Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam by Dalin David G. & Rothmann John F

Author:Dalin, David G. & Rothmann, John F. [Dalin, David G.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2008-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Mandate for Hate:

Haj Amin al-Husseini and the Islamization of Anti-Semitism

“I am a Jew.” These were the last words that Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, uttered before his decapitation by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan in 2004. His killing was the culmination and fulfillment of the viciously anti-Jewish ideology of Haj Amin al-Husseini, an ideology that has inspired decades of Jew hatred throughout the Islamic world. The horrifying murder cruelly exemplified the existential threat that this ideology now represents. To be born a Jew has become, for many radical Islamists today as it was for Hitler and for Haj Amin al-Husseini, a mandate for hate.

Radical Islam is the preeminent source of anti-Semitism in the modern world. In recent decades, Jew hatred and the widespread circulation and distribution of anti-Semitic literature, such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, have increased dramatically and exponentially throughout the Islamic Middle East. “Kill the Jews…. This pleases God, history and religion”: The fatwa proclaimed by the mufti on German radio in 1943 has become a slogan that has inspired generations of radical Islamic terrorists, from Yasser Arafat and Osama bin Laden to Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the Muslim terrorist who masterminded the brutal kidnapping and barbaric murder of Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. As the founding father of radical Islamic anti-Semitism in the twentieth century, al-Husseini remains the inextricable and enduring link between the old anti-Semitism of pre-Holocaust Europe and the Jew hatred and Holocaust denial that now permeates the Muslim world.

Today more than ever, anti-Semitism is publicly endorsed by Arab governments, disseminated by the Arab media, taught in Muslim schools and universities, and preached in mosques. Indeed, it can be said without fear of exaggeration that classical anti-Semitism is now a major and inextricable component of the Arab intellectual life of our time, as it was in the intellectual and cultural life of Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s.1

The roots of Islamic anti-Semitism run deep. They were invigorated by the radical Islamic and Nazi collaboration, inspired and fostered by the mufti, during World War II. The enduring anti-Jewish legacy of Nazism, which the mufti did much to shape and further during the 1950s and 1960s, has found an appreciative audience in the contemporary Islamic world, where an especially virulent strain of Jew hatred, the likes of which has not been seen since the Holocaust, finds widespread expression in books, magazines, newspapers, radio and television, and the Internet.

Contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism is also deeply rooted in Islamic religious teachings and political tradition. Since the founding of Islam, Jews have had to live with the enduring legacy of Muhammad’s historic antipathy toward the Jews of Medina. His anger toward the Jews who opposed him in Medina, recorded in the Koran, was followed by his merciless subjugation of them, in Medina and many other cities, as Muhammad and his followers embarked on their wars of conquest. This hostility set the tone for Islam’s subsequent attitude toward the Jews, and toward Judaism, over the centuries, a hostility that has become more virulent since the end of World War II.

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