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Other Moslems who interested the Nazis were the wild, proud Afghan tribesmen on the western borders of India. Poetic handbills printed in the Pushtu, Urdu, and Brahui languages urged the tribesmen to a jihad (holy war) "to strike off the Anglo-Saxon yoke," promised them heaping banquets and succulent maidens in the soft lands of India. Berlin proclaimed the "independence of India" from the Hotel Kaiserhop, relayed applause for the proclamation from "204 Hindu nationalists...
...neighbor, Syria, resented being kept a French mandate. Moslems everywhere, even in India, had longstanding grudges. If the Germans could warm over these resentments and arouse the entire Moslem and Arab worlds against Britain, the geographic guts would be knocked out of the Empire. Berlin, with its talk of jihad, did its best to kindle the Arab sheiks to flame. Newspapers and radio announced loudly that Syrian Arabs were individually telegraphing support and encouragement to Iraq, that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was urging Palestine Arabs to open battle, that Ibn Saud, tough, single-minded leader of Saudi Arabia...
...Egyptian mosques preachers exhorted Moslems to prepare for a "Jihad" (a Holy War) to help the Allied cause. On the desert near Cairo, Indian Moslems labored with great care to lay out "prayer grounds" decorated with chromium-plated bottle caps, which for them carried a significance no less solemn than Westminster Abbey's altar...
...civilized or even uncivilized government-but all the protests voiced by Moslem countries and all the Moslem world remain unheeded. Indeed, they are. disregarded in such a manner as to constitute an insult to all Moslems. A Moslem cannot let himself be insulted or disgraced. Consequently a jihad has become imperative, the duty falling on every Moslem to sacrifice either himself or money. The jihad is intended to save holy Moslem Palestine from people who are playing with its destiny...
...Remember, ye Moslems. Allah said in His Holy Koran, I will lead you to an occupation that is profitable.' The jihad will save you from purgatory and its tortures...