Is the Enemy of Our Enemy Our Friend?

[Maelstrom]

I've pomdered this question myself for some time and come to the following conclusion:

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, but rather a close (business) associate. :p

[Elysium]

NONSENSE. This philosophy that Muslims are a "lesser evil" is unfounded. Islam is an expansionist religion by definition. Read the Qu'ran and you'll see it for yourself. Islam means submission. The Muslims want to submit the "unbelievers", they believe in Jihad. The mosques are signs of their domination in our countries.

No. If you fight Muslims, Jews will further divide you and will destroy you one at a time. If we both fought against Jews (Bankers, Elite, etc.), they would no doubt lose. Then we can settle our disputes in an environment without intervention from incredibly clever elites.

[Ossi]

No. If you fight Muslims, Jews will further divide you and will destroy you one at a time. If we both fought against Jews (Bankers, Elite, etc.), they would no doubt lose. Then we can settle our disputes in an environment without intervention from incredibly clever elites.

Naivity at its best. Making any kind of alliance with the Muslims would mean submission. i.e. accepting their kind in our countries, granting them more "rights". The Muslims in this city scare away and rape our women. Have you seen the Muslims in Europe rallying and threatening us with holocausts? Germans shouldn't ally themselves with such scum, we have enough of them in our country, we need LESS, not MORE.

[Dagna]

No. If you fight Muslims, Jews will further divide you and will destroy you one at a time. If we both fought against Jews (Bankers, Elite, etc.), they would no doubt lose. Then we can settle our disputes in an environment without intervention from incredibly clever elites.

The Muslims have literally terrorized America. Do you suggest we ally with the people who caused this? And do not tell me it is a Jewish conspiracy.

[Gorm the Old]

Islam is not a "lesser evil" than ANYTHING. Ossi has just repeated what I have said so often that I sometimes wonder if anybody is out there. ISLAM IS THE ENEMY, not only of Christianity and Western culture, but of EVERY other culture and EVERY other religion.

Don't believe me. Don't believe Ossi. READ THE QUR'AN ! It's all there. If you're not a Muslim, you're an infidel and every able-bodied male Muslim is obliged to make war on you.

Don't let any Muslim apologist tell you that jihad is a personal struggle against heresy and sin. That's NOT what the Qur'an says ! JIHAD IS WAR ON INFIDELS. These days, Islam has found an insidious alternative to conquest by arms: conquest by immigration.

Even if Judaism were an enemy [which I am not convinced that it is] which would be the lesser evil ? There are about 100 times as many Muslims as Jews in the world. Islam is expanding rapidly, Judaism is not. Which would be the real threat ?

[Moody]

Simple question - but a simple answer? We all know this phrase: "The enemy of your enemy is your friend". But is this statement correct? Your opinions please!

Whilst I believe this to be correct only in some cases, as I said above, we must also look at the other [mirror] formula: "The friend of my enemy is my enemy."

This is an even more difficult one, as we do not want to 'divide our friends and unite our enemies', so to speak, as our enemies often have friends in common with us and vice versa.

I am also minded of that other maxim: 'keep your friends close but your enemies even closer'.

[Kurt Steiner]

An enemy who wants to make common cause against a greater enemy is welcome as long as his blood debt is the same or greater than that of my own tribe.
The prime element of maneuver is to strike the weakened enemy at his vulnerable time and place (Center of gravity that we have learned in our temporary alliance)

Before Germany invaded Poland, Poland was a dictatotrship that mudered inncocent German citizens. Its true that they owed a blood debt. But it is also true that the planned Soviet conquest of Europe would have to traverse Poland on its way to Germany. The goal then was a temporary alliance with Poland until the war with the USSR was won.
Germany should have courted the Poles. Assisted them in developing a 2 million-man army. Help them with their Eastern defenses, minefields and antitank fronts.
Then when the reds attacked, the Soviet fronts that reached Germany would be greatly weakened and Germany's 100 Panzer Divisions and 200 semi-motorized infantry divisions would strike the enemy with an onslaught that would cause the fall of Moscow AND THE ERADICATION OF sTALINISM.
Of course, there are other possibilities. It was strategically wrong to give the Soviets a border with Germany.

[Drottin]

An enemy of your enemy is not a friend. Be careful with these, they can quickly turn against you also. Always keep an eye on them.

[Lothar]

I disagree. Jews, or whatever you would like to call those in control, have encouraged them to come to our lands so that we are both distracted. Divide and conquer.

In my studies of religions, a religious person usually does not do anything to promote their own destruction.
Islam is a religion bent on the absolute destruction of the Jews.
as this Hadith will show
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour(last day) will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

Volume 4, Book 56, Number 791:

Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:

I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "The Jews will fight with you, and you will be given victory over them so that a stone will say, 'O Muslim! There is a Jew behind me; kill him!' "

I find it hard to believe that even the elite jews would want to manipulate this two edged sword (Islam), as on the one edge, yes they may destroy European culture. The other edge insures there own destruction as well.

[Halfr]

Completely contextual. But generally: No.