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Moderate Abbas quotes Qur’an to present fighting for Israel as “war for Allah”

Jul 24, 2014 12:44 pm By Robert Spencer

ObamaAbbasHussam Ayloush, executive director​ of the Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations of Greater Los Angeles (CAIR-LA), said last week that “he wants American viewers to understand that the conflict is about illegal occupation of land and freedom and not a religious war.” So as to emphasize that these were his words, Ayloush tweeted out that same quote. Will he now retract his words in light of Abbas’s statement? Don’t count on it. Remember: Muhammad said, “War is deceit”!

“Fatah: Abbas presents fighting Israel as religious ‘war for Allah,'” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, July 24, 2014:

This week, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas ended a speech about the current conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza with a quote from the Quran justifying war. His Fatah party interpreted Abbas’ statement to mean that fighting against Israel is justified on religious Islamic grounds:

“[PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas] concluded his brief speech with the first verse of the Quran that permits Muslims to wage war for Allah.” [Facebook, “Fatah – The Main Page”, July 22, 2014]

Presenting a conflict as a religious war can have dangerous implications. In September 2000, Yasser Arafat said that then-Israeli MP Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount defiled the Al-Aqsa Mosque. He used this claim as a guise to launch the “Al-Aqsa Intifada” (i.e., second Intifada) terror campaign, which led to the deaths of over 1200 Israelis and tourists and 4000 Palestinians.

In 2012 the PA’s highest PA religious leader, the Mufti Muhammad Hussein, presented the killing of Jews by Muslims as a religious Islamic goal….

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  1. zulu says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 12:49 pm

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    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 25, 2014 at 1:51 am

      Fleeing from Muslim-infested-and-subverted France, to Muslim-infested-and-subverted Britain…like jumping from a frying pan into a fire.

  2. duh_swami says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    It’s not possible for the pious to fight anything but a religious war. Allah is behind everything they do. If it’s not religious, they must stop shouting Allahu Akbar and they must stop saying ‘Allah willing’ when it comes to the war.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 24, 2014 at 3:00 pm

      Yes, or ‘allah’ will be very *cross*, and spank their botties.

  3. MacUalraig says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 4:10 pm

    Obama and Abbas can deepthroat my scrotum.

  4. mary_gonzales says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 6:06 pm

    I wonder why they didnt mention in koran about Hindu for the honor religious killing for their acting in India..

  5. Anon says

    Jul 24, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    Quote “…the conflict is about illegal occupation of land…”

    Yeah, the Palestinians and Hamas are illegally occupying the land, how far back in history or time do you want to go?

    Israel tries to avoid civilians. Palestinians purposefully target civilians. Wow, talk about civilized vs. savages.

  6. ECAW says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 4:31 am

    Don’t get it. This is the first verse of the Koran:

    In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. [2] All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. [3] The Beneficent, the Merciful. [4] Master of the Day of Judgment. [5] Thee do we serve and Thee do we beseech for help. [6] Keep us on the right path. [7] The path of those upon whom Thou hast bestowed favors. Not (the path) of those upon whom Thy wrath is brought down, nor of those who go astray.

    Where does it permit Muslims to wage war for Allah?

  7. Elisheva14 says

    Jul 25, 2014 at 11:40 am

    Abbas is two faced and a hater of Israel and the Jews. The war is not over land rights as Israel gave Gaza to the Palestinians who then used it to destroy Israel. These people are vile and full of hate to anyone who is other than them. Hate is a very powerful emotion. It is like Cancer that spreads rapidly. It is very dangerous. Hamas uses human shields, ambulances and hospitals. They have a huge network of underground tunnels. They want to destroy all the Jews. Here is Hamas’ charter:
    http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 26, 2014 at 6:31 am

      Word about that evil Charter is spreading amongst non-Muslims.

      I have been reading at various Comments threads in various media outlets in the past week, and I have noticed a fair number of people who are aware of that Charter. They have read it – *all* of it, not just quotes – and they are sharing their knowledge with others.

      The thing is, people get curious, read it, and if they have any commonsense and common decency at all, they a/ go OH SH*T and then b/ they say to themselves, “Oho. So THAT explains it!” and they begin to understand *why* the so-called “peace process” goes nowhere and will always go nowhere. Once they “get” what Hamas is about, and see all those Quran quotes and the Hadith quotes, they are on a fair way to understanding that the entire Arab/Muslim war upon Israel is…Jihad. And that it’s just a subset of Global Jihad.

      Cat’s outta the bag, and how.

  8. Talal Itani says

    Aug 3, 2014 at 6:28 pm

    Quran 9:111. “God has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties in exchange for Paradise. They fight in God’s way, and they kill and get killed. It is a promise binding on Him in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Quran. And who is more true to his promise than God? So rejoice in making such an exchange-that is the supreme triumph.”

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