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Ed Husain

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

It's the spiraling effect, the snowball effect of the power of ideas and the nature of identity and the moment in which we find ourselves.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

And that's, you know, it's not complicated to say we've got to go back to that pluralist space of classical liberalism where we live and let live, but we are loyal to our nation states and a set of ideals that allowed all of us, all three of us, to come together here as free people in a free country.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

Yeah, again, see, that's a fantastic question.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

And most people won't ask that because they don't want to go into their thought space, which says, all right, the Muslim Brotherhood has connections to Nazism.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

And it does.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

The connections are as follows.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

Hassan al-Banna, the founder, his brother was called Abd al-Rahman al-Banna.

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And Abd al-Rahman was in regular contact with Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was then the Mufti of Jerusalem.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

And Haj Amin al-Husseini, as the Mufti of Jerusalem, went and met adult Hitler, supported the Nazi movement, disseminated Mein Kampf, and made sure

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that he made several broadcasts through prominent Arab platforms to ensure that Arabs were supporting the German Nazis and against the Brits and the French for colonial reasons.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

But it goes worse and it goes further than that.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

At this point, you could say, you know what, they made the wrong call.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

There was a war against Britain.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

They were British imperial or colonized subjects and they wanted to be against it and they backed the wrong horse, the Germans.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

But it's actually more sinister and deeper than that.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

And it's to do with the following.

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that Hajj Amin al-Husseini supports the Nazis

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anti-Jewish platform.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

And he argues that Jewish people have no right to settle in Jerusalem.

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Where Islamist Terrorism Really Comes From - Ed Husain

So he is behind the Holocaust and supportive of the Holocaust.