Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
Make the comparison. Two leaders separated by 1300 years. Both hated Jews, Christians, and superior civilisations. Both invoked God in their mad design to control the world. Both viewed themselves as prophets, divinely inspired and divinely appointed. Both believed that they had almost supernatural powers of insight, leadership and missionary obligations. Both designed programs of political, spiritual and military conquest. Both were mad hypocrites. Both were racists and both believed that their tribe and blood were destined to rule inferiors and sub-men. Both were uneducated failures for most of their lives. One wrote and one inspired a book, which became bibles to their followers. Both used war, slavery and terror to expand their power. Both hated the individual and exalted the communal. Both were the same in most ways. Hitler and Mohamed - fascist brothers in arms. If they had been born contemporaneously one would say they were twins - divided only by skin color and the fact that Hitler was far more erudite and intelligent.
What is a fascist ? It is not the modern version which is roughly equal to what is loosely termed a 'conservative' of course. Most don't know what the term means. As I wrote in my book 'Fascism and Paganism' fascsim is neither modern [it is a very ancient recipe for social control], nor European based. Fascism in its many disguises and forms has existed since the early days of Homo Sapiens some 200.000 years ago. It is a program of pagan communalism wherein the individual is subsumed into a greater whole. Thus it shares many features of other communal projects including socialism and communism. Modern fascism will use the lure of spirituality in the form of some pagan project, to unify its followers. Hitler incessantly spoke about saving Christian civilisation from the rabid Jewish-Bolshevist hordes, and German writers and church leaders routinely described Hitler as a Christ like figure [the Russians described Lenin in much the same way], destined to save Germany and indeed the world. Modern fascism is therefore an age old concept applied to a particular group or tribe, using modern technology and methods to control society and expand the program to other parts of the globe.
As the expert Paxton states in page 40 of his book 'Fascism'; 'Fascism seeks out in each national culture those themes that are best capable of mobilising a mass movement of regeneration, unification, and purity, directed against liberal individualism and constitutionalism...The themes that appeal to fascists in one cultural tradition may seem simply silly to another.' Modern fascism is a pagan cult in which the individual is first subsumed into the tribe or group, and then is expected – unyieldingly - to help the cult expand and conquer until its vision dominates the world. There is little that is 'modern' about such an idea - except the tools and techniques involved. Conquerors from Alexander to Chinghis Khan were all certain that their vision, their cult[s]; their mores [if they had any]; and their predestined greatness would control the world. Of course the program ends up in mass slaughter and failure.
The key underlying elements of any pagan cult which employs cultural communalism, with the objective of universal domination is the following:
1. Leadership cult and elite control of the cult.
2. Ideology as propaganda, not reality.
3. Cult pretending to be divinely inspired.
4. Terror and control.
5. Racism or Supremacism with the intent of Universalism or global domination.
6. Cross-Class appeal.
7. Economic Autarchy.
8. Hatred of individualism and classic Liberalism.
9. Jihadic War and domination. and
10. Rigidity and inevitable collapse.
Mohamed was no prophet. Neither was Hitler. Their programs were similar fascisms. In fact the similarities are so striking that one can say that Hitler's ravings in Mein Kampf, mirror similar madness to be found in the Koran. Both programs inspired by hate, fear, power mongering and war lead inevitably to conflict and for the fascist cult a violent death. Hitler's war destroyed 70 million people. Mohammad's insanity has inspired a movement which has killed some 300 millions in 1400 years. Hitler's Reich was bombed into a ruin. Mohamed's empire has been far more successful and mutable. Once the Ottoman empire was dismembered it became clear that Islam had no formal center of control - it was a disseminated ideology spread across the world and tenaciously defended by its cult adherents. Hitler could only have dreamed of creating so virile and viable a pagan program as that initiated by the illiterate Arab Mohamed. [see this link on why Mad Moh is a fascist Mohammed the fascist]
Mohamed was an anti-Semite who killed with his own hands. He raped a 9 year old girl. He led 80 odd military expeditions. He was violent, lecherous, spiteful, adulterous, and conniving. He was also like Hitler, and to a lesser extent Stalin, probably quite mad. Much of the Koran and the so-called teachings of Mohammad are revelations that would embarrass a drunken psychopath.
Hitler was little better. His Mein Kampf laid out the blueprint for World War II and the Holocaust. Churchill read the book once Hitler became a political threat in the early 30s. Few other Western leaders bothered. The same is true today. Few leaders have bothered to read the Koran and fewer still understand the historical rise of Islam. To have understood Hitler you needed to have read his self declared Bible. To understand Mohamed's Arab cult premised around ali-ilah or the male Meccan moon deity, you need to read the Koran - if you can get through its nonsense.
Mohamed like Hitler was a single minded fanatic. It is a small step from the simpleton single-mindedness of someone with good intentions to the fanatical fatalism of a deranged madman. 19th century century Swiss historian Burckhardt wrote correctly about the dangers of Mohammedan obsessiveness: "Muhammad is personally very fanatical; that is his basic strength. His fanaticism is that of a radical simplifier and to that extent is quite genuine. It is of the toughest variety, namely doctrinaire passion, and his victory is one of the greatest victories of fanaticism and triviality. All idolatry, everything mythical, everything free in religion, all the multifarious ramifications of the hitherto existing faith, transport him into a real rage, and he hits upon a moment when large strata of his nation were highly receptive to an extreme simplification of the religious." [Source]
Like Mohamed Hitler simplified his world. For the insane Austrian the world and its organisation was simple. Germans were superior and should rule. They were the natural inheritors of a great Aryan and European tradition. Jews, Slavs, Gays, the religious, the sick and the weak were to be destroyed. Everyone else must submit to the superior tribe. Only a great leader, divinely inspired, who knew of the glorious pagan past of the German tribe would be able to turn a defeated Germany into a world ruler. Hitler truly believed he was sent by a deity to fulfill Germany's promise as the leader of the world. Today of course he would find himself in an insane asylum. Yet in the zeitgeist of the 1920s and 30s, he elevated himself and his sick creed to rule over a nation of 80 millions.
Hitler much admired Mohamed, Islam, and the idea of Mecca - a world center of pagan power where all people would travel to submit themselves to the cult and its leadership. Linz Hitler's hometown, would be the new cultural Mecca for the world, containing all of Europe's classical art and acting as a showpiece of Nazi cultural superiority. The new capital city which Hitler meticulously planned, 'Germania', would likewise be the political Mecca for the world, where enslaved states and 'allies' would come to pay homage to Nazi supremacy and world domination.
The Nazis and Arabs were of course allied during World War II, exposing their common fascist sympathies and anti-semiticism. Ridiculously, most people today don't even know of the Nazi-Arab links or common cause in the Second World War. Modern Muslims still applaud Hitler, though they are apt to criticise him for not finishing off all the Jews. The warm sentiments between Nazis, Arabs and Muslims is no mistake and it extends far beyond racist anti-Semiticism. They are expressions of kindred spirits and shared beliefs. Hitler was much impressed with Mohamed's ability to use a pagan cult to unify a disparate group of pre-modern tribes into a military and political force of historical power. Mohamed and Islam, provided Hitler with a template of total societal control, embedded in key documents, submission by all to the communal good, rabid racism and supremacism, and a mystical, divinely inspired mandate to rule the globe. Indeed Mohamed was the original Hitler.
Both Nazi and Islamic doctrine preach the same basic ideas. We are supreme. We will go to 'heaven'. We the believers must fight to spread our truth. All the world outside our tribe and outside our cult are enemies. We are merely peaceful messengers fighting on behalf of light and truth to carry our message to those who don't believe. Just a few out of literally hundreds of passages in the Koran and Mein Kampf illustrate the basic complicity of the two fascisms. It is almost certain in my opinion, that Hitler, a voracious reader, read the Koran or parts of it. In fact if you replaced Allah with Hitler the two documents make a great match.
Strong Man Leadership.
Mein Kampf, p. 752: "The strongest man is chosen for fulfilling the great mission. One Man is the One who is exclusively called upon."
Mein Kampf, p. 753: "They have the purest faith in their own mission, they consider themselves obliged to go their own way without considering others. Nature Herself, in Her inexorable logic, makes the decision by prompting fights and by leading that movement to the goal that has been chosen by the clearest, shortest, and surest way."
Qur'an 59.6 "Allah gives his Messenger Lordship and Power over whomever He wills."
Qur'an 49.7 "And know that among you is Allah's Messenger: were he to follow your (wishes), you would fall into misfortune...."
Paradise:
Mein Kampf:768 "It is certain that each hero who comes forward voluntarily, and dies the sacred death of martyrdom climbs the steps to Valhalla."
Qur'an 4.74 "Let those who fight in the Cause of Allah sell the life of this world for the hereafter. To him who fights in the Cause of Allah, whether he is slain or gets victory - soon shall We give him a great reward."
Unbelievers:
Mein Kampf, p. 768: "They are scum, rabble, deserters, and pimps who shunned the light, hyenas, freeloaders, thieves, and duty shirkers, traitors and an undisciplined gang of looters, criminals, and evil rabble."
Mein Kampf, p. 756: "Some people merely pretend that they are fighting for the same goal, but they do not honestly place themselves into the ranks of our movement."
Qur'an 8.5 "Your Lord ordered you out of your homes to fight for the true cause even though some Muslims disliked it, and were averse to fighting. They argued with you concerning this matter even after it was made clear to them. It was as if they were being driven to their death."
The greatness of a religious leader:
Mein Kampf, p. 763: "One must never forget that everything that is actually great in this world has not been fought for and won by coalitions, but always by the success of One Individual victor. The religious State will never be created by compromise but only by the steel-hard willpower of one sole movement which has struggled its way against all others."
Qur'an 48.1 "Verily We have granted you (Muhammad) a splendid Victory.
Qur'an 48.8 "We have truly sent you (Muhammad) as a witness, as a bringer of Good News, and as a Warner: In order that you (men) may believe in Allah and His Messenger, that you may assist him and honor him, and celebrate His praise morning and evening."
Violence:
Mein Kampf, p.798: "What we need is not one hundred daring plotters, but many hundreds of thousands of fanatical fighters for our view of life."
Mein Kampf, p. 801: "Give the German nation six million bodies, faultlessly trained, all of them glowing with passion for the highest spirit of attack, and we will have an army."
Qur'an 47.4 "Therefore, when you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle, strike them and overpower them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, make them prisoners in bondage until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded. He lets you fight in order to test you. But those who are slain in Allah's Cause will never have their deeds go to waste."
These are just a few of the obvious similarities between the two fascisms. Both founding documents of the Hitler and Mohamed cults preach the same thing. We the cult are divinely inspired. I the leader have a divine contract and contact that no other will ever have. Follow me and we will spread our brave new world. Those who follow and fight are on our behalf will go to paradise. Those who obstruct us must be killed. Submit, ritualise and obey.
Islam is at its core a fascist paganism. So of course is Hitlerism. The two differ only in emphasis, racial supremacism, and implementational details. Hitler's goal was to create a new Mecca in Europe to which the bondage states would pay homage. He most likely read the Koran and most likely understood the basic timelines of Mohamed's life. It is highly unlikely that Hitler's program, which is so similar to Islam's, was created by happenstance. It was a deliberate creation, one modeled on a successful psychopath a man named Mohamed, whose legions today are still fighting for the Meccan moon cult deity, 'Allah'. Hitler's program ended after 12 years. Mohamed's after 14 centuries, is still going strong.