One SS officer reporting on impressions from the mufti's Sarajevo speech said Husseini was reserved about fighting Bolshevism, his main enemies being Jewish settlers in Palestine and the English. During a visit in July 1943 the Mufti said: "The active cooperation of the world's 400 million Muslims with their loyal friends, the German, can be of decisive influence upon the outcome of the war. You, my Bosnian Muslims, are the first Islamic division serve as an example of the active collaboration...My enemy's enemy is my friend." Himmler in addressing the unit on another occasion declared "Germany [and the Reich have been friends of Islam for the past two centuries, owing not to expediency but to friendly conviction. We have the same goals."