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Israel: Two Muslim clerics arrested in connection to jihad stabbing attack in Jerusalem

Apr 5, 2017 5:49 pm By Robert Spencer

“The two suspects, da’is (charitable workers for Islamic organizations) at the mosque, are named Sami Abed Fatiha and Hasnin Zahnir.”

Actually a da’i is someone who engages in Islamic proselytizing, dawah. Did they think that their involvement in this attack was inconsistent with their proselytizing for Islam? No, it’s much more likely that they thought their involvement in this attack was itself an act of dawah. But no officials in any country are willing to ponder the implications of that fact. And most would deny it outright, not on the basis of any facts but simply because it is inconvenient.

“Two clerics arrested connected to Old City stabbing,” by Roi Yanovsky, Ynet News, April 2, 2017:

Two clerics at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount were arrested as part of an investigation into the attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday.

Two civilians and one policeman were slightly injured in the attack.

The two suspects, da’is (charitable workers for Islamic organizations) at the mosque, are named Sami Abed Fatiha and Hasnin Zahnir. Their remand was extended by four days, and a gag order was imposed on every detail of the investigation, apart from the arrest of the two.

During the incident, the attacker, 17-year-old Ahmad Jazal from the Nablus area in the West Bank, was shot dead by the Border Police officer that he had stabbed.

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 6:10 pm

    Those ‘NICE MUSLIMS’ that we meet every day just can’t resist behaving like JIHADISTS.

    You know the old anecdote that goes like this…’I know this NICE MUSLIM who ISN’T a terrorist.’ Except, it turns out that NOBODY KNEW this ‘NICE MUSLIM’ was plotting JIHAD TERRORISM.

    They’re all SO SHOCKED! The jihadists were known to their neighbors as ‘CALM, RELAXED and NICE’… just like Khalid Masood who crushed people on Westminster Bridge and then stabbed a policeman to death FOR ALLAH.

    Let’s have some ISLAMO-REALISM now:

    IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!

    • salim says

      Apr 6, 2017 at 4:58 am

      The least Israel can do, but not enough.
      There is no excuse for appeasing Islam and the Islamists but if there is one, the last country that can be excused is Israel and the last people are the Jews. Yet Israel and the Jews tolerate organisations and people who believe they are pigs and monkeys and believe in their annihilation. Israel did nothing to help stopping radical Islam among the Palestinians who became very radicalised under Israeli rule since 1967. Besides, Israel has been friendly with countries traditionally pro islamists like Saudi and Jordan.
      Its beyond me that some Jews actually co operated with Iran and others, even in Israel, converted to Islam and supported killing the Jews..!

      • carpediadem says

        Apr 6, 2017 at 8:42 am

        Um, HELLO!! The entire world funds the jihadi Palestinians with their own tax money, bankrupting themselves so their proxy Jewhater slaves, the Palestinians will murder the Jews of Israel.
        If Israel does one thing to defend itself the entire world, govts, churches, NGOs, Muslims everywhere, and students in all universities scream, become violent, attack Jews and march in the streets.
        The UN passes anti Israel resolutions every day, approving jihad and is in solidarity with the jihadi Hamas /Palestinians.

        They give a free pass to every jihad Islamic nation on earth and you criticise Israel for not doing enough?

        When was the last time you complained to your local politician about sending your tax money to Gaza!?

        • salim says

          Apr 6, 2017 at 9:41 am

          The rise of Hamas happened when the Palestinians were under Israeli rule. The Palestinians were relatively secular until the early 1980s. If you don’t blame Israel for not stopping the Palestinians from joining the radicalisation wave you should also do the same for other Arab governments.
          The Israelis have been touring the West Bank since 1967 and they hear to loud speakers calling them pigs and monkeys and must be killed, but they never complained. They were the victors but happy to be humiliated by the defeated. The radicalisation of the Islamic world started in Egypt in the 1970, while Sadat was negotiating peace deal with Israel, it was so obvious but the Israelis did nothing about it.
          The Jews in Israel have been converting to Islam and turning against their own race, which reflects a fault in the system that allows such a thing to take place.
          A substantial number of the Jews outside Israel have been supportive to Islamists. Many times people speak up and oppose my ideas and criticism of Islam and to my disappointment I often find they were Jews!!
          Many of the MSM was and still owned by Jews, yet that same media allowed the pro islamic left liberal bias, which started in the 1990s, to take place.

    • A Harris USA says

      Apr 6, 2017 at 12:07 pm

      Mortimer, You said it!!! San Berdo is the best example that you bring to mind!! The 14 dead souls who were murdered after throwing a baby shower for the MUSLIM couple, who seemed so nice and “normal”.. yeah, normal Muslim… That is just they way they are!! Israel is well aware of these slimy pigs, and their understanding of Muslim neighbors.. the stupid libs in the US and Europe, do not seem to get the picture!!

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 6:12 pm

    Islam’s JIHAD TERRORISM has NOTHING TO DO with ‘niceness’.

    • Jihadi John says

      Apr 6, 2017 at 2:04 am

      Islam and terrorism? No effing way!
      Islam is the Religion of Peace™.

  3. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 6:14 pm

    Frankly, the very *instant* that the Israelis liberated the Temple Mount and Jerusalem Old City in 1967 the waqf and all mohammedans on the Mount and in the Old City (from both of which they had continually launched murderous attacks on Jews) should have been rounded up and booted off the premises into Islamic Jordan, then and there, and the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosque should have been stripped and searched and if weapons were found there, then they should have been treated like any army treats the forward operating base of an enemy force, i.e. razed to the ground. Temple Mount declared Jewish Israeli sovereign territory. And no Mohammedans permitted to return henceforward. ‘Strong Horse’ approach. No explanations, no apologies – “It’s ours, our ancestral historic and sacred site, we liberated it and got it back in defensive warfare by force of arms, period.”

    • Wellington says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 8:31 pm

      I’ll go you one better, dda. After the Six-Day War, Israel should have expelled all Muslims from the West Bank (much as the Czechs did with Germans from the Sudetenland in 1945) and formally annexed it to Israel. Ditto for the Golan Heights (unambiguously and not as things stand now) and the Gaza Strip. All three by now should be part of a formal Israel.

      As for the Sinai, my gut tells me Israel should have kept it too, though perhaps allowing Bedouin tribes to continue to function there if they agreed to serve Israel, but annexed to Israel nonetheless. If this had happened, Israel would not be a small state of some 8,000 to 10,000 square miles but a medium state of some 45,000 square miles (around 115,000 square kilometers) and with far more defensible borders. Besides, the Israelis would have made much better use of such land than the Arab Muslim world ever would.

      Those disagreeing with me here (and especially about the Sinai where the deal with Sadat is somewhat defensible even for a staunch supporter of Israel like myself), should answer the question, “Do you think by now anything would be worse off if such occurred?” I mean how much worse off could things be if Israel had followed the geopolitical, purely political and, by implication, the military outline I mentioned above?

      And I would close that with this: Assuming Israel had done what I think it should have done in 1967, it should have then very publicly announced to the Muslim world and to the world at large, that thereafter it wanted to live in peace with its neighbors but should its neighbors seek yet more wars, Israel would annex even more territory should their enemies never learn and start more wars. Again, how would this scenario be worse for Israel than the situation now? I ask this of you. I ask this of anyone. I’m thinking grand strategy here as well as what would have been best not only for Israel but for Western Civilization as a whole, Islam being an eternal enemy of both———-as surely it is.

      • mortimer says

        Apr 5, 2017 at 11:24 pm

        Agree with Welly, but great plans require great support from great powers. Israel did not have the firm support of great powers. The US has been timid in supporting Israel at best.

        To be an Israeli prime minister must be one of the most frustrating jobs in the world. They clearly see how easy this problem is to solve.

        It would have been solved if the Muslim Brotherhood had not existed.

        Fraternitas Mohametanorum delenda est.

      • Baucent says

        Apr 6, 2017 at 5:27 am

        I agree with both of you. The fact remains that from the time of the British Mandate it was always envisaged that the territory named “Jordan” was for the Arab population of the “Holy Land”, while “Palestine” was for the Jews. The Christians were to have a majority state to the north, in “Lebanon”.
        It’s often forgotten today that this whole swathe of territory was controlled by the Turks until the end of the First World War. During the Ottoman era there was no independent nations of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria or Jordan. All are inventions of the 20th century.

        So Israel would have been within it’s rights, in following the original division plan. Insisting the Arabs that were in “Palestine”, must move to their nation of Jordan. Unfortunately they lacked the political muscle and support from the West to push that through. Had it happened the security situation for Israel may have been very different today.

      • carpediadem says

        Apr 6, 2017 at 8:45 am

        You want grand strategy?

        Organise your fellow citizens and lobby your politician to STOP sending money to the Palestinians, to Gaza, to the Muslims brotherhood.
        STOP attacking Jews on campus, expel the attackers and make it very plain that anti Israel activity will not be tolerated in your country and no tax money of yours is to go to jihadis.

        Good luck with that.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Apr 7, 2017 at 6:50 am

          Well worth a try.

          In America, people can join ACT for America and push their congresspeople to stop aid to ALL Mohammedan entities – which would include the so-called ‘Palestinian’ Arabs (mostly Muslim).

          We don’t have anything comparable to ACT for America, in Australia; but every one of us, every Islamosavvy Friend of Zion, everywhere we are, can step up and do what we can. Even if – and especially if – people tell us it’s a waste of time.

          Because we don’t know whether anything *is* a waste of time until we try… and in any case, something worth doing is worth doing, whether it succeeds or not.

    • Mo says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 8:39 pm

      @ dumbledoresarmy

      “Frankly, the very *instant* that the Israelis liberated the Temple Mount and Jerusalem Old City in 1967 the waqf and all mohammedans on the Mount and in the Old City (from both of which they had continually launched murderous attacks on Jews) should have been rounded up and booted off the premises into Islamic Jordan, then and there, and the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosque should have been stripped and searched and if weapons were found there, then they should have been treated like any army treats the forward operating base of an enemy force, i.e. razed to the ground. Temple Mount declared Jewish Israeli sovereign territory. And no Mohammedans permitted to return henceforward. ‘Strong Horse’ approach. No explanations, no apologies – “It’s ours, our ancestral historic and sacred site, we liberated it and got it back in defensive warfare by force of arms, period.” ”

      AMEN! Absolutely right!

      This is why I do not comprehend WHY Israel puts up with its citizens being slaughtered in the streets. They have the means to deal with these death cultists TODAY, if they chose to!

      Why they refuse is a question I cannot seem to find any answer to!

      • carpediadem says

        Apr 6, 2017 at 8:48 am

        They don’t refuse, but Israel is the most scrutinised and demonised country in the world. They have churches dogging the steps of their army officers, NGOs tracking them and writing reports and spreading vicious lies about them, all sorts of Jewhaters go to Israel and protect the Palis and interfere with the IDF protecting Jews.

        Do something about that! Go to your churches and demonstrate against their Jewhatred.
        Ask them why they are persecuting Jews instead of protecting Christians against Islamic murder.

        Help to stop the pressure the world exerts on Israel.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 5, 2017 at 8:42 pm

      Good posts, Dumbledore’s Army and Wellington.

  4. Terry says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 6:23 pm

    The Muslims and the Muslim apologists complained, back in 1967 when Israel retook ALL of Jerusalem, that” we (muslims) cannot pray there”.

    jews ALWAYS allowed anyone to pray, at any place..

    IT WAS THE MUSLIMS THAT DESTROYED ALL SYNAGOGUES IN JERUSALEM EXCEPT ONE; AND KEPT JEWS FROM PAYING AT THE WESTERN WALL.

    But, why should Muslims and their apologists, like James Earl Carter, aka Jimmy Carter aka peanut brain;(later years-Barrack Hussein Obama); Ellison and assorted assholes, both in the US and elsewhere. Not to mention J Street’ ” Rabbis For peace” ( a Soros funded group); and others let MERE FACTS GET IN THEIR WAY.

    They should all die, terible deaths (Carter is starting on one with his brain cancer) and suffer.

    My non pc views

    • Dave de la Rond says

      Apr 6, 2017 at 3:53 am

      We should chip in and send Jimmy Carter and George Soros the biggest Shiva Platters in The world ,Good riddance both will be gone in 2017

  5. AleX says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 6:34 pm

    Since it’s a terrorist act, their houses will be leveled with a bulldozer. I can only hope they have one. This measure should be implemented everywhere in the West.

  6. gravenimage says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    Israel: Two Muslim clerics arrested in connection to jihad stabbing attack in Jerusalem

    “The two suspects, da’is (charitable workers for Islamic organizations) at the mosque, are named Sami Abed Fatiha and Hasnin Zahnir.”
    ………………..

    This should surprise no one. And there is no charity in Islam in the way we use the term. Zakat goes for anything that furthers the spread of Islam–and that includes funding violent Jihad.

  7. Dov Berrol says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 9:40 pm

    Of the many valuable things I have learnt from JihadWatch and Robert Spencer, the central role that Muslim Jihad ideology plays in the Arab-Israeli conflict is one of the most important to me as a Zionist. Just like we can not properly deal with the Jihad World War without a thorough understanding of the motivating ideology behind it, we can not properly understand the centuries old Arab hatred of Jews without the same understanding. The ongoing Arab war against the Jews of the Middle East and the Jewish desire for self-determination and our desire for independence from dhimmitude is firmly based in Mohammedan scripture and jurisprudence. I am amazed that it took until September 11, 2001 for all us westerners to wake up to the real problem facing Jews in the Arab Middle East. And we Zionists really need to learn to “turn the tables” on the psychological projection in the Arab complaint that Israel is a result of European colonial imperialism, when in truth it is the Arabs who colonized territory foreign to them in order to further their dream of world domination.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 6, 2017 at 9:00 am

      EXACTLY.

      I am so glad that Mr Spencer’s site has been able to clarify matters for you like that.

      Now, all you have to do is to make sure that *all* Zionist Jews and all non-Jewish Friends of Zion are – as quickly as possible – assisted to understand what you have understood : that Israel – like many another Infidel nation – is fighting for its life against a neverending genocidal Jihad, jihad that is driven by the Muslim dream of achieving Total World Domination, a global sharia despotism, the whole *world* transformed into something like a ghastly blend of Saudi Arabia and the mullahs’ Iran and Yemen and Somalia and Afghanistan.

      As the astute Armenian-American undercover journalist ‘John Roy Carlson’ [not his real name; a nom de guerre] put it, in the title of an early chapter in his brilliant book ‘Cairo to Damascus’ (1951) – “World of the Koran: Islam, Islam Uber Alles”. *That* is the goal of Islam, and of Muslims, of the Ummah or Allah Gang, the Mohammedan Mob.

  8. mortimer says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 11:31 pm

    Caliph abd al Malik created Islam. He thought the Arabs would accept Jerusalem as the center of the new religion of Islam that he invented. They refused it because the Kaaba was in Petra and always had been. In the 8th century, Arabs were confused. They couldn’t go back to the goddess worship and Hubal worship at the Petra Kaaba, but they didn’t want to worship in Jerusalem. Abd al Malik created Mecca, his ancestral region as the center of Islam. Abd al Malik was ‘Mohammed’… he placed the stone in the brand new Kaaba in Mecca and then made up the story that it had been there all along. A real shyster, Abd al Malik was.

    The whole story of Mohammed riding a flying donkey to Jerusalem was made up by Abd al Malik too. What a lot of trouble that man has caused over the last 1300 years.

    • Biff H says

      Apr 6, 2017 at 8:26 am

      If, as it has been reported that there were 23 known Kaabas in the Arabian Peninsula, many more in outlying environs, and devotes would sometimes fashion a stone to worship out of moisture and sand, and according to one hadith MadMo said the Yemeni Corner holds a special place of significance in forgiving sin, wouldn’t it be more likely that a combination of revered holy relics from competing centers of worship were placed in the Kaaba in Mecca to lend credibility to idea of a centralized location for worship? Muslims can touch the Yemeni Corner but cannot kiss or point to it during their circumambulation of the Kaaba. I get your take that based on the archeological evidence that the earliest direction of prayer points to Petra as the most likely center of worship of Hubal, the Yemeni Corner’s place of reverence in the Kaaba at Mecca gives me pause to accept your explanation. It appears Abd al Malik’s creation underwent another revision in the 10th century and there appears to be many dogs in the fight.

  9. Relic says

    Apr 6, 2017 at 12:36 am

  10. Angemon says

    Apr 6, 2017 at 12:01 pm

    OFF TOPIC:

    Reading this article about Israel got me thinking: why is it that the people who say that Western nations must take in “migrants” and “refugees” are the same people (in a sense of general political spectrum, not necessarily all individuals in it) who denounce Israel and say Jews have no business in the Middle East because they migrated there after WWII?

  11. Carole Kotkiewicz says

    Apr 7, 2017 at 10:57 am

    Will everyone figure out where they are supposed to be, go there, and quit stinking up everyone else pasture? Live, and let live. Be content in what you have, and it will be well with you.

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