[zimdog]

Oh, I think you did.

There's a reason you think that way.

Otherwise you would not attempt to nuance any discussion of nazi muslims by insisting that we only examine their contribution to Hitler if they were personally led into battle by the Reich-mufti who recruited them.

No. I just said that tens of thousands of troops should not be dismissed in favor of a single cleric with no troops.

But while we're on the subject, would you mind telling me which mahometan cleric recruited and led the unnamed "tens of thousands" of FFL muzzies you keep babbling about?

Seydou Nourou Tall led the recruitment effort. As I have made clear, there is no requirement that clerics unless someone claims that a single clerics has military value while tens of thousands of troops do not.

[lqclamar]

No. I just said that tens of thousands of troops should not be dismissed in favor of a single cleric with no troops.

And yet they never were. I did question and continue to question whether their significance to the allies was anything more than on the periphery. And I also point out that muslim supporters of the Reich were significantly closer to its core and to the heart of the fighting in Europe itself.

That "single cleric" you refer to met personally with Hitler and travelled across eastern europe recruiting 20,000 muslims into the SS with Himmler. He also personally intervened in an eastern europe prisoner exchange negotiation that resulted in sending 5,000 Jews to the gas chambers. And he had hundreds of Hitler-supporting clerics under him as well as a Hitler-loyalist muslim politician in Iraq who committed "tens of thousands" of Hitler-supporting muslim troops to attacking the British in the middle east.

So yes. By comparison of influence and significance to the Nazi effort, I'd say Husseini wielded more of a stroke than the entire colonial muslim membership of the FFL combined. Plus his cohorts did it all in the name of Mahomet, as their Crescent scimitar-adorned SS badge indicates: