Nazi Regime: Jihad and Struggle

nazi regime: To the surprise of many, the personal, inner/spiritual struggle is the greater and more important jihad, according to Hamilton Spectator. Similarly, when we hear the word Holocaust the immediate conditioned thought reaction of most people is six million Jews. Yet there are, in fact, two types of jihad in Islam the greater jihad, and the lesser jihad jihad itself translates as struggle . There's the inner/spiritual jihad to fight against one's own nafs self-glorification, ego, vain/illicit desires of the soul and then there's the military jihad the struggle or fight always defensive against regimes or groups that oppress innocent people or threaten one's community. Yet most of us know that Jews were not the exclusive victims of the heinous Nazi regime. It is healthy and important to remind ourselves that the world has witnessed other significant genocides of innocents around the world such as those carried out against Cambodians, Armenians, Bosnians, Burundi, Rwandans, the Rohingya, Darfur and more. Indeed, the Nazis also murdered as many as 11 million non-Jewish people considered subhuman or undesirable including Ukrainians 5.5-7 million Russians 5.3 million Poles at least three million Romanis 200,000 to 500,000 LGBT persons tens of thousands and even mentally or physically disabled persons 70,000-250,000 . Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses and other people with differing political views were also systematically murdered. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.