitler writes from the grave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 10, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Rabbi Daniel Lapin © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com 2004 arrived safely, whispering how successfully the Bush administration has waged our war on terror. Although those who hate us intended us harm, Providence, along with our government's vigilance and pre-emptive actions, prevented all holiday season attacks. The only shocking attack the New Year brought us was the Democratic organization Move On's demented action providing a platform for potential television advertising comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler. I thought it might be interesting to explore what Adolf Hitler...

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Hamburg - In the midst of a general election campaign, major political parties in Germany were quick to send membership forms to a freelance writer who spiced up his application requests with quotes from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, according to a published report. According to the report in Stern magazine, due to hit newsstands on Thursday, Cologne-based writer Rainer Popp sent out the bogus applications to the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, the centrist Free Democrats and the leftist Greens. His letters of introduction were peppered with such Mein Kampf passages as: "He who is courageous and industrious is destined for...

Monday, April 15, 2002 in 1941, as a student at a Catholic school run by Spanish Jesuit priests who were sympathizers of fascism at that time, Castro was looking for his ideology. Displaying a fascination with power, war and domination since childhood, Castro discovered fascism and promenaded around campus with a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in his armpit. According to many fellow students, “the crazy,” as he was nicknamed, mimicked the speeches of Hitler and Mussolini in front of a mirror, practicing their mannerisms hour after hour. When Castro entered the University of Havana in 1945, he soon...