There was a claim that Gilbert al-Ashqar "sugar coated" the Mufti in his book. It might be worse than that.
Achcar was all about ruling the Mufti irrelevant. His book does this by sidestep: only 60% of Palestinians saluted the Führer!
After the Nazis abandoned Zionism, the Mufti did what he could for those exterminationist Nazis to win. If the Nazis had won, the Mufti would have called in his chips. The defeated Brits would have surrendered the Med, which Med had Palestine on the wrong end. What, then, would have befallen the Jews there?
Maybe "just" exile. I doubt it. Achcar can blather on about how the Moroccans and Omanis totes loved their Abrahamic cousins y'all. Yeah, well. The Jews weren't so beloved in the actual Jewish homeland. They weren't so beloved by Muslims and near-east Christians abroad. Algerian Jews might be welcomed in Syria. Israeli Jews, with that taint of the Mandate on them?
Although the Mufti was influential up to 1948ish, more so than Achcar argues; Ashcar is correct that Palestinians and the wider Ikhwan would rather forget about him, so the Mufti's legacy is hardly an "icon of evil"... except to Zionists and to "the counter jihad". The Palestinians and the Ikhwan venerate even dumber icons, starting with 'Izz al-Din al-Qassam.
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