Hitler Didn’t Have a Pope, but He Did Have a Mufti

I just read one of the most blatantly honest columns in a very long time. In this column, the author is also reviewing a book that I have recommended earlier to many people, and again encourage others to read. Rabbi David Dalin wrote The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews From The Nazis. A very strong endorsement of this book can also be found here.


The author of this article is Don Feder, and I found it based on the previous article linked to from The Church Militant blog. While the first part of his article is in defense of Pius XII, the rest of it is the point of his article, and is also found in Rabbi Dalin's book. And it is a question that I have asked repeatedly, pointed out numerous times over the years, including the relationship to Arafat.

How else explain this relentless assault on Pius XII, when little has been written about the role of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, then the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in aiding and abetting the Holocaust?

A precursor to al Qaeda and Hamas, al-Husseini devoted his life and considerable polemical skills to fomenting the most rabid Jew hatred.

Dalin (who devotes a chapter in his book to Islamic anti-Semitism) reports that al-Husseini took up residence in Berlin early in the war, as an honored guest of Hitler. The mufti made propaganda broadcasts to the Arab world calling for the extermination of Jews and recruited a Waffen SS company among Bosnian Muslims. (“Kill the Jews, wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion,” al-Husseini implored in one radio address.)

After the war, Dieter Wisliceny (one of Eichmann’s lieutenants) testified that the mufti even visited Auschwitz, and urged guards in charge of the gas chambers to “work more diligently.”

Regrettably, this monster escaped prosecution as a war criminal (a case of Allied pandering to the Arabs). In the late 1940s, he met a young Yasser Arafat in Cairo, and the torch was passed to the next generation of Jihadist anti-Semites. (Arafat called the mufti, “our hero al-Husseini.”) Dalin sees a direct connection between al-Husseini’s murderous ideology and today’s Islamic anti-Semitism and terrorism.

And now we have Iran's new leader and HIS recent statements that continue this hatred.... when are we going to realize that there is not a true interest in peace over there? And that appeasement is not going to help to bring it about? The ultimate goal began long ago, with the Mufti...and with Hitler...and with others of the same ilk.