The Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the Nazis

Like the Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, Hassan al Banna, was an enthusiastic fan of Adolf Hitler. He admired the Fuhrer's hatred of the Jewish people. He wrote to Hitler repeatedly to express his admiration and his hope that Islam and Nazism would become collaborators.

Every year from 1935 onward, the Muslim Brotherhood would send delegations to attend the Nazi party's annual rallies in Nuremberg.

The Brotherhood would translate Hitler's autobiography and rantings against the Jewish people into Arabic. Called Mein Kampf, they translated it as jihad, or My Jihad. So the darkness of Hitler and the Nazis goes from Mein Kampf to My Jihad. And it is one of the best selling books in the Arab world. The autobiography of Hitler.

The Brotherhood took Nazi hatred of the Jewish people into the Middle East. In 1938, the Muslim Brotherhood led demonstrations against Egyptian Jews and distributed Arabic translations of excerpts from Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and the fraudulent "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". They embraced and propagated Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda.

The Muslim Brotherhood bombed a Cairo synagogue in 1939 and ransacked Jewish homes, aligning with Nazi persecution of Jews.

Hassan al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, expressed admiration for Nazi militarism and masculinity. In an essay, he mentioned that these qualities could serve as a model for the Muslim Brotherhood.

Additionally, he spoke favorably of the centralized nature of the Fascist and Nazi regimes and their ability to impose order. This admiration for certain aspects of Nazism is documented in historical essays and discussions.

Adolf Hitler met with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, in 1941. During this meeting, there were discussions about combatting Jews both inside and outside Europe.

When the Nazi war criminal Haj Amin al-Husseini fled to Cairo in 1946, Hassan al-Banna hailed him as a hero and great Jihadist. Al-Husseini had close ties with Hitler and recruited Muslims for the Nazi SS.

While there is no record of a direct meeting between Hitler and al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood had deep admiration for Hitler's anti-Semitism and adopted aspects of Nazi ideology and propaganda against Jews.

Hitler made the following quote expressing admiration for Islam over Christianity:
"The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"

This quote is attributed to Hitler by his architect Albert Speer, who recalled Hitler saying this during a meeting. Hitler contrasted Islam, which he saw as a "religion of men" that "glorifies heroism and opens the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone", with Christianity's "meekness and flabbiness".

Speer recounted that Hitler wished the Islamic forces had won the Battle of Tours in 732 against the Franks, speculating that "then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult which glorifies heroism...Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world."

One has to point out that they would have done so as Muslims, of course.