Saudi columnist:
'Jihadists worse than Nazis'
Blasts al-Jazeera for championing murder, slaughter, destruction by
'sick people'. WorldNetDaily
Oct 26, 2005
A Saudi columnist says the violent jihad movement of Islam is
similar to, or even worse than, Nazism, and that for the West not
to oppose it will lead to consequences worse than Nazi
Germany.
Here is excerpt of the column in the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, by
columnist Muhammad bin 'Abd Al-Latif Aal Al-Sheikh, as translated
by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI:
In 1945, a short time after Nazi Germany's surrender, a conference
was held in Potsdam, Germany, in which one of the important
articles [adopted] was "denazification." This conference is
credited with uprooting the culture of Nazism from Europe. [The
conference] aroused the world's conscience against Nazism with the
end of World War II, firmed up the revulsion toward it, and made it
into something similar to a crime not just in judicial and
political terms, but also in terms of culture, ideology and
especially the media. Thus, it suffices in Europe nowadays to
accuse a politician of having Nazi tendencies, or of inciting to
Nazism, for him to turn into something of a bandit. The [Potsdam]
Agreement was signed by Britain, the USSR, the U.S. and China the
important world superpowers at that time.
Why shouldn't we learn a lesson [of the Potsdam] experience, which
had the greatest impact on the uprooting of Nazism from the world?
... Imagine that the way of dealing with statements by Al-Salafiyya
Al-Jihadiyya
was comparable to the West's way of dealing with
Nazism. [Editor's note: "Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya" is a term used
by Islamist terror groups to describe themselves as continuing in
the footsteps of the early believers of the Prophet Muhammad's
generation, and as believing in the duty to wage a modern Jihad war
against infidels.]
Would a [TV] channel, like al-Jazeera, for example, dare to spread
this ideology and to relate to statements by its leaders and
preachers in the spirit of "point/counterpoint" and "freedom of
speech"? Everybody knows that this channel in particular has had
the greatest media impact on the shaping, spreading and
strengthening of this dangerous trend, and that it provides it with
wide space to express its "acts of heroism," its statements and its
videotaped operations, to the point where it [al-Jazeera] has
become the primary platform of [Al-Salafiyya Al-Jihadiyya], as is
happening today in Iraq.
Therefore, I still believe that one of the primary missions of the
international community today is to repeat its experience with
Nazism and to deal with this dangerous barbarian culture exactly as
it dealt with the Nazi culture. If this does not happen, the near
future is liable to bring many [events], the consequences of which
will be far more severe for all of humanity than [the consequences]
of World War II.
While I agree that there should be an international movement to
"deterrorization", I think it is more approriate for the Islamic
countries to spearhead it.