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Jerusalem Mufti questioned: predicted white house would turn black
haaretzdaily | 9/15/01 | haaretz correspondents

Posted on 09/15/2001 2:13:39 AM PDT by geros

Jerusalem police detained the mufti of Jerusalem and the mufti of the West Bank city of Ramallah for questioning Friday. Both men were released after around one hour.

Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh Ikrema Sabri was held Friday afternoon on suspicion of meeting this week with Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese guerilla group Hezbollah, and for suspected incitement against Israel in remarks made during sermons on the Temple Mount about three weeks ago.

The mufti was detained by Jerusalem police investigators at the end of Friday prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque and was taken to a station for questioning.

Sabri allegedly said in sermons that the White House will turn black, with God's help, and that America, England and Israel should be destroyed, Israel Radio reported.

The mufti is a senior appointee of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. His detention was seen as another Israeli challenge to the Palestinian Authority's efforts to establish a presence in the disputed city.

Police said that Sabri was being questioned on suspicion of having contact with a foreign agent, travel without a permit to an enemy country and incitement.

Police also detained the Mufti of Ramallah after he allegedly arrived at the Temple Mount without a permit to enter Jerusalem.

Police said that the investigation would continue and that the Ramallah mufti had been warned not to enter Jerusalem again without a permit.

Sabri was also asked about a recent meeting in Lebanon with Nasrallah. Hezbollah captured three IDF soldiers in a carefully planned attack carried out last October in the disputed Har Dov area on the Israel-Lebanon border.

Police spokeman Shmuel Ben-Ruby alleged that Sabri and Nasrallah had been coordinating militant positions vis-a-vis Israel. The mufti was released after questioning, but the investigation is continuing, Ben-Ruby said.

The mufti acknowledged that he has spoken out against the United States before. But this has nothing to do with the explosions that happened in the previous days, Sabri told The Associated Press, referring to the terror attacks in New York and Washington. "Clearly, we are against the American bias in Israel's favor."

Concerning his meeting with Nasrallah, the mufti said he was invited to the same conference as the Hezbollah leader. "I have no relationship with him," he said.

Sabri accused Israel of trying to curtail is freedom of expression. He said he believed his detention was part of Israel's campaign to shut down Palestinian Authority institutions in traditionally Arab east Jerusalem.


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The focus on Afghanistan/Osama is too narrow: The real enemies are the states of Iraq, Syria, Sudan, the PLO etc. Just attacking Afghanistan would be a sick joke.
1 posted on 09/15/2001 2:13:39 AM PDT by geros
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To: geros
This campaign will be massive. That sick joke will be just the begining.
2 posted on 09/15/2001 2:23:50 AM PDT by zarf
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To: geros
Yep, you got it. It's a life and death struggle now: our life and their death. There's no alternative, except the democrats surrendering, which will probably happen anyway after what Meehan said. Funny, Meehan reminds me of that loadmouth Sonny in the Godfather.
3 posted on 09/15/2001 2:31:00 AM PDT by Darheel
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For years, the Palestinian Authority has actively promoted hatred of the United States among its people. The recurring theme: the US is an imperialist, colonialist usurper of land and human rights, enemy of the Arab world, killer of Arab children, and supporter of Israel. Yasser Arafat has repeatedly referred to Saddam Hussein as his "brother" and has linked an Iraq victory over the US to a Palestinian victory over Israel. During a period of US-Iraq tension, the editor of the PA official daily wrote that America would pay for its war against Iraq with "45,000 bodies of American soldiers [who] will return to the US like airmail .The Arab mothers will not be the only ones crying..." The PA Mufti has called for Allah to destroy America and "paint the White House black."
4 posted on 09/15/2001 2:33:21 AM PDT by Rudolph
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To: geros
Afganistan will only be the first round, and an object lesson to encourge the others.
5 posted on 09/15/2001 2:36:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: geros, Thinkin' Gal, Jeremiah Jr, TrueBeliever9, babylonian, Prodigal Daughter, RnMomof7
So many pictures, so little time.
6 posted on 09/15/2001 2:45:37 AM PDT by 2sheep
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To: 2sheep
The Israelis should really either deport Sheik Sabri to Lebanon or take care of him like they took care of Comrade Mustafa a few weeks ago. As it is he's too dangerous to be left alive. And if he is taken care of the Israelis should be sure to bury him in a pigskin to deter other Islamist Nazis.
7 posted on 09/15/2001 4:08:44 AM PDT by goldstategop
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To: geros
Don't forget Pakistan, the mother of all Sunni extremism.
8 posted on 09/15/2001 4:14:00 AM PDT by freedom_from_socialism
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To: veronica lent beowolf sabamerican jasowas
Mufti news
9 posted on 09/15/2001 4:28:45 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: vrwc54 monkeyshine TrueBeliever9 harley_hog TheOtherOne thinkin' gal
Mufti news
10 posted on 09/15/2001 4:29:04 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: americaninisrael
Mufti news
11 posted on 09/15/2001 4:29:27 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: freedom_from_socialism
Don't forget Pakistan, the mother of all Sunni extremism.


I remember 5 years ago reading a long article in the New Yorker magazine. It was all about the many many many fundamentalist academies in this impoverished nation. Many boy orphans and poor children attend them. All they learn about is Muslim law and Koran. New shock troops for Islamic Jihads are being bred there

12 posted on 09/15/2001 4:41:06 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: geros
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is an EVIL MAN, in the tradition of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was allied with Hitler and Himmler!

The former Grand Mufti conspired with the Nazis for the mass murder of all Jews who were in what was then Palestine (which is the only real Palestine, since the concept of a "Palestinian (Arab) people" is yet another muslim lie). He also helped organize Nazi military units in the Balkans of "Bosnian" muslims and Kosovo Shiptars (together with other Albanian muslims) to murder thousands of Serbs, Roma, Jews, and others.

The current Grand Mufti is patterned after the former one, with his openly anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and anti-American statements and sermons, urging muslims to KILL and KILL AGAIN!!!

He,the rest of the "Palestinian" terrorist scum, and the Nazi muslims in Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Albania, and "Bosnia", should be put on the islamic terrorist enemies list!!! (After all, the Balkan Nazi muslims have PROVEN ties to bin Laden, et al.!!!!) The Serbian people should be restored as our ALLIES in the region, and given a GREEN LIGHT (toghether with Greeks and Slavic Macedonians) to re-conquer all the lands that the Nazi muslims have STOLEN from them (with clinton's help)!!!

13 posted on 09/15/2001 6:12:37 AM PDT by Honorary Serb
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To: dennisw
thanks for the flag

bump

14 posted on 09/15/2001 6:50:14 AM PDT by TheOtherOne
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To: freedom_from_socialism
>>Don't forget Pakistan, the mother of all Sunni extremism.<<

Pakistan? What's that?

Oh, you mean India's new Northwest Province. Silly me.

15 posted on 09/15/2001 6:57:26 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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To: dennisw
Sabri allegedly said in sermons that the White House will turn black, with God's help, and that America, England and Israel should be destroyed, Israel Radio reported.

Well, did he or did he not state the above? Have they ever heard of accessories to acts? Anyone of these provocative blow-hards ought to be ejected from the country promptly. This isn't a game. Anyone in Israel, shooting their mouth off and preaching support for the Jihad should be shipped out promptly. Israel has now sufficient leverage to pack up some of these big-talking mullahs and give them a head-start to the Arabian dessert - minus food and water.

17 posted on 09/15/2001 8:06:43 AM PDT by Lent
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To: Darheel
Funny, Meehan reminds me of that loadmouth Sonny in the Godfather.

It's funny you mention the Godfather. I said to my wife yesterday that Bush should have pulled a Michael Corleone, and ordered the first strikes while he was attending the service at the National Cathedral.

18 posted on 09/15/2001 8:13:01 AM PDT by wi jd
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To: Honorary Serb
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is an EVIL MAN, in the tradition of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who was allied with Hitlerand Himmler!

The former Grand Mufti conspired with the Nazis for the mass murder of all Jews who were in what was then Palestine (which is the only real Palestine, since the concept of a "Palestinian (Arab) people" is yet another muslim lie). He also helped organize Nazi military units in the Balkans of "Bosnian" muslims and Kosovo Shiptars (together with other Albanian muslims) to murder thousands of Serbs, Roma, Jews, and others.

Time to pack up these big-talking Muftis and mullahs and send them on a one-way ticket to the Arabian desert.

The Arab/Muslim Nazi Connection
Turning the West Bank into another "Bosnia" (Photo Album)

As things are going, if Netanyahu 
succeeds...  The area will be like Bosnia.
-- Palestinian Authority Minister of
Justice Freih Abu Meddien

"The era of interim agreements," said Ben-Ami, 
"is dead. It only exists in the imagination.  The Palestinians 
have absolutely no faith in interim agreements, for their 
reasons. We are also opposed to them. They have only
given birth to terror and to a Bosnia-like situation 
(in the territories)."
-- Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami

Although there was ample proof to arrest him 
[Hajj Amin al Husseini] as a war criminal after 
the war, the Allies made no effort to do so... Yugoslavia, 
asked for his extradition... but the Arab League and the
Egyptian government succeeded in having the 
demand tabled
-- Encyclopedia of the Holocaust

Bosnian Moslems recruited by the 
Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al Husseini (Arafat's 'Uncle'1) to serve in the ranks of the German Waffen-SS.

The following pictures take place in Bosnia, two years after the Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al Husseini (blood relative of both the current Temple Mount Mufti and Yasser Arafat) launched an unsuccessful pro-Nazi coup in Iraq. In that coup, an Iranian - Khayrallah Tulfah - was jailed for four years for his pro-Nazi activities.  He wrote a booklet called  "Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Iranians, Jews, and Flies.", which was later distributed by the Ministry of Education of Iraq.  In 1947, Khayrallah Tulfah gave a home to his sister's ten year old son, an orphan.  His name was Saddam Hussein.

 

Bosnian Moslems wearing fezzes with Nazi insignia

Under the initiative of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem-a powerful Moslem leader exiled in Berlin-Bosnian Moslems volunteered to serve in the ranks of the German Waffen-SS. Their special uniform combined Nazi with Moslem elements

Date: 1943

The Grand Mufti inspects Moslem SS units

Under Husseini's initiative and supervision, Yugoslavian Moslem volunteer units-called "Handjar" (Sword)-joined the German Waffen-SS. They fought Yugoslav partisans in Bosnia and massacred Bosnians and Croatian Jews.

Date: 1943
Era: During WWII

Bosnian Moslems who volunteered to the German army

Thousands of Bosnian Moslems responded to the Mufti's call and volunteered to serve in the German army. The volunteers wore special uniforms; the Nazi insignia decorated their fezzes (typical moslem hat).

Date: 1943 

Nazis review Bosnian Moslem volunteers to the Waffen-SS

In the spring of 1943, Bosnian Moslems, responding to their Mufti's call, volunteered to serve in the German army. They formed their own battalions within the ranks of the Waffen-SS. The Germans publicized the Moslem-German collaboration.

Date: 1943

Bosnian Moslem soldiers in the German army, at prayer

Hajj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, allied himself with Nazi Germany. While exiled in Berlin and sponsored by Nazi agencies, he brought to the creation of Moslem battalions within the German Waffen-SS.

Date: 1943

Hajj Amin al-Husseini with Bosnian Moslem fighters

Husseini flew from Berlin to Sarajevo to bless the Moslem army inspect its arms and observe its exercises. Husseini's army in Croatia was comprised of some 20,000 Bosnian Moslems, all of whom volunteered to serve in the German Waffen-SS.

Bosnian Moslems who volunteered to the German army

Moslems living in Bosnia, Yugoslavia, responded to the call of the exiled grand Mufti of Jerusalem and enlisted as volunteers in the German army. Seen here are uniformed volunteers holding a propaganda brochure: "Islam and Judaism."

Date: 1943

Bosnian Moslems as volunteers in the German army

Hajj Amin al Husseini-the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem exiled in Berlin-planned to create a strong Arabic army and to put it at the disposal of the Axis powers. Eventually, he succeeded in forming Moslem units within the German Waffen-SS.

Date: 1943

Close-up of Nazi officers reviewing Moslem volunteers

Closeup of "Responding to the initiative of the exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem", the Germans created separate Moslem battalions within the Waffen-SS. Here, unidentified Nazi dignitaries review the new recruits.

Date: 1943

Bosnian Moslem soldiers in the German army during prayer

During the spring of 1943, some 20,000 Moslem Bosnians responded to the Mufti's call to join the German Waffen-SS. The Moslem volunteers, who served in separate units named "Handjar" (Sword), actively participated in war operations.

Date: 1943


Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

One of the most prominent Arab leaders in Palestine and the Middle East. Some believe that Husseini's collaboration with the Germans was designed to obtain support for Arab national goals from a power that seemed to have good prospects for winning the war. Others link his sympathy for Nazi Germany to his enthusiasim for its anti-Jewish policies, particularly, the Final Solution. Some even perceive a general ideological affinity between totalitarian Fascist and Nazi theories and Islam, as conceived by Husseini.

Pre - War Contacts with the Nazis

After he had broken with Britain, Husseini sent two emissaries to Berlin to make concrete proposals for collaboration. This occurred in December 1937 and in May 1939. As a result, Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr supported the Arab uprising in Palestine.

Husseini's Fate is Linked with the Fascist Powers

When World War II broke out, Husseini fled to Iraq, where he contributed to the planning of the pro-Nazi revolt. When the revolt was quelled, he went into exile, first in Italy and then in Germany. From October 1941, Husseini linked his fate with the fascist powers. He also was in touch with the Japanese. He sought to pursue Arab national political goals and lend his support to the Final Solution. For the former he set three main goals: the issuance of a joint German-Italian declaration recognizing the independence of the Arab nations and their unity in federation; the establishment of a center for Arab sabotage and propaganda, under his control; and the formation of an Arab army to fight on the Axis side. The German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop did not make the declaration Husseini wanted, but in a private letter said much of what Husseini wanted to hear regarding Arabs states under British auspices. Neither did the mufti create the center he had in mind, but he did link himself with Axis intelligence. To demonstrate their support for the idea, the Germans dropped two Arab parachutists over Jericho and five over Mosul, Iraq. Husseini's plan to form an Arab legion failed to gain much response. As of 1942, a small German-Arab training section was created, with 130 men. In November 1944, the Arab legion was set up, but it existed mostly on paper.

A Moslem Leader in the Service of the Nazis

Husseini's contribution to the Axis war effort was more successful in his capacity as a Moslem leader. He recruited and organized Bosnian Muslim battalions in 1943, known as the Handjar (Sword), who were put into the Waffen-SS. They fought partisans in Bosnia, participated in the massacre of civilians there, and carried out police and security duties in Hungary. Husseini also helped boost the fighting morale of the Ostbattaillone.

Husseini's Support of the Final Solution

Husseini's men attended SS training courses and visited Sachsenhausen. At an early stage the mufti was aware of the extermination of the Jews and he tried to persuade the Axis to extend the extermination to North Africa and Palestine. He also repeatedly proprosed the Luftwaffe bomb Tel Aviv. When he found out that efforts were underway to save Jews by means of various barter arrangements, he did all he could to foil them.

After the War - Evading Prosecution

When the war ended, Husseini was arrested in France, but in June 1946, he escaped and made his way to asylum in Egypt. Although there was ample proof to arrest him as a war criminal after the war, the Allies made no effort to do so. They were deterred by Husseini's prestige in the Arab world. In 1946, Yugoslavia, asked for his extradition, but the Arab League and the Egyptian government succeeded in having the demand tabled.

"Encyclopedia of the Holocaust"
©1990 Macmillan Publishing Company
New York, NY 10022

Source (both Pictures and Text):
    http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/pages/t031/t03148.html
    Museum of Tolerance, Multimedia Learning Center


Copyright © 1997, The Simon Wiesenthal Center,

1. The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini was later the notorious Nazi who mixed Nazi propaganda and Islam.  He was wanted for war crimes and the slaughter of Jews in Bosnia by Yugoslavia.  His mix of militant propagandizing Islam was an inspriation for both Yasser Arafat and Saddam Husein: He was also a close relative of Yasser Arafat and grandfather of the current Temple Mount Mufti. "Arafat's actual name was Abd al-Rahman abd al-Bauf Arafat al-Qud al-Husseini. He shortened it to obscure his kinship with the notorious Nazi and ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini." Howard M. Sachar, A HISTORY OF ISRAEL (New York: Knopf, 1976).  The Bet Agron International Center in Jerusalem interviewed Arafat's brother and sister, who described the Mufti as a cousin (family member) with tremendous influence on young Yassir after the Mufti returned from Berlin to Cairo. Yasser Arafat himself keeps his exact lineage and birthplace secret.  Saddam Hussein was raised in the house of his uncle Khayrallah Tulfah, who was a leader in the Mufti's pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in May 1941.

This page was produced by Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst 
Brooklyn, New York 
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Portions Copyright © 2001 Joseph Katz
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19 posted on 09/15/2001 8:13:23 AM PDT by Lent
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To: Rudolph
We need to go after them one at a time..no ASA factory bombing...one at a time...

As Israel does ..hunt them down and kill them..listen to every rumor..and elimate the POTENTIAL killers..no more wait and see..

Now hear and kill..let them SEE!

As BIBI just said on TV..the Muslims will die to make this a Muslim world..life has no value to them

So we must protect ours.. our nation must kill first ask questions later...it is them or us..

20 posted on 09/15/2001 9:08:16 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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