Monday, April 18, 2005
Not very surprising.
Jihad Watch: Florida Islamic group under scrutiny for neo-Nazi ties
Local Jewish and civic leaders said Friday they were alarmed that the Assadiq Islamic Education Foundation, whose headquarters are listed at 831 E. Palmetto Park Road in Boca, had invited Baker back to Boca as featured speaker at an April 30 banquet at the Boca Marriott. Invited by Muslim students to speak at Florida Atlantic University in April 2004, Baker's first visit to the city was cancelled amid popular protest.
"I'd like to give [the Assadiq Foundation] the benefit of the doubt and say they got snookered, but this is the second attempt at getting Baker into Boca Raton, so they have to be aware of his reputation," said Bill Gralnick, southeast regional director of the American Jewish Committee...
(I may be double posting this comment so feel free to delete.)
Old habits die hard. Militant Islamists and Nazis go way back, this link
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/husseini.html
details connections between the two groups in the 30s and 40s.
The prime mover on the Arab side was "Grand Mufti" of Jerusalem Haj Amin al Husseini, a real piece of work. Was sheltered and paid by the Nazis, and died an Arab hero in 1974. Seems to have gotten along quite well with Hitler, Himmler etc. Read the whole thing.
You'd think the Nazis might have a problem with Muslims, what with their ideas of "racial purity" and all that, but of course, "the enemy of my enemy" and all that.
Just found your blog. Good stuff.
Thanks!
Yes, the connection is a long-standing one that continues even now. I believe the only thing that prevented Husseini from being tried for war crimes after WW2 was...politics. Yes, the same thing that prevented Arafat from being held responsible for his activities. Pandering and politics.