PA Sermon: No one can deny right of return
[FBIS (US Government service) Translated Excerpt]
[With thanks to www.mideastweb.org/mewnews1.htm ]

Ramallah Voice of Palestine, official radio station of the Palestinian
Authority, carries at 0935 GMT 5 December 2003 a live sermon from Al-Aqsa
Mosque in Jerusalem.

Shaykh Isma'il Nawahidah delivers the sermon, which he devotes to the
lesson of patience in times of affliction, as experienced by the prophets.

In the second sermon, the imam says: "Here is the land of the night
journey and ascension to the heavens headed by Holy Jerusalem and the
blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque still witnessing sorrowful incidents represented by
plundering, pillaging, shedding of innocent blood, deportation of people,
and siege of towns and villages. It has also become a field for rivalry
about the negotiation on its territory. They are thus throwing all religions
constants and historical rights overboard." He adds: "Until recently, that
is until the demise of the Islamic Caliphate, no one dared speak about
conceding a single inch of its territory. Why? Because everyone knew that
this land is a religious endowment under a heavenly decision."

The imam continues: "O steadfast, no one can deprive a single person
who was raised on this land of the right to return to it. No one also can
ignore the right of more than one billion Muslims to this blessed land, Holy
Jerusalem, and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first of the two qiblas and
third holiest mosque."

The imam concludes with a prayer to God to support Islam and Muslims
and elevate the word of justice and religion. He also prays to God to
protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from every evil.