Members of the Muslim Brotherhood would often say prayers for an Axis victory during their meetings. Moreover, some Muslims went so far as to fantasize over putative Islamic affinities of fascist leaders. For example, rumors abounded that Benito Mussolini was an Egyptian Muslim whose real name was Musa Nili (Moses of the Nile) and that Adolf Hitler too had secretly converted to Islam and bore the name Hayder, or "the brave one." (Published in 1987, see Amir Taheri, Holy Terror: Inside the World of Islamic Terrorism, p. 50.)

It also had been clear for some time that an alliance between “The Nation of Islam” and extreme right wing groups had been in the making since no later than 1962 when American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell was invited to address the NOI convention, and flanked by ten Stormtroopers he praised then-leader Elijah Muhammad for being to his people what Hitler was for white people. Led by Malcolm X, a NOI delegation conducted a series of secret meetings with the Klan for the purpose of developing a joint action program for racial separation. (See Mattias Gardell, In the Name of Eliah Muhammad, 273f.)

These kinds of occasional contacts continued after the shift of NOI leadership to Louis Farrakhan. During the 1980s, an intricate web of contacts was woven between the Nation of Islam and various white radical racialist organizations and spokespersons in the United States and Europe. The white nationalist organizations that appear most wholeheartedly in favor of Minister Farrakhan seem to be of the Third Positionist camp, where the Nation quite correctly is embraced as an ideology akin to its own. The "Third Position" is in short a leftist National Socialist ideology, emphasizing both race and class. Its roots are in the left wing of early Italian fascism and the leftist National Socialism of the German brothers Greger and Otto Strasser. The Strasser brothers advocated a kind of national bolshevism, founded on class struggle, back-to-nature ideals and voelkish national romanticism, and criticized Hitler for his increasingly more far-right position. Well-read Third' Positionists usually condemn Hitler for betraying "true" national socialism when he purged the Strasser brothers from the German NSDAP (the German acronym for the "National German Socialist Workers Party").

This alliance theory was first suggested by Lisbeth Lindeborg, Searchlight, Stieg Larson and Anna-Lena Lodenius, who with slight variations propose that a white-black extremist coalition has been established, initially derived from their reading of British NF (National Front) publications of the 1980s.

However in May 1988 then, a senior NF (National Front) official traveled to the United States and was met by American Strasserites Mat Malone and Robert Hoy, who had developed contacts with black separatist organizations. During his U.S. tour, the NF (National Front) official was invited to Washington, D.C., by Minister Alim Muhammad to study the much publicized NOI drug-busting program.

Back in Britain, the NF (National Front) leadership began to The path of closer working relationships with black nationalists was not unanimously accepted by theNF (National Front) rank and file as leading in the right direction. The Manchester chapter notified the leadership that it refused to distribute issue 99 of the National Front News because of its front page slogan "Fight Racism" encircling a clenched black fist. Under the caption "Rantings from the bunker," the editorial board published correspondence from dissident members charging the leadership with "Bolshevik jargon  I prefer Hitler as 'comrade' to any black power hottentot who wants to shake my hand," one letter stated, "because Hitler is of my people, my culture, and my ideological kindred," while wondering what weird kind of National Socialism the leaders had developed in calling Farrakhan a comrade.

The Strasserite theoreticians continued espousing their ideas, declaring that they had "little or nothing" in common with its Nazi predecessors. They viewed "negative racism" as a product of Britain's imperial past, arguing that true racialism was an anti-racist ideology, dedicated to the preservation of all races and cultures. Mindless thoughts of white supremacy had to go, and the membership was advised to not tell racist jokes as it would cause division among allies. (For the above see "Rantings From the Bunker," Nationalism Today 39; "A Common Cause," editorial, National Front News 93; "Race: The New Reality," National Front News.)

The  anti-Semitism in the Black Muslim world-view, white Jews by that time almost rival the Masons as arch-devils in the NOI. And although the extent to which this common understanding of Jews has developed through a racialist black-white exchange of ideas is still somewhat unclear, but it is safe to say that the black and white racialist arguments in this area have been mutually reinforcing. Just like revisionist historian Arthur Butz was invited as guest lecturer at the 1985 NOI convention, and NOI soldiers were present as security at a public lecture by revisionist David Irving in Oakland, California, on September 10, 1996. (Most recently David Irving was on his way to Iran where he was to attend a Holocoast Denial Conference, when he was arrested in Austria and  kept in jail there.)

Most of the white racialists who have developed links with the Nation of Islam in a similar but reversed fashion seem to have made a tactical decision based on the logic of "the enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend." The "alliance" is thus mostly pragmatic, based on a common recognition of enmity and partition.

What made us however decide to investigate this more in depth was when in July 2002, Iraq's state-run media quoted Farrakhan as saying during a visit to Baghdad that American Muslims were praying for an Iraqi victory in the event of war with the United States. Farrakhan held several meetings with Iraqi officials on a "solidarity trip" in which he sought to avoid a U.S. military campaign against Saddam Hussein. (See also http://www.finalcall.com .)

In fact in the  spring of 2003 John Tyndall, a longtime extreme right activist in the United Kingdom and former leader of the British National Party, would say that:

Yes-9/11 has confirmed our basic case, which is that (1) the power of the Jewish lobby in the United States, and the perversions of American foreign policy that are engaged in to accommodate it, provoke outrages like 9/11 because such things are perceived in the Islamic world to be the only available response; (2) western countries should not interfere in the politics of the Islamic world or any other part of the world except where their own vital national interests are at stake and/or under threat; (3) globalism, as adhered to by the governments of the United States, UK and others, leads to this very interference; and (4) nationalism and (relative) isolationism are therefore the preferred policy. In short, were the USA to adhere to the principles of foreign policy prevailing before World War I, 9/11 would almost certainly not have happened.

While American David Myatt in March 2003, predicted that initially the war on terror would be used as a pretext to suppress elements of the extreme right. However, ultimately he believed that the present crisis will redound against the present governments of the West:
The attacks have certainly been used, by ZOG [the Zionist occupation government], to increase their tyranny, as witness the surveillance, the new laws, the many arrests and detentions. They have also been used to appeal to a vacuous "patriotism" based upon the abstract, nonfolkish, concept of "the State." In the long term, this can be to our advantage, since such things reveal the real nature and intent of those who wield power, as it reveals the insolent, dishonorable, un-Aryan nature of such governments. In the short term, it will probably lead to some government suppression of Aryan dissent, but given good leadership and the correct understanding of our own Aryan aims, goals and culture, this will not be much of a problem.

The extreme right newspaper “American Free Press” followed suit in 2004 by referring to Osama bin Laden as “one of the most influential men on the planet.” (See "Osama bin Laden Offsets Peace to Europe," American Free Press 4, nos. 17-18, April 26 and May 3, 2004, p. 16.)

Based on the in depth research that followed, we finally suggested in part 3 of out “General Overview” at the beginning of World Jihad Research Project P.1 that: “one can see hints of possible future alliances forming among the Islamists/ jihadists by looking at the complex alliances of the past.”

During the 1930s, the Third Reich had received entreaties from the Arab world. After the Nazi government promulgated the Nuremberg Laws in 1936, which greatly diminished the legal citizenship status of Jews, telegrams of support were sent to Hitler from all over the Arab and Islamic world. And Nazi Germany's war against the British Empire next, electrified the Islamic world even more, whose people viewed it as a noble struggle against imperialism. Furthermore, Germany and the Arab world shared the same enemies (England, Zionism, and communism).

Where we already presented our earlier report about Nazi influence in Iran, we should mention that the Nazi regime also made overtures to Afghanistan during the 1930s and  attempted to establish a political alliance with Mullah Mirza Ali Khan, who, along with his Waziri mujahideen, resisted British rule of the Northwestern Province of Afghanistan from 1936 to 1947. In 1941 German envoys were sent to Gurwekht, which was a stronghold of Patani Islamic guerrilla action inside the British zone of occupied Sarhad. They brought with them money and a letter of support from Adolf Hitler. However the Afghan monarch was well aware of what happened to pro-German Iran, which was invaded by British forces. Seeking to avert a similar fate, he finally expelled German and Italian diplomats from his country. (Ataullah Bogdan Kopanski, "Muslims and the Reich," Barnes Review, September-October 2003, 27.)

The early victories of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps raised the hopes of Arabs seeking to establish independence. Some Arabs from North Mrica volunteered to aid the German war effort, as evidenced by the creation of various Arab auxiliary units, including Freikorps Arabien (Arab Free Corps), the Kommando Deutsch-ArabischerTruppen (German-Arab Commando Troops), and the Deutsche-Arabisches Infanterie Battalion 845 (German-Arab Infantry Battalion 845). After the war, remnants of these units would go on to join the anti colonial struggle in Algeria.

As we suggested elsewhere, the Islamic-fascist alliance was also exemplified by the cordial relationship between Hitler and the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, al-Husseini joined the Ottoman Turkish Army, serving as an artillery officer until November 1916.
As such, he would serve as a bridge carrying over imperialist ideas of Islam and Ottoman Turkey into modern times-- not unlike Hitler who--feigned to be German in order to – join  Kaiser Wilhelm II’s battle. The German Kaiser who stood  next to Ottoman Emperor Abdul Hamid inside the Great Mosque, solemnly declaring himself 'protector of all Muslims.'

In April 1920 then, al-Husseini gained notoriety in Jerusalem when his followers went on a rampage at the festival of Nebi Musa, during which 5 Jews were killed and 211 Jews injured. He is credited with having introduced the first modern  "one who is ready to sacrifice his life for his cause" suicide squads, which primarily targeted moderate Arabs who refused to support his agenda.

Despite this record of incitement, the British appointed him grand mufti in 1922. On August 23, 1929, he led a second massacre of Jews in Hebron, followed by a third massacre in 1936. (Kenneth R. Timmerman, Preachers of Hate, 2003, pp. 102-103.)

Eichmann initially supported Jewish immigration into Palestine. After his trip to Jerusalem in 1937, however, he recommended that Jewish immigration be forbidden. He was apparently taken by the display of Nazi flags and portraits of Hitler that he saw during his stay there. (Morse, The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism, p. 45.)

When Hitler’s Wehrmacht invaded Poland in 1939, France and England declared war on Germany, al­-Husseini decided to seek refuge in Iraq, where he found an ally in Rashid Ali al­-Gilani, who became prime minister of that country in March 1940. In October 1939 al­-Husseini already had gone to Baghdad and met with the Committee of Free Arabs, which was led by the so-called colonels of the Golden Square, to discuss plans for a revolution against the British. The Free Arabs demanded an immediate cessation of Jewish immigration to Palestine and a crackdown on violence perpetrated by Zionist organizations such as Betar, led by Vladimir Jabotinski. (Preachers of Hate, 2003, p. 28.)

In October 1940, representatives of the Free Arabs signed an Axis-Arab Manifesto of Liberation in Berlin. Both Hitler and Mussolini expressed strong support for an independent, united Arab nation. Thus while in Iraq, al­-Husseini helped organize the new government led by Rashid Ali al-Gilani and the current minister of justice, Nadif Shaukat. Al-Gilani appointed Nur Said as his new foreign minister, a choice that would later doom his short-lived regime, when the latter conspired with the British embassy. Previously, in June, Said had helped to negotiate the German-Arab Peace and Cooperation Treaty in Ankara, Turkey. On January 31, 1941, British prime minister Winston Churchill ordered the removal of al-­Gilani, and a power struggle ensued over the control of the new Iraqi government. Nur Said and Abdullah bin Ali briefly seized power with British support. However, a coup d' etat on April 1, 1941, restored al-Gilani to the position of prime minister. Abdullah and Nur Said escaped to Amman, Jordan. Soon thereafter, Germany recognized the new Iraqi government led by al-Gilani. On May 12, 1941, al-Gilani declared independence from Great Britain. In doing so, he sparked a greater anti colonial uprising of nationalist Muslims in Palestine, Syria, and Egypt. One of the coup planners was an Iraqi officer named Khairallah Tulfah, the future father-in-law of Saddam Hussein. (Timmerman, Preachers of Hate, pp. 105-106.)

Al-Gilani's second regime was also short-lived, however, as British forces quickly deposed it, but not before troops and policeman loyal to al-Gilani car­ried out a pogrom in which roughly 200 Jews were killed. By May 29, the Brit­ish Army had seized Baghdad and reinstalled Nur Said as the Iraqi leader. To show his gratitude, Nur declared war against Germany in January 1943. Seeking to find a more hospitable location, the mufti thus sought refuge in Iran.

As we have already seen, the nationalist general Shah Reza Pahlavi, who seized power in 1925, was an admirer of Adolf Hitler's racial policies and even went so far as to rename his county Iran, which translates into Aryan in Persian. However, with the arrival of British and American troops in October 1941, the mufti was forced once again to relocate. Thus in November 1941, al- Husseini traveled to Berlin, where he met Hitler and offered his full support.

Reichsfurher Heinrich Himmler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop helped prepare the meeting. In doing so, he forged an alliance between Nazi Germany and the Palestine Arab High Command, which al-Husseini led. According to the recent “Wegbereiter der Shoa” this meeting was the genesis of Nazi-style anti-Semitism as a mass movement in the Arab world. Hitler recognized al-Husseini as the leader of the Arab world and pledged to install him as the Arab fuhrer when the time was feasible.

Hitler dedicated a text to Christoph Schroeder and Frau Junge, his secretary, which is called the Hitler- Bormann Documents, or the Testament of Adolf Hitler. In this text, Hitler makes a criticism of his policies.  For his part, Hitler was very proud of his stature among Muslims and, near the war's end, regretted that he had not done more to take advantage of this al­liance. According to documented private conversations he had with his staff, Hitler lamented his alliance with Italy, insofar as it alienated some people in the Muslim world. Italian adventures were looked upon as imperialistic aggression by those countries in North Africa that Mussolini had invaded. Hitler expressed admiration for the solidarity of the Muslim people and believed that they could have been potentially useful allies against his enemies. For the above see  L. Craig Fraser, The Hitler-Bormann Documents. Date and publisher unknown.) Hitler even went so far as to accept the grand mufti as an "honorary Aryan" (Norman Cameron and R. H. Steven, trans., Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944, New York, 2000), p. 547) and to support Hitler's war efforts, al-Husseini next traveled to Bosnia in 1943 and helped organize the Waffen-SS Handschar Di­vision in Yugoslavia, which was composed of Bosnian Muslim volunteers. For more on the Handschar Division, see George Lepre, Himmler's Bosnian Division: The waffin-SS Handschar Division, 1943-1945, Schiffer Military History, 1997.

According to one estimate, approximately 100,000 European Muslims fought for the Third Reich during the course of World War II. (Morse, The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism,2003, p. 74.)

To further recruit­ment, al- Husseini wrote a book titled Islam and the Jews, which was distributed to Bosnian Muslim SS units during the war as motivational literature, and  were encour­aged to identify themselves spiritually as Muslim and Arab but racially as German. (Morse,2003, p. p. 74,Yossef Bodansky, Islamic Anti-Semitism as a Political Instrument, 1999, p. 30.)

In appreciation for his services, al-Husseini was elected as the supreme sheikh-ul Islam (supreme religious leader) of the Muslim troops of the Axis. (Kopanski, "Muslims and the Reich," p. 27.)

The German occupation government in territory that it had conquered in the Soviet Union , garnered some goodwill from the local Muslim populations by reconstructing mosques that had been destroyed by the Soviets. Furthermore, German authorities actually restored the institution of the mufti, which had been abolished by the Bolsheviks not long after the Russian Revolution. According to one estimate, over 500,000 Muslim Turkomans, Tadjiks, and Uzbeks from the Central Asian Soviet republics volunteered to fight on the side of the Third Reich. More than 180,000 Muslims were recruited to fight from the Caucasus, Crimea, and hil-Ural Tataristan. Many of these Muslim sol­diers came from Lithuania and Latvia and according to “Wegbereiter der Shoa” became known as ‘Askaris.’ Report­edly, the Islamic Waffen-SS fought in the battle of Stalingrad.

In 1945, the German military founded the Nordkaukasischer Waffen­gruppe (North Caucus Armed Group) for Muslim volunteers from Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Ossetia. They were organized into nineteen independent Islamic combat battalions and twenty-four infantry companies in the Wehrmacht. Furthermore, Muslim Turks and Tartars formed a Waffen-SS division known as the Ostturkisches Waffenverband (East Turkish Armed League) and SS-Waffengruppe "Turkestan" (SS Armed Turkestan Group). Many Muslim soldiers had been recruited from Soviet labor camps by SS­ Sturmbannfuhrer Andreas Mayer. Mayer died from a Soviet sniper's bullet in 1944 while conducting antipartisan operations in Belarus. In April 1944,  SS- Standartenfuhrer Haruan al-Rashid (William Hintersatz), an Austrian convert to Islam took over. He led several Muslim units in battle against partisans in the Warsaw uprising in April 1943. (Kopanski, "Muslims and the Reich," pp. 30-31.)

Many Arab nationalists looked to Germany for inspiration during the 1930s and 1940s and saw National Socialism as a viable model for state build­ing. Hitler's Mein Kamph  found a receptive readership in parts of the Arabic world. Many aspiring Arab leaders sought to emulate the German fuehrer and his National Socialist movement. As far back as 1933, Arab nationalists in Syria and Iraq embraced National Socialism. In Egypt, a protofascist organization, Young Egypt, also known as the Green Shirts, attracted many army offi­cers, The grand mufti is believed to have been instrumental in the group's formation. The Green Shirts went by different official names during its history, including Misf al­Farlit in the 1930s, the Islamic National Party in 1940, and the Socialist Party in 1946. Its leader, Mmed Hussein, also wrote a book in the style of Hitler's Mein Kampf titled Imlini and published a rabidly anti-Semitic journal called al-Ichtirakya. During a visit to New York in the late 1940s, Mmed Hussein, the leader of the Green Shirt Party, addressed a meeting of the extreme right National Renaissance Party (NRP). Kurt Mertig, the NRP's first chairman, hoped to get a post at Cairo University. (Kevin Coogan, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International, 1999, pp. 380, 387.)

Members of the Green Shirts, including young lieutenant colonel and future Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, along with Wing Commander Hassan Ibrahim and General Aziz al-Masri, attempted to execute a scheme in World War II in which they would link up with Rommel's Afrika Korps and supply them with secret information on British strategy and troop movements.39 the Nazis with the help of the Palestinians also were to exterminate half a million Jews in what is now Israel plus all Jews in Tunisia and Syria. And as detailed in the recent “Wegbereiter der Shoa. Die Waffen-SS, der Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS und die Judenvernichtung 1939 - 1945”-- in 1942, the Nazis created a special "Einsatzgruppe," a mobile SS death squad, which was to carry out the mass slaughter similar to the way they operated in eastern Europe. "Einsatzgruppe Egypt" was standing by in Athens and was ready to disembark for Palestine in the summer of 1942, attached to the "Afrika Korps." Although hopes of a pan-German and pan-Arab alliance would be dashed with the defeat of Rommel, his early military successes gained admiration from the Arab population and as we will see in part 2 of this new 4 part series, this endured after the war.

 

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