In the previous chapter, we saw the extent of Haj Amin al-Husseini's connections with the Nazis and his vast influence throughout the Muslim world. Among the Jihadist organizations on whom he had the most profound influence is the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Husseini made his escape to Egypt as a war criminal on 20 June 1946 with the assistance of the Brotherhood; upon his arrival, Hasan al-Banna, the founder and Führer of the Brotherhood, appointed al-Husseini his “official representative and personal supervisor of the Brotherhood's activities in Palestine.” In al-Husseini the Muslim Brotherhood saw one of their most powerful allies in the spread of Islamic Jihadism in the postwar era. In al-Husseini's bent toward a Nazi-like exterminationist Jew hatred, they found their common denominator, just as al-Husseini had found with the Nazis.

The Brotherhood, as we have seen, had already had its ideological contacts with the Nazis. Therefore, its members were quite receptive to an even deeper Nazi influence via al-Husseini.