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The Mufti was never tried or convicted at Nuremberg. My reading shows him to be a "distant cousin" of Arafat. Hannah Arendt, German Jewish refugee and later, prominent American political philosopher, was sent by the New Yorker magazine, in 1963, to cover the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel. She concluded that the Mufti was demonized by Israeli government intention, via that trial, and that the demonization was politically motivated and out of proportion:
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Host...I stand corrected. The Mufti was not tried and convicted at Nuremburg. He was indicted by the Yugoslavian govt. for his direct involvement in the Bosnian muslim collaboration with the Nazis and active participation in war crimes against the Jews (and Serbs) of Yugoslavia, but was able to avoid trial with the complicity of the French and Brits:
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In July 1945, the Yugoslavian government, a charter member of the United Nations, indicted Haj Amin el Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, for war crimes committed in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
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Husseini, however, fled from Berlin to Switzerland. But because the Swiss did not want to harbor “alleged war criminals”, they refused him political asylum. The Swiss government gave him to France, where he lived in a villa outside of Paris.
Although Palestine was then under British “administration” under the Mandate, the British government, like the French, refused to extradite the Mufti. The British and French governments wanted to have good relations with the Arab and Muslim nations after World War II. They wanted to maintain their colonial and imperial possessions. They did not want to anger the Arab and Muslim leaders because they wanted to control the oil in those countries. What did Yugoslavia have to offer? Nothing. Britain and France could derive nothing from the Slavs. But oil was in abundance in the Arab and Muslim countries.
The French government gave the Mufti “privileged treatment” and saw him as “the head of a great Arab community." The Mufti had his own personal chauffeur, a secretary, and bodyguards. He walked openly in the streets of Paris.
In April, the American Jewish Conference requested that France turn the Mufti over for trial at Nuremberg as a war criminal. Instead, the French government denied the extradition request by Yugoslavia and allowed the Mufti to leave Paris for Cairo. Egypt granted him political asylum. This was how the Grand Mufti was able to “escape” war crimes prosecution in Yugoslavia for alleged war crimes he committed in Bosnia.
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/077.shtml
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In 1943 al-Husseini traveled several times to Bosnia, where he helped recruit a Bosnian Muslim S.S. company, the notorious “Hanjar troopers,” who slaughtered 90 percent of Bosnia’s Jews and burned “countless Serbian churches and villages.”
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=223
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Biased sources? You can decide for yourself.
And, his young relative, Arafat, may well have been a distant cousin (rather than nephew or grand nephew) who referred to Haj Amin el-Husseini as Uncle out of respect. In either case, Arafat joined el-Husseini's jihad against Jews in the Middle East in 1946, which began when el-Husseini was appointed Mufti by the Brits in 1921 (there are many sources). If that is considered demonizing the Mufti (and Arafat), so be it.
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Can we agree that the Mufti was a "bad, bad" man.....that he collaborated with the Nazis, but that his "collaboration" had no more "impact" on actual aid to the Nazi war effort, than say.....the collaboration of Prescott Bush or his partner, Harriman....or that the Mufti was any "badder" with regard to the "hands on" killing of innocents, than terrorists Menachim Begin, David ben Gurion, Yitzak Rabin, et al?
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Nope...the comparisons are absurd IMO....unless you can find similar religiously driven extremism (by Prescott Bush, Begin, ben Gurion, Rabin...) and incitement of others to follow the same extremism as this:
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“The overwhelming egoism which lies in the character of Jews, their unworthy belief that they are God’s chosen nation and their assertion that all was created for them and that other people are animals” makes them “incapable of being trusted. They cannot mix with any other nation but live as parasites among the nations, suck out their blood, embezzle their property, corrupt their morals.” “Kill the Jews wherever you find them,” the Mufti told his growing Arab radio audience in 1944. “This pleases God, history, and religion.”
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Now back to the more general discussion of terrorism begetting terrorism.
