When Islamists Joined the Nazis

"The history of the 13th SS Handschar Division sheds light on a Nazi-Islamist alliance that continues to shape the Middle East's ideological landscape."

The American Spectator

These Muslims were used to kill Jews. How ironic that if today's Israelis fought them, the Jews would be called "Nazis" by the keffiyeh-klad ignoramuses produced by the Bernie-AOC-Squad-Mamdani wing of education. The Tunnel Dweller

Muslim (NOT Israeli) Nazis at prayer call

"If you missed Shmuel Klatzkin’s July 18 American Spectator essay, “The Nazis and the Mullahs,” please follow the link and take a moment to read it. It’s well worth your time. In our present historical moment, when leftists minimize the evil of the Iranian regime, he reminds us, in chapter and verse, of the mullahs’ historical alignment with the definitive evil of modern history. This is particularly important when our new generation of democratic socialists align themselves with radical Islam, while tossing the “nazi” label at everyone they disagree with — even, absurdly, at Israel.

"As a one-time student of the Nazi period — I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the antecedents of the Gestapo — I was particularly struck by the essay’s accompanying illustration, a period photograph showing the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem inspecting soldiers of the 13th SS division. The story behind this captured moment deserves telling, as it underscores just how deeply Nazism and Islamism were intertwined and — particularly — how much they hated Jews. Muslims were not simply aligned with Nazis. Some of them were active participants in the Holocaust itself.

"Which brings us to the curious history of the 13th SS Mountain Infantry Division “Handschar.” The picture used with Klatzkin’s article shows these soldiers in battle dress and wearing steel helmets. Had they been depicted in ordinary parade dress, they would have crowned their SS uniforms with a Fez, the cap associated with the Ottoman Turks, and, specifically, worn by the Ottoman gendarmes who’d once policed Bosnia and other Balkan regions during the time of Turkish rule. Nor was the division’s honorific title, “Handschar,” incidental. The term referred to a ceremonial sword carried by the Ottoman gendarmes.

"Casual students of Nazi history often assume that their notions of racial supremacy were rigid and built entirely based on the so-called “Aryan” race. This concept, confected of all manner of weird anthropological mumbo-jumbo, somehow conflated “Aryan,” a term with a basis in ancient India and Persia, with a race of blond, blue-eyed, Nordic supermen. The term never quite worked even in the realms of Nazi fantasy. Hitler was short and dark-haired while Goebbels was so diminutive that his enemies referred to him as the “Giftzwerg,” or “poison dwarf.” None of these figures, not even Himmler, the head of the SS, much resembled the Nazi racial fantasy." . . . More...

Why Are We Saving Drug Addicts? - Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter 

"Ironically, liberals want to decriminalize drugs —“the war on drugs has failed!”—but when dope accidentally produces such a providential outcome, suddenly they’re bad-ass antidrug enforcers."

"Why is a single taxpayer dollar being spent on preventing prisoners from overdosing? We could probably end the country’s drug problem by not saving anyone who overdoses, but here we’re talking about deranged psychopaths. Isn’t that a win-win scenario? This is like trying to revive a suicide bomber.

"Apparently, violent predators, who think it’s fun to inflict bodily harm on others, have decided it’s also fun to smoke strips of paper soaked in synthetic drugs. The drug-infused papers are smuggled into penal institutions by girlfriends, on letters from their kids or pages from a book sent in an Amazon box from a third-party seller.

"At first, the overdoses baffled prison officials. They’d see an inmate foaming at the mouth, hallucinating, and flailing his arms, and have no idea how he’d gotten the drugs. Solving the mystery took the combined effort of prison wardens, police officers, SWAT teams, doctors, research scientists, hospitals and emergency rooms—all of which, one way or another, are being paid for by you, the inmates’ victims.

"But for some reason, all the commentary on prison overdose deaths suggests that “we” are facing a “crisis.” Yes, let’s throw more resources at keeping these savages alive and thriving.

"A 2024 article in The Journal of the American Medical Association called prisoner overdoses a “growing public health concern” and helpfully documented the efficacy of various treatments—naloxone, atropine, IV fluids, benzodiazepines, forced-air blankets, warm IV fluids, intubation. The paper added that larger studies would be needed to “better understand and mitigate the risks” to violent criminals who knowingly suck down potentially lethal drugs.

"Liberals want to allow completely innocent people to commit suicide with government assistance, but won’t let these useless carbon producers end their lives all by themselves.

"NPR, naturally, reported on the “overdose crisis behind bars.” Happily noting that California was taking steps to keep state prisoners “safe,” it bemoaned the fact that correctional institutions elsewhere have not similarly rushed to provide their prisoners with “comprehensive treatment programs.” . . .  More...