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The point:

While ‘Hindutva’ is unfairly targeted for its supposed ‘Nazi’ side in spite of there being no shred of ANY significant & tenable evidence AT ALL – the Jihadi, anti-semitic & Nazi supporters + collaborators have hardly been noticed.

What’s even more galling: the clueless ‘liberals’ and communist elements (and of course the #DravidianModel scoundrels. Dravidian scumbags, among others, are ALSO anti-semites, thanks to their inveterate need to keep Muslim-voters under their thumb in Tamilnadu) keep repeating the same ‘Hindutva = Nazism‘ lies over and over against the Hindus…

This is an attempt to examine IndianMuslim-Nazi connections – with references.

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Nazis, via Gestapo, their secret service – had an elaborate plan for Nazi propaganda in India.

They ran clubhouses, ran a journal & lectured to select (German, Persian & Arabic knowing) people on Nazism – in India, then a British Colony.

Apart from constant espionage & propaganda carried out by Gestapo, there were attempts to culturally influence Indians [Muslims] like…

…Berlin radio even broadcast a musical programme called ‘Moonlight on the Tajmahal‘ – of course with bands, orchestra, violin – the works.

Gestapo knew that the issue of ‘Palestine’ can be stroked profitably (even at that time – some 80+ years ago!) to inflame the Islamic umma, to their advantage.

It presented Hitler & Mussolini as friends of Islam, because of the ‘common enemy:’ the Jews.

Anti-jewish speeches were made at the All India Muslim league!

Mussolini, the Fascist was considered the ‘Protector of Islam’ in Africa; of course understandable even now – because an Islamic Theocratic State does not have pretentions about democracy and elections and the like.

In other words, by its very fundamental and immutable nature and its origin, Islam is fascist. To the t. Yes.

Nazis praised & primed the Muslims talking about the ‘martial tendencies’ and used the ‘Palestine & frontier [afghan, north-west India then etc] questions’ to canvas for support for Nazism from Muslims.

Of course, for Muslims, the ‘ummah’ & the ‘brotherhood’ are primal!

The Kheiri brothers, Abdur Sattar Kheiri and his brother Abdul Jabbar Kheiri, referred to early in their careers as the ‘Beirut brothers‘, had been Boy Scout masters in Lebanon, language teachers in Istanbul, pan-Islamists in Berlin, travelers to the USSR, and as returnees to India, propagandists for the National Socialists – Nazis!

A German wife (Fatma Kanem) of Prof Kheiri, Aligarh Muslim University was a Nazi & published ‘Spirit of the Time.'(1939)

Aim of that paper was to gain support of the Indian Muslims for the Nazi cause.

It tried to prove that ‘Nazi ideals approximate to the tenets of Islam.’ Actually now, isn’t that true?

Salar-e-Hind, heavily subsidized by the Nazis, was started by Saif Azad (In Gujarathi, English & Persian – 1938) – a close collaborator with Nazis — to fan anti-semitism in India & for popularizing Nazis.

It actively campaigned for Nazism & extolled the virtues of fascism.

A sample Table of Contents of the Nazi, Indian Muslim Journal.

An Indian Muslim, one Habibur Rahman staying in Berlin – was the main conduit for Nazi propaganda materials & funds – meant for India.

The British govt in India, could not stop the flow, in spite of vigil – because the propagandists used ingenious ways to circumvent the ban.

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Of course, there were stupid and/or ill-informed, but very well intentioned & swarajist folks like Binoy Kumar Sircar with clueless enthusiasm (who claimed, on Hitler’s rise to power in the early 1930s: Hitler was… “Vivekananda multiplied by Bismarck”) and emotional & obtuse Hindus who were carried away by the reference to Aryan (‘noble’ or ‘exalted’) in the German third Reich rhetoric. However, the fact is that, Germans treated Indians with contempt…

And then, there were stellar folks like Nethaji Subhash Chandra Bose who saw the big political picture in terms of ‘enemy’s enemy’ and wanted to strike-up alliances without losing self-respect.

But such excuses did not exist for momins or leaders of them; because they were/are primed for hate (especially against the Jews and generally against Kuf’rs), having been totally indoctrinated on literally a day-to-day basis, which happens even now…

Of course, having stated all the above – it is not that ALL muslims of India, of those times at least, were supporters of Nazis.

But hey, am not trying some random monkey-balancing, either!

There were no jihads against Jews of India, because it is very possible that propaganda of Islamic Nazis had not been able to reach or penetrate to every nook and corner of India; it is hence guessable that, there was a significant number of muslims who would have been naturally against Hindus (thanks mainly to Aligarh Muslim Univ, Deoband, Muslim League & Friday sermons – apart from a 700++ years of being ‘slave masters’ and Hindu/Bauddha killers) but not many of them were for Nazis; they would have had no clue, poor things

History is a tough mistress.

Anyway, one should also factor in the relentless hate and venom that flows in basic Islamic doctrines including Quran against the Yehuds (= Jews) – of course also against Kuf’rs too. And also the regular reinforcement of hate that happens during the weekly sermons in most of the mosques in India, needs to be factored in… So, had the Islamic Nazis were persistent and hardworking, perhaps, they could have succeeded in co-opting the entire Quam or the Jama’at of Muslims into support for German Nazis.

Good that it didn’t materialize purely because of lack of widespread communication infrastructure, that was the reality of those times.

So, the jews in India escaped the certain horror and terrible fate – that would have been spearheaded and propelled by Jihadi Nazi Islamics.

Good for the Jews. Good for Bharatiyas.

Joy to the world, what else!

References:

1. Nicholson, R. D. (2015). Corporeality, Aryanism, Race: The Theatre and Social Reform of the Parsis of Western India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 38(4), 613–638
2. Sayantani Adhikary (2015) The Bratachari Movement and the Invention of a ‘Folk Tradition’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 38:4, 656-670
3. Nazi Propaganda in India, Eugene J. D’souza, Social Scientist, Vol. 28, No. 5-6 (May – Jun., 2000), pp. 77-90
4. ‘Nazi-hunting and intelligence-gathering in India on the eve of the Second World War’ – Benjamin Zachariah in Benjamin Zachariah, Ashley Jackson, Yasmin Khan and Gajendra Singh (ed), An Imperial World at War (Ashgate, 2015)
5. Majid Hayat Siddiqui, ‘Bluff, Doubt and Fear: The Kheiri Brothers and the Colonial State, 1904-45’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 (1987), pp. 233-263
6. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Propaganda and Information in Eastern India, 1939-1945: A Necessary Weapon of War, (London: Routledge, 2013)
7. Benoy Kumar Sarkar, The Hitler State: a Landmark in the Political, Economic and Social Remaking of the German People (Calcutta: Insurance and Finance Review, 1933)

A version of the above post appeared under my X handle: @othisaivu.