Chart: Comapring Nazism, Communism--And Islam

Citizen Warrior has a graphic that compares the 3 basic totalitarian systems.

I think the point he is trying to make is pretty clear:

Of course the validity of a point is not in proportion to the prettiness of the chart, but it makes for an interesting starting point for a discussion.

I would argue on whether Nazism allowed for "freedom to wear clothes of one's own choice"--that of course did not apply to the Jews who had to wear a yellow star (though granted that idea started with the Muslims)

Also, "freedom to marry whom one loves" is not really accurate. In Denying History: Who Says The Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It, the authors write:

Nazi racial ideologies can indeed be traced back to the end of the nineteenth century, to the linking of social Darwinism and eugenics that burst on the scene in Germany, arriving from England, where the "science" of eugenics was founded by Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton. (p. 225)

The Nazis were into social Darwinism and eugenics before they go into exterminating Jews.

Still, the points made about Orthodox Islam are, based on what I've read (Patai, The Arab Mind), accurate.

Hat tip: Brian of London

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