Many Muslim groups and individual Muslims are rewriting the history of the world. Islam teaches them how to do it. What came before Islam, wherever Islam goes, is waved out of memory and consideration, as merely the time of ignorance, Jahiliyya. In the West, we are now in our own Time of Ignorance, just as the Arabs of Arabia were before Muhammad came along to receive -- over 23 years -- successive revelations from Allah, who had chosen the Arabs as the best of peoples, to receive his message, and the Arabic language, in which to present it. Arabs still maintain that only the Arabic Qur'an is the true Qur'an, that no translation, no matter how faithful, can be the "Holy Qur'an."
For 1350 years they have been rewriting history. The zero is in their retelling an Arab invention, as is algebra (the Arabic name apparently is enough to dismiss everything taken from the Sanskrit mathematicians). Like Soviet propagandists on steroids, they claim for "Islam" and "Islamic science" Greek texts translated and preserved by Jews and Christians in the schools of translators at Cordoba and Baghdad. They claim not only the Hindu "zero" but paper-making, brought (see Dard Hunter) from China to Damascus. They insist that in the first 200-300 years of Muslim conquest, when the Christians and Jews still outnumbered the Muslims who ruled over them, that the intellectual activities of those Jews and Christians, or of those who were one or at most two generations from being Jews and Christians and who were raised in a milieu not yet stifled by Islam with its hatred of free inquiry, are attributable to "Islam" and claimed for "Islamic civilization."
Yet the most famous Muslim scientist, Rhazes (al-Razi) was a freethinker, as were many of the dozen or two Muslim names that are constantly bandied about. They’re always the same names, but we in the West are kept constantly confused by those same names, with Ibn Rushd (or is it Averroes?) and Avicenna (or is it Ibn Sina) or is Ibn Sina Ibn Rushd, or what the hell is going on. So in place of the thousands of names of writers, sculptors, painters, musicians, philosophers, thinkers in the non-Muslim West, we keep getting handed the same pitiful list of the same people, and we keep being impressed as Muslims and their ahistoric apologists tell us over and over again such fables as "when the West was in the Dark Ages [a phrase, and idea, put paid to by the past half-century of Western historiography] Islamic science was flourishing." Utter crap. Start with Toby Huff, or Father Jaki.
Was it just a year or two ago that the State Department, in an excess of desire to please, agreed with the preposterous Muslim claim that Muslims had been with Columbus when he discovered America? And of course we have also heard the Muslim claim that Muslims discovered America not with Columbus, but before 900 A.D., and not only discovered America but settled here. Anything will be said, or claimed. Just as Muslims are given to embracing the wildest conspiracy theories about Infidels, they are also given to the wildest fantasies about their own achievements, because the habit of mental submission, the habit of discouraging all skeptical and critical and free inquiry, has its consequences. The most obvious consequence is the primitive mental conditioning that makes people susceptible to those conspiracy theories, and those baseless dreams of glory.
The Muslim claim to have "discovered" America in 880 A.D., or that Muslims were with Columbus (who had a great interest in claiming the New World for Christian Spain, and was keenly aware of the menace of Islam to Western Christendom), or the still-more recent Muslim claim that long before the Europeans arrived, Muslims had arrived in and settled in Australia, are all part of the same Muslim impulse to stake a claim to the world. In Muslim terms, for Muslims only, the claim may not be necessary. After all, in the Muslim view everyone was born a Muslim, so why isn't that enough to make the Muslim claim? But of course they have taken note of Infidels, who apparently are not impressed with this everyone-is-born-a-Muslim argument (which is why people are said not to "convert" but rather to "revert" to Islam). They need a little something more for them to accept Muslim claims, whether to land or to cultural achievements, that are not their own.
And these are not the simple claims of simple folk who simply derive pleasure from some achievement of others like them, the way someone might keep track of famous sports stars or entertainers or scientists or political leaders sharing the same ethnic or racial or religious background. Not at all. These are claims made by Muslims with a more sinister intent: to make sure that the Infidels understand that Muslims have a claim, a claim on territory, a claim that is somehow validated by the backdating of a Muslim presence, or the exaggeration of Muslim efforts.
The new claims about Muslim veterans are prompted by current concerns. It is the attempt to claim a specious loyalty, with a specious -- because grossly exaggerated if not entirely fictional -- “Muslim contribution to the American war effort.” Of course there may have seen a Muslim or two in the American army, no doubt an early precursor of the Black Muslims. Yet the Black Muslims were never regarded by Arab Muslims as real Muslims because of their practices, which include a much wider acceptance of music, as well as a much less fierce attitude toward Christians. Or possibly, the most prominent Muslim World War II vet, this “Hakim” (a name that can also be used by Christians from Arabic-language societies), was not at the time a Muslim, but converted later.
The whole thing is designed to allow for some kind of “Muslim ceremony” by “Muslim veterans.” Yet aside from Black Muslims, there cannot have been very many Muslims serving in recent years in combat positions in either Afghanistan or Iraq, and the odd Bangladeshi-American or two, serving not with the support of fellow Muslims, proudly displaying in their grocery stores pictures of American Muslim servicemen, as any other immigrant community would and did do. Rather, they have been for the most part either stonily silent about, or actively hostile to, the handful of Muslims who have joined the American military. And even there it is now clear that throughout the Western world Muslims, when they do join the military or, as in England, the police, they turn out to be sources of anguish and necessarily must be monitored. For they themselves constitute, given the Total Belief System of Islam and inculcated loyalty to the Umma and to Islam, a permanent security headache that has to be recognized even by those Infidels who keep whistling in the dark and insisting on “integration” of Muslims into Western society as the answer. Of course, they never explaining how, given the texts and tenets of Islam, such “integration” can realistically be achieved.
The Muslims are late to the West, and they are attempting some Nunc Pro Tunc backdating of everything. They were here a thousand years ago, or five hundred. They discovered America. They discovered Australia. They settled here among the Indians. Or perhaps they predated the Indians who walked across the frozen wastes of the Bering Strait. They invented this, they built that. And in a certain sense, all of those claims are true -- because everyone who ever lived was born a Muslim, and only became something else because of a wrong turn, a bad upbringing, a wretched environment. You, and I, and every little boy and girl, was a Muslim once.
But let’s get back to our own little lambs, those lambs among our elites who are being readied for some Eid al-Fitr slaughter. It is they who will report breathlessly on, they who will insert into sentimental speeches, news of this “Muslim Veteran” and the Muslim group that will “honor” him, without understanding what malevolence and calculation, not loyalty to America, is afoot. It is they who will fail to note that during World War II, the Arabs were stoutly on the side of the Nazis. Sadat, Saint Sadat himself, was imprisoned by the British for his pro-Nazi activites, as was Nasser (and Nasser’s brother published an Arab edition of “Mein Kampf” in 1939). In Iraq, there was the pro-Axis Rashid Ali, fortunately undone by a British-sponsored coup. In Iran, the Shah was replaced because of his pro-German views by his son, the late Shah Reza Pahlevi. And the most important, best known Arab leader, the Mufti of Jerusalem, not only supported Hitler, but was especially enthusiastic about his plans for an “Endlosung” or that “Final Solution” of the “Judische Frage” (Jewish Question). He even volunteered to raise an S. S. battalion among the Muslims of Bosnia, and did so -- with a young Izetbegovic helping out as a recruiter. The Muslim Arabs of North Africa, similarly, were hardly to be found in the ranks of the Free French, nor of the Resistance -- though here and there, there might be one, or possibly two, or even three or four, exceptions.
And if the Arabs and Muslims admired Hitler, admired the Nazis and what the Nazis could do to what was seen as Western Christendom, the admiration of Hitler for Islam, his wish that Europe had been Islamized because this would have been a better foundation for his own Nazi ideology and plans, has been well and frequently recorded -- by such people as, for example, Rudolf Hess. The emphasis on fighting, on mental submission, on the cult of death and of world-conquering plans -- all this Hitler found most appealing.
In raising the little matter of a single and doubtful example of a “Muslim veteran” of World War II, the organizers of this have opened all of these matters up for discussion. And they have similarly opened up discussions about the behavior of the Muslims who have recently been in the American military and made the news. These include Hassan Akbar, a soldier who rolled grenades into the tents of sleeping officers, killing two, and that Muslim Marine (who ended his press conference, the one he held just before sneaking off to Lebanon with a stout “Semper Fi”) who deserted his post, and made his way through Iraq to Lebanon, and the Muslim on a Navy ship who apparently made known his willingness to betray secrets to the enemy. And there are other cases, as yet unpublicized, of behavior in and around the Iraqi theatre that at least some soldiers are aware of, but that may, or may not, come to light.
Go ahead. Let’s talk about both the doctrine and the practice of Islam, and about where Muslim loyalties must -- according to Islam -- lie. Do they, or don’t they? Even if this or that individual chooses to ignore or overlook the doctrine, he can always return to it, re-impressed with its truth. Thus can we Infidels entrust, say, an Air Force plane, or any major weaponry, or any security operations at all, whether by the military, or the C.I.A., or the F.B.I., to those who still identify themselves, for whatever reason, as Muslims? Does that make sense? Is that an intelligent wager to make with our own security?
The answers are
1. Yes, their loyalties apparently lie with islam, ergo
2. No, no and no....it makes no sense to entrust them, and it is not an intelligent wager to make with our security...but don't you make anything about it or you'll be branded an islamophobe or your own background and heritage will be questioned to see you why you hold such discriminitory views.
Remember Hugh that all of Islam is simply is based on LIES, so this does not surprise me. It is noticed that anytime a Muslim is bested by you, me or any non-Muslims on the JW/DW site, the Muslim gets all worked up and ends up not only name calling but sometimes gets really ugly with this supierior thinking atitude, which comes close to being laughable if it was not so sad.
Print and disseminate far and wide, study, memorize and use when necessary when arguing with ignorant, multicultural liberals.
Excellent, as always.
Hugh, when are you and Robert publishing your book of all your columns and comments on JihadWatch? No need for editing it. Incomplete and roughly-edited books published posthumously and authored by great people are superior to books written by mediocre authors, who put a lot of effort into improving the package of their works.
"Even if this or that individual chooses to ignore or overlook the doctrine, he can always return to it, re-impressed with its truth."
However, let an infidel choose to follow Islam, and then leave, being re-impressed with its falsehoods, and watch what happens.
The fact that a Muslim can leave and then come back to Islam; but that an infidel can't come to Islam and then leave Islam; speaks volumes about Islam.
What are they afraid of?
No one is a true convert if he converts with a gun to his head.
"Many Muslim groups and individual Muslims are rewriting the history of the world. Islam teaches them how to do it. What came before Islam, wherever Islam goes, is waved out of memory and consideration, as merely the time of ignorance, Jahiliyya."
If they can't rewrite history, they destroy the evidence. The Taliban blew up ancient pre-Islam statues of Buddha. In Jerusalem, the Muslims deny that the Jewish Temple ever existed. I am afraid that they would destroy all evidence of The Temple as soon as they get the chance.
As we know, many ancient Christian churches were converted to mosques.
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CT yank
Next claim by Islamania-the Americas and Australia really belong to the Koranic ones because Mo passed through these places en route to Jerusalem. Their BS knows no bounds.
The British and, especially, the French would have a harder time discounting Muslim claims to have been involved in the war effort during WWI and WWII.
The French and British used colonial troops on the western front during World War One: I've seen photos of French Senegalese troops at the Somme. I think the British were a little wary of using Muslim troops after the Indian Mutiny - I've only come across references to Sikhs and Rajputs during WWI, but the British Indian Army did contain 'Pathan' units.
In World War II it was Juin's African mountain troops who turned the German flank at Monte Casino. These men acquired something of a bad reputation among the Italian population: an important event in the plot of the Italian film classic 'La Coiorcara' (Two Women:1960) is the rape of a mother and daughter by Frenh African troops - in a church.
Off the top of my head I can only think of Sikh, Rajput and Ghurka troops being used by the British, at least in any quantities, during WWII but they may have used Muslim units. There was a tradition of serving as ship's servants , coming from goodness knows where, among the Muslims from Sylhet, in what is now Bangladesh, (which supplies most of the UK's Bangladeshi immigrants). I believe a significant number of these were drowned during the Battle of the Atlantic.
I'd imagine, particularly towards the end of the war, the Russians used a lot of men from those central Asian Something-stans: again, I suppose this may possibly have been a contributory factor towards the extraordinary rape binge that the Soviet troops went on, in East Germany and when they captured Berlin.
sorry about typos 'Casino' and 'coiorcara' which should, of course have read, 'Cassino' and 'Ciorcara', above.
"Ciociara" -- a woman from La Ciociaria. It's an area in Lazio, outside Rome. The troops -- Muslim troops -- from North Africa treated the Italian civilians terribly, and they began to fear them as they had traditionally feared the Muslim raiders from the sea: "Mamma li Turchi" ("Mama, the Turks!" has entered the Italian language as a warning, its meaning now etiolated and comical). Muslim troops from Central Asia and the Caucasus behaved similarly in Germany (not that one need drop a tear quite so readily for German as one would for Italian civilians).
Here is an outraged review of a recent prizewinning movie that rewrites the history of the Allies and North Africa during World War II, that I found at a French-run but English-language website:
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Inglorious Day
It appears that a motion picture that was fully funded by French taxpayers is being presented as an "Algerian" entry in the Best Foreign Film Category Sunday night at the Academy Awards ceremonies.
I received an e-mail about this from a French woman with whom I corresponded frequently last year. She is a writer, and a specialist in Celtic heritage. She also occasionally writes for France-Echos, one of the most prominent of the patriotic websites.
The movie is known in French as Les Indigènes, as Days of Glory in English, and when it opened in French theaters last September it aroused a storm of controversy at the French websites. I'll let "Marie" tell the tale:
This film has been entered in the Best Foreign Film category for an Oscar as an Algerian film, which it is not! It was produced entirely with French funding, from French taxpayers and is presented in France as a French film. But in Hollywood, the director presented it as an Algerian film. This action is scandalous and dishonest.
If we are to believe this work of fiction, France was liberated by troops composed of North Africans who sacrificed their lives. Americans, Canadians, British, French, whose graves are so numerous in the cemeteries of Normandy, will appreciate the way in which the truth about their sacrifice is cast aside! The veterans of all these countries, including members of my family, know the facts, and must rise up against this violation of historical truth.
Of course there were some North African and African troops, but they became known more for the rapes they committed against white women, in the army of occupation in Germany, if one is speaking of the Senegalese infantrymen; or in the army of occupation in Italy, if one is speaking of North Africans. In the first case, in Germany, it became necessary to remove the Senegalese infantrymen when the full scale of their destructiveness became known; in the second case, the ladies and gentlemen of the jury should re-view an excellent movie with Sophia Loren, in which the heroine and her daughter are both raped by North Africans from the French occupation army in Naples!
The lists of combat deaths during the Liberation show names of Europeans by the thousands, but only two or three African or North African names at the most, because they were never exposed to the dangers of front line missions!
Hence, the film Days of Glory, is an enormous falsehood, a total lie that must be quickly forgotten! Yes, the four actors will bring tears to your eyes - they know how, and there are good reasons for that! One of them Djamel Debbouze, who has one arm, caused tears and will forever cause tears, for the family of the young man from Reunion Island that he pushed on the train tracks for refusing to give him the jacket that he had tried to strip him of! The young man was horribly trapped under the train. Of course he died! This is a murder and demands punishment, but in France "certain people" escape the hand of the law!
Djamel Debbouze was acquitted! The same train that killed his victim tore off his arm. I have no pity for him - he's the one who should pity his victim! When he tried to do his one-man show on Reunion Island, they were waiting for him to make him pay for his crime. So he cancelled the performance. Recently when Days of Glory was premiered, Algeria kicked him out of Algerian territory! That's proof, if any were needed, that the film is not Algerian, but French!
Another of the film's actors, Sami Naceri, is now in prison for six months! For a long time the justice system overlooked his violence, but enough is enough - when he tried to kill a man with a knife, he was captured.
Morally, with all these lies, falsifications of History, dishonesty about the nationality (French financing) of the production and all the immorality attached to the film Days of Glory and with one actor a criminal and the other in jail for attempted murder, can they reward this motion picture?
Among the crosses of the immense cemeteries for the allies who liberated us, including many Americans, I have at times found Jewish graves. I have not seen any Muslim graves. Perhaps they're there, but they are so few that I have never found even one. That is the truth.
So many Americans will forever remain in our hearts for the sacrifice they made to liberate France. The real French, those of European origin, even those born after the war, have a second homeland: the USA.
To reward a mendacious movie that betrays the History of France and of Europe and the world and its director who refuses to recognize the French taxpayers who paid for his movie and then to present it as being Algerian, would only further pad the pockets of a murderer who has never indemnified the family of his young victim, and a man now in jail for having tried to commit murder with a knife. Both of these men are stars of Days of Glory.
Can America approve of the immorality and lies attached to this film? Can America spit on the graves of her soldiers by rewarding this movie? The lie itself is a crime that sickens the heart.
Signed: A French citizen and taxpayer.
On August 3, 2007 I posted a piece at www.newenglishreview.org. Some, but not all of it, is in Italian. I don't have the time to translate it but much of it can be made out, nonetheless -- enough to get the grim gist.
Here it is:
"Here, in Italian, is an article on the Moroccan troops (the soi-disant "goumier") in southern Italy, that graphically describes their raping and looting, and also describes, what is as important, the fact that the French promised them that they could engage in "saccheggio e preda." Perhaps some native Italian samaritan will translate the text below. It's an important article and deserves to be disseminated in English:
Tommaso BARIS
Montecassino 1944, scatenate i marocchini
tratto da Millenovecento, n. 14, dicembre 2003.
Tommaso Baris è dottorando di ricerca di storia contemporanea presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università La Sapienza di Roma. La tesi di laurea "Esperienza bellica e mutamenti sociali. L'impatto della guerra sulla popolazione civile del Frusinate 1943-1948" ha vinto la prima edizione del premio "Luigi Micheletti". Sullo stesso argomento Baris ha scritto anche il libro "Fra due fuochi", uscito per la Laterza
Nella primavera del 1944, gli anglo-americani, bloccati ad Anzio e Cassino dall'accanita difesa tedesca (1), decisero di aggirare l'ostacolo chiedendo al comandante francese Alphonse Juin di espugnare la dorsale montuosa degli Aurunci, prendendo alle spalle il dispositivo di difesa germanico. Il 12 maggio l'offensiva francese fu lanciata in direzione del monte Faito e del monte Maio, il cui controllo consentiva l'accesso alla catena dei monti Musoni. Grazie all'attacco condotto attraverso località assai impervie, in due giorni le truppe marocchine inquadrate nell'esercito francese (i cosiddetti goumier) aprirono ai mezzi corazzati la via per Ceprano e Frosinone e risalirono, nella settimana successiva, la provincia fino alla valle dell'Amaseno e del Sacco, costringendo i tedeschi a una rovinosa ritirata per evitare l'accerchiamento (2). Durante la loro travolgente avanzata, per circa due settimane, dal 15 maggio all'inizio di giugno, quasi dimezzate dalla resistenza tedesca (alla fine della battaglia i goumier erano ridotti a circa 7 mila), le truppe francesi si abbandonarono a una serie impressionante di saccheggi, omicidi e stupri in tutti i paesi conquistati, soprattutto contro gruppi ristretti di persone o individui isolati, finchè non fu loro ordinato di arrestare la marcia a Valmontone. Il carattere sistematico delle violenze e la sostanziale acquiescenza di comandanti e ufficiali diffusero la convinzione della libertà di azione concessa ai soldati coloniali contro i civili, nonostante le sanzioni previste nei codici militari per i reati citati. In un memorandum della Presidenza del Consiglio, l'atteggiamento degli ufficiali francesi era duramente stigmatizzato perché «lungi dall'intervenire e dal reprimere tali crimini hanno invece infierito contro la popolazione civile che cercava di opporvisi», segnalando come le truppe marocchine fossero state reclutate «mediante un patto che accorda loro il diritto di preda e saccheggio» (3). «Gli ufficiali lasciano ai marocchini una discreta libertà di azione» e «nella generalità dei casi essi preferiscono ignorare e da qualcuno è stato anche detto che agli irregolari marocchini spetta il diritto di preda».
Una nota del 25 giugno del 1944 del comando generale dell'Arma dei Carabinieri dell'Italia liberata alla Presidenza del Consiglio, segnalava nei comuni di Giuliano di Roma, Patrica, Ceccano, Supino, Morolo, e Sgurgola, in soli tre giorni (dal 2 al 5 giugno), 418 violenze sessuali, di cui 3 su uomini, 29 omicidi, 517 furti compiuti dai soldati marocchini, i quali «infuriarono contro quelle popolazioni terrorizzandole. Numerosissime donne, ragazze e bambine (...) vennero violentate, spesso ripetutamente, da soldati in preda a sfrenata esaltazione sessuale e sadica, che molte volte costrinsero con la forza i genitori e i mariti ad assistere a tale scempio. Sempre ad opera dei soldati marocchini vennero rapinati innumerevoli cittadini di tutti i loro averi e del bestiame. Numerose abitazioni vennero saccheggiate e spesso devastate e incendiate» (5).
L'impatto per la popolazione civile fu quindi traumatico. L'ondata di violenza generalizzata e sottratta a ogni controllo dei tanto attesi liberatori gettò gli abitanti in uno stato di prostrazione profonda, accentuando il senso di sfiducia verso ogni realtà esterna. La liberazione tanto agognata si trasformò in un incubo di violenza sfrenata e incontrollata. L'inatteso seguito degli avvenimenti è rimasto impresso a caratteri assai vividi nella memoria dei protagonisti (6). «Li potettero qua a migliaia, se vedevano scegnere dalla montagna... da luntano erano come alle furmiche», ricorda Concetta C. «Ma fuiette nu passaggio, in tre iuorni, facettero l'inferno. Erano na razzaccia brutta e sporca. C'avevano gli 'recchini agliu nase, certe vesti longhe (...). pe tutta la montagna se sentivano strilli e lamenti...» (7). Giovannina M., un'altra testimone intervistata, dei marocchini dice: «Nui aspettavamo gli liberatori, arrivettero chigli da n'auta razza. Erano brutti, parevano gli diavoli. Ce rubettero chigliu poche che c'era rimasto e facettero tanto scempio della populazione... C'avevano carta bianca agliu fronte e facettero tutte chelle sporcizie agli omene e alle femmene... una strage. Chisti marocchini erano sporchi, come alle bestie. Erano niri con gli occie rusci, con gli 'recchini agliu nase... na montagna piena, sbucavano da tutte le parte, pigliavano tutte le donne che incuntravano e se le purtavano alla boscaglia, passavano in colonna in mieso a nui... addò vuò scappà?» (8).
Non diversa l'immagine trasmessa dalle fonti ufficiali. Una relazione del Ministero degli Affari Esteri sottolineava che «quotidianamente, in qualunque ora del giorno e della notte» avvenivano «violazioni carnali, ferimenti e assassini, rapine e saccheggi. Molto frequenti erano stati i casi di ragazze giovanissime deflorate e violentate successivamente da interi gruppi di soldati in preda a furia sadica», mentre «molte donne sono state trovate cadavere a seguito delle violenze patite. Molto spesso tali atrocità sono state commesse in presenza dei famigliari, ridotti prima all'impotenza, e dopo il massacro degli stessi», confermando che «i genitori, i fratelli, i mariti» erano stati costretti «ad assistere allo scempio effettuato» e spesso «uccisi, feriti o malmenati per la resistenza fatta o la difesa esercitata allo scopo di impedire le violenze carnali» (9). La natura selvaggia del comportamento del Cef disorientò quindi la popolazione, convinta di vedere arrivare gli americani: «Girava la voce che venivano gli americani... invece gli americani non c'hanno passato alla montagna» (10) dice Tommaso Fortunato. la sorpresa fu totale. Gli abitanti rimasero stupiti prima dall'aspetto dei liberatori, poi, dall'inatteso dilagare delle violenze. «E' stata brutta. per fortuna i marocchini qui non sono passati... all'inizio quando ho visto a Sora questi neri, ho detto: mamma mia guarda gli animali... lo dissi alla figlia della padrona, perché non mi rendevo conto che anche loro erano esseri umani» (11). «Nui non lo sapevamo mica che chisti marocchini pigliavano le femmine», racconta Maria De Angelis, «Nui sentivamo alluccà (gridare) ma non lo sapevamo chello che stevano a portà annanze (avanti) la gente pé la riparà e loro non ce vulevano ì (andare)» (12).
La sensazione di impotenza, la tolleranza mostrata dai comandi verso i marocchini, il riconoscimento ufficiale che pareva accompagnare la loro violenza selvaggia e indiscriminata, totalmente al di fuori di una possibile regolamentazione, sconcertò gli abitanti dei paesi liberati. L'impossibilità di una qualsiasi difesa dinnanzi al dispiegarsi di una ferocia animalesca (più volte richiamata dall'accostamento dei goumier alle bestie), così feroce da fuoriuscire dalla sfera umana (indemoniati e diavoli sono infatti definiti ripetutamente i marocchini), l'abbandono subito dalle autorità alleate in cui avevano riposto tanta fiducia, segnarono in maniera indelebile la memoria dei giorni di guerra. L'immagine restituitaci, e dalla documentazione archivistica e dalle testimonianze orali, è quella di un paesaggio infernale: «I soldati marocchini che avevano bussato alla porta e che non venne aperta, abbattuta la porta stessa colpivano la Rocca con il calcio del moschetto alla testa facendola cadere a terra priva di sensi, quindi veniva trasportata di peso a circa 30 metri dalla casa e violentata mentre il padre (...) da altri militari veniva trascinato, malmenato e legato a un albero. Gli astanti terrorizzati non potettero arrecare nessun aiuto alla ragazza e al genitore in quanto un soldato rimase di guardia con il moschetto puntato sugli stessi» (13).
«Nui le semo incontrati per la via e pure in mieso alla strada se pigliavano le femmene», racconta sempre Giovannina M. «Gli omene anziani che stavano con nui nun ce putevano soccorre pecchè loro erano assai e ammazzavano chili che difendevano le donne...C'erano gli graduati che erano bianchi, francisi e non gli dicevano (g)niente. Iemmo (andammo) a fa commedia agliu commando... ce dissero che per fa ì (andare) annanzi gli marocchi li avevano dovuti dà "carta bianca". Solo alla fine, dopo tre iuorni, gli tolsero sta carta bianca». «Arrivettero addò stavamo nui e con chisti ce stevano pure i francisi, chigli che gli cumannavano», aggiunge Concetta C. «E facettero stragi... Io c'avevo le mie cose, quando se ne accurgettero gli due che m'avevano sbattuta per terra s'alluntanarono (...). Sai quante vecchie so morte per gliu dolore...». La popolazione poté soltanto nascondersi, sperando di riuscire a sfuggire ai soldati: «La notte so arrivati chisti marocchini e hanno cominciato a bussare alle case... grida dappertutto nel paese. A casa nostra non hanno fatto niente pecché la seconda notte si è ristretta tutta la famiglia... abbiamo chiuso dentro con una varra (sbarra) dietro la porta, e così dopo tre giorni è passata la furia» (14). Per il capitano Pittalli «il 90% delle persone che hanno attraversato la zona di operazioni delle truppe marocchine sono state derubate di ogni loro avere, come anche molto alto è il numero delle donne violentate, e notevole anche il numero degli atti contro natura commessi a danno di uomini», ricordando che «molti casi vengono taciuti» (15). I dati del Ministero degli Interni, raccolti pochi mesi dopo la liberazione, indicano in circa 3.100 le donne vittime delle violenze sessuali da parte delle truppe marocchine (16) ma si tratta di una stima nettamente inferiore al numero reale degli abusi. La guerra moderna tendenzialmente totale, mise quindi in comunicazione anche le piccole località periferiche con i grandi eventi, che spesso finirono per coinvolgerle. La comunità, impossibilitata ad incidere sugli eventi, non riuscì ad elaborare una valutazione condivisa della violenza che la travolse.
Note
(1) Sui numerosi tentativi degli anglo-americani di sfondare la linea Gustav nella zona di Cassino esiste una vasta bibliografia: W Nardini, Cassino fino all'ultimo uomo, Milano, Mursia, 1962; R. Bohmler. Montecassino. Con le truppe tedesche dalla Sicilia a Roma, Milano, Baldini & Castaldi, 1965; F. Majdalany, La battaglia di Cassino, Milano, Garzanti, 1974; J. Piekalkiewicz, Cassino. Anatomia di una battaglia, Novara, De Agostini 1981; D. Hopgood/D. Richardson, Montecassino, Milano, Rizzoli, 1985.
(2) B.H. Liddel Hart, Storia militare della seconda guerra mondiale, Milano, Mondatori, 1970, pag. 750.
(3) ACS, PCM, 1948-50, n.33491, f.19-10, sf. 1 Violenze truppe alleate. Il memorandum non datato accompagna la lettera del Presidente del Consiglio Ivanoe Bonomi alla Commissione alleata di Controllo del 10-7-1944.
(4) ASMAE, Affari politici, 1931-1945, Francia, b. 98, f. Atrocità varie commesse dalle truppe francesi ai nostri danni, sf. 1 Nota del capitano Pittalli della stazione dei Carabinieri del 25-5-1944.
(5) ACS PCM, 1944-47, n.10270, f. 19-10, sf 1 Truppe alleate comportamento. Nota del Comando generale dell'arma dei Carabinieri del 25-5-1944.
(6) Sull'immagine delle truppe marocchine conservata nella memoria delle donne: V. Chiurlotto (a cura di), Donne come noi. Marocchinate 1944-bosniache 1993, in "DWF", n1, 1993, pp 42-67.
(7) Intervista a Concetta c, 1918, contadina, realizzata il 12-9-1999 ad Esperia.
(8) Intervista a Giovannina M, 1921, contadina, realizzata il 13-9-1999 ad Esperia.
(9) ACS, PCM, 1944-47, n.10270 f. 19-10: "Truppe alleate comportamenti". Telespressodel 16-10-1944, inviato dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri alla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, al Ministero degli Interni, allo Stato Maggiore Generale, alle rappresentanze diplomatiche italiane di Londra e Washington.
(10) Intervista a Tommaso Fortunato, 1912, contadino, realizzata il 20-11-2001 ad Esperia.
(11) Intervista a Laura A, 1927, casalinga, realizzata il 23-04-2001 a Cassino da Francesca Burdi.
(12) Intervista a Maria De Angelis, 1927, contadina, realizzata il 30-12-2001 ad Esperia.
(13) ASF, Prefettura di Frosinone 1927-1987, II serie, b.1620, f. "Donne violentate dai marocchini. Piedimonte San Germano". Segnalazione dei Carabinieri all'Ufficio provinciale dell'Assistenza postbellica del 9-9-1946.
(14) Intervista a Gladinoro Messore, 19282, contadino, realizzata il 90-2-2002 a S. Ambrogio sul Garigliano.
(15) ASMAE, Affari politici, 1931-45, Francia b.98, f. "Atrocità varie commesse dalle truppe francesi ai nostri danni" sf. 1 Nota del capitano Pittalli alla stazione dei carabinieri di Aversa del 28-5-1944.
(16) ACS, MI, Gab.1944-46, b. 27, f. 2097, "Assistenza sanitaria alle donne che subirono violenza da parte dei marocchini nella provincia di Frosinone e Littoria". Nota del 13-9-1944.
IL PROCLAMA FANTASMA DI JUIN
«Il vostro generale vi annuncia, vi promette solennemente, vi giura, sul suo onore di soldato e sulla bandiera della Francia, che si alza, per l'ultima volta, il sole sulle vostre sofferenze, sulle vostre privazioni, sulla vostra fame. Oltre quei monti, oltre quei nemici che stanotte ucciderete, c'è una terra larga... ricca di donne, di vino, di case. Se voi riuscirete a passare oltre quella linea senza lasciare vivo un solo nemico, il vostro generale vi promette, vi giura, vi proclama che quelle donne, quelle case, quel vino, tutto quello che troverete sarà vostro, a vostro piacimento e volontà. Per 50 ore. E potrete avere tutto, prendere tutto, distruggere o portare via, se avrete vinto, se ve lo sarete meritato». E' tradizione diffusa che all'alba del giorno fissato per l'attacco sul fronte del Garigliano, il 14 maggio 1944, il generale Alphonse Juin abbia inoltrato, alle truppe nordafricane (goumier) della seconda divisione di fanteria, del generale Dody, e della quarta divisione da montagna, del generale Guillaume, il proclama appena citato. Di questo proclama, pubblicato nelle più disparate versioni non si ha però attualmente traccia che ne assicuri la veridicità storica. E' comunque da rimarcare il rifiuto opposto dalle autorità francesi alla libera consultazione degli archivi militari per la vicenda in questione: se ci fosse una smentita a questa tesi o comunque una serie di carte che la rendessero improbabile, il comportamento delle autorità francesi sarebbe lo stesso?"
The most important thing to have translated is this excerpt:
"le truppe francesi [i.e., maghrebins] si abbandonarono a una serie impressionante di saccheggi, omicidi e stupri in tutti i paesi [here not "countries" but "villages'] conquistati, soprattutto contro gruppi ristretti di persone o individui isolati, finchè non fu loro ordinato di arrestare la marcia a Valmontone. Il carattere sistematico delle violenze e la sostanziale acquiescenza di comandanti e ufficiali diffusero la convinzione della libertà di azione concessa ai soldati coloniali contro i civili, nonostante le sanzioni..."
Sacheggi -- lootings
Omicidi -- murders
Stupri -- rapes
And it was the same with Muslim troops from Central Asia in Germany. It was the same with the Arabs in Damascus, when the English and the Australians, who had in fact taken Damascus from the Turks, allowed for the sake of Arab self-esteem (akin to what the Americans pretended about the value the Saudi and other Arab troops, utterly useless, during the Gulf War, or the way in which "Iraqi" troops are given exaggerated credit by American generals -- though not the intermediate officers and men -- in present-day Iraq) to enter Damascus and take control of the German and Turkish prisoners, whom they proceeded to massacre and mutilate in the style that was employed by Muslims massacring the English in India in 1857, or in Afghanistan a bit later, or again, against the English, in Iraq (Mesopotamia) during the 1920s.
Nothing changes. And nothing will change, unless the entire civilization undergoes a makeover. And it won't. It can't. There is Islam. Some have tried, in even tiny ways, to change it. They haven't succeeded. The only way to deal with it is, as is done in Turkey and Tunisia, to suppress and constrain it. In the Lands of the Infidels, suppressing and constraining should not be necessary if Islam is not permitted to gain or retain a significant presence in the first place."
As I understand, the black Moroccan troops brought in by Franco, did the same thing in Spain.They raped Spanish women. The troops were fear and hated. I hear echos of this all over - but I can't find it anythwere on the Internet or in the libraries or bookshops - it's all been hushed up.
So this is the reputation of the Black Islamic troops.
Hugh: ALl that Italian article, why don't you translated it - or give us a url where we can do it - in one piece.
This is the translation from Babelfish of Messr. Hugo's Italian article - are are a few stray words in Italian I couldn't even find in Italian-Eng. dictionaries ( musct be verbs):
Tommaso BARIS Montecassino 1944, triggered the Moroccans drawn from Millenovecento, n. 14, December 2003. Tommaso Baris is dottorando of contemporary history search near the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University the Wisdom of Rome. The bachelor thesis "war Experience and social changes. The impact of the war on the civil population of Frusinate 1943-1948 "has gained the first edition of the prize" Luigi Micheletti ". On the same Baris argument the book "Between two fires" has written also, exited for the Laterza.
In the spring of 1944, the Anglos-American, block to you to Anzio and Cassino from the German upset one defended (1), decided to avoid obstacle asking French commander Alphonse Juin to storm the montuosa ridge of the Aurunci, taking to the shoulders the Germanic device of defense. 12 May the French offensive was launch in direction of the Faito mount and the Maio mount, whose control concurred the access with the chain of the Musoni mounts. Thanks to the attack lead through locality much impervie, in two days the Moroccan troops framed in the French army (the so-called goumier) opened to the average battleships the way for Ceprano and Frosinone and went back, in the successive week, the province until go them of the Amaseno and the Bag, forcing the Germans to one rovinosa withdrawn in order to avoid encirclement (2). During theirs sweeping being left over, for approximately two weeks, from 15 May to the june beginning, nearly halved from the German resistance (to the end of the battle the goumier was reduced to approximately 7 mila), the French troops was abandoned to an impressive series of pillages, homicides and stupri in all the conquered countries, above all against narrow groups of persons or individuals it isolates to you, finchè was not they ordered to arrest the march to Valmontone. The systematic character of the violences and the substantial acquiescenza of commanders and officials diffused the conviction of the freedom of action granted to the colonial soldiers against the civilians, in spite of the endorsements previewed in the military codes for the cited crimes. In a memorandum of the Presidency of the Council, the attitude of the French officials hardly stigmatizzato because "lungi taking part and repressing such crimes have instead acted cruelly against the civil population that tried of opporvisi", signaling as the Moroccan troops had been recruited "by means of a pact that comes to an agreement they the right of preda and pillage" (3). "the officials leave the Moroccans a discreet freedom of action" and "in the generality of the cases they prefer to ignore and from someone it has been also said that to the irregular Moroccans the right of preda is up".
A famous one of the 25 june of 1944 of the general commando of the Arm of the Police officers of the Italy freed to the Presidency of the Council, signaled in common of Giuliano of Rome, Patrica, Ceccano, Supino, Morolo, and Sgurgola, in the single ones three days (from the 2 to the 5 june), 418 sexual violences, of which 3 on men, 29 homicides, 517 thefts completed from the Moroccan soldiers, which "infuriated against those populations terrorizzando them. Most numerous women, girls and children (...) often came violentate, repeatedly, from soldiers in preda to unbridled sexual and sadistic exaltation, that many times forced with the force the parents and the husbands to assist to such scempio. To work of the Moroccan soldiers their assets always came rob innumerevoli citizens to you of all and the cattle. Numerous rooms often came plundered and devastate and set afire "(5).
The impact for the civil population was therefore traumatic. The big wave of violence generalized and embezzled to every control of the a lot attended liberatori threw the inhabitants in one be of deep prostrazione, emphasizing the distrust sense towards every external truth. The yearned for liberation a lot was transformed in an incubus of unbridled and uncontrolled violence. The unexpected continuation of the events is remained much impresso to characters vividi in the memory of protagonists (6). "Them potettero to migliaia, if they saw to scegnere from the mountain... from luntano were like to the furmiche", Concetta C remembers here. "But fuiette nu passage, in three iuorni, facettero hell. They were na razzaccia ugly and dirty. There they had ' recchini agliu nase, sure garments longhe (...). pe all the mountain if they felt it screams and it complains... "(7). Giovannina M., an other interviewed witness, of the Moroccans says: "Nui we waited for the liberatori, arrivettero chigli from n' auta race. They were ugly, seemed the devils. Rubettero Ce chigliu little that were remained and facettero a lot scempio of the populazione... There forehead and facettero had paper white woman agliu all chelle soils to omene and femmene... one the massacre. Chisti Moroccan was dirty, as to the beasts. They were niri with the occie rusci, with the ' recchini agliu nase... na full mountain, sbucavano from all the part, pigliavano all the women who incuntravano and if the purtavano to the scrub, passed in column in mieso nui... addò vuò scappà " (8). Not various the image transmitted from the official sources. A relation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that "daily, in any hour of the day and of the night" sexual violations, woundings and murders, holdups and pillages happened ". Much frequent they had been the cases of the young girls deflowered and violentate subsequently from entire groups of soldiers in preda to sadistic fury ", while" many women have been found corpse to continuation of the suffering violences. A lot often such atrociousnesses have been store clerks in presence of the familiar ones, reduced before to the impotence, and after the slaughter of the same ones ", confirming that" the parents, the siblings, the husbands "had been forced" to assist to the scempio carried out "and" victims of a murder, often hurt or malmenati for the made resistance or the practised defense in order to prevent the sexual violences "(9). The wild nature of the behavior of the Cef confuseed therefore the population, convinced to see to arrive the Americans: "It turned the voice that the Americans... instead the Americans came not there have passed to the mountain" (10) says Fortunate Tommaso. the surprise was total. The inhabitants remained astonished before from the aspect of the liberatori, then, the unexpected one to spread of the violences. "E' be ugly fortunately the Moroccans are not here pass... to the beginning when I have seen to Sora these black ones, I have said: mother mine watches the animals... said the daughter of the landlady, because I did not become account that also they were human beings "(11). "Nui we at all did not know that chisti Moroccans pigliavano the females", tell Maria De Angelis, "Nui we felt alluccà to it (to scream) but we did not know chello that stevano to portà annanze to it (ahead) riparà people pé and they ce vulevano ì (not to go)" (12).
The impotence feeling, the tolerance shown from the commandos towards the Moroccans, the official acknowledgment that seemed to accompany their wild and indiscriminate violence, totally to outside of one possible regulation, sconcertò the inhabitants of the freed countries. An impossibility of one whichever defense dinnanzi to unfolding itself of an animal ferocity (more times recalled from the approach of the goumier the beasts), therefore feracious to fuoriuscire from the human sphere (possessed people and devils in fact is defined repeatedly the Moroccans), the abandonment endured from the authorities allied in which they had riposto much confidence, marked in indelebile way the memory of the war days. The image given back to us, and from the documentation archival and the oral testimonies, is that one of a infernal landscape: "the Moroccan soldiers who had knocked to the door and that she did not come open, pulled down the same door hit the Rocca with soccer of the moschetto to the head making it to fall to earth lacking in senses, therefore came transported of weight to approximately 30 meters from the house and violentata while the father (...) other soldiers came dragged, malmenato and legacy to a tree. The bystanders terrorizza not potettero you to bring no aid to the girl and to the parent in how much a soldier remained of guard with the moschetto aimed at the same ones "(13).
"Nui the semo meets you for the way and pure in mieso to the pigliavano road if the femmene", tells always Giovannina M. "the omene old that was with nui nun ce putevano it helps pecchè they they were much and they killed chili that they defended the women... were graduates to it to you that they were white men, francisi and did not say (g)niente. Iemmo to it (went) ago commedia agliu command... ce said that in order ago ì (to go) annanzi the marocchi had had give them" to paper white woman ". Only to the end, after three iuorni, they removed to it is paper white woman ". "Arrivettero addò we were nui and with chisti ce stevano also the francisi, chigli that the cumannavano", adds Concetta C. "and facettero massacres... I had my things there, when if of accurgettero the two that m' had blinked for earth s' alluntanarono (...). Know how many old ones know died for gliu pain... ". The population could only hide, hoping to succeed to escape to the soldiers: "the night I know arrives chisti Moroccans to you and have begun to knock everywhere to the houses... grida in the country. To house ours the family has not made nothing pecché the second night is itself narrow all... has closed within with a varra (blocks) behind the door, and therefore after three days the fury is last "(14). For Pittalli captain "90% of the persons whom they have crossed the zone of operations of the Moroccan troops have been derubate of every they to have, like also much high it is the number of the violentate women, and remarkable also the number of the actions against nature store clerks to damage of men", remembering that "many cases come taciuti" (15). The data of the Ministry of the Insides, collected little months after the liberation, indicate in approximately 3.100 the women victims of the sexual violences from part of the Moroccan troops (16) but draft of a clearly inferior esteem to the real number of the abuses. The modern war tendentially total, put therefore in communication also the small peripheral localities with the great events, than often they ended in order to be involved them. The community, disabled to affect the events, did not succeed to elaborate a shared appraisal of the violence that swept up it.
Notes (1) On the numerous ones tried you of the Anglos-American to smash in the Gustav line in the zone of Cassino immense bibliography exists one: W Nardini, Cassino until the last man, Milan, Mursia, 1962; R. Bohmler. Montecassino. With the German troops from the Sicily to Rome, Milan, Baldini & Castaldi, 1965; F. Majdalany, the battle of Cassino, Milan, Garzanti, 1974; J. Piekalkiewicz, Cassino. Anatomy of a battle, Novara, De Agostini 1981; D. Hopgood/D. Richardson, Montecassino, Milan, Rizzoli, 1985. (2) B.H. Liddel Hart, military History of the second world war, Milan, Mondatori, 1970, pag. 750. (3) ACS, PCM, 1948-50, n.33491, f.19-10, sf. 1 Violences ally troops. The dated memorandum does not accompany the letter of the Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi to the ally Commission of Control of 10-7-1944. (4) ASMAE, political Transactions, 1931-1945, France, b. 98, f. Atrocità several store clerks from the French troops to our damages, sf. 1 Note of Pittalli captain of the station of the Police officers of 25-5-1944. (5) ACS PCM, 1944-47, n.10270, f. 19-10, sf 1 ally Troops behavior. Famous of the general Commando of the arm of the Police officers of 25-5-1944. (6) On the image of the Moroccan troops conserved in the memory of the women: V. Chiurlotto (edited by), Women like we. Marocchinate 1944-Bosnians 1993, in "DWF", n1, 1993, pp 42-67. (7) Interview to Concetta c, 1918, peasant, realized 12-9-1999 to Esperia. (8) Interview to Giovannina M, 1921, peasant, realized 13-9-1999 to Esperia. (9) ACS, PCM, 1944-47, n.10270 f. 19-10: "ally Troops behaviors". Telespressodel 16-10-1944, sended from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister's Office, to the Ministry of the Insides, the Joint Chief of Staff, the Italian diplomatic representations of London and Washington. (10) Interview to Fortunate Tommaso, 1912, peasant, realized the 20-11-2001 to Esperia. (11) Interview to Laura To, 1927, housewife, realized the 23-04-2001 to Cassino from Francesca Burdi. (12) Interview to Maria De Angelis, 1927, peasant, realized the 30-12-2001 to Esperia. (13) ASF, Prefettura of Frosinone 1927-1987, II series, b.1620, f. "Women violentate from the Moroccans. Saint Piedimonte Germano ". Signalling of the Police officers to the provincial Office of the post-war Attendance of 9-9-1946. (14) Interview to Gladinoro Messore, 19282, peasant, realized the 90-2-2002 to S. Ambrogio on the Garigliano. (15) ASMAE, political Transactions, 1931-45, France b.98, f. "Atrociousness several store clerks from the French troops to our damages" sf. 1 Note of Pittalli captain to the station of the police officers of Aversa of 28-5-1944. (16) ACS, ME, Gab.1944-46, b. 27, f. 2097, "sanitary Attendance to the women who endured violence from part of the Moroccans in the province of Frosinone and Littoria". Famous of 13-9-1944. The GHOST PROCLAMA OF your JUIN "general announces to you, promises to you solemn, swears to you, on its honor of soldier and the flag of France, than it is raised, for the last time, the sun on your suffering, your deprivations, your hunger. Beyond those mounts, beyond those enemies who stanotte you will kill, there is one rich wide earth... of women, wine, houses. If you will succeed to pass beyond that line without to leave a single enemy alive, your general one promises, to you swears you, you proclama that those women, those houses, that wine, all which you will find will be yours, to your piacimento and will. For 50 hours. And you will be able to have all, to take all, to destroy or to carry via, if you will have won, if ve you will be deserved it ". E' diffuse tradition that to the dawn of the fixed day for the attack on the forehead of the Garigliano, 14 May 1944, general Alphonse Juin has forwarded, to the North African troops (goumier) of the second division of infantry, general Dody, and the quarter division from mountain, general Guillaume, the proclama as soon as cited. Of this proclama, published in the most disparate versions trace is not had currently but that of it assures the historical veridicità. E' however to rimarcare the opposite refusal from the French authorities to the free consultation of arches to you military for the vicissitude in issue: if there were a refutation to this thesis or however a series of papers that rendered it improbable, the behavior of the French authorities would be the same one " The most important thing to have translated is this excerpt: "the French troops [ i.e., maghrebins ] were abandoned to an impressive series of pillages, homicides and stupri in all the countries [ to here not" countries "but" villages' ] conquered, above all against narrow groups of persons or individuals it isolates to you, finchè was not they ordered to arrest the march to Valmontone. The systematic character of the violences and the substantial acquiescenza of commanders and officials diffused the conviction of the freedom of action granted to the colonial soldiers against the civilians, in spite of the endorsements... "
Sacheggi -- lootings Homicides
-- murders Stupri -- rapes
"Babelfish" I'm afraid makes a mess of everything that goes through its computer-pumped grinder. Only humans can translate. Every attempt at machine translation that I have ever seen fails. Such translations do, however, provide comic relief. That's something.
Moroccans are not usually blackskinned. The "moros" that Franco brought into Spain were the same as the Marocchini that General Juin let loose on the villages near Monte Cassino. They were not black. Rather they were swarthy as they appeared in the movie Two Women. I don't think it helps to make everybody that you don't like "black." Hugh is arguing that what basically gave these troops the feeling that they had the right to loot and rape in the Italian villages was Islam, not their skincolor whatever it may have been. It helped too that --according to the Italian account-- General Alphonse Juin promised them that they could loot and rape as a reward for defeating the Germans. Of course, they were not looting and raping Germans but Italians who were supposedly on the Allied side at that time and had hoped for liberation.