The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith has asked the United Nations to investigate whether the World Muslim Congress qualified for continued membership as a UN nongovernmental organization (NGO).
In a letter to UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, ADL national director Nathan Perlmutter disclosed evidence that the World Muslim Congress has been disseminating anti-Jewish books written by an American neo-Nazi to the members of the U.S. Senate and British Parliament.
In requesting that the Secretary General conduct an inquiry to determine whether the Pakistan-based organization is “fit for NGO status,” Perlmutter pointed out that the World Muslim Congress has violated a UN resolution which calls on the Secretary General to exclude NGOs which propagate “Nazi ideology and racial and/or religious discrimination.”
The resolution was adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council which has granted the World Muslim Congress consultative status as a Category One NGO.
BACKGROUND OF THE MUSLIM CONGRESS
The World Muslim Congress, founded in 1949, was headed for its first two decades by Haj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, who made his headquarters in Hitler’s Berlin during World War II, broadcasting appeals to the Arabs to join the Axis powers.
Upon his death in 1974, he was succeeded by Ma’ruf al-Dawalibi, who lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and is an official adviser to King Khaled, Dawalibi, Perlmutter noted, is on record as having publicly stated that “the Arabs would prefer a thousandfold to become a Soviet Republic than a prey to world Jewry.”
Perlmutter told the Secretary General that the World Muslim Congress is responsible for the distribution of the books — “AntiZion” and “The Six Million Reconsidered” — through the mail to legislators here and in Britain. The mailings bore Karachi, Pakistan, postmarks, but did not identify the sender. Following on ADL investigation, he said, the Pakistan Embassy in Washington confirmed that they came from the World Muslim Congress headquartered in Karachi.
The ADL reported that Sen. Roger Jepsen (R. Iowa) was one of the Senators who received the propaganda books. Upon inquiring from the Pakistan Embassy in Washington he, too, was told they emanated from the World Muslim Congress.
BOOKS AUTHORED BY HATE MONGER
Both books, Perlmutter said, were authored by William Grimstad, an American who has been managing editor of “White Power”, a swastika-inscribed Nazi publication, and the “White Patriot,” a Ku Klux Klan mouthpiece.
According to ADL records, the 45-year-old Grimstad is the author of numerous anti-Jewish articles and books and has been active in the U.S. Nazi movement for a decade or more.
In describing the propaganda books distributed by the World Muslim Congress, the ADL official said that “The Six Million Reconsidered” claims that the Nazi Holocaust is a “myth” perpetrated by Jews, themselves. He declared the book is filled with “vicious falsehoods” about Jews and charges them with an assortment of “misdeeds” and “crimes.”
The author of the book is not identified but instead is listed as the “Committee for Truth in History.” Advertisements in extremist publications, however, name the author as Grimstad.
Perlmutter said “AntiZion,” which lists Grimstad’s name as the compiler and annotator, is a 200-page collection of alleged quotations, descriptions and summaries of anti-Semitic views attributed to various personalities. The entry for Adolf Hitler describes him as a German “statesman” and “visionary,” and states categorically: “There were no Jews killed in gas chambers.”
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