By Andrew G. Bostom
Cliff May deserves credit for his recent National Review Online column "The New True Believers." May dares to associate – however indirectly, and in the end, I am afraid, inadequately - those he terms, using layers of prophylactic rhetorical separation from orthodox Islam, either "militant jihadists," or "Islamists," and their movement as "militant Islamism," – with Hitler, and his "movement," i.e., Nazism.
May's inchoate effort should be applauded for its attempted illustration of any possible ideological nexus between Hitler's Nazism and Islam. But ultimately, the associations he makes – the "ability to nurse grievances and stoke ambitions," Germans/Aryans as a master race, and the concordant supremacism of "militant Islamism," and, invoking Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer," generic "fanaticism" – ignore much more intimate, if uncomfortable to acknowledge, doctrinal and historical connections between ancient Islam and modern Nazism, upon which I will elaborate. Read more ...
Cliff May deserves credit for his recent National Review Online column "The New True Believers." May dares to associate – however indirectly, and in the end, I am afraid, inadequately - those he terms, using layers of prophylactic rhetorical separation from orthodox Islam, either "militant jihadists," or "Islamists," and their movement as "militant Islamism," – with Hitler, and his "movement," i.e., Nazism.
May's inchoate effort should be applauded for its attempted illustration of any possible ideological nexus between Hitler's Nazism and Islam. But ultimately, the associations he makes – the "ability to nurse grievances and stoke ambitions," Germans/Aryans as a master race, and the concordant supremacism of "militant Islamism," and, invoking Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer," generic "fanaticism" – ignore much more intimate, if uncomfortable to acknowledge, doctrinal and historical connections between ancient Islam and modern Nazism, upon which I will elaborate. Read more ...
Source: Family Security Matters
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