FURTHER PROOF OF NAZI ISLAMIC COLLABORATION

The conspiracy between the Muslims and the Nazis to effect the final solution has long been hidden from the public. Andrew Bostom has been the leading Islamic scholar to expose this axis of evil. And Bostom’s debate with Kuntzel is ongoing. I blogged on that battle here, read it.

Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code By Spengler, Asiai Times hat tip Mara

Islam watchers blogged all weekend about news that a secret archive of ancient
Islamic texts had surfaced after 60 years of suppression. Andrew Higgins’ Wall
Street Journal report that the photographic record of Koranic manuscripts,
supposedly destroyed during World War II but occulted by a scholar of alleged
Nazi sympathies, reads like a conflation of the Da Vinci Code with
Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail.
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It has long been known that variant copies of the Koran exist, including some
found in 1972 in a paper grave at Sa’na in Yemen, the subject of a cover story
in the January 1999 Atlantic Monthly. Before the Yemeni authorities shut the
door to Western scholars, two German academics, Gerhard R Puin and H C Graf von
Bothmer, made 35,000 microfilm copies, which remain at the University of the
Saarland. Many scholars believe that the German archive, which includes
photocopies of manuscripts as old as 700 AD, will provide more evidence of
variation in the Koran.

The history of the archive reads like an Islamic
version of the Da Vinci Code. It is not clear why its existence was
occulted for sixty years, or why it has come to light now, or when scholars will
have free access to it. Higgins’ account begins,

On the night of April 24, 1944, British air force bombers hammered a
former Jesuit college here housing the Bavarian Academy of Science. The
16th-century building crumpled in the inferno. Among the treasures lost, later
lamented Anton Spitaler, an Arabic scholar at the academy, was a unique photo
archive of ancient manuscripts of the Koran.

The 450 rolls of film had
been assembled before the war for a bold venture: a study of the evolution of
the Koran, the text Muslims view as the verbatim transcript of God’s word. The
wartime destruction made the project "outright impossible", Mr Spitaler wrote in
the 1970s.

Mr Spitaler was lying. The cache of photos survived, and he
was sitting on it all along. The truth is only now dribbling out to scholars –
and a Koran research project buried for more than 60 years has risen from the
grave. Why Spitaler concealed the archive is unknown, but Koranic critics who
challenge the received Muslim account suspect his motives. Higgins reports,

What if scholars can prove beyond reasonable doubt that the Koran was not
dictated by the Archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammad during the 7th
century, but rather was redacted by later writers drawing on a variety of extant
Christian and Jewish sources? That would be the precise equivalent of proving
that the Jesus Christ of the Gospels really was a composite of several
individuals, some of whom lived a century or two apart.
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"The whole period after 1945 was poisoned by the Nazis," says Gunter Luling, a
scholar who was drummed out of his university in the 1970s after he put forward
heterodox theories about the Koran’s origins. His doctoral thesis argued that
the Koran was lifted in part from Christian hymns. Blackballed by Spitaler,
Luling lost his teaching job and launched a fruitless six-year court battle to
be reinstated. Feuding over the Koran, he says, "ruined my life".

He
wrote books and articles at home, funded by his wife, who took a job in a
pharmacy. Asked by a French journal to write a paper on German Arabists, Luling
went to Berlin to examine wartime records. Germany’s prominent postwar Arabic
scholars, he says, "were all connected to the Nazis".

Why were the Nazis
so eager to suppress Koranic criticism? Most likely, the answer lies in their
alliance with Islamist leaders, who shared their hatred of the Jews and also
sought leverage against the British in the Middle East. The most recent of many
books on this subject, Matthias Kuntzel’s Jihad and Jew-Hatred, was
reviewed January 13 in the New York Times by Jeffrey Goldberg, who reports

Actually, it’s Bostom who should be cited instead.

Kuntzel makes a bold and consequential argument: the dissemination
of European models of anti-Semitism among Muslims was not haphazard, but an
actual project of the Nazi Party, meant to turn Muslims against Jews and
Zionism. He says that in the years before World War II, two Muslim leaders in
particular willingly and knowingly carried Nazi ideology directly to the Muslim
masses. They were Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem, and the Egyptian
proto-Islamist Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

It may be a very long time before the contents of the Bavarian
archive are known. Some Koranic critics, notably the pseudonymous scholar "Ibn
Warraq", claim that Professor Angelika Neuwirth, the archive’s custodian, has
denied access to scholars who stray from the traditional interpretation.
Neuwirth admits that she has had the archive since 1990. She has 18 years of
funding to study the Bavarian archive, and it is not clear who will have access
to it.
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But that is not the end of the matter. The Islamic world is forced to adopt an
openly irrational stance, employing its power to intimidate scholars and
frustrate the search for truth. It is impossible for Muslims to propose a
dialogue with Western religions, as 38 Islamic scholars did in an October 13
letter to Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders, and rule the subject of
text criticism out of the discussion.

Precisely for this reason, Church
leaders see little basis for a dialogue with Islam. Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran,
who directs the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, told the French
daily La Croix, "Muslims do not accept discussion about the Koran, because they
say it was written under the dictates of God. With such an absolutist
interpretation, it’s difficult to discuss the contents of the faith."

Throughout the Internet, Islamist sites denounce the work of a handful
of marginalized scholars as evidence of a plot by Christian missionaries to
sabotage Islam. What the Muslim world cannot conceal is its vulnerability and
fear in the face of Koranic criticism. In the great battle for converts through
the Global South, this may turn out to be a paralyzing disadvantage.

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