Posted on 10/22/2015 12:04:10 PM PDT by Randall_S
“Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.”
– Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Radio address, 1944.
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during World War II, was partially responsible for the Holocaust.
In remarks delivered to the World Zionist Congress, Netanyahu said:
“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jew. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here (to Palestine).’ According to Netanyahu, Hitler then asked: “What should I do with them?” and the mufti replied: “Burn them.”
The purpose of this brief article is shed additional light on the infamous al-Husseini, and more broadly the relationship between Nazi Germany, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Holocaust.
Historical Context of Nazi Germany and Islam
Germany’s relationship with Islam did not begin with World War II. In the years before World War I, Germany was engaged in a proxy war with the Great Britain and France across the Middle East and Africa.
The German spy Max von Oppenheim developed the strategy of “war by revolution.” As a German intelligence officer, Oppenheim attempted to unify the Muslims in jihad against their British and French colonizers. The purpose of these efforts was the establish a German presence in the Orient. Indeed, the grand jihad envisioned by Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other international Islamic terrorist organizations can be traced to Oppenheim’s vision of unified Islamic war against Germany’s enemies.
As such, Germany and the Ottoman Empire were allies during World War I, even to the point that Kaiser Wilhelm II was suspected to have converted to Islam. This relationship with Islam carried forward into World War II.
The Muslim Brotherhood
One infamous organization that grew out of the Islamic collaboration with Germany was the Muslim Brotherhood. Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder, Hassan al-Banna, was a strong admirer of Adolph Hitler. When Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was rolling across North Africa toward Cairo, the Muslim Brotherhood was set to greet him there, intending to end British rule of Egypt. But for El Alamein, the Nazi Rommel would have united Hitler’s empire with al-Banna in 1942. The Mediterranean would have been in full control of the Axis powers.
It is also worth noting that Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess was born in Cairo and spoke fluent Arabic. Hess lived out his final days in Spandau prison, being attended to by a Tunisian Nazi sympathizer and conversing in Arabic.
The Evil Mufti
Amin al-Husseini was widely regarded as a psychopath well before the Nazis were on the international stage. He was a prolific mass murderer, who killed many more Muslims in Palestine than he ever did Jews. Why? Regarding himself as the authority on “Palestinian” nationalism, if anyone dared question his authority, he had a tendency to not only have that individual killed, but much of their family (see here).
Husseini had first participated in genocide during World War I. He was joined the Ottoman army in 1914 and was stationed in Smyrna, a Greek Orthodox city. During this time, more than three million Armenians and other Christians were murdered by mass shootings, drowning, starvation, and other techniques which would be replicated by the Nazis across Europe.
Once the war began, Husseini courted Hitler and other high ranking Nazis. He was a personal friend of S.S. Chief Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Final Solution. Yet he also collaborated with Minister of Propaganda, Josef Goebbels and the Third Reich’s Foreign Miniser, Joaquim von Ribbentrop.
As Netanyahu cited, the original German plan for the Jews was exile out of Germany and their conquered territories. Yet something changed in 1941 – the same year that Husseini met with Hitler, and began his practical “love affair” with Himmler and Eichmann, his close friends and confidants. Husseini did not want the Jews exiled to their ancestral homeland in the Palestinian mandate. He wanted them dead. For those Jews already in Palestine, he implored Eichmann to build death camps in the Levant.
It is widely believed that Husseini went disguised to visit the gas chambers and furnaces of Auschwitz. After the war was finished, he reportedly knew that precisely six million Jews had been exterminated. This makes perfect sense, since he was so close with Eichmann and Himmler, and hated the Jews with equal ardor.
Other Resources on Amin al-Husseini
This author has researched the life of Amin al-Husseini and his relationship with Nazi Germany. Below are some other resources relating to Husseini, Islam, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust.
Who was Haj Amin al-Husseini?
Critics of Pamela Geller and her Campaign
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Aryan Brotherhood
The Betrayal Papers: Part I of VI – Under Obama, the U.S. is Captured by the Muslim Brotherhood
Bibi knows history well. And , unlike some politicians, he’s sufficiently humble to learn from it, too Good for Bibi!!!!
We are dealing with a religion,Islam which simply worships the devil.
So the Fuehrer was planning to deport them to Palestine, but this mufti pushed him into Plan B? Sounds less like instigating it than like boxing the Fuehrer into a plan that was admittedly more bother than a mass deportation (someone has to staff concentration camps, they will not staff themselves).
But even yet. The revelation of being crueler than Hitler. That’s what really has to hurt.
It is kind of politically incorrect when the history thing is to heap every blame possible on Hitler... but that he had a potentially merciful side, he was even going to deliver the Jewish people into Palestine because he couldn’t stand them (shades of Pharaoh?) but was boxed in by a mufti.
Could have really used some crusaders at that point. A lot of humanity was asleep at the wheel, as it were. The US didn’t want refugees either, even though they were the kind of people about the most likely to do well and be friendly and helpful in a place like the USA. Imagine if the USA had... surely they could have fit into just about anywhere out west.
God is weeping in heaven.
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