An odd story about Islam and its blood soaked crazed religious leaders, the refusal of Islam to discipline these bad leaders and how extreme Nazi and Anti-Semitic views are in the foundations of Palestine and the PLO and also modern Egypt – although this last point is another story I will post separately on.
The history of the Mufti comes entirely from western scholarship and not from Egypt, Palestine or the region. This story raises questions about what the true story of Nasser and Sadat would be if basic standard scholarship was applied to their lives and policies - it would not be good. With the Mufti the story does have biases in some of the scholarship but I have made great efforts to balance these out. Nevertheless his story is of unmitigated horror, adventurism,incompetence and narcissism with no regard by him for the blighted lives of the Palestinian people.
Of course it has nothing to do with tourism and the need to promote Egypt to the Russian/Polish and related masses but the best that could be said of most of these isn’t printable. What I print isn’t touristic mulch but fact and facts about how millions have had their lives ruined by lunatic leaders in the Middle East for over 80 years.
It’s a story not well publicized for reasons that will become clear but like many other similar stories of the past 80 years – the archive is locked and the universities easily bought.
Its of no interest to tourists whose only concern is their hotel/beach/restaurant or suntan. Such people are identical to the only tourists the UK wants - interested in just the changing of the guard, a British pub and the Tower and having no curiosity in anything more complex to explain why Britain exists. Reality is only what’s in front of your face your and curiosity about anything deeper is a sign of a distorted and biased mind.
I’m sure everyone will agree that all you need to know about the UK is in the British Tourism Authority Magazine and a bit from the ever reliable comments on the internet like the infallible Trip Advisor.
All religions have lunatics and monsters but most ‘deal’ with them at the time or at least disown them at some later date – but not Islam. For example Edward VIII was ‘appointed by God’ as head of 4 state Churches – but got rid of thank God - but no thanks to Churchill who wanted that Nazi to stay. Most countries realize at the time they have an animal in their midst or do so later and denounce them – but not Palestine or Egypt where in this case they stick to the view that this person is a hero when in reality he is an evil, incompetent, dogmatic fool who more than most has contributed to the unresolved, sad and violent history of Palestine in the past 80 years.
Few doubt the misery of the Palestinian people and that a great deal of that is caused by their gradual dispossession under the British and then their wholesale loss of territory to Israel in ’47, ’67 and ’73. What is also true is that there are few people so badly ‘governed’ by their own leaders over 80 years, men who were both evil and stupid. What is also true is that 1.7 million Arabs/Palestinians in Israel consistently vote that they want to stay in Israel rather than suffer under the Palestinian dogmatic dictatorship part of which has been lurching to even more extreme actions in the past 15 years.
The reason for this is that Palestinian government is nearly the worst in the world, corrupt, inefficient and treats its people awfully. The Government of Palestine won’t even let you vote on its own government and the current non=Hamas leader is 82, a lower IQ and last voted into office 14 years ago.. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4119 ... nian-state
The foundation stone of the craziness, corruption and violence is a ‘great religious leader’ the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem - Husseini/Husaini/ was (ill) educated at an Anglican school and al Azhar and came from the No1 or 2 family in Jerusalem.
Before WW1 he had been trained and employed by the Ottoman bureaucracy and army, no religious employment – he never talked about a homeland for the Palestinians at that time but worked for and killed for his Imperial/Ottoman occupier of Palestine. When he realized the Ottomans were loosing he changed sides and wanted to work for the British. At a later stage he turned on the British. He was a complete opportunist and egomaniac, emotionally very unstable and utterly immoral/a superb religious leader (by blood).
Appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and protector of the Dome of the Rock by the less than capable and Jewish British Administrator Viscount Samuel in 1921/22 who ignored at that Husseini was convicted of organizing bloody riots and given 10 years jail. As elsewhere in the Empire Viscounts are always right all of the time and blood lines always perfect (if you can work out paternity) and this gave Husseini a senior religious job – a bit like UK Cabinet appointment of Bishops and Archbishops.
How a sane UK Government would put a Jewish administrator with no relevant skills or experience in charge of Palestine is a larger story about how the Empire lurched for several lifetimes before 1929. (The British Administrator in Egypt was no better and probably worse at the same time).
It was all in the family and Husseini’s father and half brother had held the same religious position. Power and money should be kept in the same family – a great royalist and aristocratic tradition because DNA is always right and the continuing achievements of the British Empire proveD it.
Whilst the hereditary 3rd most senior religious figure in Islam he was a builder of 4-5 star hotels in Jerusalem and became an extreme ranter against the British Mandate and the Jews. Its herd to find any religious work he did or charity for the poor – although he was good at making money for himself.
One of the family properties was Orient House – larger inside than it looks – much later the PLO headquarters until driven out because the house was full of bombs.
Another was The Palace Hotel Jerusalem, now part of the Waldorf Astoria.
In the 30’s Jewish immigration accelerated and land became the big issue. The land issue was, after Jewish immigration, the most contentious of the Mandate. Segev the historian writes that most prominent Palestinian families, "patriots on the outside, traitors on the inside", secretly sold land to the Zionists. It is probable that the Mufti arranged for the kidnapping and/or assassination of some who sold to Jews and he never saw murder as a sin. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/ ... iewofbooks
In the 20’s and 30’s he organized riots and assassinations, as all religious leaders do, escaped British arrest and got sanctuary with the blind French in Lebanon. At all points in his career he did what a good Muslim leader does in the Middle East – use inflammatory rhetoric, intrigue and blood.
In the late 30’s as the UK position in favor of the Jews was becoming clear the Mufti and his relatives were organizing unsuccessful violence AND he refused to face political reality and deep divisions in the Palestinian community. Deals offered to the Muslims by the British had majority support within that community but the Mufti and others rejected these deals and pursued their own interests of leadership of a dead cause. Then and now dogmatism, inflexibility and self interest dominated the Palestinian leadership and he hated democracy because with that he would be out of a job.
At the same time as he faced a collapsing program to gain Palestinian freedom he wandered off, as is a disease in the region, to grand obsessions that had not a chance in hell of happening. His driving ‘ambition’ was for a huge pan Islamic state/empire from Morocco to Pakistan and including Bosnia. What that had to do with Palestine wasn’t clear – but neither was the Mufti’s mind very clear (but linked later with Nasser’s grand visions of union with Libya and Syria – which lasted 30 seconds). He never consulted Moroccans, Pakistani’s or others, was never given authority by these people for representing their interests but foamed at the mouth on this matter as his immediate Palestinian interests failed.
After WW2 broke out he slipped into Iraq and organized a coup d’etat with Nazi support to get rid of the British allied government. As usual with him it was ill planned, poorly executed, people died but he got out after proclaiming absolute victory and left his supporters to suffer. The French Nazi Vichy then helped him to escape to Nazi Germany – as the Nazi French do. How a religious leader could be a military one is a mystery except in Islam.
The rest of the War he spent with friends whom he mistakenly believed thought the blood of Islam and Arabs equal to their own. How he could have believed that is beyond me/any sane person. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom ... 4_0061.pdf
Here is his supreme holiness the Grand Mufti talking in November 1941 with his long term friend (back to 1937), psychopath to psychopath – he spent the whole of WW2 in his beloved, and financially remunerative Germany. The transcript of the meeting indicates that this barely educated, angry Palestinian lunatic wanted a German World Order. His stupidity was no better than the subsequent 3 generations of foolish, financially corrupt, bloody Palestinian leaders.
At this meeting he asked for pots of money, he also wanted to form an Arab military legion, using Arab prisoners from the French Empire who were then POWs inside Germany. He also asked Hitler to declare publicly, as the German government had privately, that it favored “the elimination of the Jewish national home” in Palestine. http://time.com/4084301/hitler-grand-mufi-1941/
Hitler appeared to agree to pretty much all and made his friend an honorary Aryan for his help to the ‘Fatherland’. In private the German’s suspected he was wind and were firm on the view that he was reckless and ill prepared. Its probable they thought him a liar and exaggerator – and they were right. He was, however ‘useful’ and enthusiastic beyond reason for propoganda.
In this matter the Mufti was raving stupid because Hitler's contempt for the Arabs was a matter of record and German officials had a problem persuading Arabs it was really the Jews, rather than the equally Semitic Arabs, that the Nazis despised and hated. The same stupidity runs through Husseini’s life – and the lives of his successors as they used runaway Nazi war criminals to help them exterminate the Jews in Palestine after WW2. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 19975.html
He used his position as the third most senior cleric of Islam and in 1941 he declared a Jihad on the British offering eternal life to those Muslims who killed British.
Here he is with his close long term friend, fellow anti-Semite and mass murderer Himmler in 1943 when everyone knew the mass extermination had begun. His Holiness publically wanted all Jews exterminated so Germany had his overwhelming support. At no time then or now did al Azhar criticize him or criticize the extermination of Jews or criticize the Nazi world invasion.
For 4 years he consumed German money at a rate a Mubarak crook would envy and lived in some state at Goethestrasse "27" in Berlin Zehlendorf (maybe stolen from Jews like his later Friend Nasser did who then gave the theft to friends. It was more than likely previously a Jewish school then stolen.) in an upper class suburb but I can’t get a photo, however most villas in the immediate area of his address look splendid.
The raising of one Albanian and two Bosnian Waffen-SS divisions, (the very worst of the worst in terms of violence and war crimes) as well as an assortment of “Eastern Legions” comprising variously of Kalmyks, Turkmen, Tatars, Azeris and others. In total, as many as 300,000 soldiers from the Islamic world are thought to have served in German ranks during the war. Al Azhar hasn’t looked into the ‘matter’ nor have any Muslim scholars probably because they don’t want to know what happened and its also ‘embarrassing’ they backed the loosing side. – as usual.
His troops did as expected, were out of control and not very effective except in doing bad things. Many ended up after the war in the Middle East escaping war crimes prosecutions and fighting for the Palestinians. How unexpected but this is another post.
Its open to debate that his Supreme Holiness influenced the Nazi decision on the Final Solution (I doubt it) but its quite clear that the Mufti knew it was going on – unlike that ‘clever’ man Kurt Waldheim.
For a religious leader he liked hands on killing roles and personally managed the Nazi/Palestine sabotage campaign Operation Atlas in Palestine in October ’44. With all things he did it was a complete fiasco but he seemed to get religious pleasure and sanctity out of direct responsibility for killing – Jews, and everyone forgot the deaths of his own people because of his incompetence. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1423589.stm
Whilst resident in Berlin during WW2 (1941-45) he broadcast to the Middle East supporting Hitler and calling Middle Eastern locals to rebel against the barbaric British. He didn’t like moderate language and continued a long tradition in the region of extreme hysteria. Here is an extract from one of his great speeches to his beloved people giving them religious guidance:
'Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.' https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print ... lers-mufti
Murder rape and looting were another feature of the ‘performance’ of his troops - maybe the Mufti took the al current Azhar line of that holy female professor that rape of enemies – presumably just females, is an honorable Muslim act.
The 21st Muslim Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg were a standout case, (a complete military failure), the 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama were worse than useless, mutinied and then abolished, the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS "Handschar", (possibly 20,000 troops with at least its own Mufti and Deputy Mufti to give them ‘religious guidance’ on the holiness of their savagery) mutinied, reassembled, stuffed up in everything they did, known for brutality and savagery, slipped the noose and hundreds (maybe over 1,000) ended up in the Middle East after the war killing Jews and as members of the ‘heroic’ Ajnaddin Battalion in the Palestinian Army of National liberation that was no more effective than their previous disasters but brutality continued their addiction to atrocity. In Palestine in ’47/48 they commandeered the best hotels in Ramallah and ‘molested’ the locals, probably meaning they raped locals, likely Muslims. https://www.rastko.rs/cms/files/books/4f1df5c13f1da page 9.
Here is the glorious 13th Waffen SS with its religious leader giving salute to the great Hitler: They were great nationalistic masculine men – and pure animals who butchered in the Balkans.
There were numerous other regiments which were mainly Muslim some fought on the Eastern Front and some even in North Africa to invade and bomb Egypt. How they justified helping a European power (Germany) to invade a Muslim country you would need to be a cretin to answer. There was also action in Greece. Some were attracted by Nazi ideology and some by the Mufti’s endorsement of the sacred Nazi cause. Major other regiments included Sonderverband 287 and 288. All appear to have has a bad reputation for ill discipline, poor fighting skills and the usual rape, pillage and atrocities that Middle East armies are famous for.
Here is the German Free Arab Legion (which included 287 and 288) in Tunisia where it did nasty things to other Muslims – as you do.
They were ably incited in North Africa by that great Jew killer and Jew hater Colonel Walter Rauff a man of such propaganda skills that he returned to the area in the 1950’s (actually he didn’t return he had been convicted several times of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity and was on the run) as a guest of and advisor to that great humanitarian Nasser. His later job required one major attribute – uncontrollable Jew Hated – which was exactly what Husseini and his friend Nasser loved – but were wise to keep hidden so the left in the west was deceived – easily done.
In ’42 Rauff under Rommel had been good at many things including harvesting all the gold and related wealth from Tunisian Jews and a remarkable new developments in the caravan industry. By developments I mean caravans converted into mobile gas chambers used widely to kill the usual’s in the Balkans – probably 200,000. Its likely that he had his caravans in North Africa waiting for an opportunity to kill the 120,000 Egyptian Jews and more as they ‘liberated’ Palestine. Sadat publically supported all this but another time.https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,734 ... 58,00.html
Of the Muslims who fought for his holiness/his theological supremacy in WW2, all of whom were told by the Mufti that they were fighting a holy war, 38 were tried for War Crimes, 10 executed but hundreds avoided trial in the then Yugoslavia by escaping from allied camps in Italy after the war and went to Palestine to fight another Jihad against the Jews in 47-48 (along with escapee German Nazi’s in Egypt, Palestine and Syria) even though they were Serbs and Bosnians. A large number were recruited into the Syrian and Iraqi armies because of their known brutality. One of their military officers was also a Muslim Imam – very odd - SS-Obersturmführer Imam Halim Malkoč and he was later executed for atrocities that didn’t offend his Islamic ethics but offend everyone else’s.
At no stage did any Islamic leader in the world tell Muslims not to support Hitler even though he invaded Libya, Tunisia and Egypt and bombed Alex and Cairo.
After the war the standard thing happened. Husseini went to Switzerland to retrieve his secreted money from Hitler, he escaped to France with 20 armed guards/assassins where the French did nothing whilst the Mufti and his advisors fought amongst themselves about power, status and money.
The French had detained him after the war, this is unclear, and he miraculously escaped to Egypt where he was given warm refuge and al Azhar held special prayers welcoming him. At that time he would have felt at home because Farouk/Nasser had given refuge to possibly hundreds of SS Nazi war criminals to build the intelligence service, police, army, propaganda, suppression and extermination of the Brotherhood, expulsion of the Jews and weapons of mass destruction. It must have been like a school reunion. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom ... 4_0160.pdf
End of Part 1 of A butcher’s Story.
