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To: dfwgator

Well said.


9 posted on 08/13/2012 12:00:59 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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Related, the Muslim Brotherhood's links with the Nazis.

David Patterson: "A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad," (Cambridge University Press, Oct 18, 2010 - 312 pp.) p. 112
Neither al-Husseini nor the Ikhwan, as the Muslim Brotherhood is known, could tolerate a Jewish presence in Palestine or anywhere else, for that matter support from the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s.
Al-Husseini later indicated that without funding from Germany and assistance from the Brotherhood, he could never have engineered the revolt of 1936-1939...

By 1937, al-Husseini was in control of a movement inspired by the Hitler Youth called Al-Jihad Almuquaddas (The Holy Jihad). On 21 July 1937, he visited Hans Döhle, the German Consul in Jerusalem, to express his support for the Nazis' cause and to enlist the Nazis in his own cause.  

Weeks later, however, on 13 October, al-Husseini was forced to flee from Palestine to Lebanon because he had become a criminal wanted for inciting insurrection against the British Mandate government.

Working from his new base of operations, in 1938 Haj Amin systematically eliminated his Arab Muslim opponents, including members of the Darwash family and especially members of the Nashashibi family, who had supported the Peel Commission's proposal for a two- state solution to the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews.
On al-Husseini's orders, Nashashibi Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Khatib was shot in January 1938, Admon Nashashibi on 4 March 1938, and Sheikh Said al-Khatib on 6 March; on 9 November 1941, Fakhri Bey Nashashibi was assassinated. According to Zvi Elpeleg, the mufti's most important achievement during his tenure in Palestine was the British White Paper of 17 May, 1939...
http://books.google.com/books?id=lMLmK-fmf8kC&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112
10 posted on 08/13/2012 2:36:45 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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