ISIS hardly represents Hitler's image of a Nordic Master Race.
He would have considered them nothing more than sub human "Sand *******" and gone after them with the same zeal as he went after the Jews, the Slavs, and any others that did not meet his Ideal.
I don't think that's necessarily true. He didn't necessarily like them, but because they both hated the same people, he would have totally used them to his advantage and then disposed of them, IMO.
Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Among eastern religions, Hitler described religious leaders such as "
Confucius,
Buddha, and
Mohammed" as providers of "spiritual sustenance".[
citation needed] In speeches, Hitler made apparently warm references towards Muslim culture such as: "The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France".
[1]
A famous anecdote about
Adolf Hitler's perspectives towards
Islam and the
Arabs is recounted by
Albert Speer in his best-selling memoir,
Inside the Third Reich. Speer reports that "Hitler had been much impressed by a scrap of history he had learned from a delegation of distinguished Arabs."
[2] The delegation had speculated that the world would have become "Mohammedan" if the
Berbers and Arabs had won the
Battle of Tours in the 8th Century AD, and that the Germans would have become heirs to "a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and in subjugating all nations to that faith. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the German temperament."
[3] Speer then presents Hitler's own speculations on this subject:
Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate of the country. They could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire.
[4]
This exchange occurred when Hitler received
Saudi Arabian ruler
Ibn Saud’s special envoy, Khalid al-Hud al-Gargani.
[5] Earlier in this meeting Hitler noted that one of the three reasons why Germany had warm sympathies for the Arabs was:
… because we were jointly fighting the
Jews. This led him to discuss Palestine and conditions there, and he then stated that he himself would not rest until the last Jew had left Germany. Kalid al Hud observed that the
Prophet Mohammed … had acted the same way. He had driven the Jews out of
Arabia ….
[6]
Gilbert Achcar wryly observes that the Führer did not point out to his Arab visitors at that meeting that until then he had incited German Jews to emigrate to Palestine, and the Reich actively helped Zionist organizations get around British-imposed restrictions on Jewish immigration.
[7]
Hitler had told his military commanders in 1939, shortly before the start of the war:
We shall continue to make disturbances in the
Far East and in Arabia. Let us think as men and let us see in these peoples at best lacquered half-apes who are anxious to experience the lash.
[8][9]
