An excellent book about this is Icon Of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and The Rise Of Radical Islam
Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and The Rise Of Radical Islam by David Dalin and John Rothman, much beloved by neo-cons and Zionist apologists is arguably one of the worst books availble about the Mufti. It's been described as a catalogue of cliches and anti-Arab propaganda drawn mainly from secondary and tertiary English sources. The book is full of inaccuracies and of little scholarly value, according to Tom Segev who stated the book, "...may be potentially harmful to Middle East peace prospects." Segev highlights the authors' consistent failure to provide solid evidence, for instance asserting on the basis of rumors that Husseini owed his position to a "passionate homosexual relationship" with a senior British official, and the degree to which the authors "blur the terms radical Islam, anti-Semitism and Nazism" and group together numerous Arabs and Muslims as "disciples of the mufti." He concludes: "The book is worth noticing, as it belongs to a genre of popular Arab-bashing that is often believed to be 'good for Israel.' It is not."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/books/review/Segev-t.html
Benny Morris, an Israeli historian, commends the authors for "putting their finger on important affinities" but criticises the quality of their work, describing 'Icon of Evil" as a "bad book": "they decidedly over-reach, and, given the poverty of their scholarship, they often fail to persuade, leaving the reader with the bad taste of propaganda." He comments that they "suffer not from pedantry but from overtly propagandistic aims. They are constantly beating an ideological drum. Their adjectives are a giveaway. Every anti-Semite or anti-Semitic text is 'virulent' or 'notorious.'" The book "abounds with errors of fact", and Morris describes as "obscene" the authors' digression into a
counterfactual history in which the Nazis won the Second World War and exterminated the Jews of Palestine with Husseini's assistance. Despite this, Morris allows that "much of what [the book] says is soberingly truthful and to the point"
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Funny how Monte changes into challenger when he finds himself in a corner. And of course posts from wiki the site he calls "Hasbara". Ya gotta laugh.
If you're going to show a negative review you might as well show the positive ones as well. And besides, Benny Morris said a lot of damning things about the so called Palestinians would you like me to post them?
"Other reviewers viewed the book favorably. Martin Sieff of
The Washington Times write that 'the authors tell this story soberly and well", and describes the book as "valuable" and "the first serious biography of the mufti to appear in 14 years". His main criticism is that the book is too short, and does not include materiel from German archives, which he proposes that the authors be encouraged to remedy with an expanded 2nd edition.
Writing in the
Jerusalem Post,
Jonathan Schanzer takes a more positive view, describing
Icon of Evil as an "exceptional" history that "paints a stark picture of Husseini's ties to the Nazis and his dangerous role in the Third Reich" and identifies "numerous parallels between the murderous Nazi ideology of the 1940s and the murderous jihadist ideology that dominates headlines today."
John R. Bradley, a writer on Middle Eastern affairs, comments in
The Straits Times that the book "makes a convincing case that Al-Husseini even had knowledge of and encouraged the
Final Solution and should have been tried as a war criminal at
Nuremberg."
Marvin Olasky, editor of the American magazine
WORLD, interviewed the authors Dalin and Rothmann about their book, in particular their claim of al-Husseini’s "lifelong sponsorship of terrorism" and their claim that Al-Husseini became part of Hitler’s “inner circle in Berlin, working closely with the top Nazi leaders, including von Ribbentrop, Himmler, and Eichmann” and agreed with their claims and conclusions.