by Martin A. Lee
Islamism, Fascism and Terrorism, by Marc Erikson
Nada Management
(Al Taqwa)
Spring 2002
Intelligence Report
In
the wake of Sept. 11, new light is thrown on the
international ties increasingly linking Muslim and
neo-Nazi extremists
As
Germany's defeat loomed during the final months of World
War II, Adolf Hitler increasingly lapsed into delusional
fits of fantasy.
Albert Speer, in his prison writings, recounts an
episode in which a maniacal Hitler "pictured for himself
and for us the destruction of New York in a hurricane of
fire."
The Nazi fuehrer described skyscrapers turning into
"gigantic burning torches, collapsing upon one another,
the glow of the exploding city illuminating the dark
sky."
An approximation of Hitler's hellish vision came true on
Sept. 11, when terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers in
New York, killing nearly 3,000 people. But it was not
Nazis or even neo-Nazis who carried out the attack — the
deadliest terror strike in history allegedly came at the
hands of foreign Muslim extremists.
Still, in the aftermath of the slaughter, white
supremacists in America and Europe applauded the suicide
attacks and praised Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of
the massacre.
An official of America's premier neo-Nazi group, the
National Alliance, said he wished his own members had
"half as much testicular fortitude." The awestruck
leader of another U.S. Nazi group called the terrorists
"VERY BRAVE PEOPLE."
Neofascist youth in France celebrated the event that
evening with champagne at the headquarters of the
extreme right Front National. German neo-Nazis, some
wearing checkered Palestinian headscarves, rejoiced at
street demonstrations while burning an American flag.
Jan Kopal, head of the Czech National Social Bloc,
declared at a rally in Prague that bin Laden was "an
example for our children."
Horst Mahler, a former left-wing terrorist and prominent
member of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD)
in Germany, proclaimed his solidarity with the
terrorists and said America had gotten what it deserved.
What's going on here?
For decades, American extremists have lumped Arabs in
with dark-skinned "mud people." In Europe,
neo-Nazis have been implicated in countless xenophobic
attacks on Arabs, Turks and other Muslims.
Extremist parties on both sides of the Atlantic hope to
bar entrance to non-white immigrants.
The peculiar bond between white nationalist groups and
certain Muslim extremists derives in part from a shared
set of enemies — Jews, the United States, race-mixing,
ethnic diversity.
It is also very much a function of the shared belief
that they must shield their own peoples from the
corrupting influence of foreign cultures and the
homogenizing juggernaut of globalization.
Both sets of groups also have a penchant for far-flung
conspiracy theories that caricature Jewish power.
But there is more. Even before World War II, Western
fascists began to forge ideological and operational ties
to Islamic extremists.
Over the years, these contacts between Nazis and Muslim
nationalists developed into dangerous networks that have
been implicated in a number of bloody terrorist attacks
in Europe and the Middle East.
Wealthy Arab regimes have financed extremists in Europe
and the United States, just as Western neo-Nazis have
helped to build Holocaust denial machinery in the Arab
world.
In the 1970s, Saudi Arabia hired an American neo-Nazi as
a lobbyist in the United States. In the 1980s, U.S.
neo-Nazi strategist Louis Beam openly called for a
linkup of America's far right with the "liberation
movements" of Libya, Syria, Iran and Palestine.
In the 1990s, an American Black Muslim was convicted in
a plot to bomb the United Nations and other New York
landmarks that was masterminded by a blind Egyptian
cleric.
Just last year, a meeting sponsored by a U.S. Holocaust
denial group brought together Arab and Western
extremists in Jordan. And after the Sept. 11 attacks, a
spate of articles by American neo-Nazis and white
supremacists appeared in Islamic publications and Web
sites.
Although links like these illustrate the ties between
Muslim extremists and Americans, such ties are far more
developed in Europe.
But since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, there are a
number of signs — including a spate of articles by
American neo-Nazis that have appeared in Islamic
publications and websites — that an operational alliance
may be taking shape in the United States as well.
Banking for Allah
Perhaps the best contemporary snapshot of this
Nazi-Islamist extremist axis comes in the person of one
Ahmed Huber, a neo-Nazi whose home in a suburb of Berne
was raided by Swiss police on Nov. 8, after U.S.
officials identified him as a linchpin in the financial
machinations of Osama bin Laden.
The raid was part of a coordinated law enforcement
dragnet that seized records from the offices of Al Taqwa,
an international banking group.
Al Taqwa, which literally means "Fear of God," had been
channeling funds to Muslim extremist organizations
around the world, including Hamas, a group active in the
Israeli-occupied territories.
Huber, a former journalist who converted to Islam and
changed his first name from Albert, served on the board
of Nada Management, a component of Al Taqwa.
After Swiss authorities froze the firm's assets and
questioned Huber, the 74-year-old denounced Washington
for doing the bidding of "Jew Zionists" who "rule
America." In January, Nada Management announced that it
had gone into liquidation.
A well-known figure in European neofascist circles,
Huber "sees himself as a mediator between Islam and
right-wing groups," according to Germany's Office for
the Protection of the Constitution.
Portraits of Hitler and SS chief Heinrich Himmler adorn
the walls of Huber's office, alongside photos of Islamic
political leaders and a picture of Jean-Marie Le Pen,
the present-day boss of the French Front National.
In accordance with his self-proclaimed mission to unite
Muslim fundamentalists and extreme right-wing forces in
Europe and North America, Huber has traveled widely and
proselytized at numerous gatherings.
In Germany, he speaks often at events hosted by the
neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, which publicly
welcomed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Huber also
befriended British author David Irving and other
Holocaust deniers while frequenting "revisionist"
conclaves.
A Bin Laden Fan in
Chicago
At
the same time, Huber made the rounds of the radical
Islamic circuit in Western countries. In June 1994, he
spoke about the "evils of the Jews" at a mosque in
Potomac, Md. (just outside Washington, D.C.), where
videotapes of Huber's speeches are reportedly on sale.
During a subsequent visit to Chicago, he attended a
private assembly that brought together, in Huber's
words, "the authentic Right and the fighters for Islam."
Huber told journalist Richard Labeviere that "major
decisions were taken [in Chicago]. ... [T]he
reunification is under way."
Huber acknowledges meeting al-Qaeda operatives on
several occasions at Muslim conferences in Beirut,
Brussels and London. He has been quoted in the Swiss
media as saying that bin Laden's associates "are very
discreet, well-educated and highly intelligent people."
The U.S. government claims that Huber's banking firm
helped bin Laden shift financial assets around the
world. But Huber denies any involvement in terrorist
activities. He insists Al Taqwa was engaged in
charitable work, providing aid for social services that
benefited needy Muslims.
Described as "the financial heart of the Islamist
economic apparatus," Al Taqwa is intertwined with the
Muslim Brotherhood, a longstanding, far-right cult whose
emblem is a Koran crossed by a sword.
The influence of the Brotherhood extends throughout the
Muslim world, where it vigorously, and often violently,
opposes secular Arab regimes.
In 1981, partisans of the Muslim Brotherhood were
implicated in the assassination of Egyptian president
Anwar Sadat. Several members of Islamic Jihad, an
extremist sect closely associated with the Brotherhood,
were also involved in the Sadat assassination.
By the early 1990s, Islamic Jihad would closely ally
itself with bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
Back to the Beginning
The roots of the Muslim Brotherhood — and, in many ways,
the Nazi-Muslim axis — go back to the organization's
formation in Egypt in 1928.
Marking the start of modern political Islam, or what is
often referred to as "Islamic fundamentalism," the
Brotherhood from the outset envisioned a time when an
Islamic state would prevail in Egypt and other Arab
countries, where the organization quickly established
local branches.
The growth of the Muslim Brotherhood coincided with the
rise of fascist movements in Europe — a parallel noted
by Muhammad Sa'id al-'Ashmawy, former chief justice of
Egypt's High Criminal Court.
Al-'Ashmawy decried "the perversion of Islam" and "the
fascistic ideology" that infuses the world view of the
Brothers, "their total (if not totalitarian) way of life
... [and] their fantastical reading of the Koran."
Youssef Nada, current board chairman of Al Taqwa, had
joined the armed branch of the Muslim Brotherhood as a
young man in Egypt during World War II. Nada and several
of his cohorts in the Sunni Muslim fraternity were
recruited by German military intelligence, which sought
to undermine British colonial rule in the land of the
sphinx.
Hassan al-Banna, the Egyptian schoolteacher who founded
the Muslim Brotherhood, also collaborated with spies of
the Third Reich.
Advocating a pan-Islamic insurgency in
British-controlled Palestine, the Brotherhood proclaimed
their support for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin
Al-Husseini, in the late 1930s.
The Grand Mufti, the preeminent religious figure among
Palestinian Muslims, was the most notable Arab leader to
seek an alliance with Nazi Germany, which was eager to
extend its influence in the Middle East.
Although he loathed Arabs (he once described them as
"lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped"), Hitler
understood that he and the Mufti shared the same rivals
— the British, the Jews and the Communists.
Indicative of the old Arab adage, "The enemy of my enemy
is my friend," they met in Berlin, where the Mufti lived
in exile during the war.
The Mufti agreed to help organize a special Muslim
division of the Waffen SS. Powerful radio transmitters
were put at the Mufti's disposal so that his pro-Axis
propaganda could be heard throughout the Arab world.
A Mecca for Fascists
After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the Grand Mufti fled
to Egypt. His arrival in 1946 was a precursor to a
steady stream of Third Reich veterans who chose Cairo as
a postwar hideout.
The Egyptian capital became a safe haven for several
thousand Nazi fugitives, including former SS Captain
Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's chief deputy. Convicted
in absentia for war crimes, Brunner would later reside
in Damascus, where he served as a security advisor for
the Syrian government.
Several American fascists visited the Middle East during
this period, including Francis Parker Yockey, who made
his way to Cairo in the summer of 1953, a year after the
corrupt Egyptian monarchy was overthrown by a military
coup.
The Brotherhood had played a major role in instigating
the popular uprising that set the stage for the
emergence of Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser as Egypt's new
leader. But Nasser, who had little interest in mixing
politics and religion, would subsequently have a falling
out with the Islamic fundamentalist sect.
When Nasser wanted to overhaul Egypt's secret service,
he asked the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for
assistance. But the U.S. government "found it highly
impolitic to help him directly," CIA agent Miles
Copeland recalled in a memoir.
So, the CIA instead secretly bankrolled more than 100
German espionage and military experts who trained
Egyptian police and army units in the mid-1950s.
An American Reaches Out
During this period, the Grand Mufti maintained close
relations with the burgeoning Nazi exile community in
Cairo, while cultivating ties to right-wing extremists
in the United States and other countries.
H. Keith Thompson, a New York-based businessman and Nazi
activist, was a confidant of the Mufti. "I did a couple
of jobs for him, getting some documents from files that
were otherwise unavailable," Thompson acknowledged in an
interview.
Thompson also carried on a lively correspondence with
Johannes von Leers, one of the Third Reich's most
prolific Jew-baiters, who converted to Islam and changed
his name to Omar Amin after he took up residence in
Cairo in 1955.
"If there is any hope to free the world from Jewish
tyranny," Amin wrote Thompson, "it is with the Moslems,
who stand steadfastly against Zionism, Colonialism and
Imperialism."
Formerly Goebbels' right-hand man, Amin became a top
official in the Egyptian Information Ministry, which
employed several European fascists who churned out hate
literature and anti-Jewish broadcasts.
Another German expatriate, Louis Heiden, alias Louis Al-Hadj,
translated Hitler's Mein Kampf into Arabic.
The Egyptian government also published The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion, the infamous anti-Semitic forgery
that purports to reveal a Jewish master plan for taking
over the world.
A staple of Nazi propaganda, the Protocols also are
quoted in Article 32 of the charter of Hamas, the
hard-line Palestinian fundamentalist group that is
supported by the Muslim Brotherhood — even though Muslim
scholars say such views are an anathema to mainstream
Islam.
"There are no historic roots for anti-Semitism in
Islam," says Hasem Saghiyeh, a columnist at Al Hayat, a
London-based Arab newspaper. "The process of translating
books like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion on a
popular scale started in Nasser's Egypt, but only the
Islamic fundamentalist movement incorporated them into
its literature."
Mercenaries for Palestine
After Israel's overwhelming victory in the Six Day War
in June 1967, a mood of desperate militancy engulfed the
Palestinian refugee camps.
Deprived of a homeland, the leaders of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) apparently felt that they
couldn't afford to turn down offers of help, no matter
how unsavory the donors. Karl von Kyna, a West German
neo-Nazi mercenary, died during a Palestinian commando
raid in September 1967.
Eager to continue their vendetta against the Jews,
several right-wing extremists subsequently joined the
Hilfskorp Arabien ("Auxiliary Corps Arabia"), which was
advertised in the Munich-based Deutsche National-Zeitung,
a pro-Nazi newspaper, in 1968.
The following year, the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked several commercial
airplanes. When three PFLP members stood trial after
blowing up an Israeli jet in Zurich, the legal costs for
their defense were paid by Francois Genoud, an elusive
Swiss banker described by the London Observer as "one of
the world's leading Nazis."
Genoud had previously picked up the tab for Adolf
Eichmann's legal defense, and a number of other Nazi war
criminals and Arab terrorists would also benefit from
his largesse.
Where did the money come from? According to European
press accounts, Genoud was managing the hidden Swiss
treasure of the Third Reich, most of which had been
stolen from Jews.
"Security services claim he transferred the defeated
Nazis' gold into Swiss bank accounts," reports Gitta
Sereny, who called Genoud "the most mysterious man in
Europe."
After World War II, Genoud served as the financial
advisor to the Grand Mufti.
In 1958, the Swiss Nazi set up the Arab Commercial Bank
in Geneva to manage the war chest of the Algerian
National Liberation Front, whose partisans were fighting
to free their country from French colonial rule.
Several Third Reich veterans, including Maj. Gen. Otto
Ernst Remer, who had served as Hitler's bodyguard,
smuggled weapons to the Algerian rebels, while other
German advisors provided military instruction.
Under the guise of supporting the Arabs' struggle
against French colonialism, Genoud and his Nazi cohorts
were following the same geopolitical strategy that
Hitler had pursued in the Middle East.
Europeans and Pro-Palestinian Terror
In
addition to brokering arms sales to Arab militants,
Genoud helped subsidize terrorist networks in Europe and
the Arab world.
This financier of fascism waited until the statue of
limitations ran out before admitting that he had
personally written and sent ransom notes demanding $5
million to the German airline Lufthansa and several news
services after PFLP terrorists hijacked another jet in
1972.
That same year, the Black September organization
murdered nine Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
When Black September leader Hassan Salameh needed
medical attention, Genoud arranged for him to be treated
at a private clinic in Lausanne.
In 1974, PLO chief Yasser Arafat publicly indicated a
willingness to renounce international terrorism and
declared his interest in a settlement that would finally
establish a Palestinian homeland in the Israeli-occupied
territories. These steps toward moderation angered Arab
hardliners, who ruled out any compromise with Israel.
Not surprisingly, Genoud and other neofascists favored
the most belligerent factions that kept calling for the
annihilation of the Jewish state.
After bombing four U.S. Army bases in West Germany in
1982, Odfried Hepp, a young neo-Nazi renegade, went
underground and joined the Tunis-based Palestine
Liberation Front (PLF).
Hepp, one of West Germany's most wanted terrorists, was
arrested in June 1985 while entering the apartment of a
PLF member in Paris. Four months later, PLF commandos
seized the Achille Lauro cruise ship and murdered Leon
Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound Jewish American.
Included on the PLF's list of prisoners to be exchanged
for the Achille Lauro hostages was the name of Odfried
Hepp.
Fundamentalism and the Iranian Revolution
Islamic fundamentalism got a tremendous boost when the
Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah during the 1979
Iranian revolution.
The Ayatollah's description of the United States and the
Soviet Union as "the twin Satans" dovetailed neatly with
the "Third Position" politics of many European and
American neofascists, an ideology that rejects both
American capitalism and Soviet Communism.
Some white supremacists also shared Khomeini's dream of
launching a "holy war" against what was seen as
decadent, Western-style democracy.
When Iran issued a call for the assassination of author
Salman Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses, several
neo-Nazi groups supported the Iranian fatwa.
Far-right fanatics also hailed the 1983 suicide
car-bombing by Iranian-backed Shiite terrorists that
killed 271 U.S. Marines in Beirut.
The British National Front had nothing but praise for
Khomeini's Islamic Revolutionary Guards:
Their belief
in their cause is so strong that they will run
through mine fields unarmed to attack enemy
positions; their ideals are so all-consuming that
they will drive truck bombs into enemy camps knowing
full well their [own] death is inevitable. ... This
power, this contempt for death, is the stuff of
which victories are made.
In
1987, French police cordoned off the Iranian embassy in
Paris and demanded that a magistrate be allowed to
interrogate Wahid Gordji, an Iranian official suspected
of orchestrating a series of bombings that rocked the
French capital during the previous a year.
French investigators got on to Gordji's trail after they
discovered a check for 120,000 francs (about $20,000)
that he had written to Ogmios, a neo-Nazi publisher and
bookstore in Paris. The money was used to underwrite a
slick catalogue promoting The Myth of the Jewish
Holocaust and similar titles.
But the Iranian government rebuffed the French
authorities who wanted to question Gordji, causing a
rupture in diplomatic relations between Paris and
Tehran.
The six-month embassy stand-off was finally resolved
after French officials met with representatives of a
group called "The Friends of Wahid Gordji" — a group
which included the redoubtable Nazi banker Francois
Genoud.
Nazis in Baghdad
Links between white supremacists and the Iranian
government continued after Khomeini's death in 1989.
On several occasions in recent years, American neo-Nazi
chieftain William Pierce has been interviewed by Radio
Tehran. U.S. white supremacists have also snuggled up to
Iran's archenemy, Saddam Hussein.
In 1990, Gene Schroder, an ideologue of the far-right
"common-law court" movement, joined a delegation of
Midwest farmers to Washington for a meeting in the Iraqi
embassy, where Iraqi officials were trying to drum up
opposition to the impending Persian Gulf War.
During that 1991 war, Oklahoma Klan leader Dennis Mahon
organized a small rally in Tulsa in support of Saddam.
Mahon says he later received a couple of hundred dollars
in an unmarked envelope from the Iraqi government.
In addition, shortly before the war, German neo-Nazis
solicited support from Iraq for an anti-Zionist legion
composed of far-right mercenaries from several European
countries. The members of this so-called international
"Freedom Corps" pretentiously strutted around Baghdad in
SS uniforms.
As soon as bombs started to fall on the Iraqi capital,
however, the neo-Nazi volunteers scurried back to
Europe.
A number of prominent neofascists have expressed support
for Saddam, including Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Russian
demagogue, who visited Iraq after the Gulf War.
Jean-Marie Le Pen of the French Front National also got
the red-carpet treatment when he met Saddam in Baghdad.
Although he built his political career by disparaging
Arab immigrants, Le Pen now claims that he is deeply
concerned about the plight of Iraqi children who have
suffered under sanctions imposed by the United Nations.
His wife, Jany, who heads a group called SOS Children of
Iraq, has joined Le Pen on several trips to Baghdad.
Thus far, however, Arab children in France have yet to
benefit from the supposed good Samaritan act of the Le
Pens.
The Libyan Connection
On
June 28, 2000, the Times of London reported that Libyan
leader Muammar Ghaddafi had ordered the deposit of $25
million into a bank in Carinthia, the Austrian province
governed by Jorg Haider, de facto leader of the
far-right Freedom Party.
(The Freedom Party is an immigrant-bashing organization
that is home to many neo-Nazis and former Nazis and has
downplayed German war atrocities.)
Col. Ghaddafi's cash gift — which Haider described as
"Christmas for Austria" — was meant to ease the strain
of sanctions imposed on Austria by the European Union
after the Freedom Party joined Austria's national
governing coalition.
This was the second rabbit Haider pulled from his hat as
a result of two private forays to Tripoli, where he met
Ghaddafi.
After his first Libyan excursion, Haider announced he
was tackling Austria's high gas prices by arranging for
Libyan gasoline to be sold in Carinthia at a discount.
News photos showed Haider, the Porsche-driving populist,
beaming as he pumped gas for motorists.
Over the years, Ghaddafi has been wooed by several
neofascist leaders, including Italian fugitive Stefano
delle Chiaie, who was accused of masterminding a series
of bomb attacks in Rome and Milan.
Described in a 1982 CIA report as "the most prominent
rightist terrorist ... still at large," delle Chiaie
wrote a letter to Ghadaffi, inviting him to join in a
common struggle against "atheistic Soviet Marxism and
American capitalist materialism," both of which were
supposedly controlled by "international Zionism."
Delle Chiaie added: "Libya can, if it wants, be the
active focus, the center of national socialist
renovation [that will] break the chains which enslave
people and nations."
Ghaddafi, the Green Book and Western Extremism
Links between Libya and the European far right have been
scrutinized in several parliamentary and judicial probes
in Italy.
One Italian judicial inquiry found that the Libyan
embassy in Rome had provided money to aid the escape of
Italian terrorist suspect Mario Tuti shortly after the
bombing of an express train near Florence in 1974. Tuti
was later captured and sentenced to a lengthy prison
term for orchestrating the attack, which killed 12
people and injured 44 others.
Ghadaffi's financial largesse and his militant
anti-Zionism has generated support for the Libyan regime
among right-wing extremists around the world, including
in Great Britain, where the Green Book, Ghaddafi's
political manifesto, was promoted by the neo-Nazi
National Front.
In 1984, according to former British Nazi leader Ray
Hill (who later renounced racism and worked with
antiracists), the Libyan People's Bureau put up money
for a special anti-Semitic supplement to the National
Front's monthly magazine.
In addition, Ghadaffi's government picked up the tab for
several junkets so that neofascists from England,
France, Canada, the Netherlands and several other
countries could visit the Libyan capital.
Col. Ghaddafi is also widely admired by white
supremacists in the United States.
The Green Book has been featured as the top online book
on the Web site of the American Front, whose professed
aim is "to secure National Freedom and Social Justice
for the White people of North America."
Asserting that he is "against race mixing," American
Front leader James Porazzo praises Libya and says that
his group has much in common ideologically with Louis
Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, which has its own links to
Ghaddafi.
Porazzo also says he has "great respect for the actions
of Hamas and Hezbollah," two radical Islamist groups
involved in suicide bombings, as long as they "see that
their home is in the Mideast and that their religion is
great for their people but not intended for all
mankind."
'Working for Their Races'
The Philadelphia-based American Front thinks highly of
Osama bin Laden, too, describing him as "one of ZOG
[Zionist Occupation Government, the name many extremists
give to the federal government, which they believe is
run by Jews] and the New World Order's biggest enemies."
And it is not alone. Wolfgang Droege, one of 17 Canadian
racists who traveled on a "fact-finding mission" to
Libya in 1989, is similarly enamored of bin Laden,
seeing parallels between bin Laden's struggle and others
supporting "racial nationalism" in North America.
"I've had dealings with Black Muslims, I've had dealings
with Arabs, I've had dealings with people of various
races, and I realize that some of these people are as
motivated as I am in working for the interest of their
race," Droege told MacLean's magazine.
While they wouldn't want bin Laden, or anyone of
non-European descent, living next door, leaders of the
hard-core racist movement in the United States have
seized upon the Sept. 11 attacks as an opportunity to
expand their strategic alliance with Islamic radicals
under the pretext of supporting Palestinian rights.
After hijacked airplanes demolished the World Trade
Center and damaged the Pentagon, a number of Muslim
newspapers published a flurry of articles by American
white supremacists ranting against Israel and the Jews.
Anti-Zionist commentary by neo-Nazi David Duke appeared
on the front page of the Oman Times, for instance, and
on an extremist website based in Pakistan.
Another opinion piece by Duke ran in Muslims, a New
York-based English-language weekly, which also featured
a lengthy critique of U.S. foreign policy by William
Pierce, head of the rabidly racist National Alliance.
In the wake of Sept. 11, several American neo-Nazi
websites also started to offer links to Islamic
websites.
The psychological dynamics that propel the actions of
Islamic terrorists have much in common with the mental
outlook of neo-Nazis.
Both glorify violence as a regenerative force and both
are willing to slaughter innocents in the name of
creating a new social order.
The potential for an alliance between American neo-Nazis
and Islamic terrorists — an alliance that could develop
into strong operational ties — cannot be ruled out given
the long and sordid history of fascist links to the
Muslim world.