Holocaust: If Only Hitler Was a Muslim

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889 as the fourth of the six children of Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. 

In 1903, Hitler’s father, Alois, died suddenly and two years later, Hitler's mother allowed him drop out of school. 

After her death in December 1907, Hitler moved to Vienna and worked as a casual laborer and watercolor painter.

In 1913, Hitler relocated to Munich. At the outbreak of the first World War, he joined the German army in August 1914 though he was still Austrian.  Like other German nationalists, Hitler believed that the German army had been betrayed by civilian leaders and Marxists in World War 1. 

After the War, Hitler returned to Munich and continued to work for the German military as an intelligence officer to monitor the activities of the German Workers’ Party (DAP). 

Hitler joined the DAP in September 1919 and it changed its name to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); usually abbreviated to ‘Nazi’. 

Hitler personally designed the Nazi party banner and soon gained fame for his aggressive speeches against rival politicians, Marxists and Jews becoming the Nazi party chairman in 1921.

Hitler ran against 84-year-old Paul von Hindenburg for the presidency in 1932 and came second in both rounds of the election getting above 36 percent of the vote in the final count. Hindenburg acquiescently appointed Hitler as chancellor to achieve political stability.

Hitler used position as chancellor to establish a ‘legal’ dictatorship by engineered the passage of the Enabling Act which gave his cabinet full legislative powers for four years and gave room for deviations from the constitution. Hitler's Nazi Party was declared the only legal political party in Germany On July 14, 1933.

The day before Hindenburg's death in August 1934, the cabinet passed a law abolishing the office of president and combining its powers with those of the chancellor. Consequently, Hitler became head of state and head of government concomitantly and was formally named leader and chancellor. This move also made Hitler the supreme commander of the armed forces.

Hitler implemented a national boycott of Jewish businesses on April 1, 1933. Following this was the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" of April 7, 1933 which barred Jews from state service. 

The law was a Nazi implementation of the Aryan Paragraph which called for the exclusion of Jews and non-Aryans from state benefits. Additional legislation restricted the number of Jewish students at schools and universities, limited Jews working in medical and legal professions, and revoked the licenses of Jewish tax consultants.  

Jews were mandated to carry identity cards and in the fall of 1938, Jews had to have their passports stamped with a "J."

Between the start of World War II in 1939, and its end in 1945, Nazis and their collaborators were responsible for the deaths of at least one million noncombatants, including about six million Jews, representing two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe. This came to be known as the Holocaust and on 1st November 2005, the United Nations designated 27th January of every year ‘International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust’.

The evils of Hitler are very much broadcast in Western media but some Westerners become jittery when ‘Hitler’ comes up.

Was Hitler an atheist or a Christian?

Atheists who assert that religion has done more harm than good shudder to think of Hitler as one of their own and sometimes call him a Christian while Christians on the other hand declare him an atheist. Who among them is right?

Hitler was born to a practicing Catholic mother and was raised a Christian. According to Hitler’s minister of Armament in the Nazi era, Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, Hitler railed against the church to his political associates though he never officially left it. In other words, Hitler was like a lot of Christians today who feel bad with the way the Church is run but never denounce it totally. 

Hitler held the view that the absence of organized religion would turn people to mysticism; this he considered backward. This puts a question mark on ‘Hitler being an atheist’. Historians opine that Hitler favoured aspects of Protestantism that suited his own views, and adopted some elements of the Catholic Church's hierarchical organisation, liturgy, and phraseology.

Comments have it that Hitler viewed the church as an important politically conservative influence on society and hence, adopted a strategic relationship with it that suited his immediate political purposes. 

As a result of this, Hitler often publicly praised Christian heritage and German Christian culture, though holding the belief in an "Aryan Jesus" who fought against the Jews.

Blaming Islam for the Holocaust

According to Albert Speer, Hitler believed that either Japanese religious beliefs or Islam would have been a more suitable religion for Germans than Christianity, with its ‘meekness and flabbiness’. With this, both atheists and Christians have tried to dump the holocaust at the door step of Islam; absorbing themselves of any wrong doing.

As an avenue to justify the Jews’ persecution of the Palestinians, Westerners try to bury the fact that Jews were safer in the Muslim lands than in the West. There wasn’t a single incident of Jews being hunted by Muslims on the authority of Islamic establishments; on the contrary, there are a number of instances where Jewish families and communities were protected by Muslims.

In 1941, the pro-Nazi Vichy Government of France which controlled Morocco attempted to enact laws that sought to discriminate against Jews in Morocco. This would have almost certainly resulted in the transportation of Moroccan Jews to Europe’s gas chambers. 

Shocked at these laws, the King of Morocco, Mohammed V, told Jewish leaders that in his opinion, singling out the Jews were inconsistent with Moroccan law. He emphasized that the property and lives of the Moroccan Jews remained under his protection. 

The King was reported to have said in defiance of the Nazis, “There are no Jews in Morocco. There are only subjects". In another blatant show of disregard, the King invited all the rabbis of Morocco to the 1941 throne celebrations. Due to his strong stance, Vichy administrators were unable to implement their discriminatory laws and the Jewish community was saved.

Abdelqader Ben Ghabrit (Si Kaddour Benghabrit), a native of Algeria who was a spiritual leader and well-connected politically was the leader of the Great Mosque of Paris. 

The Mosque provided sanctuary and sustenance to Jews hiding from Vichy and Nazi troops as well as to other fighters in the anti-fascist resistance. Albert Assouline, a North African Jew who escaped a German prison camp and found refuge in the Mosque, wrote an article in 1983 for Almanach du Combattant, a French veterans’ magazine and noted, “No fewer than 1,732 resistance fighters found refuge in its (the mosque’s) underground caverns. These included not just Muslim escapees but also Christians and Jews. Jews were by far the most numerous".

Several similar incidents have been documented in history but Westerners choose to ignore them.

Some people have also asserted that the holocaust was quintessential to the execution of some Jews in the time of Muhammad (SAW). This assertion is debunked in here.

Even the very early Muslims were very kind towards Jews. 

The second Caliph of Islam, Umar bin Khattab, during his reign was moving along with his aides when they came across two lepers who were begging along the road. He was moved by this and asked those with him who the beggars were after which he was informed that they were Jews who could no longer work because of the advanced state of their illness. Umar ordered for them to be put on monthly stipends from the state treasury. 

It should be noted that Muhammad (SAW) married a member of a Jewish tribe, her name was Safiyya bint Huyay. Read her biography here.

It is related by Anas ibn Malik that on one occasion, Muhammad (SAW) found Safiyya weeping. When he asked her what the matter was, she replied that she heard that Hafsa (a wife of the Muhammad) had described her as 'the daughter of a Jew'. The Prophet (SAW) responded by saying, "You are certainly the daughter of a Prophet (Harun), and certainly your uncle was a Prophet (Musa), and you are certainly the wife of a Prophet (Muhammad), so what is there in that to be scornful towards you?"

Quite hypocritically, Christians try to wash their hands off the holocaust when it was actually perpetrated by them. Christian commentators try to play down the Christian roots of Adolf Hitler or to even highlight the fact that the foot soldiers who carried out his orders were majorly Christians. 

It is hence very funny seeing Christians shamelessly shedding crocodile tears over the holocaust and drumming support for a ‘Jewish state’; the same people they attempted to wipe out just a few decades back. The motive of atheists and Christians is clear; ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’ (pure Islamophobia).

Muslim lands have suffered unabated onslaughts by Western powers on very baseless grounds, what then would have been the case if there was something concrete; like Hitler being a Muslim? 

The West would not have needed CNN, BBC, Fox News and the likes to brainwash the world’s inhabitants. Attacking Muslim would have been as easy and okay as going to the barber.

Most importantly, if Adolf Hitler were Muslim, the holocaust would have never taken place. He would have adhered to the instructions of Muhammad (SAW) in matters relating to warfare.

Whenever Muhammad (SAW) dispatched an army, he would instruct them thus: “I advise you ten things. Do not kill women or children or an aged, infirm person. Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees. Do not destroy an inhabited place. Do not slaughter sheep or camels except for food. Do not burn bees and do not scatter them. Do not steal from the booty, and do not be cowardly.” 

All these people who lives were protected by the Prophet (SAW) were non-Muslims.

Those non-combatants who made up a bulk of the casualties would have been spared, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO HOLOCAUST.