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Ahmed Huber (1927) was born Albert Friedrich Armand Huber in Freiburg, Switzerland to parents of Protestant religious background. In the late 1950's he became involved the Swiss Socialist Party and assisted anti-French rebels from Algeria that came to Switzerland to purchase weapons. His involvement with the Algerian rebels caused him to develop an interest in Islam. He converted in Genevaat an Islamic center run by the Muslim Brotherhood. Later however he was convinced by Egypt's Swiss ambassador Fathi al-Dhib to abandon the Muslim Brotherhood in favor of moving to Egypt and assisting the regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Huber would later marry the daughter of al-Dhib. 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Freiburg city from Schlossberg Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region, on the western edge of the southern Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald) with about 214,000 inhabitants. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... {The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (also rendered as Socialist Party of Switzerland, in German: Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz (SPS), French Parti socialiste suisse (PSS), Italian Partito Socialista Svizzero, Romansh Partida Socialdemocrata de la Svizra. ... Islām is described as a dīn, meaning way of life and/or guidance. Six articles of belief There are six basic beliefs shared by all Muslims: 1. ... Jet dEau in Geneva Geneva (French: Genève) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland, situated where Lake Geneva (known in French as Lac Léman) flows into the Rhône River. ... The Muslim Brotherhood or The Muslim Brothers (Arabic: al-Ikhwan al-muslimoon, full title جماعة الإخوان المسلمين Jamaat al-ikhwan al-muslimin, The Society of the Muslim Brothers, often simply الإخوان al-Ikhwan, the Brotherhood) is the name of several Islamist organizations in the Middle East. ... Gamal Abdel Nasser (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر) ‎ (January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) was the second President of Egypt after Muhammad Naguib and is considered one of the most important Arab leaders in history. ...


After spending time in the Middle East Huber abandoned any favorable opinions he had toward Israel. While in Egypt he meet the former Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husayni who was a onetime associate of German dictator Adolf Hitler. Amin al-Husayni gave Huber an alternative view on Hitler and the Third Reich, causing him to adopt a very favorable view of the Nazi movement and Hitler. Also in Egypt he befriended Johann von Leers who was a former offical in the Nazi Propoganda Ministry. He had also coverted to Islam and had changed his name to Umar Amin von Leers and worked as a propganda offical for the government of Nasser. A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (ca. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... Johann von Leers (January 25, 1902-March 5, 1965) was a German professor known for his anti-Jewish polemics. ...


After returning to Switzerland he became friends with Swiss banker François Genoud. Genoud was an open Nazi sympathizer and possessed the copyright to the works of Hitler, Goebbels, and Martin Bormann. Genoud was also an associate of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Venezulan terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (also known as Carlos the Jackal). At this time, during the 1970's, Huber once again became involved in Swiss politics. He worked with the Swiss Left and the Bern Nonconformists to push for an anti-American and anti-Israel agenda. He was later expelled from the Swiss Socialist Party for "Khomeinism, anti-Feminism, and contact with radical rightists." This was due to his open support for Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie. Joseph Goebbels Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ... Martin Bormann in the uniform of an honorary SS-Obergruppenführer Martin Bormann (June 17, 1900 – May 2, 1945) was a prominent German National Socialist official who became head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and Private Secretary to Adolf Hitler, gaining his trust and deriving immense power within the Third... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين - al-Jabhah al-Shaabiyah li-Tahrīr Filasṭīn) is a secular, Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian organization, founded after the Six-Day War in 1967. ... Carlos with fiancée Isabelle Coutant-Peyre Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born October 12, 1949) was a terrorist, professional revolutionary, and playboy; he is better known by the nom de guerre Carlos the Jackal, which may have been given to him by the press after a copy of the... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Anti-American sentiment is a hostility towards or disapproval of the government, culture, history, and/or people of the United States of America. ... Anti-Zionism is a term that has been used to describe several very different political and religious points of view, both historically and in current debates. ... Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation. ... Ayatollah Khomeini founded the first modern Islamic republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیت‌الله روح‌الله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran. ... A fatwa (Arabic: ) plural fatāwa (فتاوى), is a legal pronouncement in Islam, issued by a religious law specialist on a specific issue. ... Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie Arabic: أحمد سلمان رشدی on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ...


Huber later became involved with members of Muslim Brotherhood again. Together with Brotherhood members Youssef Moustafa Nada and Ali Ghalib Himmat he helped establish the Al Taqwa Bank in Switzerland. The Al Taqwa Bank has garnered much controversy in recent years. Investers in Al Taqwa include members of the Kuwaiti royal family as well as members of the family of Osama bin Laden and Qatar-based cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Huber and the Al Taqwa Bank have also been accused by the American government of funding al-Qaeda. Huber denies these charges but has publicly praised Osama bin Laden and the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington. Al Taqwa Bank was later renamed Nada Management Corporation. Osama bin Laden in a photo from the 1990s Usāmah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Lādin (born March 10, 1957) (Arabic: ), commonly known as Osama bin Laden, or Usama bin Laden, (Arabic: ), is the founder of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda. ... Yusuf al-Qaradawi (Arabic: يوسف القرضاوي) (born September 9, 1926) is a Muslim scholar and preacher best known for his popular al-Jazeera program, ash-Shariah wal-Hayat (Shariah and Life), and his website IslamOnline that was launched in 1997. ... Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... State nickname: The Empire State Official languages None. ... State nickname: The Evergreen State Official languages None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Governor Christine Gregoire (D) Senators Patty Murray (D) Maria Cantwell (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 18th 184,824 km² 6. ...


Ahmed Huber has also been a strong proponent of so-called Holocaust revisionism. He has close relations with such revisionist figures as Jürgen Graf a leading Swiss revisionist and the Moroccan dissident Ahmad Rami who runs the Swedish based Radio Islam. In early 2001 Huber in collaboration with the American-based Institute for Historical Review planned to have a conference in Lebanon to bring together both Western and Muslim Holocaust revisionists. However international pressure forced the Lebanese government to cancel the event. Huber has also been a leading advocate for cooperation between the far-right and neo-Nazi groups with Islamist organizations again America and Israel. Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. ... Radio Islam, was a Swedish radio channel, now a website, dedicated to the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people against Israel. It has been accused of being anti-Semitic and propounding Holocaust denial. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Institute for Historical Review (IHR), founded in 1978, is dedicated to historical revisionism. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ...


References

The Schiller Institute is an international political and economic thinktank and is one of the primary institutions in the Lyndon LaRouche movement, with headquarters in both Germany and the United States. ... Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born August 25, 1948, Trier) is a German political activist, wife of controversial American political activist, Lyndon LaRouche, and founder of the LaRouche movements Schiller Institute and the German B rgerrechtsbewegung Solidarit t party (B eSo) (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity). ... Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (ca. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

  • The mysterious Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and Ibn Ladin? by Kevin Coogan
  • Sentinel TMS Entity Record - Ahmed Huber
  • Dave Emory's For The Record broadcast #354 Forward, Into the Past (Part III)
  • Jewish Telegraphic Agency article on Huber
  • Shareholders in the Bank of Terror? from Salon.com
  • TRANS-NATIONAL HATE: TECHNOLOGY UNITES ANTISEMITES AND HATERS AROUND THE GLOBE from the Simon Wiesenthal Center
  • Links Between American, European Terrorist Groups, transcript from a CNN interview with Huber.

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Huber, however, was warned by Fathi al-Dhib, Egypt's then ambassador to Switzerland (whose Secretary Huber would later marry), that the Nasir government was hostile to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Huber's own ties to Iran are hardly secret, in 1989 amid a flurry of publicity, he lost his journalistic position with the Swiss press group Ringier after he openly supported Iran's fatwah condemning Salman Rushdie to death for his book "The Satanic Verses".
Huber also appeared with both men earlier at another pro-Khomeini conference organized by the "Muslim Parliament" (MP), which was held in London in November 1996 and which advertised participation by representatives from both Hezbollah and Hamas.
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