Islamic Jihadism has deep ties to National Socialism, both in its history and in its vision of a world that is “purified of the Jews.” Chapter 8 demonstrates the influences of Nazi exterminationist Jew hatred on modern Islamic Jihadism. It should be noted that I use the term Islamic Jihadism to distinguish Jihadists from other Muslims who are not part of this movement. Tracing the path from Hitler to Hamas, the chapter brings out the connections between the antisemitism of the Muslim Brotherhood and National Socialist Jew hatred, with particular attention to the Nazi war criminal Haj Amin al-Husseini. I incorporate primary texts of Jihadist ideologues such as Hasan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Abdullah Azzam, Ruhullah Khomeini, and others. Like the Nazis, but with theological differences, the Jihadists maintain not that all Jews are evil but that all evil is Jewish, to which and that to resolve it there can be only a Final Solution.

From the time of his capture by French soldiers May 1945 to his “escape” to Egypt in May 1946, Haj Amin al-Husseini was held under house arrest near Paris by the French government. This chapter draws on files of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to offer a detailed account of Husseini’s conversations with French officials; France’s rejection of Britain’s modest efforts to have him extradited; the French Foreign Ministry’s hopes that lenient treatment of “the Mufti” would meet with approval in the Arab states; and Husseini’s expression of gratitude to France.