Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam (28 page)

58. Ibid.

59.
Palestine: A Study of Jewish, Arab and British Policies,
609.

60. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 9.

61. Gilbert,
Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century,
120.

62. Chaim Herzog,
Who Stands Accused?: Israel Answers Its Critics
(New York: Random House, 1978).

63. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 9.

64. Gilbert,
Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century,
125.

65. Martin Gilbert,
Israel: A History
(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1998), 64.

66. Maurice Samuel,
What Happened in Palestine
(Boston: Stratford Company, 1929), 88–89.

67. One of the members of the Shaw commission, Lord Harry Snell, dissented from the commission report, submitting a minority statement challenging the report’s exoneration of the mufti of responsibility for the 1929 riots. Snell believed that the commission should have been tougher on the mufti. “I therefore attribute to the Mufti,” stated Lord Snell, “a greater share in the responsibility for the disturbances than is attributed to him in the report. I am of the opinion that the Mufti must bear the blame for his failure to make any effort to control the character of the agitation conducted in the name of a religion of which in Palestine he was the head.” Ibid., 617.

68. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 9.

69. Gilbert,
Israel: A History,
80.

70. Howard M. Sachar,
A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976), 200.

71. Ibid.

72. Ibid.

73. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 12.

74. Ibid.

75. Mathew Gutman, “Brothers in Arms,”
Jerusalem Post,
November 4, 2004. Quoted in Steven Emerson,
Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the United States
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006), 238.

76. Quoted in ibid., 38.

77. Ibid.

78. John Roy Carlson,
Cairo to Damascus
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951), 92.

79. Ibid., 89–90.

80. Bernard Lewis,
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
(New York: Random House, 2004), 76–77.

81. David Horowitz,
Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004), 124.

82. Sayyid Qutb,
Our Struggle with the Jews
(Saudi Arabia, 1970), 7. Quoted in Gabriel Schoenfeld,
The Return of Anti-Semitism
(San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2004), 41.

CHAPTER
3:
PARTNERS IN GENOCIDE

1. Lewis,
The Crisis of Islam,
59–60.

2.
The New York Times,
January 30, 1937; this
New York Times
quote is also cited in Joseph B. Schechtman,
The Mufti and the Fuhrer: The Rise and Fall of Haj-Amin el-Husseini
(New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1965), 76–77.

3. Lewis,
Semites and Anti-Semites,
148–149.

4. Quoted in ibid., 147–148.

5. In his response, the führer “took note with great interest of the statements made to him in the name of the King,” thanked Farouk “for his confidential disclosures which the Ambassador communicated to him,” and told the Egyptian king that he “gladly” anticipated “a closer cooperation with him.” Freda Kirchwey et al.,
The Record of Collaboration of King Farouk of Egypt with the Nazis and Their Ally, the Mufti: The Official Nazi Records of the King’s Alliance and of the Mufti’s Plans for Bombing Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—Memorandum Submitted to the United Nations
(New York: Nation Associates, 1948), 3. Sometime later, Farouk “actually promised to join the Axis forces, and gave his blessings to the betrayal of British military dispositions to the German forces engaged in the battle for Egypt.” Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 17.

6. Kirchwey et al.,
Record of Collaboration,
5.

7. Ibid., 5–6.

8. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 15; and David Storobin, “Nazi Roots of Palestinian Nationalism,”
Think Israel
(January–February 2005),
www.think-israel.org/storobin.nazis.html
, 2.

9. Jon Meacham.
Franklin and Winston
(New York: Random House, 2003), 60.

10. George Michael,
The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006), 114.

11. John Gunther,
Inside Asia
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939), 552; also quoted in Schechtman,
The Mufti and the Führer,
84.

12. Lukasz Hirszowicz,
The Third Reich and the Arab East
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966), 109.

13. Ibid.

14. Morse,
The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism,
51.

15. Saul S. Friedman,
A History of the Holocaust
(London: Valentine Mitchell, 2004), 337.

16. Kenneth R. Timmerman,
The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), 1.

17. Morse,
The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism,
54.

18. Martin Gilbert,
The Churchill War Papers,
vol. 3, 1941:
The Ever-Widening War
(London: William Heinemann, 2000), 1153.

19. Ibid., 1263.

20. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
106.

21. Michael Bar-Zohar and Eitan Haber,
The Quest for the Red Prince
(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1983), 49.

22. Ibid.

23. Daniel Carpi,
The Axis of Anti-Semitism
(Quebec, Canada: Dawn Publishing Company, Ltd., 1985), 9.

24. Matter,
The Mufti of Jerusalem;
and Carpi,
The Axis of Anti-Semitism,
9.

25. Carpi,
The Axis of Anti-Semitism,
9.

26. Bar-Zohar and Haber,
The Quest for the Red Prince,
48–49.

27. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 18.

28. Lewis,
Semites and Anti-Semites,
147.

29. Ronald J. Rychlak, “Hitler’s Mufti: The Dark Legacy of Haj Amin al-Husseini,”
Crisis
magazine, November 2005, 15.

30. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
107; Michael,
The Enemy of My Enemy,
116; and Norman Cameron and R. H. Steven, trans.,
Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941–1944
(New York: Enigma Books, 2000), 547.

31. Adolf Hitler,
Secret Conversations, 1941–1944,
443–444. Quoted in Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 17.

32. Rychlak, “Hitler’s Mufti,” 15.

33. Michael,
The Enemy of My Enemy,
330.

34. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 17–18.

35. Rychlak, “Hitler’s Mufti,” 15.

36. Michael Bloch,
Ribbentrop
(New York: Crown, 1992), 204.

37. Speeches of His Eminence the Grand Mufti at the Protest Rally Against the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1943, Islamisches Zentralinstitut, Berlin, Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 23.

38. Freda Kirchwey et al.,
The Arab Higher Committee, Its Origins, Personnel, and Purposes: The Documentary Record Submitted to the United Nations
(New York: Nation Associates, 1947).

39. Bloch,
Ribbentrop,
401–402.

40. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 22.

41. Ibid., 21–22.

42. Ibid., 21.

43. Ibid.

44. Himmler’s role as chief architect of the Final Solution is discussed and analyzed in much substantive detail in Richard Breitman,
Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991).

45. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 23.

46. Leo Heiman, “Eichmann and the Arabs,”
Jewish Digest,
June 1961, 1.

47. Ibid., 160. As Peter Malkin and Harry Stein have documented, “In 1943 and 1944, accompanied by Eichmann, he [the mufti] had secretly inspected Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz, closely questioning the guides on the workings of the facilities.” Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein,
Eichmann in My Hands
(New York: Warner Books, 1990), 38.

48. Paul Longgrear and Raymond McNemar, “The Arab/Muslim Nazi Connection,”
Canadian Friends
(International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem, 2003),
www.cdn-friendsicej.ca/medigest/mayoo/arab.Nazi.html
.

49. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 28.

50.
Jerusalem Post International Edition,
July 9, 1974, 5.

51. Rafael Medoff, “The Mufti’s Nazi Years Re-examined,”
Journal of Israeli History
17, no. 3 (1996): 325.

52. Ibid.

53. Pearlman,
Mufti of Jerusalem,
42–43.

54. Ibid., 43.

55. Ibid.

56. Ibid., 46.

57. Quoted in Richard Bonney,
Jihad: From Qur’an to bin Laden
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 276.

58. Pearlman,
Mufti of Jerusalem,
49.

59. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 26; also quoted in Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin,
Why the Jews?: The Reason for Anti-Semitism
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 123; and in Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
109–110.

60. Zvi Elpeleg,
The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement,
David Harvey, trans. (London: Frank Cass & Co., 1993), 179; this speech of al-Husseini’s is also quoted in Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
109; and in Pearlman,
Mufti of Jerusalem,
51.

61. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
110.

62. Ibid.

63. Pearlman,
Mufti of Jerusalem,
48.

64. Lewis,
Semites and Anti-Semites,
157.

65. Pearlman,
Mufti of Jerusalem,
68.

66. Ibid.

67. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian,” 24.

68. Ibid., 21.

69. Michael,
The Enemy of My Enemy,
117; the history of the Waffen-SS Handschar Division is discussed in much detail in George Lepre,
Himmler’s Bosnian Division: The Waffen-SS Handschar Division, 1943–1945
(Arglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1997).

70. Quoted in Lepre,
Himmler’s Bosnian Division,
31–32.

71. Carl K. Savich, “Islam Under the Swastika: The Grand Mufti and the Nazi Protectorate of Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1941–1944,” (online article, 2001), 9.

72. Cooper, “Forgotten Palestinian.”

73. Kermit Roosevelt, “The Puzzle of Jerusalem’s Mufti,”
Saturday Evening Post,
August 28, 1948, 27.

74. Ibid., 27 and 165.

75. Michael,
The Enemy of My Enemy,
117.

76. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
110.

77. Ibid.

78. Ibid., 111.

79. Quoted in Bonney,
Jihad: From Qur’an to bin Laden,
275–276.

80. Edgar Answel Mowrer, “Official Documents Convict Mufti of Complicity in 6,000,000 Murders,”
New York Post,
June 13, 1946, 2. Cited in Medoff, “The Mufti’s Nazi Years Re-examined,” 329.

81. Medoff, “The Mufti’s Nazi Years Re-examined,” 329. Eichmann himself, in his testimony at his own trial in 1961, also confirmed that the Nazis had “an agreement with the Grand Mufti” to prevent immigration to Palestine. Eichmann Trial Proceedings, Jerusalem, 1962, Session No. 58, 1053, cited in Medoff, “The Mufti’s Nazi Years Re-examined.”