Bud Talkinghorn: Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Nazi-Al Qaeda Similarities

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Ceremony

How appropriate that the dignitaries have to stand in the freezing snow outside the gates of the death camps. That was the fate of hundreds of thousands who froze in the cattle cars or during roll calls. The prisoners were not quite so well attired for the weather, of course. Still, it is a fitting way to try to live the horrors of that experience.



Hitler and his satanic Nazi party may be dead, but that spirit lives on in radical Islam

It is not too great a stretch to substitute Bin Laden for Hitler, his loyal inner circle for Goering, Goebels, and Himmler. The same lunatic reasoning underlines their aims. The Nazis wanted a pure 'Aryan' race, which meant that all 'non-Aryans' must be enslaved or exterminated. Al-Queda wants a pure Islamic world state -- one so pure that every branch of Islam except the Sunnis can be slaughtered. Al-Zwahiri in Iraq, a true Osama acolyte, has no compunction about blowing up Shi'ite worshippers as they attend prayers. Even Sunni childred receiving candy from Marines are worthy targets for suicide bombs. Consorting with the infidel in any manner is a potential death sentence. There is even a parallel between the suicidal dedication of the al-Queda and the German einsatzgruppen, who slowed their retreat from the Russians, so they could take the prisoners of the emptied camps with them. Their dream of destroying all Jewry was greater than their own survival.

It is this fanatical cult of death aspect that ties the Nazis and al-Queda together. The cost to the democracies and Russia to destroy the germ of Naziism was enormous--20 million dead Russians alone. Still, the human price had to be paid; so it will be again. When people complain of the billions spent, they should consider the alternative. Life under fundamentalist Islam is unthinkable. No economic price is too high to avoid a Talibanic government.

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