January 14, 2007
EXCEPT THAT HITLER WAS A DARWINIST AND A SOCIALIST, NOT A CHRISTIAN:
Hilali like Hitler: Muslim leader (Natasha Robinson and Richard Kerbaj, January 15, 2007, The Australian)
A PROMINENT Muslim leader has likened Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali to Adolf Hitler, saying the outspoken mufti is doing as much damage to Islam in Australia as the German dictator did to Christianity.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 14, 2007 9:59 PMThe Australian Federation of Islamic Council's legal adviser, Haset Sali, labelled the sheik's recent diatribe on Egyptian television against Western "liars and oppressors" as insane and said the comments had horrified thevast majority of Australian Muslims.
"He has been about as helpful to Islam in Australia as Adolf Hitler was to Christianity during the Second World War," Mr Salisaid.
Some Darwinist: he never mentioned Darwin or evolution in Mein Kampf.
Posted by: PapayaSF at January 14, 2007 11:45 PMHitler weas not a Christian leader in the way that al-Hilati is a Muslim leader. Hitler was a secular leader and al-Hilati is a religious leader. He's comparing apples with oranges.
Posted by: Dave W at January 15, 2007 6:37 AMPapaya: He didn't have to. In alluding to the inferiority of the slavs it was implied.
Posted by: Bartman at January 15, 2007 8:47 AMIt was a Darwinist society--indeed, it borrowed the idea of applied Darwinism from us before anyone had heard of Hitler. He just had the courage of Darwinist convictions:
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=492
Posted by: oj at January 15, 2007 8:55 AMHitler had picked up his Darwinism second- or third-hand, but the ideas were still Darwinism.
Mein Kampf accepts as given the racialist conception of biological competition between nations, as well as the racial classifications, both derived from Darwin by d'Gobineau and H.S. Chamberlain.
This thought was a vulgarization of evolution, being a thorough conflation of biology and sociology.
Thanks for the link to the Catholic Culture article. I had known most of it, but there were a couple of new facts. The article heightened my appreciation of my deceased Polish uncle, the RAF bomber crewman.
Posted by: John J. Kevlock at January 15, 2007 11:22 AM
What an irony -- Dutch doctors during the Nazi occupation make a united, moral stand against even the slightest move towards euthanasia. They must be turning in their graves about the antics and rationalizations of their modern counterparts.
Posted by: Dave P. at January 23, 2007 11:18 AM