To Bear,
I did some research on the claim that Hitler so praised Mohammed. I came up with this:
According to an internet search, someone named “Ahmed Huber” claims Hitler said this. That is the citation people are giving for it. “Ahmed Huber (1927-2008) was was a Swiss German journalist, and a convert to Islam, who was active in both Islamist and Far Right politics.” I’m sure we would agree this is a biased source on this subject, given his background.
The alleged original quotation even from Huber is elusive: People are citing an article titled “
The mysterious Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and Ibn Ladin?”, in which Huber is so quoted. Upon reference of the original article, I do not find any such instance of Huber quoting Hitler at all. In fact, all I find is recycled neoconservative “Islamofascist” nonsense about the Bosnian Waffen-SS and the German diplomatic ties to the Mufti of Jerusalem.
Conclusion: Someone made up the quote. Unless someone provides a valid source, that is the only conclusion possible.
Note: “
Mein Kampf” mentions Islam or Mohammed exactly one time.
While the two Christian denominations maintained missions in Asia and Africa, for the purpose of securing new adherents to the Faith, these same denominations were losing millions and millions of their adherents at home in Europe. These former adherents either gave up religion wholly as a directive force in their lives or they adopted their own interpretation of it. The consequences of this were specially felt in the moral life of the country.
In parenthesis it may be remarked that the progress made by the missions in spreading the Christian Faith abroad was only quite modest in comparison with the spread of Mohammedanism.
^ while this is not a trustworthy site the poster does raise a valid question - here is the link:
http://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments/new_european_fashion
also this:
The International Oracle Syndicate©
When I read Toland's biography of Hitler, I do not recall him saying that Hitler praised Islam or Mohammed at all. I think it is no secret that Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with Turkey and that he had some allies among Aryan tribesmen* in Central Asia during the war, I do not see any credible evidence that he actually praised Mohammed or Islam.
* See Hans Peter Bleuel's
EXCELLENT book:
As for his preferences, the historical record clearly and unequivocally shows that Hitler called himself a Catholic.
Hitler on Christianity ~
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." - Mein Kampf
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)
Some quotes from Hitler:
Hitler - 23 March, 1933 :
"The National Government regards the two Christian confessions (i.e. Catholicism and Protestantism) as factors essential to the soul of the German people. ... We hold the spiritual forces of Christianity to be indispensable elements in the moral uplift of most of the German people."
Hitler - 1 Feb, 1933 :
"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life."
Hitler - 1941 :
"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."
Hitler - 22 April, 1922 :
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. .. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison."
Hitler - 15 Feb 1933 :
"Today they say that Christianity is in danger, that the Catholic faith is threatened. My reply to them is: for the time being, Christians and not international atheists are now standing at Germany's fore. I am not merely talking about Christianity; I confess that I will never ally myself with the parties which aim to destroy Christianity. Fourteen years they have gone arm in arm with atheism. At no time was greater damage ever done to Christianity than in those years when the Christian parties ruled side by side with those who denied the very existence of God. "
Hitler - 24 Oct, 1933 :
"We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out."
Hitler - 26 Aug, 1934 :
" National Socialism neither opposes the Church nor is it anti-religious, but on the contrary, it stands on the ground of a real Christianity."
Hitler - 12 April, 1922 :
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders."
Hitler - 27 October, 1928 :
"We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity... in fact our movement is Christian."
Hitler - 23 November, 1939 :
"
never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success."
Hitler - 24 February, 1939 :
"If positive Christianity means love of one's neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving of drink to those who are thirsty, then it is we who are the more positive Christians."
http://www.hitler.org...
http://www.nobeliefs.com...
As one can clearly see, Hitler was a Christian and believed the Nazi movement to be a Christian movement, spreading the ideals of Christianity through Europe as the drove the competing Jews from their land.
