by Mike Gray
The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husseini
by Chuck Morse
WND Books
ISBN: 978-1935071-03-7
Trade paperback: 172 pages (including 11 appendices)
Published July 2010
Just after the Allies defeated Rommel’s forces at El Alamein during the Second World War, Arab-world listeners heard this exhortation from Radio Berlin:
“Arise, o sons of Arabia, fight for your sacred rights. Slaughter Jews wherever you find them. Their spilled blood pleases Allah, our history and religion. That will save our honor.”
The speaker was Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. This man, more than any other individual, can be regarded as the “godfather” of modern-day Islamic terrorism. Every group that daily makes headlines with their atrocities—the Muslim Brotherhood, the PLO, Hamas, Al Qaeda among them—can trace its origins back to Al-Husseini. His hatred for Jews, but especially the Zionists in Palestine, never diminished in his lifetime (~1895-1974). (It’s one of history’s injustices that this man, who was responsible for so much terror and suffering, lived a life of luxury and died in bed.)
Chuck Morse traces the idiotic British imperial policy of appeasement intended to placate the Empire’s subjected populations that led the Brits to install rabid anti-Semites like Al-Husseini in positions of power that sooner or later would result in situations necessitating a violent correction. (But it’s also one of history’s felicities that Al-Husseini’s blind hatred of the Jews caused him, on no less than two occasions, to reject British proposals that would have delivered just about all of Palestine to the Arabs, with the almost certain massacre, enslavement, or expulsion of its entire Jewish population from the Middle East altogether.)
As a terrorist, Al-Husseini innovated suicide bombing, not just against Jews but also moderate Muslims who dared even to negotiate with the Zionists.
From 1937 onward, he was on the Nazi payroll; he moved to Berlin in 1941, being settled in a house taken from a Jew and treated throughout the war like a visiting potentate; he visited the extermination camps in cognito, criticizing them for not being efficient enough in executing the “final solution”; he lived off the proceeds of the Sonderfund (money and valuables such as gold teeth taken from Holocaust victims) which he used to set up Bosnian-Muslim SS formations in the Balkans.
When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, he fled to Egypt with hundreds of Nazis, using the Sonderfund and numbered Swiss bank accounts to finance the escape (known, thanks to a popular novel and film, as the ODESSA); and somehow avoided being hunted down by Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in the Balkans and facing trial at Nuremberg. This poor specimen of humanity lived a charmed life.
Chuck Morse’s characterization of Al-Husseini nails it:
Amin al-Husseini was one of those types of monsters who always maintained a quiet and cultured exterior. His ascetic face, neatly trimmed beard, penetrating blue eyes, and impeccable traditional Arab dress combined to affect a charismatic presence. Al-Husseini was also known to make a powerful and convincing argument. In a sense, he was like so many other utterly bloodless and immoral yet suave and sophisticated operators who stain the pages of human history. He could nonchalantly send a letter or utter a few sentences that could condemn tens of thousands to their deaths. In a sense, he was the classic archetype of the Nazi, or the Communist, or the totalitarian, in that he had absolutely no compassion, no humor, no scruples, no soul, and no humanity.
Contents:
1. The Nazi Holocaust Continues 2. Emir Faisal and the Missed Opportunity 3. The Mufti Makes His Grand Debut 4. The Muslim Brotherhood 5. The Grossmufti vom Jerusalem 6. The Fuhrer of the Arab World 7. The Grand Mufti and the Holocaust 8. The Hanzar Brigades 9. The Death of the Grand Mufti 10. Postwar Nazis and Arab Terror 11. Postwar Communists and Arab Terror 12. Denouement 13. Rapprochement Appendix A (the Balfour Declaration, 1917) Appendix B (correspondence between Faisal and Felix Frankfurter) Appendix C (the Weizmann-Faisal Agreement) Appendix D (the Peel Commission) Appendix E (minutes of meeting between Adolf Hitler and Amin Al-Husseini, 28 November 1941) Appendix F (from Al-Husseini’s diary about his meeting with Hitler) Appendix G (letter from Al-Husseini to Hungarians urging them to ship Jews to concentration camps) Appendix H (part of Al-Husseni radio address to Arab-Americans, 19 March 1943) Appendix I (the Palestinian Nation Covenant: “The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression from the Arab homeland, and aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine.”) The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism (a 2006 speech asking the U.S. Holocaust Museum to overcome its political correctness and acknowledge Al-Husseini’s connection to Nazis and today’s Leftists) Prayer for the State of Israel.
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The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism on Amazon.com.
A related book: Icon of Evil – Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam on Amazon.com.
A profile of author Chuck Morse.
The Wikipedia article about Al-Husseini.
