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Monday, March 30, 2015
PMW: Muslims have religious obligation to "liberate Palestine",

PMW Bulletin
March 30, 2015

PA Mufti, the PA's top religious leader: Muslims have religious obligation
to "liberate Palestine"
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=14392

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

The Mufti of the Palestinian Authority Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, appointed in
2006 by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to the position of most senior religious
leader in the PA, told a conference of "Muslim scholars and delegations from
over 46 countries" that Israel must be destroyed in the name of Islam:

"The land of Palestine is waqf (i.e., inalienable religious endowment in
Islamic law). It must not be relinquished nor must any part of it be sold...
It is the duty of the leaders of the [Islamic] nation and its peoples to
liberate Palestine and Jerusalem."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 23, 2015]

This statement - that according to Islamic law "Palestine is waqf... and
must not be relinquished," but should be "liberated" - imposes prohibitions
and obligations on all Muslims. First, according to the PA religious leader,
all Muslims are prohibited from recognizing Israel's existence or signing a
genuine and permanent peace treaty with Israel that "relinquishes any part"
of "Palestine," meaning all of Israel. Second, he told the world's Muslim
delegations that they and all Muslims have a religious obligation to
"liberate Palestine" - meaning to destroy Israel.

Palestinian Media Watch recently reported that a similar statement was made
by Mahmoud Abbas' Advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs Mahmoud
Al-Habbash, the second most important religious leader in the PA:

"The entire land of Palestine (i.e., includes all of Israel) is waqf (i.e.,
an inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law) and is blessed land... It
is prohibited to sell, bestow ownership or facilitate the occupation of even
a millimeter of it."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 22, 2014]

The PA is increasingly adopting Hamas' ideology prohibiting recognition of
Israel and demanding its destruction, not only in the name of Palestinian
nationalism, but in the name of Islam. The language used by both the Mufti
and Abbas' advisor is almost identical to the language in Hamas' charter:

"The Islamic Resistance Movement [Hamas] believes that the land of Palestine
is an Islamic waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment
Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it,
should not be given up."

[Hamas Charter, Article Eleven]

Abbas' advisor Al-Habbash recently stated explicitly that "Palestine's"
destiny is to replace all of Israel through a combination of diplomacy and
violence:

"All of this land will return to us, all our occupied land, all our rights
in Palestine - our state, our people's heritage, our ancestors' legacy - all
of it will return to us even if it takes time. Patience is the key to
victory, and we are patient. In terms of resistance, all options are on the
table, and in terms of diplomacy as well."

[Official PA TV, Dec. 12, 2014]

Other PA religious officials are following these two leaders and increasing
Islam-based hate speech and Antisemitism. Imad Hamato, the host of a PA TV
program teaching Islam and a professor of Quranic Studies, taught in
February that Allah Himself determined that Jews are causing "corruption" in
the land, and that humanity therefore "will never live in comfort" because
of them:

"Humanity will never live in comfort as long as the Jews are causing
devastating corruption throughout the land... An old man told me: If a fish
in the sea fights with another fish, I am sure the Jews are behind it. As
Allah says: ''... They strive throughout the land [causing] corruption, and
Allah does not like corrupters'' (Sura 5:64)."

[Official PA TV, Feb. 27, 2015]

These represent only a few among many recent examples of the PA's adoption
of radical Islamist ideology as its world view. At a Fatah celebration in
January 2012, the Mufti cited an Islamic source that Muslims are destined to
exterminate all Jews, and that Fatah's battle today against the Jews of
Israel is part of that war of extermination:

"47 years ago the [Fatah] revolution started. Which revolution? The modern
revolution of the Palestinian people's history... The reliable Hadith
(tradition attributed to Muhammad), 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 surrounding the [Israeli]
settlements and colonies. This is Palestine, when we talk about it, from the
beginning of the Jihad, with the continuation of the Jihad, with the
struggle, and with the way of the Martyrs."

[Official PA TV, Jan. 9, 2012]

In spite of significant international condemnation following Palestinian
Media Watch's exposure of the Mufti's speech calling for genocide of Jews,
the Mufti refused to retract the statement and Mahmoud Abbas did not remove
him from office.

The following is a longer translation of the PA Mufti's ruling that Islamic
law prohibits making permanent peace with Israel:

"The State of Palestine participated in the discussions of the 22nd session
of the conference of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy of the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Kuwait. Palestine was
represented at the meeting by the Supreme Shari'ah Judge of Palestine and
President [Mahmoud Abbas'] Advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs Mahmoud
Al-Habbash, and the [PA] Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian
territories Sheikh Muhammad Hussein.

The meeting was held in the presence of Muslim scholars and delegations from
over 46 countries... The Academy will discuss several political, economic,
social and medical issues in the context of Islamic Shari'ah law... The [PA]
Mufti headed a meeting under the headline 'Jerusalem: its virtues and visits
to it' in which he stressed: 'The land of Palestine is waqf (inalienable
religious endowment in Islamic law). It must not be relinquished nor must
any part of it be sold... He clarified: 'It is the duty of the leaders of
the [Islamic] nation and its peoples to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem, to
prevent the Judaization in it, to support its residents and strengthen
them - everyone according to his ability and to the extent possible."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 23, 2015]

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