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
6 - “Religious” Offshoots: The Islamic Revolution, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda
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
The Almighty Himself taught us how to kill.…So shall we not kill when it is necessary for the triumph of the Faith? Killing is tantamount to saying a prayer.
Iranian Jihadist Muhammed Navab-Safavi, an inspiration for Ruhullah KhomeiniSo far we have seen the Nazi connection to the Muslim Brotherhood not only in the admiration and cooperation of Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna but also in the activities of the notorious Haj Amin al-Husseini, whose ties with the Ikhwan date back to 1935. We have examined direct extensions of the Brotherhood into the National Islamic Front (NIF), Islamic Jihad, and Hamas. Here we shall see how much further the genealogical tree branches out in the overt fanaticism of Islamic Jihadism. One important key to this branching out was the NIF's Hasan al-Turabi, a direct descendent of the Ikhwan who provided support, conference sites, and bases of operation for many Jihadist organizations, including those considered in this chapter: the Islamic Revolution in Iran, their offspring Hezbollah, and their ideological comrades in al-Qaeda. Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi, as noted in the previous chapter, had deep ties to Ruhullah Khomeini, and Hamas is extensively connected both to Hezbollah and to the Iranian Islamic Revolution. There are other, older connections linking these groups. A key figure in establishing those connections was Muhammed Navab-Safavi (1924–1955).
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- A Genealogy of EvilAnti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad, pp. 182 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010