Posted on 02/23/2004 2:11:05 PM PST by yonif
Columnist Kamel Abd Al-Rauf wrote in the government-backed Egyptian weekly Akhbar Al-Youm that the Jews will ultimately be destroyed by the Muslims. The 1917 Balfour Declaration, which set the stage for Jewish political sovereignty in the Land of Israel, Al-Rauf explained, has facilitated this by concentrating millions of Jews in one area. At the same time, Al-Rauf called the Land of Israel "the Land of the Jews" and the "Promised Land". Confused?
In his article, Al-Rauf referred to the chapter of the Koran called "Al-Israa", which details much of the story of the Jews and their exodus from Egypt at the time of the Pharaohs.
Specifically, Al-Rauf quoted verses 4-5 of "Al-Israa": "And We had made known to the children of Israel in the Book: Most certainly you will make mischief in the land twice, and most certainly you will behave insolently with great insolence. So when the promise for the first of the two came, We sent over you Our servants, of mighty prowess, so they went to and fro among the houses, and it was a promise to be accomplished."
Al-Rauf then explained that "Book" in the above passage is the Torah and that "the land" is, he wrote, "the holy land wherein is Al-Aqsa mosque." i.e., Israel. The columnist continued, "There are those who say that the reference here is to Nebuchadnezzar and his soldiers, who surrounded parts of the land of the Jews, killed them and took to Babylon the remainder. There the children of Israel remained for many years, until their return to the Promised Land."
Parenthetically, the Akhbar Al-Youm columnist explains that modern-day "Israeli extremists are rubbing their hands in glee today over what is happening and what will happen in Iraq and Baghdad at the hands of the American invaders." Those Israelis, Al-Rauf wrote, "think the destruction... is nothing but revenge for the years of Babylonian exile that their forefathers went through, during which they suffered many terrible sufferings...."
The article then continued the quotations from the Koran, from verse 7 of "Al-Israa": "If you do good, you will do good for your own souls, and if you do evil, it shall be for them. So when the second promise came (We raised another people) that they may bring you to grief and that they may enter the mosque [the Temple] as they entered it the first time, and that they might destroy whatever they gained ascendancy over with utter destruction."
Skipping verse 6 ("then did We grant you the Return...."), Al-Rauf portrayed the above verse (v. 7) as a prescription for a future "entry into the Al-Aqsa mosque - while it is under Jewish control..." Such a conquest, he wrote, "will be to purify the mosque of their [the Jews'] impurity."
"The Jews chose Palestine as their national home. This idea - which the Balfour Declaration called for - does not hurt the Muslims in any way, as it may appear; rather it serves Islam by bringing Muslims back to their faith. It makes it easier for us to besiege the Israelis and to follow their steps in preparation for the destruction of their evil, as they are gathered together inside Israel."
As support for his position, Al-Rauf quoted a passage from the end of "Al-Israa", verse 104: "And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel, 'Dwell securely in the land (of promise)': but when the second of the warnings came to pass, We gathered you together in a mingled crowd."
Rather than seemingly confirming Bible-based Zionism, the foregoing verse, the columnist explained, "is good news for us Muslims; that the ball is back in our court and that Islam and the Muslims will ultimately win, but all on condition that we return to the faith."
[Article translation provided by MEMRI - the Middle East Media Research Institute; Koranic translations from http://www.usc.edu.]
Rather than seemingly confirming Bible-based Zionism, the foregoing verse, the columnist explained, "is good news for us Muslims; that the ball is back in our court and that Islam and the Muslims will ultimately win, but all on condition that we return to the faith."
I often see critisizm of Jews being the heads of Banks, Corporations, and hold vast seats of world-wide power.
On the other hand, I see Muslims embrassing death, cheering the destruction in NY and the Pentagon, blowing up innocent people gathering for a religious holiday, etc.
I'm not sure, but the last time I checked, Alan Greenspan was not trying to kill me, but rather some guy named Mohommed.
EVER!
Not the same Egyptians at all. These are decendants of Arabs who conquered Egypt from the Christian Romans in the 700s.
Well, now there's a major Muslim train wreck in the making!
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