http://www.memri.org/news.html#1001445554
I have, in the past, been a strong supporter of a peaceful settlement to the
issue of Palestine. Here are some excerpts from the link above:
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As it does every week, Palestinian Authority Television broadcast the Friday
sermon at the Sheikh 'Ijlin mosque in Gaza. This week, the preacher was
Sheikh Ibrahim Madhi, who also lectures on water and ecology at Al-Aqsa
University in Gaza. Following are excerpts from the sermon, which was
interrupted in the middle due to technical problems.
"Oh beloved of Allah, who are the Jews? Regarding their belief about Allah:
The Jews have said that the hand of Allah is fettered in chains; [but] it is
their hand that is fettered in chains, and they are cursed for their
words... According to the Jews' belief, as it is written in some of their
holy books, such as the Talmud, Allah divides his time into three parts. One
third of the time he weeps. Why? Because his [chosen] people are dispersed
in all directions. Another third he spends playing with the whales, and the
final third he spends doing nothing in particular. This is their perverted
belief about Allah..."
"Oh beloved of Allah... One of the Jews' evil deeds is what has come to be
called 'the Holocaust,' that is, the slaughter of the Jews by Nazism.
However, revisionist [historians] have proven that this crime, carried out
against some of the Jews, was planned by the Jews' leaders, and was part of
their policy... These are the Jews against whom we fight, oh beloved of
Allah."
"Our belief is that this war, between us and the Jews, will continue to
escalate until we vanquish the Jews and enter Jerusalem as conquerors, [and]
enter Jaffa as conquerors. We are not merely expecting a Palestinian state
with Jerusalem as its capital; we are heralding [the creation of] an Islamic
caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital..."
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I'm not exactly hopeful any more.
I have to shake my head at the utter fools that think hateful crap like that
is going to achieve anything good.
I don't think the idiot raving above is representative of *all*
Palestinians, but I do think that cretins like him (or Jerry Falwell and Pat
Robertson in the US) do nothing but sow seeds of discord. I don't think
censorship is the answer, but I'd be interested in seeing what messages are
being broadcast to counter Sheikh Madhi's diarrhea of the mouth.
Adam C. Lipscomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from
time to time with the blood of patriots."
- Thomas Jefferson, 1787
