Muslims and the Holocaust

With Holocaust Remembrance Day near, this passage from Serge Trifkovic's The Sword of the Prophet is pertinent:

Mass murders of Jewish "protected people" started in Morocco as early as the eighth century, where Idris I wiped out whole communities. A century later, Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews, setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later in Nazi Germany, and synagogues were destroyed throughout Mesopotamia in 854-859.

Muslim complicity with Nazism thus comes as no surprise. Trifkovic notes:

The contemporary heirs to the Nazi view of Judentum [Judaism] are not the handful of powerless skinheads and Aryan Nation survivalists. They are schools, religious leaders, and mainstream intellectuals in the Moslem, meaning primarily Arab, world. Quite apart from the ups and downs of the misnamed "peace process" in the Middle East, quite apart from the more or less bellicose posture towards the government of Israel, the crude way they actively demonize all Jews as such is startling.

In a related vein, Robert Satloff has discussed the lesser-known persecution of Jews in North Africa during World War II:

...if U.S. and British troops had not driven the Germans from the African continent in 1943, the 2,000-year-old Jewish communities of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and perhaps Egypt would almost certainly have met the fate of their brethren in Europe.