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Monday, December 18, 2006 12:00 AM

Ahmadinejad: Not really Hitler?

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Monday, December 18, 2006 12:35 PM

Comparison to Hitler

Bullshit. Ahmadinejad has not got the hold on Iran that Hitler had on Germany. Hitler was for all intents and purposes an Atheist,aginst the muslim faith of Ahmadinejad. There are still elections held in Iran and the present ones, if only for muncipal and religious councils, seem to go against him. The only possible similarity is antisemitism, more specifically Ahmedinejads hatred of the state of Israel, which only came into being in 1949,4 years after Hitlers death and defeat. There are, however, more similarities of action between Hitler and the present born again Decider, president ot whatever of the United States, in that they both started illegal wars of aggression which the lost!

Monday, December 18, 2006 02:45 PM

Yes,

those were the answers to the crazies in both Bush regimes who likened Saddam Hussein to Hitler. Hitler was the leader of the most powerful single country in the world that was situated in the middle of Europe. As such, he could do damage Iran and Iraq can't come close to, however nutty their leaders.

Monday, December 18, 2006 06:21 PM

?

This doesn't match with some of the other reading I've done regarding Iran's current economic and military muscle.

Also, Hitler was not an atheist.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 05:45 AM

Hitler wasn't an atheist

From wikipedia:

Adolf Hitler's religious beliefs

Adolf Hitler was brought up in his family's religion by his Roman Catholic parents, but as a school boy he began to reject the Church and Catholicism. After he had left home, he never attended Mass or received the Sacraments.

In later life, Hitler's religious beliefs present a discrepant picture: In public statements, he frequently spoke positively about the Christian heritage of German culture and belief in Christ. Hitler’s private statements, reported by his intimates, are more mixed, showing Hitler as a religious but also anti-Christian man. However, in contrast to other Nazi leaders, Hitler did not adhere to esoteric ideas, occultism, or neo-paganism, and ridiculed such beliefs in his book Mein Kampf. Rather, Hitler advocated a "Positive Christianity", a belief system purged from what he objected to in traditional Christianity, and reinvented Jesus as a fighter against the Jews.

Hitler believed in a Social Darwinist struggle for survival between the different races, among which the "Aryan race" was supposed to be the torchbearers of civilization and the Jews as enemies of all civilization. Whether his anti-semitism was influenced by older Christian ideas remains disputed. Hitler also strongly believed that "Providence" was guiding him in this fight.

Among Christian denominations, Hitler favoured Protestantism, which was more open to such reinterpretations, but at the same time imitated some elements of Catholic church organization, liturgy, and phraseology in his politics.

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