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July 28, 2010

Present tense

I confess I was astonished to learn Radio 4 was going to air a documentary on Hitler's Muslim Legions (available for five more days), it is the sort of thing the Beeb would generally wish kept swept under the carpet. I figured this could only be part of the Left's new mission to rehabilitate Adolph Hitler, enemy of the Jews and friend of Islam (give him tenure!) and therefore worthy of a retroactive Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

My reaction was complicated by the fact I am still surprised anyone else is surprised to learn Nazis and Muslims were allies. After all, Franco used Muslim mercenaries to prevail in the Spanish Civil War, a fact overlooked in the Coughlinite comments I get when I post about fascist Spain, and Hitler wrote glowingly of the Arab warrior ideal in Mein Kampf (i.e. His Jihad).

The BBC's rationale is as follows.

It was after Germany's invasion of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in 1941 that Hitler's attention was first drawn to the potential for Muslim recruits to swell his ranks. For the many thousands of captured Soviet Muslims, the opportunity to serve in the Wehrmacht offered an escape from the brutality and starvation of the prison camps.

It was brutality and starvation or signing up, runs the BBC line; cheerfully, willfully oblivious the same excuse applies to every collaborator of the age.

But then this isn't really the BBC's excuse for the past, this is their excuse for England's near future. More important yet, for the BBC this is the present tense. This is how they stop worrying and learn to love the Koran.

One of countless examples: Egyptian Cleric Hussam Fawzi Jar Jar Binks* says Hitler was right to do what he did to the Jews.

"It is very sad to see some of our own people, who speak our own tongue, try to convince their peoples that the Jews are peace-loving, that a solution to the satisfaction of both parties can be reached with them. I say that whoever says this and tries to convince others should either deny what is said in the Koran and the Sunna, and accept what the Jews say as truth, or else deny what the Jews say and accept what is said in the Koran and the Sunna. There is no third alternative."

He is right about one thing: There is no third alternative.

* That looks right to me.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 28, 2010 07:58 AM

Comments

The BBC did a remarkably fair TV doc on Enoch Powell and the "Rivers of Blood" speech a couple of years back. Every now and then they do something interesting and right (that doesn't involve Jeremy Clarkson.)

Posted by: rick mcginnis [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 28, 2010 10:25 AM

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