[Apologetics] Hitler's Mufti, not Hitler's Pope

[bbellamy at mindspring.com]

Thanks for posting this, Steve!  Most people today do not know of the efforts many Catholics and other Christians made to save Jews during the Nazi period, some died with the Jews for their efforts.  These Catholics and other Christians are honored by the nation of Israel at the Avenue of the Righteous just outside the Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.  Israel is the only one that remembers these people; otherwise, everyone else has generally forgotten them.  Most people also don't know about the evil Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (a distant uncle of the infamous heathen Yassir Arafat), who was very eager to cooperate with Hitler's plan, and was ready, if Rommel had won in Egypt, to even outdo Hitler.  Also, the SS recruited Muslims in Bosnia (part of the former Yugoslavia), who were even more vicious than the regular SS.  These things are also not well known to most people.

Thanks for helping us to learn about these things.

Bret

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From: Stephen Korsman <skorsman at theotokos.co.za>
Sent: Aug 8, 2005 6:01 PM
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Subject: [Apologetics] Hitler's Mufti, not Hitler's Pope

Hitler's Mufti, not Hitler's Pope

by [Rabbi] David G. Dalin
Posted Aug 3, 2005

Many readers of the New York Times no doubt believe that Pope Pius XII was "Hitler's Pope." John Cornwell's bestselling book told them that, and it's been reaffirmed by Garry Wills, Daniel Goldhagen and other writers since. It's been said so often in fact that most well-read liberals know it for a certainty. The only trouble is: it isn't true.

Not only does it contradict the words of Holocaust survivors, the founders of Israel, and the contemporary record of the New York Times, but even John Cornwell, the originator of the phrase "Hitler's pope," has recanted it saying that he was wrong to have ascribed evil motives to Pius and now found it "impossible to judge" the wartime pope.

But there's something else that has been ignored nearly all together. Precisely at the moment when Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Rome (and throughout Europe) was saving thousands of Jewish lives, Hitler had a cleric broadcasting from Berlin who called for the extermination of the Jews.

He was Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the viciously anti-Semitic grand mufti of Jerusalem, who resided in Berlin as a welcome guest and ally of the Nazis throughout the years of the Holocaust.

... more at http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8415

Rabbi Dalin is a professor of history and political science at Ave Maria University and is the author of The Myth of Hitler's Pope (Regnery). 

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