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Author Reveals Depths of Hatred in Muslim World
By Sean Grindlay
November 25, 2003
Posted on 11/27/2003 11:39:09 AM PST by walford
Author Reveals Depths of Hatred in Muslim World By Sean Grindlay
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Anyone trying to make sense of the situation in the Middle East must understand the mindset that pervades most of the Muslim world, says Kenneth Timmerman, author of Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America. This mindset, he says, is characterized by an extremely intense and deep-seated hatred of all things Jewish-and, by extension, all things Western. Timmerman discussed this and other aspects of his book at a November 20 luncheon held by Accuracy in Media.
Drawing on his extensive research and experience in the Middle East (including personal encounters with terrorists, such as being held hostage by them for 24 days), Timmerman reveals the astonishing extent to which Jews are vilified in many Islamic countries. Much of the hostility is based on irrational myths about Judaism that are often accepted without question.
For instance, the text known as “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” supposedly containing the proceedings of a meeting of Jewish conspirators, has long been debunked as a hoax fabricated in 1895 by minions of the Russian Czar. In many Muslim countries, however, the “Protocols” are widely believed-by illiterates and Ph.D.’s alike-to be a genuine account of Jewish plans to take over the world.
Other pervasive beliefs, Timmerman reports, include the notion that rabbis must sacrifice a Gentile at Passover and the claim that “not one stone in Jerusalem belongs to the Jews.” In Saudi schools, where terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was taught, textbooks state that Jews are “the sons of monkeys and pigs.” In many of the maps produced in the Arab world, the state of Israel does not appear-its entire area is included as part of Palestine.
Timmerman also details how Muslim clerics-who in most Islamic nations are appointed by the government-often talk out of both sides of their mouths regarding terrorism. One Saudi cleric recently won praise in the West for condemning a terrorist bombing in his country. But this same cleric, far from being a voice for peace, had previously appeared on a telethon raising money for the families of suicide bombers.
One especially eye-opening truth Timmerman discusses is the historical connection between Nazism and the modern “Arab nationalist” movement. One influential Islamic leader, Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was so obsessed with his hatred of Jews that he became a close friend of the Third Reich. Spending much of World War II in Germany, al-Husseini collaborated with the architects of the Holocaust, recruited Muslims to the SS, and served as a spokesman for Hitler on Arabic radio, telling his listeners, “Kill the Jews wherever you find them.”
After the collapse of Nazi Germany, Timmerman reports, al-Husseini was indicted for war crimes but fled to France and later to Egypt. Although living in exile, he continued in his role as unofficial leader of the Arab nationalist movement and became, not surprisingly, a fierce opponent of the state of Israel. Upon his death in 1974, he was succeeded by his nephew, disciple, and protégé, a young man who came to be known to the world as Yasser Arafat. As recently as last year, Arafat referred to al-Husseini as “our hero.”
Arafat, of course, is a major subject of Preachers of Hate. Timmerman shows that the Palestinian leader has no desire for peace, nor is peace possible under his watch. After signing the famous Oslo Accords of 1993, Arafat said in a speech at a mosque, “This agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement which had been signed between our prophet Muhammed and the Quraish.”
His reference was to the Hudaibiya peace treaty made between Muhammed and an enemy tribe. Because Muhammed did not include the words “messenger of Allah” under his signature, his followers considered it an “inferior peace agreement” which they could break at will. Indeed, two years later, when they had grown stronger, Muhammed’s forces violated the treaty by slaughtering all the members of the Quraish. Arafat’s habit of comparing his agreements with Israel to the Hudaibiya treaty should put to rest the notion that he has any interest in peace, Timmerman says; to Arafat, “peace” means the destruction of Israel.
But such revelations garner little attention in the mainstream media, says Timmerman, a veteran reporter who has written for such publications as Time, Newsweek, and Reader’s Digest. For many media outlets, “a story about Jew-haters is not a story,” he laments. His frustration with the media establishment was among his reasons for writing Preachers of Hate.
Timmerman makes certain to emphasize that the widespread hatred he describes in his book does not apply only to Jews. Because of the close relationship between the United States and Israel and our shared heritage and institutions, this “anti-Semitism” carries over to Americans as well, as the September 11 attacks made all too clear. “When they hate Jews, they hate us,” Timmerman warns. “What begins with the Jews never ends with the Jews.”
Sean Grindlay is an intern at Accuracy In Media and can be contacted at aimintern@yahoo.com
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With the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Mufti moved to Egypt where he was received as a national hero. After the war al-Husseini was indicted by Yugoslavia for war crimes, but escaped prosecution. The Mufti was never tried because the Allies were afraid of the storm in the Arab world if the hero of Arab nationalism was treated as a war criminal.
From Egypt al-Husseini was among the sponsors of the 1948 war against the new State of Israel. Spurned by the Jordanian monarch, who gave the position of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem to someone else, Haj Amin al-Husseini arranged King Abdullah's assassination in 1951, while still living in exile in Egypt. King Tallal followed Abdullah as king of Jordan, and he refused to give permission to Amin al-Husseini to come into Jordanian Jerusalem. After one year, King Tallal was declared incompetent; the new King Hussein also refused to give al-Husseini permission to enter Jerusalem. King Hussein recognized that the former Grand Mufti would only stir up trouble and was a danger to peace in the region.
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"In my view, the stakes are much higher in the war on terror than in anything we've faced since World War II, and probably World War II as well," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers.
Politicians cannot guide our Republic through these early 21st century threats. By their very nature they put themselves and their party ahead of Country. Only a patriot-dictator can save our Republic. I'd rather lose the Constitution temporarily than permanently. The political/media quagmire is so much like the Vietnam era it's scary.
Don't tell me about W.W.II, FDR and Truman. The only business in those days was winning the war.
KINDA sounds like the myriad of conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's assassination ...
What I fear is our very own anti-sovereignty, anti-U.S.-millitary left. What a great opportunity for them to turn over our sovereignty and military power to an international group to "fight" terrorism.
Hear them and their drooling idiot, mindless liberal followers spluttering 24/7 about the President's unilateralism and alienation of the world's peoples. Every hour a new "issue" to use to attack our wartime administration.
Former Sec. of State Albright said on the Medved show that she would give up sovereignty for safety. The "moderate" Democrat DLC website praises the Third Way and calls for a "new social contract" for the world's peoples. Our conservatism and 20th century liberalism should be dumped, they say.
That is how we could lose our Constitution and we will never get it back. These pukes are of the leftist ilk that murdered at least one hundred million of their fellow citizens trying to create an international paradise. They are the real threat to our Constitution and Republic.
They will not stop. They must be stopped.
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