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In reply to the discussion: Should we Stop Discussing whether Islam is Peaceful ? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Albeit unintentionally.
There's still a church in the picture there--it's just the NAZI church. And they're co-opting in secret, because they know this kind of thing takes TIME.
They first have to take over, and then they can gradually change the rules, once they are in the churches and running the show.
Or, in the modern-day scenario, the masjids.
You don't think this is EXACTLY what is happening in Da'esh? Or do you suppose that everyone who is Muslim sits at home at night and practices the knife stroke to separate a head from the shoulders, because there's something about that mentioned in Qu'ran?
That's as silly as thinking that Christians, because they have that "eye for an eye" thing in their literature, would maybe practice with grapes, or something.
Most people aren't instinctively brutally violent. They have to be carefully taught. That's what Hitler was doing, that is what Da'esh is doing.
And of course, touting this in 1942 wasn't a "propaganda" move at all to motivate the home base (oh, of COURSE not), or, if they got lucky over the illegal airwaves, to try to de-motivate the civilian population of the enemy.
Hitler was USING the church and the inclinations of the faithful, and trying to switch their allegiances to him.
Da'esh is USING the inclinations of the devout in Islam, and trying to shift their focus to accepting the leadership of a few loony tunes to embrace this idea of a Caliphate as existed in an idealized era in the history of the faith.