The Role of Radical Islamic Groups In Israel--Implications for co-existence??

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ^ | March 24, 2009 | mordechai kedar

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* The Islamic view is that Islam came to the world to replace Judaism and Christianity, and all of a sudden a religious Christian president occupies Iraq, the beating heart of Arab history. So when Bush left office, this was viewed as a victory for Allah over the modern Crusaders. * The core question is to whom does this country belong? According to Arab narrative, this has been an Arab Islamic state since the days of Omar, the caliph who conquered the country in the seventh century. According to Islamic tradition, he declared that the country between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River is waqf land, meaning it belongs forever to Muslims all over the world, and no one else could ever have it. * According to Islam, land can only go one way, to become Islamic, and it can never go the other way, just like Spain, Sicily, and parts of the Balkans, which at different stages of history were lands of Islam. * At the same time, Jews feel that this country belongs to them. From the Jewish perspective, this country was populated by Jews and two Jewish kingdoms were here until 1900 years ago. Jews were expelled with no justification and came back to our country. This is what gives justification to the Jews having our state here and not in Uganda etc. It even appears in the Koran that Israel had been given to the Jews. * In 2006 a document approved by the Committee of Arab Local Authorities in Israel - entitled: "The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel and their Relations with the State" - opened with the statement: "Israel is the outcome of a colonialist action which was initiated by the Jewish-Zionist elites in Europe and in the West."

[Le Chien Rouge]

co-existence:to Islam

1) step toward eradication of other religions
2) sign of weakness
3) supression
4) conversion or death

[Rappini]

Good read thanks.