Word: islam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong through Fascism, then Italy would conquer an empire. Not only bits of Africa would be hers; she would rule Mare Nostrum and its shores. Italian ships would ply back & forth between Italy and Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco; to the east they would sail to the gates of Islam, which would recognize Italy as its protector. Italian settlers would occupy all the fertile shores of Mare Nostrum, and Mare Nostrum would be Italian forever...
...other hand, Mussolini's record in Libya has shown that he falls far short of being the "Protector of Islam." In less than a generation of Italian rule, the Moslems in Eritrea have decreased from over a million to 400,000. And Hitler's prestige is not raised by his contemptuous references to the Arabs in "Mein Kampf...
There is probably nothing Adolf Hitler would like so much as to be called in to be the savior of Islam. Last week he got his first bid. According to Rome reports, Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani asked him, through the mediation of Italian Minister Luigi Gabbrielli, to come and save Iraq. In a desperate effort to stave off the Near East crisis, Turkey offered to mediate the undeclared war, but Turkey was fast being pulled out of its pro-British orientation, and the British, mistrusting Moslem mediation of a Moslem vexation, turned the offer down. If the Iraq Incident...
...Germans attack Turkey, or the zone of Turkey's security, they will face a real catastrophe. Turkey is the strong front of the Islamic East. Any attack against Turkey would provoke all Orientals and lead them to defend Turkey with their lives and their money. The fall of Turkey, which Allah forbid!-would mean the fall of the Eastern Front and a loss of prestige for Islam. The new Turkey, with her ally, Britain, forms a tremendous power in the East competent to resist any aggression...
Hitler's "New Order," like the burning religion of Islam, embodies a revolutionary idea, but it is a negative revolution seeking to destroy individual liberties, to destroy Christian religion, to destroy the spirit of democracy. Hitler's idea is an explosive idea, an expanding idea, an all-enveloping idea. Hitler and his followers have in their explosive idea the will to eliminate America as the strong symbol of an opposing idea. If England falls they will have the means also...