Just as a point of reference - the Nazis and Islamic leaders of the time co-operated.

Here is one example:

The Palestinian Role In the Holocaust

Interesting. I've had a number of posts about the Grand Mufti.

What I'd like to know is how many of the MSM reporters believe Nazism is enough of a part of Islam that supporting it should be called "religious."

Is support for Hitler's genocide against the Jews now part of mainstream Islam?

"Mein Kampf" is a best seller (still) in the Islamic world.

The President of Iran is into it. The current (former?) head of Indonesia. The President of the Palestinians is a Holocaust denier. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and across the ME. The Baathists. etc. Just a few hundred million nut cases to be sure.

And then there is the cab driver in Nashville.

People see patterns.

You know. Death to America rallies. etc.

I probably should stop reading the news.

Eric,

Interesting question about MSM reporters. Perhaps it is just another case of cognitive dissonance.

If they are tring to cover up the Islam angle, they have to find some other reason for attempted murder.

Which only leads them into a deeper hole as facts come out.

They may have wound up telling a bigger truth without intending it.

The issue isn't whether mainstream Islam supports Naziism, but whether this guy's apparent lack of full affection for Jews, and acceptance of Naziism, stem from Islam.

More generally, just because it's not universal in Islam to spread terror doesn't mean that terrorists aren't driven to terrorize by Islam.

Or are you being a big kidder again?

I'm sorry, one Islamic leader cooperated with Hitler. Others made a stand against Hitler and some fought him;

http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/print/islamic_fascists1/

Although we have no hard numbers on hand, I suspect the ratio of pro:anti-Nazi Christians was worse than the ratio of Muslims.

Yeah, well the Catholic Church has been accused of complicity with the Nazis during WWII, and certainly there were a number of Catholics who were Nazis. But regardless of how many supported the Nazis in WWII, does anyone really think that the same statements made, say, by a Catholic cab driver would have been reported as a "religious dispute."

And even if we assume it had, wouldn't there be an outcry? I think there would -- from Catholics and many others.

Eric,

I don't dispute your points in the least. This is either highly offensive to Muslims, or it suggests that the Muslim religion has political overtones which make it irrevocably incapable of integrating into Western democracies.

All that I am saying is the idea that the Muslims en masse supported Hitler during the second world war is simply insulting pseudo history.

Guys, the Muslim Brotherhood (still with us) sided with Hitler.

The Baath Party, formerly of Iraq, still of Syria is modeled after the Nazis.

And "Mein Kampf" is still a best seller in the Arab and Islamic World.

I'm sure there are explanations.

But, Jon, that's the problem in a nutshell. WHERE Islam has been co-opted as a political philosophy it is inconsistent with a Representative republic (laws made by the People instead of a ruler).

How entangled Islam is with politics is the big issue and if it is possible to untangle it.

Eric,

The MSM can't get their heads around this. Their Bush hatred prevents them from seeing their hypocrisy. I doubt they are even capable of reconciling that Nazis were "National Socialists" because they are not going to allow for their precious socialism to be tainted that way.

And not only are the terrorists sympathetic to Halter, they modeled themselves on him. I haven't read it, but the case has been fairly well documented ("The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini", by Chuck Morse).

Another interesting article is: Islamic terrorism linked to Nazi fascists by Robert Duncan.

The rise of anti-Semitism is not an accident and the use of terms like "neo-con" to disguise it are disturbing.

Mrs. du Toit,

Unfortunately, I suspect you may be correct.

M. Simon,

I don't argue any of your points. You are correct. However, the reality is that bringing up the Grand Mufti and saying that Muslim leaders of the age supported Hitler is just unfair to the thousands of Muslims who fought against him. I'm not arguing about where they stood, only what they did.

For this issue I just don't think it is controlling how many Muslims supported Hitler, or how many support him now. My point is that this was reported as a "religious dispute." Since when is agreement with Hitler a religious issue?

Or am I missing a specifically religious tie-in? Was there a later revelation or Hadith somewhere?

Let's assume that the same driver had been a non-Muslim. Would this have been called a "religious dispute"?

I may be wrong, but I don't think so.

The words "hate crime" come to mind.

There were indeed Muslims that fought against Hitler and the Japanese..but not in the Arab world, and they were mostly confined to the Indian subcontinent.

One of my fatrher's friends who served in the British 8th Army during WWII gave me a vivid account of marching back into Cairo after El Alamein an dfinding the city all decked out to welcome Rommel and the Nazis.

As for comparisions with Islam and Naziism, some of you may find this helpful:

J O S H U A P U N D I T: The Qu'ran vs. Mein Kampf