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BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, Jpost correspondent in berlin , THE JERUSALEM POST
Saturday 11 September 2010
Aug. 28, 2009
The famous photo of Adolf Hitler sitting with Grand Mufti Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini.
The publicly funded Multicultural Center's (Werkstatt der Kulturen) decision to remove educational panels of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, who was an ally of Adolf Hitler, from a planned exhibit, sparked outrage on Thursday among a district mayor, the curator of the exhibit, and the Berlin Jewish community.
The curator, Karl Rössler, told The Jerusalem Post that it is a "scandal" that the director of the Werkstatt, Philippa Ebéné, sought to censor the exhibit.
"One must, of course, name that al-Husseini, a SS functionary, participated in the Holocaust," said Rössler.
The exhibit covers the "The Third World during the Second World War" and three exhibit panels of 96 are devoted to the mufti's collaboration with the Nazis.
The grand mufti delivered a talk to the imams of the Bosnian SS division in 1944, and was a key Islamic supporter of Nazi Germany's destruction of European Jewry.
Ebéné denied that there was an "agreement " reached with the local German-Muslim community to shut down the exhibit. She termed media queries regarding an agreement as "Eurocentric."
She told the Post that the exhibit was intended as a "hom
age to soldiers from African" countries who fought against the Nazis.
When asked about her opposition to the inclusion of the mufti panels, she asked, "was there ever a commemoration event in Israel to honor the [African] soldiers?"
Rössler was notified last Friday that Ebéné wanted to take out the panels dealing with the grand mufti, but he rejected her demand to remove them.
Meanwhile, the exhibit in its uncensored version has been relocated to the UferHallen gallery.
Maya Zehden, a spokeswoman for the 12,000-strong Berlin Jewish community, told the Post that Ebéné's rejection of the exhibit showed "intolerance," and a director who is "incapable of acting in a democratic" manner.
Zehden urged that the Berlin government consider replacing Ebéné as director. Zehden also sharply criticized Günter Piening, Berlin's commissioner for integration and migration, for defending Ebéné's decision to censor the exhibit.
Piening told the large daily Tagesspiegel that, "We need, in a community like Neukölln, a differentiated presentation of the involvement of the Arabic world in the Second World War."
Zehden termed his statement "an appeasement attempt" to ignore the fact that "there was no official resistance from the Arabic world against the persecution of Jews" during the Shoah.
She accused Piening of showing a false tolerance to German-Arabs in the neighborhood by not wanting to deal with disturbances from the local community.
Piening issued conflicting statements to the Post. While denying his statement to the Tagesspiegel, he said, however, that his comment was stripped out of a context of quotes.
He said the "reason" for the removal of the grand mufti panels dealt with a "misunderstanding of the background of the exhibit."
In an e-mail to the Post, Heinz Buschkowsky, the district mayor in Neukölln, where the exhibit was originally planned, wrote, it is a sign of "anticipatory obedience to avoid probable protests. I do not consider this position to be good."
He added that Piening's statement is a "repression of the facts dealing with anti-Semitism."
The district mayor wrote that the center by its own "claim to stand for freedom, tolerance, and culture should be careful not to set off suspicion that it is imposing censorship."
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Haj Amin al Husseini.
Who was the Grand Mufti, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini?
Grand Mufti with Hitler
Grand Mufti with Hitler
Muhammed Amin al-Husseini [many spelling variations] was born in 1893 (or
1895), the son of the Mufti of Jerusalem and member of an esteemed,
aristocratic family. The Husseinis were one of the richest and most powerful
of all the rivalling clans in the Ottoman province known as the Judaean part
of Palestine.
Amin al-Husseini studied religious law at al-Azhar University, Cairo, and
attended the Istanbul School of Administration. In 1913 he went to Mecca on
a pilgrimage, earning the honorary title of "Haj". He voluntarily joined the
Ottoman Turkish army in World War I but returned to Jerusalem in 1917 and
expediently switched sides to aid the victorious British. He acquired the
reputation as a violent, fanatical anti-Zionist zealot and was jailed by the
British for instigating a
1920 Arab
attack against Jews who were praying at the Western Wall.
The first Palestine High Commissioner. Sir Herbert Samuel arrived in
Palestine on July 1, 1920. He was a weak administrator who was too ready to
compromise and appease the extremist, nationalistic Arab minority led by Haj
Amin al-Husseini. When the existing Arab Mufti of Jerusalem (religious
leader) died in 1921, Samuels was influenced by anti-Zionist British
officials on his staff. He pardoned al-Husseini and, in January 1922,
appointed him as the new Mufti, and even invented a new title of Grand
Mufti. He was simultaneously made President of a newly created Supreme
Muslim Council. Al-Husseini thereby became the religious and political
leader of the Arabs.
The appointment of the young al-Husseini as Mufti was a seminal event. Prior
to his rise to power, there were active Arab factions supporting cooperative
development of Palestine involving Arabs and Jews. But al-Husseini would
have none of that; he was devoted to driving Jews out of Palestine, without
compromise, even if it set back the Arabs 1000 years.
William Ziff, in his book "The Rape of Palestine," summarizes:
* Implicated in the [1920] disturbances was a political adventurer
named Haj Amin al Husseini. Haj Amin, was sentenced by a British court to
fifteen years hard labor. Conveniently allowed to escape by the police, he
was a fugitive in Syria. Shortly after, the British then allowed him to
return to Palestine where, despite the opposition of the muslim High Council
who regarded him as a hoodlum, Haj Amin was appointed by the British High
Commissioner as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem for life. [P. 22]
Al-Husseini represented newly emerging proponents of militant, Palestinian
Arab nationalism, a previously unknown concept. Once he was in power, he
began a campaign of terror and intimidation against anyone opposed to his
rule and policies. He killed Jews at every opportunity, but also eliminated
Arabs who did not support his campaign of violence. Husseini was not willing
to negotiate or make any kind of compromise for the sake of peace.
As a young man, al-Husseini worked with a native Jew, Abbady, who documented
this comment:
* Remember, Abbady, this was and will remain an Arab land. We do not
mind you natives of the country, but those alien invaders, the Zionists,
will be massacred to the last man. We want no progress, no prosperity.
Nothing but the sword will decide the fate of this country.
In 1929, major
Arab riots were instigated against the Jews of Palestine. They began when
al-Husseini falsely accused Jews of defiling and endangering local mosques,
including al-Aqsa. The call went out to the Arab masses: "Izbah Al-Yahud!" -
"Slaughter the Jews!" After the killing of Jews in Hebron, the Mufti
disseminated photographs of slaughtered Jews with the claim that the dead
were Arabs killed by Jews.
In April, 1936 six prominent Arab leaders formed the Arab Higher Committee,
with the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini as head of the organization,
joining forces to protest British support of Zionist progress in Palestine.
In the same month, riots broke out in Jaffa commencing a three-year period
of violence and civil strife in Palestine that is known as the
Arab Revolt.
The Arab Higher Committee led the campaign of terrorism against Jewish and
British targets.
Using the turmoil of the Arab Revolt as cover, al-Husseini consolidated his
control over the Palestinian Arabs with a campaign of murder against Jews
and non-compliant Arabs, the recruitment of armed militias, and the raising
of funds from around the Muslim world using anti-Jewish propaganda. In 1937
the Grand Mufti expressed his solidarity with Germany, asking the Nazi Third
Reich to oppose establishment of a Jewish state, stop Jewish immigration to
Palestine, and provide arms to the Arab population. Following an
assassination attempt on the British Inspector-General of the Palestine
Police Force and the murder by Arab extremists of Jews and moderate Arabs,
the Arab Higher Committee was declared illegal by the British. The Grand
Mufti lost his office of President of the Supreme muslim Council, his
membership on the Waqf committee, and was forced into exile in Syria in
1937. The British deported the Arab mayor of Jerusalem along with other
members of the Arab Higher Committee.
According to documentation from the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, the Nazi
Germany SS helped finance al-Husseini's efforts in the 1936-39 revolt in
Palestine. Adolf Eichmann actually visited Palestine and met with
al-Husseini at that time and subsequently maintained regular contact with
him later in Berlin.
In 1940, al-Husseini requested the Axis powers to acknowledge the Arab
right:
* ... to settle the question of Jewish elements in Palestine and other
Arab countries in accordance with the national and racial interests of the
Arabs and along the lines similar to those used to solve the Jewish question
in Germany and Italy.
While in Baghdad, Syria al-Husseini aided the pro-Nazi revolt of 1941.
He then spent the
rest of World War II as Hitler's special guest in Berlin, advocating the
extermination of Jews in radio broadcasts back to the Middle East and
recruiting Balkan Muslims for infamous SS "mountain divisions" that tried to
wipe out Jewish communities throughout the region.
At the Nuremberg Trials, Eichmann's deputy Dieter Wisliceny (subsequently
executed as a war criminal) testified:
* The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination
of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and
Himmler in the execution of this plan. ... He was one of Eichmann's best
friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination
measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito
the gas chamber of Auschwitz.
With the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Mufti moved to Egypt where he
was received as a national hero. After the war al-Husseini was indicted by
Yugoslavia for war crimes, but escaped prosecution. The Mufti was never
tried because the Allies were afraid of the storm in the Arab world if the
hero of Arab nationalism was treated as a war criminal.
>From Egypt al-Husseini was among the sponsors of the
1948 war against the new
State of Israel. Spurned by the Jordanian monarch, who gave the position of
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem to someone else, Haj Amin al-Husseini arranged
King Abdullah's
assassination in 1951, while still living in exile in Egypt. King Tallal
followed Abdullah as king of Jordan, and he refused to give permission to
Amin al-Husseini to come into Jordanian Jerusalem. After one year, King
Tallal was declared incompetent; the new King Hussein also refused to give
al-Husseini permission to enter Jerusalem. King Hussein recognized that the
former Grand Mufti would only stir up trouble and was a danger to peace in
the region.
Haj Amin al-Husseini eventually died in exile in 1974.
He never returned to Jerusalem after his 1937 departure.
His place as leader of the radical, nationalist Palestinian Arabs
was taken by his nephew Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat
As Qudwa al-Hussaeini, better known as Yasser Arafat.
In August 2002, Arafat gave an interview in which he referred
to "our hero al-Husseini" as a symbol of Palestinian Arab resistance.
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