[SolidWood]

It’s actually identical to the Nazi salute. After the war many Arab armies employed escaped Nazis as military and police advisers. If I have it right, it’s the source of the salute. It’s being used also by Fatah and (maybe not any longer) the Egyptian army.

[elhombrelibre]

Assad aide, General Mohammed Suleiman, assassinated ping. Israel blamed.

[bajabaja]

Some old videos of Arab Armies goose-stepping (or what came very close) made me think that there were some NAZI hand me downs in various training academies. At the time I thought “nah, just coincidence.” Your comment now makes a few things take on a different light.

[ReignOfError]

It’s also identical to the Roman salute, and to the salute American schoolchildren used during the Pledge of Allegiance before the ‘40s. History did not begin with WWII.

[Rome2000]

Amin Al Husseini seen inspecting his Hanzar Division made up exclusively of Muslims, mostly from the Crotia/Bosnia/Serbia region. They actively lead the genocide against Serbs, Serbian Jews and Gypsies.

Amin Al Husseini meets with Adolf Hitler in November 1942, weeks before the decision to implement the Final Solution which sent Europe's Jews to the gas chamber. The Third Reich provided Amin Al Husseini with a salary and appointed him Head of the Hanzar SS Division. The Hanzar Division was made of Nazi Muslims and implemented the genocide of 250,000 Serbs, Gypsies and Jews during WWII.

Amin Al Husseini shown here on a Nazi poster recruiting fellow Muslims to join Hitler in the fight against the West and the Jews. His disciples today include Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the leaders of Hamas, Al Qeida and Islamic Jihad.

Amin Al Husseini, future President of the World Islamic Congress (1961) and founding father of the Arab League (1944) inspects his Muslim Nazi troops, the Hanzar Division. Amin Al Husseini making the traditional nazi salute.

Yasser Arafat became a disciple of Amin Al Husseini since the age of 17. Here: recent picture of Palestinian soldiers under the leadership of Arafat making the traditional Nazi salute.

WWII . Amin Al Husseini spent most of the war in Berlin. He was on Hitler's payroll as he lead the Hanzar Division of Muslim SS and played a lead-role in determining the fate of Europe's Jewish community.. From Berlin, Amin Al Husseini helped organize the transfer of Nazi officers into the Middle East

Amin Al Husseini inspecting his Nazi troops, the Hanzar. Here, he is showing a young Muslim recruit how to use his rifle. Amin Al Husseini himself had been an officer in the defeated Ottoman Islamic Empire of World War I.