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 enlarge | Authors: David G. Dalin, John F. Rothmann
Publisher: Random House
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1400066530
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.9404092
EAN: 9781400066537
ASIN: 1400066530
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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 A Must Read September 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
 Should have been a classic September 15, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
This book is a ridiculous polemic August 23, 2008
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "HITLER'S RADICAL- ISLAMIC MURDEROUS MIDDLE-EASTERN SIDEKICK" July 30, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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."
Author of the Play Book for Today's Fundamentalist Muslims July 16, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
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.
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