Surpassing Shylock

Originally published here.

By Nonie Darwish

Arab feminists, reformers and intellectuals are intimidated, threatened or killed in the Middle East. Even the late Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was stabbed in Cairo in 1994 by a radical Muslim who claimed that Mahfouz insulted Islam.

Americans of Muslim Arab origin, like myself, who speak out against jihad, terrorism and anti-Semitism, also confront threats and shaming from those who want to silence us. This does not necessarily come from radical Islamist clerics, but often from highly educated Arabs working in prominent institutions of higher learning in the US.

On September 24^th, and out of nowhere, I received an e-mail from Dr. Houria I. Hassouna, an Egyptian female professor at Michigan State University. The subject of her e-mail said: “A weight of carion flesh than to receive 3,000 ducats.” And she proceeded to describe me in the body of the email as: “You surpass the Shylock described by Shakespeare in the Merchant of Venice.”

To those who are unfamiliar with the William Shakespeare play Merchant of Venice, Shylock played the character of a mean Jew who refused to forgo a pound of Antonio’s flesh which he has earned by an archaic law rooted in religion. Shylock rejected the offer of 6,000 ducats instead of the 3,000 that Antonio owed him so that he could revenge himself upon the Christian merchant.

What Dr. Hassouna was trying to tell me in her e-mail was that I am worse than a Jew. Muslim law agrees with her because a Muslim should never soften, forgive or befriend Jews. Being a former Muslim who runs a website called “ArabsForIsrael.com,” I believe that the Jewish people are Middle Eastern people who contributed a lot to Middle East culture, society and religion, larger in proportion than the size of Israel. I also speak openly about the Jewish people’s rights to their own State, Israel, and its capital, Jerusalem.   

Dr. Hassouna apparently never got over the hate and anti-Semitic propaganda that Muslim children are spoon-fed in the Middle East. She also does not believe that Arab Americans should be able to expose and criticize radical Islam and the culture that produce thousands upon thousands of men who are ready to kill others for the sake of the expansion of Islam around the world.

I remember the many films on Arab TV dehumanizing Jews and depicting them in the worst possible manner. Muslim kids were told that Jews were monsters who wanted to kill them. When you fill the heart of Muslim children with such propaganda, hatred comes easy and terrorism acceptable. Such films still exist on Egyptian TV and are watched by thousands right here in America through satellite dishes. The last film I saw was called “A Girl from Israel” where an Israeli family visiting the Sinai deceive, rape and kill Egyptian kids.

I do not receive a lot of hate mail, but when I do, the worst comes from University professors, especially from those of Middle East origin, like myself. Ms. Hassouna, like many so called “moderate Muslims,” reveals her deep-rooted anti-Semitism and, in spite of her migration to the US and getting a PHD from American Institutions of higher learning, she still could not shed this hate indoctrination or the taboo against self-criticism in Muslim scriptures. Some of the most anti-Semitic Muslims are non-practicing intellectual Muslims. Our college campuses are full of Middle East professors who came to study in the US, thanks to scholarships from Uncle Sam, but who are spreading the poison of hatred of the old culture and are trying to silence people like myself who are promoting respect, peace and understanding between Arabs and Jews.

There are many heavy-handed attempts to silence me and the few others who are committed to peace and exposing the root causes of jihad against Israel and the West. Such attempts are a symbol of the hateful past we lived under and they simply strengthen my commitment to promoting peace and forgiveness to a culture that has forgotten what living in peace truly means.

The Latest in Islamic Revisionism

By: Joe Herring & Dr. Mark Christian

This article was originally published on the American Thinker.  It is the first in a series of articles that will explore the legitimacy of Jewish “ownership” of Jerusalem.

Many are familiar with the concept of revisionist history — the rewriting of past events to reflect a particular bias — but there is a contemporary example that receives far too little attention in our American media, that being the history of Jews in the Middle East.

Palestinian apologists have made a major industry out of creating a past for themselves by distorting the archeological record.  What cannot be distorted is ignored, and what cannot be ignored has, in some cases, been destroyed.  Not surprisingly, this particular form of historical reconstruction invariably finds the lowly Jew to be an interloper in the Middle East — not only now, but throughout all of discernable history.

One such apologist, Mr. Maen Rashid Areikat, “honored” our fair city of Omaha, Nebraska recently when he spoke at the invitation of the Global Studies Conference at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  Mr. Areikat is the director-general at the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Negotiations Affairs Department and a close advisor of Mahmoud Abbas.  He is presently the chief representative of the PLO delegation to the United States.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently described Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani as “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.”  He might wish to apply that description to Areikat, a man for whom the phrase may well have been coined.

Mr. Areikat’s message is a simple one.  Jerusalem belongs to the Palestinians and, by extension, to Islam.  Of course, his message has far fewer sharp edges when he delivers it to non-Muslims.  He adopts a folksy, world-weary tone when calling for a Palestinian state, as if he has been single-handedly standing up to the recalcitrant Israeli leadership, and while desperate for help, he remains too humble to ask.

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last year, Areikat presented the case that a Palestinian state is in Israel’s best interests.  He championed the preferred narrative of the anti-Israeli left with a deftness born of mindless repetition, repeating the long-debunked argument that the Jewish claim to Jerusalem is no stronger than that of the Palestinians.  He goes on to contrast the “brutal” Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza against the Palestinian Authority’s altruistic efforts to normalize relations.

When he is not as guarded in his speech, Areikat reveals the white bone of Islamic inflexibility.  Asked in an interview if the Jews ever had a Temple in Jerusalem, he demurred, saying only, “I’m not an historian.”

When pressed, he doubled down on his newly minted understanding of history, asserting that Jews were never part of Jerusalem — that the “Jewishness” of a place known for millennia as the “City of David” is in fact a myth, despite literally thousands of years of archeological evidence putting the lie to his self-serving construct.

While the concept of a historically non-Jewish Jerusalem is increasing in popularity among the anti-Semitic left, it remains curious that Arabs continue to demand control over Jerusalem, when it’s abundantly clear from the Koran itself that neither Allah nor Mohammed ever intended it for Muslims in the first place.  As far as the Koran is concerned, Muslims have no more claim to Jerusalem than Jews have to Medina.

Jewish authority over Jerusalem should come as no surprise to Islamic scholars.  In Surah 2:144-147, the Koran describes Allah’s gift of Mecca to Mohammed.  In this passage, we find Mohammed pouting that he had been mocked by the Jews for making use of their city, Jerusalem, as a focus of worship.  He didn’t deny Jewish authority over Jerusalem; he simply fumed that Islam had no place of its own — an unfortunate situation that Mohammed (er…I mean Allah!) moved to remedy posthaste.

From the very beginning, Mohammed appropriated much of Jewish and Christian tradition for inclusion in his new religion, but Islam was not yet complete, as it lacked a “Holy City” — a deficit that spawned a sixth-century version of “keeping up with the Joneses,” if you will.

According to Islamic tradition, Allah sent the angel Gabriel to “re-orient” Mohammed during prayers, pointing him toward Mecca.  From a purely logistical standpoint, early Muslims could count themselves lucky that Mohammed assumed that Allah meant to give them Mecca and not, say, Zanzibar, which lay in the same direction, only a scant two thousand miles farther.

The point being, not only did Allah and his prophet Mohammed show clear deference for the Jewish claim to Jerusalem, but this reality was confirmed and continued under “Omar the Conqueror,” Mohammed’s successor and the most powerful and influential caliph in Islamic history.

While Omar is widely known as the conqueror of Jerusalem, what is not so well-known is that after he conquered the city he promptly repopulated Jerusalem with Jews, repatriating them from the Arabian Peninsula, providing an ironic prefiguration of the establishment of the modern state of Israel centuries later.

Clearly, Omar felt that Jerusalem was a city for the Jews and encouraged their residence in a homeland they hadn’t seen since the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D.  Omar constructed a small mosque in Jerusalem, allowing him the ability to maintain the spiritual health of the Muslim garrisons left to defend Jerusalem from the Romans, but otherwise granted Jews authority over their spiritual and ancestral home.  Omar, successor of Mohammed, believed that the Jewish claim to Jerusalem was absolute, transcending five centuries of exile.

All this brings us full circle to Mr. Areikat, and his creative revisionism of long-established historical record.  In the spirit of fairness, the level of silliness that has come to hallmark the Islamic attempts to write themselves into a history they themselves never experienced cannot be laid solely at the feet of Areikat.  He simply parrots the narrative du jour, embellishing as needed to tailor the story to his audience.

To the uninitiated, Areikat’s words have a soothing quality, coaxing a long-ailing sense of hope from the listener, stirring a belief that at long last they may have encountered an authentic negotiating partner.  It is important for us to realize, however, that Areikat is powerless without the hope harbored by non-Muslims that perhaps an acknowledgment of his viewpoint may herald a break in the present impasse.

It is the sanitized version of Maen Rashid Areikat our students heard speak in Omaha on the 3^rd of October, 2013.  It is Areikat’s revision of history that they carried away with them, greatly misinforming their view of the Mid-East conflict.

It’s regrettable that the students didn’t learn the unedited plan for the Middle East sought by Areikat — the version that declares any future Palestinian state must be “Jew-free,” requiring the forced removal of all Jews as a condition of Palestinian sovereignty.

Despite his rhetoric, perhaps even Areikat himself senses the weakness of his own argument.  When asked about the decline of social interactions between Jew and Arab, he lets slip a glimpse behind the veils of obfuscation and fantasy that have characterized the “history” of the “Palestinian people.”

“I remember when I traveled to Europe in the late ’70s, and to the United States in the early ’80s, yes, we thought of ourselves as Palestinians, but we were traveling with Jordanian passports. Publicly we are Jordanians, but deep inside we are Palestinians.”

Therein lies the truth Areikat himself has tried so hard to conceal: there is no such thing as a “Palestinian.”

Dr. Mark Christian is the Vice President of Arabs for Israel, Executive Director of the Global Faith Institute and is himself a former Muslim.  For more information regarding his mission, please visit www.globalfaithinstitute.org.  Mr. Herring is an author who welcomes visitors to his website at www.readmorejoe.com

Ariel Sharon vs. Barack Obama: A Case Study in Leadership

By: Dr. Mark Christian

Ariel Sharon, a rare man of conviction, may you rest in peace.  You were the first to rescue your Israeli soldiers who were stranded on the front line during the 1973 Yom-Kippur war.  This is in contrast to our current American leader, who went to bed and then off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas while knowing that Americans were under fire in Benghazi.

As published at Gateway Pundit:

Ariel Sharon, Commander of Israel’s 134th Division, in the initial moments of the Yom Kippur War (unprovoked attack by Egypt), calling to reassure his men.

Recorded on a field phone:

Sharon: “This is commander. You recognize my voice? Do you know who I am, right?”

Sharon: “Okay, look, guys. I…we’ve only just got here. Now I intend to make every effort to get you out. Ahh…I don’t want to leave you there under any circumstances. In a little while, I will call you and tell you what we are going to do.”

After the Yom Kippur war was over, Commander Sharon wouldn’t rest until those Israeli soldiers who’d been taken prisoner were released.

COMPARED TO…

Barack Obama, President of the United States, on the night of the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya (unprovoked terrorist attack), responding to the situation.
According to Dan Pfeiffer, a Senior Obama Advisor, in an interview on Fox News.

“…the president was in the White House that day; he was kept up to date by his national security team. He spoke to the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs earlier, the secretary of State later. And as events unfolded, he was kept up to date.”

Obama went to bed.

Prime Minister Sharon, may you rest in Peace and may your people be encouraged knowing that yours is the spirit of the Jewish people and the Zionist state. The world is a better place for having had a man of your character in it.

Israel & Muslims’ Myths

By Nasir Ali
I'm afraid I don't put much credence in common gossip but I overwhelmed and shocked about a nonsense generally raised question in the Muslim world, that should Israel even exist or should the Jews even have a homeland? It’s a completely hallucination and aberration even to ask, if Israel should exist. How silly, dehumanizing and insulting for a Muslim if I argue and ask same question in other way that Saudi Arabia has the right to exist? Why Muslims not understand and respect the feelings of 14 million Jews, why more than 1.6 billion Muslims downright hostile to the tiny Jewish state?
Sincerely Muslims’ concerns and miseries really touch my heart, although they deserve all such as natural retribution of their deeds. I cannot blame the Israel, Europe or USA for the ‘miseries’ of the Muslim countries. I can only blame Muslims’ common culture, mindset and their Madrasa based envenom education which used and abused to whole Muslims since centuries. I am convinced that their crisis is purely self-inflicted that has nothing to do with rest of the world.
It is prerequisite to understand that not all Arabs or Muslims hate Jews, (for example, I not hate Jews at all! Instead, I feel sympathy with them.), and vice-versa not all Jews hate Arabs and Muslims. Despite this fact, unfortunately both sides have antipathy and distrust for each other. In spite of all atrocities, must remember to those thousands of pious Jews who believe in the right of the Palestinians to their home land and pray desperately for peace that the both nations can live with peace and harmony. Quran called Jews and the Christians with honor ‘People of the Book’ and teaches that Muslims should treat them with respect as their own homie, this is the view about Jews and the Christians according the real Islam, traditional and practiced replica of Islam is not my concerned. The most important ground is their common belief and the faith in the one God of the entire macrocosm.
Apart of this, all the Jewish Prophets, including Moses (PBUH) and Abraham (PBUH) are honorable and respected by all Muslims without any discrimination or doubt and Muslim faith can not be completed without believe on Israeli Prophets (PBUH). Undoubtedly Jews and Arabs both are descendant of the Prophet Abraham (PBUH), but it is a lamentable fact that instead of developing mutual love as a result of these common grounds, the Jews and Muslims developed mutual animosity over the centuries. Despite so much misunderstanding and bemused situation between the Jewish and Muslims, in fact, there are several common factors that could instigate to have a better relationship instead of antagonism.
As a matter of fact, monotheist Islam and Judaism originating in same Semitic culture. On the contrary Christianity originated by interaction of ancient Greek and Hebrew cultures. Fundamentally Islam is very near to Judaism in its religious outlook, structure, jurisprudence and practice with the difference that traditionally Torah is in the scroll form and the Quran is in the codex form.
I want to assure that I adore and respect all human being including Muslims, what I am trying to say are to bring the truth in front of the Muslims to finally face reality and stop the game of hatred. What kind of this Muslims’ God who ordained his followers to kill more than 70% human beings of this planet if they don’t convert to Islam or being as dissenters; where it’s written in the holy Quran, I am not talking about so-called imposture “the Hadiths”? If Muslims are not ready to change and persist on such sick mentality then their persistence would end on disaster, waiting to happen.
Since the Muslims took control over the Arabian Peninsula until the born of the state of Israel in1948, due to the 20th century Zionist ideology; there were no direct wars and conflicts between Jews and Muslims, it is compulsory to ignore schadenfreude type psychos of both sides. Due the false ferment of stereotyping people, the ensued tension is rising day by day and it’s very difficult to change this demeanor that has become so deeply entrenched over the years.
With all due respect, I am not convinced with explanations for this animosity which goes all the way back to the Prophet Abraham (PBUH). The ancient root of bitterness between offspring of Prophet Isaac and Prophet Ismail (PBUH) has not any concern with all of the hostility between Jews and Muslims of our time. On the contrary, for thousands of year’s Middle Eastern history testifies that Jews and Arabs lived in peace and harmony with each other.
As a matter of fact, the primary cause of this hostility has political and economical origin. After dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and end of World War II, the United Nations gave a portion of the land which was inhabited by the Palestinians to the Jewish people as a new state Israel. Arabs protested vehemently against the Israel occupying their land. Since, there has been great abhorrence and bellicosity between tiny Israel and its Arab neighbors as Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Egypt.
I am curious and interested in Middle East politics because I spent 26 years in this volatile part of the world. I believe most of the Muslims would not share my sentiments about Israel’s moral right to existence. The situation in the Muslim world is envenoms and dangerous enough if you happen to be a friend of Israel. You can’t imagine the intensity of oppugn and confrontation against an alleged Muslim friend of Israel face in any Muslim country, you can’t afford to be.
The pattern of the history revels that the Babylonians, the Persians, the Romans, the Othman all civilizations after reaching their maturity, finally vanished. I am really astonished and do appreciate that contrary to every historical precedent this is not the case with the Jews, this small number of people scattered around the world continued to exert influence on history survived throughout four thousand years of human history. Our world population has now reached up to seven billion people. Demographic information revels that this population consists as 32% Christian, 23% Muslim, 15% Hindu, 7% Buddhist, and only 0.2% Jewish. There are only fourteen million Jews in the world. These are the Jews whose intellectual output has enriched the whole of humanity. Over the past century other than Peace Prizes, only three Nobel Prizes have been won by 1.7 billion Muslims, while fourteen million Jews have acquired one-hundred-eighty Nobel Prizes!
The most beneficent philanthropists in the world are also Jews, George Soros and Walter Annenberg is well known names in the list of top altruists in history.
I am compel to admit, without any prejudice that the Jews are the most persistent and tenacious nation in the entire human history.
I am very much convinced that war is the apotheosis of human doltishness. In all over the history, human population remained engaged in (most of the notorious wars were fought on the name of the GOD) miseries of wars due to two basic causes. Firstly, the abnegation to tolerate differences and secondly, the active enjoyment derived from hurting each other, although they can best voice their disapproval of such actions.
History is full of the examples that the word “God” used to justify cruel actions of war and violence. It is also common practice to even enjoy other’s pain, just by denouncing each other as an infidel, with the malicious believe that opponent is also destined for eternal agony. We forced to suffer other human beings for the sake of bounty of the God. We all get angry at others for various perceived offenses, and enjoy (meanest and nastiest mirth) with believe that our opponent is going to Hell, heedlessly of how much they already suffered in life. I am confident that no one would ever admit to it, of course, but it’s a primitive passion innate in human being, and precisely the contention of the ever holy war. Sounds interesting, does not it?
And what are these unbridled, bacchanalian horrendous wars, worst moments when human being can act with utter contempt for the rest of the human being; the invaders stormed, ransacked buildings and massacre of unarmed civilian’s even children, rape of the women, people tortured by varying methods and hacked to pieces. I can see and feel in the history that horses waded in blood up to their knees. All these brutalities in the name of the God, despite the fact that the Bible, the Quran and all other holy books stated, “Love your enemies, mercy, tolerance and forgiveness!”
Since the born of Israeli state there are more than a dozen wars have been fought again on the name of the God between the Israel and her neighbor Arab States, which weakened relations severely among these two monotheistic nations. It is diabolical and contemptible that everyone fought and still fighting on the name of the God. Both World Wars Allied leaders Woodrow Wilson of the United States, David Lloyd of Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and Georges Clemenceau of France, The aggressors Adolf Hitler, General Hideki Tojo, Benito Mussolini, The defenders Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Stalin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and recent Dictators Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad and over-the-top two Bushes, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Taliban and Obama Bin Laden also, all were and are fighting on the name of the God!
I am a prominent supporter of Israel, strongly believe that the return of the Jews to their Holy land and the formation of the Israel are not against the Holy Quran or the Islam and there is nothing wrong in establishment of this country. There is no question or doubt that Jerusalem was established by the Israeli King cum Prophet David (PBUH) and his son Suleiman the magnificent who was also a Prophet (PBUH). Due to Jesus (PBUH) Jerusalem and Bethlehem are holiest cities for Christians too. As far as Muslims’ concerned their lull is mere a yarn or fairy tale, Night Journey or the ‘Isra Al Mirage’ of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) is related to his migration from Mecca to Medina nothing concerned with Jerusalem.
There is rhetoric and there is a reality, obdurate Muslim educators have never officially revel the truth about the Israeli people and the real history and what Jerusalem means to Jewish nation. They are spoiling their generations by distorted history about the Jews and Jerusalem that it was a Muslim holy city simply because Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) dreamt one night that he went to the farthest mosque but he never meant it Jerusalem. According the history there was not any mosque situated at the time of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), and where it is mentioned in the Quran about any such ridiculously implausible journey to Jerusalem; on the contrary it is mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible as the heart and soul of the Jewish people. Frantic Muslims loosed all moral compass and never respect Jews’ religion or their holy city and always claimed them as Muslim land. Muslim conquerors convert Jewish Temple Mount 100 years after the Prophet Mohammed’s demised. Muslim conquerors built the mosque right on top of it. I winced at the thought; just imagine if Jews or Christians built a church or synagogue on the place of Kaaba in Mecca, how Muslims would feel.
If Muslims feel love, respect, attraction and affection for these holy cities or holy Israel due to Israeli Prophets, Jesus or due to any reason, I do not think Jews or Christians have any objection or there is any reason of brawl in it! Complications start when Muslims claim their only sole jurisdiction on these cities and want to evict real heir-apparent. According to my interpretation and as per Quranic verses, Jews have unconditional and fundamental right to dwell as a nation in their own land which God gave to the progeny of Prophet Jacob (PBUH), a grandson of Prophet Abraham (PBUH). I am quoting few verses of the Holy Quran, testifying the giving of a land known as ‘ISRAEL’ by the God himself to the Jews:
1. And We caused the people who were considered weak to inherit the eastern parts of the land and the western parts thereof, which We blessed. And the gracious word of thy Lord was fulfilled for the children of Israel because they were steadfast; and We destroyed all that Pharaoh and his people had built and all that they had erected. [Al-A`raf:138]
2. And after him We said to the children of Israel, ‘Dwell ye in the land; and when the time of the promise of the latter days comes, We shall bring you together out of various peoples.’ [Bani Isra'il:105]
3. And We assigned to the children of Israel an excellent abode, and We provided them with good things, and they differed not until there came to them the knowledge. Surely, thy Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that in which they differed. [Yunus:94]
4. And We saved him (Prophet Abraham PBUH) and Lot (PBUH) and brought them to the land which We blessed for the peoples. [Al-Anbiya:72] And We bestowed upon him Isaac (PBUH), and as a grandson, Jacob (PBUH), and We made all of them righteous. [Al-Anbiya:73]
Another point is also very clear from the Holy Quran that only God the cognizance, has the authority and ascendancy of animadversion or to ask regarding deeds of human being, not any other human being, and the God shall ask on the day of Resurrection not while we are all in examination on this planet. Suppose even Jews are wrong, sinful and at fault, then who gave any such authority to Muslims to castigate and censure Jews and hold them accountable? Apart of that, all wrong doings and sins which Muslims append and attribute with the Jews, in fact they and their holy ancestors are also tainted the same, since centuries. Hence morally Muslims are not in such position to animadvert Jews (an evil in which most people indulge). Jews are really so bad and evil then why God helped them and let them survived all over their history?
I am not the enemy of Arabs or non-Arab Muslims, but I also having soft corner as a human being for the Jews as well. I am speaking according my conscience; I respect and acknowledge Jewish’s right to live in peace in their teeny inherited homeland, Israel. I can realize and understand intensity of Muslims’ rage very well, it’s taboo to love or feel soft corner or wishing well for the Jews in Muslims’ aberrant doctrine. Even their beliefs have deprived them loving all of humanity as equals, resulting in self-imposed isolation and non-integration with other nations. This isolation and their so-called jihad against infidels has become increasingly difficult for themselves first, consequently they are irritated and cornered. Around the world mortified Muslims, unable to relate to the rest of the world are trying desperately to reform Islam’s image and deny the undeniable by patching. One hand they insist that Islam is a religion of peace;
on the other hand, hell-bent on conquering the world by force in the charade of Islam.
Muslims’ outlook about human life is absolutely pessimistic, describing it as meaningless, even laughing and giggling is objectionable and prohibited in their doctrine as being improper and that God do not like to laugh or chortle; with believe that Muslim’s life on this planet not created for happiness, everlasting happiness and pleasures will be only after dying in the paradise. Their rejection of life is not simply result of coincidence, since they do not feel any worth of life, then they must concurred death. This is the brief philosophy of behind so-called jihad. The result of this ideology emanate in the functioning of the Muslim’s individual personality, family life, society and in broad spectrum in the whole Muslim world, consisting 52 countries from Indonesia to the Morocco.
This ideology is by product of their Sharia books, you will find that the most excruciating and humiliating, atrocious corporal punishments, officially never approved in any civilized society on this planet, are highly appreciated in their dogma. Only a society and religion which promote and demands war and terror can promote such savageness. Muslims, dictated by Sharia, are deceived by such pretensions, hypocrisy and double life consequently they find it hard to be honest. Thereupon due to this dilemma entire Muslim world turned in dysfunctional society, and if any one point out their flaw or caviled on their mistake that treat Jews and others as human beings and not attribute them as enemies to conquer, they do not delay to label him “APOSTATE,” with death certificate.
My some ex-friends used to ask me: “They can understand that I am no more Muslim, but even being an apostate how can you support the Jews and the state of Israel?” Without consternation, I never take such questions seriously because I am very well aware Muslims’ mindset. Loving, accepting and feeling good about Jews is unthinkable and an act of treason to Islam itself. Muslims’ believe that Jews are the descendants of apes, pigs and they are enemy of the God forever, still use the same medieval dynamics. I have never heard from a single Muslim preacher to preach love for Jews and accept their human rights as Muslims’.
Any how, I am not concerned and bothered with Muslims’ believes, if they want to stay in schizophrenia in their envenomed lunatic asylums, be my guest! But my contention is that why they want to impose and foist such inferred life style on the Jews and rest of the world? Let them to live and enjoy their life right here on the earth which is also according the Quran as well.
Any one who has even basic understanding of Muslim’s faith and culture should aware their hostile rhetoric and tenets about Jews. Each Islamic country has separated multiple religious hierarchies, and none is intent or destined to acknowledge the leadership of any other. From medieval epoch to recent Mullahs, leading religious scholars, officials, Sheikhs all indulged in competition for just authority and power and not agree on any point on the name of Islam; even sighting of moon is a cause of contention in Muslims’ world. But I should praised and do applaud that at least they are united against the tiny state of Israel.
Despite vehement animosity among Shias and Sunnis, the two dominant factions of the Muslims, extremely vexatious relations, but their doctrine about the Israel is exactly the same; then I am not astonished when come to know about Iranian president Ahmadinejad’s repeated anti Israel views as he described, “Israel should wiped off the map,” that is the reason I am coerced to admit, Muslims are still not civilized.
The Arab Israel conflict is like a hot cake product in Muslim world as animosity is their religious duty against the Jews; I’ve experienced this trend personally. Being as a Muslim you are expected and qualified to hate and prejudice with the Jews and the state of Israel and if you are not then you are an apostate, atheist and heterodox. Moderate, liberal and free-thinking are the rear minorities in the Muslim world.
I support the right of the Jewish people to live in their own ancient homeland. And expect from every pious human being should favor of recognizing the right of Israel to exist. I feel that Israel is vital for the stability of this planet. I do praise and applaud the strength of the Jewish spirit that refused to surrender despite the thousand of years of barbaric treatment with them around the world. I am fully convinced that God created this earth and this world is incomplete without Jews and I would not hesitate to condemn to those who portray the Israelis as rapscallion, scoundrel or villains.
I not find any reason to condemn Israel, the only Middle Eastern state which surrendered by hostile Arab countries, with real democracy, regardless of religion or race extends equal rights to all her citizens. Muslims are also enjoying same rights in Israel as Jews; on the contrary non-Arab Muslims are ill treated, pariah and discriminated in any other Arab Muslim country including Saudi Arabia and oil rich Gulf States in the Middle East. Oil rich Muslim Gulf States of the Middle East are in fact police states, discrimination among human beings is their fundamental policy in every aspect of the society; openly racial bigotry, discreteness and injustice in jobs, medical services, government and private offices every where you will experience the same even in mosques. Arabs usually not feel comfortable and complacent to see a non Arab Muslim sitting in first row next to them for prayers.
Encroachment, transgression and discreteness are up to this extent that water and electric utility bills are different for different people in one country under one government. A continuum starts with minor transgressions and extended up to series criminal activities and violation of human rights in the all Muslim societies, and what a impudence that they really think and boosted, claimant that they are the only harbingers of human rights, manners and equality!
Despite the topsy-turvy situation of the Middle East, I strongly recommend and advise to the Israel and the Jews according to Psalm 122:6, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May they prosper who love you [the Holy City]” Israel should seek peace, harmony and restrained despite provocative situation and offer respect for Arab neighbors regardless of their stubborn and uncompromised attitude.
Being as a sincere and real Muslim I really feel shame how Muslims has treated the Jews. I can simply admonish to Muslims to seek redemption and take pleasure of forgiveness and extend their hands for reconciliation and peace towards all human being including the Jewish.
Dear reader, I have written all above after in-depth study of Muslims’ history, Holy Quran and my personal 26 years long experience in the Arab world and to be honest, according to my conscience. I wish I could spend rest of my life in Jerusalem!

God Bless on Israel, Amen!

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Nasir Ali, islamvs.blogspot.com, islamvsislam@hotmail.com

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Egypt activist advocates for better ties with Israel

See: The Jerusalem Post: Egypt activist advocates for better ties with Israel

Egyptian Dissident, Released from Prison, Begins Peacebuilding Mission to Israel Organized by UN Watch

TAHRIR SQUARE HERO MAIKEL NABIL WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON IN JANUARY AFTER MILLIONS JOINED 'FREE MAIKEL' TWITTER CAMPAIGN Read the full story at: UnWatch.org

See also: YouTube: 4th Geneva Summit: Maikel Nabil, Egypt

Saudi Man Answers Questions on Why He Loves Israel

By Tamar Yonah

One FB friend I made[...] is from Saudi Arabia and is now residing in some Western country. I asked if I could interview him on the radio:

-Why do you like Israel, even though you were raised from childhood to hate Israel?

"I know I was raised to hate jews and isreal as been tought all my life that jews are not normal people they like to kill and these are supported by fake videos of arabic media. but I started to to talk to jews over the internet just to see, and guess what?! they are normal people and lovely people they listen to me they respected me more than anybody else..."

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Why Muslims Must Hate Jews

By Nonie Darwish

Recently, a Pakistani religious leader, Pirzada Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai, said: "When the Jews are wiped out ... the sun of peace [will] begin to rise on the entire world." The same preaching is routinely done not only by clerics, but by politicians -- in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and elsewhere. This is not just Ahmedinijad; it is at the heart of Islamic theology that world peace will be established only when all the Jews are wiped from the earth.

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Poem by Iraqi poet Alaa Alsaegh

Cries From The Heart of the Holocaust (in Arabic):

British Muslims for Israel