Swastika & Scimitar - Part 8

Edward Cline posts Jihad by the Numbers at Family Security Matters.

In his masterful second volume study of Hitler, Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis, Ian Kershaw discusses a phenomenon called "working towards the Führer," in which every Nazi Party organization, member and office automatically, with little or no prompting or prodding by Hitler or his inner circle, worked to realize the ends and policies articulated by Hitler before and after he rose to power in 1933. It was automatic, because to disagree with or have reservations about a single, even minor aspect of Nazi ideology was to court reprimand, censure, dismissal, or even death. Agreement with those ends and policies was nearly a secondary motivation behind any Party member's actions. He was compelled to act, regardless of the consequences. The ideology commanded it, and the Führer's will and vision were irresistible, because there was little or no self to resist them.

As Party members who disagreed or expressed reservations were dismissed, or abandoned the Party, fled, committed suicide, or were murdered, monsters of the first rank filled the vacuum to formulate and enact policies that more completely "worked towards the Führer," monsters such as Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Joseph Goebbels. When all the checks within the Party against total irrationality in domestic and foreign policies were removed or fell into disrepute, total irrationality took over totally.

But the average Party member strived to satisfy Hitler, regardless of how minor or major the action and regardless if it stood to be acknowledged or rewarded. To be a true, loyal, above-suspicion Nazi meant the near total surrender of one's ego, mind and self, and to substitute them with Hitler's own.

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Swastika & Scimitar - Part 7

"It is possible to trace modern Islamic anti-Semitism back along a number of different historical and intellectual threads, but, no matter which one you choose, they all seem to pass, at one point or another, through the hands of one figure—Hitler’s mufti, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the viciously anti-Semitic grand mufti of Jerusalem and the leader of Muslim fundamentalists in Palestine, who resided in Berlin as a welcome guest of the Nazis throughout the years of the Holocaust."

Read all of "Hitler’s Mufti" (FIRST THINGS) by David G. Dalin. David G. Dalin is a professor of history and political science at Ave Maria University. This article is adapted from his book The Myth of Hitler’s Pope.

Swastika & Scimitar - Part 6

Swastika & Scimitar - Part 5

Andrew G. Bostom continues his fruitful investigation into swastika and scimitar studies aptly connecting the dots in "Islamofascism? Hitler, Muhammad, and Islam."

Swastika & Scimitar - Part 4

With a hat tip to Pam Geller, Andy Bostom pieces together yet more evidence of the connection between Swastika and the Scimitar.

Swastika & Scimitar - Part 3

The Terrorism Awareness Project's straightforward and aptly conflated piece entitled, Islamic Mein Kampf. The familiar dehumanizing of the intended victim, the Jew, is a prime indicator of the cultural phenomenon pointed out with acerbic clarity in René Girard's works. This scapegoating tactic is humanity's "lowest common denominator": finding one we can all agree is the source of all the world's problems, etc. The accusatory gesture is nearly what defines the human race in its fallen status.

The only place wherein hope for change from this propensity for satanic accusation and sacrificial violence still resides in our world, a bright shining light in the darkness, even amid the squalor of postmodern swill, a treasure of great price, is scorned and mocked – even in car ads. It is threatened and hurled abuse by the new fascisti who hate Jews, Crusaders, and all who stand for the biblical spirit of truth, goodness, and beauty in our world.

Watch the graphics in IMK. Look at the protesters' placards. Now you know who and what to pray for and about. Keep a copy of the Catechism handy, the dogs loose, and the sword upstairs. [Tip: Velvethammer Lady]

Lambert's Work on Hitler

Many have tried to grasp the deepest significance of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Here, James Lambert examines documentary footage from "Triumph of the Will" and, Leni Riefenstahl's earlier effort, "Victory of Faith." I make similar connections at Swastika & the Scimitar and Swastika & the Scimitar Part II.

One cannot begin to grasp the way Hitler utilized crowd psychology until one understands the pathological labyrinth of human culture explored and marked by René Girard. The only difference between National Socialism and present Islamist fascism is the degree to which the former consciously carried out its efforts with Nietzschean and, hence, pagan intent. The past, as Girard, has shown, holds the keys to understanding the present and future. May we learn and, empowered by the Church and her Gospel, move inch by inch closer to our pre-lapsarian nature. Kudos to Lambert for grasping the outline of the "primitive Sacred" nature of Hitler's conscious agenda and gravitational force field of Islamist fascism.

Visit James K. Lambert's homepage and the other segments of his work on Hitler here. [HT: Atlas Shrugs]

Swastika & Scimitar - Part Two

Thule Society

Paul Belien (regardless of the funny business and on-going argument with LGF -- I don't know who is right or wrong, and, frankly, I don't care. Get along!) wrote for the Washington Times this article entitled, Nazis and Islamists. It augments and fills in spaces favorably with all posts mentioned and contained in ”Inhuman Infidels R Us”. From the article:

“Had Charles Martel not been victorious,” Hitler told his inner crowd in August 1942, “then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world.” Hitler told Albert Speer that Islam is “perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament.” If the Muslims had won in Tours, the whole of Europe would have become Muslim in the 8th century and “the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate and conditions of [Europe]. They could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire.”

The structural comparison between Nazi and Islamist paganism is inescapable. The undertow of the primitive Sacred form of religion was vast and murderous in the former and gathering momentum in the latter. It threatens to carry even "moderate" religionists into its maelstrom of sacred violence and ruin, just as it did German citizenry in World War II. How can it be stopped if political leaders of the west continue their denial and ignorance of this reality?

The Swastika & the Scimitar

The Brussels Journal publishes a rather well-known fact in The Alliance between the Swastika and the Crescent 2. For a far more extensive treatment of the subject than the BJ article or the video clip, be sure to consult Rabbi David Dalin's excellent and essential The Myth of Hitler’s Pope [2005]. If time allows, watch the following [thanks to Gen @ Real Clear Religion for reminding me of the reference]: