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An Important "Lost Chapter" in Middle East History, May 8, 2004
This review is from: The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini (Paperback)
Jew-hatred in the Islamic Middle East is at tremendous heights, and stands as a major obstacle to peace. How many know, however, that it was Hitler's man in Jerusalem, the old Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who was most directy responsible for stoking the fires of Jew-hatred through his intimate connections with the Nazi regime. One of the big war-criminals who participated in the Jewish Holocaust, organizer of the Hansar Division of Muslim Nazis (with swastikas on their Fez hats) who enthusiastically slaughtered Jews, Gypsies and Serbs in the Balkans, who later organized coups against the British in Iraq, and fled with many old Nazis after the war to various Islamic nations, which welcomed them with open arms. Escaping the Nuremburg war crimes trials, and the hangman's noose, after the war years Al-Husseini went on to manipulate Middle East politics from behind the curtain -- always with the goal towards extermination of the remaining Jewish populations. Yasser Arafat was one of his minions, as was Nasser of Egypt, who filled his ranks with old SS officers who had escaped from Germany. Goebbels uebermensche anti-Jewish propaganda, circulated widely in Europe and the Middle East, was adopted by the Islamist and Palestinian terror groups, and today the same old recycled Nazi lies are being spread by mainstream Arab and Muslim news sources. This stands as a major obstacle to peace, but it is one which Western journalists are more likely to be ignorant of, or to be willfully disbelieving about. An incredible history is summarized in this book by Chuck Morse, facts which rarely get into the standard histories of the Middle East, or of Europe, due to a widespread emotional "blind spot" (or willful lies of omission) which seems to persist into this day, where Islamic fanatics are so often given a "free pass", allowing Jews to continually be misportrayed as the source of the world's evil. With Americans increasingly being cast as "The Devil" by the Islamists, taking on the same role as scapegoat as was historically reserved for the Jews, these facts of history need more attention, not less, and after 9-11 we ignore this material at our peril.
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48 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
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From Hitler to Hamas, January 15, 2006
This review is from: The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini (Paperback)
Haj Amin al-Husseini represented the opposite of the noble Emir Faisal Ibn Husein, the enlightened Arab King of Hejaz who had cordial relations with Chaim Weizmann and wanted to achieve a peaceful Middle East with co-operation between Jew and Arab.
Unfortunately Al-Husseini's ideology of hatred won out. As Grand Mufti of Jerusalem he spearheaded the imperialistic or utopian strain of Islam that has turned into a modern hydra. In 1920 he organised the murder of Jews who were praying at the Wailing Wall, and he never looked back. Throughout the rest of his time in Palestine he furthered his murderous designs because of the British policy of appeasement, with further campaigns in 1929 and from 1936.
In the 1930s Al-Husseini became a proponent of Hitler, eventually settling in Berlin where he encouraged the annihilation of European Jews and planned to become the leader of the Arab world in expectation of an Axis victory. He unceasingly promoted the Holocaust and Nazism amongst the Arabs. This strain of Nazism was a blend of National Socialism and fundamentalist Islam that would make deep inroads into the Arab world.
After the war Al-Husseini fled to Cairo where was instrumental in accommodating fleeing Nazis and organising for the destruction of Israel. The hatred of Israel now took on a Leftist flavour as the Soviet Union became the champion of the Arab cause. Arab leaders like Gamal Abdel Nasser, Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat were all influenced by his hateful ideas.
Al-Husseini did not only target Jews, but also moderate Arabs and the free West in general. Nazism was the spiritual and physical bridge by which Islamic extremism became prominent in the Arab world. He introduced the demented belief that utopia could be achieved on earth by the destruction of Israel and the annihilation of the Jews.
This malevolent Islamo-Fascism is the cause of much of the misery in the Arab world today and at the root of the hatred of non-Muslims, particularly the United States and Israel. In this, the extremists are assisted by international leftists. The Western democracies are now tasting the fruit of a decades long policy of appeasement towards this odious movement and its demonic founder.
But there is still a chance that the legacy of Emir Faisal might prevail, although recent developments in France and Europe as a whole do not look promising. Al-Husseini was without doubt one of the most evil personalities of the 20th century as meticulously documented in this revealing book.
Plenty of black and white photographs enhance the text, illustrating Al-Husseini's meetings with Nazi and Arab leaders, and of Bosnian Muslim brigades in World War II.
There are nine indices with documentary evidence of the historical narrative. Appendix A is the Balfour Declaration of 1917, B provides excerpts of the correspondence of King Faisal, C is the Weizmann-Faisal Agreement of 1919, D provides a dialogue between Lord Peel and Husseini from the Palestine Royal Commission Report.
Appendix E gives the minutes of a meeting between Hitler and Al-Husseini, F is an excerpt from the diary of Al-Husseini on his meeting with Hitler, G is a letter in which he asks the Hungarian government to send 1000 Jews to their death in Poland instead of allowing them to escape to Israel, H is his address to Arab-Americans and I is the Palestine National Covenant that denies the right of Israel to exist.
The text concludes with a moving prayer for the state of Israel by the Chief Rabbinate. It is a prayer that all true Christians would do well to heed and incorporate into their worship in these trying times. The book concludes with notes, an index and biographical information on the author.
I also recommend The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy by Stephanie Gutmann, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood by Michael l Brown, Dream Palace Of The Arabs by Fouad Ajami, Israel: Life in the Shadow of Terror by Nechemia Coopersmith, Myths And Facts by Mitchell G Bard and Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And The American Left by David Horowitz.
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Very relevant today. Amazing information., January 23, 2007
This review is from: The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini (Paperback)
A very informative and revealing book on the role that Al-Husseini played in bringing about the dangerous situation in which we, in all the world, are living today. It leaves many questions unanswered, though, like: how or why the British, and later the French, favored this psycho so unashamedly. The crimes of this devilish man being left unpunished -even covered-up- claim for an explanation that is not offered here.
About 130 pages of fast and furious read. Very relevant to understand today's crisis between the suicidal West and the paranoid Muslim world. It has some very good analyses of the Palestinian conflict. It covers many issues related to the terrorism suffered by Israel thru the personal observation of relevant figures, not only Al-Husseini.
A book covering the whole 20th century, and practically the whole world geographically.
The Holocaust denial that is emerging in some parts of the West is a clear sign (as referred to in page 100) of more trouble on the horizon.
Do you still not know that God will bless those who bless Israel, for truly it is His people? So, also, he will crunch those who mistreat her.
Things pass slowly but surely. This short book gives a tremendous global view of what really matters in the world today. Capture the vision.
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