Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam | 
| Authors: David G. Dalin, John F. Rothmann
Publisher: Random House
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Pages: 240
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ISBN: 1400066530
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Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historical figure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism of the last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verve and extraordinary access to primary sources in several languages, Icon of Evil is the definitive account of the man who during World War II was called “the fuehrer of the Arab world” and whose ugly legacy lives on today.
In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately wished to join: Nazi Germany.
Here, with new and disturbing details, David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann show how al-Husseini ingratiated himself with his hero, Adolf Hitler, becoming, with his blonde hair and blue eyes, an “honorary Aryan,” while dreaming of being installed Nazi leader of the Middle East. Al-Husseini would later recruit more than 100,000 Muslims in Europe to fight in divisions of the Waffen-SS, and obstruct negotiations with the Allies that might have allowed four thousand Jewish children to escape to Palestine. Some believe that al-Husseini even inspired Hitler to implement the Final Solution. At war’s end, al-Husseini escaped indictment at Nuremberg and was harbored in France before being given a hero’s welcome in Egypt.
Icon of Evil chronicles al-Husseini’s postwar relationships with such influential Islamic figures as the radical theoretician Sayyid Qutb and Saddam Hussein’s powerful uncle, General Khairallah Talfah, and his crucial mentoring of the young Yasser Arafat. Finally, it provides compelling evidence that al-Husseini’s actions and writings serve as inspirations today to the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations pledged to destroy Israel and the United States.
Revelatory and unsettling, Icon of Evil reveals an essential character in the worst crimes of the modern era. It is an important addition to our understanding of the past, present, and future of radical Islam.
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 Exploring the real roots of Jihad and Palestinianism November 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This fascinating and revealing book outlines the life and career of the malignant Mufti Haj Al Husseini, a close collaborator of Hitler and a violent hater of Jews and Zionism.
It explores explores his legacy of hate and terror that permeates the Islamic jihad and venomous and bottomless against Jews and Israel up to and including today.
The extent of the Mufti's role in genocide against Jews and his collaboration with Nazi Germany has been deliberately concealed and it is works like these that help to bring it to light. Amin Al Husseini was born in 1895 and learned his hatred of Jews at an Islamic school in Cairo.
He read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a young man.
Al-Husseini took the lead in raising the banner of jihad against the Jews and organized the April 1920 pogrom against the Jews in Jerusalem.Posters were displayed across Jerusalem with the slogan : "Kill the Jews, there is no punishment for killing Jews". What more proof is needed that the very roots of the Palestinian movement against a Jewish home in Israel is pure anti-Semitism?
Jews were attacked and killed in Jerusalem, and Jewish women raped.
This was known among the Arabs as the First Intifada and can effectively be reagarded the date of the beginning of the Arab jihad against the Jews of Israel, rather than the War of Independence 28 years later.
The 1929 bloody pogroms in Jerusalem, Safed and Hebron were also a result of the Mufti's perfidious propaganda.
The so-called Arab Revolt or Third Intifada resulted in attacks on and burning of Jewish homes and farms, and the killing of hundreds of Jewish men, women and children.
In 1941 the Mufti aided in a Nazi-backed plot to overthrow the British government in Iraq. When the plot failed he fled to Iran and then to Nazi Germany where he formed a close friendship with Adolph Hitler and attended Nazi rallies as an honored guest.
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At his meeting with Hitler, the mufti pledged the allegiance of the Arabs to and cooperation with Nazi Germany, and Hitler promised to help the Palestinian Arabs to liquidate the Jews of Palestine once he had won the war in Europe and dealt with the Jews there.
Amin-al Husseini personally visited Nazi death camps including Auschwitz and he urged the Nazis to speed up their Final Solution. In 1943 Husseini personally influenced Reich Foreign Minister Ribbentrop to prevent four thousand Jewish children being sent to Israel, instead diverting them to Hitler's death camps where they perished.
Heinrich Himmler was the Nazi leader who the Mufti most closely worked with and together they planned the extermination of Palestinian Jewry once Axis forces had captured the Middle East.
After the war the Mufti escaped to France and then Egypt.
It was the Mufti who led `Palestinian' Arab forces against the fledgling Jewish state, and who mentored and taught his nephew, later to be PLO leader Yasser Arafat, for who Al Husseini was a much admired and beloved figure.
Due to Al Hussein's unceasing efforts the Protocols of the Elders of Zion would be published in Arabic many times and .enjoy best-selling status across the Islamic world.
As the author brings to light 'Hamas which evolved from the Muslim Brotherhood and which the mufti had promoted enthusiastically since it's inception, invokes the protocols in Article 32 of it's charter, stating that the ongoing conspiratorial conduct of world Zionism, Israel and the Jewish people "is the best proof of what is said (in the
Protocols), Spokesmen of the government of Iran, from the era of Ayatollah Khomeini to the present have embraced the protocols.most recently it was made available in English at the Iranian exhibition booth at the 2005 Frankfurt book fair.'
Not far behind in popularity in the Islamic world is Hitler's Mein Kamf. After the Six Day War, Israeli soldiers discovered that thousands of Egyptian prisoners had small paperback copies of Mein Kampf , translated into Arabic by the Arab information center in Cairo.
Meim Kampf was published in Arafat's Palestinian Authority in 2001 and achieved best seller status throughout the Arab world. Meanwhile Schindler's List which depicts the suffering of the Jews during the Holocaust is banned in most Arab countries.
The blood libel accusing Jews of using the blood of gentile children is also popular today in the Arab world, and have been published across the Arab world, appearing regularly in state sponsored newspapers, radio and TV , and reiterated by among others Arafat, Syrian Defence Minister Mustafa Tlall in his 1984 book entitled "The Matzah of Zion" and programmes and movies have appeared on Egyptian, Syrian and Palestinian TV disseminating this calumny.
Meanwhile Holocaust denial is rife across the Arab and Islamic world. In December 2005 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared his determination to "wipe Israel off the map", while stating that 'We do not accept the claim that "Hitler killed millions of Jews in furnaces"...This according to Ahamdinejad is a "fairytale" and legend" to protect Israel,. In these statements he was given full support by the political leader of the terrorist organization, Hamas, Khaled Meshaal.
In December 2005 Ahmadinejad hosted a Holocaust denial conference attended by Holocaust deniers and Jew-haters from across the world, including Neo-Nazis and radical pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists.
'For Ahmadinejad and his cohorts, the mufti's infamous call to genocide, "Kill the Jews...this pleases God, history and religion- has remained an inescapably relevant and enduring message that they were dedicated to transmitting to a new generation'.
In creating Hamas, Palestinian arch-terrorist Achmed Yassin, a devoted admirer of Al-Husseini, espoused the concept of the Holy Land becoming the central battlefield between Islamic jihad and the West, and a war of bloodshed to violently destroy Israel and exterminate her Jews, building in it's place a purely Arab "Palestine".
The author concludes that "From the mufti's All-Palestine government to the Hamas government in Gaza of today, it is clear that the aims and goals of radical Islam have remained consistent throughout the years".
preachers of hate November 26, 2008
In this well documented book,readers are given a tutorial on the promotors of hate, whether they are celebrities, political, financial, or religous leaders is irrelevant. They all deal in the same kind of hateful rhetoric, to achieve their aims and goals. The books main thesis is a warning to people and nations of the world. Propogate hateful ideas about certain segments of humanity, and reap the results of your negative vitriol. It is no accident that 14 of the 15 wars around the world involve muslim countries that cannot get along with their neighbours. Jew hatred and Israel bashing are a favorite tactic of those looking to blame others, whether they are on the left or right politically is irrelevant,because looking in the mirror at oneself is too scary, and a scapegoat must be found and blamed for one/s own personal shortcomings. The lessons of history are often repeated. Haj amin al husseini and his followers will never learn it
Chilling revelations, references should have been more direct September 23, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A proof of the bridge formed between old and new anti-Semitism in the person of Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini. Jew hatred has mutated from racist genocide to blinkered anti Israel prejudice. The authors depict the principal agent of this transformation the Grand Mufti of Palestine, President of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, and a chief instrument in the convening of the World Islamic Congress.
Al-Husseini was a close associate of Himmler, Eichmann, and von Ribbetrop, held an audience with Hitler on 28th September 1941, acted as Nazi arabic radio propagandist for 3 years from Berlin, influenced Nazi policy, for example of Jewish escape from the slaughter, and the formation of the Bosnian Muslim Waffen-SS corps responsible for the murder of 12,600 Bosnian Jews. He was reported by Eichmann aide Dieter Wisliceny to have visited Auschwitz, and to have incited systematic extermination. On 21/9/44 he broadcast of '11 M Jews in Europe', he knew this represented a deficit of 6M.
There is much more to shock and surprise in this short but potent volume, especially the Mufti's legacy to Arafat, Saddam Hussein's uncle and his links with Qutb father of the Brotherhood.
One is lead to wonder repeatedly why such plain and profound evils are so little discussed or so little known, and the reasons are not hard to find in the text.
Eye opening as it is, there are two flaws in its testimony. First there is too much speculation about the Mufti's thought life, conversations and attitudes - a more clinical, less ornamented account would have been wiser. Second the references are almost entirely from secondary sources, even quotes from Mein Kampf (hardly the most difficult book to reference) or the most seminal of events to the book the audience with the Fuhrer (though the translated text of the German minutes of the meeting and the Mufti's diary are in the appendices). This considerably weakens the polemical value of the work, nevertheless a vital and valuable resource for students of the Middle East.
 Hitlers Mufti September 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Interesting/factual but the conclusions are repeated and repeated and repeated resulting in aboaring book that is three timeslonger than needed. I finally gave up and moved on to followon chapter rather than read the same thing over and over again.
A Must Read September 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What an eye opener! This book is of great importance for everyone . This is a must read! The authors give the history of the Islamic mufti's connection with Hitler, their desire to irradicate the Jews, and shows the connection to the terrorist of today. The comment that..."this brings to light a story not so much forgotten as deliberately concealed" couldn't be more true! I Urge everyone to educate yourself on this most important bit of history as it is directley affecting us today and will continue to in the future.
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