According to Matthias Küntzel, several thousand Nazi war criminals found refuge in Egypt, because “in Egypt they could continue their war against the Jews.” “After the war,” Lawrence Wright correctly adds, “Cairo became a sanctuary for Nazis, who advised the military and the government. The rise of the Islamist movement coincided with the decline of fascism, but they overlapped in Egypt, and the germ passed into a new carrier.” From what we have seen, however, it is evident that the National Socialist germ had passed into the Islamic Jihadist carrier well before the end of the Second World War. As Joseph Schechtman observes, “The Arabs proved to be the only people in the whole world for whom close collaboration with Hitler and Mussolini was not a crime, not even a blemish in the record of a national leader.” On the contrary, it was almost always a badge of honor. There is a reason the Nazis knew they would be welcomed in Arab Muslim lands. There they found not only a war criminals' haven but an ideological heaven.

What exactly is the “germ” Wright refers to? It is exterminationist Jew hatred.