15/08/2026
🇬🇧 LONDON BOOKSHOP ACCUSED OF GIVING HITLER’S MEIN KAMPF “DANGEROUS NEW POWER”
Aafaq Bookstore on London’s Edgware Road has been found selling Arabic-language copies of Adolf Hi**er’s Mein Kampf, reportedly displayed with a photograph of Hi**er giving the N**i salute.
The book’s ideological importance is beyond dispute: Mein Kampf laid out central elements of Hi**er’s National Socialist worldview and foreshadowed the genocidal policies and wars that followed. More than 12 million copies were sold before the fall of N**i Germany.
The issue, argues writer Robin Schäfer, is not simply whether the book is available—but how it is presented and contextualized.
Schäfer writes:
“There is a difference between preserving a poisonous historical text and peddling it.”
He points to Germany’s Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), which produced a critical edition with more than 3,500 scholarly annotations designed to expose Hi**er’s distortions and place his claims against historical research.
Schäfer argues:
“Availability is not the same as endorsement.”
But he warns that an unannotated translation, particularly one marketed with Hi**er’s image in a N**i salute, can strip away the historical context and potentially turn the text into a vehicle for modern propaganda.
“There is no scholarly reason to reproduce Hi**er’s image in mid-salute.”
And his conclusion is blunt:
“It is imperative to deconstruct Hi**er and his propaganda thoroughly, thereby depriving this dangerous book of its symbolic power. Aafaq Bookstore has done the opposite.”
The debate is not about banning history. It is about whether a text responsible for helping articulate a genocidal ideology should be presented as serious historical material—or marketed with the very imagery that helped create its cultic power.
Mein Kampf in Arabic is precisely what they teach in the Muslim countries, and this is why it’s now the Islamic Republic of Britain.
