FROM NAZISM TO JIHAD. Matthias Küntzel's Jew-Hatred and Jihad: The Nazi roots of the 9/11 attack starts off:

The idea of using suicide pilots to obliterate the skyscrapers of Manhattan originated in 1940s Berlin. "In the latter stages of the war, I never saw Hitler so beside himself as when, as if in a delirium, he was picturing to himself and to us the downfall of New York in towers of flame," wrote Albert Speer in his diary. "He described the skyscrapers turning into huge burning torches and falling hither and thither, and the reflection of the disintegrating city in the dark sky."

Not only Hitler's fantasy but also his plan of action foreshadowed September 11: He envisioned having kamikaze pilots fly light aircraft packed with explosives and with no landing gear into Manhattan skyscrapers.

But the inspiration that Hitler and Nazism is more concrete and direct. Küntzel traces Islamism to sources earlier than failed Nasserism--back to the 1930s and the rise of Nazism. He traces it back to 1928 and the founding of Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the ideological reference point for both Al Qaeda and Hamas.

The Brotherhood's campaign against the Jews used not only Nazi-like tactics but also German funding. As the historian Brynjar Lia recounted in his monograph on the Brotherhood, "Documents seized in the flat of Wilhelm Stellbogen, the Director of the German News Agency affiliated to the German Legation in Cairo, show that prior to October 1939 the Muslim Brothers received subsidies from this organization. Stellbogen was instrumental in transferring these funds to the Brothers, which were considerably larger than the subsidies offered to other anti-British activists."

Seems that Hitler was cloned after all.

[Hat tip: Instapundit]

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