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Above is a picture was taken in 1943 of the Islamic Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini reviewing Bosnian-Muslim troops - a unit of the "Hanjar (Saber) Division" of the Waffen SS which he personally recruited for Hitler.
The islamic Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini was the notorious Nazi who mixed Nazi propaganda and Islam. He was wanted for war crimes in Bosnia by Yugoslavia. His mix of militant propagandizing Islam was an inspiration for both Yasser Arafat and Saddam Husein: He was also a close relative of Yasser Arafat and grandfather of the current Temple Mount Mufti.
Arab leaders and media outlets have long been addicted to comparing Israel to the Nazi regime, while at the same time demeaning the extent of the Holocaust. This obsession with defaming and antagonizing the Jewish people and state was on full display in recent months and reached a crescendo – or rather nadir – the day before Pope John Paul II visited the Temple Mount during his Holy Land pilgrimage. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, just hours before hosting the Pope, gave a series of press interviews, first telling the AP: "The figure of 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust is exaggerated and is used by the Israelis to gain international support… It’s not my problem. Muslims didn’t do anything on this issue. It’s the doing of Hitler who hated the Jews," asserted the acid-tongued Mufti – a figure appointed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "Six million? It was a lot less," Sabri repeated for an Italian newspaper. "It’s not my fault if Hitler hated the Jews. Anyway, they hate them just about everywhere."
The Mufti finished the day with Reuters, charging, "We denounce all massacres, but I don’t see why a certain massacre should be used for political gain and blackmail." However, as a matter of record, there was a well-documented, thriving relationship between the Arab/Muslim world and Nazi Germany, with perhaps the most significant figure linking Hitler to the Middle East being none other Sabri’s very own predecessor, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini.
Here is a brief review of that dark, overlooked chapter in history. The Führer’s Mufti: After World War I, the Great Powers of Europe jockeyed for influence in the Middle East’s oil fields and trade routes, with France and Britain holding mandates throughout most of the region. In the 1930s, the fascist regimes that arose in Italy and Germany sought greater stakes in the area, and began courting Arab leaders to revolt against their British and French custodians. Among their many willing accomplices was Jerusalem Islamic Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini, who fled Palestine after agitating against the British during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. He found refuge in Iraq – another of Her Majesty’s mandates – where he again topped the British most wanted list after helping pull the strings behind the Iraqi coup of 1941. The revolt in Baghdad was orchestrated by Hitler as part of a strategy to squeeze the region between the pincers of Rommel’s troops in North Africa, German forces in the Caucuses and pro-Nazi forces in Iraq. However, in June 1941 British troops put down the rebellion and the Mufti escaped via Tehran to Italy and eventually to Berlin. Once in Berlin, the Mufti received an enthusiastic reception by the "Islamische Zentralinstitut" and the whole Islamic community of Germany, which welcomed him as the "Führer of the Arabic world."
In an introductory speech, he called the Jews the "most fierce enemies of the Muslims" and an "ever corruptive element" in the world. Husseini soon became an honored guest of the Nazi leadership and met on several occasions with Hitler. He personally lobbied the Führer against the plan to let Jews leave Hungary, fearing they would immigrate to Palestine. He also strongly intervened when Adolf Eichman tried to cut a deal with the British government to exchange German POWs for 5000 Jewish children who also could have fled to Palestine. The Mufti’s protests with the SS were successful, as the children were sent to death camps in Poland instead. One German officer noted in his journals that the Mufti would liked to have seen the Jews "preferably all killed."
On a visit to Auschwitz, he reportedly admonished the guards running the gas chambers to work more diligently.
Exporting Islamic Terrorism to Bosnia:
Throughout the war, he appeared regularly on German radio broadcasts to the Middle East, preaching his pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic message to the Arab masses back home. To show gratitude towards his hosts, in 1943 the Mufti traveled several times to Bosnia, where on orders of the SS he recruited the notorious "Hanjar troopers," a special Bosnian Waffen SS company which slaughtered 90% of Bosnia’s Jews and burned countless Serbian churches and villages. These Bosnian Muslim recruits rapidly found favor with SS chief Heinrich Himmler, who established a special Mullah Military school in Dresden. The only condition the Mufti set for his help was that after Hitler won the war, the entire Jewish population in Palestine should be liquidated.
After the war, Husseini fled to Switzerland and from there escaped via France to Cairo, were he was warmly received. The Mufti used funds received earlier from the Hilter regime to finance the Nazi-inspired Arab Liberation Army that terrorized Jews in Palestine.
The Arab Embrace of Nazism: Husseini represents the prevalent pro-Nazi posture among the Arab/Muslim world before, during and even after the Holocaust. The Nazi-Arab connection existed even when Adolf Hitler first seized power in Germany in 1933. News of the Nazi takeover was welcomed by the Arab masses with great enthusiasm, as the first congratulatory telegrams Hitler received upon being appointed Chancellor came from the German Consul in Jerusalem, followed by those from several Arab capitals. Soon afterwards, parties that imitated the National Socialists were founded in many Arab lands, like the "Hisb-el-qaumi-el-suri" (PPS) or Social Nationalist Party in Syria. Its leader, Anton Sa’ada, styled himself the Führer of the Syrian nation, and Hitler became known as "Abu Ali" (In Egypt his name was "Muhammed Haidar").
The banner of the PPS displayed the swastika on a black-white background. Later, a Lebanese branch of the PPS – which still receives its orders from Damascus – was involved in the assassination of Lebanese President Pierre Gemayel. The most influential party that emulated the Nazis was "Young Egypt," which was founded in October 1933. They had storm troopers, torch processions, and literal translations of Nazi slogans – like "One folk, One party, One leader." Nazi anti-Semitism was replicated, with calls to boycott Jewish businesses and physical attacks on Jews.
Britain had a bitter experience with this pro-German mood in Egypt, when the official Egyptian government failed to declare war on the Wehrmacht as German troops were about to conquer Alexandria. After the war, a member of Young Egypt named Gamal Abdul Nasser was among the officers who led the July 1952 revolution in Egypt. Their first act – following in Hitler’s footsteps – was to outlaw all other parties. Nasser’s Egypt became a safe haven for Nazi war criminals, among them the SS General in charge of the murder of Ukrainian Jewry; he became Nasser’s bodyguard and close comrade.
Alois Brunner, another senior Nazi war criminal, found shelter in Damascus, where he served for many years as senior adviser to the Syrian general staff and still resides today. Sami al-Joundi, one of the founders of the ruling Syrian Ba’ath Party, recalls: "We were racists. We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in reading Nazi literature and books... We were the first who thought of a translation of Mein Kampf. Anyone who lived in Damascus at that time was witness to the Arab inclination toward Nazism." These leanings never completely ceased. Hitler’s Mein Kampf currently ranks sixth on the best-seller list among Palestinian Arabs. Luis Al-Haj, translator of the Arabic edition, writes glowingly in the preface about how Hitler’s "ideology" and his "theories of nationalism, dictatorship and race… are advancing especially within our Arabic States." When Palestinian police first greeted Arafat in the self-rule areas, they offered the infamous Nazi salute - the right arm raised straight and upward. The PLO and notably Arafat himself do not make a secret of their source of inspiration. The Grand Mufti el-Husseini is venerated as a hero by the PLO.
It should be noted, that the PLO’s top figure in east Jerusalem today, Faisal Husseini, is the grandson to the Führer’s
islamic Mufti. Arafat also considers the Grand Mufti a respected educator and leader, and in 1985 declared it an honor to follow in his footsteps. Little wonder. In 1951, a close relative of the Mufti named Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa el-Husseini matriculated to the University of Cairo. The student decided to conceal his true identity and enlisted as "Yasser Arafat."
Writers: Paul Longgrear, Raymond McNemar
Source: Canadian Friends, International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/medigest/may00/arabnazi.html
Here is an account of the Nazi activities of the Mufti of Jerusalem, the
George Washington of Palestine who led the anti-Jewish fight in 1948. Note:
the justification of Arab anti-Jewish racist propaganda is that Zionists did
'bad' things in the late 1940s and afterwards. The problem is, the "George
Washington of Palestine" was a leading Nazi before World War II . The
following is from http://notendur.centrum.is/~snorrigb/mufti4.htm
A few errors of translation have been fixed.
-- Jared Israel
PS - By the way, when my paternal grandfather arrived at immigration in New
York after a pogrom in Poland a hundred plus years ago, they couldn't
pronounce his name, which was the Polish word for Paris, since his great
great grandfather had fled a French pogrom. So they couldn't pronounce this
Polish word, so they said, "Jew? Israel!" and thus gave him with that name,
which preceeded him everywhere he went in the very anti-Semitic New York of that time. So I am stamped with my own personal yellow Star of David,
Now for the MUFTI -
MUFTI OF JERUSALEM -
Working for the Nazis
However the Mufti was not satisfied with unofficial or moral help from the
Nazis. What he wanted were official statements. On 21 July 1937, he tried to
establish an even closer relationship with Germany when he paid a visit to
the new German Consul-General, D=F6hle, in Palestine. He repeated his former
support for Germany and "wanted to know to what extent the Third Reich was
prepared to support the Arab movement against the Jews". Though the Germans
officially refused to change their policy, they gave more attention to
Palestine. In September 1937 two young SS officers, Karl Adolf Eichmann and
Herbert Hagen, were sent to Palestine. They had the clear objective of
getting "acquainted with the country and the life and to establish contact
with people" among others the Mufti. Although he had already escaped arrests
from the British authorities and was now seeking refuge among the Lebanese
Muslims he soon found himself well established as a German agent.
They must have got along fine because in 1938, according to Brenner, the
Mufti was already on the payroll of Abwehr II, the German counterintelligence
and sabotage division. However, Yisraeli dates his reception of German money from as early as 1936. In 1938 the Abwehr II had plans to deliver shiploads
of arms to the Mufti, by way of Saudi Arabia and later Iraq. However, they
cancelled the cargo because of British protest. Since the Axis could not
extend their claws deeper into Palestine's political life, Iraq became the
victim through the Mufti's massive organisation. The Iraqis accepted him as
an Arab national hero and he soon established his headquarters in Baghdad.
The Iraqi government sponsored his activities as well as private "charity"
organisations, special taxation on every Iraqi governmental official, vast
sums of Palestinian Arab donations. Added to all this were large
contributions from Germany and Italy, Saudi-Arabia and Egypt. This allowed
him to live a life in luxury and continue his propaganda against the British
and Jews. His propaganda succeeded in establishing a group of pro-Axis
officials. Early in 1941 the Mufti and the "Golden Square" pro-German army
officers, led by General Rashid Ali, forced the Iraqi Prime Minister, the
pro-British Nuri Said Pasha, to resign. In May he declared jihad against
Britain. This meant that the Muslims, at least his supporters, were committed
in the fight against Britain, "the greatest foe of Islam". The pro-Axis coup
had proved successful, but it did not last for long. In a few months British
troops had crushed the rebellion and the Mufti had to vanish again; this time
his destination was Germany, via Iran, Turkey and Mussolini's office in Rome,
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The Mufti in Berlin:
The Mufti had blamed the Iraqi Jews for the unsuccessful coup d'etat in
Iraq. He called them "the fifth column in Iraq", the very ones whose ancestors had lived there since the Babylonian captivity. Some Iraqi soldier and civilians agreed with the Mufti and attacked the Jews who had gathered public to cheer the new government.
The results were horrifying: around 600=20
Jews, some say 179, were killed, thousands injured in the farhud and shops and warehouses looted. A committee of inquiry, appointed by the Iraqi government, discovered that Haj Amin [i.e., the Mufti] had been one of the main figures behind the pogrom. Since Haj Amin had adopted the policy of
blaming Jews for everything that went wrong, there was no surprise that he nallied himself with the Nazi government in Berlin.
On 20 November 1941 the German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop,
received him in Berlin. Their talks were the basis for the meeting with
Hitler the following day. Details of the Mufti's conversation with hitler
were documented in the Mufti's diary and by the Germans, given in the
appendix. The main themes were:
The Mufti... The Arabs are Germany's natural friends... They are therefore
prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to
participate in a war, not only negatively by the commission of act of
sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the
formation of an Arab Legion... In this struggle, the Arabs were striving for
the independence and the unity of Palestine, Syria and Iraq. ... The
F=FChrer... Germany was resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation
after the other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time direct a
similar appeal to non European nations as well.
The F=FChrer did not give, however, official support to the Arab cause, mainly
because of "military reasons". He proposed, however, as soon as the German
armies would pass into the Southern Caucasus the Arabs would be liberated
from the British yoke and Germany's objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power...
The moment that Germany's tank divisions and air squadrons had made their
appearance south of Caucasus, the public appeal requested by the Grand Mufti
could go out to the Arab world.
The master plan of Hitler and the Mufti was, thus, first to solve the Jewish
problem in Europe and subsequently tackle the problem in the Middle East. The
Mufti raised no objections, he fully and gladly participated in the
destruction of European Jewry. However, he had to wait until the German armies would enter the Caucasus for the destruction of the Eastern Jews who had been living in the Middle East since time immemorial.
The Mufti's part of the deal was to raise support for Germany among the
Muslims in the Soviet Union, the Balkans and the Middle East. For that
purpose the Germans founded the "Arab Bureau", under his leadership, in
Berlin.
The Mufti's activities in the Third Reich:
The Berlin based headquarters of the Mufti controlled almost a world-wide=20
net of collaborators. Sponsored by German money he extended his claws to the
Middle East, as well as to other areas where Muslims lived. His main
activities were:
1) Radio propaganda;
2) Espionage and fifth column
activities in the Middle East;
3) Organising Muslims into military units in
Axis-occupied countries; and
4) Establishing some German controlled Arab
Legions and the Arab Brigade. He visited the Balkans, had his picture taken
saluting Hitler, met Ante Pavelic, the Croatian "butcher" and dictator, and
was even in touch with Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Also, he was in charge of
supervising Axis propaganda to Muslims all over the world and himself went on the radio on several occasions and his broadcasts were among
the most violent pro-Axis utterances ever produced. He had at his disposal no
less than six "freedom stations"... urging the Arabs of Palestine and Moslems
all over the world, including those in the United States, to rise against the
Allies, join the fifth column, commit acts of sabotage, and kill the Jews..
In addition, Haj Amin supplied the Middle East with propaganda papers and
pamphlets in Arabic.
His greatest achievement was, however, the recruitment of tens of thousands
of the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania to the Waffen SS. His Arab
Legions later participated in massacring tens of thousands of partisan Serbs
,
Jews and Gypsies. In 1943 there were 20,000 Muslims under arms in "his"
division of the Waffen SS, the Handschar. (See: George Lepre, Himmler's
Bosnian Division. The Waffen-SS Handschar Division 1943-1945, Schiffer
Military History, Atglen, PA, 1997). Nevertheless, the Balkan adventure was
only his spare-time activity because his main interest was the fight against
World Jewry. In the annual protest against the Balfour Declaration, which in
1943 was staged in the large Luftwaffe hall in Berlin, the Mufti attacked the
"Anglo-Saxon and Jewish conspiracy" phrase he so frequently used, and said:
The Treaty of Versailles was a disaster for the Germans as well as for the
Arabs. But the Germans know how to get rid of the Jews. That which brings us close to the Germans and sets us in their camp is that, up to today.
On 1 March 1944 he added in a broadcast from Berlin: "Arabs! Rise as one and
fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This
pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor." The Mufti did
only intend to massacre the Yishuv Jewry, his hatred of the World Jewry had
already driven him to participate in the Nazi Final Solution.
