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Mufti of Jerusalem
Haj Amin Husseini became mufti of Jerusalem and had the choice to pursue a modern society and statehood for the people of the Mideast, or dictatorship and totalitarian politics. He slaughtered opposition Muslim, plus Jews and Christians, attempted to overthrow the Iraqi government, spent WWII in Germany furthering the Nazi causes and death camps, and then returned to Jerusalem to train Arafat and other of today's jihadists.
128 pages, Paperback
Published January 10, 2006
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Founding Fuehrer
Founding Fuehrer, May 15, 2016
This review is from: Mufti of Jerusalem (Paperback)
An interesting source of the crimes of Palestinian Nationalist founder Haj Amin el Husseini, and not only against Jews. Some of the crimes deal with the redirection of funds intended for the "needy and the orphaned" to his own network of followers and the associated lack of financial accountability. Pearlman cites documentation that Haj Amin extracted an estimated 1 million £ from the Waqfs (religious endowments) and 2 million from abroad, in addition to sums received for restoration work on Al Aqsa, yet in the period of his stewardship yet not one mosque, school, hospital let alone a shelter nor asylum or even a drinking fountain for the poor was created. (pp25)
As for other crimes: Many Arab prisoners have been shot without trial or question by the rebel leaders. Many more have been cruelly beaten, starved and otherwise maltreated in order to extort ransoms or contributions to the rebel funds, and the fear that the terrorists have inspired is still so great that few indeed of the victims have dared to give the authorities evidence about their experiences. (pp28 citing the London Times, Dec 29th, 1938).
"Rebel Arab documents seized by the troops in some recent engagements... provide sensational proof that the sacred Haram-esh-Sharif has been the scene of murdur (sic), bomb-throwing and rebel Courts-martial, and evidence that even the rebels themselves are disgusted and alarmed at the terrorism of Arabs by Arabs. (Times, 18th Jan, 1939)
Co-conspirator for these crimes was Husayni's ally Aref Abdul Raziq. "By his campaign he killed on the order of his colleagues both of Beirut and Damascus more than 200 Arabs, the anguish of whose widows and children still rings in our ears.... We place the destruction of property on Haj Amin el Husseini, now in Beirut, and his men who have surrounded him." (pp27, accusation of Fakhri Bey who on 21st of Nov 1938 revealed in the London Times that 292 supporters from his party had been murdered.)
In particular there is the following entry, a partial list of the Mufti's assassinations, also from the Times, stands out:
Mayor of Hebron, Nasr el Din Nasr, murdered 4th August 1936
Mukhtar or Arab Birket Caesarea, murdered February 1937
Ibrahim Yousef, member of Tiberias Municipal Council, murdered April 1937.
Mayor of Haifa, Hassan Bey Shukri, escaped assassination attempts May 1936 and January 1937.
His son-in-law Secretary of Haifa Municipal Council, escaped attempt on his life February, 1937.
Mukhtar of Balad Esh Shikh, murdered December, 1937.
Mayor of Nablus, Suleiman Bey Toukan, fled the country December 1937 after issuing a public appeal to the Government to suppress terrorism.
Mukhtar of Migdal and his wife, murdered April, 1938.
Mukhtar of Mataleen, murdered April, 1938.
Mukhtar of Ein Razal, murdered August 1938.
Wife and three sons of Mukhtar of Deir Es Sheikh, murdered September, 1938.
Muktar of Ard-el-Yehud, (near Haifa), murdered October, 1938.
Mukhtar of Beth Hema, murdered October, 1938.
Mukhtar of Akaba Quarter, Nablus, murdered November 1938.
Hassn Sidki Dajani, member of Jerusalem Municipal Council, murdered Nov, 1938 (leading opponent of the Mufti in Jerusualem. Following his murder the remaining Arab members of the Jerusalem Municipal Council fled the country.
Members of the Khalil Taha family of Haifa:
Haj Khalil Taha September 1936 after refusing a second "donation" to terrorist funds.
Dr. Ali Taha his sone in January 1937.
Ibrahim Bey Khalil, an aged member of the family and leader of the Moslem Federation was murdered in September, 1937.
Taha Mahmud Taha was murdered in May, 1938.
Zaid el Taha was murdered in September 1938. Pearlman adds "There was no further opposition from the Taha family."
The Peel Commission reported in the summer of 1937 (page 135 of the report/Pearlman 23) that while attacks by Arabs on Jews had been common in the past, the Arab revolt added Arab on Arab attacks. The report records that the editor of an Arab newspaper in Haifa had been visited by a "body of gunmen" to toe the Hussein line or else. So were wealthy Arab landowners and businessmen who had made "inadequate contributions" to Husseini's Arab Higher Committee.
"Intimidation at the point of the revolver has become a not infrequent feature of Arab politics. Attacks by Arabs on Jews, unhappily, are no new thing. The novelty in the present situation is attacks by Arabs on Arabs."
The pamphlet continues with a description of Husseini's flight to Iraq where he was given an income of 20,000 £ and 2% of the salary of every Iraqi government official to work with. Other sources of income included money from the Iraqi secret service and 100,000 £ from the Axis powers of Germany and Italy. There he constructed a staff consisting of his cousin Jamal Husseini and Musa Bey Alami, Jamal's brother-in-law. His military adviser was Fauzi el Qauqji who later led the Syrian coalition forces against Israel in 1947-48.
As soon as he was ensconced in Iraq Husseini joined as a co-conspirators in the overthrow the pro-British Iraqi government. There was a failed coup attempt on April 3, 1940 and a more successful one in April 1941 led by Rashid Gailani that was foiled by intervention by the British. Churchill credits the combined Allied attack on German held Crete (including Jewish troops from Palestine) as preventing the Nazis from contributing air support to the coup. (pp38) During this period on April 1 and 2, before the coup ended, there was a pogrom against the Jewish community of Baghdad, known as the Farhud, a result of incitement by Husseini and by the German embassy.
Subsequently Husseini, Gailani and their entourages fled to Berlin where they engaged in a world wide propaganda campaign for the Nazis, recruited Muslims to the Nazi cause and used their connections in the Arab world to conduct espionage.
"Arabs, rise and fight as one for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion. This saves your honour, God is with you." (pp66)
At the time of writing in 1946 the Mufti was in Egypt as an honoured guest of King Farouk. Pearlman concludes with a plea to the British to have him arrested and tried as a war criminal.
The version I obtained is the original which ends on page 91. Amazon doesn't have an entry for the original and this version is 125 pages, so I have no idea what the extra material consists of. Because of its short length and polemical nature I was leaning towards a 3* rating, but the reference material on Palestinian Arab opposition to the Mufti makes this unique. Phillip Mattar in his hagiography of the Mufti dismisses Pearlman as a Zionist, which he most certainly was but makes no mention let alone a defense against the charges detailed about that were leveled by Arab members of the community.
Founding Fuehrer, May 15, 2016
This review is from: Mufti of Jerusalem (Paperback)
An interesting source of the crimes of Palestinian Nationalist founder Haj Amin el Husseini, and not only against Jews. Some of the crimes deal with the redirection of funds intended for the "needy and the orphaned" to his own network of followers and the associated lack of financial accountability. Pearlman cites documentation that Haj Amin extracted an estimated 1 million £ from the Waqfs (religious endowments) and 2 million from abroad, in addition to sums received for restoration work on Al Aqsa, yet in the period of his stewardship yet not one mosque, school, hospital let alone a shelter nor asylum or even a drinking fountain for the poor was created. (pp25)
As for other crimes: Many Arab prisoners have been shot without trial or question by the rebel leaders. Many more have been cruelly beaten, starved and otherwise maltreated in order to extort ransoms or contributions to the rebel funds, and the fear that the terrorists have inspired is still so great that few indeed of the victims have dared to give the authorities evidence about their experiences. (pp28 citing the London Times, Dec 29th, 1938).
"Rebel Arab documents seized by the troops in some recent engagements... provide sensational proof that the sacred Haram-esh-Sharif has been the scene of murdur (sic), bomb-throwing and rebel Courts-martial, and evidence that even the rebels themselves are disgusted and alarmed at the terrorism of Arabs by Arabs. (Times, 18th Jan, 1939)
Co-conspirator for these crimes was Husayni's ally Aref Abdul Raziq. "By his campaign he killed on the order of his colleagues both of Beirut and Damascus more than 200 Arabs, the anguish of whose widows and children still rings in our ears.... We place the destruction of property on Haj Amin el Husseini, now in Beirut, and his men who have surrounded him." (pp27, accusation of Fakhri Bey who on 21st of Nov 1938 revealed in the London Times that 292 supporters from his party had been murdered.)
In particular there is the following entry, a partial list of the Mufti's assassinations, also from the Times, stands out:
Mayor of Hebron, Nasr el Din Nasr, murdered 4th August 1936
Mukhtar or Arab Birket Caesarea, murdered February 1937
Ibrahim Yousef, member of Tiberias Municipal Council, murdered April 1937.
Mayor of Haifa, Hassan Bey Shukri, escaped assassination attempts May 1936 and January 1937.
His son-in-law Secretary of Haifa Municipal Council, escaped attempt on his life February, 1937.
Mukhtar of Balad Esh Shikh, murdered December, 1937.
Mayor of Nablus, Suleiman Bey Toukan, fled the country December 1937 after issuing a public appeal to the Government to suppress terrorism.
Mukhtar of Migdal and his wife, murdered April, 1938.
Mukhtar of Mataleen, murdered April, 1938.
Mukhtar of Ein Razal, murdered August 1938.
Wife and three sons of Mukhtar of Deir Es Sheikh, murdered September, 1938.
Muktar of Ard-el-Yehud, (near Haifa), murdered October, 1938.
Mukhtar of Beth Hema, murdered October, 1938.
Mukhtar of Akaba Quarter, Nablus, murdered November 1938.
Hassn Sidki Dajani, member of Jerusalem Municipal Council, murdered Nov, 1938 (leading opponent of the Mufti in Jerusualem. Following his murder the remaining Arab members of the Jerusalem Municipal Council fled the country.
Members of the Khalil Taha family of Haifa:
Haj Khalil Taha September 1936 after refusing a second "donation" to terrorist funds.
Dr. Ali Taha his sone in January 1937.
Ibrahim Bey Khalil, an aged member of the family and leader of the Moslem Federation was murdered in September, 1937.
Taha Mahmud Taha was murdered in May, 1938.
Zaid el Taha was murdered in September 1938. Pearlman adds "There was no further opposition from the Taha family."
The Peel Commission reported in the summer of 1937 (page 135 of the report/Pearlman 23) that while attacks by Arabs on Jews had been common in the past, the Arab revolt added Arab on Arab attacks. The report records that the editor of an Arab newspaper in Haifa had been visited by a "body of gunmen" to toe the Hussein line or else. So were wealthy Arab landowners and businessmen who had made "inadequate contributions" to Husseini's Arab Higher Committee.
"Intimidation at the point of the revolver has become a not infrequent feature of Arab politics. Attacks by Arabs on Jews, unhappily, are no new thing. The novelty in the present situation is attacks by Arabs on Arabs."
The pamphlet continues with a description of Husseini's flight to Iraq where he was given an income of 20,000 £ and 2% of the salary of every Iraqi government official to work with. Other sources of income included money from the Iraqi secret service and 100,000 £ from the Axis powers of Germany and Italy. There he constructed a staff consisting of his cousin Jamal Husseini and Musa Bey Alami, Jamal's brother-in-law. His military adviser was Fauzi el Qauqji who later led the Syrian coalition forces against Israel in 1947-48.
As soon as he was ensconced in Iraq Husseini joined as a co-conspirators in the overthrow the pro-British Iraqi government. There was a failed coup attempt on April 3, 1940 and a more successful one in April 1941 led by Rashid Gailani that was foiled by intervention by the British. Churchill credits the combined Allied attack on German held Crete (including Jewish troops from Palestine) as preventing the Nazis from contributing air support to the coup. (pp38) During this period on April 1 and 2, before the coup ended, there was a pogrom against the Jewish community of Baghdad, known as the Farhud, a result of incitement by Husseini and by the German embassy.
Subsequently Husseini, Gailani and their entourages fled to Berlin where they engaged in a world wide propaganda campaign for the Nazis, recruited Muslims to the Nazi cause and used their connections in the Arab world to conduct espionage.
"Arabs, rise and fight as one for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion. This saves your honour, God is with you." (pp66)
At the time of writing in 1946 the Mufti was in Egypt as an honoured guest of King Farouk. Pearlman concludes with a plea to the British to have him arrested and tried as a war criminal.
The version I obtained is the original which ends on page 91. Amazon doesn't have an entry for the original and this version is 125 pages, so I have no idea what the extra material consists of. Because of its short length and polemical nature I was leaning towards a 3* rating, but the reference material on Palestinian Arab opposition to the Mufti makes this unique. Phillip Mattar in his hagiography of the Mufti dismisses Pearlman as a Zionist, which he most certainly was but makes no mention let alone a defense against the charges detailed about that were leveled by Arab members of the community.
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