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You are creating a false dichotomy.  Of course it had something to do with Nazism.  But it also had a lot to do with the cultural, economic, and political climate of post-WW1 Germany.


Political ideologies are used to motivate or unite people towards a cause or action - not always rational.  In that respect they are a tool in the same way as religion is: instill a cause and foment blind obedience.




Now it is YOU creating a strawman.


Nazism by itself is nothing. It is a tool - an ideology created and grown to achieve a certain aim. It is the events of post-ww1 Germany that gave it power amongst the people and led it to assume the proportions that it did and could easily again. You can critisize it - it is certainly evil, like guns can be thought to be evil- but it would have had no power had not certain conditions existed to allow it to grow and become a power.  Those conditions are very similar to the conditions that in general tend to lead towards an increase in fundamentalism, extremism, nationalism or ethno-centrism.  Christian fundamentalism and Muslim fundamentalism are almost identical in belief.  The differences lie in the cultures they are currently living in: secular democratic West - where the rule of law is respected vs. religious, non-democratic East - where the rule of law is situational and corrupt.


Look at Communism - and in particular Stalin.  There is nothing explicit in the writings of Karl Marx for example, that legitimized the purges that Stalin conducted.  Yet, he managed to use it as a justification for his atrocities.  Not to different from the way Christians have misused the Bible, or Muslims have misused their religion.


What is ironic, and the reason I can not take your arguments seriously - is that you use these arguments to maintain a condemnation of Islam - as a whole - yet are utterly blind to the same failings within Christianity - faults that throughout history can be blamed for much war, bloodshed, and murder if one uses your logic.


You then create a strawman by trying to make the entire religion of Islam comparable to the Nazi ideology.  It doesn't wash.


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