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Article: Muslims can learn from Germans: Church's failure to confront Hitler provides a lesson for moderates.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- October 24, 2001
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The history lesson that moderate Muslims and their clerics should heed goes back to the German Protestant church in the 1930s. And it is fairly simple:
While Adolf Hitler rose to power, the church failed to speak with enough prophetic voice against him and his expanding Nazism. In fact, some of the so-called popular German Christians movement saw no distinction between their faith and his national socialism.
Their acquiescence was of no small consequence, just as critics lament the failure of the Catholic Church to speak out sufficiently against Nazism. The German Christians movement was a source of power within Germany.
That authority was not ...