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Yep, The Commonwealth suffered great losses in WW1 too:

 

 

Honour our Muslim soldiers

 

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims fought for Britain in the first world war. We must remember them and mark their contribution

 

 

 

Of the 1.3 million Indians who constituted the volunteer force during the first world war, approximately 400,000 were Muslims. Corrigan says:

 

The Punjabi Musselman [Muslim] was regarded as the backbone of the old Indian army, and constituted about a third of the British Indian army. Known for their reliability, they were steady men who could be depended on to carry out any task at hand.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/05/muslim-soldiers-first-world-war

 

Tens of thousands of Muslims also volunteered to fight for Hitler and the Nazis:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t3ybj

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The daftest thing i have ever read on this forum. Where exactly is this integration?

 

All around you, where the vast majority of muslims lead peaceful, hard-working lives, marry white British people and bother nobody.

 

That's why the UK has a reputation for calm community relations and very little racial tension.

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Hundreds of thousands of Christians also volunteered to fight for Hitler.

 

Neither of which fact proves anything at all about Muslims or christians.

 

This thread is about Muslims in the armed forces, it doesn't specify which armed forces, I'm merely pointing out that some Muslims joined the German armed forces in WW2 as well as the British.

 

Anyway, if it correct to say that it "says nothing" about Muslims that many of them joined Hitler, it should therefore also say nothing about Muslims that they fought for us.

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on a tgread about British Muslims joining the British Army are you suggesting they are doing it to support Hitler? :rolleyes:

no hes purely trying to steer the thread away from plenty joining OUR armed forces and some joining the nazis, various different types of people DID join the nazis before, during and after the war tho for whatever reasons

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