Hamas MP: "The Jews are behind each and every catastrophe on the face of the Earth. This is not open to debate."

This guy is an MP? Member of parliament for Palestine? He got elected? By the people? This is shocking. Can someone honestly explain this to me? Feel free to make simple diagrams. In crayon. I feel as if I don't understand anything at this point!!

This is satanic fury at it's most stubborn and persistent. To have such a vicious opinion and then claim that it's not open to debate is a sign of haste. They want all Jews dead, they want them dead quickly, and there's no time to think about it or discuss it.
Islam is 100% pure evil, and that in my opinion, is also not open to debate!

What also worries me is that he is a "member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars".
Now, one of the most frequently heard protests against Mr Spencer is that he is not a recognized Muslim scholar. We should be thankful for that.

Hamas MP: "The Jews are behind each and every catastrophe on the face of the Earth. This is not open to debate."
Was Mohammed a Jew?
;)

The thing to keep in mind is that these blithering monkey idiots do NOT want a debate. It is not for a reason that Islam puts a death sentence on any rational discussion of idiots.

But, the fact that they have no ability to defend their position logically doesn't make them less dangerous. The Muslim Brotherhood continues its campaign of peaceful subversion and infiltration of our government and political system. The uncontrolled immigration of Muslims into Western countries continues. No politician is willing to call the enemy the enemy, and we are defenseless against non-violent subversion. No wonder the Muslim Brotherhood affiliates eschew violence in the United States. They don't wish to rock a boat going in their direction.

Surprised? Just ask the Free Gaza Movement if they concur...
http://www.israellycool.com/resources/greta-berlin-antisemitic-tweeting-controversy/

Reminder: (Wikipedia) "The Free Gaza Movement is a coalition of human rights activists and pro-Palestinian groups formed to challenge the Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by sailing humanitarian aid ships to Gaza The group has more than 70 endorsers, including Desmond Tutu and Noam Chomsky"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Gaza_Movement

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Gaza_Movement#Controversy

There has been so much anti-Jewish rhetoric from Muslims that it is now dangerous for a Jew to travel anywhere on the African continent. China and Japan are among the safest places to wear a yarmulke or the Star of David.

Muhammad's erectile dysfunction... the Jews are behind it!!!

But Allah, the most beneficient, sent down Gabriel with some celestial Viagra. Allah Akbar!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/01/prophetess-of-islam.html

Oh, God! I KNEW it. I knew those Evil Jooz were responsible for the meteor that hit the earth and wiped out the dinosaurs!

And he's just proven it!

I do like MEMRI TV. It's kind of like an Arabic 'Monty Python'...

Knockelhead is to nice. you meand a D...bag.
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"Not open to debate."

In core Islamic texts, Muhammad says Allah hates when you ask too many questions

In Sahih al-Bukhari, the most canonical hadith collection:

Volume 2, Book 24, Number 555:

Narrated Ash-sha'bi:

The clerk of Al-Mughira bin Shu'ba narrated, "Muawiya wrote to Al-Mughira bin Shu'ba: Write to me something which you have heard from the Prophet (p.b.u.h) ." So Al-Mughira wrote: I heard the Prophet saying, "Allah has hated for you three things:

1. Vain talks, (useless talk) that you talk too much or about others.

2. Wasting of wealth (by extravagance)

3. And asking too many questions (in disputed religious matters) or asking others for something (except in great need).

Note: the parenthetical insertion, "in disputed religious matters," is not mine. It's part of the hadith as available at the University of Southern California hadith database. To see for yourself, click the link at the top of this comment.

Islamic cleric says a matter is "not open to debate." How typical.

From p.82 of the United Nations Arab Human Development Report, 2003:

...the number of books translated in the whole Arab world is one fifth of the number translated in Greece.

The aggregate total of translated books from the Al-Ma’moon era [over 1000 years ago] to the present day amounts to 10,000 books - equivalent to what Spain translates in a single year. This disparity was revealed in the first half of the 1980s when the average number of books translated per 1 million people in the Arab world during the 5-year period [1981-1985] was 4.4 (less than one book [per year] for every million Arabs), while in Hungary [during the same five year period] it was 519 [about 104 books per year per million people], and in Spain 920 [about 184 books per year per million people].

Hamas MP: "The Jews are behind each and every catastrophe on the face of the Earth. This is not open to debate."
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Well, *of course* this is not "open to debate". What in Islam ever is?

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Well, that covers it. Every catastrophe. No need for silly, elaborate conspiracy theories to explain each one. You can just know it's the Jews. Earthquakes, fires, famines, wars, invasions, riots? Jews!
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When Ayaan Hirsi Ali was living in Saudi Arabia as a child, people there chalked up just about any problem to "the Jews". Your car won't start? Jews! Plumbing clogs? Jews! Even things that made even less sense in this context—such as someone's boss being short-tempered that day—was likewise attributed to "the Jews". None of these people had ever met a Jewish person, and regarded them as any other mythical creature, like Djinn or gremlins.

And remember—Marwan Abu Ras is both a Hamas MP and a "member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars". This is the sort of "leadership" we are dealing with in Dar-al-Islam.

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Throughout history – from Nebuchadnezzar until modern times...
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Does Abu Ras know—or care—that not only was Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, *not Jewish*, but that he was the one who destroyed the first Temple? Of course not—why let facts get in the way of a good antisemitic rant? More Muslim "scholarship"...

"The Jews are behind each and every catastrophe on the face of the Earth. This is not open to debate."
- Madness! Is it not well overdue to declare Islam to be a mental illness?

Top Islamic authority explains the one good quality and the twenty evil qualities of Jews by quoting the Qur'an

The following article, with its numbered list of Qur'an-sourced statements of anti-semitism, used to be posted at IslamOnline.net, but they must have decided it better to keep such things only for Arab eyes, and removed the article at least for the time being. It can still be found, however, at numerous other sites on the web by pasting some of the below text into Google. Sheikh 'Atiyyah Saqr (died 2006), the Head of the Fatwa Committee at Al-Azhar University, the chief center of Islamic and Arabic learning in the world, wrote the article. Here it is:

“The Qur’an has specified a considerable deal of its verses to talking about Jews, their personal qualities and characteristics. The Qur’anic description of Jews is quite impartial; praising them in some occasions where they deserve praise and condemning them in other occasions where they practice blameworthy acts. Yet, the latter occasions outnumbered the former, due to their bad qualities and the heinous acts they used to commit.

The Qur’an praises them on the verse that reads: “ And verily We gave the Children of Israel the Scripture and the Command and the Prophethood, and provided them with good things and favored them above (all) peoples.” i.e. the peoples of their time. (Qur'an 45:16)

Among the bad qualities they were characterized with are the following:

1. They used to fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah. Allah Almighty says: “ That is because they say: We have no duty to the Gentiles. They speak a lie concerning Allah knowingly.” (Qur'an 3:75) Also: “The Jews say: Allah's hand is fettered. Their hands are fettered and they are accursed for saying so. Nay, but both His hands are spread out wide in bounty. He bestoweth as He will.” (Qur'an 5:64)

In another verse Almighty Allah says: “Verily Allah heard the saying of those who said, (when asked for contributions to the war): "Allah, forsooth, is poor, and we are rich! We shall record their saying with their slaying of the Prophets wrongfully and We shall say: Taste ye the punishment of burning!” (Qur'an 3:181)

2. They love to listen to lies. Concerning this Allah says: “and of the Jews: listeners for the sake of falsehood, listeners on behalf of other folk” (Qur'an 5:41)

3. Disobeying Almighty Allah and never observing His commands. Allah says: “And because of their breaking their covenant, We have cursed them and made hard their hearts.” (Qur'an 5:13)

4. Disputing and quarreling. This is clear in the verse that reads: “Their Prophet said unto them: Lo! Allah hath raised up Saul to be a king for you. They said: How can he have kingdom over us when we are more deserving of the kingdom than he is, since he hath not been given wealth enough?” (Qur'an 2:247)

5. Hiding the truth and standing for misleading. This can be understood from the verse that reads: “…distort the Scripture with their tongues, that ye may think that what they say is from the Scripture, when it is not from the Scripture.” (Qur'an 3:78)

6. Staging rebellion against the Prophets and rejecting their guidance. This is clear in the verse: “And when ye said: O Moses! We will not believe in thee till we see Allah plainly.” (Qur'an 2:55)

7. Hypocrisy. In a verse, we read: “And when they fall in with those who believe, they say: We believe; but when they go apart to their devils they declare: Lo! we are with you; verily we did but mock.” (Qur'an 2:14) In another verse, we read: “Enjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while ye yourselves forget (to practice it)? And ye are readers of the Scripture! Have ye then no sense?” (Qur'an 2:44)

8. Giving preference to their own interests over the rulings of religion and the dictates of truth. Allah says: “…when there cometh unto you a messenger (from Allah) with that which ye yourselves desire not, ye grow arrogant, and some ye disbelieve and some ye slay?” (Qur'an 2:87)

9. Wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them. This is clear in the verse that reads: “Many of the People of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them.” (Qur'an 2:109)

10. They feel pain to see others in happiness and are gleeful when others are afflicted with a calamity. This is clear in the verse that reads: “If a lucky chance befall you, it is evil unto them, and if disaster strike you they rejoice thereat.” (Qur'an 3:120)

11. They are known of their arrogance and haughtiness. They claimed to be the sons and of Allah and His beloved ones. Allah tells us about this in the verse that reads: “The Jews and Christians say: We are sons of Allah and His loved ones.” (Qur'an 5:18)

12. Utilitarianism and opportunism are among their innate traits. This is clear in the verse that reads: “And of their taking usury when they were forbidden it, and of their devouring people's wealth by false pretences.” (Qur'an 4:161)

13. Their impoliteness and indecent way of speech is beyond description. Referring to this, the Qur’anic verse reads: “Some of those who are Jews change words from their context and say: "We hear and disobey; hear thou as one who heareth not" and "Listen to us!" distorting with their tongues and slandering religion. If they had said: "We hear and we obey; hear thou, and look at us" it had been better for them, and more upright. But Allah hath cursed them for their disbelief, so they believe not, save a few.” (Qur'an 4:46)

14. It is easy for them to slay people and kill innocents. Nothing in the world is dear to their hearts than shedding blood and murdering human beings. They never give up this trait even with the Messengers and the Prophets. Allah says: “…and slew the prophets wrongfully.” (Qur'an 2:61)

15. They are merciless and heartless. In this meaning, the Qur’anic verse explains: “Then, even after that, your hearts were hardened and became as rocks, or worse than rocks, for hardness.” (Qur'an 2:74)

16. They never keep their promises or fulfill their words. Almighty Allah says: “Is it ever so that when ye make a covenant a party of you set it aside? The truth is, most of them believe not.” (Qur'an 2:100)

17. They rush hurriedly to sins and compete in transgression. Allah says: “They restrained not one another from the wickedness they did. Verily evil was that they used to do!” (Qur'an 5:79)

18. Cowardice and their love for this worldly life are their undisputable traits. To this, the Qur’an refers when saying: “Ye are more awful as a fear in their bosoms than Allah. That is because they are a folk who understand not. They will not fight against you in a body save in fortified villages or from behind walls. Their adversity among themselves is very great. Ye think of them as a whole whereas their hearts are divers.” (Qur'an 59:13-14). Allah Almighty also says: “And thou wilt find them greediest of mankind for life and (greedier) than the idolaters.” (Qur'an 2:96)

19. Miserliness runs deep in their hearts. Describing this, the Qur’an states: “Or have they even a share in the Sovereignty? Then in that case, they would not give mankind even the speck on a date stone.” (Qur'an 4:53)

20. Distorting Divine Revelation and Allah’s Sacred Books. Allah says in this regard: “Therefore woe be unto those who write the Scripture with their hands anthem say, "This is from Allah," that they may purchase a small gain therewith. Woe unto them for that their hands have written, and woe unto them for that they earn thereby.” (Qur'an 2:79)

After this clear explanation, we would like to note that these are but some of the most famous traits of the Jews as described in the Qur’an. They have revolted against the Divine ordinances, distorted what has been revealed to them and invented new teachings which, they claimed, were much more better than what has been recorded in the Torah. It was for these traits that they found no warm reception in all countries where they tried to reside. Rather, they would either be driven out or live in isolation. It was Almighty Allah who placed on them His Wrath and made them den of humiliation due to their transgression. Almighty Allah told us that He’d send to them people who’d pour on them rain of severe punishment that would last till the Day of Resurrection. All this gives us glad tidings of the coming victory of Muslims over them once Muslims stick to strong faith and belief in Allah and adopt the modern means of technology."

End of the Al-Azhar Sheikh's Qur'an citations about the Jews.

-- Quoting Islam

Is it not obvious my friends? Islam is Satan's religion & Biblical prophesy is being fulfilled. I know not the time accurately but it is all coming to a head soon...and it won't work out well for the muslims.

If the Jews are so powerful, the Moslems would be smart to get on their good side, instead of attacking them all the time. But first they'd have to get smart.

Ai-yai-yai! It's the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOZ who are responsible when it rained on our picnic!

@chowching: Speaking as an "Old China Hand", I say don't bet on China being that free of Jew-hatred. Most philo-Semitism in the Far East is associated with Biblicist Christians, who are a minority religion, even if a growing one. My own sense is that the stronger the sense of anti-Western grievance or nationalism without the influence of Christianity (I have run into Christians who were both big-N and small-n nationalists in Taiwan), the greater the likelihood of anti-Jewish sentiment, especially in regards to the Middle East.

Zeev Suffott, Israel's first ambassador to Beijing (served in the '90's), recalled in his memoir that some Communists he met blamed Jews among the "foreign friends" for the undercurrent of fanaticism in the Party, and the loss of the Chinese Communist Party's originally "humane" orientation. What Suffott heard was, of course, pure poppycock, for Mao and his henchmen were as much descendants of Huang Di as anyone else. But I think that message is ominous as well. It suggests that Chinese Communist support for the jihad against the West and for the Arab cause against Israel is informed by a taproot in the Chinese Communist ideology far deeper than Marxism. I'll add as well that I myself was shocked to hear admiration for Hitler expressed by a minion of the government when I was Vice-Consul in Guangzhou.

Further, official China has a strong undercurrent of suspicion towards Jews, especially in the wake of the Soviet collapse. During the 1990's, as descendants of Kaifeng's ancient Jewish community explored their connections to foreign Judaism after a century of non-observance, and some of the old "foreign friends" when Frum as they aged, the Chinese Commmunist Party actually felt a great deal of internal anxiety, agonizing over "What happened to the Soviet Big Brother after those people started getting uppity?"--even though this Jewish revival in China could not have involved more than a few hundred citizens of China at most.

Granted, at street level, there may be respect and even friendly interest towards the Jews among individuals and even families. Perhaps if there is indeed a major Evangelical revival going on in China, a certain amount of Philo-Semitism might arise with it, for most Biblically literate Chinese Christians are keenly aware of who gave them the Book and which nation the Messiah and the Prophets came from. Maybe among those dissatisfied with the Communist government, there's an appreciation for the Jews over their standing up to the Soviet State and causing the loss of a lot of Communist "face" in a few Middle Eastern wars. But Chinese governance has a long history of keeping popular opinion in an clearly subordinate opinion.

Further, part of the calculus for any Chinese government is that Islam is both an internal factor in China's national life and an important factor in the national lives of China's near neighbors. Quite apart from the Uyghur (who are more a colonial than a truly internal problem), the re-appropriation of traditional belief among the Hui goes along with resonance with political dissent. In recent decades, official China's strategy has been to find ways to co-opt such potential dissent. On the foreign front, China borders on the Muslim-majority nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia are not quite over the horizon--and their territorial waters actually touch Chinese claims in the South China Sea. Hence, whoever controls the Chinese core must consider Islamic sensitivities in order to retain control of the Chinese periphery and keep an even keel with neighboring powers.

I don't know much about Japan. Were Taiwan allowed to be a recognized nation free from the threat of an any-moment aggression from the Mainland, a Jewish community arising there either through immigration to an already crowded country or conversion of a sizeable chunk of natives would probably find incorporation and legal status only a matter of paperwork (provided an immigrant community was prepared to learn Chinese). But as for Mainland China, I'd wait for some kind of political sea change before I'd view it as a possible haven for the Jews.

In the meantime, I will stand for First Amendment rights here in America--even for people who wear peculiar garb.

Gee, if I had only realized earlier that my grandmother was part of such a powerful group.....Maybe, I could have gone to Harvuuud too.

You guys don't understand. This is the religion of peace. The attacks on Benghazi that killed our ambassador were attacks of peace. The attacks this aberration of a person is calling against the jews are attacks of peace. Come on . . . . . .

''Any catastrophe on the face of this Earth – the Jews must be behind it.''

I wonder, if someone were to put this statement on an ad, or any one of the innumerable hate verses in the koran, would the useful idiots, the wet kumbaya Jews and Christians, protest against such hate and bigotry ?

Would that moral ignoramus, Eltahawy, spray pink paint on it, because she was 'standing against hate' ?

No, such 'anti-hate', anti-bigotry' displays, are reserved for those who **speak the truth**. As Ms. Geller so truly says, ''truth is the new hate speech.'' And **real** hate speech is ignored by these wicked, stupid fools.

Marwan Abu Ras can just pucker up and kiss my ass.

muslime scholar, that makes about as much sense as fish pants.

This Abu Ras guy sounds like a few commenters who frequent (more in past years, perhaps) the Gates of Vienna blog.