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Booklet predicting end of US is Palestinian Authority best seller
Jerusalem Post ^ | 09-09-02 | KHALED ABU TOAMEH

Posted on 09/09/2002 5:36:54 PM PDT by scratchgolfer

Booklet predicting end of US is PA best seller By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

A booklet that anticipates the destruction of the US by 2004 has become a best seller in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip. The author of the 32-page publication is Salah Eddin Abu Arafeh, a young Muslim preacher from Jerusalem.

The booklet and a similar videotape prepared by the author have embarrassed the Palestinian Authority, which has ordered its security forces to prevent any form of celebration marking September 11.

Palestinians in Ramallah said yesterday there is a huge demand for the booklet and tape.

Palestinian journalists said they have been warned against reporting on such any expressions of joy. Some of them were told they would be arrested and put on trial if they defied the instructions. Last year, PA security forces confiscated tapes from cameramen who covered the celebrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip immediately after the September 11 attacks.

Abu Arafeh says his study was conducted following the attacks in Washington and New York. The booklet, which sells for only NIS 2, is entitled The Koran Anticipates the Destruction of the US and the Sinking of the American Army. Bin Laden is compared to Moses.

"Moses represents the right in the confrontation with the evil," the author states. "And in my view, it is Sheikh Osama bin Laden who is facing injustice today."

Abu Arafeh explains that he found many "striking similarities between the US administration and the corrupt Pharaoh who oppressed the believers and enslaved them."

He cites several verses from the Koran, which he claims back his theory. One of these is taken from the al-Qasas (The Narration) chapter, where God tells his believers:

"These are verses of the book that makes things clear. We rehearse to thee some of the story of Moses and the Pharaoh in truth for people who believe. Truly Pharaoh exalted himself in the land and divided its people into sections, depressing a group among them; their sons he slew, but he kept alive their females: For he was indeed an evil-doer or corrupter. And we wished to be gracious to those who were weakened in the land, to make them leaders and inheritors, to establish a firm place for them in the land and to show Pharaoh and his hosts what they were dreading from them."

Abu Arafeh says that by examining Pharaoh's description in these verses, one is shocked at the similarities between him and the US, especially after what the Americans did in Afghanistan. According to the booklet, which is being bought by worshipers at mosques in many Palestinian cities and villages, one of the definitions of Pharaoh is "big house." A further investigation by the author showed that Pharaoh's residence was built with white stone.

"We are now facing Pharaoh II," Abu Arafeh concludes. "We are facing Bush II, who is just like Ramses II."

He claims he was also astonished to discover that the picture of the pyramids is printed on US dollar bills. Moreover, the symbol of Egypt's pharaoh was the eagle, "which is the same symbol of the pharaoh of America and the White House. And anyone who visited Washington knows that the White House keeps a pharaoh obelisk in one of its gardens."

He cites another sura, or verse, which in his opinion provides further evidence that the US is about to be exterminated: "And we leveled to the ground the great work and fine buildings which Pharaoh and his people erected [such pride]."

Abu Arafeh says he reached this conclusion based on the thorough analysis of the Koran and that he will publish the details later.

One of the chapters in the booklet is dedicated to the alleged physical similarities between bin Laden and Moses. Both are described as being tall, dark, and having an aquiline nose. Like Moses, bin Laden is said to use a stick to lean on while walking, and to belong to the same tribe from the Arabian peninsula.


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1 posted on 09/09/2002 5:36:54 PM PDT by scratchgolfer
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To: scratchgolfer
Things you won't read about in the New York Times.

By the way, the habit of killing off men and enslaving women is strictly Muslim, going back to the time of Muhammed himself. It hardly corresponds with the reality of U.S. actions in Afghanistan. But it seems as if the the bigger the lie, the more easily it is swallowed, not only by bigoted Palestinian Muslims but by bigoted liberal Americans.

2 posted on 09/09/2002 6:02:39 PM PDT by Cicero
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To: scratchgolfer
One of the chapters in the booklet is dedicated to the alleged physical similarities between bin Laden and Moses. Both are described as being tall, dark, and having an aquiline nose

Wow! What a coincidence! Bin Laden is now in a group of about 25 million Arabs that look like Moses.

3 posted on 09/09/2002 6:07:20 PM PDT by germanicus
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"We are facing Bush II, who is just like Ramses II."

Is Ramses 2 the guy they named the condoms after ?
4 posted on 09/09/2002 6:12:41 PM PDT by sushiman
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"And we leveled to the ground the great work and fine buildings which Pharaoh and his people erected [such pride]."

Riiiight. Ramses II built the hypostyle temple at Karnak which remains to this day one of the most impressive architectural structures in the world. It's stood for 3200 years. And the speaker here has long since become an unmemorable banquet for worms.

5 posted on 09/09/2002 6:23:55 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: scratchgolfer
The Palestinians are still celebrating the downfall of America? Its good to know for whom President Bush wants to set up a Palestinian state and for one I hope they never get it.
6 posted on 09/09/2002 6:36:11 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: scratchgolfer
the enemy is islam, that is who we are at war with, the sooner we decide who the enemy is the sooner we will win.
7 posted on 09/09/2002 6:49:45 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
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2004 huh? Does the Palestinian know Hillary is going to be elected? Now that would destroy the country...
8 posted on 09/09/2002 7:12:17 PM PDT by piasa
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To: scratchgolfer
Was it written by bill clinton?? Sounds like his latest rhetoric.

TC

9 posted on 09/09/2002 7:19:06 PM PDT by I_be_tc
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To: TLBSHOW
Muhammed claimed Moses as a prophet, but it was only to deceive people, for Muhammed did not believe what Moses taught. Moses went up on the mountain and received the 10 commandments, actually written by the finger of God. But Muhammed did not believe or follow the God of the bible, and he made up his own laws to please himself. The God of the bible says that there is no sin in heaven, not now, and never shall be, but Muhammed has made allah the keeper of Paradise where he passes out a gang of women (72) for sex to each man to be as immoral as he pleases with them.
10 posted on 09/09/2002 7:27:43 PM PDT by tessalu
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The symbol of Iraq is the golden eagle; wonder what he has to say about that? It was also Rome's. And the Nazis, and Mexico's... eagles of the land. But the symbol of the US is the bald eagle, the white-headed sea eagle or in latin, Haliaeetus leucocephalus... a totally different bird. He's wrong on the Pharaoh, his symbol was the falcon and the cobra, one for the northern kingdom and the other for the southern, I believe.

Bet we could really freak him out if he saw the Darpa logo or some other logos in use... ; )

11 posted on 09/09/2002 7:27:44 PM PDT by piasa
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To: scratchgolfer
Like Moses, bin Laden is said to use a stick to lean on while walking

More like they picked up what was left of him with a stick.

12 posted on 09/09/2002 7:33:45 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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>>He claims he was also astonished to discover that the picture of the pyramids is printed on US dollar bills. Moreover, the symbol of Egypt's pharaoh was the eagle, "which is the same symbol of the pharaoh of America and the White House. And anyone who visited Washington knows that the White House keeps a pharaoh obelisk in one of its gardens."

Paging Richard Hoagland.....
13 posted on 09/09/2002 10:41:03 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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Wonder if he's seen WTC burning on the folded 20 dollar bill.
14 posted on 09/09/2002 10:41:47 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: scratchgolfer
The jihading morons have it ass backwards.
15 posted on 09/09/2002 10:50:04 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: scratchgolfer
The booklet wasn't written by Lyndon Larouche was it?

Remember when there was a fair number of them on FR? I kind of liked'm. They were so left field, they weren't even on the field. They were across the streed in the back of the woods, over by the river. Those madcaps!
16 posted on 09/10/2002 4:29:52 AM PDT by Leisler
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Booklet predicting end of US is PA best seller

You can find it in the "fantasy" section.

17 posted on 09/10/2002 4:30:57 AM PDT by RogueIsland
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To: scratchgolfer
Online, these same American-hating islamists are alive and well over at soundvision.com, an apology center for jew-hating. You can give them your comments at:

http://forums.soundvision.com/index.php?s=73b98867ab06345ac12b2ad2619d3a28

(you can post without registering)

Let's give these sacks of excrement a piece of our minds...

18 posted on 09/10/2002 4:32:00 AM PDT by Dr. Luv
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To: scratchgolfer
Well, I can tell you I got a chill when I happened to listen to this song soon after 9/11...

PRIDE OF MAN

Turn around,
go back down,
back the way you came,
Can't you see that flash of fire--ten times brighter than the day?
And behold a mighty city broken in the dust again--
Oh God, Pride of Man, broken in the dust again.

Turn around,
go back down,
back the way you came,
Babylon is laid to waste, Egypt's buried in her shame,
The mighty men are all beaten down, their kings are fallen in the ways,
Oh God, Pride of Man, broken in the dust again.

Turn around,
go back down,
back the way you came,
Terror is on every side, lo our leaders are dismayed.

For those who place their faith in fire,
their faith in fire shall be repayed,
Oh God, Pride of Man, broken in the dust again.

Turn around,
go back down,
back the way you came,
And shout a warning unto the nations that the sword of God is raised.

Yes, Babylon, that mighty city, rich in treasures, wide in fame,
Oh God, Pride of Man, broken in the dust again.

And it shall cause your tower to fall, make of you a pyre of flame,
Oh you who dwell on many waters, rich in treasures, wide in fame--
You bow unto your...your God of gold, your pride of might shall be ashamed...
For only God can lead His people back unto the Earth again.

Oh God, Pride of Man, broken in the dust again.
Thy Holy mountain be restored..,
have mercy on thy people, thy people, Lord....

19 posted on 09/10/2002 7:08:23 AM PDT by boris
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To: scratchgolfer
Abu Arafeh says that by examining Pharaoh's description in these verses, one is shocked at the similarities between him and the US, especially after what the Americans did in Afghanistan.

It's amazing to me how out one side of their mouths they can claim peace and equality for all Muslims, women are respected not oppressed or abused etc, Islam doesn't teach violence, blah blah blah, and at the same time they condemn what we did in Afghanistan, which was free an entire starving society from brutal Islamic oppression. Which is it, guys? Never mind, we already know.

20 posted on 09/10/2002 7:32:05 AM PDT by agrace
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