And, if you are reading Disinformation, as I asked you all to do, you will find that the Russians used the fake book mentioned in the third paragraph here.
Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and a friend of Husseini, was also impressed with the Nazis, and during the war he worked to establish a formal alliance with Hitler and Mussolini. Moreover, under directions from al-Banna, the Brotherhood Intelligence Service shared information with the Germans on the movements of the British Army.
Islamists and Nazis also shared an interest in anti-Semitic literature. According to Dalin and Rothmann:
Mein Kampf … remains a perennial
best-seller in several Islamic countries. After the Six-Day War in
1967, Israeli soldiers discovered that many Egyptian prisoners carried
small paperback editions of Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic… (Icon of Evil, p. 113)
Like the Nazis, the Arabs also shared a firm belief in the authenticity of the viciously anti-Semitic tract The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The first of many Arabic editions was published in 1921. It has been a
best-seller in Islamic capitals ever since and remains required reading
in many Arab universities. King Faisal was so enamored of the book that
he ordered all Saudi hotels to put a copy in every room—presumably right
alongside the Gideon Koran.
