Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Essence of the Jihadist Evil
- 1 Nazi Ideology and Jihadist Echoes
- 2 Modern Jihadist Ideological Foundations
- 3 The Nazi Seed in Islamic Soil
- 4 The Evil Spreads: The Muslim Brotherhood
- 5 Jihadist Brothers: The Sudanese National Islamic Front, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas
- 6 “Religious” Offshoots: The Islamic Revolution, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda
- 7 “Secular” Offshoots: The Baath Party and the PLO
- 8 Concluding Thoughts: Humanity's Need for Israel
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Concluding Thoughts: Humanity's Need for Israel
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Essence of the Jihadist Evil
- 1 Nazi Ideology and Jihadist Echoes
- 2 Modern Jihadist Ideological Foundations
- 3 The Nazi Seed in Islamic Soil
- 4 The Evil Spreads: The Muslim Brotherhood
- 5 Jihadist Brothers: The Sudanese National Islamic Front, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas
- 6 “Religious” Offshoots: The Islamic Revolution, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda
- 7 “Secular” Offshoots: The Baath Party and the PLO
- 8 Concluding Thoughts: Humanity's Need for Israel
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Do we not smell here…the odor of the camps? Violence is no longer a political phenomenon of war and peace.…It is the abyss of Auschwitz or the world at war. A world which has lost its “very worldliness.…” One must go back inside, even if there is terror inside. Is the fact of Israel unique? Does it not have its full meaning because it applies to all humanity? All men are on the verge of being in the situation of the State of Israel. The State of Israel is a category.
Emmanuel Lévinas, Nine Talmudic ReadingsWe have traced a genealogy of exterminationist Jew hatred from National Socialism to Islamic Jihadism. The branches of the tree, the web of interrelations, are intricate and complex, yet the influences and the parallels are clear. Abdul Al'a Maududi, Hasan al-Banna, and Michel Aflaq were admirers and students of Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, and Johannes von Leers. Haj Amin al-Husseini was connected, both ideologically and politically, to al-Banna and the Brotherhood, as well as to Adolf Hitler, Adolf Eichmann, and Heinrich Himmler; among his most notorious protégées was Yasser Arafat. Al-Husseini also had ties to Iraqi Baathist Kairallah Tulfah, the guardian and mentor of Saddam Hussein. The Brotherhood branched out to establish itself in the Sudan, first under Hasan al-Turabi and then under Omar al-Bashir.
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- A Genealogy of EvilAnti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad, pp. 254 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010