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In other words, with a most perverse and distorted logic, the radi-
cal Hindu nationalist movement considered Hitler to be the “embodi-

ment of the Hindu god Vishnu”! This erroneous belief demonstrated the
partnership of Nazism and Hinduism, both being utterly irrational be-
liefs. A prominent aspect of this sinister partnership was anti-Semitism,
or in other words hostility towards the monotheistic Semites. Nazi anti-
Semitism targeted Jews and, to a lessor extent, Christians. Hindu anti-
Semitism targeted the Muslim population on the Indian subcontinent.
The writer continues:

“In 1939, she published A Warning to Hindus under the auspices of the Hindu
Mission. In the book, she scorned the Congress for its secular policies and said
there was no India but a Hindu one and warned the Hindus not to let the Muslims
overwhelm them.”
Such dangerous “calls” continued to be made throughout the
1930’s, leading to an ever growing radical Hindu bigotry that was to cul-
minate in the 1940’s with bitter consequences. With the independence of
India, followed by the formation of Pakistan as a separate state, the ten-
sions between Hindus and Muslims escalated with radical Hindu at-

tacks on Muslims causing the death of ten thousands of innocent people.
Hindu fanaticism went as far as targeting even moderate Hindus, and
culminated in the assassination by a fanatic Hindu of Mahatma Gandhi
who defended the view of Muslims and Hindus coexisting peacefully
side by side.
Looking at radical Hindu nationalism in the era before the Second
World War, it is possible to see anti-Semitism targeting Muslims and
much admiration for the Nazis. Savarkar, one of the leaders of the RSS,

compared the situation of Jews in Germany to the Situation of Muslims
in India, in his own eyes, in a speech on the 14th of October, 1938. He
was suggesting that it was appropriate to have Jews expelled from

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)