The hallmarks of Islam—antisemitism, commitment to rigid social hierarchies, homophobia and misogyny, religious fundamentalism, rejection of liberal democracy, and social authoritarianism—are the hallmarks of Nazism. This made Nazis and Muslims natural allies during WWII, and indeed they so allied.
As David Montadel tells us in Islam and Nazi Germany’s War, Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany. Muslim leaders agreed. (See my essays on this subject: Jew-Hatred in the Arab-Muslim World: An Ancient and Persistent Hatred; The Final Solution: The Globalist Ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood; The Danger of Missing the Point: Historical Analogies and the Israel-Gaza Conflict; Why the Israel-Gaza War Is Not Seen Like World War II—and What That Reveals About the Present Situation.)
Islam and National Socialism work from the same psychopathic logic. The only real difference is that, while Islam is culturally backwards and intellectually impoverished, Nazism grew out of modernity. Germany was an advanced civilization. But, like Islam will do if allowed to Islamize the West, Nazism wrecked Europe. But for the heroism of the Allied Forces, Europe would have regressed to the Stone Age. Europe had a savior (who waited too long to intervene). Today, its potential savior is itself being corrupted by an authoritarian ideology called Islam.
Like Nazism, Islam is triumphalist. Muslims assert the superiority of their religion and seek its dominance over other religions. They do not seek coexistence with other belief systems. There is no diversity of ideas under Islam. Those of other religions always become second-class citizens/subjects under its rule. The same is true of National Socialism.
Islam is aggressively proselytizing. It seeks converts, preying on the aggrieved, disaffected, and disordered. Once it reaches a critical mass, it indoctrinates populations with its ideas. Likewise, to be a good German was to be a Nazi. A generation of Germans were indoctrinated into the Nazi belief system (or learned to keep their mouths shut and pretend they were on board). Once in the cult, the Muslim risks his life to escape it.
Islam is integralist. Muslims believe that their religious principles should organize political and social institutions rather than remain matters of private conscience. Likewise, Hitler reordered Germany along National Socialist lines. Both ideologies are illiberal, antidemocratic, and totalitarian.
One might be confused about the religious fundamentalist piece with respect to Nazism. Some think Hitler was an atheist. Hitler talked a good game about Christianity. However, Hitler’s religious fundamentalism was of a different sort. It was in line with Islam. He was not a Christian. He despised Christianity. He saw Christians as weak and unmanly. I will say more about this in a moment.
But first I want you to understand how much Muslims despise Christianity. Muslims will tell you that Jesus is a prophet in their religion and that he will return at the end times. But what they won’t tell you (you must read this for yourself) is that Jesus returns not to establish Christianity, but to correct the theological errors that developed around him. As I discussed in yesterday’s essay, Jesus returns as a Muslim prophet who acknowledges Muhammad’s revelation.
Jesus does more than this. He breaks the cross and presides over a world in which wealth becomes so abundant that people no longer need it. (Where have we heard that before?) Jesus’s rule is not governed by Christian teachings (these are a lie) but wields the Sharia—that is, Islamic law. Jesus will tell us that he is not God. He is not the Son of God. He is not divine at all. The doctrine of the Trinity is false. Moreover, he was not crucified. He did not die to atone for humanity’s sins. All that is a lie. Allah hid Jesus away to return at a moment of his choosing to tell us Muhammad was right about everything. So, too, did the Jews pervert God’s teachings. They are the pigs Jesus will slay at the end of days.
Returning to Hitler and Nazism, one can see the parallels with Islam when taking an inventory of Hitler’s beliefs. Here I will expand on Hitler’s religious ideas. Hitler repeatedly portrayed himself as someone with a historical mission ordained by a higher power. That higher power was not the Judeo-Christian god. It was a god Hitler invented. Hitler’s god, as was Muhammad’s, was a projection of his lust for power. Hitler elevated his own political ambitions into something sacred. The archangel Gabriel visited Muhammad and told him the truth about monotheism. That made Muhammad a special man.
Neither man understood power in the traditional Christian sense. Hitler organized his conception of humanity around hierarchy, purity, and the destiny of the German people—the Volk—in the same sense Muslims see what they call the Ummah, i.e., the global Muslim community. In fact, the word translates to “nation,” and there is no room for any other in such a construct. Both Hitler and Muhammad sought to destroy the international order. Hitler’s Volk and Muhammad’s Ummah were both rooted in purification and expansion. Advancing these new world orders became a quasi-religious imperative. Both religious worldviews were/are, in the end, militant political ideologies.
Just as Muhammad reinterpreted Christianity to advance his agenda, Hitler reinterpreted Christianity for the same purpose. He explicitly attacked what he called the Jewish-materialist spirit, which he saw as decadent, seeking to excise Jewish teachings from Christianity, and forcing Christianity to herald his own religious worldview. Muslims see the West in these terms. Both Hitler and Muhammad viewed the Jews and societies they believed were governed by their ideas as Satanic. Antisemites are fond of calling Judaism the “Synagogue of Satan.”
Moreover, like Islam, Nazism was hostile to Christianity’s universalism. Traditional Christianity teaches the spiritual equality of human beings before God. This is the foundation of Christian ethics—the source of liberal society, the Enlightenment, and human rights. Hitler’s worldview was radically incompatible with that principle. He regarded Christian teachings about compassion, meekness, and universal brotherhood as having weakened the German national character. Hitler did not believe in universalism, ordering society along the lines of racial hierarchy, which the Aryan race was destined to rule over. Hitler wasn’t the only leader to embrace the racial concept of Aryan.
Nor do Muslims believe in the inherent equality of man. Muslims will tell you that Islam means peace, but the word means subjection, submission, and subordination. Both worldviews seek to put everybody under the control of clerics or party officials who determine what an individual can do. Both Hitler and Muhammad ruled by decree—edicts governed by self-serving whim. Democracy is impossible under either ideology. Hitler and Muhammad considered themselves the ultimate arbiter of truth. They would change their mind based on whatever gathered to them ever greater power.
Imagine if Michigan were a haven for Nazis and voters in that state elected a Nazi to office. Would progressives squeal about that? One hopes so (although when corporatism comes to them as progressivism, then they’re all for it). Yet, when a man whose “faith” is analogous to Nazism is elected to office, progressive women take to TikTok to share videos of them dancing to Arabic music, which they did in celebration of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory Tuesday night. El-Sayed even makes his wife wear the veil.
But all this escapes progressive understanding. Just like the left in Iran thought the Islamic Revolution was glorious, so do today’s leftists think that El-Sayed’s ascent to power is a magnificent development. They adore Mamdani in New York City. They want more Muslims in office. And they are getting what they want. (See Tuesday Night Hits Differently.)
How does an authoritarian ideology analogous to Nazism become admirable when it comes as Islam? Progressives won’t even tolerate conservative Christianity, which is nowhere near Islam on the authoritarianism scale. Yet they will dance in delight when Islam advances. It seems so irrational—and it is—but the irrationality has an explanation.
First, Islam is perceived as the religion that stands in opposition to Christianity and Judaism, religions the left despises. The perennial antipathy to Christians and the growing antisemitism on the left makes Islam an attractive ideology. As polling shows, many Christians and Jews are self-loathing.
Second, Muslims are perceived as something other than white (Arabs are, in fact, Caucasian), and since white self-loathing is a hallmark of the left, Islam is embraced as redemption from white guilt. Adoration of Islam functions as a salvation cult on the left.
Third, Islam is the religion of Third World primitives, and progressives adore primitivism (it’s why they are so enamored by indigenous lifeways and land acknowledgements). Progressives adore the barbarians because the barbarians are the other and because the left finds primitivism exotic. Look at the way the left modifies their bodies. They’re tribal. The primitive hates the outsider, and the left has weirdly redefined itself as the outsider, and thus hates itself. All this relates back to religious, ethnic, and racial self-loathing. They also loathe their sex. Why do so many men and women on the left want to be the opposite sex?
Fourth, rank-and-file progressives operate based on the theory that the Third World looks as it does because of Western imperialism, not because their cultures are inadequate to human thriving. The other with whom they identify is backwards because Europe and America made them that way—which proves that whites are evil and undeserving of their own identities. The Muslims are victims who are owed the West.
More than this, those who wish Muslims weren’t in the West are seen as deserving of punishment. Progressives are gleeful seeing normal Americans concerned about losing their nation—a nation they deserve to lose, because it is founded on white supremacy. They see Islam as a boomerang. Chickens coming home to roost. Retribution. (How they see themselves surviving all this is part of their cracked worldview.)
Fifth, progressives, to the extent that they tolerate anything about the nation’s founding, appeal to religious liberty. Islam is just another religion, they tell us constantly, and in America we tolerate religious diversity. This is a double standard, obviously, since progressives are hell-bent on keeping Christians out of the public square. Indeed, the progressive appeal to religious liberty is a ruse. But enough Americans hear this and think it’s a valid argument because they want to appear as good Americans. Enabling America’s decline is not being a good American.
Sixth, public support of Islam is woke virtue signaling. Progressives are signaling their obedience to the tribe when they vote for Muslims and celebrate their actions on social media. They adorn their bios with Palestinian flags—alongside Pride Progress and Ukraine flags—and the Free Palestine slogan. They vote for Muslims for the same reason they take their children to clinics to be jabbed with an experimental mRNA gene therapy concoction.
Seventh, Muslims hitched their wagon to progressive politics. This is how the Islamic Revolution was able to establish an authoritarian regime in Iran, by allying with the Iranian left. After establishing the Islamic Republic, Muslims proceeded to exterminate the communists, socialists, and homosexuals, and subordinate women to male power. Muslims drive out Jews from those areas they control. Christians wear their crosses under their clothes. I saw that for myself when I visited Jordan. The Arab Christians thought I was a Christian, and in those moments when they felt out of sight, they felt the need to show me their hidden crosses. To this day, Muslims seek the destruction of the state of Israel because it is a Jewish state.
This last point is worth another historical comparison. When Hitler came to power, what did he do? He massacred the socialist wing of his party, exterminated communists, homosexuals, and Jews, and subordinated women to male power. Like Muhammad, Hitler invaded and subdued his neighbors. Hitler sought to put the world under Nazi control.
This is the goal of Islam. Like Nazism, Islam is expansionist and relentless. It can only be dealt with through containment and defensive force. History is not murky on the matter. Hitler and Muhammad were both marauding warlords who cared nothing for humanity. They only cared about manifesting their psychopathic lust for power—however dressed in the language of Providence.
We finally confronted Hitler when the irrationality came to us. Today, the irrationality walks among us, and it appears Americans have no will to resist the West’s slide into totalitarianism. (See The Bad-Smell Ant: Disordering a Nation’s Protective Instinct.)
