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.
Russian version
An introduction to MAOF
Haim Goldman
Haim Goldman
Dear Friends,
Would you believe that the undersigned has anything in common with
-- Professor Victor Davis Hanson (Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University),
-- Dr Charles Krauthammer, (Washington Post, Time, The Weekly Standard),
-- Caroline Glick (Deputy Managing Editor of the Jerusalem Post),
-- Jonathan Tobin (Executive Editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent).
Amazingly, the editors of the MAOF website decided that the missives of the undersigned are worthy of translation and posting along the articles written by these distinguished authors.
The first letter was published without the consent of the undersigned.
However, after thorough examination of the laudable attitude of MAOF and of the excellent contents of the website, the undersigned had most graciously granted his permission for publication of his missives in both English and Russian.
“Analytical Group MAOF” [1] is an organisation founded about ten years ago by Russian-speaking Jewish intellectuals. The attitude of MAOF is definitely pro-Zionist -- unambiguously and unapologetically.
One of MAOF’s primary purposes is providing information and analysis about Middle-Eastern and world affairs as well as about Israel’s history, values and dilemmas. In addition to extensive publication activity in various media, MAOF also organises excursions and seminars. While the vast majority of the contents of the MAOF website is in Russian, texts originally written in English are provided in the original [2] as well as in Russian.
There are arguably about 250 millions of Russian-speakers worldwide and many of them do not read English. The indisputable motivation for the author’s permission was to grant those millions of disadvantaged people the grand benefit of reading the author’s ruminations. If the author is ever maliciously accused that his tacit motivation for authorising the publication was his craving to be listed along with the above-mentioned distinguished writers, his plea will definitely be “nolo contendere”.
The editors of MAOF expressed their gratitude by granting the undersigned a privilege that no other author got – the opportunity to review and correct the Russian translation before publication. The original letters of the undersigned are at [3] and their Russian version is at [4]. At of today, only two letters are posted but several other letters are pending translation.
You are kindly ENCOURAGED TO RECOMMEND the MAOF website to your friends and colleagues worldwide, particularly those who speak Russian. Those who do not enjoy the benefit of proficiency in the exquisite Russian language can find many thought-provoking and inspiring articles about Middle-Eastern and world affairs in the English section [2].
Sincerely,
Haim Goldman
28.10.2006
REFERENCES:
[1] http://maof.rjews.net
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[3] authorg.php3? id=2107&type=a
[4] authorg.php3? id=2166&type=a