This is “moderate” Indonesia, but they read the same Qur’an as other Muslims do, and the Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
This is why Mein Kampf is a perennial bestseller in Egypt and Turkey, and why this display in Indonesia is so popular.
“Pose with Hitler?! Indonesian museum offers happy snaps in front of Auschwitz display for ‘fun,’” RT, November 10, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Visitors at a visual effects museum in Indonesia can pose for a snap with a wax Adolf Hitler, against a banner depicting the Auschwitz death camp. Seen as “fun” by the museum, HRW and a US Jewish organization called it “sickening” and “wrong.”
De Mata, the entertainment museum behind the controversial display, placed a wall-sized photo of the entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with the infamous inscription “Arbeit macht freit” (Work sets you free). In front of the banner, a wax sculpture of the Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler stands in a dominant posture….
The Hitler figure is “one of the favorite for our visitors to take selfies with,” said a marketing officer in the museum who goes by the name of Warli. “Most of our visitors are having fun because they know this is just an entertainment museum.” The Yogyakarta museum hasn’t received any complaints about the figure, displayed since 2014, he added, saying he was aware of the crimes Hitler committed.
Human Rights Watch has, too, lashed out at the installation, calling it “sickening.” The figure represents a widespread anti-Jewish attitude in a Muslim-majority country, believes the HRW’s Indonesia researcher, Andreas Harsono. The Indonesian Jewish community is rather modest, accounting for some 200 synagogue-goers, according to the United Indonesian Jewish Community, as the Times of Israel reported.
After Cooper criticized the business for exploiting the Nazism theme for revenue, branding it “inexcusable,” the museum officer promised to discuss the calls to remove the figure with management and the owner. “We will follow the best advice and the response from the public. Let people judge whether the character is good or bad,” Warli said….
TL says
Oh, my. The placement of that flag ought to prompt much anger among the German left, which has never admitted its extraordinary share of responsibility for the coming of the Third Reich.
Dan says
A lot of Asians have a fascination with Hitler and the Nazis, not just Indonesia.
They have no relation to it, in most cases, what do they know of the Jews and Aryans etc etc.
Nor do they care, it was a long time ago and in a place very far away.
Japan and South Korea would be the place you are most likely to see a girl pop band in SS uniforms at a party.
Frank Anderson says
Dan, let’s face it: SS uniforms designed by Hugo Boss were intended to be noticeable. I can’t name or describe any before or since that can match them in appearance. The uniform’s association with total evil is to say the least, most unfortunate.
gravenimage says
When you find this in Japan or South Korea, it is simply clueless and tasteless–it seldom represents an actual affinity for Fascism and the Holocaust, as it does with Muslims.
nicu says
A FB friend posted a PHOTO with Hitler and some Muslim leader –and he was banned for this !
Nazis and Islam is the same ideology !
Mockingjay says
– And a German journalist got jailtime for posting the same photo…
gravenimage says
Very disturbing, Nicu. Doing this doesn’t get you banned–but exposing it does. *Ugh*.
Frank Anderson says
According to the previous US President Hitler was a non-violent offender because he never did any killing or other violence personally. Hundreds of drug lords were set free during the Obama administration because they never “hurt” anyone directly; only through intermediaries. At the “official” end of WWII many Nazi killers, such as Otto Skorzeny, ran to muslim countries and groups to continue the war against all Jews and western civilization. The Liberal Left says that such “non-violent” offenders do not need to be treated the same as those they direct. “Kinda stinks, doesn’t it?”
StacyGirl says
Yes they’re all like Charles Manson. Just called the shits.
StacyGirl says
SHOTS. sorry
Scott says
No need to be. You’re right either way.
WorkingClassPost says
The main reason Hitler’s effigy is so popular is because mohammed cannot be depicted in this way, so, for the locals he’s the next best thing, so to speak.
Norger says
You are definitely on to something here.
Mockingjay says
Indeed.
eduardo odraude says
The main reason Hitler’s image is popular among huge numbers of Muslims is that the Qur’an is chock full of Jew hatred, and Hitler killed some 6 million Jews.
http://quotingislam.blogspot.com/2012/02/top-islamic-authority-tells-main.html
eduardo odraude says
Muhammad presides over the beheading of 600 to 900 Jews
From page 464 (690 in the Arabic) of the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad:
https://archive.org/stream/TheLifeOfMohammedGuillaume/The_Life_Of_Mohammed_Guillaume#page/n256/mode/1up
http://www.quotingislam.blogspot.com
WorkingClassPost says
arbeit macht frei
That sign makes me wonder if there isn’t something similar over the gates to hell…
islam means peace
dhans says
ignorance is truth
mortimer says
WCP, Excellent comparison!
Here’s another: Linda Sarsour is a Feminist! (sarc/off)
gravenimage says
Around the turn of the last century, “arbeit macht frei” was a fairly benign philosophy–basically just meaning that a free and happy life includes purposeful work, and a sense of pride in making your own way. This sentiment was found throughout the West, especially in German-speaking societies.
Putting this slogan up over the gates of a *forced labor and death camp*, of course, could not have been more perverse.
Benedict says
“Birds of a feather flock together” The hate for Jews was the pivot of Hitlerism and is the pivot of Islam and Islamism. Only the land of Israel, the only homeland for Jews that ever existed, can bring to the fore the ultimate demonic hate and rage against the chosen people. No wonder even many Jews don’t like this designation.
mortimer says
A number of Koran verses designate Israel as the homeland of ‘The Children of Israel’ (Banu Isra’il).
gravenimage says
Mortimer, this is only when the children of Israel were–supposedly–good Muslims. After they became “corrupted”, they ceded the right to Israel to Muslims.
Of course this makes no sense–but this is exactly what Muslims believe.
gravenimage says
Benedict, Muslims and Fascists were genocidal in their hatred of the Jews long before the founding of Israel.
Stan Lee says
Whether Indonesia is known as a “moderate” or hard-line Muslim state, I believe its majority is Muslim, and fervently believes what is in the koran. As a result, whatever type of Muslim state one believes it is, it will subscribe to the Jew-hate as projected by the Muslim koran, therefore it will lionize Adolf Hitler.
old white guy says
one thing that is contradictory is the term moderate muslim, there is no such animal.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Moslems observe traditions like no other group. Hitler holds a big place in modern Moslem lore, revered for having answered the call made daily on his radio show by Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini to obliterate the Jews. 6 million was not to shabby by even the strictest Moslem standards.
A footnote not to be lost is that the Grand Mufti was Nobel Peace Laureate Yasser Arafat’s uncle. Way to go, Nobel committee.
eduardo odraude says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljqinq4abEA
Benedict says
What a terrible collection of disbelieves. Truly and ironically Allah and his demonic prophet have cast terror in their hearts according to their unholy book (8:12)
gravenimage says
Thanks for posting this video again, Eduardo–sobering, even for people who grasp the threat of Jihad. The savagery and hated marshaled against us from pious Muslims is harrowing.
Mockingjay says
Bloody indonesian muslim morons.
– If it were up to Hiltler and his racial ideology, indonesians would probably rank even lower than black Africans on the “untermenschen” – scale.
There’s no winning against such intense malefic ignorance.
eduardo odraude says
The Hitler statue has apparently been removed following outcry:
https://www.rt.com/news/409573-indonesia-museum-wax-hitler/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spotim_referrer=recirculation
gravenimage says
Thanks for the update, Eduardo. Too much bad publicity–but this doesn’t change how Muslims feel about their hero.
Hugo Hackenbush says
Nothing like popular culture to reveal truths!
gravenimage says
True, Hugo–you learn a *great deal* about a people by seeing who their heroes are.
gravenimage says
The Hitler figure is “one of the favorite for our visitors to take selfies with,” said a marketing officer in the museum who goes by the name of Warli. “Most of our visitors are having fun because they know this is just an entertainment museum.”
…………………………
And what is more “entertaining” for Muslims than genocide of the Jews?
God, I hate Islam.
mortimer says
Why do Muslims love Hitler? Think about that.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-fuehrer-cult-germans-cringe-at-hitler-s-popularity-in-pakistan-a-683966.html
Excerpts: Germans Cringe at Hitler’s Popularity in Pakistan
Germans are popular in India and Pakistan, but not always for the right reasons. Many in South Asia have nothing but admiration for Adolf Hitler and still associate Germany with the Third Reich. Everyday encounters with the love of all things Nazi makes German visitors cringe.
Pakistan is the opposite of Germany. The mountains are in the north, the sea is in the south, the economic problems are in the west and the east is doing well. It’s not hard for a German living in Pakistan to get used to these differences, but one contrast is hard to stomach: Most people like Hitler.
Sometimes it’s better to keep quiet about one’s German origins. It’s embarrassing because people here think they’re doing you a favor by expressing their admiration for the Nazi leader. I suspect most Indians and Pakistanis have no idea what this man did. They see him as the bold Führer who took on the British and Americans.
In the Islamic world, not just in Pakistan but right across from Iran to northern Africa, anti-Semitic sentiment of course plays a role. Conversations with German visitors rapidly turn to the injustice being suffered by the Palestinians who were robbed of their land.
Kepha says
Mortimer, when I was in Guangzhou, I ran into a minion of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs who expressed admiration for Hitler. I think this has to do with two things: (1) a 19th century German-influenced essentialist nationalism which assumes that even an American with a German surname must have some sympathy for Germany’s ne plus ultra nationalist [I bit my tongue to keep from telling the lady that if China wasn’t careful, it would find itself beaten and occupied by an American general surnamed Zhao or Wang, after explaining Eisenhower’s ancestry] and (2) a recognition that Germany’s humiliation at the hands of Napoleon, bad treatment at Versailles (it was mean to China, too), and vengeance taken by Hitler are a little like many Asian nations’ throwing out Western colonizers.
skeptic says
I used to live in Indonesia. Here’s everything you need to know about its sham merit of being labeled as a “successful Muslim country.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkVtAc-uWBw&t=1s
anthony says
I’m a Christian living in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the way I see it the Moslems in Indonesia still have a mixed beliefs, they kind of mix Islam and local culture and belief and many sects of Islam are practiced here ( Sunni, Shia being the minority and also Ahmadiya ). So the Moslems didn’t follow the strict rule of Koran, Javanese Moslems for example will still do ritual to honor goddess of Southern Java sea, they still do ritual of sacrificing animals, etc, because in the past we were polytheist/animist and some of the rituals are still part of our culture. I strongly believe that when Islam came to Indonesia through traders from Mid East area, they incorporated the local culture including the rituals to make it more acceptable to the local community. So will see different kind of Islam here, more tolerant towards kuffars, unless of course you are in area governed also by sharia law like in Aceh.
As regards to the pictures of children saluting in front of hitler’s statute, I only can say the the children were ignorant of what Hitler did in the past, it’s just not a funny joke.
Infidel says
THANK GOD THE USA IS THE ONE AND ONLY SUPERPOWER TODAY…,and not some godforsaken Islamic nation.. ELSE…. too horrific to even imagine..
gravenimage says
Yes–things would be even worse for the West otherwise.
But we cannot become complacent.
Infidel says
SCHRODINGER’S ISLAM: IT CAN BE BOTH PEACEFUL AND VIOLENT AT THE SAME TIME… DEPENDS ON THE OBSERVER!!!
gravenimage says
I don’t think most Muslims actually believe that Islam is peaceful–they just hope they can convince the clueless Infidels that it is.
FYI says
That is not surprising really since their self-appointed “prophet”,like Hitler,not only hated the Jews but was also .. a mass murderer of Jews….
The Banu Qurayza
Ibn sa’d vol 11 93
Ibn ishaq 464
The Evil are always attracted to Evil men.
jewdog says
We need a wax statue of Jan Sobieski in front of the gates of Vienna, so counter-jihadists can pose.