By Joel A. Moskowitz, MD
LA JOLLA, California — Some will find fault with my thesis. Others will acknowledge the validity.
The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler by Ben Urwand has been reviewed positively and negatively. The essence of the book is that some Nazis wanted to suppress ‘negative’ themes which would be detrimental to their image. The book focuses on the Hollywood moguls who bent to the will of Goebbels and other Nazis which didn’t want anti-Nazi themes to be seen by their population. And some of the studios acceded; some because it was in their financial interests to do so. Money talks.
That is the essential unifying subtlety of a book which deals with Islamic influence on how non-Islamics view their image. Several high esteemed critics chastise author Urwand for emphasizing the Nazis ‘control’ of the film industry – they point to the Roman Catholic church, Order of Decency, the film industry’s own, Production Code , and other varieties of censorship. They miss the point. The author doesn’t proclaim that Hollywood bowing to the Nazi propaganda agenda is the sole concession to the prince of economics. Nor were the studios alone in dealing with the Nazis. IBM and General Motors had links with the Nazi program for financial benefits.
Putting gain before ethics and protection of our way of life is a long story.
The Terrorist Next Door by Erick Stakelbeck is a current example of many who rationalize to the ultimate detriment of America’s safety.
Under the guise of political correctness, many approve the Islamic invasion and perversion of our educational system, lubricated by Saudi dollars. The similarity: Nazis ‘bribed’ the studios with packed theaters for ‘approved’ films and now endowments of colleges are linked with painting a picture of Islam as our friend. Stakelbeck reports on the Christian Broadcasting System. He describes an informed description of how jihadist enclaves are expanding inside our country. Our government seems to be oblivious to the threat. Yesteryear persons sympathized with Hitler praising his rebuilding Germany after a crippling WWI. They were lulled into passivity bordering around approval. Hope springs eternal. Would that Islam’s creed preached in their growing number of mosques were ‘tolerant’ for infidels (us).
Author/reporter Stakelbeck writes that to the contrary, imams often encourage violent and covert domination.
“Islamism is a totalitarian movement” aka “Nazism”. Why, Stakelbeck writes, are our schools devaluing Judeo-Christian civilization but teaching our children Islam is “a religion of peace”? Under Sharia law (from the Koran) There is NO freedom of religion; NO free speech; NO equality of peoples; NO equal rights for women; NO democracy Stakelbeck warns. Ever since the seventh century when Islam conquered a large chunk of the world, the practice was to build mosques as representations of their conquest. The Dome of the Rock and nearby al-Aqsa mosque are illustrations of this practice. Think of the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
Chapter Six: “Londonistan: a cautionary tale” and Chapter Nine: “First They Came for the Jews” are particularly alarming.
Regnery Publishing is to be thanked for having the courage to publish this warning.
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Moskowitz is a freelance writer based in La Jolla. He may be contacted at joel.moskowitz@sdjewishworld.com