SHOULD EUROPE BECOME MORE LIKE THE ARAB OR THE MUSLIM WORLD?

Europe isn't perfect.

Will the influx of millions of Arabs and muslims make it better?

Should Europe become more like any Arab nation, or any muslim nation?

Would Europe be better if it was more like Egypt, or Iraq, or Syria, or more like Pakistan, or Malaysia?

Sure, some Arab nations have many wealthy people as a result of the natural resources they export to the West, but does a single one have a social milieu or culture which, if imported, would make Europe a better place to live?

The answer is no. If these Arab countries or Muslim countries were better than the West, then the net immigration would be going their way, and not in our direction.

It is insane for Europe, which already has an assimilation problem, to accept millions of immigrants or refugees from pan-Arabia who have no intent of assimilating. It can only lead to more islamization or more social disintegration.

And if islamization was good, then the Arab and muslim worlds would not be in the midst of nearly constant war with their non-Muslim neighbors, and also nearly constant war with itself.

LOOKIT: There are 450 million Arabs. They have 20 countries. They don't need any more countries to improve their lot in life. They need a new creed.

FARAGE WEIGHS IN HERE.

How Confucianism Blends With Communism in China and Leads to a Contempt for Property Rights

It is difficult to convert China from a pirating nation to one that is respectful of intellectual property rights ... owning property in a socialist society is a sin. Thus, stealing an object that is owned by someone else is less corrupt than owning it outright yourself.”
     --- Peter Yu, Professor of Property Law, Communications and Policy, Wuhan, China

From Professor Peter Yu:

CAUSES OF PIRACY AND COUNTERFEITING IN CHINA 

Every year, the United States was estimated to have suffered from billions of dollars of trade losses due to piracy and counterfeiting in China. While the Chinese undeniably have taken a free ride on the creative efforts of Western authors and inventors, greed alone does not explain the massive piracy and counterfeiting problems in the country. 

Instead, one needs to develop a better understanding of the Confucian beliefs ingrained in the Chinese culture, the country‟s socialist economic system, the leader‟s skepticism toward Western institutions, the xenophobic and nationalist sentiments of the Chinese populace, the government‟s censorship and information control policy, and the significantly different Chinese legal culture and judicial system. 

Confucianism and Cultural Practices 

For more than two thousand years, Confucianism had heavily influenced the Chinese, who considered the past not only as a reflection of contemporary society, but also as the embodiment of cultural and social values. By encountering the past, one could understand the “Way of Heaven,” obtain guidance to future behavior, and find out the ultimate meaning of human existence. 

Because intellectual property rights allow a significant few to monopolize important materials about the past, they prevent the vast majority from understanding their life, culture, and society and are therefore contradictory to traditional Chinese moral standards. 

Unlike today‟s Westerners, the Chinese in the imperial past did not consider copying or imitation a moral offense. Rather, they considered it “a noble art,” a “time-honored learning process” through which people manifested respect for their ancestors. 

At a very young age, Chinese children were taught to memorize and copy the classics and histories. As they grew up, they became by training compilers, as compared to composers, and the classics and histories generally constituted their universal language. 

Although the practice of unacknowledged quotation is likely to be considered plagiarism today, such a practice was an acceptable, legitimate, or even necessary, component of the creative process in the imperial past. Indeed, early Chinese writers saw themselves more as preservers of historical record and cultural heritage than as creators. Even Confucius proudly acknowledged in the Analects that he had “transmitted what was taught to [him] without making up anything of [his] own.” 

Finally, under the Confucian vision of civilization, the family constituted the basic unit of human community, and the world was an outgrowth of that basic unit. Because the Chinese emphasized familial values and collective rights, they did not develop a concept of individual rights. Nor did they regard creativity as individual property. Instead, they considered creativity as a collective benefit to their community and the posterity. 

If that was not enough, the Confucianists had a strong disdain for commerce and greatly despised the creation of works for sheer profit. It is therefore no surprise that merchants (shang) were considered the lowest among the four social classes in a traditional Chinese society, behind scholar-official (shih), farmer (nung), and artisan (kung). 

Socialist Economic System 

While the Communist government did not emphasize Confucianism until very recently, its view on the function of creative works was similar to that of the Confucianists. 

Under the socialist economic system, property belonged to the State and the people, rather than private owners. 

Authors thus created literary and artistic works for the welfare of the State, rather than for the purpose of generating economic benefits for themselves. Indeed, as Susan Tiefenbrun pointed out, “owning property [in a socialist society was] tantamount to a sin. Thus, stealing an object that [wa]s owned by someone else [wa]s less corrupt than owning it outright yourself.”

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.

Confucianism has a natural affinity with Communism.

Confucianism is a religious system that has historically established a way of life for the Chinese people. As such it is foundational to Chinese culture.

Communism is a Politico-Economic system.

Once introduced as a system, Communism quite naturally grows out of Confucianism.

One could say that Confucianism is a catalytic for Communism.

It is important to understand how religious ideas form the foundations of Cultures.

Cultures reap both good and bad rewards from their foundational ideas.

If a culture is imbued with ideas which are causing it to stay stagnate while the rest of the world progresses, it is not sufficient to simply introduce new ideas into the culture in order to effect change.

Instead, one must understand exactly how the existing ideas are woven into the Culture. You have to know how the knots are tied, in order to untie them.

Hence Critical Analysis of Religions and Cultures is necessary to progress in our world.

And that is as true of Islam, and it's culture, as it is true of Confucianism and Chinese Culture ...

... or America with it's embedded Judeo-Christian culture and ascendent neo-Pagan/Pantheist culture.

It may not be polite to talk religion and politics at the dinner table, but if this world wants to serve a bountiful feast for all of humanity, it will be necessary.

JIHAD ATTACK FOILED AS PIPEBOMB DISCOVERED

It's lucky a police dog trained to find bomb materials found a pipebomb in east Jerusalem before it could be used to murder innocent people:

A Border Police canine unit on Friday foiled a possible terror attack seemingly intended to target the security forces after detecting an explosive device at a checkpoint next to east Jerusalem's Issawiya neighborhood.

During operational sweeps of the area near the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, a Border Police bomb-sniffing dog and handler located the suspicious object that encased a pipe bomb.

Police sappers called to the scene confirmed that the object was an explosive, closed the premises and neutralized the device.

Authorities said the explosive could have caused deaths among security forces at the checkpoint or among civilians if it had been transferred to the western side of the city.

Thank goodness authorities were making stellar efforts to scan the city parameters to check if these kind of monstrosities were lying around anywhere. It shows that there's bombmakers out there in the Muslim dominated enclaves who need to be flushed out.

MURDERERS FROM SUR BAHER NEIGHBORHOOD ONLY GET CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER

An injustice has been done for the victims of jihad rock throwing that killed a driver in east Jerusalem:

In a controversial decision by the State Attorney's Office on Thursday, the Arab men who threw rocks at Alexander Levlovich and killed him as he was driving in his car on Rosh Hashanah Eve were indicted on manslaughter charges instead of murder.

The five defendants, residents of the Sur Baher neighborhood of east Jerusalem, were charged with a series of other serious crimes, including causing grievous bodily harm, reckless endangerment, assaulting a police officer, arson and weapons manufacturing.

The Jerusalem District Prosecutor's Office explained that a murder charge requires proof of prior intent, for which sufficient evidence was unattainable.

Oh, that is just plain stupid. Anyone who throws rocks with such weight as they did knows it could lead to death, and that's what happened. The state attorney is an embarrassment, and should be replaced with somebody whose understanding of these issues is better.

CLOCKMAKER'S FATHER IS A 9-11 TRUTHER

The father of Ahmed Mohammed, the publicity-seeking Muslim student who made a "clock" that looked more like a case for explosives, turned out to be a 9-11 conspiracy theorist. And now, he's espousing more of his hateful propaganda in hopes that this whole mess he and his son stirred up will help them spread more Islamism in America (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):

Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, father of ‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed, shared another 9/11 ‘Truther’ Facebook post, only this time in Arabic, claiming that the clock incident will lead to spreading Islam in America.

Breitbart Texas reported that the family patriarch, a former Sudanese National Reform party candidate for president of that country, managed a Sudanese reform party Facebook group and posted 9/11 ‘truther’ conspiracy theories on its wall. Last week, Mohamed removed the National Reform page, perhaps in response to Western media sifting through the content. Prior to it shutting down, Breitbart Texas captured an Arabic language National Reform post that Mohamed shared on Sept. 28 and it appears he wrote it. [...]

Troubling statements in this Facebook post further the ideology of 9/11 conspiracy theories. The translation suggests that the 9/11 terror attacks were bogus, an inside-job, reading: “That the war against terror is nothing more than an illusion made in America—as al-Qa`ida was made in America, as well as what is happening now in the Arab East at the hands of the West.”

The post also alleges that the United States created 9/11 to manufacture the “war on terror.” Translated, the words read: “The events of September 11th were planned precisely to launch the war on Iraq, and 50% of the American people are becoming aware of that.”

Musing, Mohamed draws a parallel to his “clockmaker” son, asserting Islamophobia at the core of the clock incident, ignoring federal and state zero tolerance and/or safe school act policies behind his son’s arrest for bringing into an Irving, Texas, high school a perceived “hoax bomb.” According to the English translation, he instead writes: “Moreover, what happened to Ahmed Mohammed would not have occurred were he not Muslim and Sudanese.” He insists that it “shocked the West, and made Obama seek to honor him, rather than his terrorizing his fellow students.”

Yet another anti-Americanist plying his revolting trade, who has no respect for security concerns, and who'd do well to get out of the country and go back to Sudan where he belongs.

THE MUSLIMS ARE ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE STATUS OF JEWISH HOLY SITE

MUSLIMS ARE GOING TO GET UNESCO TO CHANGE THE STATUS IF THE KOTEL, AKA THE WESTERN WALL, AND RE-NAME IT IN ARABIC AND GET IT TO BE RECOGNIZED AS A PART OF THE AL AKSA MOSQUE.

THEY CAN DO THIS BECAUSE THE MUSLIM NATIONS HAVE A MAJORITY IN UNESCO.

IT IS EVIL AND IRONIC BECAUSE THE MUSLIM ARABS CLAIM THEIR 3RD INTIFADA IS JUSTIFIED BECAUSE ISRAEL IS TRYING TO CHAN HE THE STATUS QUO OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT.

AND IT COMES THE DAY AFTER MUSLIM ARABS TORCHED THE TOMB OF JOSEPH, A JEWISH HOLY SITE.

ALL THIS TOGETHER PROVES ISLAM IS EVIL.

AND THE UN A WILLING TOOL OF EVIL.

OBAMA IS SILENT, AND SILENCE IS ACQUIESCENCE IF NOT SUPPORT, WHICH MAKES HIM EVIL TOO.

AND THOSE WHO SUPPORT HIM.

OH... BTW: THE "RELIGION OF PEACE" HAS DECLARED TODAY TO BE "A DAY OF RAGE".

THAT ISLAM IS EVIL COULD NOT BE MORE CLEAR.

CITIZENSHIP FOR TERRORISTS REVOKED, AND PLO FUNDING TO BE BLOCKED

The interior minister's cancelling citizenship for jihadists:

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom moved to revoke the citizenship of two Israeli-Arabs who committed acts of terrorism last week.

The first is Alaa Ziod, 20, who ran his car into and stabbed four Israelis in Gan Shmuel, and the second is Asraah Abed, a 29-year-old woman who attempted to stab soldiers in the Afula Central Bus Station.

Shalom updated the Attorney-General’s Office of his intentions, and gave the request to the Administrative Court on Thursday.

“There’s no need to elaborate on the importance of Israeli citizenship, which includes the duty of a citizen to be loyal to his country and for the country to be loyal to its citizens, the more so when that citizenship is taken advantage of to harm civilians and national security,” Shalom stated.

Not only did Israel's ministry cancel citizenship for jihadists, even France has been doing the same:

Last week, France stripped five terrorists of their citizenship, bringing the number of terrorists receiving the punishment to 17 this year.

It's good they're taking steps now to get rid of the same filth in their country. All those who espouse such evil should be exiled, and this can be a step towards setting up such a law too.

The Israeli government will also be taking steps to shut off monetary payments the PLO makes to terrorists:

The Diplomatic-Security Cabinet decided Thursday to actively counter Palestinian Authority policies by which terrorists imprisoned in Israel are eligible for monthly wages. In 2012, Ramallah's payments to terrorists exceeded 75 million shekels ($19 million).

The ministers have instructed Israeli intelligence agencies to gather information about the nature of such transactions, so that Israel may prevent the funds from reaching their destination, either by intercepting wire transfers or by seizing the funds from the terrorists and their families.

Palestinian Authority payments are usually done by wire transfer to either the terrorist's bank account or that of a family member. In some cases, funds are physically delivered to terrorists' homes, and Israel has knowledge of instances when funds were even delivered to terrorists imprisoned in Israel.

Stopping wire service tranfers are probably easy, but they should also keep watch for PLO agents who deliver the funds directly.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ACCUSES ISRAEL OF "TERRORISM"

The Wash. Free Beacon (via Accuracy in Media) reports that Obama's bunch have resorted to some of the worst moral equivalence at the worst possible time:

As Palestinians assailants continue to murder Jews across Israel, the Obama administration on Wednesday accused the Jewish state of committing acts of “terrorism,” drawing outrage from many observers.

As the number of Israelis murdered during a streak of Palestinian terrorism continues to rise, the Obama administration sought to equate the sides and told reporters that, in its view, Israel is guilty of terrorism.

“Individuals on both sides of this divide are—have proven capable of, and in our view, are guilty of acts of terrorism,” State Department Spokesman John Kirby told reporters following questions about the spike in violence.

Kirby also said the administration has obtained “credible reports” of Israelis using excessive force as it deals with a rash of terrorist murders carried out by Palestinians seeking to cause havoc and spark an intifada.

“We’re always concerned about credible reports of excessive use of force against civilians, and we routinely raise our concerns about that.”

At least three Israelis have been killed and another 20 wounded as a result of attacks by Palestinian terrorists in recent days.

The violence has prompted pushback from the Obama administration, much of it aimed at Israeli itself.

Secretary of State John Kerry, for instance, said he sympathized with Palestinian “frustration” in a statement that accused Israel of boosting the construction of so-called “settlements,” or Jewish homes in historically Jewish areas of the country.

The administration appears to be following up on Abbas' own lies, like his claim that Israel "murdered" a juvenile terrorist. But contrary to what Abbas has been blood-libeling, the creepy little offender is very much alive, and will be prosecuted for his crime.

What's truly mind-boggling here is that at the same time they're using this gross language, the State Department's been promoting a Muslim cleric who called for murdering US soldiers. And all they care about is whatever Israel does? Truly disgusting.

Update: the police released video footage showing the crime committed by the two jihad knifers.

Update 2: Netanyahu warned against drawing false symmetries.

Update 3: now the US administration is backtracking on its initial comments. Unfortunately, they'll probably say what they did again when they feel like it.

TERROR VICTIMS SHOULDN'T BE PUT WITH TERRORISTS IN THE HOSPITAL

The Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital prides itself on co-existence between Jews and Arabs. And according to this article, an Arabic doctor saved the life of a Jewish 13-year-old, which is very commendable and heroic. However, they've also done something very stupid:

As a wave of violence sweeps across Jerusalem, victims and perpetrators are often surprised to be reunited — at each other's bedside in the city's largest emergency ward.

The Hadassah Medical Center prides itself on checking politics at the door and treating Palestinian attackers and Jewish victims alike. But the tensions on the street are increasingly seeping through the hospital's sterile walls, with family members clashing in the hallways and causing the wounded even more trauma. [...]

The hospital corridors are filled with women wearing traditional Muslim dresses and headscarves walking alongside ultra-Orthodox Jews and patients with Jewish skullcaps. But the notion of Arabs and Jews being as inseparable in the hospital as they are outside doesn't sit well with everyone.

Odel Bennett has been hospitalized at Hadassah since a Palestinian stabbed her husband Aharon to death on Oct. 3, seriously wounded her and lightly wounded their 2-year-old son Natan. The attacker stabbed another Israeli man to death before being shot dead.

The 22-year-old Bennett recalled how her pleas for help were mocked by local Arab merchants, who laughed at her and told her to "die" while a knife was still stuck in her body.

When Bennett learned that a Palestinian woman who stabbed an Israeli man in the Old City several days later was being treated just four doors down the hall, she began to shake and have an anxiety attack.

"It is very, very hard to have a victim next to someone who tried to murder," she said from her hospital bed, where she is still recovering from 11 stab wounds. "I understand that the hospital has to take them. I just don't know why they aren't treated in prisons. That's the reality."

Her mother, Miriam Gal, was less diplomatic. Outraged that the woman's family was wandering the halls freely and that one of her relatives got into a fight with a police officer stationed there, she demanded the 18-year-old Palestinian, suffering from gunshot wounds, be moved to a different ward. The hospital ultimately agreed and moved her to a separate ward. When she was ready for discharge this week, the hospital turned her over to police.

"We are a terror-stricken family who is hurting, suffering and bereaved," Gal said, shaking. "It is disgusting and outrageous. She has no right to even live and then you put her here?" [...]

As the Jerusalem region's major trauma center, Hadassah is usually the first stop for both sides after violent attacks. Victims and wounded attackers, often suffering gunshot wounds after being shot by police or armed bystanders, continued to file in Monday amid another spurt of violence.

Dvora Kirshenbaum, an emergency room nurse, said they sometimes end up literally lying next to each other.

"We detach and treat the person we need to treat professionally without getting into emotional considerations. Everyone has their beliefs and opinions outside the hospital," she said. "That is the profession we chose."

I'm afraid their ideology that does accompany them into the medical ward is very embarrassing and offensive to innocent victims of jihad. If it doesn't happen at foreign hospitals, then it shouldn't happen at Israeli hospitals either. They should've been able to figure out this could actually make it worse for the innocent pedestrians, and if they really want to prove they're not that morally equivalent, they'll make every effort to put victim and perpetrator in separate wards from now on.

THE WORLD IS IGNORING THE TERRORIST ATTACKS WITHIN ISRAEL NOW AS THEY IGNORED KRISTALLNACT THEN

HITLER COULD HAVE BEEN STOPPED IN 1938, RIGHT AFTER KRISTALLNACHT, HAD EUROPEANS STEPPED IN TO DEFEND THE GERMAN JEWS UNDER ATTACK ON 9th OF NOVEMBER.

BUT EUROPEANS STOOD BY, SILENTLY....

THEY AND THE REST OF THE WORLD ARE DOING THE SAME THING NOW AS ARABS INSIDE ISRAEL RUN AMOK STABBING, AXING AND SHOOTING RANDOM ISRAELIS.

AND THEIR SILENCE WILL HAVE THE SAME EFFECT:

IT WILL ALLOW THE GLOBAL MENACE OF ISLAMISM -

- (A MENACE THAT DOESN'T JUST THREATEN ISRAEL BUT WHICH POSES AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE FREE WORLD AND TO JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION) -

TO GROW AND GROW UNTIL IT CAN DESTROY EVERYTHING THE WEST HAS FOUGHT FOR THE LAST 2000 YEARS.

THE SILENCE OF THE FREE WORLD IS A RESULT OF A FEW THINGS:

• THE USA IS CURRENTLY LED BY OBAMA - A POSTMODERN LEFTIST WHO SEES ISRAEL AS A COLONIAL INTRUSION IN THE HOLY LAND.

• OBAMA HAS DIRECTLY AIDED IRAN WHICH DIRECTLY AIDS ISRAEL'S ENEMIES.

• THE EU IS LED BY THE SAME TYPE OF APPEASERS AND LEFTISTS.

THESE CANNOT CHANGE UNTIL THE NEXT NATIONAL ELECTIONS IN THE USA AND EUROPE.

AND CHANGE IS LIKELY.

AND THE ENEMY KNOWS THIS, SO THEY HAVE STEPPED UP THE INTENSITY AND PACE OF THEIR ATTACKS, GLOBALLY.

IN THE NEXT ELECTIONS, THE FREE WORLD MUST THROW OUT THE LEFTISTS WHO HAVE APPEASED AND EMPOWERED THE ENEMIES OF THE WEST...

AND REPLACE THEM WITH PATRIOTS WHO WILL DEFEND THE FREE WORLD.

THAT MEANS REPLACE HOLLANDE WITH LE PEN AND IT MEANS. A VOTE TO EXIT THE EU BY BRITAIN.

AND ALSO A VICTORY BY WILDERS AND THE PVV IN THE NETHERLANDS, AND BY THE SWEDISH DEMOCRATS.

AND PERHAPS DUMPING MERKEL IN GERMANY.

IN THE MEANTIME, ISRAEL WILL HAVE TO STAND ON ITS OWN

I EXPECT THIS FRIDAY TO BE THE WORST DAY OF TERRORISM IN ISRAEL IN YEARS:

WHEN THE MUSLIMS EXIT THEIR MOSQUES, THEY WILL HAVE BEEN FRESHLY INCITED TO KILL AS MANY JEWS AS THEY CAN.

PRAY FOR ISRAEL...

OF COURSE ABBAS REFUSES TO CONDEMN THE ATTACKS: HE INCITED THEM!

The PLO's overlord continues his hatemongering rhetoric till the bitter end:

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday accused Israel of stepping up its “aggressive offensive” on Palestinians and their holy sites and said the Palestinians won’t accept any change of the status quo at the Temple Mount.

In a speech broadcast on Palestine TV, Abbas also accused Israel of carrying out “field executions” against Palestinians, saying the Palestinians would bring the case before the International Criminal Court.

Abbas did not issue any call to Palestinians to stop the current wave of terrorism. Nor did he condemn the terrorist attacks.

Instead, Abbas warned that Israel’s actions threatened peace and stability and could ignite a “religious conflict” between Israelis and Palestinians and the entire world.

“We unequivocally and clearly say that we won’t accept a change of the status quo at al-Aksa Mosque,” Abbas declared. “We won’t permit the passing of any Israeli plans targeting the sanctity of the mosque.”

Yeah, because the mosque is more important than human lives. Abbas is pure filth of the earth, doubtless willing to use lawfare to achieve his goals if he thinks it could avail him. No sane person should have anything to do with him.

Leftists Want To Take Guns From The Poor and Give Them Only To The Rich

Guns will be with us always.

The question is, who will have guns?

Eliminate the 2nd Amendment and you do not eliminate guns. You eliminate the right of law-abiding citizens to protect their property.

Rich people will simply hire Licensed Security Teams to protect them.

The Constitution of the United States is a simple statement of the right of the Middle Class, and the Poor, to protect their property from ANYONE who would take it away;

whether that be other Middle Class and Poor people,

or

maybe the very same rich, privileged politicians, celebrities and academics who want to take away guns in the first place.

TODAY'S ARAB DAGGER-MEN: THE "SICARII" FROM HELL

WIKI:

Sicarii (Latin plural form of Sicarius "dagger-man"; in Modern Hebrew rendered siqariqim סיקריקים) is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to an extremist splinter group[1] of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from the Roman province of Judea.[2] 

The Sicarii carried sicae, or small daggers, concealed in their cloaks, hence their name.[3]  At public gatherings, they pulled out these daggers to attack Romans or Roman sympathizers, blending into the crowd after the deed to escape detection. 

They were one of the earliest forms of an organized assassination society or cloak and daggers, predating the Middle Eastern assassins and Japanese ninjas by centuries.[4][5]

THE ORIGINAL SICARII WERE FIGHTING FOREIGN OCCUPATION BY FOREIGN INVADERS.

THE ARABS STABBING AND AXING JEWS IN ISRAEL ARE THE EVIL TWINS OF THE ORIGINAL SICARI.

IN THIS CASE, THE INVADERS, THE ARABS ARE TRYING TO EXPEL THE RIGHTFUL CITIZENS OF ISRAEL, JUDEA AND SAMARIA:

THE JEWS.


ARABS DID NOT ARRIVE IN ISRAEL UNTIL THE 8TH CENTURY, THOUSANDS OF YEARS AFTER THE JEWS SETTLED THERE, AND JEWS HAVE NEVER RELINQUISHED OUR CLAIM.

UNTIL MOHAMMED, THERE WERE MORE JEWS IN MEDINA THAN ARABS IN JERUSALEM.

IT IS TIME FOR ARABS LIVING IN JERUSALEM TO BE EXPELLED FROM THE CITY.

THE TRUTH ID THAT JERUSALEM IS NOT THE THIRD HOLIEST CITY IN ISLAM; THAT IS A LIE.

HERE IS THE TRUTH:


http://youtu.be/AdxUqXmDydY

Jerusalem, at least the Old City and the Temple Mount, has been a Palestinian political demand ever since it was liberated from the illegitimate Jordanian occupation in June 1967, despite the fact that it was never the capital of anything throughout Islamic history, and was not even the regional capital of Palestine after the Muslim Conquest in 627 CE. The capital was Ramle, 30 kilometers to the west from Jerusalem. And so, we ask: Why is Jerusalem holy to a religion that was established and developed in the Arabian desert, today’s Saudi Arabia? How did Jerusalem win the status of “the third holiest site in Islam” despite the fact that it does not appear even once in the Qur’an? Why, did only Sunni Muslims, traditionally, consider Jerusalem as a holy city while Shi’is do not?

To understand why this is so, we must trace the evolution of the idea of the holiness of Jerusalem in Islam. According to the Qur’an (Chapter 25, Verse 5) the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, was harshly criticized by the members of his tribe in Mecca for bringing them a religion which was nothing but “Asatir al-Awwalin” (the legends of the precursors), meaning the religious narrative of the Jews and the Christians, because many of the stories that appear in the Qur’an are copies of stories from the Bible. Apparently Muhammad learned these stories from his very close friend, a Jewish Rabbi from Yemen named Ka’b. The criticism of Islam, as a copy of other religions made Islam appear illegitimate, so in order to get a “seal of approval” Muhammad tried to convert three Jewish tribes who lived in a desert oasis called “Khaybar”, which was situated near the city of al-Medina. To please them, Muhammad legislated that the direction of prayer for Muslims was determined to be Northward, towards Jerusalem, for some 16 months. But the Jews remained loyal to Judaism and did not embrace Islam and therefore Muhammad waged war against them, slaughtered the men and took the women, including Safiyya, the daughter of one of the tribal heads, whom he took as a wife. After he eliminated these Jewish tribes, he was no longer interested in their direction of prayer, so he abandoned Jerusalem and turned the direction of prayer Southward, towards the city of Mecca. He later conquered Mecca, burned the idols that were within, and consecrated the city.

In those days Muhammad had a group of supporters in the city of al-Ta’if, which was located at a distance of a two-day walk from Mecca. When Muhammad walked to Ta’if and back he would spend the night in the village of “al-Gi’irrana”, and Islamic tradition has it that near the village were two mosques, “The Nearby Mosque” (“al-Masjid al-adna”) and the “Distant Mosque”, (“al-Masjid al-Aqsa”), and that he would pray in one of them before setting out on his day-long journey, either to Ta’if or back to Mecca. The Qur’an (Chapter 17, Verse 1) tells a story that one night a miracle occurred to Muhammad; the Creator took him to the Distant Mosque in order to show him His miracles. The people of that generation understood this passage literally, because they knew that “al-Masjid al-Aqsa” was near the village on the way to Ta’if. Muhammad died in the year 632, without ever having visited Jerusalem.

Five years after Muhammad’s death, Jerusalem was conquered without a battle, when Bishop Sophronius opened its gates to the formidable army of the second Caliph, ‘Umar bin al-Khattab. Sophronius took the caliph and his entourage for a tour of the city, and included in his entourage was Ka’b, Muhammad’s Jewish companion. When they arrived at the entrance to the Temple Mount Ka’b removed his shoes, apparently because of the passage “remove your shoes from your feet” because the place was holy. Caliph ‘Umar saw this and asked him the meaning of his actions, and Ka’b answered that it was because of the holiness of the place. Caliph ‘Umar became angry with him, scolded him and accused Ka’b for trying to insert Jewish concepts into Islam, and insisted that he put his shoes back on immediately because the place was not holy at all. The great Islamic historian, al-Tabari, tells this anecdote and we can derive from it the interpretation that Jerusalem in the year 627 CE – even though it was under Muslim occupation – was not considered by them to be a holy place.

Thirty years after the death of Muhammad, the Umayyad Caliphs transferred the capital of the Muslim Empire from the Hijaz to Damascus, incurring the wrath of the Meccans who were loyal to Muhammad and his legacy. In the following generation, because of the looting, plundering and booty that the Muslims perpetrated upon the empires of Persia, Byzantium and many other places, Damascus became a city of wealth, permissiveness, gala celebrations, debauchery and drunkenness, and there was no abomination that the people of Damascus left untouched. It’s low moral status caused the people of Mecca who were faithful to the legacy of Muhammad, to declare the residents of Damascus to be heretics. Finally, in the year 682, under the command of Abdallah bin al-Zubayr, the Meccans organized and rebelled against the Caliph, and prevented the residents of Damascus from coming to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage.

There are those who see a relationship between the rebellion of Abdallah bin al-Zubayr and the disturbing events that occurred two years earlier, in the year 680, when the army of the Umayyad Caliph Yazid bin Mu’awiya eliminated the greatest of the rebels, Husein bin ‘Ali, in the city of Karbala’, which is in the south of Iraq. Husein bin ‘Ali was the grandson of Muhammad; his mother was Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad, and his father was ‘Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and the fourth Caliph, whose supporters are the Shi’ites, even today. However, the fact that Husein was a member of the Prophet’s family didn’t help him to escape an awful fate: he was decapitated and his head was brought to Damascus in order to show the Caliph that the leader of the Shi’ite opposition had been eliminated. The Caliph put the head on his desk for a month, so that everyone who came to his office would “see and fear”. It is thought that Abdallah bin al-Zubayr, the rebel from Mecca, was one of the Shi’ite supporters, and that this is the real reason that the people of Damascus, who lived in the shadow of the Caliph, Husein bin ‘Ali’s murderer, were prevented from taking part in the Hajj pilgrimage.

Whether because of the debauchery of the residents of Damascus, or because of the cruelty of the Caliph towards the grandson of Muhammad, the people of Mecca, armed Bedouins well versed in the ways of war, blocked off the routes of the Hajj pilgrimage from the people of Damascus and its surroundings. But while Mecca’s political and military rebellion continued for eight years, it was still necessary to make the yearly Hajj pilgrimage, a basic commandment of Islam, and so Caliph Yazid bin Mu’awiya searched for an alternative location for the Hajj. The alternative place to do the Hajj had to have an aura of holiness, one that would allow the Caliph to declare it as a place of pilgrimage instead of Mecca.

At that time, many Jews and Christians converted to Islam, at least outwardly, in order to escape the burden of the heavy tax that was imposed upon them. Because of their conversion to Islam they carried in their hearts and in their mouths the exaltation of Jerusalem, the Holy City, and this is how the idea of Jerusalem as a holy city entered into Islam. The Caliph decided that Jerusalem will be the place for pilgrimage, but he needed support from the Islamic writings to enable him to paint his decision in an Islamic color. That is why that passage in the Qur’an that speaks of the miracle of Muhammad’s night journey to the “Distant Mosque” was taken, and a new exegesis was attached to it: that the al-Aqsa mosque is located in Jerusalem, and that Muhammad was brought to Jerusalem during the night and ascended to the seventh heaven. During his ascent, the prophets of the previous religions – Judaism and Christianity – joined him: Adam, Jesus, Johannes, Seth, Joseph, Aaron, Moses, and Abraham. In heaven, next to Allah’ throne, they prayed behind Muhammad, and this indicates that they accepted his sovereignty over themselves and that Judaism and Christianity pass the baton of leadership on to Islam. All of this is under the Throne of Glory, that is, that the coronation of Islam over Judaism and Christianity is a matter of Allah’s magisterial decision. Islam, according to this story, came to the world not to live side by side with Judaism and Christianity but rather to replace them.

In order to better establish the validity of the transfer of the Hajj to Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock was built in the center of the Temple Mount, so that the circumambulation can take place around it. It was built with eight walls, apparently to signify that it is double the holiness of the Ka’ba in Mecca, which has only four walls. In addition, many “Hadith” (oral tradition) pieces had been forged, attributed to Muhammad, which implies that the sanctity of Jerusalem is greater than the sanctity of Mecca.

Then, after eight years of Abdallah bin al-Zubayr’s rebellion, the Umayyads succeeded to transfer the Hajj back to Mecca, at which point the tales about Jerusalem were dropped. Salah al-Din (Saladin) brought them up again in the 12th century, when the Muslim commander wanted to rouse up his fighters in preparation for the battle with the Crusaders. After Jerusalem was liberated, it’s high status was again abandoned, mainly to avoid undermining the hegemony of Mecca and Medina.

The story of Muhammad’s night journey to Jerusalem is very important to Islam, because it gives Islam legitimacy as a valid religion, a religion that was not intended to coexist in peace with other religions, but rather to replace them, to destroy them and to build itself upon their ruins. Therefore Arabs “Islamized” the important figures that appear in the Torah and in the Bible, built mosques on top of synagogues, churches (in Ramle, Damascus, Istanbul, Cordoba, Temple Mount in Jerusalem and more), and monasteries, and formulated laws to denigrate Jews and Christians. The yellow patch is a Muslim invention of the ninth century. Many of the Islamic concepts of philosophy and religious law are taken from Jewish and Christian sources.

According to the Islamic approach, the Jews, and after them the Christians, distorted and falsified the holy writings, so Allah became angry with them (according to the Qur’an, Chapter 1, Verse 7), removed the prophecy from them and gave it to Muhammad; According to Islamic approach, Judaism and Christianity have lost their meaning as religions. Moreover, these religions have no holy places, and Jewish or Christian claims of ownership on any holy site are false and invalid according to Islam. So the Muslims are not at all impressed by the Jewish claim that Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish kingdom, whether during the First or Second Temple period, because of this simple claim: David and Solomon were Muslims! And it’s no wonder: according to the Qur’an (Chapter 3, Verse 19) “Allah’s religion is Islam”, and so, Islam has Islamized the G-d Himself.

It is for this reason that the Israeli demands for sovereignty over Jerusalem is a contradiction to a very foundational belief of Islam, the belief that Judaism has finished its role in the world. Therefore it is strictly forbidden for a Muslim to allow a Jew to control the place from which Muhammad (according to the Islamic legend) rose up to heaven, and this is why the Palestinians are so insistent about getting their hands on Jerusalem. Jews can live under the auspices and control of Islam, but not to conquer a land that was under Muslim control, and of course not to rule in the city from which Muhammad rose to heaven. Furthermore, control over Jerusalem would give the Palestinians Islamic legitimacy, almost as much as the religious legitimacy that the king of Saudi Arabia has because of his custodianship for Mecca and Medina. And on the contrary, if they surrender Jerusalem to the Jews, they will be accused by many Muslims of betraying Islam.

Muslims who are faithful to their religion know that Islam is not intended to live side-by-side with the previous religions, Judaism and Christianity, but rather to replace them and to be built upon their ruins. And so the battle between Islam and Judaism is a battle between “Din al-Haqq”, the religion of truth, which is Islam, and “Din al-Batil”, the obsolete religion, which is Judaism and Christianity. But Watching what has been happening in Israel for the last sixty three years causes them to shudder: the Jews have returned to their land and conquered it from the Muslims. Then they conquered Jerusalem, and the next step will be the building of the Temple, and then Judaism will again become a relevant and living religion. What, then, will be the fate of Islam, the faith that is supposed to replace Judaism and Christianity? The return of the Jews to their land and to their city is seen by Muslims as a theological danger much more than a territorial, nationalistic, or political problem.

The unbreakable connection between religion and politics in Islam has turned the theological problem into a political problem, therefore the question of the holiness of Jerusalem in Islam is expressed politically: In the past, Muhammad tried to solidify his religious and political status among the Jews by praying toward Jerusalem, the Caliphs from Damascus artificially made Jerusalem a place of pilgrimage as a result of a political competition with Mecca and Medina, and Salah al-Din used it to arouse his fighters. So too, the Palestinians today have adopted Jerusalem as the seal of religious approval for their state, which is not at all certain to arise. They know that if they dare to leave the site of the Temple in the hands of the Jews, that the Islamic fundamentalists, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda will rise up and accuse them of treason. This is the reason that their spokesmen say again and again, that without Jerusalem as its capital they will not establish a Palestinian state.

The connection between Jerusalem and politics is expressed in another way: everyone knows that the source of the disagreement between the Shi’ites and the Sunnis is the political question of who was the legitimate Caliph in the middle of the seventh century: ‘Ali bin Abi Talib, the fourth caliph, or Mu’awiya bin Abi Sufyan, the ruler of Damascus, who rebelled against ‘Ali and became the fifth Caliph. Mu’awiya is the first Caliph from the Umayyads, and it was Yazid, his son, who sanctified Jerusalem as an alternative place to do the Hajj pilgrimage. Yazid was also the one who had Husein bin ‘Ali decapitated and therefore the Shi’ites – supporters of ‘Ali and his descendants – see the Umayyads as their eternal enemies, and their deeds as illegitimate. Therefore, the holiness of Jerusalem was not accepted by the Shi’ites and their third holiest place is the city of Najaf, in southern Iraq, ‘Ali’s burial site. Today, politics plays a role here as well: the leaders of Iran and the Shi’ite Hizballah can not remain behind when the subject is Israel, so they jump on the bandwagon “To liberate Jerusalem from the impurity of the Zionists”, despite the fact that according to Shi’ite tradition Jerusalem has no status as a holy place.

The historical reality of Jerusalem also stands before the leaders of the State of Israel: On one hand – it is the city that is central to the Jewish faith since King David until today, the center of Jewish ritual and religious life, the Jewish capital for approximately 3000 years and the center of the longing, hopes and prayers of Jews from the four corners of the Earth. On the other hand it is the city that Islam has adopted precisely because it is holy to others, and a city whose Islamic “holiness” stems from a problem of Islamic political legitimacy in the Islamic Empire, since the days of Muhammad until our times.

The question that confronts us today is whether Judaism and Christianity will submit to the Islamic religious narrative, which invalidates Judaism and Christianity, and appropriates their holiness, their prophets and their “founding fathers” unto itself, or will they stand up for their rights to be living and thriving religions, that adhere to their holy places and. Or will Jews and Christians behave submissively towards the desert tribes who, after conquering the Land of Israel geographically, have been trying for last 1400 years to overthrow the history and theology of its people.

All to whom Jerusalem is dear must raise their voices and demand that Israel’s government not sell off the holy city for the delusion of peace with those who don’t see Jews as having any right to their country. Jerusalem is not just another parcel of land or a building that belongs to the State of Israel, but the heart of hearts of the entire Jewish and Christian peoples worldwide. In practice this means that if it is necessary to build a bridge then Israel must build it and pay no heed to those who wish to undermine the Jews’ rights and sovereignty.

There will be real peace in the Middle East if, and only if Muslims will recognize the right of Jews to live with full sovereignty in the land of Israel and in its holy, historic capital.

IN LATEST JIHAD ATTACK, ISLAMOFASCIST HACKED MAN TO DEATH

Today saw an Islamofascist in the Geula neighborhood hack a man to death after ramming into a bus stop. Hot Air linked to a video from surveillance cameras, but be warned, it's as graphic as you surely guessed it would be.

3RD INTIFADA: THE ATTACK OF THE ISLAMO-ZOMBIES, AND WHAT MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT

Israel is under attack from within: Israeli muslims are on a rampage, attacking random Jewish citizens with guns and knives.

The muslims are like a horde of bloodthirsty zombies who cannot control their savage bloodlust.

Expulsion and annexation are the answer.

These islamo-zombies should be sent to an islamo-zombie dominated area, like Syria or Afghanistan or Libya, and from their they can settle in Germany if they wish.

And their property seized.

Seriously, Israel should demolish the homes and property of these islamo-zombies and the homes and property of all their cousins - and then expel them all, zombies and cousins, to Gaza or Syria.

NEITHER OBAMA NOR CLINTON WILL ISSUE AN UNAMBIGUOUS CONDEMNATION OF THE PLO

Marco Rubio's noted how neither the POTUS nor the dreadful Democrat candidate running in the next election will acknowledge the PLO's guilt in the current incitement to commit jihadism (Hat tip: Accuracy in Media):

“Reminiscent of the days when Yasser Arafat talked peace in English and jihad in Arabic,” Rubio writes, “Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — a man President Obama regularly hails as a peacemaker — is inciting the bloodshed. ‘Every drop of blood that has been spilled in Jerusalem is holy blood as long as it was for Allah,’ he recently declared on Palestinian television.”

The Obama administration has responded by calling on both Palestinians and Israelis to “restore calm,” Rubio says, “as if Israel is somehow to blame for being the victim of terrorism.”

All this does is put more innocent lives at risk. It's practically classic moral equivalence that does little more than allow the PLO to get away with their offenses and won't hold them genuinely responsible for the being the monsters they truly are. This is the problem with today's leftists.

TERROR ATTACKS WITHIN ISRAEL CONTINUE

The "lone" jihadists continue their attacks in Jerusalem, causing authorities and everyone else more trouble than anyone needs:

A 16-year-old boy has been critically injured in a terrorist attack in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev on Sderot Moshe Dayan, near the Jerusalem Light Rail station.

A 20-year-old Jewish man was stabbed as well and sustained very serious wounds in the attack.

The Jewish teen was riding his bicycle when the attack began, with the terrorists first stabbing the young Jewish adult.

A passerby saw what was happening and began chasing the terrorists, who ran and then, spotting the teen on his bike, stabbed him as well.

One of the attackers was hit by a car; police shot and killed the second.

The attack took place just a half hour before the nation's parliament was scheduled to meet to discuss the current security situation.

A massive police presence is still at the scene. Magen David Adom medics treated both victims on site before rushing them both to Jerusalem's nearby Hadassah Medical Center at Mount Scopus.

There's more updates over here. This is an absolute outrage already.

OF COURSE THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT COULD BE BEHIND ATTACKS

This article ponders the likelihood the Islamic Movement has a role in the wave of terrorist attacks this past week:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other government officials and others in the media have been pointing their finger at the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel as being connected to the recent wave of violence.

A representative of the Shin Bet (Israel's Security Agency) told the cabinet on Sunday that the Islamic Movement and Hamas were principally responsible for the incitement that has led to the current wave of terror, and that both groups rejected Israel's existence.

In an interview on Army Radio on Sunday, the head of the police operations chief Ahraon Aksol, said that “these are not spontaneous events, the northern branch is directing them.”

I think it's a foregone conclusion the Islamic Movement is a culprit. And they should be made to pay for the crimes they've been encouraging.

THE DANGER OF SUICIDE BOMBINGS IN ISRAEL LOOMS AGAIN

It's been a while since there'd been suicide attacks. Now, an attempt was made at the checkpoint by Maaleh Adumim:

A woman detonated an explosive and lightly injured a police officer near the A-Zaim checkpoint on the road between Ma'aleh Adumim and Jerusalem on Sunday morning.

The terrorist was seriously injured in the attack and was evacuated to hospital in Jerusalem with burns to her entire body, Magen David Adom said. The police officer suffered to his upper body and was evacuated to hospital with light injuries and in stable condition.

Police said a traffic police officer stopped the driver, who he thought was driving suspiciously, and approached the car to stop at the side of the road and then walked over to question her. The suspect then left the vehicle and the explosion occurred.

"The driver shouted 'Allah Hu Akbar' (God is great) and detonated an explosive device," a police spokeswoman said.

The incident followed a surge since last week in Palestinian attacks on Israelis, mostly with crude weapons like knives and rocks, and a crackdown by Israeli security forces. Four Israelis and 24 Palestinians have been killed in 11 days of violence.

According to this brief, there was a second bomb found in the car. It's lucky if it didn't have a huge impact, and certainly that nobody innocent was killed in this incident. But it sends strong signs that suicide bombings are very likely to be returning unless the authorities start raiding the enclaves where these weapons are manufactured.

FRENCH PARLIAMENT ADOPTS BILL TO PREVENT YOUNGSTERS FROM LEAVING COUNTRY TO PARTICIPATE IN JIHAD

The French parliament approved a draft law for keeping youngsters from joining jihad in Syria and Iraq:

French lawmakers adopted a draft law Thursday that will require minors to have permission from their parents or legal guardians before leaving the country in a bid to curb departures for jihad in Iraq or Syria.

At the moment, children in France only need their identity card or passport to travel, making it easy for them to fly to Turkey and make their way to Syria to join the ranks of the Islamic State group (IS).

The bill notes that the law, in place only since 2013, is "inadequate" in the face of "a large number of French minors who have gone to combat zones in Iraq and Syria."

Parents can currently request that their children be blocked from leaving the country, but this is of no use if they are unaware of their plans.

In June a French mother tried to sue the state for not preventing her minor son from leaving to Syria, but lost the case as she had not requested he be stopped.

Lawmaker Meyer Habib noted that jihadism had become "a sort of fashion for directionless youth", making the law all the more urgent.

Government's parliamentary secretary Jean-Marie Le Guen welcomed the bill but said it would be difficult to implement in Europe's passport-free Schengen zone and could create complications for children of divorced or separated parents.

Lawmakers also adopted a measure to allow prosecutors, who have been alerted by police, social services or education officials, to declare a ban on leaving the country.

According to recent government figures, more than 1,800 French citizens or residents of France have been involved in jihadist networks. Around 500 nationals are thought to be in Syria or Iraq, 133 of which have died.

A hotline set up for families to report radicalisation in April 2014 has drawn more than 3,000 alerts, 23 percent of which concern minors -- most of them girls.

This week France also launched a series of television, Internet and newspaper adverts in which parents and siblings of those who have lost children to the jihad recount their tales.

It's very awful when girls get drawn into these nightmares, no doubt because they're directionless and want to find people who'll supposedly "care" for them. This is just the problem with today's society everywhere, that they aren't finding ways to satisfy their children.