Posted on 06/12/2023 1:18:00 PM PDT by Milagros
BTW, Shaquib Arslan was an Islam scholar who had great influence over Mufti’s thinking and others.
Is he the one who visited the United States and witnessed teenagers dancing with each other while music played?
By the end of 1944 this formation included three thousand Muslim SS men.
Al-Husaini opened two schools for training imams to serve both SS and regular Muslim units: one in Dresden for Soviet Turkic recruits, and another in Guben for those from the Balkans. Among the teachers in Dresden were Professors Richard Hartmann, sixty-three, of Berlin University and Munich University's Bertold Spuler, thirty-three. They trained forty Turkic Muslim imams at a time for both SS and regular units in six courses lasting two to four weeks each.
The Guben imam school opened on April 21, 1944, in ceremonies presided over by al-Husaini and Berger... The graduates were told to preach Islam in their units, bond Germans and Muslims together, and make their soldiers into "good" SS men. The teachers were four more senior Bosnian clerics, the best-known being Husain Sulaiman Djozo, and seventeen younger men. Three of al-Husaini's aides— Shaikh Hasan, Abu as-Saud, and Mustafa al-Wakil—helped with the courses and al-Husaini himself often lectured there too.
The school trained fifty SS imams in two courses of four months each.
A major figure promoting an ideological interpretation of Islam in Germany was the Nazi propagandist Johannvon Leers, who advanced the idea of a historical hostility between Islam and Judaism. The Qur'an, he claimed in an article in the propaganda journal Die Judenfrage in late 1942, described the Jews as sat-nic... After the war Leers settled in Egypt, where he converted toIslam and took the name "Omar Amin von Leers." Another propagandist of the regime who spread similar ideas was Else Marquardsen-Kamphövener, a publicist who had grown up in Istanbul and who would continue to write on Islam in postwar Germany. At the height of the war, Marquardsen-Kamphövener published an article on "Islam and Its Founder" in the journal Wir und die Welt, offering an anti-Jewish interpretation..p. 88
Articles in Barid al-Sharq, dominated by the usual anti-British, anti-Communist, and anti-Jewish agitation, also drew on religious themes. They dealt with the suppression of religion in the Soviet Union and the Anglo-American exploitation of the Islamic world, and, on the other side, with German friendship with Islam and the activities of the Islamic Central Institute in Berlin. The journal also published several speeches by members of the Nazi elite, by al-Husayni (including his calls for jihad), and, on the occasion of the hajj in 1944, by the head of al-Azhar, the elderly Muhammad Mustafa al-Maraghi, even though he was known for his pro-British leanings.
Contributors included the Lebanese pan-Islamist Shakib Arslan and Abdurreshid Ibrahim, who, after his service for Germany during the First World War, had now become imam of the Tokyo Mosque, giving the paper a further pan-Islamic tinge.
Johann von Leers wrote on issues such as the suffering of the Muslims in India and the antagonism between Communism and Islam. The editors of Barid al-Sharq also published an Arabic language brochure with the title Islam and the Jews (al-Islam wa-l-Yahud), based on a series of articles that the journal had run earlier under the same title. Numerous copies were distributed in Tunis. In spring 1942, the German consulate in Tangier reported the “confiscation” ofseveral boxes of the brochure by Spanish officials. Files stored in the archives of the Foreign Office in Berlin indicate that the distribution of Barid al-Sharq in the Tangier zone repeatedly caused friction between German officials and the local Spanish administration during the North African campaign.
Al-Jaheer" (وبالمقابل) was a monthly magazine published by the Arabic section of Radio Berlin. It was addressed to the same readers of the "Barid al-Sharq" who had to be persuaded to be hostile to the Anglo-Saxons, the Communists and the Jews. The magazine sought to bring the sympathy of these readers towards Germany, which is intended to be shown as a great power advocating Islam and Muslims.
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