Something tells us this is not about the Autobahn. Or Volkswagens. They promise rapid development, but there would be other forms of command economies to propose if they wanted them: something else has made them choose the Nazi brand identity. And it wouldn't be the first time two virulent strains of antisemitism found each other, as the image above shows a meeting between Hitler and his ally, the Mufti of Jerusalem. "After fall of Mubarak, group announces intent to form Nazi party," from Al Masry Al Youm, May 25 (thanks to Gravenimage):
A group of Egyptians have announced their intent to establish a Nazi party with "a contemporary frame of reference," an independent Egyptian news website said on Wednesday.
Al-Badeel, a leftist news portal, quoted founding member Emad Abdel Sattar as saying the party would bring together prominent figures from the Egyptian society. The party’s founding deputy is a former military official.
The party believes in vesting all powers in the president after selecting him or her carefully, Abdel Sattar said, adding that preparations are underway to choose the most competent person to represent the party.
The Nazi party operated secretly under former President Hosni Mubarak, whose regime prevented party leaders from carrying out their activities freely.
Although Al-Masry Al-Youm could not verify the news reported by Al-Badeel, two Facebook pages have appeared recently under the title of "the Egyptian Nazi Party".
The two pages attracted around 70 followers, who mostly posted questions about the party's ideas and policies and requested details on how to join.
Abdel Sattar told Al-Badeel that members are increasing at an unexpected rate, and several people came to ask about the nature of the party and its plans.
The party has a one-year plan to develop Egypt, unlike the "marginalized liberal parties, which are like dead bodies,” he said.
A source from the proposed party told Al-Badeel the idea to start it came after some fundamentalist religious waves emerged, which, according to the source, created a state of chaos and led to the burning of churches, the destruction of shrines and assaults on unarmed civilians.
The founders want to avoid media attention until they are fully ready, the source said.
Caption taken from this Monty Python sketch.
Move over Ikhwan! You've got some competition!
We've already been comparing the "Arab Spring" to "Springtime for Hitler"—but who ever would have guessed they'd have *this much* in common?
Actually, this hardly comes as a big surprise. Still, it is *so* blatant—they're not even bothering to couch this in terms of "democracy" or "freedom". And why bother, when you can resurrect the "attractive" Nazi Party brand instead?
From the article:
The party believes in vesting all powers in the president after selecting him or her carefully, Abdel Sattar said, adding that preparations are underway to choose the most competent person to represent the party.
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And I'm sure he will combine all the finest features of a Fürer *and* a Caliph...
That bit about "him or her" is also good for a laugh, as though they're likely to put forward a Muslimah "Ilsa Koch" to head the party...
More:
The Nazi party operated secretly under former President Hosni Mubarak, whose regime prevented party leaders from carrying out their activities freely.
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Well, it seems that Mubarak-whatever his shortcomings—was keeping both the "Islamists" and *the Nazis* in line...
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A source from the proposed party told Al-Badeel the idea to start it came after some fundamentalist religious waves emerged, which, according to the source, created a state of chaos and led to the burning of churches, the destruction of shrines and assaults on unarmed civilians.
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Ah yes—I'm sure threatened religious minorities and unarmed civilians will feel much more secure *under the Nazis*—after all, it worked out so well for the Jews the first time round...sarc/off
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The party has a one-year plan to develop Egypt, unlike the "marginalized liberal parties, which are like dead bodies,” he said.
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They certainly can turn a phrase. *This* is the status of those few idealistic souls in Tarir Square whom the West chose to focus on in the earliest days of the revolution...
Look at that photo, the eternal supremacist and the supplicant... Hitler trying to earn his papa's approval...ha, ha. What a classic photo, and pathetic posturing, by both.
If this weren't so funny it would be laughable, the idea of nazis from egypt. I expect if they're not just crazy, they have dreams of getting a few suckers from the fellow incestious hate blinded neo-nazis as allies from around the world.
So now egypt and neo-nazis can dance to islamic cult kumbaya moments of arabian nights? Egyptian dance style to oompah music. Ha, bet they have a conclave in yemen! Pathetic losers, all!
The Storm Troopers were a tiny minority of extremists who perverted the peaceful ideology of the Nazi party. The holocaust was misinterpreted and taken out of context. "Final Solution" is a private, internal struggle to better oneself. Hitler's conduct is considered to be the perfect example for all men.
That was brilliant, Xero G.
I thought the headline came from this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo
I haven't seen a lot of posts from Xero G but your Force is strong.
HITLER: You look like a "Friedemann." May I call you "Friedemann"? It means "man of peace."
MUFTI: You may.
HITLER: I, too, am a man of peace. In honor of the holy prophet -- may peace be upon him -- call me "Mohammed."
MUFTI: No.
HITLER: "MU-hammed"?
MUFTI: No.
HITLER: "Muha-meT"?
MUFTI: NO.
HITLER: "Mehmet"?
MUFTI: No.
HITLER: "Mahmud"?
MUFTI: No.
HITLER: "Ahmed"?
MUFTI: No.
HITLER: "Hamid"?
MUFTI: No.
HITLER: "Mahometus"?
MUFTI: No.
HITLER: "Mamede"?
MUFTI: No.
HITLER: "Mamadou"?
MUFTI: Uh-uh.
If only we could translate The Killer Joke into Arabic!
(Robert you'd have to cover your ears)
Here's Kevin Myrs on today's Irish Independent
Friday May 27 2011
Yesterday I was writing about the power of the feminist meme: today I am writing about an even absurder mental concoction, namely the "Arab Spring" meme. This delusion is based on the rather interesting notion that you can place the template of the Prague Spring of 1968 upon the Arab world. This is rather like imposing the rules of rugby on the Chelsea Flower Show. You can, if you really want, compare floribunda roses to the South African front row, and possibly fascinating analogies can be made between a Garryowen and Clematis Montana. However, the coach that names a prize hydrangea at out-half is likely to meet disappointment in life: and the gardener who plants Tongan wing-forwards in his orchard will face an apple-free autumn and scurvy by Christmas.
However, what makes the Arab Spring meme so fascinating is its sheer power. Consider Prague, home in 1968 to one of the finest symphony orchestras in the world and to one of the greatest ballet companies in Europe, with many lively schools of philosophical and literary debate.
I must have missed this somehow or other, but is there a Cairo Symphony Orchestra? A Syrian National Theatre? A Saudi Ballet Company, whose quite Diaghilevian brilliance, alas, is largely concealed by the ballerinas' burkas? Is there an intellectual ferment in Yemen about the role of the welfare-state in a post-Marxian neo-Hegelian dialectic? Does Kuwait resound to the chatter of female students discussing the maternal rights of lesbians? Are gays in Algiers preparing their first wedding ceremony, to be conducted by a transsexual rabbi?
I suspect you know the answers to some of these questions. So the real issue is not the events in Arab countries so much as the fatuity of any western mindset which tries to impose its own experiences and its own values upon the Arab world. This is a continent-sized entity of more than 200 million people without a single car factory, a single computer plant, a single aircraft manufacturer, a single IT R&D faculty, or a single world-class university, and which manages to translate just 330 foreign books annually into Arabic -- about one fifth of Greece's annual translations. (This is an improvement. At the time of the real Prague Spring, barely 10 foreign titles a year were published in Arabic, across the entire landmass, from Casablanca to Aden.)
Yet so powerful is the "Arab Spring" meme that it has caused NATO to deploy its air forces in support of anti-Gaddafi fighters, under the utterly spurious pretext of UN Resolution 1973, permitting intervention to protect civilians. This is not so much an item of international law with precise and defined boundaries as a brainless sheet of memetic elastic, which this week stretched to include the deployment of Apache attack helicopters. Only in the more demented outskirts of memeland could such an aircraft with its Hellfire rockets and its M230 chain gun be deployed for "humanitarian" purposes. One might equally say that the purpose of the US invasion of Iraq eight years ago was to bring needlecraft to the salons of Baghdad.
The Arab Spring meme is so powerful that it has even brought Barack Obama into line; this is the man who voted against the Iraqi war eight years ago, but who today is authorising cruise-missile strikes against Gaddafi's forces, and it would appear, even attempts to assassinate him in his bunkers.
This makes it a very powerful meme indeed. What gives it such authority? Is it because it has been endorsed by the three women close to Mr Obama: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the ambassador at the UN, Susan Rice, and the National Security Council's Samantha Power? They have championed an interventionist policy in Libya, under the concept of R2P, namely "Responsibility to Protect". I'd take a guess that R2P itself is just another meme, which within a year will appear even more incomprehensible than a State Department funding for the King Fiesel Academy for Arabian Fly-Fishing. In the meantime, a question: are memes more likely to succeed amongst women? And do princes respond more sympathetically to intellectually inconsistent memes if they are endorsed by their powerful female courtiers?
Arab Christians do not regard the upsurge across the Middle East as any kind of liberation. They know the role of the mullahs in all this: usually on a Friday, usually after prayers and usually accompanied by "Allahu Akbar!" -- a trinity of possible clues about the true motivation behind most Arab insurrections, wherever they occur. Christian churches across the Arab world have been attacked, and Christians killed. Christians, of course, pre-date Muslims in all these countries -- but now they are treated as intruders and are being told to leave.
That NATO is now aligned behind what history will probably reveal as the armed vanguard of an Islamicist revolution is, in its own short-lived way, grimly funny. The laughter fades with the firing squads, the beheadings, the stonings and the many other cultural artefacts of fundamentalism, as Iran -- once the most sophisticated of all Islamic societies, though of course a non-Arabic one -- has so comprehensively discovered.
When the dream dies, the meme dies: and the era of the Islamicist meme begins. Slightly longer, as I think you'll find.
The killer joke into arabic? enjoy...
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/01/pps.html
"The founders [of the new Nazi Party] want to avoid media attention until they are fully ready, the source said." -- from the story.
Giving interviews announcing they want to avoid media attention - these guys are even stupider than we thought.
And using the name "Nazi" for a party? Again, violating the cardinal rule of never actually referring to "The Third Rail" as The Third Rail.
This will play well in Cairo, no doubt. Bookstores can offer special deals for sets of "Mein Kampf" and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." The campaign for the September elections should be interesting. The Ikhwan vs the Nazis. Better than Aliens vs Predators.
The efficacy of the killer joke requires a sense of humour. We would only remove the portion of the arabic speaking world we actually want to keep by using this tactic.
Yes, this photo should be called “A STUDY IN EVIL”. Unfortunately this photo is not well known or circulated for the obvious reasons that it shows a muslim mufti being pals with Hitler.
Look at the body language. The mufti is a proud confident teacher while Hitler is the attentive student. No doubt the mufti is letting Hitler know of all the anti Jew verses from the Koran. How muhammed called them the most evil people, how muhammed hated them, how muhammed decreed that all Jews must be killed or driven out from Arabia. How muhammed ordered the killing of 600 Jews. How efficiently it was done. How the Jews were kept guessing at their ultimate fate until the end.
No doubt Hitler took a note of these before he outlined his plans for the final solution.
Desidude wrote:
No doubt Hitler took a note of these before he outlined his plans for the final solution.
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Hitler modeled the tactics of the "final solution" largely on those of the Armenian genocide by the Muslim Turks.
He infamously said, "Go, go kill without mercy. Who today remembers the extermination of the Armenians?"
Something that should be remembered is that when 'John Roy Carlson' did the research for his book 'Cairo to Damascus' in 1948-49, he kept stumbling across German Nazis who had evaded justice and scuttled off to the Muslim Middle East, where they found a most congenial environment, and were tucked in snug as bugs in a rug. Some of them, being methodical-minded Germans even in the way they went about doing evil, were going nuts trying to teach the Arab Muslims how to be more efficient and organised about their Jihad against the Jews...Quite a few of these former Nazis converted to Islam. There were a *lot* of them in Egypt and in Syria.