Keep up with MEMRI on Facebook and Twitter. Inquiry and Analysis No. 813 By: A. Ceresnjes and Y. Carmon* Introduction The Bosanski Pokret Nacionalnog Ponosa (Bosnian National Pride Movement), founded about two years ago, describes itself as a National Socialist (Nazi) movement championing white supremacy and Bosnian national revival. What differentiates the BPNP from other European neo-Nazi groups is that it was founded by, and is intended for, Muslim Bosnians – as evident from its spheres of operation, which are listed on its website. Indeed, the site states that 95% of the group's members are Muslim (though this is not a mandatory requirement for membership). The website also reveals that the group celebrates the Muslim-Nazi alliance during the Second World War: It reveres the Muslims who joined the Nazi war effort, and sees a role model in their leader, then-mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, who from 1941 through 1945 collaborated with the Nazi leadership and the SS. It should be mentioned that unlike some EU countries, Bosnia does not ban Neo-Nazi groups or the use of Nazi symbols – enabling the organization to operate and circulate its materials with impunity. This report will review the organization's ideology, as described on its site. The Ideology of the BPNP The BPNP website, which has sections in Bosnian and English, states that the organization's ideology is based on the doctrine of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, as set out in his manifesto The NAZI-SOZI: Questions and Answers for Nationalist Socialists (1932). A section on the site is features the "Ten Commandments for National Socialists," which is part of this manifesto, adapted for the current circumstances in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Another section on the site, headed "BNPM Attitudes," stresses Bosnian nationalism and lists the ideologies the group rejects, which include communism, capitalism, Islamism and also Zionism, which, according to the site, is striving for world domination. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6197.htm. Special Dispatch No. 4888 An editorial in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour claimed that while the Arab and Islamic countries are preoccupied with the Arab Spring and other current events in the region, they are ignoring the fact that "the prophet-killers and new Nazis" are attacking and defiling Jerusalem. Stating that the "Zionist enemy" is Judaizing Jerusalem, and planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque in order to build its "false Temple," it says that this enemy intends to purge the city of its Arab residents by 2020. It then calls on the Arab and Muslim ummah to reassess the Palestinian cause and to suspend all agreements with Israel until "Jerusalem is restored, free and Arab, to its ummah." Following are excerpts: "Whoever follows the declarations of the Zionist enemy's leaders and its aggressive expansionist plans will see that this enemy, which is armed from head to toe with fables, tall tales, and illusions, is determined to Judaize Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and to substantiate the Talmudic account [of Jerusalem's history] by altering the city's Arab and Islamic features. [It is doing] this by destroying the waqf buildings that surround Al-Aqsa, encircling the latter with biblical gardens and Jewish synagogues, altering the features of the Al-Buraq Wall [i.e. the Western Wall], building biblical gardens in the [adjacent] courtyard, and continuing to dig tunnels, speeding the collapse of the mosque and the establishment of the false Temple. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6196.htm. Special Dispatch No. 4587 Following are excerpts from an Al-Rahma TV program featuring Egyptian clerics discussing the Jews, which aired on March 6, 2012. To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3359.htm. Egyptian cleric Gharib Ramadhan: "There are very many traits that characterize the Jews, and the Koran focused on a few of them, such as the violation of commitments, from which we suffer to this day. Not just us in Egypt – the entire world suffers from this." To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6195.htm. Special Dispatch No. 4586 On January 21, 2012, United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser spoke at the UN International Holocaust Remembrance event at New York's Park East Synagogue, in observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. At a UNGA event in early February 2012 marking the end of World Interfaith Harmony Week, Al-Nasser stressed the potential of all of the world's religions to promote global peace and stability, saying that faiths have common principles that can be used to bring about greater unity and harmony among people. "We recognize and celebrate the values that are shared across religious traditions," he said, adding, "The common principles form a common ground that unites us in our rich diversity." He also noted that on March 22, he would convene a day-long thematic debate in the Assembly on "fostering cross-cultural understanding for building peaceful and inclusive societies," which, he said, would draw on the discussions at last year's 4th Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Doha, Qatar. Al-Nasser, who is also Qatar's permanent representative to the UN, was elected president of the 66th session of the UNGA in June 2011. He previously served as vice-president of the UNGA (2002-2003), and in various ambassadorial posts, and has been in his country's diplomatic service since 1972. To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6194.htm. Special Dispatch No. 4585 On February 15, 2012, Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK, Arab liberal Mehdi Hassan, who resides in the UK, published an article titled "I Am Shamed By Muslim Attitudes to the Holocaust." In it, he said that he was ashamed of the Holocaust denial of many of his fellow Muslims, and underlined that "the British Muslim community must do much more to remember the Holocaust." The following is his article: "The Attitude Of Many Of My Fellow Muslims Towards the Holocaust Is a Source Of Great Shame To Me" "Today, for the 12th year running, the UK marks Holocaust Memorial Day. The date commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. "It pains me to admit this, but the attitude of many of my fellow Muslims towards the Holocaust is a source of great shame to me. In the Middle East Holocaust denial is rife, from President [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] of Iran to the taxi drivers of Cairo. At home, British Muslim attitudes are defined not just by denial but by indifference. "Few Muslims or mosques take part in the memorial day. In 2006, a Channel 4 poll found that a quarter of British Muslims didn't know what the Holocaust was, and that only one in three believed it had occurred. This is scandalous. How can we claim to be proud, integrated, European Muslims if we ignore a seminal moment in the history of this continent? "We British Muslims prefer to wallow in vicarious victimhood. Only 'our' tragedies matter: Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Chechnya roll off our tongues. But none of these surpasses the Holocaust's barbarism. The Nazi genocide cannot be relativized or generalized. It was an unprecedented act of industrial slaughter; a uniquely horrific crime against humanity." To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6193.htm.Muslim Bosnian Neo-Nazis on Plot To Let "Chosen People" Control World;
Jordan Daily: Jerusalem Defiled By Jews;
gyptian Cleric: Teaching Children To Hate Jews Is Allah-Worship;
UNGA Pres/Qatar UN Rep at Int'l Holocaust Day
MEMRI Daily: March 19, 2012
Muslim Bosnian Neo-Nazi Group: Most Of the World's Problems Result From a Plot Aimed at "Letting the 'Chosen People' Control... the World"
Jordanian Daily: Jerusalem Is Being Defiled By the Prophet-Killers and New Nazis
Egyptian Clerics Repeat Benjamin Franklin Prophecy Myth, Call Jews 'Donkeys' and 'Apes and Pigs,' and Say: Making Our Children Loathe the Jews Is a Form of Worship of Allah
Remarks by UNGA President and Qatari Permanent Representative to UN Abdulaziz Al-Nasser at UN International Holocaust Remembrance Event
General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser. UN Photo/Evan SchneiderArticle By British Muslim Marking UK Holocaust Memorial Day: 'I Am Shamed By Muslim Attitudes To the Holocaust
Monday, 19 March 2012
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