Civilization of Hypocrisy: If Hitler Had Won, Would Good and Evil Be Different?

The genocide in Gaza is not only a tragedy of staggering proportions; it is also a revelation. It is a mirror held up to the world, exposing hypocrisy, stripping away illusions, and laying bare an empire of lies.

Gaza is more than a place of suffering. It is a furqan (criterion) and a furnace that separates iron from ore and truth from falsehood. In Gaza, masks have fallen, pretenses have collapsed, and the two-facedness of the institutionalized West has been exposed in its rawest and most unmistakable form.

Israel, the perpetrator of this genocide, is no independent actor. It is the illegitimate geopolitical brainchild of the West, conceived and sustained as a proxy to serve imperial interests. To deal with Gaza is to deal with Israel, and to deal with Israel is to confront the West itself.

The Gaza genocide and the institutionalized West-Israel axis of evil

The genocide is not merely Israel's campaign-it is the West's project, carried out through weapons shipments, diplomatic cover, media manipulation, and psychological warfare. The complicity of the West is evident in international institutions. The UN, NATO-aligned structures, international courts under Western influence, global media networks, and other bodies are bent and twisted under Western inducements. They are used not to uphold justice but to shield injustice, not to protect the oppressed but to protect the oppressor.

The West portrays the genocide as Israel's "right to defend itself," as a fight against terrorism. These claims, however, are grotesque inversions of reality, laughable to anyone who sees the facts, absurd to anyone who still believes in truth.

Israel does not admit its crimes because it is the perpetrator. But the West, self-proclaimed champion of justice, equality, and humanity, stands revealed as a liar. Its overall culture is hypocrisy. Its institutions are hypocrisy. Its narratives are hypocrisy. Whatever it says is either an outright lie or a distorted manipulation of truth.

Israel's objectives are the West's objectives. They are two faces of the same consortium of oppressive forces. This means the West cannot be trusted, for it has never learned to coexist with truth. Its culture is soaked in deception, its civilization built on lies, its history written in blood.

Colonization itself was a product of lies and crimes. What the West called "exploration" and "discovery" was in fact genocide and enslavement. In the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, entire societies were annihilated. The numbers of murdered, enslaved, and executed are overwhelming, beyond comprehension.

Genocide wrapped in the language of civilization and Christianization

Western civilization is drenched in blood. Aboriginal nations perished, Indigenous peoples were erased, and yet Western narratives present these horrors as entertainment and a normal flow of evolutionary history in the vein of the "Wild West," the civilizing mission, and the empire's glory.

Genocide was wrapped in the language of civilization and Christianization, cloaked in the rhetoric of progress and enlightenment. No wonder this civilization brought us world wars and catastrophes that pushed humanity to the brink of self-destruction.

It comes as no surprise that such an unholy blend of vision and mission found a faithful ally in the Church and in Christianity itself-an institution established and sustained on inaccuracies and distortions about the life and teachings of Prophet 'Isa (peace be upon him). The suitor found his match.

Nor is it hardly astonishing that the Western civilizational experiment, failing as it is, proudly parades itself as the extension of the Roman legacy. Yet that legacy was among the most brutal, violent, and savage civilizations the earth has ever known.

When Rome embraced Christianity, it did not purify itself; it Romanized and weaponized faith. The Church became the empire's spiritual arm, sanctifying conquest, blessing crusades, legitimizing occupation, and baptizing oppression as civilization. The message of Jesus, centering on humility, justice, and truth, was reshaped into a banner for empire. The Roman sword became the cross, and the cross became the empire's emblem.

Thus, Western civilization inherited Rome's savagery and cloaked it in the language of salvation. Colonization was reframed as Christianization, genocide as conversion, oppression as enlightenment. The brutality of Rome lived on, transfigured into Christendom, and later into the modern West. Gaza today, like the Americas yesterday, like Africa, Asia, and Australia, suffers under the same logic.

The West never recognized truth, nor does it today. Instead, it helped establish the doctrine that truth is not an independent reality to be discovered, but a construct shaped by the ambitions of the powerful. In this manner, truth was displaced by strength, and history became the narrative of winners. Additionally, a license to do whatever one wanted - even a license to kill - has been given.

Napoleon himself admitted: history is a set of lies agreed upon. Consequently, what we are told about colonization, World War I, and World War II is not truth but a Western narrative that is West‑centric and self‑serving, tending to marginalize or even erase the experiences, contributions, and sufferings of much of humanity. It stands to reason, therefore, that what we are told is anything but true. One should, in the end, trust nobody.

Gaza unveils the empire of lies

Gaza, therefore, is not only a calamity but a disclosure. It unmasks the empire of lies, reminding us that truth is not theirs to define, but ours to uphold. They believe that by acquiring political and military power-by trampling over millions of innocent lives-they can define collective memory. We must prove them wrong.

Melting guises away and exposing the iron of reality, Gaza shows us that the West has always lied, always manipulated, always projected itself as the center of the universe. It furthermore shows that the West has been, and continues to be, a bully, exploiting vulnerabilities to consolidate power. It flourishes only where fear reigns, confusion clouds, and uncertainty corrodes, ensuring that the machinery producing those worldwide is endless.

The genocide in Gaza is not an isolated event. It is part of a long continuum of Western brutality. The same dark rationale that erased Indigenous peoples now erases Palestinians. The same hypocrisy that justified slavery now justifies occupation. The same lies that built empires now sustain the illegitimate Zionist Israel. Gaza is the latest chapter in a book written in blood.

If Gaza is criterion, then it demands a response. It demands that we reject the empire of lies and affirm the truth of the oppressed. It demands that we see through the masks of civilization and recognize the double standards of the West. It demands that we remember history not as the victors wrote it, but as the victims lived it.

Gaza teaches us that truth is not relative, not contingent, not negotiable. Truth is iron, forged in the purifying flame of suffering, enduring beyond dishonesties. Gaza is the voice of the oppressed, the cry of the silenced, the testimony of history.

It is the reminder that justice cannot be buried, that humanity cannot be erased, and that truth cannot be destroyed. Whether in this life or the next, justice will be exacted in full. Prepare yourselves, criminals. The honest sections and uncorrupted voices of humanity must proclaim that the emperor wears no clothes. The sooner they do that the better.

What if Hitler had won?

History, as the saying goes, is written by the victors. That principle alone explains why Adolf Hitler became the singular incarnation of evil, while other imperialist powers-Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia-escaped the same level of condemnation despite committing crimes that in some cases were equal to or even greater than his.

One wonders: what if Hitler had won? What if the losers had become the winners? Certainly, the heroes and villains of our official narratives would be different. The canon of history would be rewritten, and the moral compass of the world would point in another direction.

Hitler was evil, of course, but he was not unique. He was not the first to dream of empire, nor the first to enslave, nor the first to annihilate. He wanted a piece of the imperial cake, but wherever he looked, the lands were already taken-by Britain, by France, by Belgium, by Spain, by Portugal, by the Netherlands, by Italy, by Russia.

His adversaries had already carved up the world. Hitler did not invent anything new; he simply twisted the imperial project inward, deciding that if he could not conquer their colonies, he would conquer them in Europe itself. By controlling Europe, he reasoned, he would control the world, since the world was already occupied by his rivals. Some will interpret this as a shrewd maneuver; others will deem it an act of genius.

Hitler simply emerged as the most malignant face of the same demonic circle that Europe had long sustained. In no way was he an anomaly. If aliens were asked to weigh Hitler against the rest, their judgments-untainted by human bias-would shock expectations.

Hitler's greatest "crime," beyond the atrocities he committed, was that he lost. Since he lost, he was denied the pen of history. He became the sole villain, the quintessence of wickedness and sin, the scapegoat for everything before and after. Hating him became the incarnation of goodness, the ritual of moral cleansing.

But this was a farce, a hypocrisy, a game. For the same West that condemned Hitler had itself committed genocides. The numbers are staggering-millions upon millions killed, enslaved, erased. However, these crimes were never condemned with the same fervor, owing to the victims being not Europeans but nameless Africans, Asians, South Americans, Aboriginal peoples.

Illustrative cases of Western atrocities comparable to Hitler's

For example, Belgium's Congo rule killed between 1.2 and 10 million people, France's colonization of Algeria caused between 825,000 and up to 10 million deaths, Spain's conquest of South America wiped out up to 90% of Indigenous populations (about 55-100 million), and British colonialism is estimated to have caused around 100 million deaths, especially in India. These figures are debated - it goes without saying, as a result of the perennial war of narratives - but they represent some of the largest human losses in colonial history.

By way of further exemplification, the transatlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most devastating forced migrations in human history. Historians estimate that approximately 12.5 million Africans were captured like animals - by the way, in the main swathes of Enlightenment thought, Black Africans were regarded either as equivalent to animals or as less than human, situated somewhere between humanity and animality - and were transported onto slave ships between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Of these, only about 10.7 million survived the journey across the Atlantic, meaning that roughly 1.8 million people died during the infamous Middle Passage alone.

Many scholars emphasize that the true human cost was far greater, since countless others died during slave raids, forced marches to the coast, imprisonment before embarkation, resistance suppression, disease, starvation, and the brutal conditions of slavery after arrival in the Americas. The trade involved several European colonial powers, particularly Portugal, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and later the United States, whose merchants and ships participated extensively in the Atlantic slave system.

As part of the barbaric disposition of the West, human zoos in Europe existed much later than many people realize. Their peak was during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when colonial powers such as Belgium, France, and others publicly exhibited Africans, Indigenous peoples, Asians, and other colonized populations as "exotic" spectacles for mass audiences. The idea-cum-phenomenon was normalized as a feature of public entertainment and pop culture.

The last widely recognized major human zoo in Europe was at the 1958 World Expo in Brussels, where Congolese people were displayed. What makes this particularly striking is that 1958 was as many as thirteen years after World War II and the defeat of Hitler. The abominable practice survived into an era many people associate with modern human rights and equality discourses.

The changes in Western attitudes and practices, it ought to be emphasized, did not occur because it was realized that what had been done was wrong, barbaric, immoral, and therefore had to be abandoned. No-never. The wolf may change his skin, but never his predatory instinct. These changes came to pass due to the growing global anti‑colonial movements, the shifting of public attitudes, and the steady discrediting of racist and bigoted ideologies.

It was not sudden moral awakening, but external pressures, that were responsible. The culprits did not want to change-they had to.

Modernity unmasks the Western soul

The West complained about Hitler only because his crimes touched them directly. They did not erupt in distant lands; they struck at the doorstep, staining the backyard itself. When the victims were "others," exploitation and oppression were not condemned.

The West only changed strategies; it never changed its nature. Evil did not end with Hitler. Instead, it morphed, it adapted, it found new faces.

As a few aspects of the new developments, Zionist Israel emerged, built on the ashes of Europe, perpetuating hostilities against Palestine and its neighbors. The hostilities did not diverge from the entrenched paradigms of Western conduct.

The imperialist United States moreover rose, inheriting the mantle of empire and continuing the patterns of exploitation and control long established by its predecessors.

The United States embodies the zenith-and in some ways the exhaustion-of Western evolution. Evil thus begot more evil, causing the culture of genocide to never stop. It merely shifted to new lands, new peoples, new strategies. Such was the familiar dynamic of newcomers entering the established order. It was the case of new kids on the block.

One of the most profound wrongdoings of the West was not only in its actions but in its manipulation of truth itself. It declared that truth is relative, subjective, contingent upon circumstances and interests. It embraced moral, religious, and epistemic relativism, turning truth into a construct, a tool of power. What the West celebrates as its crowning legacies-modernism and postmodernism anchored in secular humanism and value relativization-will prove to be humanity's undoing.

Accordingly, accountability vanished, shame disappeared, humanity was hollowed out. Truth became whatever the strong declared it to be. Might became right. Man became wolf to man. Survival of the fittest became the law of civilization. No values, no beauty, no authentic humanity-only insincerity, double standards, and relativism.

Even science, the supposed holy grail of the West, was not immune. Science in its essence may be objective, but its application was twisted to serve imperial goals. It morphed into scientism, a weapon in the Western arsenal, used to justify the misdeeds. Knowledge itself was colonized, epistemology maneuvered, truth deconstructed into fragments that served empire.

The military was always served first, the civil sphere second. What we now call progress was once weaponry, and what is weaponry today will be civilization's inheritance tomorrow. The greatest weapons of our age are not steel and fire, but science and technology. When the maxim "knowledge is power" is invoked, it is no metaphor; it is a literal truth.

What then must Muslims learn from all of this?

What follows are proposals Muslims may adopt to alter their fortune and destiny, in line with the divine principle: Allah changes not the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves (al-Ra'd 11).

First, to know and recognize the institutionalized West for what it is, not what it claims to be. It is never a sincere friend nor ally. Dealing with it is a two‑edged sword.

Second, to redefine relationships with the West, insisting on equality, not colonizer-colonized, not master-servant.

Third, to fight all forms of neocolonialism by every means necessary. That would be the first step towards authentic liberty, the foundation of all that follows.

Fourth, to revive the concept of jihad, beginning with "fighting" and deconstructing Western narratives about history. The main source-the West's carefully engineered and guarded media-must be dealt with first and foremost. Proven as fountainheads of fabrications and misinformation, they have forfeited all credibility. One wonders why they should remain in the midst of Muslims. The exceedingly little good they provide can easily be lived without. If truth be told, they have proven themselves the fiercest opponents of Islam and Muslims.

Fifth, to deconstruct Western knowledge itself, exposing its imperfections, its imperialist interests, its propensity to twist and control realities. The defective worldview underlying it must likewise be brought into the open, exposed, and rejected.

Sixth, to dismantle Western relativism, which has functioned as a tool for controlling minds and constructing false actualities as well as experiences. Western pop‑culture, steeped in moral decay and confusion, should be resisted, so that Muslim societies may be cleansed and safeguarded.

Living freely amid such an aggressively promoted and widely practiced impure culture is like living in a pool of dirt. No matter how diligently a person cleanses himself or attends to his well-being, he will inevitably be affected by his surroundings. The contamination may vary in degree, but complete immunity is impossible. We must remember the most fragile section of society: our youth. We owe it to them.

Seventh, to rewrite history, exposing its Western pollution. History must be written not in East- or West-centric terms, but in truth-centric ones. The axis of history must shift from geography to veracity.

Eighth, to fundamentally revamp educational systems, rejecting Western curricula that perpetuate imperial agendas. Decolonization of thought is imperative. Muslims must cultivate resilience and self‑determination, charting their own course. True guidance and impeccable standards cannot originate from human sources; they must be derived from the revealed Word of the Creator, the Sovereign of all existence.

Ninth, to write new textbooks, new references, new narratives grounded in Islamic truth and historical reality. Paradoxical though it may appear, the task entails the purification of libraries. The concept of freedom of thought and expression requires redefinition and a renewed meaning.

Tenth, to inaugurate an epistemological culture grounded in tawhidic underpinnings, serving as the seedbed of a civilizational renaissance. For Muslims, entrusted with the final revelation, this is to be comprehended as a sacred mandate rather than a privilege, and as an obligation rather than an option. The safeguarding of humanity's integrity and dignity is the objective, in harmony with the universal scope of the Islamic message.

Eleventh, to make Islam, Muslim histories, and Muslim civilizational penchants the core of this holistic regeneration. No matter its shape or spread, every branch must echo the essence and spirit of the root from which it springs.

Twelfth, to revive pride in being Muslim, to embrace Islamic identity without shame or fear, and to recognize that freedom is not only physical but as well spiritual, intellectual, economic, and cultural. To strive in Allah's name, for His sake alone, ought to be the highest end, binding the individual and the community in a single purpose.

Without a doubt, the task before Muslims is immense: to awaken, to deconstruct, to rebuild, to reclaim truth, to revive dignity, to lead with justice. For only truth can defeat the empire of lies, and only Islam furnishes the crucible where iron is purified from ore, humanity from hypocrisy, and justice from oppression.