[Image]As you know by my blog posts, I love to paint comparisons between what’s happening now and what happened in the 1930s. In particular, the cries of 'phobia' by those that seek to destroy the free world. This blog is about a Gathering Storm – the prelude to the real war, not the war itself. How the war will be fought and under what terms it will commence is yet to happen – and no, it didn’t start with 9-11. In more than one way, we are in a similar time as the 1930s. But this blog is not the first to find comparisons between the infiltration and intimidation tactics of militant Islam and Nazi Germany.
In September of 2005, Tony Blankly wrote a three part series in the Washington Times comparing the Islamic threat of today to the Nazis of the 1930s. You should read it.
Blankly writes that radical Islam or Islamic fascism, has all the advantages the Nazis had in Germany in the 1930s. A second and third generation Muslim population adrift and disconnected from their country, confused and humiliated by the dominance of foreign nations and culture, and a growing youthful population increasing disdainful of their parents passive acceptance of their plight. And just as the Nazis reached back to German mythology and the supposed Aryan origins of the German people, the radical Islamists reach back to the founding ideas and myths of their religious culture. And just like the Nazis, they claim to speak for authentic traditions while actually advancing expedient and radical innovations. The Islamo-fascist mullahs encourage young Muslims not to turn to their parents for guidance. The Nazis overwhelmed German society with these methods 70 years ago. There is building evidence that the radical Islamists are moving ever more successfully down the same path - particularly within the younger generations in Europe and, to a lesser extent, in the United States.
Here’s another take on the 1930s theory. This article shows how the Nazis did exactly what the Islamists are doing today - yelling Islamophobia whenever their ideology is rightfully criticized.
Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.