Post WW2 Germans had few anti-Nazi heroes to look to for inspiration.

There was Colonel Claus von Stauffenbergand the July Plotters. Their motive was that Hitler was bringing Germany to ruin and that the war could no longer be won. The outcome would have been the same, had they been successful- the end of Hitlerism and Nazism. Stauffenberg and his colleagues, including the famous Panzer General Irwin Rommel were executed (or in the case of Rommel, told to commit suicide) by the Nazi regime when the plot failed. These men were heroes and are held in high esteem by Germans today for good reason. There were not many others who took a stand as powerful as this. A young college girl and her friends at the University of Munich took a strong stand against the Nazi regime, too.

Sophie Scholl a young college student, her brother a private in the German army, Scholl’s philosophy professor and several others all understand the evil that was Nazism. They formed a loose organization called the White Rose which pamphletted Munich with anti-Nazi messages. They paid a heavy price, all of them.

At the age of 21, Sophie Scholl was executed by the People’s Court in Germany on Feb. 22, 1943, during the Holocaust, for her involvement in The White Rose, an organization that was secretly writing pamphlets calling for the end of the war and strongly denouncing the inhuman acts of the Nazis. (source)

The bravery of these young people cannot be overstated. Germans rightfully remember these few who understood the evil path that their country had taken and actively worked to educate the people to the threat. Read the White Rose pamphlets!

The three members of the White Rose group appeared before the People’s Court judge, Roland Friesler, on 20th February. Found guilty of sedition they were executed by guillotine a few hours later. Just before he was executed Hans Scholl shouted out: “Long live freedom!”

The White Rose is recognized by all lovers of freedom and justice for the heroes that they were. “Two hundred German schools are named for the Scholls, and politicians such as former New York Mayor David Dinkins invoke their names, and visit their graves.” (source)

Sophie Scholls sister Inge Aicher-Scoll wrote: “Perhaps genuine heroism lies in deciding to stubbornly defend the everyday things, the mundane and the immediate.” (source, above)

Today Europe faces a growing threat from an old enemy – totalitarianism and intolerance. Because these new forces of cruelty, violence, hatred, and warfare use the mantle of “religious freedom” to mask the true nature of their purposes Europe stand upon the abyss again. There are new Sophie Scholl’s and new White Roses but across the continent they are maligned as hatemongers and racists. (Memories of the White Rose.)

Why is it acceptable to embrace those who fought the Nazis but it is fashionable to heap scorn and criticism on those who criticise the cruelties, violence, hatred, intolerance, and anti-democratic and anti-freedom mission of political Islam? Why is one fighter against totalitarian cruelty and injustice embraced while people with the same message today are ignored and vilified?

One doesn’t have to look long or far to see the actions of Islam and the cruelties of its adherents as they implement jihad across the world against unbelievers everywhere. The Koran is clear, Islam is superior to all other religions; no other religions can be allowed to exist; Islam is at war (jihad) against all unbelievers everywhere forever until that time when peace can come – when all the world is under Islam.

Muslims are not allowed to befriend unbelievers, unbelievers cannot be trusted. Islam is more important to adherents than ties of family, nation, culture or friendship. This is the doctrine of Islam. Koran 9:23 states, “Oh, believers, do not make friends of your fathers or your brothers if they love unbelief above Islam. He who makes them his friends does wrong.” Even family ties must be broken for Islam. Islam is about Islam, and nothing else. This is the message of warning that the Sophie Scholls of today deliver; they are not embraced today just as Sophie Scholl herself was not embraced during her trials and tribulations.

Mohammed says in the Koran that he is nothing but a messenger and a warner. He warns of the horrors that face those who do not embrace Islam, and those who criticize it or stand in its way. The Koran mentions “the fire” for unbelievers again and again. Many Islamists prefer not to wait for the afterlife to implement these directives.

We see Europe being overrun by Islam and now in the United States we face the same menace of totalitarian ideology that Sophie Scholl was unfortunate enough to be living with. Adherents of political Islam take the doctrine very, very seriously. Jihad is incumbent upon all believers. All unbelievers must be brought under the authority of Islam through conquest, conversion, or death. There is no alternative. We have seen this absolutist unforgiving ideology before. Sophie Scholl fought one of its forms.

Today Sophie Scholl and the ideas of bravery and freedom that she lived by are abandoned. Even with a recent movieabout Claus Von Stauffenberg, the ideals that prompted his bravery and sacrifice are abandoned in the wider society and culture. Those who criticize Islam are rejected and abused as haters; even those political leaders who criticize Islam and speak the truth are denied access to England (a country writhing in conflict with political Islam).

Totalitarian thinkers and political leaders wearing a military or clerical uniform are very similar. They use the weaknesses of their target societies and cultures against them. This is exactly what Islam does every day. The news of sharia killings and cruelty daily do not sway people, the hate speech from Islamic pulpits daily does not sway people; the violence and terror attacks do not sway; the anti-democratic, anti-Jew, anti-Christian, anti-Gay, anti-Freedom hate speech does nothing to sway those who are distracted.

The distractions and challenges of daily life, of the embrace of careerism, the abandonment of community, the severing of ties for monetary necessity or advancement – these are the tools of our own making with which political Islam makes advances across the West and in the United States. Our Founders knew the dangers of Islam, we ignore them; our great philosophers knew the dangers of Islam, we ignore them, too.

And now the new White Roses are forming across the country and across the world to educate the people about the cruelties of Islam, the designs of conquest and intolerance and the purposes of Islam as laid out in the doctrine clear as day and as implemented every day by adherents of this cruel, expansionist, anti-Freedom ideology of fear and violence, intolerance and hate.

“Approximately 51% of the Medinan Koran text is about jihad and verbal threats directed against Jews, non-Mulsims, and hypocrites (half-hearted Muslims). The Koran of Medina is 10.8% anti-Jewish in nature. By comparison, only 6.8% of the text (measured by paragraphs) of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf is anti-Jewish.” (An Abridged Koran, Bill Warner, PoliticalIslam.com)

Those who claim reverence for the memory of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose yet condemn those who speak about the doctrine of Islam are confused. The mission is the same, the purpose is the same; to educate the people about an ideology that is essentially and fundamentally contrary to human freedom.

Many do not know Sophie Scholl, but they will. She is the model of educating Americans about the great threat that political Islam represents.

Sophie Scholl had the misfortune of living in Germany after it had already been overrun. Her bravery and that of her colleagues in the White Rose is all the more extraordinary because their likelihood for success was so slim, and the likelihood of disaster to them and their cause so great.

We in the United States have the luxury of speaking out as many in Europe and across the world do not, we can speak out about political Islam. This threat to all unbelievers and our democratic concepts of government and society comes directly from the doctrine of Islam. The forces of totalitarianism use our openness, our ignorance, our multi-cultural fantasies to undermine our societies and advance their goals. They are simply doing what they are commanded to do in the doctrine of Islam. Our ignorance must not be our downfall. We stand on a precipice, and must not be pushed forward to fall. We have heroes to look to for their bravery and their message. (Read “The White Rose: Lessons in Dissent”)

Richard Hansen sums up the story of The White Rose:

“In the vogue words of the time, the Scholls and their friends represented the “other” Germany, the land of poets and thinkers, in contrast to the Germany that was reverting to barbarism and trying to take the world with it. What they were and what they did would have been “other” in any society at any time. What they did transcended the easy division of good-German/bad-German and lifted them above the nationalism of time–bound events. Their actions made them enduring symbols of the struggle, universal and timeless, for the freedom of the human spirit wherever and whenever it is threatened. “

The message of Sophie Scholl is clear – we must fight totalitarianism in whatever garb it might be wearing. The news of the day is about the advance of Islam, the actions of Islamists implementing the doctrine, cruelty, violence, intolerance, hatred, and war. This is a message we must reject; we must embrace Sophie Scholl wherever we find her.