Islamic Fascists?

Submitted by Ken Nebel (United States), Aug 14, 2006 at 12:08

Somewhere I read that *Mein Kampf* is still one of the best selling books in the Arab world. It's also true that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in the 1930s and 40s had close ties to Hitler, helped establish a "Muslim Brigade" in the Balkans to fight with the Nazis and helped convince Hitler that extermination, not deportation, was what the Jews "needed." Dr. Pipes is right that most of Fascism is anathema to Islam, but that doesn't seem to bother the Islamists. Perhaps we should be calling them Islamo-Nazis.

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