Jerusalem Newswire - Dec 27, 2004
 
 
 

JERUSALEM - Without committing mass murder against the Jews, the Muslims will never see their “day of resurrection,” a respected Islamic academic taught on official Palestinian Authority television this week.

The message of Dr. Hassan Khater, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia, was replayed on PA TV Monday after originally being broadcast on July 13, 2003.

In the televised lecture, Khater explains that according to Islamic myth, “the Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you fight the Jews.”

Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch says Khater’s repeat performance is part of the PA’s attempt to tone down “religious incitement.”

“World attention has brought pressure on the PA to change the content of the [televised] Friday sermons, in which religious leaders have repeatedly called for the genocide of Jews,” Marcus wrote Monday.

But “the PA has not eliminated the message,” Marcus points out. It “has merely transferred it to another framework.”

“For years, the PA religious establishment has repeatedly portrayed the killing of Jews as a religious necessity. Today, PA TV chose to rebroadcast this same call to genocide as a historical necessity -- this time from a senior PA academic rather than from a religious leader.”

In his report, Marcus recalls a religious sermon similar in content to Khater’s lecture that was broadcast on September 10, 2004.

Bellowing before his congregants and all Palestinian Arabs tuning in to PA TV, Sheikh Ibrahim Madiras had the following words of encouragement:

“The Resurrection will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them. The Muslims will kill the Jews, rejoice [in it], rejoice in Allah's victory.”

Madiras then quotes a well known verse from the Hadith, which tells of how the “Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say:oh servant of Allah, oh Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!”

“There are none who love the Jews on the face of the earth: not man, not rock, and not tree everything hates them. … Everything wants vengeance on the Jews, on these pigs on the face of the earth, and the day of our victory, Allah willing, will come,” the sheikh continues.

Marcus notes, “The continued teaching that this Hadith applies today could well be a dominant factor driving terror against Israeli civilians.”

“By depicting redemption as dependent on Muslims' killing of Jews, the PA world view presents this genocide as a religious obligation and historical necessity -- not related to the conflict over borders, but as something inherent to Allah's world,” writes Marcus.
 
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