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Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11

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Terrorism is not an area that I will claim to know a great deal about. Rather the Second World War is my forte. Which makes it that much more important for me to have read this book. It was nothing less than utter shock which greeted me when I was finally able to put two and two together. Nazism/fascism had not died with the destruction of the Third Reich. On the contrary, those ideals are alive and well in the Middle East today. After the end of the Second World War Hitler's anti-Semitic ideas became entrenched in Egypt and what today are the Palestinians, amongst a plethora of individuals and future groups/terrorist organizations. The author also makes the argument that after the collapse of the Soviet Union a new anti-US sponsor had to be found, that 'sponsor' turned out to be "Islamism" and everything that comes with it.

It is no wonder that behind practically any and every terrorist attack there is that vehemence against Jews, as if they are the real reason for why this terrorist attack had to happen. Even if on the cover it might be anti-globalization, anti-US _______ fill in the blank, behind it all is the "fact" that the Jews are the ones controlling ALL the moves that the rest of the world makes against the Middle East and, always, in support of Israel. The majority of what is presented here one will hardly find in our news media outlets. One would tend to think that a good portion of the US and the Western World are logical and rational, they cannot blindly accept conspiracy theories, like the idea that the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" are the truth behind how the Jews have been manipulating the world. We cannot fathom the anti-Semitism that gripped Nazi Germany in the 1930's and 1940's but today's terrorists can and do, they are the embodiment of the racist ideals of that period. Terrorists and their supporters have no restraints in regards to how much they will believe the Jews are responsible for, it is an explanation to them for all they have suffered and continue to suffer. I can only commend the author on his efforts and what he will open your eyes to. This book has greatly changed my line of thought in regards to the past half century and terrorism in general.

This book begins by challenging us to examine the roots of Islamism and its anti-semitism. Most have denied that anti-semitism exists in Islam. But the truth is quite startling. The origins of Islam were full of anti-semitic tractates comparing Jews to dogs and encouring the extermination of the Jewish tribes of Arabia. But then a long lull set in. However with the fall of the Ottoman empire Islamism began blaming 'closet Jews' for creating a secular Turkey and Ataturk was seen as a descendant of Jews who converted to Islam.

In Hitler's Germany the dissemination continued with Mien Kampf translated to Arabic and Nazi propoganda in the Muslim world encouraging Islam to wage 'holy war' against England and Zionism. The Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al Husayni, was a collaborator of Hitler and helped raise SS divisions in Muslim Bosnia and Albania. Some of these men also fought against Israel in 1948. But Muslim anti-semitism grew from their as former Nazis found refuge in Syria and Cairo. In BAghdad in 1941 the Arab nationalists had become enthralled with Nazism and the Ba'ath party was based on Nazi ideology.

Later Islamism became entranced with Nazism because it could use this ideology against Israel. Hamas leaders read the Protocols of the Elders of Zionism and while they referred to Israel in the press as a 'nazi state' they also denied the Holocaust.

A fascinating book that deserves to be widely read. The author is a German scholar who has finally connected the dots.

Seth J. Frantzman

Mathias Kuntzel is one of the world's foremost experts on the Middle East. He has given special attention to the role that Anti- Semitism plays in the irrational ideologies of the Muslim world. In this work he shows how the Nazi Anti- Semitic ideologies have been incorporated into the whole pattern of paranoia that dominates Middle Eastern political thinking. He also shows how the those who have failed in modernization have made antisemitic ideas their means of shifting the blame away from themselves. Kuentzel stresses that for the Middle East to truly modernize it must make a determined effort to combat antisemitism.
Kunentzel argues that using Western modes of reasoning does not provide a sufficient basis for understanding Islamist thought. He suggests the suicide- bomber mentality is one which cannot be contended with by gestures of appeasement but one which must be rejected entirely.
In this he warns against the kind of Change imposed by Fascist Middle Eastern regimes and argues for the kind of change impelled by Western and democratic values.
He in other words makes it clears that the antisemitic regimes of the Middle East, and the Islamist terrorists are not simply the enemies of the Jews and Israel but of the Western world as a whole.
A truly outstanding and important work.

Kuntzel's work is timely indeed. It is positive that such a work should come from the heart of "old Europe," as most most of us in the "new-world worry about "Eurabia," and the end of European civilisation on Europe proper. I couldn't fault Kuntzel's excellently researched book but was disappointed with the printing errors in the first edition English translation; which is not very professional for a work of this caliber.

Kuntzel almost alone in the non-English speaking world has pointed out the obvious. It was the Arabs (along with the Argentines)that took in Nazi war criminals after WW2 (some probably live to this day in Cairo and Damascus. A fact sadly overlooked by journalists and historians. The Arab and Muslim role in both the Holocaust (with the Palestinian inspired Bosnian SS division) and post-Holocaust anti-Semitism (one only needs to look at the books sold by Iran at the Frankfurt book fair or the words of their president, or the Hamas Charter) has been mostly ignored in the PC West. Kuntzel belongs alongside such intellectual anti-jihadi greats as Charles Johnson and Robert Spencer.

The book is well researched and well translated. It offers a disturbing window into the Islamo-fascist mindset. Muslim fundamentalism is Nazism with "race" replaced with "religion." In this paradigm Muslims' are the "Aryans" and all others are (to these Muslims) "Kaffirs" (Rejecter in Arabic, interestingly -and perhaps appropriately- this is the same word racist white South Africans use about Blacks). Like Nazism Islamism seeks to dominate the world. It divides the world into the "Land of Peace" and the "Land of War." Like in the Nazi worldview Jews are Islam's enemy number one to the likes of Bin Laden.

Kuntzel's book shows that Europe will wake from its PC slumber and celebrate is immense Judeo-Christian cultural legacy without being constrained by its own fascist past. I hope that Kuntzel's book means that Europeans no longer need to "tolerate the intolerance" of Islamism with its patriachal, sexist, anti-semitic and ultimately anti-western belief system.

This book changed my world view of the struggle that some writers have called World War IV. The role of jew hatred as motivation for the enemies of Western Civilization is not adequatly understood by the members of Western Civilization. This book clearly documents the origins, and the surprising extent of jew hatred in the jihadi mind set.
It is clear, well written and not too long. In order to craft effective stratigy, policy makers should read this book. If jihadi jew hatred is not squarly addressed, the struggle will not end.

This is an extremely important book. Written by a German political scientist and former senior Green Party advisor, a leftist who was shunned by fellow leftists because he made rather uncomfortable historical, political and ideological associations of modern islamists and nazis.

These are important facts that are continually ignored in the MSM.

It is well-written, well-researched and is invaluable to an understanding of the true nature of the islamist threat.

"Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11" is a shocking book. One can almost not believe what Kuntzel has dug up from the misty past. A very disturbing treatise on the dark side of islam and its murky and dangerous streams, such as the muslim brotherhood and its affiliates (Hamas to name one). It is almost as if the reader is slapped hard in the face. A wake up call into the 21st century, while Kuntzel takes you back into the past right up to the beginnings of the 20th century and the start of nazisme and its angry ideology of hate and racism. Most people think that this evil was put to rest with the ending of WW2, but taking in Kuntzel's well researched book, the reader is quickly corrected and pointed in the right direction.

Modern day islamism (the ideology of world domination of islam through jihad {= armed struggle and/or outright warfare and/or migration} is drenched in the nazi past up its armpits. But whatever the reader tries to do in looking the other way, trying to escape the gruesome evidence, Kuntzel keeps confronting the reader with an almost unending list of facts and figures of which their is no escape possible.

This book is a must read for any one who wants to get a jump start on islam, islamism, terrorism and the middle east conflict in Israel/Palestine. If anything, the book must be read.

This book demonstrates that the Koran's teaching of intolerance and Jew-hatred is the reason that the Palestinians want to wipe Israel off the map. This book may not be politically correct, but it is certainly factually correct.

This is a dreadful and shallow study of Islamic antisemitism, which Kuntzel falsely claims to have stemmed from Nazism.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Rather, as Dr. Andrew Bostom shows in the Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, Islam's sacred texts themselves are the font from which Islamic antisemitism springs, and this is further demonstrated by historical accounts, from the time of Mohammed down through the ages. Indeed, Bostom provides the first English translation of Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi's Ph.D. thesis --- Banu Isra'il fi al-Qur'an wa al-Sunna [The Children of Israel in the Qur'an and the Sunna]. Islamic sacred texts, from the ancient to the modern, are replete with hatred for the Jewish people. Furthermore, contemporary "moderate" Islamic scholars like Al Azhar director Tantawi have made a career out disseminating these classical Islamic views.

As Bostom also pointed out in a recent review of this book, Kuntzel makes a travesty of history in his ridiculous claim that Hassan al-Banna's Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928 in Egypt, innovated the "concept of jihad as holy war, which significantly differed from other contemporary doctrines and, associated with that, the passionately pursued goal of dying a martyr's death in the war with the unbeliever." What complete nonsense.

The Qur'an itself mentions jihad 40 times in many grammatical forms, according to seminal Arabic lexicographer Edward William Lane, and with only four exceptions (in Suras 61:09, 16:40, 24:53 and 35:42), the other 36 usages are variations holy war. As Lane taught us in Arabic English Lexicon, "Jahida in the Qur'an and in subsequent Islamic understanding to both Muslim luminaries, from the greatest jurists and scholars of classical Islam (including Abu Yusuf, Averroes, Ibn Khaldun, and Al Ghazzali, to common people, meant and means 'he fought, warred or waged war against unbelievers and the like'," (6 vols, London 1865, p.472).

Kuntzel's book contains what Bostom describes as a "yawning gap of omissions (and significant self-contradictions)" and more disturbingly includes frequent "selective citation and excerpting." For example his "redacted discussion of Albert Speer's memoirs," omits Hitler's "effusive praise for Islam, including the Nazi leader's resentment" that Islam did not conquer and Islamize Germany during its 8th through 11th century jihadist campaigns in Europe. Furthermore Kuntzel misrepresents Sheikh Tantawi's above cited 700 pp. Ph.D. thesis --- segments of which I've read in English --- in which Tantawi repeatedly lauds the hatred of Jews extant throughout the Qur'an and Sunna.

According to my understanding, Kuntzel was before 1991 a West German leader of the Kommunistischer Bund --- a subversive group funded by East Germany --- a fact documented by Germany's Lexicon Freenet entry on the subject.

Anyone considering this author or book educated on the subject of Islamic antisemitism should be sure to read Bostom's work on Islamic Antisemitism, as well as his previous Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims.

There's nothing new about Islamic antisemitism. It's much much older than Nazism, which is exactly why Hitler and Albert Speer so loved Islam, and many Nazis converted and became as devout as Tantawi.

If you read this book, give it the weight of one tenth of a grain of salt, if that. Better yet, don't waste your time on this uneducated and dangerously misleading drivel.

--Alyssa A. Lappen

Kuntzel's book brings to English readers for the first time, the extensive work done in the Nazi archives since the War, bringing to light the role of the Third Reich in changing the course of the modern Middle East. How did this extraordinary time warp, in which Nazism is still a living, breathing, dominant ideology in large parts of the Middle East, come to pass? Everyone who wants to understand the Middle East today must read this book.

To the reviewer who threw a fit because this book is focusing on the role of the Third Reich instead of Koranic antisemitism - don't throw out important facts because you have a different emphasis. Kunztel is not talking about ideology but actual history - what happened, when and through whose agency.

Before the Third Reich helped them, the Moslem brotherhood had less than 1,000 members - yes, that is one thousand - tho' they had been spewing their hate-filled messages for a decade. After the Third Reich helped them, they grew to 100,000 members in a few years and a million members by 1948. the Third Reich gave the jihadists (whose hate of Jews was indeed founded on the Koran) money, trained them in modern propaganda techniques, furnished printing presses, bribed and infiltrated the mainstream Egyptian press, organized mass rallies like those in Germany, forced the government to start an antisemitic campaign, trained the Koranic Jew haters in sabotage and armed them, paid and helped organized the riots in Palestine, gave the Nazi Arabs the most powerful tool of all - a radio station that mixed the Koran and Nazism - and influenced an entire generation throughout the Middle East.

Yassir Arafat, Abdel Nasser were personally trained by German Nazis. These are facts of history, not ideology.

There should be no argument about whether today's genocidal Islamic Jew hatred came from the Koran or the Third Reich - it came from both. Many people, such as the admirable Bostom, have documented the Koranic teaching of hate. Kuntzel is incredibly important in teaching us the other, crucial, intervention that has created the 20-21st century form of jihadism that we are all suffering from. It is a crucial book.