Wednesday May 25, 2011, a group of Egyptians, led by founding member Emad Abdel Sattar proclaimed the establishment of “a contemporary frame of reference” Nazi Party.1
Sattar reportedly stated2 that the party, whose founding deputy is a former military official, would bring together prominent figures from Egyptian society, and vest all powers in a “carefully selected” president.
The Egyptian Leftist publication Al-Masry Al-Youm, at its English website, further contends3 the Nazi party operated clandestinely during the Mubarak regime which had prevented party leaders from carrying out their activities in the open. Two Facebook® pages which appeared recently under the title of “The Egyptian Nazi Party,” may confirm the party's public emergence since Mubarak was deposed.4During October 2008, a report (summarized in translation5) by the Hamburg intelligence service —the Office for the Protection of the Constitution [Verfassungsschutz]—stressed the hostility of the neoNazi North German Action Office toward “Anti- Islamification” efforts in Cologne.6 At the North German Action Office's [Aktionsbüro Norddeutschland] “campaigns” page website, links are featured with titles such as “National Socialists in Lower Saxony,” “Free! Social! National!” and “May 1 —Day of Struggle for National Socialism.”7 The Hamburg domestic intelligence report noted the neoNazi group's repeated allusions—commonplace in Nazi “analyses”—to the American “East Coast,” which are meant to characterize “Jewish” domination of America and, by extension, the world.8 And in a statement published on its website September 25, 2008, five days after an “Anti-Islamification Congress” was banned by Cologne municipal authorities, the North German Action Office elucidated its solidarity with the global jihad:
Inasmuch as it is a determined opponent of the western- plutocratic one-world policy, we regard Islam, globally considered, as an ally against the mammonistic dominance of the American east coast. The freedom of nations is not threatened by Islam, but rather by the imperialism of the USA and its vassals from Jerusalem to Berlin.9
These recent examples—the open emergence of an Arab Muslim Nazi party in “Arab Spring” Egypt,10 and Islamophilic neo-Nazis in Germany itself11— reflect concordances between Nazism and jihadism over an historical continuum evident since the advent of the Nazi movement. This nexus was already apparent in Hitler's own observations from 1926, elaborated upon over the following decades by both the Nazi leader and other key Nazi officials and ideologues. Not surprisingly, there are two predominant, recurring themes in this discourse: jihad as total war12 and the annihilationist jihad against the Jews.13