Back in 2007, I debated Dinesh d’Souza at CPAC and on a few radio shows on the thesis of his book, The Enemy At Home, which claimed that jihad terrorism was a reaction to the corruption of American pop culture, and recommended that U.S. conservatives ally with “conservative Muslims” on shared moral grounds. During these debates, I pressed him repeatedly to name even one conservative Muslim that he thought would be a good ally for conservatives in the U.S. He refused repeatedly, and repeatedly misrepresented my request as evidence that I thought all Muslims were terrorists, but finally he named Ali Gomaa, then-Mufti of Egypt. As I expected, d’Souza thus exposed the weakness of his entire argument, for Ali Gomaa, far from being a moderate, Western-style pluralist, actually endorsed wife-beating, Hizballah, and the punishment of apostates from Islam.
And now he insists that the notorious hadith that calls for genocide of the Jews is authentic and will come true, and even claims that the Jews believe it and are preparing accordingly. I don’t know if Dinesh d’Souza still thinks he would be a reliable ally or still stands by his ridiculous thesis, but over the years I’ve spoken to many conservatives who bought his argument hook, line and sinker. The damage is done.
“Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 6985)
“Former Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa: Jews Plant ‘Gharqad’ Trees to Hide from Muslims on Judgment Day,” MEMRI, December 23, 2014:
Following are excerpts from a program featuring former Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa, which aired on CBC TV and was posted on the Internet on December 23, 2014:
Ali Gomaa: The hadith that relates how [the stones and the trees will say:] “There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him” is a 100% reliable hadith that appears in Muslim’s compilation. But I must stress that we will not attack anyone. We are the ones under attack. The Prophet Muhammad was right when he foretold that before this, the Zionist entity would occupy our land, and would kill our sons, violate our women’s honor, and steal our money.
One day this miracle will take place, when the Palestinians and all the Muslims will fight the Jews until even the stone and the tree will talk, except for the Ghardaq. That is what the hadith says. In Egypt, we have turned this into “Ghardaqa.” The city of Ghardaqa is named after the Gharqad trees planted there. They changed the order of the letters, but it’s the same thing.
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Some people question the reliability of this hadith, but it is 100% authentic and will come true. Look how the Jews are planting Gharqad trees all over the West Bank. They know that it will protect them when they hide behind it. They believe these sacred texts, while some Muslims doubt them. But most of the Muslims believe in these texts and will continue to do so.

TH says
I saw one of those debates on yourtube and D’Souza got trounced as he didn’t have a leg to stand on.
Angemon says
And these are the people Israel is supposed to appease…
jihad me at hello says
Unbelievable, appease a people whose deity is out smarted by a tree and can’t author its eternal book without plagiarising Jewish and Christian writings, even though Allah had all eternity to come up with something original and who’s number one prophet sleeps with a 9yo girl, marries his daughter in law, assassinates critics, murders Jews, etc. It’s hard not to feel sad for the state of humanity when 20% of the worlds population is an adherent to this junk.
Blasphemyman says
Sacerdotal dickheads seem to be the core of idiotic Islam.
Almost everyday these”Holey headcases” release a Fartwa or statement ,that is completely contrary to common sense; and yet politically correct perverts demand respect for their nonsense.
It’s my view that they should be the subject of satirical black comedy.
PC poison prevents free speech!
Buraq says
Of course, if the Israelis were to cut down all the “Gharqad” trees, then Al Qur’an’s prediction would look pretty silly.
Hide behind the Gharqad trees? What Gharqad trees?
Clowns!
Know Thy Enemy says
Mufti’s claim that Jews are busy planting Gharqad trees is a LIE. Islam runs on lies! if the Israelis were to cut down all the Gharqad trees, then too these muftis and mullahs will continue their lies. They will say the Jews are lying [about having cut down Gharkad trees] to fool the Muslims.
And of course the Muslims will either buy into these lies or will keep their mouths shut.
Ed in North Texas says
Within the past month or so I read an article where Turkey was cutting down olive groves for industrial growth (and profits). What accompanied the extensive destruction of olive groves often a couple of hundred years in existence, was a “whispering campaign” alleging that the olive tree was the “Tree of the Jews” behind which the Jews would hide from Muslims at the end times.
So it would appear that not only the boxthorn, or the low growing bush Nitraria retusa, but also the Olive tree (the Islamists do seem to have a problem with defining what it actually is).
What is amazing to me is that Western “leaders” would worry about insulting people who could believe this garbage.
Salah says
This is the same Ali Gomaa who once said:
“The whole body of the Apostle is pure even his human waste.”
Warning: Don’t read the following while enjoying a meal. Bon Appétit…
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/11/glory-of-muhammad.html
Jay Boo says
Semantics
The word ‘pure’ is sometimes used to refer to something clean.
However it can also be used to denote 100 % of any particular thing.
Therefore Ali Gomaa may have been correct if he meant that —
Muhammad was 100 % human waste
Jay Boo says
One day he will be planted in the ground and all the filthy Muslim worms will say there is a Muslim hiding beneath the earth; it is time to eat.
BlueRaven says
If anyone hides behind trees, stones, innocent civilians, children, women, young girls are Muslims. I forgot underground like slimy worms. In this case the Kuran has accurately predicted the events when the word Jews is replaced by Muslims. This is how the Muslims kill theirs and other innocent civilians, of course they blame it on the Joooose. Islam produces losers – that is a fact.
duh_swami says
Talking trees, talking rocks, talking animals…Not only did Mahound see things Aisha did not, he also heard things, or lied and said he did. Did he really hear Gabriel? Did a demon (Gabby?) really press him three times in the cave and demand he read? Really? Well if it’s in hadith or mentioned in Quran, it must be true. I’m not so sure, I keep talking to trees and rocks and they never say a thing.
cheekturner says
This just shows how dumb muslims are! FFS talkin’ trees and stones and dumb trees? They really believe this? You got to be joking. And this guy is a grand mufti? Grand Twat more like.
Hey duh_swami, you keep talkin to dem trees ‘n stones but until you is no longer a infidel and becomes a believer you ain’t gonna hear nothin.
Ho ho ho ho ho!
henry1941 says
Lots of people hear things that others do not. It is a classic psychotic symptom. The patients are treated accordingly.
duh_swami says
Mahound talked about trees and rocks but did not actually hear them. He claimed to have overheard a conversation between a wolf and a cow. When the people were astonished that cows and wolves talked, Mahound name dropped for support. He said the Umar and Abu Bakr believe it, even though they were not there. Of course St Francis supposedly talked to animals, but there is no claim that the animals talked to each other.
RCCA says
Islamic teachings aren’t helping this old guy’s fragile grip on reality.
jihad me at hello says
So even on judgement day, the END of history, this all-powerful being, Allah, still needs his armed Muslims underlings to pull the unbeliever in to line and implement the plans of this All-powerful being. What a pathetic entity this Allah (Satan) is and his deadbeat religion.
Sheikh Yabooty says
There is one very interesting, telling comment in this little screed: “Look how the Jews are planting Gharqad trees all over the West Bank….”
In this statement, Ali Gomaa is perhaps attempting to rationalize why the Israelis are known for planting millions of trees throughout their land (not restricted to Gharqad trees, of course), thus transforming an essentially barren, neglected landscape into a green, viable ecosystem. At the same time, the “Palestinians” are well known for trying to torch many of these forests whenever they launch one of their occasional intifadas…
Of course, Mr. Gomaa doesn’t want to explore this topic too deeply, as it would raise more uncomfortable questions for him, such as:
* If the “Palestinians” are the true indigenous people there, with a deep attachment to the land, then why are they often so willing to destroy its natural resources while the Israelis devote so much energy and effort to preserve and restore the environment?
* If it was essentially the efforts of the Zionist pioneers (via forestation, rural and urban development, etc.) that made it possible to sustain larger populations in the land of Israel, then how would it be possible to speak about a “great Palestinian civilization” that was displaced by the creation of Israel?
* Indeed, following from the last point: if the land of Israel simply couldn’t sustain hundreds of thousands (and later, millions) of residents until the pioneers developed the land, then doesn’t it seem likely that many if not most of the “Palestinians” were relatively recent arrivals to the area (from other regions of the Middle East), immigrating to the area in order to benefit from the prosperity generated by the hated Jews (along with the British colonial adminstration)?
Wow, it looks like Ali Gomaa may have more thoughts in the back of his mind than he is willing to admit…
Sheikh Yabooty says
There is one very interesting, telling comment in this little screed: “Look how the Jews are planting Gharqad trees all over the West Bank….”
In this statement, Ali Gomaa is perhaps attempting to rationalize why the Israelis are known for planting millions of trees throughout their land (not restricted to Gharqad trees, of course), thus transforming an essentially barren, neglected landscape into a green, viable ecosystem. At the same time, the “Palestinians” are well known for trying to torch many of these forests whenever they launch one of their occasional intifadas…
Of course, Mr. Gomaa doesn’t want to explore this topic too deeply, as it would raise more uncomfortable questions for him, such as:
* If the “Palestinians” are the true indigenous people there, with a deep attachment to the land, then why are they often so willing to destroy its natural resources while the Israelis devote so much energy and effort to preserve and restore the environment?
* If it was essentially the efforts of the Zionist pioneers (via forestation, rural and urban development, etc.) that made it possible to sustain larger populations in the land of Israel, then how would it be possible to speak about a “great Palestinian civilization” that was displaced by the creation of Israel?
* Indeed, following from the last point: if the land of Israel simply couldn’t sustain hundreds of thousands (and later, millions) of residents until the pioneers developed the land, then doesn’t it seem likely that many if not most of the “Palestinians” were relatively recent arrivals to the area (from other regions of the Middle East), immigrating to the area in order to benefit from the prosperity generated by the hated Jews (along with the British colonial adminstration)?
Wow, it looks like Ali Gomaa may have more thoughts in the back of his mind than he is willing to admit…
P.S. Sorry for advance, if this comment is “double posted” (waited an hour, but didn’t see this appear the first time I tried to post)
Angemon says
Sheikh Yabooty posted:
“In this statement, Ali Gomaa is perhaps attempting to rationalize why the Israelis are known for planting millions of trees throughout their land (not restricted to Gharqad trees, of course), thus transforming an essentially barren, neglected landscape into a green, viable ecosystem. At the same time, the “Palestinians” are well known for trying to torch many of these forests whenever they launch one of their occasional intifadas…”
You’re absolutely right – Jews transformed wasteland into green lands while muslims did the exact opposite.
Scoffer1 says
Anybody know where I can buy toilet paper with the Koran’s verses printed on it?
Islam is a pestilence, supported and believed in by ignorant fools.
chris says
its a sad thing that here were are in 2015 and we are reading about the coming judgement on the jews and trees and stone will be helping the muslims to locate jews so they can be killed.
I am surprised Muhammad didn’t teach the the jews after they take a s##t the s##t will scream out here is a jew who has imprisoned and I escape come and kill him oh muslim in the glorious name of allah .
if you are a muslim reading this , does anything in islam make sense.
if a man came out of prison and says , I was a pedophile I marry a 6 year old girl and I was nice enough to wait till she is 9 before I enjoy her well developed body would u follow him.
what if that man came out of prison and said I killed many people in the name of a god who only talks to me, or I love to steal, I took my adopted sons wife, I was demon possessed , I kill anyone who does not submit to me, I love to have many sex slave. would you follow him?
most rational people would not, but yet u follow a man who does all this an much more.
and u think this man will lead you to paradise, think again!
talking trees, talking stones and if you choose to leave this ” religion ” you will be killed.
are u starting to see the point?
islam makes as much sense as rock and trees who are snitches. lol