Editing Antisemitism in Islam (section)

=====Amin al-Husseini=====
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[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1987-004-09A, Amin al Husseini und Adolf Hitler.jpg|230px|thumb|right|[[Amin al-Husseini]], Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council meeting with [[Adolf Hitler]] (December 1941)]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1978-070-04A, Amin al Husseini bei bosnischen SS-Freiwilligen.jpg|230px|thumb|right|November 1943: al-Husseini greeting [[Bosniaks#Yugoslavia and World War II|Bosnian Muslim]] [[Waffen-SS]] volunteers with a [[Nazi salute]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Fisk |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Fisk |year=2007 |orig-year=2005 |title=[[The Great War for Civilisation|The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East]] |location=[[London]] |publisher=[[Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group]] |page=459 |isbn=978-0-307-42871-4 |oclc=84904295}}</ref> At left is SS General [[Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig]].]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101III-Mielke-036-23, Waffen-SS, 13. Gebirgs-Div. "Handschar".jpg|230px|thumb|right|[[Bosniaks#Yugoslavia and World War II|Bosnian Muslim]] soldiers of the [[13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)|SS "Handschar"]] reading a [[Nazi propaganda]] book, ''Islam und Judentum'', in [[German occupation of France during World War II|Nazi-occupied Southern France]] ([[German Federal Archives|Bundesarchiv]], June 1943)]]

The [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem]], [[Amin al-Husseini]], a pupil of [[Rashid Rida|Muhammad Rashid Rida]], attempted to create an alliance with [[Nazi Germany]] and [[Fascist Italy (1922–1943)|Fascist Italy]] in order to obstruct the [[Homeland for the Jewish people|creation of a Jewish homeland]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], and hinder any emigration by [[Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany|Jewish refugees]] from [[the Holocaust]] there. Historians debate to what extent al-Husseini's fierce opposition to [[Zionism]] was based on [[Arab nationalism]] or [[antisemitism]], or a combination of the two.<ref name="rouleau">[[Eric Rouleau]], ''[http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1994/08/ROULEAU/646 Qui était le mufti de Jérusalem ?] (Who was the Mufti of Jerusalem ?)'', [[Le Monde diplomatique]], August 1994.</ref>

On 31 March 1933, within weeks of [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s [[Adolf Hitler's rise to power|rise to power in Germany]], al-Husseini sent a telegram to Berlin addressed to the German Consul-General in the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] saying that Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere looked forward to spreading their ideology in the Middle East. Al-Husseini secretly met the German Consul-General near the [[Dead Sea]] in 1933 and expressed his approval of the anti-Jewish boycott in Germany and asked him not to send any Jews to Palestine. Later that year, the Mufti's assistants approached Wolff,{{Who|date=August 2011}} seeking his help in establishing an Arab [[National Socialist]] party in Palestine. Reports reaching the foreign offices in Berlin showed high levels of Arab admiration of Hitler.<ref>Nicosia (2000), pp. 85–86.</ref>

Al-Husseini met the German Foreign Minister, [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]] on 20 November 1941, and was officially received by Hitler on 30 November 1941, in Berlin.<ref>Segev (2001), p. 463.</ref> He asked Hitler for a public declaration that "recognized and sympathized with the Arab struggles for independence and liberation, and that it would support the elimination of a national Jewish homeland", and he submitted to the German government a draft of such a declaration, containing the clause.<ref name="declaration">Lewis (1984), p. 190.</ref>

Al-Husseini aided the Axis cause in the Middle East by issuing a fatwa for a [[Jihad|holy war]] against Britain in May 1941. The Mufti's proclamation against Britain was declared in Iraq, where he was instrumental in the outbreak of the [[Anglo-Iraqi War|Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941]].<ref>Hirszowicz, pp. 82–83</ref> During the war, the Mufti repeatedly made requests to "the German government to bomb Tel Aviv".<ref>Lewis (1995), p. 351.</ref>

Al-Husseini was involved in the organization and recruitment of [[History of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1941–45)|Bosnian]] [[Bosniaks#Yugoslavia and World War II|Muslims]] into several divisions of the [[Waffen SS]] and other units.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007255 |title=Hajj Amin Al-Husayni: The Mufti of Jerusalem |access-date=2007-10-19 |date=25 June 2007 |publisher=[[Holocaust Encyclopedia]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018095955/http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007255 |archive-date=18 October 2007 }}</ref> and also blessed sabotage teams trained by Germans before they were dispatched to [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], [[Iraq]], and [[Emirate of Transjordan|Transjordan]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Beast Reawakens|last=Lee |first=Martin A. |year=1999 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-415-92546-4 |page=123}}</ref>