Haj Amin al-Husseini was named the mufti of Jerusalem in 1921 and that was the beginning of a lifetime of murder, violence, and an outright loathing of all Jewish people anywhere on earth. Husseini's idol was none other than Adolph Hitler, and Husseini arranged a face to face meeting with the Fuhrer in Germany on November 28, 1941. Husseini offered to align the Arab countries with Hitler during World War II, because he told Hitler, they had the exact same enemies, in Britain, the western world, and of course the Jews. Husseini marveled at Hitler's final solution of ridding Europe of all Jews... and wanted to implement the same plans in the Middle-East... including... he hoped... to open some concentration camps in the Middle-East. If the Nazi's couldn't get the concentration camps there fast enough, he begged the Nazi's to at least bomb locations with Jewish civilians. "He hoped to lead a holy war of Islam in alliance with Germany, a jihad that would result in the extermination of the Jews." "Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world." As the mufti of Jerusalem he put posters up all over the city stating: "KILL THE JEWS: THERE IS NO PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING JEWS." He also had all his preachers "advise their flock that "he who kills a Jew is assured a place in the next world."

The author's take the reader in a detailed AND TOTALLY DOCUMENTED historical trip, from Husseini's birth in the late 1890's, to his death in 1974 and beyond... all the way to the present. In addition to the horrific pogroms and Holocaust... what will shock the potential readers... is that all the hatred, murderous activities, and false propaganda, that the mufti created sixty to eighty years ago, is still the core of today's anti-Semitism and terrorist mantra's in the Middle-East. He is truly "THE FATHER OF RADICAL ISLAMIC anti-Semitism and political terrorism as we know it today."

I think most readers will be amazed at all the "infamous" historical characters that Husseini influenced, ranging from a young Saddam Hussein, whose Uncle was a trusted friend and confidant, Mussolini, Nazi's Heinrich Himmler and Adolph Eichmann, and of course Hitler. A young Yasser Arafat was a relative, and was taken under the mufti's wing, and eventually became the leader of Fatah, and to his dying day... stated that Husseini was his idol. The reader will be presented with shocking details such as that, future international peace award winner Anwar Sadat, was a spy for the Nazi's during World War II, and when Hitler died "Sadat published a letter in the Egyptian weekly "Al-Mussawar", addressed posthumously to Hitler, in which he expressed sorrow over the defeat of the Third Reich, and haled Hitler as the "immortal" leader of Germany."

There is intriguing informative records, that every level of Arab leadership, not only read the notorious czarist "THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION", a fraudulent anti-Semitic tract alleging a Jewish and Masonic plot to achieve world domination, (that has been proven to be a hoax of literary forgery written in 1903)... but they had it reprinted for all Arab's to read... and in addition... it was actually handed out by King's to their guests. "THE PROTOCOL'S" and "MEIN KAMPF" Hitler's "viciously anti-Semitic autobiography", are two of the top selling books in the Arab world to this day! Husseini was one of the first radical-Islamic's, that said the Holocaust never happened... and that's despite testimony at the Nuremberg trials by Nazi's, that Husseini had visited the Auschwitz concentration camp, and "urged the guards in charge of the chambers to be more diligent and efficient in their efforts." You will be dumfounded when you learn that from Husseini's time, to current day, anti-Semites in the Middle-East hand out pamphlets and write books perpetuating "THE BLOOD LIBEL ACCUSATION", routinely charging Jews with committing the ritual murder of Muslim and Christian children during the Passover holiday. The Jews are accused of using the children's blood in the unleavened bread eaten at the Passover meal." In fact during the 1950's and 1960's the regime of Egyptian president Nasser published and disseminated many works accusing Jews of this type of ritual murder. This is just a tip of the iceberg as to the educational and informative historical data provided by the author's, and this book should be read by anyone, that wants to know about the growth of radical Islam from birth to modern day.

I feel an accurate summary of al-Husseini is provided by Edgar Ansel Mowrer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent: "AS A MURDERER, THIS MAN RANKS WITH THE GREAT KILLERS OF HISTORY. AS AN ENEMY OF THE UNITED NATIONS, HE WAS SURPASSED ONLY BY HITLER. IN THE EVIL OF HIS INTENTIONS, AL-HUSSEINI EQUALED HITLER."

This book helped me understand how the hatred and violence of today's fundamentalist Muslims really got started and has gained momentum over the last 100 years. Just like skinheads and Arian fanatics continue to propogate Hitler's form of "terrorism", the Mufti of Jerusalem wrote the playbook now followed by the fanatics who rule Hamas, al Qaeda, et. al.

An important book that uncovers and exposes where it all began.

This is an important and timely book. In order to understand the roots of modern Middle Eastern anti-semitism and the rise of radical Islamic violence it is essential to know this almost forgotten part of history. It should come as no surprise to find that it has its roots in the connection between the early 20th Century mufti of Jerusalem and Hitler himself.

This book is a must-read for a better grasp on this history and also to appreciate the surprising political naivete by members of the British civil administration of Palestine. By choosing a a thoroughly unsuitable and unqualified leader for Jerusalem's Muslims, the British set the scene for much of today's Middle-Eastern turmoil.

On Tuesday, June 24th, we met Rabbi David Dalin at the Temple Judea in Coral Gables, Florida, where he was introducing his new book: Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam.

His presentation was excellent, detailing how in 1921, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem. After some research we learned that the word "mufti" means: (a) a Muslim jurist expert in the religious law, or (b) in the Ottoman Empire, a deputy of the chief Muslim legal adviser to the Sultan.

Mr. Husseini, a most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East helped foment enmity against Jews in the region and in 1937 joined Nazi Germany because they shared a common enemy, the Jews. Mr. Husseini was seen by Hitler as an honorary Aryan.

While Hitler had written racial inferiority remarks about the Muslims in his book "Mein Kampf," Hitler liked Mr. Husseini's looks, his "blond hair, red beard, and blue eyes, appeared to have been an exception." The cover of the book surfaces a photo that the author explained was hard to obtain, it is of a photograph taken of the mufti with the fuehrer himself, Adolf Hitler.

The book details how Al-Husseini recruits thousands of Muslims in Europe to fight for the Waffen-SS, his protests about allowing Jews to move into Palestine, prevent the escape of Jewish children from Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovakia, who accompanied by 400 adults were to enter Palestine in exchange for the release of twenty thousand German prisoners of war.

At some point, Al-Husseini "organized the dispatch of five parachuters to Palestine with ten containers of a toxin to poison Tel Aviv's water system. Fortunately, they were caught near Jericho before they could carry out their mission."

One of the most horrific details provided by the author is that al-Husseini was instrumental in the implementation of the "Final-Solution" used by Germans to eliminate millions of Jewish lives. "In a radio broadcast from Berlin on September 21, 1944, al-Husseini spoke of the 11 million Jews" of the world, a fact that he could have only known because of his participation in their elimination. As far as the world knew, the figure was closer to 17 million.

At the end of World War II, he left to live in France and later moved to Egypt, where he received a hero's welcome, developing relationships with the likes of Saddam Hussein's uncle, General Khairallah Talfah, Yasser Arafat, and his writings served to inspire terrorist groups, such as the Hamas, Hezbollah and others, hard at work to destroy the United States and Israel.

A statement that has immense value to us is that we must learn from history if we are to prevent it from repeating in the future. At the end of the session, the audience asked many questions, but in particular I was rather interested on the mention of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion because I had heard of these before, but was not sure of what they meant, so we asked:

1. What are "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?" His answer:

a. A czarist forgery, a fraudulent anti-Semitic write up, widely distributed throughout Palestine that alleges without proof that the Jewish people conspired on a plot to take hold of power, of a desire of world domination.

Well, I got home and read the book, simply excellent. It was a pleasure to meet the author, to have the opportunity to get my book autographed and to learn more about how the seeds planted by Hitler have produced so much evil, for he is also responsible for inspiring the likes of Castro... and many other dictators.

Don't miss this book!