Do Muslims Get Their Info on Franco from Harun Yahya?

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I ask, because Mehdi Hasan pretended "Fascism by definition is violence" ...

Another of the Fascist oppressors who turned the 20th century into a lake of blood was Franco. He organised the "Falange" movement in Spain with the support of the Darwinist Fascists Hitler and Mussolini, and brought great suffering and oppression to the people of Spain. Franco dragged his people into civil war, turning brother against brother, father against son.

During the Spanish Civil War an average of 250 people a day were killed in Madrid, 150 in Barcelona, and 80 in Seville. Some executions were carried out by driving nails into peoples' heads. Pitiless massacres took place all over the country. In a little mountain village to the north of Madrid, for example, 31 villagers were arrested because they had not voted for Franco, and of these 13 were taken out of the village by lorry and killed by the side of the road. The Fascists entered a town with a population of 11,000 near Seville and killed more than 300 people. As a result of the violent events which went on in this way some 800,000 people were killed in the civil war, and 200,000 more executed by order of Franco. Millions were injured or crippled.

Harun Yahya: The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity
Part 3: The Terrible Alliance Between Darwin and Fascism
https://www.harunyahya.info/en/books/the-disasters-darwinism-brought-to-humanity/chapter/part-3-the-terrible-alliance-between-darwin-and-fascism

This is somewhat parodic.

Another of the Fascist oppressors who turned the 20th century into a lake of blood was Franco.

Probably some ETA members would consider him as an oppressor, but they did some killing too, you know ...

He organised the "Falange" movement in Spain with the support of the Darwinist Fascists Hitler and Mussolini, and brought great suffering and oppression to the people of Spain.

The Falange was founded originally by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, and they were mainly acting like street fighters and social workers. It soon joined JONS (Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista) by fusion into Falange Española de las JONS. At this point, Franco was not the least involved, and neither were his allies Hitler or Mussolini, in fact, while they may have admired parts of their programmes, and the courage of street fighters, they were hardly all Darwinists. Onésimo Redondo Ortega (one founder of JONS) was member of Asociación Católica de Propagandistas. Ramiro Ledesma, cofounder of JONS, was Agnostic, so probably Darwinist but not hardliner. José Antonio Primo de Rivera founder of the original Falange Española and leader of the joined Falange Española de las JONS was again a Catholic. After the reds assassinated him, he was succeeded by Manuel Hedilla ... who later opposed Franco. Part time as an Anarco-Syndicalist.

and brought great suffering and oppression to the people of Spain.

Opinions differ on this.

Franco dragged his people into civil war, turning brother against brother, father against son.

Or cousin against cousin? His own cousin was aviator on the Republican side. But seriously, no, he didn't. A civil war was already going on. Capitalism had been implemented in a clumsy manner, not meaning that a neat manner makes Capitalism flawless, Catholics opposing this (namely Carlists) had been sidestepped and oppressed even, so the reaction against Capitalism came in the form of pretty brutal Socialist movements, who sometimes engaged in fighting the Church rather than opposing bad employers. In 1934, Franco repressed them pretty cruelly in the Asturias, after they had committed cruelties and sacrileges of their own. This was not the Civil War, Franco was obeying Gil Robles, a democratically elected president at this point. The problem is, as many were not voting, this cruelty made for the next election going to the left, and the left encouraged the violent rabble.

I would say that the left dragged Spain into a Civil war. Right before Franco and two other men joined hands to rise, they had killed the Monarchist politician Calvo Sotelo, and right after it, they killed José Antonio Primo de Rivera.

Gil Robles just after the murder of Calvo Sotelo made a speech claiming that peace had become impossible. He fled to France and from then to Portugal. As his father had been a Carlist (Enrique died when José-María was ten) he was involved in persuading Carlists to join with Franco. The cruelty of repression in the Asturias is probably partly due to the fact that neither the Navarrese heartland of the Carlist country nor his native city Salamanca were involved in industrialism, he was disconnected from industrial workers. University people, small business men, farmers, yes, but not industrial workers. Arguably not the homeless either.

During the Spanish Civil War an average of 250 people a day were killed in Madrid, 150 in Barcelona, and 80 in Seville. Some executions were carried out by driving nails into peoples' heads. Pitiless massacres took place all over the country.

Harun misses that Madrid, Barcelona and much of the country was in the hands of Franco's enemies. Madrid only opened its gates to Franco on April 1st 1939, which is the official end of the Spanish Civil war. Barcelona wasn't taken by Franco's troops until 26th of January the same year. The bloodbaths in Barcelona were mainly committed with Communist perpetrators and Anarchist victims. Seville however was under Queipo de Llano, one of the generals on the Franco side, and this since July 1936, apparently. Spanish wiki says 3000 to 6000 of the left were killed there, battle, assassinations, formalised repression all counted in one.

In a little mountain village to the north of Madrid, for example, 31 villagers were arrested because they had not voted for Franco, and of these 13 were taken out of the village by lorry and killed by the side of the road.

The toll of victims is credible, alas. But "because they had not voted for Franco," is nonsense, Franco wasn't holding elections during the Civil War.

As a result of the violent events which went on in this way some 800,000 people were killed in the civil war, and 200,000 more executed by order of Franco.

That executions went on after the Civil war is alas true. 200,000 isn't the worst number I've seen, but also not the lowest. That kind of thing stopped in 1947, 8 years after the official end of the war. As to 800,000 during the war ... Republicans lost 110,000 troops, Franco's side 90,000, the total losses are probably close to 500,000, of which pretty many were killed by the Azaña side (if not by his own regular troops, by for instance militiamen).

Some want to say the murder of Calvo Sotelo was a revenge for the murder of Lieutenant José del Castillo Sáenz de Tejada, on the other hand he was murdered in revenge for the incidents at the funeral of Anastasio de los Reyes, who himself had been assassinated ...

Anastasio de los Reyes, 14th of April, (1), people killed during his funeral, 16th of April, (2), José del Castillo, 12th of July, (3), Calvo Sotelo, 13th of July, (4). I think the statement at the basis for Franco's rising "the Republic has ceased to function" was pretty correct. Therefore, the idea that Franco plunged his country into Civil war because he wanted to do sth for "survival of the fittest"(or as a personal power grab, because "hey, it's nice to be in power") is simply nonsense.

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