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".

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

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 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.

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.

I agree with D. Hunsicker's review: This is an important book, but a poorly written one. The "what if" chapter imagining what al-Husseini might have done if Hitler won the war is inappropriate in a history book. Given al-Husseini's role in fomenting anti-Jewish hatred among Muslim populations, given his role in making pro-Nazi propaganda broadcasts into the Middle East from Berlin in WWII, and given his role in helping recruit Muslims into the Wehrmacht and SS, there was plenty of real, factual history to work with here. So why all the what-ifs and hyperbole? The attempts to tie al-Husseini to every anti-semitic Arab and Muslim leader on the contemporary scene are ridiculous, while his real-life crimes are glossed over. It would have been much better to have included more transcripts of his radio broadcasts, to have gone into more detail of his work on behalf of the Nazis, of his post-war work in whipping up anti-Jewish bigotry. Instead, too much of the book is superficial. Coming from professors at Stanford and USF, such a poorly organized, poorly written book is a huge disappointment. Hopefully, another book on this topic using the same source material can be written to provide a more rigorous critique of al-Husseini's crimes against humanity.

I give this two stars only because there are so few books available on al-Husseini and I was glad to find something on the subject. But unfortunately, this book is a ridiculous polemic that tries to paint al-Husseini as a major figure in the Holocaust and claims that secular Arab dictators like Saddam Hussein were radical Islamists who are part of a vast terrorist conspiracy...maybe Dick Cheney was a ghost writer for this piece of fiction. Oh and speaking of fiction, one whole chapter is a crazy "what if" scenario that has the Germans defeating the British in WWII and al-Husseini leading the Holocaust in "Londonistan" where prominent U.S. Jewish figures, like Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter, are unable to escape the onrushing German army and die in concentration camps. This is just way over the top.

This is not to say that al-Husseini wasn't a horrible anti-Semite and that anti-Jewish sentiment doesn't permeate much of the discourse of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the Arab side. But this book does nothing productive in terms of really addressing these problems. Frankly, it probably hurts the authors cause more than it helps it because they've turned it into a laughable caricature.

I give this two stars only because there are so few books available on al-Husseini and I was glad to find something on the subject. But unfortunately, this book is a ridiculous polemic that tries to paint al-Husseini as a major figure in the Holocaust and claims that secular Arab dictators like Saddam Hussein were radical Islamists who are part of a vast terrorist conspiracy...maybe Dick Cheney was a ghost writer for this piece of fiction. Oh and speaking of fiction, one whole chapter is a crazy "what if" scenario that has the Germans defeating the British in WWII and al-Husseini leading the Holocaust in "Londonistan" where prominent U.S. Jewish figures, like Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter, are unable to escape the onrushing German army and die in concentration camps. This is just way over the top.

This is not to say that al-Husseini wasn't a horrible anti-Semite and that anti-Jewish sentiment doesn't permeate much of the discourse of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the Arab side. But this book does nothing productive in terms of really addressing these problems. Frankly, it probably hurts the authors cause more than it helps it because they've turned it into a laughable caricature.

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!