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Mufti Mujahideen

12/12/2006

One of Islam's Patriarchs of Terror, and the father of the Hanjar (Handschar, Khanjar, Scimitar or Sword) Muslim Waffen SS Divisions, the Mufti Mujahideen, and the Supreme Muslim Council, Mohammad (Muhammad) Hajj Amin al-Husayni (alternatively spelt al-Husseini), the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem died on July 4th, 1974. Over the course of his 80-year life, the Palestinian Islamic religious and political leader conspired to slaughter over six-million Jews. He was among the most evil men whoever lived.
Known best for his anti-Semitism and union of Islam and Nazism, Mufti Muhammad Hajj Amin al-Husayni fought against the establishment of a Jewish state. To this end, Husayni was an active collaborator with Adolf Hitler in World War II, and he was a substantial contributor to the Final Solution.

Since this Muslim is important, albeit in the most horrible sense imaginable, you should know that his title "Grand Mufti" means that Muhammad Husayni was considered to be an "Islamic Scholar." The Mufti title was awarded to Islamic clerics who were authorized to interpret the Qur'an, Hadith, Sunnah, and Sharia, and who, based upon their extensive knowledge of Islam, were licensed to issue binding religious dictates called fataawa, plural of fatwa.

Muhammad Amin al-Husayni was born into an aristocratic family in Jerusalem around 1895. He was the son of the Mufti of Jerusalem, a man who was one of the richest and most powerful Muslims in the Judean Province of the Ottoman Empire. Muhammad attended the most revered Islamic academy on earth, Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. In his one year stay, he founded an anti-Jewish society while studying Islamic religious law known as Sharia. In 1913 at the age of 18, al-Husayni made the Hajj pilgrimage to Allah's rock pile, known as the Ka'aba, or Allah's House, in Mecca. He was such a good Muslim, he earned (or daddy purchased) the honorary title of Hajj.

In the years leading up to World War I, Muhammad Hajj Amin al-Husayni studied at the School of Administration in Istanbul, which at the time was the heart and soul of the Islamic Ottoman Empire. In 1914, Muhammad joined the Ottoman Turkish Army. He received a commission as an artillery officer and was assigned to the 47th Brigade stationed around the Greek Orthodox city of Smyrna in present-day Turkey. Smyrna was the recipient of the second of seven prophetic letters the Messiah Yahshua dictated to John in Revelation. The crux of that letter is a warning, predicting ten epochs of persecution.

In 1915, as an officer in the Ottoman Army, Muhammad Hajj al-Husseini would have been at the very least a witness to the Armenian Christian genocide. The forced relocation and systematic rape, enslavement, and death of 1.3 million Christians in concentration camps at the hands of the Muslim Ottoman Turks, Germany's WWI ally, would serve as the model for the mass murder of six-million Jews in the Nazi holocaust twenty years hence. Muhammad al-Husayni used his personal experience in this regard to inspire Adolf Hitler. Shortly after meeting the Mufti, Adolf Hitler cited the killing of the Armenians as a precedent for his own slaughter of the Jews. "Kill without mercy!" the Nazi leader told his military. "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Read the account of Turkey's Special Organization in the Islamic Clubs Appendix to the Islamic Terrorism Timeline.

In November 1916, al-Husayni left the Islamic Ottoman Army on a three-month disability leave and returned to Jerusalem where he remained for the duration of the war. After the British conquered Israel and Syria in 1918, the power-hungry Muslim switched sides and was employed in various positions by the British military administration in Jerusalem and in Damascus. One of his most important roles was the recruitment of soldiers for Faisal bin Husayn's army.

If you will pardon the momentary distraction, I'd like to share some of what I know regarding al-Husayni's pal Faisal bin Husayn before moving on with the life of the Grand Mufti. Faisal was for a brief time following WWI, king of Greater Syria and then king of Iraq. Born to a ruling religious family in Saudi Arabia, his dad being the Grand Sharif of Mecca, Faisal was a traitor of sorts. After serving in the Ottoman government, he was bribed into serving the Brits during WWI and attacked the Ottomans (who had previously been weakened by the Russians). Faisal was a key player in Lawrence of Arabia, a tale that is actually far less romantic and heroic than told on the silver screen.

On January 3, 1919, Faisal and Dr. Chaim Weizmann (a British Jew credited with saving the UK in WWI with his invention of synthetic acetone, and subsequently with the writing of the Balfour Declaration, and the eventual establishment of state of Israel following WWII) signed the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement in which Faisal accepted the Balfour Declaration. This post WWI accord awarded many large states to the Muslims and one small state (Transjordan) to the Jews out of the remains of the defeated Ottoman Empire. Unfortunately, the Muslim traitor Faisal was not to be trusted, and after accepting the gift of the new Islamic nations, he lobbied Britain to prevent the establishment of the Jewish state - something that eventually led to the holocaust and most of today's Islamic terrorism.

The traitor and liar was named king of greater Syria by the British in March 1920. But in July, Faisal was expelled by the French during the battle of Maysalun. He then moved to the U.K. Since the British controlled Iraq, they decided to establish a monarchy there and made the Saudi Faisal, King of Iraq in August 1921. This was the kind of man, the Grand Mufti was keen on supporting.
By way of example, in 1919 Muhammad Hajj al-Husayni attended the Pan-Syrian Congress held in Damascus where he supported Emir Faisal for King of Greater Syria - an Islamic nation which at the time incorporated all of today's Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and Syria, most of Jordan, Iraq, and the Sinai, and some of Turkey. It remains the dream of every good Muslim to see the world unified into a singular Islamic dictatorship.

That year, al-Husayni founded the secret society of El-Nadi al-Arabi (The Arab Club) in Jerusalem and wrote religious and anti-Semitic articles for the first new newspaper to be established by Muslims in what is today Israel, but was then Suriyya al-Janubiyya (Southern Syria). Since Muslims like al-Husayni had worked to make Arab synonymous with Muslim so that attacks on Islam could be rebuffed as racist and bigoted, al-Nadi al-Arabi could just as easily been the Muslim Club.

During the annual Nabi Musa (the corrupted Muslim version of Moses) procession in Jerusalem in March 1920, Muhammad al-Husayni publicly denounced the Balfour Declaration as a betrayal of Arab Muslims by the British. And that was funny, since it was the Balfour Declaration that awarded most of the Middle East to Muslims - including the great reservoirs of crude beneath their sands. It was also ironic, since the inspiration for the Balfour Declaration had been Chaim Weizmann. When he was asked what he wanted for having saved the British Empire he asked for nothing more than an insignificant sliver of \desert the British now owned as a result of having defeated the Ottoman Empire with the benefit of his invention. Chaim Weizmann requested and was given that portion of land which had been the historic homeland of his people, the Jews. It was the land given to them by Yahweh in his revelation to the prophet Moses.

In his speech, al-Husayni, who had by now earned a nasty reputation as a violent and fanatical anti-Semite, called for unification of Judea into Syria (At the time, there was no such thing as a "Palestinian" people.). Rife with Islamic hatred for Jews, and inspired by Muhammad's remarks, the Nabi Musa procession turned into a violent riot. Then, as Muslims are wont to do, they began killing Jews, starting with those who were praying at the Western Wall.

The Passover Riots represented the first occurrence of Islamic terrorism in Judea during the post-Ottoman, British Mandate period. Being anti-Semitic themselves, the British garrison did not intervene, allowing Muslims to kill at will. The British did, however, convict Muhammad Hajj Amin al-Husayni for his role in instigating the Islamic intifada. The Muslim lad was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor in a British prison. It was sadly in absentia, since the hoodlum had already fled to Damascus by way of Trans-Jordan.

Throughout the early 1920s, al-Husayni focused his efforts on seeing to it that the Balfour Declaration's award of Trans-Jordan to the Jews was not implemented while the Accord's establishment of Greater Syria was made permanent. But that hypocritical dream went up in smoke after Britain ceded control over present-day Syria and Lebanon to France in July 1920 with the Sykes-Picot Agreement. The French army entered Damascus, overthrew King Faisal and dissolved Greater Syria.

After this, al-Husayni turned from a Damascus-oriented Pan-Islamic empire to the establishment of a Palestinian state centered on Jerusalem which would require a repudiation of the Balfour Declaration and the expulsion of Jews and non-Muslims from the region. In Islamic parlance, Palestine would become Dar al-Islam, or the House of Submission. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Allah's Qur'an and Muhammad's Hadith predisposed the world into two factions, Dar al-Islam, literally "the House of Submission," and Dar al-Harb, "the House of War." This remains how most Muslims, and all Islamic terrorists, see the world. It is Islam's frame of reference.

In 1921, the British military administration was replaced by a civilian one, as a mandate under the League of Nations. Having forgotten their promises to Chaim Weizmann and his people, the British doomed their nation to further endure the consequences of having failed to uphold the covenant the Children of Israel had made with Yahweh. Yet, the Jews whom they sought to shortchange, would return to Israel in spite of the British, because God had promised they would. However, the Holocaust, not Weizmann's inventions, would be their ticket home.

Following the death of Muhammad al-Husayni's brother Kamil, who was the former Islamic Mufti, the British High Commissioner Herbert Samuel decided to pardon Muhammad al-Husayni for his role in inciting Muslims to murder Jews and loot their homes. They did this so that they could promote the 26-year-old mass murderer, appointing the under-educated Muslim "Mufti," or "Islamic Scholar." Muhammad Hajj Amin al-Husayni was now Mufti of Jerusalem, an esteemed Islamic cleric who was authorized to interpret the Qur'an, Hadith, Sunnah, and Sharia, and who, based upon his knowledge of Islam, was licensed to issue binding religious dictates called fataawa. Appealing to the young Muslim's ego, it was Herbert Samuel who contrived the use of "Grand" before the title "Mufti.".

Simultaneous with the aggrandizement, the British appointed Grand Mufti Muhammad Hadj Amin al-Husseini, President of the newly created Supreme Muslim Council. The Patriarch of Palestinian Terrorism, was now all but Caliph and King of the Arab Muslims living in the Promised Land. It was a seminal moment in time. Prior to the elevation of this miserable man to power, Arab leaders were content to allow Jews to survive in the sliver of desert known as Judea, but Grand Mufti Muhammad Hajj Amin al-Husayni, President of the Supreme Muslim Council, would have none of that. He turned back the clock exactly 1300 years, to 621, and the beginning of the Islamic Era. It was then that Muhammad and the first Muslims "declared war on all mankind" and began their systematic assault on Jews, exiling, robbing, raping, enslaving and murdering a higher percentage of Jews within their reach than would Hitler's Nazis, the man and dogma Muhammad al-Husayni would soon ally.

As you might expect, rewarding the Muslim murderer with the title of Grand Mufti and President of the Supreme Muslim Council brought with it a wave of new violence. He began a campaign of terror and intimidation against anyone who opposed his rule or his mandates - and that included killing Jews at every opportunity. The Grand Mufti told one of his confidants: "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 May 1921, mobs of Muslims shouting "Allahu Akbar" launched terrorist assaults on Jewish communities in Jaffa, Rehovot, and Petah Tikva. In one riot alone, 47 Jews were killed and 73 were wounded. The Muslim casualties of 48 killed and 73 wounded were almost entirely due to British troops, since they had made Jewish defense organizations illegal. Of the riots, the Haycraft Commission found: "The racial strife was begun by the Arabs, and rapidly developed into a conflict of great violence between Arabs and Jews, in which the Arab majority, who were generally the aggressors, inflicted most of the casualties. The fundamental cause of the riots was a feeling among the Arabs of discontent with, and hostility to, the Jews, due to political and economic causes, and connected with Jewish immigration.".

While 47 dead Jews may not mean much to you, the British response to the Islamic uprising should. Sir Herbert Samuel, the High Commissioner, capitulated to the Islamic terrorists and ordered a halt to Jewish immigration into the very land his nation had promised the Jews. This in turn led to the 1922 British White Paper, in which the Balfour Declaration was reinterpreted with regard to the Jews. As Neville Chamberlain had done with Adolf Hitler, the British once again cowered in the face of terror and appeased the Muslims by giving the terrorists what they wanted. There would be no Jewish state. Having reneged on their pledge, the White Paper said that the British no longer supported a separate nation as a Jewish National Home, only a continuation of the community within the Palestine region. Then, within a month of issuing the formal declaration that they could not be trusted, the British awarded 76% of the land they had promised to Chaim Weizmann to Emir Abdullah, the Commander who was "Slave to Allah," creating the Islamic fiefdom of Jordan.

With the 26-year-old's elevation to President of the Supreme Muslim Council, Muhammad Hajj Amin al-Husayni controlled the Waif funds and controlled the Islamic Sharia courts. Under the dominion of Islam where there is never a separation of mosque and state, these courts appointed all teachers, police, and preachers. It gave this modern incarnation of Muhammad absolute control over the minds, lives, souls, and pocketbooks of his Islamic stooges.

As his first order of business, al-Husayni launched an international Islamic campaign to improve and restore the Islamic shrine known as the Dome of the Rock, or as I like to call it, the Dome of the Hoofy Print. Dominating the Jewish Temple Mount, the Dome is a testament to Muhammad's most embarrassing moment. In the wake of his Satanic Verses scandal, Islam's lone founder and Allah's solitary messenger hallucinated that he rode a winged ass from Mecca to Jerusalem one night, to visit with the Jewish prophets in the Temple and then ride up to heaven, passing hell on the way. Of course, the Temple in Jerusalem had been destroyed a half a millenium before Muhammad (and therefore Islam) claimed that this happened, the Jewish prophets were long since dead, and even Allah couldn't fashion a set of wings that would enable an ass to get airborn - let alone two asses. But, nonetheless, the religion based upon lies used this colorful one to snub their collective noses at the Jews, building Allah's demonic shrine on top of the site that had witnessed Yahweh's Temple.

Al-Husayni's next order of business was the 1929 Hebron massacre in which the Islamic Grand Mufti inspired mobs of angry Muslims to murder 67 Jews, a third of whom were teenagers, in celebratory riots. To instigate the riots, the President of the Supreme Muslim Council lied, falsely claiming that Jews had defiled and endangered local Islamic mosques, including al-Aqsa, built into the southern side of Yahweh's Temple Mount. This form of deceitful treachery had become standard Islamic fare. Muslims, starting with Muhammad, told their stooges the opposite of what was true, in effect, destroying their ability to be moral. It is why Muhammad said: "War is deceit" and "I have been made victorious with terror.".

The Grand Mufti Muhammad Hajj Amin al-Husayni, President of the Supreme Muslim Council, shouted "Izbah al-Yahud!" He said: "Slaughter the Jews!" So crazed jihadists murdered another 133 Jewish men and children in the Promised Land while plundering their homes and raping their wives and mothers. At the time, Muslim Arab policemen under the control of the Mufti, deserted the Jewish areas of Jerusalem, Motza, Safed, Hebron, and Jaffa and let the slaughter commence. The onslaught would continue for seven days. More than 300 Jews were wounded in the Islamic assault.

Demonstrating the propensity of Islamic clerics and political leaders to deceive the media, Grand Mufti, after murdering Jewish families, disseminated photographs of the bloodied Jewish women and children with the claim that the dead were instead Arab Muslims killed by the Jews. As a result of terror and propaganda, the Jews who lived in Hebron and who purchased the lands on which they lived in Hebron, were exiled by the Muslims who continued to occupy their homes until the Six-Day War of 1967.
The acting British Superintendent, Raymond Cafferata, testified: "On hearing screams in a room I went up a sort of tunnel passage and saw an Arab in the act of cutting off a child's head with a sword. He had already hit him and was having another cut, but on seeing me he tried to aim the stroke at me, but missed. He was practically on the muzzle of my rifle. I shot him low in the groin. Behind him was a Jewish woman smothered in blood. She was being assaulted by a man I recognized as an Arab police constable named Issa Sherif from Jaffa in Mufti. He was standing over the woman with a dagger in his hand. He saw me and bolted into a room close by and tried to shut me out - shouting in Arabic, 'Your Honor, I am a policeman.' I went into the room and shot him.".

In the immediate aftermath of this event, Sir John Chancellor condemned "the atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and bloodthirsty evildoers... murders perpetrated upon defenseless members of the Jewish population... accompanied by acts of unspeakable savagery.".

The first three people murdered by the Islamic rioters were Eliezer Dan, his wife, and four-year-old son. The religious savages wounded his three-year-old child but he managed to survive. Within ten minutes, twenty more Jews fell victim to Islam. As a result, no Jews lived in Hebron for 37 years.
After many Jews had been killed and exiled, the Grand Mufti, in cooperation with the British government, consolidated his power by recruiting Muslims into an armed militia he called the Mufti's Mujahideen. The President of the Supreme Muslim Council used anti-Semitic propaganda and his Islamic religious credentials to raise funds from around the Muslim world in support of his campaign to "Slaughter the Jews.".

Being an Islamic cleric meant that the Mufti was a liar. He told the British that his Mufti Mujahideen was "a peacekeeping force." As a reward for his duplicity and anti-Semitism, Muhammad al-Husayni was named president of the World Islamic Congress - an organization which he had to create in 1931 to earn the lofty promotion. This bad boy had an ego.

The Grand Mufti's World Islamic Congress was attended by 130 Muslims from 22 Islamic countries. They called on all Muslims to do whatever they could to harass Jews in Palestine, including the imposition of economic sanctions - something that would soon matter because in 1932 oil was discovered under the new Islamic fiefdoms of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, and Iraq.

At this meeting of Muslims, the under-educated Islamic scholar also used the World Islamic Congress to campaign for the establishment of the University of al-Aqsa in Jerusalem - with it being seen as the center of Islamic learning. However, even the Muslims saw through the Mufti's act, and categorized the whole affair as nothing more than al-Husayni's attempt at self aggrandizement with the ultimate goal of him being promoted from Grand Mufti to Caliph - absolute ruler of the Islamic world.
In April 1936, in a dispute with warring Muslim warlords, an Islamic rebellion was instigated across the country. It was openly and officially led by the Grand Mufti himself. His Arab Higher Committee, founded a week after the rebellion began, with the Mufti presiding, issued a fatwa that required a universal work stoppage and called for the nonpayment of all taxes, effectively shutting down government. In addition, the Committee demanded an end to Jewish immigration, a ban on land sales to Jews (evidence in itself that the Jews did not "invade Palestine and steal the land"), and national independence from the British. Jewish communities and kibbutzim became the target of Muslim snipers, bombers, and all manner of terrorists. So it appears that Yasser Arafat was not the least bit inventive, nor accurate, when he called his uprising against the Jews: "The First Intifada.".

After fifteen months of Islamic-sponsored chaos and brutality, in July 1937, British police were sent to arrest Muhammad Hajj Amin al-Husayni for his role in instigating the Islamic rebellion. Sadly, the Grand Mufti was tipped off and he escaped once again, this time to the Haram, or Islamic protected zone surrounding the Ka'aba in Mecca. There, the British decided it was inadvisable to touch him.

Hunkering down in the flea-infested, sun-baked and backward town of Mecca, in September 1937, the self-serving one was removed from the presidency of the Muslim Supreme Council and his Arab Higher Committee was declared illegal. So in October, the defrocked Muhammad al-Husayni fled to Lebanon. There, he reconstituted the Arab Higher Committee under his domination.
During this time, the condemned convict and mass murderer retained the support of most of the Muslims in Israel. And through his Mufti Mujahideen, he used his influence to punish all competitive Islamic clans and sects. While Muhammad remained in Lebanon for two more years, his deteriorating relationship with the French and Syrian authorities ultimately caused him to flee Lebanon and immigrate into Iraq in October, 1939.

But just because the snake was gone did not mean that his venom went with him. The rebellion the Islamic Mufti inspired lasted through 1939, when the slaughter of Palestinian opportunity and Jewish lives by the Mufti Mujahideen was finally quelled by British troops. And while that might sound like good news, it wasn't. Ending the reign of Muslim terror required Britain to make substantial concessions to Islamic demands - all of which punished Jews unjustifiably. For example, the British formally abandoned even their pretence of allowing a Jewish community within the region. As such, the British response to the Grand Mufti's intifada facilitated the conditions which led to the holocaust.

While Jewish immigration was temporarily reinstated for another five years, allowing a total of 75,000 Jews to immigrate and buy homes and farms in the Promised land, immigration thereafter would depend on Muslim consent, which means it was made illegal. Yet even with all of these appeasements, the Grand Mufti al-Husayni felt that the concessions given to stop the terrorism he inspired, did not go far enough, so he repudiated the new policy.
In 1933, within weeks of Adolf Hitler's rise to power in what was becoming Nazi Germany, Muhammad al-Husayni sent a telegram to Berlin saying: "I look forward to spreading your ideology in the Middle East." The Islamic Mufti offered the Nazi Germans his services.

While you might see this as an odd thing for an Islamic religious and political leader to do, it isn't really. The religion Hitler created in Mein Kampf is remarkably similar to Islam - so similar in fact that apart from time, people, and place, they are indistinguishable. Because most people don't know that substantial portions of Mein Kampf were devoted to creating a "People's Religion," the Religion of Man, or that the Nazi religion was modeled after Islam, I devoted 77 pages of Prophet of Doom to the juxtaposition of Hitler's recital with that of Muhammad. I strongly encourage you to read the side-by-side comparison of Islam's and Nazism's scriptures beginning with the "Demented Deity" chapter (pages 195-196), then "Mein Kampf" (pages 388-402), followed by "Islam's Holocaust" (pages 476-492), "Blood & Booty" (pages 545-560), and finally "Profitable Prophet Plan" (pages 658-670). By doing so, you will not only understand why the Muslim Mufti was eager to spread Nazi ideology, but you will also appreciate the cost of continuing to tolerate Islam. The last time this immoral ideology was appeased, 55-million people died. Today, the consequence of appeasing Islam is far greater because the weapons are more lethal. Armed with atomic bombs, Islamic fascists have already begun a war in which Yahweh tells us that one in four people on the planet will die. That war culminates disastrously on Friday, April 13th, 2029, so we don't have much time.

Along these lines, another fact is relevant. While Americans are almost universally ignorant of Hitler's testimony, Mein Kampf (or My Jihad) remains a bestseller in the land of Islam. More copies are sold in the Middle East than the rest of the world combined. Also, so that you are not misled, the relevancy of Hitler's manifesto in Muslim countries has nothing to do with Fascism, because there is no advocacy or even mention of that political/economic system in the Fuhrer's tome. The common ground is the religion and the spirit behind it. It is from there that their common symptoms emerge, including a shared hatred of Jews.
The Grand Mufti Muhammad Hajj Amin Al-Husayni's offer was rejected at first by the Nazis out of concern for prematurely disrupting Anglo-German relations. The war was still six years away, and the British had not yet given the Nazis Czechoslovakia, so the benefits of allying with the anti-British anti-Semite were offset by considerable liabilities. However, the Grand Mufti was persistent. One month later, al-Husayni secretly met the Nazi Consul-General Karl Wolff, who came to meet the Muslim religious leader near the Dead Sea. During this meeing, Muhammad expressed his approval of the anti-Jewish boycott taking place in Germany and asked Wolff not to send any Jews to Palestine - he wanted them dead.

Later that year, the Mufti's assistants approached Wolff, seeking his help in establishing an Arab National Socialist, or Nazi party in Palestine. At the time, Wolff and his superiors disapproved because the Nazi party was restricted to German speaking Aryans. While Hitler's Volk's, or People's Religion as presented in Mein Kampf was astonishingly similar to Islam, the Mufti's Muslims were Arabs, not Arians.

On July 21st, 1937, the impatient Nazi Muslim Muhammad Hajj al-Husayni paid a visit to the new German Consul-General, Hans Dohle. The Mufti reiterated his unconditional support for the Nazi ideology and "wanted to know to what extent the Third Reich was prepared to engage with the Arab Muslim movement against the Jews." In this regard, the Islamic leader sent his personal representative to Berlin to advance collaborative discussions with the leadership of the Nazi Party. He was successful.
The Muslim Mufti's next contact with the Third Reich was with the man who would become the architect of the Final Solution, Otto Adolf Eichmann. In the development of the plan to exterminate every Jew on earth, the SS Obersturmbannfuehrer left Nazi Germany to meet with the one man he thought could help him - Muhammad Hajj Amin al-Husayni.
Before we examine the nature of their November 1937 meeting in Jerusalem, and contemplate the consequence, let's consider who Adolf Eichmann was. Born in 1906, the anti-Semitic Nazi was ten years younger than his Muslim mentor. Conceived in Germany, Adolf was raised in Austria. Like his cohort in crime, he attended vocational schools without finishing his studies. Unlike his mentor, Eichmann was born poor. After dropping out of school, he earned a meager living as a traveling vacuum cleaner salesman. But like Muhammad, Adolf played an active role in a violent and racist organization, the Front Fighters Association, while still in his twenties.

In 1932, Eichmann joined the National Socialist Party (the Nazi affiliate in Austria) under the influence of his acquaintance, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who was later to become the head of Reich Security. In the same year, he also entered the Austrian SS (Schutzstaffeln der NSDAP - National Socialist German Workers' Party, Nazi). The following year, Adolf was dismissed from his sales job in the Socony Vacuum Company, so coinciding with Hitler's rise to power, the future architect of the Holocaust left Austria for Germany.

In November 1933, he enlisted for military service in the Austrian SS unit in exile and underwent military training in the SS camps in Lechfeld and Dachau. After attaining the rank of Scharfuehrer (Corporal), he volunteered for service at the Head Office of the Security Service in Berlin. The SD, or Security Service of the Reichsfuehrer-SS, was originally the intelligence wing of the SS and later of the entire National Socialist (Nazi) Party. At its head stood Reinhard Heydrich. He was also appointed head of the State Secret Police (Gestapo). This appointment was given to Heydrich by Himmler, Reichsfuehrer-SS, in his capacity as head of the entire German police within the framework of the Ministry of the Interior.

According to the testimony of Dieter Wisliceny, who was then his Eichmann's superior but became his chief deputy, "Adolf Eichmann came to the Head Office of the Security Service of the Reichsfuehrer-SS in Berlin in October 1934. At first he worked in the Department for Research into the Freemasons, but after a few months, at the beginning of 1935, he was moved to Department II 112 - "Jews." From that time, until the end of the Third Reich, he never ceased to be engaged in combating the Jews. He worked in this Department in Berlin for about three years, until March 1938, and was appointed Referent (Specialist Officer) for Zionist affairs." That was shortly after his November 1937 sojourn to the heart of anti-Semitism - the Muslim enclave of the Grand Mufti.

"The SS Jewish Department dealt in intelligence work, in close co-operation with the parallel Jewish Department in the Gestapo, which had the authority to take action. Adolf Eichmann excelled at this work, and by the end of 1937 he was promoted to officer's rank (Untersturmfuehrer). His personnel report at that time stated: 'Eichmann has acquired comprehensive knowledge of the methods of organization and ideology of the opponent, Jewry... His National Socialist outlook is the basis for his standing both within the service and outside it.'" It was then, the court records reveal, following his visit with...