Hassan al banna and hitler
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They fought against partisans and participated in massacres of civilians in Bosnia and Jews hunting in Croatia.
Jews living under Islamic rule over the centuries were often discriminated against, and sometimes persecuted, but there were also periods where Jews had it relatively good in Muslim countries and, for many centuries, Christian Europe was a far more reliably dangerous place for Jews to live than in the various Muslim empires.
The Jews rejected Muhammad as a prophet just as they rejected Jesus as the Messiah, but unlike with Christians and Jesus, Muslims did not accuse Jews of the murder of Muhammad.
This is the behaviour of a sacrificial cult, and members of the Western media are fuelling it.
Indeed, the Western media are already peddling one of Hamas’s standard lines – namely, that its actions are born out of desperation. He did not just oppose Zionism on nationalist grounds; in fact, it is not at all clear he wanted an independent state for the Arabs of Palestine, rather than some larger pan-Arab entity.
Rather, he was a virulent antisemite.
And this all makes a big impression on Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and a militant opponent of Zionism.
And incredibly, it is this agenda that self-styled ‘anti-imperialists’ in the West have attached themselves to. But he was an enthusiastic supporter of it. Both were explicitly anti-nationalist in the sense that they believed in the liquidation of the nation-state in favor of a trans-national unifying community: in Islam the umma (community of all believers), and in Nazism the herrenvolk (master race).
This, in turn, will generate widespread condemnation of Israel. Both advocated subordination of the individual to a folkish central power. And both rabidly hated the Jews and sought their destruction.
As the Brotherhood’s political and military alliance with Nazi Germany developed, these parallels facilitated practical interactions that created a full-blown alliance, with all the pomp and panoply of formal state visits, de facto ambassadors, and overt as well as sub rosa joint ventures.
They subscribe to the myth of Israel being a country of ‘white people’ that is simply suppressing ‘brown people’.
Their myopia and hypocrisy are mind-blowing. When every tree will say: 'Behind me is a Jew, kill him!'. On the contrary, Islamist hostility towards Jews in the Middle East predates the founding of the Jewish state in 1948, let alone the occupation of Gaza in 1967.
Some Arab leaders in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were willing to compromise and work with the early Zionist movement.
We believe that Islam is an all-embracing concept which regulates every aspect of life, adjudicating on every one of its concerns and prescribing for it a solid and rigorous order.”
Emphasizing the importance of spreading the Muslim faith aggressively and by force, al-Banna told his followers: “Islam is faith and worship, a country and a citizenship, a religion and a state.
In his book Fee Qaafilatil-Ikhwaan al-Muslimeen, al-Banna characterized Zionists and Jews as “the enemies of Allah.” With regard to the Jewish state in particular, he said: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” Notably, this maxim was later incorporated by the terrorist group Hamas in its founding charter.
Troubled by the Brotherhood’s rising influence and popularity, as well as by rumors that that the organization was plotting a coup against the Egyptian government, Prime Minister Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha disbanded the group in December 1948—seizing its assets and incarcerating many of its members.
He offered to assist the Nazi war effort with intelligence cooperation and sabotage operations in North Africa. Anecdotal reports of al-Husseini’s visit to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in the summer of 1943, as part of an Arab delegation, was later confirmed by photographic evidence.
Then there were al-Husseini’s meetings with Hitler, his intervention to prevent the transfer of Jewish children to Switzerland, thereby condemning them to Auschwitz, and his role in recruiting Bosnian Muslims to serve in the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS.
While al-Husseini is only a marginal figure in the history of the Nazi Holocaust, he was among the most important Nazi propagandists in the Arab world.
The Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea must once again become Muslim seas, as they once were.”
Al-Banna’s antipathy towards Western modernity soon moved him to shape the Brotherhood into an organization that sought to check the secularist tendencies in Muslim society by demanding a return to ancient and traditional Islamic values.
He very quickly adopted this modern form of antisemitism and skillfully wove it into a Muslim religious narrative to appeal to the masses. Most of what follows below is drawn from their scholarship.
Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, the hugely influential Islamist movement which ultimately spawned explicitly violent breakaways Al-Qaeda and ISIS.