Jesus Christ Skeptic, there were neo-Nazis everywhere, including the US and Great Britain.
Yes, but the pro-fascist Mosely didn't run the UK government and the pro-nazi father Coulghlan (sp?) didn't run the US government, while the pro-nazi Haj Amin Al- Husseini DID run the Palestinian national movement, with the enthusiastic support of his people.
A bit of a difference, don't you think?
The actual number of members of those divisions was very small in relation to the actual number of the population of those areas.
Well, that might have had something to do with the fact that the SS didn't agree to take them until 1942, since from its racial point of view the Arabs were dubious allies. But Husseini finally convinced Hitler that he hates the jews ever bit as much as Hitler himself did (there is a famous photo of him meeting with Hitler in the Berghof) that non-Aryan Muslims were allowed to join the exalted ranks of the SS.
If you say it, it must be true.
My source here is "SS: Hitler's Black Guard at War", a very interesting and exhaustive book. Incidentally, it has a large bibliography, if you wish to check further. Of course, you're the guy who thinks David Irving is an "historian" and Israel Shahak a "scholar"... people in glass houses, and all that.
The Nazis found that many of their 'allied' divisions were worthless, as you put it. The members just weren't that interested in the Nazi dream, eg, the Italians. You can have tyrant send you to fight, that doesn't mean the members want to fight.
...except for the fact that, like all
Auslander SS (foreign SS) divisions, the Hanjar divisions
Freiwilligen (volunteer) divisions. Nice try. At any rate, as for "not wanting to fight", you're quite correct: the Hanjar divisions generally preferred to kill the defensless in the rear, where they quickly acquired a reputation for cruelty and bloodthirstiness. And if you become notorious as a bloodthirsty
SS division, that's saying something.
As usual, you are ignorant of the basic facts (in this case, that all foreign SS divisions were volunteers), but that doesn't stop you from pulling one excuse after another out of thin air to "explain" why the fact that the Muslims enthusiastically joined mass-murdering SS division somehow doesn't "really" prove anything. I keep forgetting that for you, it is a dogma that whenever Palestinians (or Muslims) do anything horrendous, whether blowing up babies or joining the SS, it is always somebody else's fault (usually their victim's), and they were forced into it all, the poor souls.
In any case, here's some more information about this wonderful elder statesman of the just palestinian cause, Haj Amin Al-Husseini:
http://notendur.centrum.is/~snorrigb/mufti4.htm
Note in particular the final paragraph:
"On 1 March 1944 he added in a broadcast from Berlin: "Arabs! Rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor." The Mufti did not only intend to massacre the Yishuv Jewry, his hatred of the World Jewry had already driven him to participate in the Nazi Final Solution."
"Kill the jews wherever you find them. This pleases God." Sounds familiar? Why, yes; as shown to you a few months ago, these are the exact words oft-repeated in Palestinian Mosques by PA-controlled Imams today.
Some things never change. But hey, it's all "the occupation"'s fault, right?