“a “historical fact” that Muslims are allies of the Nazis.”

This assertion has to be evaluated.

Some Muslims were allies of the Nazis, as were Jews, Christians, Atheists, Agnostics, Hindus, Sikhs & Buddhists etc.

Now did more Muslims support & fight for the Nazis or was it the opposite & why in which context.

I know that Free France had her armies with colonial Muslims, as did the largest volunteer army of commonwealth (pre-partition) “India” (comprising Pakistan, Bangladesh & India etc.) The Soviet armies had many Muslims too.

Now which Muslims supported the Nazis? Palestine (no), but some of the “Muslims” of Yugoslavia. Why? Perhaps being stuck in the middle of such “friendly Christian” neighbours such as the Serb Chetniks & Croatian Ustache militias had something to do with survival calculations. The support for Balkan Muslims by Jews in the USA during the Chetnik-led genocidal pogroms may have had something to do with historical refuge from the Catholic Inquisition i.e. returning a favour.

“Look how they treat Muslims in Italy, even though Italian/Muslims have been there for centuries”.

Anthony,

it does not matter if they have been there for centuries.
They will never be accepted there.

Many of you know the events that followed after the collapse of Former Yugoslavia.
And what happened after that.
Unfortunately, very few know what happened in the Balkans after WW I and WW II.
Every time there was a powervacuum, muslims were targeted.

And you will admit, we, muslims from the Balkans were one of the most tolerant followers of the islamic faith on the earth.
I do not say there were no black sheeps in our communities in Bosnia, Kosovo, Sandzak, Macedonia and Montenegro.
But, in every single country in southeast Europe you will find a catholic church, orthodox church, a sinagoge and a mosque built next to each other in 15-th, 16-th, 17-th, 18-th century.
All of them built in the otoman era, and all of them in the centre of the city (See Sarajevo, Sofia, Skopje, Prizren, Montenegro).

Even though the ottomans ruled in the Balkans for almost five centuries!!!
Can you imagine that?!

Now, one small comparison.

During the war in Bosnia churches were not destroyed in the almost half destroyed capital of Sarajevo.

In the area controlled by serbs where there was no war zone, no single bullet fired (Banja Luka), serbs destroyed a medieval mosque (Ferhadija Mosque) in the very center of the town which was protected by UNESCO.

We, Balkan muslims have been facing Islamophobia for centuries, and nothing has changed until today.

This is why I find it very important to expose these bigots, because, once they get in power, they will do what their fellow fascists did and had been doing for decades in the Balkans.

@Kyle, that’s a ridiculous thing to say. I don’t want to wipe out muslims or anybody else for that matter.

I am certainly biased as I have no truck with organised religion. If people want to be religious then good for them but I don’t see why that should mean any kind of special treatment. I don’t agree with any kind of persecution of somebody just because they happen to be of one religion or another.

how is it untrue or racist to accuse Europe of being intolerant… it has a long and colorful history of seeing itself as enlightened and everyone else as barbaric. it’s not exactly a place that has ever been known for its tolerance of internal diversity. in the Middle Ages, the Latin Christian thought of Europe divided the world into “saved” and “heathens”; in modern times, the secular humanistic thought of Europe divided the world into “liberal democracies” and “backward societies.” the cultural mores change, but the sense of sneering superiority remains the same. and let’s not forget that Europe created the notion of ethnic “nation-states,” exported it throughout the post-colonial globe along with all the accompanying racist/nationalist rhetoric, and has been the driving force behind dozens of “civil wars” in various countries. Europe also was the home to not one, but TWO genocides of millions of people in the 20th century alone.

After the French were liberated by free forces (and by the way, the Nazis called the French Resistance ‘terrorists’) and the western Allied forces…the French punished women who collaborated with the Nazis by shaving thier heads and parading them in the streets of the big cities…of course where they were cursed, beaten, humiliated in other ways among other things.

Since I remember people collaberating against thier neighbours for a murderous regime as a younger woman, selling out friends, neighbours, thier own relatives to be in the nice with the dictator…and what we had to do, and say, just to stay alive…I dont think this punishment was enough.

I can see those who ignore what the Free French had to go through to keep thier country, even under harsh occupation, to keep the freedoms, and liberty they have now for a political agenda need a haircut. I would love to give it to this woman.

Told you guys Spencer and Pam idea muslims support hitler needs to be stopped and facts pointed out from the start or this idea will become main steam and fact

Really, we cannot say Europe is at it again… that’s true. But then again, Europe never really stopped in the first place.

Ok Steve.. I wanna play a game!!! Name all the countries actively wiping out Muslims. Now name countries actively wiping out Christians. Now name all the countries actively wiping out any other religions. Oh… and I’m not asking for who the religious majority is. Just active killing. I look forward to the list!

“What is with europe sometimes??”

Whats up with Europe Mindy its the same thing that was up with Europe during the 1920′s, 30′s etc, try even further than that. Europe historically has proved itself to be mostly unwelcoming racist continent. we thought things will change finally and cool down after the two world wars and Hitler and all, but here we go again, the patterns continuing with vengeance than ever before, and just few decades later. Europe is at it again!

which muslims? under Operation Dragoon liberation of Southern France, the Free French Forces Muslims and western Allies who kicked Nazi from french soil, see Algerians harki units