PMW Bulletin

Jan. 15, 2012

PA's highest religious authority, the Mufti, at Fatah event:

Muslims' destiny is to kill Jews

Resurrection will come
only after Jews are killed by Muslims

Moderator at Fatah event:
"Our war with the descendants
of the apes and pigs (i.e., Jews)
is a war of religion and faith"
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=6098

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@palwatch.org
f: +972 2 624 2803 w: www.palwatch.org

Last week, the principal Palestinian Authority religious leader, the Mufti
Muhammad Hussein, presented the killing of Jews by Muslims as a religious
Islamic goal. At an event celebrating the 47th anniversary of the founding
of Fatah, he cited the Hadith (Islamic tradition attributed to Muhammad)
saying that the Hour of Resurrection will not come until Muslims fight the
Jews and kill them:

"The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews.
The Jew will hide behind stones or trees.
Then the stones or trees will call:
'Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'"
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Palestinian Media Watch reported regularly during the PA terror campaign
(Intifada, 2000-2005) on the repeated use of this Hadith by PA clerics on
official PA TV to motivate Palestinians to terror attacks, preaching that
Muslims had an Islamic obligation to kill Jews. The fact that the Mufti
quotes this now indicates that this may have remained part of the PA's
religious establishment's teachings, even though it is less frequently
promoted on PA TV.

The last time official PA TV broadcast a sermon during which this Hadith
calling to kill Jews was quoted was in 2010.

The years of PA promotion of killing Jews and PA religious leaders' citing
this Hadith to justify it, may have contributed to the high acceptance of it
in PA society. A poll sponsored by the Israel Project last year found that
73% of Palestinians "believe" this Hadith. [July 2011, Greenberg Quinlan
Rosner.]

The moderator who introduced the Mufti at the Fatah event last week
reiterated another Islamic belief; that the Jews are the descendants of apes
and pigs:
"Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs (i.e., Jews) is a war of
religion and faith."

The Mufti did not distance himself from this hate statement that Islam is in
a religious war with the Jews, but added to it that Islam's goal is to kill
Jews.

There are numerous collections of Hadith, some of which are not accepted as
reliable. However, the Mufti stressed that the Islamic belief that Jews will
be killed by Muslims as a precursor to Resurrection, is an authentic Islamic
belief because it appears in "the reliable" and trusted Hadith collections
of Al-Bukhari and Muslim.

This Islamic tradition asserts that as the killing of Jews will progress,
Jews will hide behind stones and trees, but even they will expose the Jews
and call out: "Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come
and kill him." One tree however, called the Gharqad, will hide the Jews from
the Muslims. The Mufti in his talk at the Fatah event claimed that in
response to this Islamic belief, Israelis have been planting Gharqad trees
around their cities and towns, in order to have a place to hide from the
Muslims who will be coming to kill them.

This is not the first time the Mufti has incited to hatred against Jews in
the name of Islam. In a sermon at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 2010, he preached
that the Jews are the "enemies of Allah."

The Mufti is appointed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. He voiced this latest
hate speech, that Jews are to be killed by Muslims, at an official Fatah
celebration. Abbas is also the Chairman of Fatah.

The following is an excerpt from the Fatah ceremony broadcast on PA TV:

Moderator at Fatah ceremony:

"Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs (i.e., Jews)
is a war of religion and faith.
Long Live Fatah! [I invite you,] our honorable Sheikh."

PA Mufti Muhammad Hussein comes to the podium and says:

"47 years ago the [Fatah] revolution started. Which revolution? The modern
revolution of the Palestinian people's history. In fact, Palestine in its
entirety is a revolution, since [Caliph] Umar came [to conquer Jerusalem,
637 CE], and continuing today, and until the End of Days. The reliable
Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), [found] in the two reliable
collections, Bukhari and Muslim, says:

"The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews.
The Jew will hide behind stones or trees.
Then the stones or trees will call:
'Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'
Except the Gharqad tree [which will keep silent]."
Therefore it is no wonder that you see Gharqad [trees]
surrounding the [Israeli] settlements and colonies.."
[PA TV (Fatah), Jan. 9, 2012]