Special Dispatch - Saudi Arabia/Antisemitism Documentation Project
November 22, 2005
No. 1030

Jordanian Professor/Terrorist on Saudi Al-Majd TV Says Kings David & Solomon
Were Muslims Who Today Would Have Fought Israel, Supports Leading Holocaust
Denier

On November 13, 2005, Saudi Al-Majd TV aired an interview with Jordanian
lecturer on religious law Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Nawfal. In the interview, Nawfal
discussed Armageddon and quoted Roger Garoudy. Sheikh Dr. Nawfal is a
lecturer at the Shari'a Faculty of the University of Jordan, and was
associated with Sheikh 'Abdallah 'Azzam, the spiritual leader of the
movement of Arab and Muslim volunteers for jihad in Afghanistan and the
spiritual mentor of Osama bin Laden.(1) Nawfal has acknowledged
collaborating with 'Azzam in launching jihad operations against Israel from
Jordanian territory. TO VIEW THIS CLIP GO TO:
http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=925 .

The following are excerpts from the interview:

Nawfal: "The Jews dug 40 meters into the ground, and found nothing. There is
no indication that a temple existed there. Brothers, they are making fun of
you. Unfortunately, we are unwittingly legitimizing this nonsense of theirs.
This is nonsense. This is heresy and blasphemy against God, history, human
beings, and common sense. We, unfortunately, are being swept along with the
tide. And then we write books that give them legitimacy. This is strange.

"Sir, if David and Solomon were to return to life, these [Zionist] criminals
would fight them and they would fight back. David and Solomon were among our
ranks. If Solomon had a temple, we would be worshipping Allah in it. We
would not be worshipping idols and polytheism in it, like they do.

[...]

"Armageddon is a word in English, and it has become a film of global
proportions. They have inflated it to the point that it has become an actual
belief. There are now dozens of millions of pro-Zionist Americans who
believe that the temple should be founded on the ruins of Al-Aqsa, in order
to hasten the coming of the Messiah - as if Allah accelerates his timetable
on the basis of human deeds. Thus, they want to hasten the coming of the
Messiah by accelerating the destruction of Al-Aqsa and the building of the
temple on its ruins."

Television host: "How many people in the West are motivated by this belief?"

Nawfal: "Hundreds of millions."

Television host: "Hundreds of millions."

Nawfal: "Worse still, [they include] decision-makers. Reagan is one of those
who believe in this, and now Bush has passed Reagan by light years in his
belief in this. His campaign against us is not a transient, political issue.
This issue is stuck in his head. It is their faith. Many pro-Zionist
Christians are more extreme than Sharon, much more extreme.

[...]

"They believe that the decisive global war will take place on the Megiddo
Plain. The film gave it all different dimensions - different metaphors and
symbols... They are too sophisticated to say it straightforwardly. No, they
hint at it. But ultimately, they have managed to plant in people's minds the
belief in Armageddon."

[...]

Nawfal: "Roger Garoudy said: 'If we take the number of gas chambers and the
maximal daily capacity of an oven, and multiply them by the period you
Zionists, claim the Holocaust lasted - even if we multiply the number of
ovens by the maximal [capacity], the figure is grossly exaggerated. The
number of those burned [sic] was 600,000. You added another zero, and turned
it into six million.'"

Endnote:
(1) See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 848, "Al Hayat Inquiry: The City of
Al-Zarqaa in Jordan - Breeding Ground of Jordan's Salafi Jihad Movement"
January 17, 2005,
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP84805 .

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