Voices on Antisemitism: Matthias Küntzel (Author, Jihad and Jew Hatred)
Series: Voices on Antisemitism
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:06:04
In his book Jihad and Jew Hatred, German scholar Matthias Künztel looks at the historical links between fascism and Muslim revolutionary movements. There is a shared totalitarian vision, he says, between Nazis and today's radical Islamists, which poses a threat to Western culture and to democracy.
"You know, I'm non-Jewish. I'm even non-religious. So I really have no love affair with Israel. And I of course criticize what Israel's government sometimes does.
But I think that the threat of Islamism is comparable to the threat National Socialism posed some decades ago. And it's a threat against the whole Western culture. I would like to defend this culture for the sake of my kids, my own children, against this kind of regressive revolution, against this kind of totalitarianism, which you see today again. And therefore, I have to defend Israel, not for other reasons."
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In his book Jihad and Jew Hatred, German scholar Matthias Künztel looks at the historical links between fascism and Muslim revolutionary movements. There is a shared totalitarian vision, he says, between Nazis and today's radical Islamists, which poses a threat to Western culture and to democracy.
"You know, I'm non-Jewish. I'm even non-religious. So I really have no love affair with Israel. And I of course criticize what Israel's government sometimes does.
But I think that the threat of Islamism is comparable to the threat National Socialism posed some decades ago. And it's a threat against the whole Western culture. I would like to defend this culture for the sake of my kids, my own children, against this kind of regressive revolution, against this kind of totalitarianism, which you see today again. And therefore, I have to defend Israel, not for other reasons."
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Broadcast on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Web site.
Transcript
MATTHIAS KÜNTZEL:
You know, I'm non-Jewish. I'm even non-religious. So I really have no love affair with Israel. And I of course criticize what Israel's government sometimes does.
But I think that the threat of Islamism is comparable to the threat National Socialism posed some decades ago. And it's a threat against the whole Western culture. I would like to defend this culture for the sake of my kids, my own children, against this kind of regressive revolution, against this kind of totalitarianism, which you see today again. And therefore, I have to defend Israel, not for other reasons.
DANIEL GREENE:
In his book Jihad and Jew Hatred, German scholar Matthias Künztel looks at the historical links between fascism and Muslim revolutionary movements. There is a shared totalitarian vision, he says, between Nazis and today's radical Islamists, which poses a threat to Western culture and to d...
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