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88. Quoted in the
Jerusalem Post,
April 15, 2001; and in Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia,” 208–209.

 

89.
Jerusalem Post,
August 28, 2002.

 

90. Quoted in Phillips,
Londonistan,
111.

 

91. “Holocaust Denial,”
Wikipedia,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
, 12.

 

92. Ibid.

 

93. Elie Wiesel, “International Community Must Shut Out Ahmadinejad,”
Palm Beach Jewish Journal,
December 12, 2006, 25.

 

94. Ibid.

 

95. Nazila Fathi, “World’s Holocaust Cynics Get Their Chance to Vent: Ex-KKK Leader Duke a Speaker at Caucus in Iran,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
December 12, 2006, A19.

 

96. Matthias Kuntzel, “Iran’s Obsession with the Jews: Denying the Holocaust, Desiring Another One,”
The Weekly Standard,
February 19, 2007, 18.

 

97. “Iran Hosts Anti-Semitic Hatefest in Tehran: About the Conference” (New York: Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, December 21, 2006), 1,
www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/iran_holocaust_conference.htm
.

 

98. Orly Halpern, “Iran Denies Visa to an Arab Shoah Scholar,”
Forward,
December 15, 2006, A11.

 

CHAPTER
7:
THE MUFTI’S LEGACY

 

1. Lewis,
The Crisis of Islam,
156.

 

2. Foxman,
Never Again?,
216.

 

3. Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia,” 196.

 

4. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
164.

 

5. Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia,” 198.

 

6. Ibid.

 

7. Ibid., 156–157.

 

8. Ibid., 198.

 

9. Ibid.

 

10. Jonathan Rosen, “The Uncomfortable Question of Anti-Semitism,” in Rosenbaum, ed.,
Those Who Forget the Past,
5.

 

11. Ibid.

 

12. Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia,” 199–200.

 

13. Niall Ferguson, “Clashing Civilizations or Mad Mullahs: The United States Between Informal and Formal Empire,” in Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda, eds.,
The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11
(New York: Basic Books, 2001), 116.

 

14. Bonney,
Jihad: From Qur’an to bin Laden,
272.

 

15. Ibid., 272–273.

 

16. Haj Amin al-Husseini, “Summons to a Holy War Against Britain: A ‘Fatwa’ Issued by Haj Amin al-Husseini, May 1941,” reprinted in Joan Peters,
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict over Palestine
(New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 435–436.

 

17. Pearlman,
Mufti of Jerusalem,
49.

 

18. Quoted in Prager and Telushkin,
Why the Jews?,
123; and in Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
109–110.

 

19. Bonney,
Jihad: From Qu’ran to bin Laden,
276.

 

20. Ibid., xiii.

 

21. Ibid., 17.

 

22. These fatwas of bin Laden’s are quoted and discussed in more detail in Peter L. Bergen,
Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), 96–99.

 

23. As Efraim Karsh has pointed out, Arafat’s Fatah group was originally established in the late 1950s as the Movement for the Liberation of Palestine (
Harakat Tahrir Filastin
), its Arabic acronym reversed from Hataf (“death”) to Fatah to match the Koranic word for “conquest.” (Karsh,
Arafat’s War,
23.)

 

24. Ibid.

 

25. Benjamin Netanyahu, “Ending the Legacy of Hate,” address delivered at a session called “The Question of Palestine” at the Fortieth General Assembly of the United Nations, December 4, 1985, 6.

 

26. Ibid.

 

27. Ibid.

 

28. Ibid.

 

29. Ibid.

 

30. Dalin,
The Myth of Hitler’s Pope,
154.

 

31. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
213.

 

32. “PA’s Abbas Calls for the Murder of Jews,” press release, Zionist Organization of America, January 12, 2007.

 

33. Ibid.

 

34. Ibid.

 

35. Alan Dershowitz, “Arafat Died an Uncontrite Terrorist,”
Forward,
November 19, 2004, 9.

 

36. Hamas covenant, Articles 22 and 7, in Khaled Haroub,
Hamas: Political Thought and Practice
(Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000), 271 and 281–282; and quoted in Phillips,
Londonistan,
109.

 

37. Barsky,
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood,
5.

 

38. Hamas pamphlet quoted in
The Wall Street Journal,
December 18, 1992.

 

39. Ibid.

 

40. Albert Speer,
Spandau: The Secret Diaries
(New York: Macmillan, 1976), 80.

 

 

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