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Saudi government notes that Muslim Brotherhood worked with Nazis during World War II

Feb 20, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

This has been known for a long time. It’s all in The History of Jihad.

From 1941 to 1945, al-Husseini lived in Berlin, where he became close friends with Adolf Eichmann and Heinrich Himmler, and met with Adolf Hitler. Eichmann’s assistant, Dieter Wisliczeny, testified at the Nuremberg Trials that the mufti had been a central figure in the planning of the genocide of the Jews:

The Grand Mufti has repeatedly suggested to the Nazi authorities—including Hitler, von Ribbentrop and Himmler—the extermination of European Jewry. He considered this a comfortable solution to the Palestine problem.…The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan. He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

Eichmann denied this, but in any case, there is no doubt of the fact that the mufti was openly calling for the mass murder of Jews. In a broadcast on July 7, 1942, the mufti exhorted Muslims in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Palestine to kill Jews, basing his exhortation on a flagrant lie:

A large number of Jews residing in Egypt and a number of Poles, Greeks, Armenians and Free French, have been issued with revolvers and ammunition in order to help them against the Egyptians at the last moment, when Britain is forced to evacuate Egypt.

In the face of this barbaric procedure by the British we think it best, if the life of the Egyptian nation is to be saved, that the Egyptians rise as one man to kill the Jews before they have a chance of betraying the Egyptian people. It is the duty of the Egyptians to annihilate the Jews and to destroy their property.…

You must kill the Jews, before they open fire on you. Kill the Jews, who have appropriated your wealth and who are plotting against your security. Arabs of Syria, Iraq and Palestine, what are you waiting for? The Jews are planning to violate your women, to kill your children and to destroy you. According to the Muslim religion, the defense of your life is a duty which can only be fulfilled by annihilating the Jews. This is your best opportunity to get rid of this dirty race, which has usurped your rights and brought misfortune and destruction on your countries. Kill the Jews, burn their property, destroy their stores, annihilate these base supporters of British imperialism. Your sole hope of salvation lies in annihilating the Jews before they annihilate you.

Al-Husseini also actively intervened on numerous occasions to ensure that Jews were not deported from Europe—thereby ensuring that extermination was the only option left for the fanatical Nazi Jew-haters, just as Netanyahu said. As late as July 25, 1944, al-Husseini wrote to Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German minister for foreign affairs:

I have previously called the attention of your Excellency to the constant attempts of the Jews to emigrate from Europe in order to reach Palestine and asked your Excellency to undertake the necessary steps so as to prevent the Jews from emigrating. I had also sent you a letter, under date of June 5, 1944, in regard to the plan for an exchange of Egyptians living in Germany with Palestinian Germans, in which I asked you to exclude the Jews from this plan of exchange. I have, however, learned that the Jews did depart on July 2, 1944, and I am afraid that further groups of Jews will leave for Palestine from Germany and France to be exchanged for Palestinian Germans.

This exchange on the part of the Germans would encourage the Balkan countries likewise to send their Jews to Palestine. This stop would be incomprehensible to the Arabs and Moslems after your Excellency’s declaration of November 2, 1943 that “the destruction of the so-called Jewish national home in Palestine is an immutable part of the policy of the greater German Reich” and it would create in them a feeling of keen disappointment.

It is for this reason that I ask your Excellency to do all that is necessary to prohibit the emigration of Jews to Palestine, and in this way your Excellency would give a new practical example of the policy of the naturally allied and friendly Germany towards the Arab Nation.

According to the Arab Higher Committee, “In virtually identical letters, the Mufti, in the summer of 1944, approached Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary to speed up the extermination of the Jews by sending them to Poland where the Nazi death chambers were located.”

Whatever the mufti’s actual role in the establishment of the Nazi death camps, he certainly approved of their work, saying confidently: “The Arab nation awaits the solution of the world Jewish problem by its friends, the Axis powers.”

Al-Husseini was a committed collaborator with the Nazis, traveling from Berlin to Bosnia in 1943 to raise up a Muslim SS company, which was responsible for killing ninety percent of the Jews in Bosnia, as well as for the burning of numerous Serbian churches. He noted the convergence of the goals of Islamic jihad and those of the Nazis. “It is the duty of Muhammadans in general and Arabs in particular to…drive all Jews from Arab and Muhammadan countries.…Germany is also struggling against the common foe who oppressed Arabs and Muhammadans in their different countries. It has very clearly recognized the Jews for what they are and resolved to find a definitive solution [endgültige Lösung] for the Jewish danger that will eliminate the scourge that Jews represent in the world.”

The mufti also made radio broadcasts in Arabic from Berlin that were beamed into the Arabic-speaking world, using Islam to bring Arabs over to Hitler’s side. On May 9, 1941, he broadcast a fatwa calling upon Muslims in Iraq to wage jihad against the British. In response, Muslims in Iraq began murdering Jews, ultimately killing 128 while destroying well over a thousand Jewish businesses and homes.

That was just what the mufti wanted, and he wanted much more. On November 2, 1943, he decried “the overwhelming egoism which lies in the character of Jews, their unworthy belief that they are God’s chosen nation and their assertion that all was created for them and that other people are animals.” All that, he said, made Jews “incapable of being trusted. They cannot mix with any other nation but live as parasites among the nations, suck out their blood, embezzle their property, corrupt their morals.” In a 1944 broadcast, he was more succinct: “Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases Allah, history, and religion.” His call was an echo of the Qur’an’s call to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89) and to “kill the idolaters wherever you find them.” (9:5)

This Saudi article asserts that “al-Bana served the Nazis in order to advance the Muslim Brotherhood political goals, with Al-Husseini connecting between the parties.” Clearly al-Husseini had plenty of Nazi ties himself.

“Saudi Arabia accuses Muslim Brotherhood of working with the Nazis,” by Omri Ron, Jerusalem Post, February 19, 2020:

Saudi Arabia claimed on Tuesday that Muslim brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Bana has worked for the Nazis in the past, according to Washington D.C.-Based Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI….

In this instance, the Saudi government’s daily newspaper ‘Okaz’ published an article titled “The Nazi Brotherhood” according to which the founder of the movement, as well the Jerusalem mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini had ties to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party during World War 2.

According to the article, Al-Bana served the Nazis in order to advance the Muslim Brotherhood political goals, with Al-Husseini connecting between the parties. The article also mentioned that the two served as spies for the Third Reich while collaborating with the British intelligence, as well as recruiting soldiers to serve in Hitler’s army.

“Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Bana maintained secret ties with several foreign intelligence apparatuses, with the aim of [gaining] support for his political agendas, of taking power [in Egypt], increasing the scope of his influence, and realizing his political ambitions as part of [the plan to] establish [the MB as] the Islamic Leadership of the World,” the article stated.

The article also focused on the ties between Al-Husseini and the Nazi movement: “Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem and the MB representative in Palestine, was the liaison who managed the recruitment of the Arabs to fight under the flag of the Nazi army.”

In a speech to delegates at the 37th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem in 2015, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a great deal of criticism after claiming that Hitler’s original intentions were solely to expel the Jews, saying the Mufti of Jerusalem changed his mind.

According to Netanyahu’s speech, the Fuhrer changed his mind at the insistence of the Palestinian leader at the time, Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who argued that the expulsion of the Jews would result in their arrival en masse to Palestine, which at the time was under British Mandatory rule.

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic antisemitism, Israel, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian jihad, Saudi Arabia Tagged With: Adolf Hitler, Benjamin Netanyahu, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Hassan al-Banna, Okaz


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  1. mortimer says

    Feb 20, 2020 at 2:13 pm

    Saudi Arabia deserves two points for veracity in the matter of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood (it is known) was based in Egypt upon the model of the Italian and German fascist parties led by Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

    The Muslim Brotherhood may well be considered the Islamic equivalent of the ‘Nazi Party’ in Egypt.

    If Western governments and LEFTARDS only realized what the Saudi newspaper Okaz is saying is accurate … we would be able to ban the MB in many Western countries as a terrorist organization.

    • WithPurpleAbandon says

      Feb 20, 2020 at 2:58 pm

      “Saudi Arabia deserves two points for veracity in the matter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

      At this stage, KSA is quick to condemn the MB, but in a different era they helped create this monstrous organization, mortimer. When Sayyid Qutb died on the gallows in 1966 in Egypt, his brother Muhammad Qutb took refuge in Saudi Arabia, where he started editing and publishing Sayyid’s books and taught as a professor of Islamic Studies, where he died in 2014.

      And one of his students was Osama Bin Laden, no less. Pretty rich coming from KSA that they should find the MB working with Nazis in the past offensive to their sensitivities. Muhammed Qutb had been living in the counrty during 9/11 so there you go. How many of these 9/11 terrorists were actually Saudi ? Because I can’t recall…

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 20, 2020 at 9:47 pm

        Important points, WithPurpleAbandon.

      • mortimer says

        Feb 20, 2020 at 11:44 pm

        Yes, WPA, KSA has lived to regret the mistaken judgement of previous kings and their previous advisors. The MB and Qutb have inspired the overthrow of the House of Saud and that put them in the permanent bad books. No doubt, Qutb has many fans in KSA and the undercovers are watching them. They will be well acquainted with Saudi’s charming prisons.

        Arab alliances last at most for less than ten years. About 95% of Qutbism would be acceptable to the Saudis. The other 5% of differences between Salafism and Qutbism are what alarms the House of Saud.

    • WithPurpleAbandon says

      Feb 20, 2020 at 3:45 pm

      So here’s what we’re looking at:

      The MB is a political vanguard with totalitarian aspirations (like the bolsheviks or Hitler’s SA) And one of its remaining ideologues found refuge in KSA, where he lectured to students inspired by his writings to go fight the infidels in Afghanistan (the Soviets and their Afghan communist associates), something the government of KSA naturally turned a blind eye to at the time. They shared a common goal at this point.

      Consecutive KSA governments let this simply fester, even well after the Soviet-Afghan War was over, and this man simply stayed put and kept lecturing to his heart’s content. Which lumbered the whole world with a globalized terrorist organization like Al Qaeda and its many offshoots. Plus, Muhammed Qutb’s writings still serve to inspire these terrorists today, they are still influential.

      And in this day and age, KSA has designated the MB a terrorist organization whose goals run contrary to its own internal stability and safety. In other words, totalitarians can serve a common purpose during some eras of history, and at some stage they form a recognizable threat. “Better ged rid of them !”

      So there’s an awful lot of hypocrisy involved in this so-called veracity of the Saudi government and its media outlets, I reckon. They keep themselves occupied with scrutinizing the past, but they won’t look at how they themselves helped rear all these totalitarian terrorists today.

      A diversionary tactic of the KSA government, but they sure as hell won’t have a good look at themselves.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 20, 2020 at 9:49 pm

        Fine analysis.

      • mortimer says

        Feb 20, 2020 at 11:46 pm

        Agree. ‘Diversionary’ is their middle name.

    • David says

      Feb 21, 2020 at 7:42 am

      An informative article. I had wondered why Hitler didn’t save himself a huge amount of effort and money by just deporting the Jews. Now it all becomes obvious.
      “Incapable of being trusted. They cannot mix with any other nation but live as parasites among the nations, suck out their blood, embezzle their property, corrupt their morals.” This is a perfect description of muslims. How interesting.

      • maemae77 says

        Feb 22, 2020 at 2:59 am

        Exactly, It’s crazy how most Americans don’t even see that type of jihad even though it’s right in front of their faces.

  2. Merri-joy says

    Feb 20, 2020 at 3:10 pm

    Agree! How about prosecuting the Muslim Brotherhood and all it’s members with War Crimes and make them pay compensation – just as the Germans & Japanese had to after WW2

  3. somehistory says

    Feb 20, 2020 at 4:31 pm

    Two branches of satan the devil’s children. Eating from the same “table of demons.”
    Many, many, have known this for a very, very long time. It is not “news.”

  4. ntesdorf says

    Feb 20, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    I have never seen a photo of Adolf Hitler looking so happy and excited as that one showing him in conversation with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem al-Husseini as they swapped ideas and tips on how to get rid of the Jews.

  5. gravenimage says

    Feb 20, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    Saudi government notes that Muslim Brotherhood worked with Nazis during World War II
    …………………….

    Absolutely true.

    The Saudis also consider the Muslim Brotherhood as internal enemies and a threat to their rule–which they are. But the Saudis are not otherwise particularly opposed to the views of the Muslim Brotherhood–including their unhinged antisemitism.

    • Infidel says

      Feb 20, 2020 at 11:53 pm

      Yeah, the Saudi vector for islamic dawa and everything else is the World Muslim Congress: they make it a point that that organization passes under the RADAR. So they blast the Ikhwan so that the WMC is the quiet agent, but in the process, they manage to convince Western policy ‘experts’ that they’re moderate (never mind that they’re a theocratic regime w/ a creepy level of control over everyone’s lives to a scale bested only by China today). It’s like their denounciation of that Malaysia based ‘anti-islamophobia’ conference a month ago, where they didn’t want their OIC to get superseded.

      However, one thing I read recently is that their cash is tightening, thanks to a combination of falling energy prices, them losing more customers to Russia and the US, as well as them having to financially support countries like Pakistan to prevent them from going over to Turkey’s side. As a result, they’ve decided to stop financing mosques and dawa outside their country.

      Now, if only that compulsion spread to Qatar, Kuwait and the Emirates

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 21, 2020 at 11:04 pm

        True.

    • David says

      Feb 21, 2020 at 7:51 am

      Muslims: They have their differences, but agree on one thing: Death to all Jews.

      • Infidel says

        Feb 21, 2020 at 1:34 pm

        And other infidels, depending on where they are. Be it Christians in the East Indies and the Middle East, Hindus, Christians and Buddhists in the subcontinent and so on

  6. Don Ameche says

    Feb 21, 2020 at 8:59 am

    This is an important admission by the Saudis . We all knew this to be the case. Now we need the Jihadist Gov’t in Turkey to admit to one of the FIRST and most brutal genocides in the 20th Century…. The Armenians. Which happened Before even the Soviet Socialists and the Nazi Socialist genocides.

    • Linde Barrera says

      Feb 21, 2020 at 9:54 am

      To Don Ameche-No chance that Turkey will admit to murdering 1.5 million Armenians. Erdogan said “About 25,000 Armenians died”. So remember, he was elected president but in my eyes he is the dictator of Turkey, so what he says doesn’t go-it stays and festers.

  7. jca reid says

    Feb 21, 2020 at 11:28 am

    The entire Arab world worked with the Nazis before, during & after WW2. All this is, is a facile attempt to ingratiate themselves with the West as people wake up to what Islam is all about & the Saudis are at its head. The deviousness, corruption, hypocrisy, blatant lying & perversion of human values.

  8. OLD GUY says

    Feb 21, 2020 at 11:52 am

    No surprise here, the Nazi agenda and the Islamic agenda are one and the same. Muslims believe they are the superior race and that they should rule the world. Was it not Hitler who had the same plan for his superior race, with the same number one enemy the Jewish population first. Once the Jewish population has been eliminated they will go after all non islamic followers and either enslave them or kill them.
    History has away of repeating it’s self time and again. You would think that humans would have gotten past this crap by now. But unfortunately millions of men, women and children will die before this Islamic ideology is beaten down again, only to have another group of elitists raise up and try to force their ideology on the rest of us. ITS HUMAN NATURE at its worst. Please pray with me every night for one day of peace for the children of the world who suffer through our adult evil world.

    • David says

      Feb 21, 2020 at 12:17 pm

      Well said. Actually according to Greta Thunberg, we have only got to suffer for ten more years. Let’s make the most of it.
      Let’s pray for more than one day of peace. Would the Nazis have turned on the muslims, whom they must have looked on as inferior? Most people do.

  9. toomanyhobbies says

    Feb 21, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    not just the brotherhood…. Muslims were key in the genocide against the Jew’s yet were never brought to trial as the Nazi officers were…

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