Information minister Tifatul Sembiring and his Adolf Hitler quoting tweet.
Part the First of a series on the travails of the Minister for Truth Information, Tifatul Sembiring of the Islamist Justice Party/Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS).
On April 8th Tifatul posted a ‘wise saying’ tweet on his very active Twitter account, from Adolf Hitler: twitter
Pertemuan antara dua anak manusia, kemudian keduanya saling melengkapi, ini adalah sebuah keajaiban ~ adolf hitler
which local media are translating as:
the union between two children, when both of them complete each other, this is magic – Adolf Hitler
A prize for anyone who can find out what Hitler actually said here, i.e. where it is sourced from.
Puzzled ‘followers’ of Tifatul’s Twitter account soon questioned the minister over the tweet, causing Tifatul to hastily add:
Penulis sejarah tentang hitler, mengutip pidatonya, bukan berarti ybs pendukung nazi. [writing about the history of Hitler, quoting his speeches, doesn’t mean a person is a Nazi]
I thought that you would pick this up. In my view there is a difference. It is quite probable that the editors of this encyclopedia quite knowingly aggrandized the role of the mufti. I still see no reason why the innocent reporters on Balinese marriage customs would knowingly distort the facts.
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ET said:
Yes, the idea was seriously considered, as was the idea of transferring European Jews to Madagascar. In fact, there was an agreement promulgated in 1933, called the Haavara Agreement, which was supposed to be the first step towards the total transfer of Jews to Palestine, but was really a way to placate Britain and maneuver in the uncertain political environment of the 1930s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=395105
Priorities changed once Nazi Germany started waging, and winning, battles all over Europe.
It’s also clear from biographies of the Mufti that he was unaware of this. He was, to put it simply, pro-German because he was anti-British and wanted a patron for his exclusivist vision of Palestine.