Only if you consider North Africa and Italy to be the periphery.
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:
Interesting thing about that Waffen SS unit, apparently they were the first Nazi troops to mutiny.
So while no one disagrees with you that the Mufti was an evil, evil, man, it seems that his vaunted recruiting efforts produced soldiers that were far less effective than the conservatively-estimated 67,000 Muslim troops in the FFL from West Africa alone.
After all, who won the war?
You've yet to provide specific and substantive documentation of their numbers in Italy. North Africa was by far the largest of the African theaters, but also the smallest of the major theaters of the war.
Interesting thing about that Waffen SS unit, apparently they were the first Nazi troops to mutiny.
But only after the tied had turned against Germany and they were hastily shipped off to France in a ditch effort by Hitler to delay the inevitable. "Tens of thousands" of Nazi soldiers mutinied or deserted in the last two years of the war, as tends to be the case for losing armies in any comparably sized war. Hell, several of Hitler's own generals tried to murder him the same year. But that doesn't mean they were not nazis.
So while no one disagrees with you that the Mufti was an evil, evil, man, it seems that his vaunted recruiting efforts produced soldiers that were far less effective than the conservatively-estimated 67,000 Muslim troops in the FFL from West Africa alone.
Source please. And I'll be expecting a religious breakdown of their ranks when you provide it as well, since West Africa also has large Christian and pagan populations.
In fact the main French colonies in sub-saharan Africa to opposed the Nazis or Vichy regime were predominantly NON-MUSLIM, contrary to your suggestions.
The primary FFL controlled colonies were Gabon, Cameroon, Middle Congo, Ubangu-Chari, and Chad. Out of that entire group, Chad is the ONLY one with a significant muslim population (about 50%). None of the others are more than 15% muslim and some have hardly any muslims at all!
Gabon's muslim population is less than 1% of the entire country. The rest are all Christian or voodoo.
Middle Congo (Republic of Congo today) has a muslim population of 1% too. The rest are all Christian or voodoo.
Cameroon's muslim population is in the 15% range, the rest split equally between Christian and voodoo.
Ubangu-Chari (now Central African Republic) is only 15% muslim, the rest being Christian or voodoo.