bigjarofwasps Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Hi Guys,Can anyone tell me anything about this unit, or point me in the right direction? Did they fight againest the British in Iraq?Gordon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taz Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Hi Gordon,Have a read through of the article in this link.http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2543Regards Eddie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariner Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 (edited) This might also be of interest, it appears that they also fought on our side...http://homepages.force9.net/rothwell/trans-jo.htmAlso this is worth a read...http://www.regiments.org/wars/20ww2/iraq.htm Edited January 19, 2008 by mariner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taz Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Hello Mariner,The Arab Legion (al-Jaysh al-Arabī) was the regular army of Transjordan and then Jordan, certainly did fight on the allied side. In 1939, John Bagot Glubb, better known as Glubb Pasha, became the Legion's commander and transformed it into the best trained Arab army.The Arab Free Corps recruted by the "Grand Mufti" Haj Amin Muhammad Al Husseini was pro Nazi. On April 25th, 1941 Amin Al-Husseini was made chief architect of the Nazi offensive in Bosnia. Amin Al-Husseini takes the title "Protector of Islam".100,000 Bosnian Muslims joined the Nazi ranks,seeking Nazi approval to establish an autonomous Nazi protectorate for Bosnian Muslims.Husseini declared Fatwa-Jihad against Britain, so troops of his, or aligned to him almost certainly fought against the British in IraqHeinrich Himmler, Head of SS, and close colleague of Amin Al-Husseini, financed and established an Islamic Institute ('Islamische Zentralinstitut') in Dresden under the Mufti. The purpose was to create a generation of Islamic leaders that would continue to use Islam as a carrier for Nazi ideology into the 21st century.In my post above there is a picture of the Bosnian Muslim Flag Under Amin Al Husseini.Regards Eddie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IMHF Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 Hi Guys,Can anyone tell me anything about this unit, or point me in the right direction? Did they fight againest the British in Iraq?Gordon.What does the back of the patch look like??SSG Luna, Lorenzo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 (edited) Hello Mariner,The Arab Legion (al-Jaysh al-Arabī) was the regular army of Transjordan and then Jordan, certainly did fight on the allied side. In 1939, John Bagot Glubb, better known as Glubb Pasha, became the Legion's commander and transformed it into the best trained Arab army.The Arab Free Corps recruted by the "Grand Mufti" Haj Amin Muhammad Al Husseini was pro Nazi. On April 25th, 1941 Amin Al-Husseini was made chief architect </a>of the Nazi offensive in Bosnia. Amin Al-Husseini takes the title "Protector of Islam".100,000 Bosnian Muslims joined the Nazi ranks,seeking Nazi approval to establish an autonomous Nazi protectorate for Bosnian Muslims.Husseini declared Fatwa-Jihad <a href="http://" target="_blank">against Britain, so troops of his, or aligned to him almost certainly fought against the British in IraqHeinrich Himmler, Head of SS, and close colleague of Amin Al-Husseini, financed and established an Islamic Institute ('Islamische Zentralinstitut') in Dresden under the Mufti. The purpose was to create a generation of Islamic leaders that would continue to use Islam as a carrier for Nazi ideology into the 21st century.In my post above there is a picture of the Bosnian Muslim Flag Under Amin Al Husseini.Regards Eddie.Thanks for this, Eddie. It is important to separate the two. The Arab Legion was a British unit, for all intents and purposes, though technically Jordanian. The Muslim (rarely Arab) units formed in Germany (and Italy) by the Grand Mufti (among others) were unfortunate by-products of a simplistic logical falacy in international relations theory: That the enemy of my enemy is my friend. The Azad Hind Fauj, the Free Burmese Army, and many others during the war fell prey to this sort of thinking. It is perhaps unfortunate for future events that the Grand Mufti's flirtation with the Nazis discredited his political leadership (while not the brightest bulb in the string, he was the leading prewar Palestinian political symbol/spokesman) when it came to postwar events. It didn't hurt Nasser, Sadat, or others, but the Grand Mufti would be out of the picture postwar, leaving a vacuum that would be years in being filled.The length to which Germany went over these is amazing. I once had the need to suffer through all the files in records from the Reichsfuhrer-SS trying to concoct an argument that Hitler was the Mahdi. Edited January 21, 2008 by Ed_Haynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjarofwasps Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 What does the back of the patch look like??SSG Luna, Lorenzo Cheers to everyone who has replied to my thread. I found it all really interesting. Lorenzo, sorry but I have no idea, as I got the picture off the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IMHF Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Ok thank you for sharing it Great informationSSG Luna, Lorenzo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 The History Channel did a great show on this very topic. If you are really interested, I am sure that this episode can be ordered from their website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest IMHF Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 The History Channel did a great show on this very topic. If you are really interested, I am sure that this episode can be ordered from their website.PaulThank you for the information, I will be looking for that video to learn more about it.......Thank youSSG Luna, Lorenzo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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