[NativeNewYorker]

Perhaps the numerous accounts I've read, detailing the cooperation between the Nazis and the mullahs of that era were all in error.

In 1937 the Grand Mufti expressed his solidarity with Germany, asking the Nazi Third Reich to oppose establishment of a Jewish state...

Then again, maybe not.

[jude24]

A meeting in 1937 does not establish "tie[s between] Western authoritarianism" and the "current burst of Islamic bloodshed."