printVia Nora Brinker — our fine friend in Germany, and proprietor of the blog Roncesvalles — comes this documentary, detailing the (allegedly shallow) roots of the Arab world’s affinity to Hitler and National Socialism. Watch the short film about Hitler’s Mufti.
However thorough, this depiction still treats anti-Semitism across the Islamic patrimony as a foreign transplant. Not so. The Quran (especially the later edicts which, by law, usurp the earlier ones) is anti-Jewish. It is the manual for war on Israel and for the eternal hate of Jews.
“Samuel of Acre (1270-1350), one of the most outstanding Kabbalists of his time, writes Andrew Bostom, fled to Italy and Christian Spain, after “ Acre was taken from the Crusaders by the Mamluks in 1291, during a very brutal jihad conquest. Samuel, who was “ [c]onversant with Islamic theology and often used Arabic in his exegesis, observed the following, from his safer haven:
“ In the eyes of the Muslims, the children of Israel are as open to abuse as an unprotected field. Even in their law and statutes they rule that the testimony of a Muslim is always to be believed against that of a Jew. For this reason our rabbis of blessed memory have said, ‘Rather beneath the yoke of Edom [Christendom] than that of Ishmael.
Hitler’s Mufti, then, didn’t invent Muslim anti-Semitism, he merely modernized it.