Quote: Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini, appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem by Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner of British Mandatory Palestine in 1921, played a central role in introducing the ideology and tactics of the National Socialism of Adolf Hitler into the Arab world. In a career that spanned more than 5 decades, el-Husseini contributed to the development of Nazi style organizations in Arab capitals, acted as a conduit for money confiscated from Jews by the Nazis during World War II to be used to finance anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activities, and lived in Berlin during the war years where he headed a Nazi-Muslim government in exile. (end quote)
For more information about this relatively unknown master of genocide, click on the link listed below:
http://chuckmorse.com/muftism.html Admittedly, this is a pro-Israeli site, and the author undoubtedly has an axe to grind. Nevertheless, it does offer a great deal of information about the origins of much of the violence that has plagued the Middle East in modern times. El-Husseini was an officer in the Turkish army that murdered more than one million Armenian Christians during World War I. He helped organized an all-Muslim SS unit in Nazi Germany. He was involved in the massacre of Serbian Christians in Yugoslavia during World War II, and also had a hand in organizing the "final solution" in Nazi Germany. He was also the mentor of such Middle Eastern leaders as Gamal Abdel Nasser, Saddam Hussein, and Yasir Arafat ( who is his nephiew.
A fascinating read.
Regards, Shuckins