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Alfred Rosenberg

capacities are tailored to it. That is why the Jew is always and
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everywhere the bearer of the idea of destruction. Now, the energy
of the Jew is a specifically Semitic character-trait. The Semites have
been able to impose the fanaticism following from this trait on
peoples subjugated or ensnared by words or the sword. Under the
power of its sterile but enormous will the character of peoples has
been changed.
This inheritance ofthe Jewish blood has already many times
passed through countries like a tempest. In Arabia, called to action
by Mohammed, it subjugated Persia and forced it with brutal violence
under its rule; casting everything before it to the ground, it moved
to North Africa, crossed the columns of Hercules, swept through
Spain and finally came up against a conclusive counter-action. On
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the day when Charles Mattel gained victory in South France, the
first battle against religious fanaticism, religious intolerance was
won, even if, of course, only in the political field. Forced into retreat,
Islam turned to the south. All along the edge of the Sahara it slowly,
and meeting increasingly stronger resistance, subjugated one tribe
after another to itself. And if one wonders how this Semitic will has
operated, let us hear the leader of the German Inner-Africa research
expedition, Leo Frobenius. 427 After Islam was strongly hit militarily,
it could no longer storm violently "but it stealt in the slippers of a
sedate mercantile life into the backdoors of the palaces of Sudan".
For a long while one believed the Arabic writers, sawArabic history
"through the grey spectacles ofIslam" and considered it as something
disseminating culture. But that is not the case. "Islam has, all over
Sudan, propped itself on older cultures", says the above-mentioned
scholar.
The representatives of Islam conquered countries with little
political power by storming, the ones with strong life-will however
following the old tried recipe "through the path of peace", that is,
they sowed conflict and discord between dynasties. At one time
they supported one and at another another in order to finally plant
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[Charles Martel ("the Hammer") (686-741) was a Frankish general famous for
his victory against the Moors in the Battle of Tours (732).]
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UndAfrika sprach [3 vols., 1912-13]. [Leo Frobenius (1 873-1 938) was a Prussian
ethnographer who specialised in African and prehistoric culture].
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