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    8 months ago

    One of the reasons that the Shoah was significantly less intense in North Africa was that there simply wasn’t a consistent, nauseating tradition of Judeophobia there like there was in Europe. Violence against Judaists did break out sporadically, yet even so one should exercise caution when comparing it to the anti‐Jewish violence under European Christendom, which tended to have more superstitious justifications.

    Many Jews and Muslims allied against Axis imperialism, and the Axis’s anti‐Jewish propaganda was rarely effective in Africa:

    “Overall, German propaganda failed.”117 The vast majority of the Muslim population in the whole region showed no reaction to German calls for religious violence, and the Islamic slogans of [Axis] propaganda had little resonance in religious circles and among leading ʻulama.118

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    In fact, many of the interviewees, now in their early 90s, reported that anti‐Jewish propaganda had no impact on Jewish–Muslim relations in this region. Overall, the import and character of European anti‐Semitism was alien and incomprehensible to the Muslim population. Despite long‐standing attitudes, both Islamic and traditional, that stigmatized Jews as inferior, the local population could not envision their survival in the bled without a Jewish presence, as Lahcen, a farmer in his late 80s noted.

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    Zionist historians exploit the fact that Haj Amin al‐Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, helped set up the Waffen SS Muslim divisions, Handschar, Kama and the Albanian Skanderberg. However, these divisions were so reluctant to participate in anti‐Jewish actions that they were sent to France for retraining, whereupon they promptly mutinied and attempted to join the French resistance, the only known rebellion of an SS unit. The Bosnian SS units played no part in the anti‐Jewish deportations, which were left to the Croatian SS and the [Third Reich].

    (Source.)