I read in a book called "The Mufti and the Fuhrer" (about the Arab SS Legions) that before the 1930s Muhammad was just called Muhammad, like Jesus or Moses, and people didn't have to be all careful every time they talked about him. In the 30s the Nazis aligned themselves with the Arabs in places like Iraq, and started teaching them how to do propaganda. According to the book this is when Arabs started adding all the titles and phrases before Muhammad's name, and made it illegal for anyone question his values or talk about him the wrong way. They got this directly from the Nazis, who had used thesame method to give Hitler his God-like status as the Fuhrer. Just like the Hitler Youth kids were indoctrinated to believe that Hitler was some sort of divine, unquestionable demigod, Arab kids in the 30s-40s were taught that Muhammad was completely infallible, and anyone who besmirched him in any way had to be put to death. Is this true, because it could help explain a few things.
2007-01-30
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