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Muslims believe that destroying the Jewish Holy Temple Mount promotes and expedites the Islamic goal to ethnically cleanse Jews from the Middle East. By invalidating claims to the historic Jewish presence of the Holy Jewish Temple Mount and by destroying any trace or any artifacts of the Jewish Holy Temple Mount, Muslims can declare supremacy over Judaism. We hear that desire all the time. We consistently hear Muslims invoke, demand, command, preach and pray that Israel “should not exist”, “will not exist”, “never existed”, “does not exist”, “can’t exist”.

Let’s say Israel doesn’t exist in an imaginary scenario. Israel is not here, there are no Jews, the legitimate and sovereign nation of Israel is gone. Let’s explore what this imaginary non-existent Israel provides to Islam’s baseline of thought: what does Israel – this piece of land and its Jewish inhabitants therein – represent to Muslims that Muslims simply cannot tolerate? We have all heard the propaganda that Israel is a virus, Israel is a cancer, etc, but we have not heard what the actual threat is that Israel represents to Muslims.

A cause to rule out is Jews offend Muslims while proselytizing to them – but Jews don’t do that. They don’t ask others to convert to Judaism. Besides, if a Muslim’s faith in his god is anchored, there should be no logical basis to feel threatened, so if Israel does exist, then the existence of Judaism would not be a threat because Muslims would be secure in faith in Allah, so there would be no impetus to destroy Judaism. So, clearly the source of Muslim Israelphobia is not faith based.

Maybe the source of Muslim Israelphobia is racism. But since Jews come in every color and race, we have to reject attempts to legitimize racial causes for Muslims to eliminate Jews because of race. Besides, racism refers only to racial issues, not to views on culture, religion, or ideology.

So maybe the reason why Muslims want to eliminate Israel is because it is a territory. Let’s imagine, then that in this imaginary scenario of a Middle East without an Israel, Muslims would have more territory and therefore, Muslims would occupy what once was Israel. Perhaps this is all about land. Perhaps Muslim Israelphobia is just a case for a land grab. In political economics, lots of land is a good thing. The more land owned by Muslims allows for the spread of more Muslim supremacy. But is any of this true according to the Koran?

According to the Koran, no person, people or religious community can claim a permanent right of possession over a certain territory, since the earth belongs exclusively to God, Who is free to entrust sovereign right to everyone He likes and for as long as He likes:

Say: O God, King of the kingdom, Thou givest the kingdom to whom Thou pleasest, and Thou strippest off the kingdom from whom Thou pleasest. Thou endurest with honor whom Thou pleasest, and Thou bringest low whom Thou pleasest. All the best is in Thy hand. Verily, Thou hast power over all things. (Koran, Sura 3:26, “The Imrans”)

From this verse one can filter a basic principle of the monotheistic philosophy of Judaism and Christianity, both which preceded Islam: God can control relationships between people and countries. Sometimes God gives a land to a people, and sometime He takes land back and gives it to another people.

Maybe Muslims hate Jews simply because Muslims politically identify with others who look, act and behave like Muslims. It’s hard to ignore the parts of the Koran which asks Muslims to kill or abduct all those who refuse to become members of their belief. This is the precise and official text given by Mohammed:

“So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” (Koran, surat IX, 5)

But then it’s just too difficult to ignore the racism one finds in the Koran. Islam officially encourages racism and discrimination which is contrary to Human Rights and democratic laws:

“O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” (Koran, surat V, 51)

As Shaykh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi writes,

“The idea of Islam as a factor that prevents Arabs from recognizing any sovereign right of Jews over Palestine is quite recent and can by no means be found in Islamic classical sources. To see anti-Zionism as a direct consequence of Islam is a form of explicit misunderstanding which implies the transformation of Islam from a religion into a secularized ideology.”

So it does come down to ideology. Palazzi says the most common argument against Islamic acknowledgement of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem is that, since al-Quds is a holy place for Muslims, they cannot accept it being ruled by non-Muslims, because such acceptance would be a betrayal of Islam.

Yet, Muslims seek to convey to non-Muslims that Islam is a tolerant religion.

So how does one explain this intolerance when the Muslim Hamas terror organization is planning a radio broadcast Wednesday from the Temple Mount – Judaism’s holiest site –while the Israeli government has completely banned Jews and Christians from ascending the Mount that same day for fear of offending Muslims?

Wednesday marks the Muslim holiday of Ein ul-Adhaa, which commemorates the Islamic belief of Abraham’s willingness to sacrificehis son Ishmael for Allah. The Torah says Abraham nearly sacrificedhis son Isaac, not Ishmael.

Wednesday is also the Jewish fast day of the Tenth of Tevet, which commemorates the start of the siege of Jerusalem leading up to the destruction of the First Jewish Temple during the reign of the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar. The fast also was proclaimed to mourn the First Temple’s destruction.

The Islamic Jihad terror organization exclusively broadcast daily Ramadan prayers from the Mount on their official station, the Al Quds Network. The radio network regularly features Iranian and anti-Semitic propaganda and death threats against Jews.

This is not tolerance. This is a crapstorm.

Professor Moshe Sharon writes:

“There is no Fundamental Islam. Fundamentalism is a word that came from the heart of the Christian religion. It means faith that goes by the word of the Bible. Fundamental Christianity, or going with the Bible, does not mean going around and killing people. There is no fundamental Islam. There is only Islam full stop. The question is how the Koran is interpreted.”

Muslim Israelphobia is clearly a matter of how the Koran is interpreted. The more one studies the Koran, the more clear the idea becomes that by removing Israel, the whole Middle East world would become a Muslim world, and moreso, that the whole world would be subdued under the rule of Islam.

But the most dificult content to digest regarding Muslim hatred of Israel is the way in which it is to be fulfilled. The Koran teaches Muslims to give their lives in exchange for assurances of paradise. Suicide bombings is one example. Suicide bombings are condoned by major authoritative Muslim voices whereas suicide bombings are absolutley unacceptable in Judaism and Christianity.

The accounts of Muhammad’s actions and personal statements (hadith) elaborate on the Koran, providing specific dictations regarding treaties, pay, booty, prisoners, tactics, and much else. During his years in power, Mohammed engaged in an average of nine military campaigns a year, or one every five to six weeks.

Conquering and humiliating non-Muslims was a main feature of the Mohammed and his jihad. We can say for sure that Islam is not at all like Judaism and Christianity. Evidently there is more than one reason why Muslims share such pronounced Israelphobia and no, the Koranic texts were not taken out of context. The Koranic quotes mentioned in this post were made in context. Perhaps the answer is best described here:

“Jerusalem is a symbol for every Muslim in the world. The claim of the Jews to the right over it is false, and we recognize nothing but an entirely Islamic Jerusalem under Islamic supervision…” — PA Mufti Ikrama Sabri, Al-Bilad, July 31, 1997

Although the Koran never mentions Jerusalem once, and regardless of the fact that the Torah mentions Jerusalem over 600 times, these will just be more documented facts relegated to the back alley of Muslim ignorance and blood libel, to be used as a religious rationale for Muslim imperialism, supremacy and Jewicide.

More Muslim hubris. Via JPost:

Hizbullah held its largest ever training exercise near southern Lebanon’s border with Israel in preparation for a response to any Israeli offensive, the Shi’ite group’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Kassem said Thursday. Sawat al-Balad quoted Kassem as saying that the exercise staged last week involved “enormous and important” maneuvers that were carried out so that the group “won’t be caught by surprise.”According to the leader, Hizbullah had acquired a weapons arsenal that was capable of reaching all parts of Israel.

“The exercise was unrestricted and was meant to cover all of the territory of the Zionist entity and not simply to strengthen our forces,” Kassem claimed.

The operatives were unarmed during the maneuver, Kassem claimed.

Kudos to NYC officials for denying the hideous misshapen puke, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who, with typical Muslim hubris, asked permission to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site when he comes to New York City next week.

Everyone knows that Ahmadinejad would only be mocking the Americans murdered by his Muslim brethren, and that his mocking act of laying a wreath would really be to honor the dead Muslims who perpetrated the greatest act of war on American soil since the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Even worse is the fact that Ahmadinejad is coming to NY to address the UN General Assembly, and worst of all, is the fact that Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, has invited Ahmadinejad to speak at Columbia. Both events are scheduled to take place on Monday, September 24, 2007.

Ironically, Lee Bollinger withdrew an invitation to Ahmadinejad in September 2006, after the dean of Columbia’s school of international and public affairs, Lisa Anderson, had invited Ahmadinejad to speak at the World Leader’s Forum, a year-long program that aims to unite “renowned intellectuals and cultural icons from many nations to examine global challenges and explore cultural perspectives.” Bollinger said he canceled Ahmadinejad’s invitation because he couldn’t be certain it would “reflect the academic values that are the hallmark of a University event such as our World Leaders Forum.”

Why Bollinger changed his mind a year later, can only be analyzed by his psychotherapist. To register your complaint, please call 212-854-9970, Lee Bollinger’s phone number and please leave a message.

We mustn’t forget Iran’s support of terrorism, including their enabling many of the 9/11 hijackers to pass through Iran while they were planning the 9/11 attacks. In addition, we mustn’t forget about the investment, by proxy, of billions of dollars being made by American retirement funds into Iran and how that money is being used to kill our troops in Iraq.

As Jason Mattera, of Young America’s Foundation says, since Ahmadinejad is so interested in America, he should study the Bill of Rights, especially Amendments 1 and 2. And may a bullet finds its way into Ahmadinejad’s frontal lobe post haste.

In the meantime, Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who is running for president, said in a statement:

Under no circumstances should the N.Y.P.D. or any other American authority assist President Ahmadinejad in visiting Ground Zero. This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring Bin Laden’s son and other al Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents and is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons. Assisting Ahmadinejad in touring Ground Zero – hallowed ground for all Americans – is outrageous.

Straight out of the snout of the Muslim enemy, from the website of Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades [the armed branch of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)] Information Office, September 13th, 2007. (www[dot]alqassam[dot]ps/english/?action=showsta&sid=602):

Military Communique

Aggression on Gaza will fall down Olmert.. the Zionist army would receive heavy losses

In Ramadan month; The month of victories and conquests, We send congratulations and greetings to the Mujahideen and to the Palestinian resistance men.

The Zionist enemy is used to prepare more crimes and aggression in the month of mercy. The criminal Olmert , his government and his weak and the defeated army are preparing to execute wide invasions in the Gaza Strip.

We are witnessing this gather on the borders of the Zionist sector and the
willingness of the aggression during the large conspiracy, internal, external and Arab silence.

We are in Al-Qassam Brigades prepared a defense plan on Gaza Strip. Olmert must getting ready to face a “Vinograd II” committee, after leaving the Gaza Strip.

This aggression will open the door for new options which have not calculated by the Zionist entity. We completed our preparations to face the Zionist enemy.

In light of the Zionist aggression on our people, we declare a state of full alert in Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades for launching the defense plan from the Gaza Strip with the first step the Zionist enemy executed the aggression.

We assure to our people that we are going to teach the Zionist occupation a harsh lesson. We will not stand idle during the aggression on our land and our people. The Zionist occupation will pay expensive price and are ready to sacrifice with our lives for our nation and our just case ..

Our prisoners, who wait for the exchange deal with the Zionist soldier “Gilead Shalit” to be completed. We promise you that if the Zionist enemy tried to enter Gaza strip, we are promising that there will be new friends for “Shalit”. We are greeting the prisoners in this month.

Our message to the Arab and Islamic nation … We speak to you from the heart of the unjust embargo against the Gaza Strip, which planned and carried out by the involvement of international , regional and internal sides. It is an open war; all methods used during this wars weapons, materiel, the fifth column, siege and starvation and attempting to topple the legitimacy.

We are assuring here that the embargo is going to be ended by the Islamic project and the resistance. We call upon the Arab and Islamic people to stand by the Islamic resistance project. The Gaza Strip, which has witnessed battles with the Zionist occupation , is worth to be supported.

In conclusion … we promise our people and our nation to remain loyal to the martyrs, prisoners and injured; and will crush the dreams of the Zionist enemy to raid Gaza Strip.

From Why Are We So Scared of Offending Muslims?:

As one who has occasionally challenged Islamic propaganda in public and been told that I have thereby “insulted 1.5 billion Muslims,” I can say what I suspect – which is that there is an unmistakable note of menace behind that claim. No, I do not think for a moment that Mohammed took a “night journey” to Jerusalem on a winged horse. And I do not care if 10 billion people intone the contrary. Nor should I have to. But the plain fact is that the believable threat of violence undergirds the Muslim demand for “respect.” Islamists are the current leaders in the global book-burning competition. After the rumor of a Koran down the toilet in Guantanamo was irresponsibly spread, a mob in Afghanistan burned down an ancient library that (as President Hamid Karzai pointed out dryly) contained several ancient copies of the same book. The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant, or neutral, without inviting their own suicide. And the advocates and apologists of bigotry and censorship and suicide-assassination cannot be permitted to take shelter any longer under the umbrella of a pluralism that they openly seek to destroy.

More Muslim hubris, threats, rhetoric, war terminology, and arrogance. From MEMRI’s Islamist Websites Monitor Project No. 100:

In the past 48 hours, the ISI has posted two communiqués on the Islamist websites claiming responsibility for the kidnapping of the U.S. soldiers in Al-Mahmudiyya on Saturday, May 12, 2007 and warning the U.S. not to search for them because doing so would endanger them.

The first message, posted May 13, 2007, states that the soldiers were captured in the course of “clashes between the mujahideen and a Crusader patrol in Al-Mahmudiyya.” The second message, posted May 14, 2007 and titled “The War Scale Tips Once Toward You and Once Toward Us,” mocks the official U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, saying that he “looked pale and could hardly speak… after the ISI captured the U.S. soldiers in Iraq” – in contrast with his demeanor on the day he announced the killing of the ISI’s official spokesmen, Al-Jaburi, when he “bragged that they succeeded in killing our sheikh.”

“Today,” the message continues, “you have experienced a calamity. Your false propaganda presented the American soldier as undefeatable, as a soldier who can never be captured, but with Allah’s grace the American soldier has been humiliated by the monotheists of the ISI.” The message ends with a threat: “If you are concerned for the safety of your soldiers, do not search for them.”

From Hamas Member Reveals Details of Attacks:

Bluntly titled “The Engineers of Death,” an 80-page booklet by Hamas militant Mohammed Irman offers a remarkable window into the evolution of Hamas strategy as the group tried to demoralize Israel, derail regional peace talks, and establish itself as the dominant Palestinian political movement. The glossy red booklet with gruesome images of suicide bombings on the cover is being sold for $2 on the streets of Ramallah. On July 31, 2002, Irman’s group set off a bomb in Hebrew University’s Frank Sinatra cafeteria, killing nine people, including five Americans. The group had tried to bomb the cafeteria three days earlier, but the cell phone failed to set off the bomb and the cell member who had sneaked the bomb into the student center brought it back to be repaired.

From Israel National News:

The Sheikh Raad Salah, the head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, has been working hard to ensure that thousands of Muslims will arrive in Jerusalem’s Old City every day to pray in the Al-Aksa mosque, located on the Temple Mount. Salah has been talking with [Muslim] Arab clan leaders from Jerusalem and its environs in an effort to convince them to take turns bringing their entire extended families to the mosque.

Salah also said that he plans to see to it that Jerusalem mosques are closed on Friday, the Muslim day of rest, in order to force all those who wish to take part in group prayers to travel to the Al-Aksa mosque. He has talked to Muslim leaders in other parts of Israel, asking them to tell their followers to visit the Jerusalem mosque in order to demonstrate a strong Muslim presence there. Such a presence, Salah is telling local Muslims, Salah also said that he plans to see to it that Jerusalem mosques are closed on Friday is the best defense against “Israeli aggression.”

Giving guardianship of the Temple Mount to the Muslims is the stupidest thing Moshe Dayan ever did.

More quotes from followers of Islam, the religion of death, that the western liberal media tries to bury. From Jpost:

Sheik Ahmad Bahr, acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, declared during a Friday sermon at a Sudan mosque that America and Israel will be annihilated and called upon Allah to kill Jews and Americans “to the very Last One.” Following are excerpts from the sermon that took place last month, courtesy of MEMRI.

Ahmad Bahr began: “‘You will be victorious’ on the face of this planet. You are the masters of the world on the face of this planet. Yes, [the Koran says that] ‘you will be victorious,’ but only ‘if you are believers.’ Allah willing, ‘you will be victorious,’ while America and Israel will be annihilated. I guarantee you that the power of belief and faith is greater than the power of America and Israel. They are cowards who are eager for life, while we are eager for death for the sake of Allah. That is why America’s nose was rubbed in the mud in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, and everywhere.”

Bahr continued and said that America will be annihilated, while Islam will remain. The Muslims “‘will be victorious, if you are believers.’ Oh Muslims, I guarantee you that the power of Allah is greater than America, by whom many are blinded today. Some people are blinded by the power of America. We say to them that with the might of Allah, with the might of His Messenger, and with the power of Allah, we are stronger than America and Israel.”

The Hamas spokesperson concluded with a prayer, saying: “Oh Allah, vanquish the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them all, down to the very last one. Oh Allah, show them a day of darkness. Oh Allah, who sent down His Book, the mover of the clouds, who defeated the enemies of the Prophet, defeat the Jews and the Americans, and bring us victory over them.”

Via IsraelNationalNews:

An Arab mob of several thousand – including young men on horseback and others waving PLO flags – surrounded and threatened about 150 Jews from Haifa who to a public forest to celebrate Israeli Independence Day. A Jewish young man was lightly injured in the ensuing clash.

On Tuesday afternoon, shortly after the group of Haifa families made their way to the Megiddo Forest, in the north of the country, a group of Arab youths on horseback accosted the Jewish celebrants, jeered and threatened them. As the young Arab men continued their menacing behavior, they called more Arab youths to join them. Some of the new arrivals were waving flags of the PLO terrorist organization.

At this stage of the incident, a few of the Jewish young men, with Israeli flags in hand, charged the gathering Arab mob. Within moments, a fight broke out, during which one of the Jewish youths suffered a light injury to the face. The Arabs, still threatening the Jewish families, called for more of their comrades to join them.

Within forty minutes of the start of the incident, 6,000 Arabs waving PLO flags and making menacing threats had gathered around the group of Jews in Megiddo Forest. It was only at this point that a border guard patrol jeep showed up on the scene, with just six soldiers.

It appears the Jewish celebrants had unknowingly chosen to hold their Independence Day picnic near the site of the central event held by Israeli Arabs to mark ‘Nakba Day’ – ‘the day of the catastrophe’ – as they call Israel’s independence. Several thousand Arabs had come to attend the event, and heard speeches from several Arab Knesset Members, bemoaning Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. Interestingly, the Arab leadership appears to be marking its ‘alternative’ day based on the Jewish calendar.

In response to an Arutz-7 query, the regional police department said that they were aware of the incident; however, “both sides promised they would press charges with the police, but neither side did. Therefore, the matter was not handled [by the police].” In August of 1999, Megiddo Forest, a planned fir forest located adjacent to Kibbutz Megiddo and the Arab-Israeli city of Umm El-Fahm, was the scene of a terrorist ambush and double murder. Two young hikers from Haifa, Yechiel Finfeter and Sharon Steinmetz, were murdered there by an Israeli Arab carrying out what was called “a nationalistic crime of opportunity.

Folks, actually this is understandable. If the Jews were manifesting any enjoyment, it would have been an unacceptable threat to the darkness and ignorance that Muslims thrive on.

See, the last thing Muslims can tolerate is a population of Jewish people who enjoy life. Introduce any kind of positive view on life into the Muslim population and the Islamist dies.

To the Islamist, killing a Jew is just a matter of self preservation.