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The Swastika & the Crescent
by Martin A. Lee

In the wake of Sept. 11, new light is thrown on the international ties
increasingly linking Muslim and neo-Nazi extremists (from the Southern Poverty
Law Center's "Intelligence Report," Spring 2002).


As Germany's defeat loomed during the finals 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, which
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. Jan Kopal, head of the Czech National Social Bloc, declared at a
rally in Prague that bin Laden was "an example for our children." German neo-
Nazis, some wearing checkered Palestinian headscarves, rejoiced at street
demonstrations while burning an American flag. 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 (see sidebar: "Strange Bedfellows"). Just last year, a meeting sponsored
by a U.S. holocaust denial group brought together Arab and Western extremists
in Jordan (see sidebar "Between Friends").
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
Web sites 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 had 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 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 sec

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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 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

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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 Major General 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 Nazis cohorts were
following the same geopolitical strategy that Hitler had pursued in the Middle
East.


Black September and Achille Lauro

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.


Fundamentalist Revolution in Iran

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 the 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 Salmon
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 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"

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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, defacto 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

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Flanked by a dozen storm troopers in swastika armbands, Rockwell told an
audience of 5000 Nation devotees that he was "proud to stand here before black
men … Elijah Muhammad is the Adolf Hitler of the black man."
Sporadic contacts between Black Muslims and white supremacists continued
after Louis Farrakhan set up his own branch of the Nation of Islam in 1975.
Klan leader Tom Metzger was so impressed with Farrakhan's anti-Semitic bombast
that he donated $100 to the Nation after a Farrakhan rally in Los Angeles in
September 1985. A month later, Metzger and 200 other white supremacists from
the United States and Canada gathered on a farm about 50 miles west of Detroit,
where they pledged their support for the Nation of Islam. "The enemy of my
enemy is my friend," explained Art Jones, a neo-Nazi militant from Chicago. "I
salute Louis Farrakhan and anyone else who stands up against the Jews."
The Nation's contacts with non-black extremists has not been limited to
domestic neo-Nazis and Klansmen. During his international travels, Farrakhan
has been officially welcomed in a number of countries, including several
repressive Arab states. The Final Call, Farrakhan's newspaper, describes one
such globetrotting expedition in 1986, when he visited Libya for discussions
with Colonel Ghaddafi, who had given Farrakhan a $5-million interest-free loan
the previous year. After Libya, Farrakhan ventured to Jeddah, where he
conferred with top Saudi Arabian officials before paying a courtesy call to Idi
Amin, the exiled Ugandan despot. Farrakhan was also warmly received by General
Zia-ul-Huq, the military dictator of Pakistan, whose abysmal human rights
record coincided with efforts to impose a harsh Islamic fundamentalist regime
in his country.


An American Takes Up the Cause

During the 1980s, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan played a crucial role in supporting
the U.S.-backed mujahedeen resistance forces that were fighting to expel the
Soviets from Afghanistan. Islamic volunteers from all over the world flocked to
mujahedeen training camps in Pakistan to help win this holy war against godless
Communism. They were joined by scores of combatants from the United States,
including Clement Rodney Hampton-El, an American Black Muslim unaffiliated with
the Nation of Islam, who suffered arm and leg wounds in Afghanistan.
After returning to Brooklyn, Hampton-El worked closely with a shadowy
splinter group called al-Fuqra, whose followers in the United States and Canada
are predominantly Black Muslims. Several other al-Fulqra initiates had also
trained in Pakistan as part of the effort to throw the Soviets out of
Afghanistan. Founded in 1980 by a Pakistani mystic named Shiek Mubarik Ali
Jilani, al-Fuqra was organized into independent terrorist cells. An avowed
enemy of the Nation of Islam, al-Fuqra has been linked by U.S. officials to 17
homicides and 13 firebombings in the United States. Its targets were usually
other minorities or rival Muslim leaders.
In 1995, Hampton-El was sentenced to 35 years in prison for his
involvement in a failed plot to bomb the United Nations and other New York City
landmarks. Nine other Muslim extremists were convicted as co-conspirators in
this case, including Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric, who is
serving a life sentence for his role as ringleader of the plot. The blind sheik
has also been linked to the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in
1993, killing six people and injuring more than 1000. Hampton-El told an FBI
informant that he had participated in a test explosion for the first attack on
the World Trade Center.
According to recent reports, the Justice Department is probing possible
links between al-Fuqra and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. American
officials have obtained a videotape of a December 1993 meeting in Sudan, then a
nerve center for the bin Laden organization, where al-Fuqra leader Shiek
Mubarik Ali Jilani met with members of Islamic Jihad, Hamas and other Islamic
terrorist groups. Representatives of al Qaeda are also believed to have been
present at this meeting. Federal officials also believe that al-Fuqra members
collaborated with Wadih El-Hage, who was sentenced to life in prison this year
for conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the bombings of two American embassies
in Africa in 1998.


Between Friends

U.S. Holocaust deniers help unite neo-Nazis, Arab extremists.

American extremists who claim that Jews fabricated the Holocaust to discredit
Hitler and to justify the dispossession of Palestinians have made common cause
on the propaganda front with jihadists from the Middle East. At the forefront
of this collaborative effort is the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), the
leading promoter of Holocaust denial in the United States.
Founded in 1978, the Southern California-based IHR distributes books,
pamphlets, audio and videotapes that purport to prove the Holocaust never
happened. These "assassins of memory," as French literary historian Pierre
Vidal-Naquet calls the Holo-hoaxers, also publish the Journal of Historical
Review, which tries mightily to impress its readers with footnotes and other
scholarly trappings. A recent issue spoke breathlessly of a "white-hot trend:
the rapid growth of Holocaust revisionism, fueled by increasing cooperation
between Muslims and Western revisionists, across the Islamic world."
Early last year, the IHR organized a conference on "Zionism and
Revisionism" that was set for Beirut that March. Billed as an opportunity for
North American and European extremists to meet their counterparts in the
Islamic world, the event was delayed and relocated due to complaints by Jewish
groups and diplomatic pressure from the United States and Europe. An open
letter signed by 14 leading Arab intellectuals also denounced the conference,
which was eventually held in Amman, Jordan. The featured speaker at this scaled-
down meeting, hosted locally by the Jordanian Writers Federation, was French
negationist Robert Faurisson, a longtime IHR advisor, who told a sympathetic
audience that "Hitler never ordered or allowed the killing of anyone on account
of his or her race or religion" and "the Germans suffered, in reality, a fate
far worse than that of the Jews."


Feeding the Propaganda Machine

Driven by the proliferation of neo-Nazi propaganda and antagonism toward
Israel, Holocaust denial has gained widespread acceptance across the Arab world
in recent years. It's no coincidence that commentary on the IHR website is
translated and posted in Arabic, as well as in German and English. IHR director
Mark Weber takes pride in the fact that he and other "revisionists," as they
like to call themselves, have been interviewed on Iranian state radio. Iran's
Islamic fundamentalist regime has granted refuge to several European Holocaust-
deniers, who were convicted of violating hate speech laws in their home
countries. Jurgen Graf, an IHR editorial advisor, fled to Tehran rather than
serve a 15-month sentence in a Swiss prison.
A key IHR ally among Muslim extremists is Ahmed Rami, a former Moroccan
army officer who fled his native country after joining a failed coup attempt
against King Hassan in 1972. Today Rami runs Radio Islam, a Stockholm-based neo-
Nazi propaganda outfit. In addition to articles such as "USA's Rulers: They are
all Jews," the website of Radio Islam carries the full text of The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion, one of the vilest forgeries in modern history.
For many Palestinians, denying the holocaust is tantamount to negating
any Jewish claim to Israel. Columbia University professor Edward Said, a
Palestinian American, laments the proliferation of this tendency among
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For many Palestinians, denying the holocaust is tantamount to negating any
Jewish claim to Israel. Columbia University professor Edward Said, a
Palestinian American, laments the proliferation of this tendency among
Arabs. "If we expect Israeli Jews not to use the Holocaust to justify appalling
human rights abuses of the Palestinian people, we too have to go beyond such
idiocies as saying that the Holocaust never took place," asserts Said.
Such idiocies have become increasingly common in leading newspapers in
Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries, where official
thinking is reflected in tightly controlled national media. Support for
holocaust denial enables corrupt Arab governments to deflect attention from
their failures, including their own exploitation of Muslim populations and
their brutal repression of many peoples

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A few years later, the WMC mailed no-holocaust literature to every member of
the U.S. Congress and the British parliament. Issah Nakleh, a Palestinian
writer affiliated with the WMC, became a fixture at IHR conferences in the
United States and a regular contributor to the Journal of Historical Review.
Nakleh was also well known to readers of The Spotlight, the anti-Semitic weekly
published by the IHR's now-defunct parent organization, the Liberty Lobby.
Acknowledging their political kinship, WMC secretary-general Dr. Inamullah
Khan, a trusted advisor to the Saudi royal family, sent a letter to The
Spotlight, praising its "superb in-depth analysis" and stating that the paper
deserved "the thanks of all right-minded people."
Like many American and European neofascist groups, the WMC espoused
a "Third Position" ideology critical of both Cold War superpowers, as
underscored by this headline from Muslim World, the WMC's official
mouthpiece: "U.S. and USSR

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Dobre...

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tak to bywa z prawda.

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wpieriod!

Zawsze byli razem za Hitlera takze tworzyli SS dyw

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Nie zapomnijmy muzulmanskie ,arabskie dywizje SS (dwie ,wiecej nie zdazyli,a
chcieli)
stworzone przez Wielkiego Mufti z Jerozolimy ,ktory cala II Wojne Swiatowa
ukrywal sie u Hitlera.
Krwawi to byli zbrodniarze.

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Sadam=Arafat=Hitler

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vamonos!

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avanti!

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To jego idole !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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> To jego idole !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On sam tez wyglada jak Hitler i Stalin...-)