Nazi Roots Of Islamofascism
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Amin al-Husseini inspects SS troops.
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“Go out and murder the Jewish infidel in the name of the holy Koran
. . . he who kills a Jew is assured of a place in the next world.”
Sounds like something Osama bin Laden would urge, doesn’t it? Actually, this
quote was uttered long before bin Laden was even born, by Amin
al-Husseini, (1895-1974) Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. The biography of
Husseini reminds us that the term ‘Islamofascism’ is no mere neologism aimed
at extreme Muslims in the wake of 9/11 – it is also a reminder of the Nazi roots
of extreme Muslim anti-semitism that still rages today.
Husseini was one of the masterminds of the Holocaust. Husseini met with Hitler
in 1941, and according to Adolf Eichmann’s deputy Dieter Wisliceny (later hung
after Nuremburg for war crimes):
"The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry
and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution
of this plan… He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly
incited him to accelerate he extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied
by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chambers of Auschwitz."
Husseini recruited 21,000 Bosnian Muslims into the Scimitar division
of the Waffen SS, which fought Marshal Tito’s partisans in Yugoslavia.
If you think Husseini learned his anti-semitism from Hitler, you might be surprised
to know it might have been the other way around. As early as 1920 Husseini was
organizing pogroms
against Jews while ‘Palestine’ was still under British control, killing hundreds
of Jews and injuring many more.
Husseini’s admiration for and collaboration with Nazism is by no means an isolated
case. Hassan al-Banna,
founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, was also an ‘ardent
supporter’ of Nazi Germany, as was Anwar
Sadat, who spent four years in a British prison camp for collaboration with
the Third Reich. In his 1978 autobiography, In Search of Identity, Sadat
wrote:
"I was in our village for the summer vacation when Hitler marched from
Munich to Berlin, to wipe out the consequences of Germany’s defeat in World
War I and rebuild his country. I gathered my friends and told them we ought
to follow Hitler’s example…."
One of the founders of Syria’s Ba’ath Party, Sami al-Joundi, said
"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."
Gamal Abdel Nasser’s brother Nassiri
translated Mein Kampf into arabic, and was an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler.
A mere three years after the Holocaust ended, first secretary-general of the
Arab League Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam declared
in bloodcurdling language reminiscent of the Final Solution that the 1948 war
against the young state of Israel “will be a war of extermination and a
momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and
the Crusades.”
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Yasser Arafat
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By the way, Yasser Arafat called Husseini a ‘hero’
- no surprise there, because Arafat’s real name is Abd al-Rahman abd al-Bauf
Arafat al-Qud al-Husseini.
Arafat was the Grand
Mufti’s nephew and he changed his name to obscure this fact. The torch was
passed from Husseini to the Father of Modern Terrorism, whose Fatah party is
now considered much more moderate than Hamas! Is it any wonder that books
like Mein Kampf (a bestseller in Turkey
and Palestine)
and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion enjoy brisk sales throughout the Arab
and Muslim world?
‘Hitler’ has even become something of a popular name for Palestinian children,
and admiration for Hitler runs
deep among many Palestinians.
Should it surprise us, then, to see pictures like this?
Crossposted from WILLIsms.com
Tags: War On Terror
