Jihad grandstanding over a propaganda fiction. My latest at Breitbart:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is insisting that Jerusalem is the “eternal capital of the state of Palestine” after President Donald Trump recognized the city as the capital of Israel.
No Palestinian state has ever existed, but Abbas is leveraging the claim that Jerusalem is its third holiest city of Islam, after Mecca and Medina.
Moreover, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount are less important in Islam than they are important in Muslims’ anti-Semitic hatred of Israel.
Muhammad’s famous Night Journey (Isra and Miraj) is the basis of the Islamic claim to Jerusalem as an Islamic holy city. Yet this journey is never mentioned in the Qur’an, and neither is Jerusalem. The first verse of Sura 17 says that Allah took Muhammad from “the Sacred Mosque” in Mecca “to the farthest [al-aqsa] Mosque.” There was no mosque in Jerusalem at this time (if the traditional chronology regarding the Qur’an is to be believed), so the “farthest” mosque probably wasn’t really the one that now bears that name in Jerusalem. Islamic tradition, however, is firm that this mosque is in Jerusalem.
According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad described the vision as beginning when the angel “Gabriel came and stirred me with his foot.” Soon “a white animal which was smaller than a mule and bigger than a donkey was brought to me.” This was the Buraq, which Muhammad further described as “half mule, half donkey, with wings on its sides with which it propelled its feet.”
Buraq carried Muhammad to the Temple Mount, and from there Muhammad was taken into heaven itself, where he encountered the other prophets and was given by Allah himself the order that Muslims should pray five times daily. Later Muhammad seems to have retreated from the claim that this was a bodily journey. His wife Aisha explained: “The apostle’s body remained where it was but God removed his spirit by night.”
This fantastic legend, which was first distributed in the late eighth century, over 150 years after the traditional date for the death of Muhammad, is the entire basis for the Islamic claim to Jerusalem. It was never an important city in Islam until one man decided to make it so as a response to Zionism.
That man was the Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who lived in Berlin during World War II and recruited Muslims to serve as soldiers for the Nazis. He also made broadcasts in Arabic to Muslim countries, in which he quoted the Qur’an’s anti-Semitic passages to justify Nazi persecution of the Jews.
After the war, the Mufti raised money throughout the Islamic world to finance the refurbishing of the Dome of the Rock that dominates the Jerusalem skyline, plating the dome with gold, and he worked assiduously to compel Muslims to exaggerate the importance of Jerusalem to Islam to provide a counter-movement to Zionism.
How well he succeeded can be seen in the outrage over Trump’s announcement. But like so much Palestinian outrage, it is not based on fact, but on propaganda. The Palestinians claim an ethnicity and nationality that has no basis in history but which was concocted by Yasir Arafat and the KGB as a weapon to use against Israel, have a “capital” as fictional as they are.
But the rage they show as a result of Trump’s announcement will, unfortunately, be real.
mortimer says
The only ‘Palestinian’ state prior to the Mandate of Palestine was the Crusaders’ Kingdom of Jerusalem. For the rest of the time, all of Israel was known to the Arabs as Lower Syria (or something similar). Arabs never distinguished between Syrians and ‘Palestinians’ until the KGB invented the Palestinian cause following the Six-Day War.
All Jordanian kings and politicians until recently declared that everything west of the Jordan River to the Mediterranean is ‘Palestine’ and should be united with Jordan.
Walter Sieruk says
President Thump is showing wisdom by recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel by moving the US embassy to Israel’s capital city which is Jerusalem. This is, indeed, wisdom for this move is right, fitting, proper and appropriate. This is because the Jewish people have Divine Right and historic rights to this city of Jerusalem
To be more clear and specific, it should be made known that the Muslim terror organizations, Hezbollah, Hamas ,P.I.J. etc. are all fated to fail in their Islamic agenda of destroying the State of Israel and replacing with Islamic “state.” The reason that they will lose in the end and lose hard is because the members of those jihad terror entities are striving against the Will of God. The members who compose those Islamic terror groups might be too ignorant to know this, nevertheless the truth is the God had given all this land that now composes the State of Israel, including all of the West Bank, to the Jewish people. This may be found in the Bible, as seen in, for example, Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11. 135:4. In other words the Jews have tall this land by Divine Right. Furthermore, the Jewish people should have this land by historic rights as shown in First Kings 4:20,21, 24,25. 8:55, 56. Still, in all fairness, there is one way for the Muslim members who make up Hezbollah, Hamas and the P.I.J. to convince God to change His Mind about being so much for Israel and then cause Him to turn His back on Israel and then have that nation be no more. That way is for the members of the jihad origination to gather together and then change the laws of astrophysics, including those laws of astrophysics the control the sun, the moon and the stars. For God had declared in His Word, the Bible, in Jeremiah 31:35,36. “Thus saith the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night…The Lord of host is His name. If those ordinances depart from before Me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.”
CRUSADER says
There is much about Islam which is pure theater. Muslims, and many of us in the West due to our dhimmitude, just don’t know that they are straw actors on a stage of grand illusory performance.
Time to draw back the curtain on this show…. Expose the workings behind the scenes….
Michael Copeland says
It is also theatre-by-force. Failure to take part will result in beatings.
“The only power the muslim community possesses is to acknowledge and obey.”
Ruling by AMJA
Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America
citing :
“It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger to have any option about their decision:”
Koran 33:36, part of Islamic law.
The dutiful performers demonstrate their SUBMISSION.
Westman says
For Amusement:
Let’s suspend critical belief for a monent and imagine that social “scientists” of a far-advanced galactic civilization arrive on earth and began an experiment using a primitive native, named Muhammad, as the subject.
To him, of course, all the technology would look like “God-level” magic and it would be easy to feed him anything and he would believe it came from a God-being that he never sees. Put him on a machine, disguised as a horse, that takes him on a ride to a spaceship where he was told it was a mosque and use some effects and a little theatre to plant the seeds of all kinds of nonsense in his brain.
Then turn him loose to see what happens to these human creatures over thousands of years.
Would the results be any different than the history and current state of Islam?
WPM says
Yes Mohammad is like the wizard of Oz behind the curtain screaming and yelling cruses on all unbelievers safely behind his curtain ..
Older Canadian says
Brilliant.
tama says
ew there’s protests going in in Toronto, Canada at the us embassy.
the local news here in bc talked about the “controversial decision” then let some protesters be heard.
Older Canadian says
Of course in canada we all.know whose voice is important.
Carol says
But in reality the most important voice in Canada right now is that of Sandra Solomon:
Jerusalem: The Eternal Capital of Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDmqtoYNcQk&feature=em-lss
Yochanan says
After the war, Amin Hajj Al Husseini was due to be tried at Nuremburg as a war criminal, but he was protected from this by the French leader, Charles De Gaulle. Does anyone know why?
Jan Aage Jeppesen says
The war criminal mufti was by De Gaulle deemed very useful for French influence in the Arab countries, according to Bat Ye`or in his book EURABIA, p. 40:
“De Gaulle refused to let him be judged as a war criminal by the Nuremberg tribunal. A preeminent leader among the Muslim masses, and especially the Muslim Brotherhood, the mufti became an agent of French influence in the Arab countries. He pleaded for a Franco-Arab alliance against the British and the Zionists, stressing French and Arab common interests. Through his powerful Arab networks, he proposed a French policy of solidarity with the Arab world. Meanwhile, public knowledge of his close collaboration with the Nazis and his war crimes , led the French to facilitate his escape on May 29, 1946, from the Paris villa to which he had been moved. He then returned to Egypt, maintaining his contact with the French embassy in Cairo and with French diplomats, calling for a Muslim Catholic alliance against the Protestants and the Jews. He finally settled in Lebanon in 1962.”
Older Canadian says
Jan:
Thank you fot posting the truth.
France also in years forward gave exile to the horrow who was head of the Iran revolutionin 1979. And look at the results…in both countries.
Carol says
Jan… it is not “his” book. The Jewish Bat Ye’or (pen name) was born Gisele Orebi in 1933 in Zamalek, Cairo. She was married to British historian and human rights advocate David Littman from 1957 until his death in 2012. They collaborated on many books. She and her parents had fled Egypt after the Suez Crisis of 1956. This is what she had to say:
“I had witnessed the destruction, in a few short years, of a vibrant Jewish community living in Egypt for over 2,600 years and which had existed from the time of Jeremiah the Prophet. I saw the disintegration and flight of families, dispossessed and humiliated, the destruction of their synagogues, the bombing of the Jewish quarters and the terrorizing of a peaceful population. I have personally experienced the hardships of exile, the misery of statelessness − and I wanted to get to the root cause of all this. I wanted to understand why the Jews from Arab countries, nearly a million, had shared my experience.”
Jan Aage Jeppesen says
Sorry for the mistake of referring to the person behind behind the pseudonyme Bat Ye`or as a “he” when it should be a “she”.
I know all you write about Gisele Littman and discovered my mistake a minute after posting my comment.
Thank you for the biographical notes.
Voytek Gagalka says
I’m not sure but this must have something to do with French being heavily involved with Mohammedans for many previous decades: They had colonies in Western Africa (predominantly Muslim countries), and de Gaulle was the first French President who later disengage from Algeria and I am almost certain that some appeasement played the role in that.
Bill Garrison says
Muhammad’s “Night Journey” consisted of two parts during the same evening: (1) “isra” Muhammad’s journey from Mecca to al-Quds (the “furthest mosque” atop a flying horse-mule (“Buraq”), and then after dismounting at al-Quds he was “Miraj” (ascended) into Heaven to chat with various prophets and then Allah.
“mosque” (English) = “masjid” (Arabic) [or ‘place of prostration’ — not necessarily a building].
“furthest” = “aqsa”
“The farthest mosque” = “al-Masjidi ‘l-’Aqṣá”.
“quds” = “holy”
“Al-Quds” = “The Holy One” (Muslims contend means the Holy city of Jerusalem)
Carol says
Yes Bill, furthest = aqsa. This explains why Mr. Spencer used no capitals in the article above when he wrote “The first verse of Sura 17 says that Allah took Muhammad from “the Sacred Mosque” in Mecca “to the farthest [al-aqsa] Mosque. For a moment you wondered if he was referring to the actual Al Aqsa mosque (non-existent at that time).
isntlam says
What is the fourth holiest city in Islam? Fifth? Sixth?
Older Canadian says
Probably canada, should ask trudeau.
Paul says
If the people of Alexandria Egypt ever turned agains Islam and decided to return to their Christian or Greek roots, then Muslims would announce that Alexandria was their fourth holiest city, etc. etc..
Danel Riqar says
It seems to me really has been a Palestinian state for the last 70+ years. It has existed ever since 2/3 of the land originally “allotted” for Israel was carved off to form……… Jordan.
Funny how the “Palestinians” are such a reprobate bunch that nobody wants them, not even Jordan.
mccode says
“Jerusalem is the third holiest city of Islam, after Mecca and Medina.:
OK, OK, we get it. Duly noted…….thanks.
Jerusalem is THE holiest city of Judaism. Has been for over two thousand years.
Israel gets title and keeps it. End of story.
Savvy Kafir says
I’d say so.
Devout Muslims believe they are entitled to the entire world, so demanding Jerusalem, their “third holiest” city doesn’t seem unreasonable to them.
Also, they tend to really hate Jews, so taking the Jews’ MOST holy city would be especially sweet. They should never be given that prize.
Vic says
Trump was correct in declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. His reasons for doing so are based in the reality that many don’t want to see and/or admit. I see that reality spelled out in the Scriptures…
Please bear with me, to recount this history of Jerusalem and why we can rest assured of the end of this story.
In the Book of Nehemiah [cupbearer to King Artaxerxes]
Chapter 1, Hanani, Nehemiah’s brother along with other Jews from Judah, came to Nehemiah and said that the “Remnant [Jews] who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach because the walls of Jerusalem are broken down… and the gates are burned with fire.” Nehemiah wept and mourned at the news and pray d that God would make a way for them to be restored.
Chap. 2, King Artaxerxes sees Nehemiah’s sadness and as he explains his reason, the king decides to commission Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and provides safe conducts, building material and escorts for Nehemiah to travel between Susa and Judah. When Nehemiah arrives in Jerusalem, he examines the walls himself to determine the extent of the damage and to make a plan to rebuild. The walls and gates had been destroyed by war and fire and had not been repaired, mostly due to the indolence of the officials left in charge of the city. He does all this under the cover of night.
In verse 10: Nehemiah is met by the resistance…the officials in charge: Sanballat, the Horonite [the Samaritan/today’s Palestinian], Tobiah, the Ammonite [the Jordanian], and Geshem the Arab. Keep in mind, that these are the very same people who continue to dispute by any means Israel’s claims. But next, see what follows…
17 Then I [Nehemiah] said to them [the Jews], “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.” 18 I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me.
They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work.
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. “What is this you are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”
20 I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”
THE CLINCHER …BUT AS FOR YOU…[Palis, Jordanians, Arabs, etc] YOU HAVE NO SHARE IN JERUSALEM OR ANY CLAIM OR HISTORIC RIGHT TO IT!!!
I encourage you to read Nehemiah for yourself… In my mind, that settles the question. Amen!
Billy Chickens says
So what if Jerusalem is supposedly the third holiest city of Islam. It’s the FIRST holiest for Jews and Christians.
Vic says
Here is a very interesting analysis of Trump’s announcement on Jerusalem by Caroline Glick.. http://carolineglick.com/trumps-great-gifts-to-israel-and-america/
Walter Sieruk says
Those Muslim /Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” are very mad about President Trump moving the US embassy to Jerusalem . Well, many of the same “Palestinians” were very happy about all the mass jihad murders which occurred on September 11, 2001. So who care if they are mad or not ?
Samer Ibrahim says
Mr. Robert Spencer, for your knowledge and the knowledge of the visitors of your site, what is called “The Farthest Mosque” lies in a place between Mecca and Medina called Jurana (جعرانة), ie, , it lies inside the Arab peninsula. Thanks to the Egyptian clergyman ” Father Zakaria”, who found out this piece of information from the islamic books several years ago. Father Zakaria has own channel which bears the name ” Al Fady TV”. The address of his TV is: http://www.alfadytv.tv
Michael says
“The islamic books”? Which ones exactly? I’m sure Mr. Spencer would be interested.
Guy Macher says
Muslims should stop arguing with disbelievers and just cite the verse from the Koran which says Jerusalem is the capital of Palistinistan.
Linda says
The Muslims are so easily offended by just about everything. Anyone who can get upset because the Americans acknowledged the capital city if Jerusalem and will move their embassy there, can be upset by just about any old thing at all, big or small. Muslims have to have something to be offended about, otherwise they’re not happy. They wouldn’t be Muslims if they weren’t offended by something.
Carol says
I think this whole event outlines their “wishful thinking for brains” strategy. Just as they thought one of their balloons was flying high with the browbeaten kufar, spoilsport Trump came along and punctured it. Looks good on them!
M says
Even if Israel was created by the British and that was the only reason its there, notice that Pakistan was created by the British and no one challenges is borders or its right to exist. Just saying.
Why is it OK for Muslims to have Pakistan created for them but they constantly scream about Israel? (Also anyone ever look at palwatch to see what Palestinians broadcast on their TV? )
Older Canadian says
Pakistan had a right to exist because it is primarily muslim. That is all that is needed to make it legitamate.
Dum Spiro says
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So here’s a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76NytvQAIs0
So Buraq was “half mule, half donkey, with wings on its sides with which it propelled its feet.” You see the irony in a Buraq continuing to carry and promote Muhammad, don’t you?
— Spero
Older Canadian says
Thanks for the video. Short and sweet, said it all, did not miss a beat.
St. Croix says
Excellent video. I had read about these offers and their rejection, but they put it together in a clear way here, it’s undeniable. I dare anyone to argue against these facts.
PRCS says
This was interesting:
WHAT IS PALESTINE? WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?
Note: NOT favorable to Muslims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ReF4UUa4E
Sarah says
It just gives ever more credence to the inbreeding issues and their ramifications within the Islamic world
Because honestly, only someone mentally deficient hears how a man, while asleep in bed, flew to heaven on a winged white mini donkey and was told by God to tell everyone to pray 5 times a day – and then turns around and somehow takes that as gospel instead of seeing it for the truth, that it is the creative dreams of a lunatic.
If you are of such low intelligence to believe this nonsense, then you are, quite simply, not safe to be left alone to operate a potato peeler unsupervised.
CRUSADER says
**** Staged techniques used in Moslem Theater : starring 4 Actors in Islamist Plays ****
Islam Watch reveals how lies and deceptions are integral to Islam:
Knowing Four Arabic Words May Save Our Civilization from Islamic Takeover
…Takiyya
is defined as dissimulation about ones Muslim identity…
…Tawriya
is defined as concealing, and it could be called “creative lying”…
…Kitman
is characterized by someone telling only part of the truth. The most common example of this is when a Muslim says that jihad really refers to an internal, spiritual struggle…
…Muruna
means using “flexibility” to blend in with the enemy or the surroundings…
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FIN
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “Muhammad’s famous Night Journey (Isra and Miraj) is the basis of the Islamic claim to Jerusalem as an Islamic holy city. Yet this journey is never mentioned in the Qur’an” … er, no.
The city of Jerusalem is not mentioned by name in the Quran, but what is mentioned is the Holy Land and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as stated in the verse in which Allah allegedly said:
“Exalted is He Who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haraam to al-Masjid al-Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing.”
Quran 17:1
This refers to Dirty Old Moe’s wet bestiality dream where he went one night on a journey to Jerusalem via a flying donkey, and thus claimed the land as his.
Literally “in his dreams!”
Well, I once dreamed of the kaaba in Mecca, so by the muslims’ own rules, that means I now own it!
Carol says
Calm down. Kabooom says it’s only a kebab stand.
Carolyne says
I don’t really know why the President chose this particular time to declare that our embassy would be moving to Jerusalem, but he is certainly privy to more information than we are, and I trust him. To say that Muhammed went to Jerusalem in spirit makes about as much sense as saying that he went to New Jersey in spirit. If I say I went to Tiffany’s in New York in spirit can I have all the jewelry?
TheBuffster says
“According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad described the vision as beginning when the angel “Gabriel came and stirred me with his foot.” Soon “a white animal which was smaller than a mule and bigger than a donkey was brought to me.” This was the Buraq, which Muhammad further described as “half mule, half donkey, with wings on its sides with which it propelled its feet.”
“Buraq carried Muhammad to the Temple Mount, and from there Muhammad was taken into heaven itself, where he encountered the other prophets and was given by Allah himself the order that Muslims should pray five times daily. Later Muhammad seems to have retreated from the claim that this was a bodily journey. His wife Aisha explained: ‘The apostle’s body remained where it was but God removed his spirit by night.'”
So how is this to be distinguished from a vivid dream? Gabriel came and “stirred” Muhammad with his foot – great, Muhammad was asleep and he dreamed Gabriel woke him up by poking him with his foot and then put him on this wacky animal and flew his spirit to Jerusalem and then to heaven. (Why would a spirit need a winged beast, anyway? Very much like the craziness of a dream.)
And this is the basis of the Palestinians and the whole Muslim world making a big bloody deal over Jerusalem?
What a bunch of drama queens.
Mark Jacobs says
I have created a t-shirt commemorating the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the fulfillment of Allah’s word, Sura 17:104.
“And We said unto the Children of Israel after him: Dwell in the land; but when the promise of the Hereafter cometh to pass We shall bring you as a crowd gathered out of various nations.”
See the shirt at:
https://www.zazzle.com/t_shirt_celebrating_jerusalem_as_israels_capital-235437308107681743
Carol says
I especially like the one Jer USA lem.