‘Banner of Jihad’ rising over US 'threat to national security’ traced to Nazi-Palestine Holocaust alliance
Top Palestinian was Hitler insider, opened Berlin mosque while Jews slaughtered
Minnesota's pledge of allegiance to a new flag displaying a globally recognized symbol of Islamic faith appears to be more than a singular decision made on Gov. Tim Walz’s watch.
Experts fear it's part of a widespread effort by sympathetic leftist leaders in the United States to assist Iran-backed terror group Hamas with its drumbeat pledge to raise the "banner of Jihad" over its enemies.
The 8-point star displayed on the new flag Minnesota hoisted on May 11 also appears on about 35 other new or proposed-new city and state flags around the United States.
More than 80 years ago, the same symbol, embedded with a swastika, cemented the wartime alliance between Islamic extremism and modern history’s most notorious hate group as they found common cause in the Holocaust.
Adolf Hitler's fascist philosophy still shapes Palestinian antisemitism today.
"I see the patterns of a significant threat to our national security in a very visible takeover of America without a single shot being fired,” said Donna Bergstrom, a retired U.S. Marine Corps military intelligence officer and deputy chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota.
Hamas declares flags essential to the cause of Jihad. The terror group cites the need to raise its banner nine times in the 36 articles of the Hamas Covenant of 1988, its foundational document and statement of purpose.
“A significant threat to our national security in a very visible takeover of America.”
"In face of the Jews' usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised," the screed of antisemitic rage states in one of those calls to action found in Article 15.
Hamas also urges followers to defeat enemies in bloodless battles, hoisting its banner not with warfare but by cultural coup d’etat.
"Jihad is not confined to the carrying of arms and the confrontation of the enemy," declares Article 30 of the Hamas Covenant.
"The effective word, the good article, the useful book, support and solidarity - together with the presence of sincere purpose for the hoisting of Allah's banner higher and higher - all these are elements of the Jihad for Allah's sake."
The growing movement to replace venerable U.S. state and city flags – many more than 100 years old – with a symbol of Islam is an example of leftist leaders aiding America's enemies, especially Iran, according to at least one moderate Muslim scholar.
"The Iranian regime is the most fascistic, Islamist, theocratic regime on the planet, yet the far-left plays footsie with them all the time," said Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.
The 8-point star rising over the United States also appears on flags of Azerbaijan, the Organization of Turkic States and the former Ottoman Empire.
It’s ubiquitous in Iranian art, politics and flag culture. An 8-point star appears on the flag of Iran’s capital city of Tehran and, most ominously, on the flag of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence.
The 8-point star is also at the center of a long and ongoing alliance between radical Islamists and leftist antisemitism of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) The partnership fueled genocide and global catastrophe.
Imam Asad Zaman, executive director of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, has a history of social media posts supporting Jihad, racism, hate groups and Hitler.
Zaman "once promoted a Neo-Nazi propaganda film praising Hitler," the New York Post recently reported.
Many elements of the Hamas Covenant echo the antisemitic rage and accusations of global conspiracies that Hitler laid out in his infamous tome of hate, "Mein Kampf."
"The Jew was ever a parasite in the bodies of other nations," wrote Hitler; while Hamas declares Jews in the Middle East a "Nazi, vicious Tatar invasion."
Hitler wrote of the media: "Any man who is not attacked, slandered and calumniated in the Jewish Press is no true German, no true National Socialist."
Hamas decries: "With their money, [Jews] took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others."
There's a reason for the similarity. Radical Islam, Hamas, Palestinian nationalism and Hitler’s National Socialism are rooted in the horror of the Holocaust in World War II.
Amin al-Husseini, the powerful Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in the 1930s and the father of Palestinian Islamic nationalism, was a well-known ally of Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Al-Husseini lived in Berlin during World War II and, among other contributions to the fascist cause, recruited Islamic units for the German army.
“Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews,” - Hitler to Palestinian ally al-Husseini, first president of Gaza
Hitler’s Muslim troops were identified by uniform patches with an 8-point star of their faith, embedded with National Socialist swastikas.
Al-Husseini and Hitler met in Berlin on Nov. 28, 1941, the event reported by major American media.
“Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews,” Hitler told his Palestinian ally. “That naturally included active opposition to the Jewish national home in Palestine.”
Two months later, in January 1942, the National Socialists issued the Final Solution for the "biological extermination" of Jews.
Prison camps were fitted with gas chambers. The numbers of Jews slaughtered by Germany skyrocketed in 1942.
Al-Husseini was accused by a Nazi officer at the Nuremberg trials after the war of being one of the architects of the genocide. He escaped prosecution and returned to the Middle East.
He became the first president of All-Palestine, now known as the Gaza Strip. The United Nations offered its first two-state solution in 1947. Jews accepted the offer and built the prosperous, multicultural, democratic nation of Israel.
Al-Husseini hated Jews too much to live beside them. He rejected the chance to go down in history as the George Washington of Palestine.
Terror group Hamas carries on the cause of the stateless Palestinian people shaped by al-Husseini. After decades of failed efforts to destroy Israel, it seeks symbolic strength for weary warriors.
"The road is long and suffering is plenty," Hamas states in Article 19 of its covenant.
"The soul will be bored, but Islamic art renews the energies, resurrects the movement, arousing in them lofty meanings and proper conduct."
Scholars cite the Quran itself as the source of the 8-point star's prominence in Islamic art.
"And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the throne of thy Lord above them," proclaims Chapter 69, verse 17 of the Quran.
"This passage can be regarded as a psychological factor that easily accommodated the regular octagonal form of Islamic art," the Journal of History, Culture and Art Research at Karabuk University in Turkey reported in 2018.
Eight-point decorative tiles from Persia (now Iran) are celebrated in Islamic art collections at The Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, among major museums.
The Islamic art gallery at The Met is identified by an array of 8-point stars embedded in its white floor, bordered by red tiles.
The same testament of faith is now embraced by Islamic extremists while being hoisted over cities and states across the United States.
The trend "is definitely a tip of the hat to the red-green or Marxist-Jihadist axis," said Jasser.
"The left always finds a way to give the Islamists oxygen."