Who took this viewpoint?
He said Arabs were sub-human apes that were in need of a flogging, but he allegedly felt that Islam was a more ‘martial’ religion and thus better suited to Germanic temperament. That being said, he also had favourable views of Buddhism and Confucianism, which he jumbled up with Islam in the category of ‘Eastern Spiritualities’…….
Well the full quote is this:
He said Arabs were sub-human apes that were in need of a flogging, but he allegedly felt that Islam was a more ‘martial’ religion and thus better suited to Germanic temperament. That being said, he also had favourable views of Buddhism and Confucianism, which he jumbled up with Islam in the category of ‘Eastern Spiritualities’.
Of course, in remarks to Albert Speer, Hitler noted that while he saw Islam as a mighty, heroic warrior-cult that ‘opened the seven heavens to bold warriors alone’, he nonetheless also saw the Arabs as an inferior race due to their being Semites, and cut from the same stock as the Jews. He also remarked that had Charles Martel failed at Tours, all the world would have been ‘Mohammadan’, with a culture of warlike ‘Islamised’ Germans ruling over it all.
Well the full quote is this:
He said Arabs were sub-human apes that were in need of a flogging, but he allegedly felt that Islam was a more ‘martial’ religion and thus better suited to Germanic temperament. That being said, he also had favourable views of Buddhism and Confucianism, which he jumbled up with Islam in the category of ‘Eastern Spiritualities’.
Of course, in remarks to Albert Speer, Hitler noted that while he saw Islam as a mighty, heroic warrior-cult that ‘opened the seven heavens to bold warriors alone’, he nonetheless also saw the Arabs as an inferior race due to their being Semites, and cut from the same stock as the Jews. He also remarked that had Charles Martel failed at Tours, all the world would have been ‘Mohammadan’, with a culture of warlike ‘Islamised’ Germans ruling over it all.
22-25, F