Mehdi Mozaffari (born 1939) is a professor at Aarhus university in Denmark. He was graduated from Sorbonne University in 1971 and worked at the University of Teheran from 1973 to 1978, when he and his family had to flee from the Islamic revolution. This excerpt is translated from his book Islamism: An Oriental Totalitarianism. If anybody would like to interview Mozaffari, I will gladly assist in helping you get in contact with him; write me at nicolaisennels@gmail.com.
“Violence in various forms of repression, assassinations, executions, hangings, strangulation, flogging, stoning and terrorism, is an Islamist government’s usual method, whether in the case of Saudi Arabia, Iran or Afghanistan under the Taliban. These horrific acts are, despite their cruelty, not comparable with the Holocaust or the Gulag. Now, we must ask whether the difference is fundamental, or a question of degree. It is obvious that today’s Islamist totalitarian regimes cannot compare with Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Russia in terms of the extent of violence and their capabilities. But if you look at what the Islamist regimes and related groups (Al Qaeda) have done, it becomes clear that it is rather a matter of degree than of substance. Each time Islamists have had the opportunity to use methods similar to the Nazis and Stalinists, they did so as much as possible.”
Sweetness says
The left is totalitarianism
The right is anarchy
The center is individual rights.
More government is left
Less government is right
I will pay for the protection to be me.
I do not want to be smothered
And I do not want to be left to the whims of chaos
I will be me.
Jay Boo says
Celebrate
Yet another witness who was born Muslim who is revealing its stench.
Islam is rotting from within and tearing at the seams.
Tim Heekin says
There is a fascinating book out there called “Satan’s Trinity: Hitler, Stalin, Muhammad”. I think it is available on Amazon. Amongst good stuff on our pal Muhammad the book helped me a lot with Stalin who doesn’t get all that much press being a Lefty and all.
Salah says
“Each time Islamists have had the opportunity to use methods similar to the Nazis and Stalinists, they did so as much as possible.”
How to deal with decent Muslims? through reason and truth.
How to deal with Islamist thugs? through lethal force.
How to tell the difference between the two? “By their fruits you shall know them”
mariam rove says
he better be careful out there in Denmark. He may be a sitting duck now. M
Green Infidel says
“As much as possible” – a significant observation, imho…
what IF Islamic countries had nukes?
what IF they had more technological know-how?
what IF they had militaries more powerful as the USA?
Would the world be as peaceful as it (largely) is today? Or would things be back to like they were before the 1800s – when Muslim pirates wrought havoc along European coasts, and the Ottomans threatened to overrun much of Europe?