Wednesday, June 6, 2007

The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West: Part Two (of Four)

"The founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna, declared his support for the virulent anti-Semite Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who was then the 'Mufti of Jerusalem'. The British High Commissioner of Palestine, Herbert Samuel, had bestowed this title upon Husseini on May 8, 1921, even though he had organized anti-Jewish riots on April 4, 1920, in which five Jews had been killed. Husseini was expected to maintain order in the region, but continued to enact pogroms against Jews in the region in 1921, 1929 and 1936. Samuel sacked Husseini in 1936 after he led a general strike and instigated a revolt against British rule. After the British tried to arrest him in July 1937, the 'Mufti' went into hiding and in October disguised himself as a woman and fled to Lebanon. "

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