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A correction.
In the section Libyan Arab Party, it was Mussollini who was considered/declared a Hero of Islam, or a Sword of Islam.

The closed circle: an interpretation of the Arabs - Pages 200-201 - David Pryce-Jones, David Pryce-Jones - Ivan R. Dee, 25/01/2002 - 464 pages
Intellectuals were attracted by “blood and soil” doctrines that stressed power for its own sake. Michel Aflaq, future theorist of Arab nationalism, was in Paris as a student in 1937, and there he became an enthusiastic admirer of Hitler and Rosenberg, whose ‘’The Myth of the Twentieth Century’’ he read in a French translation.
His Syrian friends were as responsive. One of them, Sami al-Jundi, a future politician, in his memoirs has recorded how he was then reading Nietzsche and
Houston Stewart Chamberlain and was also interested in Mein Kampf. “We were racialists, admiring Nazism” because to the Arab people, he thought, Nazism appeared “the power which could serve as its champion, and he who is defeated will by nature love the victor.” (The generalization is revealing, incidentally, for it is valid in terms of the Arab power-challenge dialectic but ridiculous in other belief systems.)
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Shakib Arslan, in the judgment of his biographer William L. Cleveland, was “arguably the most widely read Arab writer of the interwar period” as well as the principal liaison between the Axis and the Arabs. The Arslans were hereditary Druze emirs. Shakib Arslan, born in 1869, had attended a Maronite school in Beirut and had been appointed governor of the Shuf region of Lebanon by Sultan Abdul Hamid. In his youth, Arslan had known Afghani and Abdu and Zaghlul. Journeys to London and Paris had strengthened his conviction that Islam alone stood between the Arabs and the loss of their identity. In 1927 he traveled to the tenth anniversary celebrations of the Bolshevik Revolution in Moscow. Three years later, he started his newspaper, La Nation Arabe, published in Geneva. In spite of the apparent nationalist and anti-imperialist stance, Arslan was secretly subsidized by the Italians. In 1934 he went to Berlin in the of meeting Hitler and explained to Nazi officials that Germany would have to align itself with the Arabs. The Germans financed his newspaper as the leading organ attacking France and Britain. Arslan nurtured conspiratorial contacts all over the Arab world. Baldur von Schirach, leader of the Hitler Youth, made an extensive tour of the Middle East, and Joseph Goebbels visited Egypt.
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Mussolini was also promoting his prospective empire in the Mediterranean. Pacifying Libya and conquering Abyssinia, Mussolini had himself declared “Hero of Islam,” contrived to form a (http://books.google.com/books?&id=VCQXAQAAIAAJ&q=%22hero+of+islam%22, p. 201:)
Libyan Arab Fascist Party, and on one ludicrous occasion in Tripoli had himself presented with a “Sword of Islam.” In 1935 Radio Bari started broadcasting Fascist propaganda in Arabic. ...
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