Allah Is a Zionist

The Quranic argument for Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel

By Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi

Over the past 15 years, the political conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs has been reframed as a religious war in which leaders from Yasser Arafat to Hassan Nasrallah to Osama bin Laden have appealed to the authority of the Quran to support their goal of eliminating the State of Israel. The authority of the Quran has also been cited in support of a revisionist history that seeks to deny the historical connection of the Jewish people to the city of Jerusalem and to its holiest sites, including the Temple Mount. Ignorant of what the Quran actually says about Jerusalem, Western reporters have recently tended to ignore archeological and historical evidence and give equal weight to the supposedly competing religious narratives of Jews and Muslims: Jews are said to believe that there was a Jewish temple in Jerusalem, while the Quran states that the historical and religious claims of the Jews are false.

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Hudhayfah Ibn al-Yaman asked the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him:

‘I travelled more than once to Jerusalem, but saw no Temple standing there. What is the reason?’

The Prophet Muhammad replied:

‘Verily Solomon son of David raised Bayt al-Maqdis [i.e., Beth ha-Mikdash, the First Temple] with gold and silver, with rubies and emeralds, and Allah caused human beings and spirits to work under his command, until the raising of the House was completed. Afterwards a Babylonian King destroyed Bayt al-Maqdis and brought its treasures to the land of Babylonia, until a King of Persia defeated him and ransomed the Children of Israel. They rebuilt Bayt al-Maqdis for the second time [the Second Temple], until it was destroyed for the second time by an army led by a Roman Emperor.’

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Muhammed tried to convince people of the truth of his stories. But the Temple was missing. Muhammed had told people about the Temple in Jerusalem.

That's why the above question was put to him. People doubted his tales.

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History is written by the victors. And proto-history is written by those seeking history to rally their followers.

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History is written by the victors. And proto-history is written by those seeking history to rally their followers.

History was written by the victors. These days history gets written by the losers.

If you whine enough and blame the Jews, people will believe your version of history. That's how Jerusalem, the most Jewish of all cities, became "Arab". If they can make Jerusalem Arab they can make white black.

The reason Islamic fundamentalists so rarely quote the actual Qur'an is because it doesn't agree with them. And the western media help them.

Terrorists teach that Islam is violent. Western liberals accept Islam as violent and demand that everyone respect the "other culture". Islamophobes believe both the terrorists and the liberals and then paint Islam as a violent religion that must be opposed.

This ultimately hurts Muslims most, because they are the only ones who cannot win.

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History was written by the victors. These days history gets written by the losers.

Note I said Proto History. Just as Hitler and Stalin rewrote history to accomplish a goal, so are the liberals (and Arabs) today. But I do not believe their revisionism will make it past the current events stage. They are trading 15 minutes of fame for immortality.

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But I do not believe their revisionism will make it past the current events stage. They are trading 15 minutes of fame for immortality.

There is much history we don't know because such people have succeeded in the past.

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