It's Islam that has more in common with Nazis

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015

Re: "Israel exploiting Holocaust to justify its own Nazi-like policies", Letters, October 29.

Eric Bahrt pleads with the rest of the world to not let Israel blame Islam for the Holocaust. There was an association between Islam and Nazism in the 1930s. The two had much in common. They were both totalitarian ideologies and both hated Jews. From its very inception, Islam taught the hatred of Jews. It is not the UN-approved 1948 establishment of the country of Israel that its neighbouring Muslims hate – it’s Jews they hate. The hatred of Jews started 14 centuries ago when they refused to follow the doctrine of Muhammad, whom they regarded as an upstart warlord. Judaism had already been in existence for thousands of years, since Abraham. The Jewish God was long-established, while Muhammad’s had just been proclaimed. Rejection of Muhammad meant death or eternal damnation. Hence we see the entrenched hatred.
Israel is governed along democratic lines, but its Islamic neighbours are not. To accuse Israel, a democracy, of having “Nazi-like policies” is ludicrous. The aggressor for 1,400 years has been Islam, which is a totalitarian political ideology. Within the 25 years following the death of the Prophet, Islam annihilated established Christianity across North Africa and around the Mediterranean, sword in hand. Israelis are told by Islamic states that their country will not exist in 25 years’ time because it must be removed from the face of the earth. 
His letter is of a submissive nature, in fear of the current “playground bully”. It’s “in vogue”, the “in policy” of liberal left-wingers, tending towards Marxism with its political correctness. Such misguided thinking is threatening Western civilisation with its denial of common sense. The welcome-with-open-arms attitude of the EU to the illegal Islamic invasion of Europe currently taking place is the most destructive example of this phenomenon.
JC Wilcox