Here is the transcript of “Palestinian historian” Ghassan Weshah’s televised remarks on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa television on June 6:
Ghassan Weshah: “The future belongs to us, to our people, and to the Arab and Islamic nation. This is what the scientific studies say. They say that the United States is collapsing and that Islam is the only power that is fit to lead the world after America. Islam! China is incapable of doing it and the people who herald the theory that China will lead the world know that it cannot. When China was the strongest superpower in the world, it built the Great Wall of China. Do you see how Chinese culture is? Their culture is directed inward. They cocoon themselves. Tell me of a single place China conquered throughout history? [Not even] 10 square centimeters. To this day, parts of China are under Japanese occupation. Such a culture cannot… When you lead the world, you are leading it from a cultural and military perspective. You need to lead it in terms of culture and knowledge. Today, the U.S. leads the world with a false culture and it has begun to collapse. American’s slogan of liberty is collapsing at its first test. [The coronavirus pandemic] was a big embarrassment for China and a large part of the world is repelled by the Chinese culture and about how they eat anything that moves. These people are unfit to lead the world. Our entire nation needs to see the scientific research that is coming out of Europe.”
Interviewer: “What does it say?”
Ghasan Weshah: “That France and Germany will become Islamic republics within ten years. There are studies that say that German and French citizens are converting to Islam hourly. There are studies that say that every 24 hours, there are churches that become mosques. Islamic culture is on the march.”
“The future belongs to us, to our people, and to the Arab and Islamic nation”? At a time when that Islamic world (“the Arab and Islamic nation”) is riven by every sort of conflict – ethnic, sectarian, political, economic – with no prospect anywhere of amelioration, Weshah foresees, despite all the evidence to the contrary, with a quasi-fascistic faith, that “tomorrow belongs to us.” We have been here before.
Where does Weshah’s claim of the Islamic world’s future irresistible rise to dominance come from? From “scientific research that is coming out of Europe.” The research is carefully unnamed because it is non-existent. According to Weshah, other “studies” tell us that “the United States is collapsing and that “Islam is the only power that is fit to lead the world after America.” How is the United States collapsing? Not militarily, where it remains by far the most powerful country. Not economically, despite the temporarily high unemployment rate, the result not of any economic mismanagement, but of a novel coronavirus that no one could have foreseen and from which all countries, including Muslim ones, are suffering. America has not declined in its ability to innovate, especially in such vital areas as solar energy, electric vehicles, and computer technology. It has not seen any decline, either, in its attractiveness to the world, as it remains a magnet for immigrants, including many Muslims who are eager to leave their Islamic lands and settle in America, demonstrating they do not agree with Ghassan Weshah’s prediction of an inexorable American decline and the Islamic world’s just as inexorable rise.
Then there is China. Ghassan Weshah claims China was always “directed inward,” and never conquered any territory. That is why he rules it out, apparently, from taking America’s place as the dominant world power. His history is completely wrong. China has grown steadily over the centuries because it looked outward and continually conquered borderlands (when it was not being conquered itself, by the Mongols and the Manchus). What about the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), that doubled China’s size from what it had been during the Ming dynasty that preceded it? What about the conquest of all of present-day Xinjiang, in the 18th century? What about the conquest of Taiwan, which first appeared on maps of China’s imperial domain in 1683? What about the conquest of Tibet in 1950 by the Han Chinese, undertaken in order to seize that state’s considerable wealth of natural resources ? Yet Ghassan Washeh insists “do you see how Chinese culture is? Their culture is directed inward. They cocoon themselves. Tell me of a single place China conquered throughout history? [Not even] 10 square centimeters. To this day, parts of China are under Japanese occupation.”
“Tell me of a single place China conquered throughout history”? Here goes. Xinjiang. Inner Mongolia. Manchuria. Taiwan. Tibet. And many smaller bits and pieces, including some, such as northern Vietnam, which China first conquered, then later relinquished.
“To this day, parts of China are under Japanese occupation.” Completely crazy. There are no parts of China “under Japanese occupation.” Japan lost World War II, Ghassan – remember? It gave up every square inch of Chinese territory it had previously held, which consisted mainly of the puppet state in Manchuria that the Japanese renamed Manchukuo. How could Ghassan Weshah have failed to notice? Or could it be that such news never made it to the Middle East?
And what about China right now? Can anyone – other than Ghassan Meshah — claim that the Chinese are “directed inward” and “cocoon themselves” when those same Chinese have been engaged in the largest international infrastructure project in history, consisting of hundreds of huge projects built by Chinese all across Asia and into Africa, in an undertaking known as the Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI)? This is a gigantic attempt to connect China both to raw materials for its industries and to markets for its products, throughout Asia and Africa. The BRI is described at The Architect’s Newspaper:
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in 2013 by Chinese president Xi Jinping, includes hundreds of infrastructure i projects financed and constructed in part or in whole by Chinese entities in lands far beyond China’s borders. Projects include ports, airports, rail lines, utilities, industrial centers, highways, and even entire new cities and urban sectors. “Belt” refers to roads and railways while, paradoxically, “road” refers to sea-lanes; together they aim for nothing less than the unification of almost all of Asia and Africa.
The initiative segments the globe into “corridors” and involves differing levels of participation from host countries. There is no official count of participating countries, but estimates range from 60—covering nearly all of Asia—to well over one hundred. The BRI’s six main economic corridors include the New Eurasian Land Bridge, the China-Central Asia–West Asia Economic Corridor, the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, the Bangladesh–China–Myanmar Economic Corridor, the China–Mongolia–Russia Economic Corridor, and the China–Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor.
Ghassan Wesheh, doesn’t the Belt-and-Road Initiative show that China is looking outward? Can the Chinese people who are building the vast BRI project, covering many lands and many peoples, all across Asia and into Africa, be said to “cocoon themselves”? Weshah has a poor grasp of the Chinese past; his grasp of the Chinese present is just as poor.
mortimer says
Actually, ‘science’ is wrecking Islam. Mr. Ghassan Weshah may have noticed that science confirms the earth travels around the sun, that the earth is round and the sun doesn’t set in a muddy spring. (K.18.86 is unscientific.) Koranic textual analysts are finding that the skeletal, consonantal text (‘rasm’) of early Koranic manuscripts are filled with more than 100,000 variants … so far. More variants are discovered every day. This ‘science’ is in its infancy. Within 20 years, it will have produced heavy books filled with lists of variants! For the ordinary Muslim, and for their scholars, the future of Islam looks very bleak … because of science. The Koran claims to be perfect and ‘preserved’, but we now see it isn’t. There was actually *NO* Koran before 690 AD (60 years after the traditional death of Mohammed) and that the Koran was not a complete book until after the middle of the 8th century. The stories of the early recension of the Koran are not reliable. They are imaginative, fabricated fairy tales that don’t match the internal evidence of the texts. Ordinary Muslims will eventually start reading books like ‘Did Muhammad Exist?’ by Robert Spencer and admit to themselves that Spencer is correct.
Ghassan Weshah lives in an oral, ‘honor’ culture where anyone in authority can make an unfounded claim and underlings will not challenge the veracity of it. He would not get away with his flights of fantasy in a Western country. Weshah is a dinosaur and people like him will gradually become extinct. Millions are leaving Islam every year. A mullah recently admitted that a quarter of young Muslims in America are apostates. I think the number is greater than that.
Mr Weshah, ‘science’ shows the Koran is of human origin.
R Thomasson says
@Mortimer. You are right when you say that “Actually, ‘science’ is wrecking Islam. Mr. Ghassan Weshah may have noticed that science confirms the earth travels around the sun …etc.” Actually, we don’t have to go that far. At the moment the future will belongs to the Arab and Islamic nation, it will be an everlasting nightmare. There will be no place for free thinking and science. The future will belong to illiteracy, ignorance and total degeneration. There should be no place for medical breakthrough published in the Lancet, no technical inventions, no scientific experiments, no new technologies, and no Nobel prizes for brilliant scientists. In this Brave New Future they should not exist. H.G. Wells describes this kind of future in his story ‘The Time Machine’. The world will be reigned by Morlocks who possess a lot of cruelty, but not the technical abilities of Wells monster-like humanoids. Question is: how many people with an average IQ want to live in this kind of future?
Westman says
Saying the future belongs to Islam is like saying the future of agriculture is weeds.
Both Islam and China are going to have a bad bed-partner experience with BRI.
gravenimage says
Ghassan Weshah: “The future belongs to us, to our people, and to the Arab and Islamic nation. This is what the scientific studies say. They say that the United States is collapsing and that Islam is the only power that is fit to lead the world after America. Islam! ….Tell me of a single place China conquered throughout history?
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What “scientific studies” might these be? Note that Weshah cannot actually point to any.
As for the claim that “To this day, parts of China are under Japanese occupation”, this is nuts. Presumably he is referring to the Senkaku Islands dispute (also known as the Diaoyu Islands dispute). Firstly, it is unclear whether these islands belong to China in the first place, then they are not “occupied”: by Japan–in fact, these islands are not inhabited by anyone. Lots of nations–even otherwise friendly ones–have minor disputes like this, often lasting for decades, because they have little to no practical importance. By the way, Taiwan also claims these islands.
As for this last, it is notable. Never mind that–as Hugh Fitzgerald points out–Weshas is wrong about China, but that his only yardstick for whether someone is capable of leading the world is to what extent they are brutal conquerors. (Of course, there are indeed many reasons why you would not want Communist China leading the world, but these are separate issues).
Muslims have always believed they owned the world–but just because their foul Qur’an tells them this is so, not because anyone wants to follow this backward creed.
Agha Ali Arkhan says
The future must not belong to those who revere the prophet of Islam
infidel says
Regardless, I believe that this nightmare may unfortunately come true because of womb jehaad.
R Thomasson says
@Infidel says. “Regardless, I believe that this nightmare may unfortunately come true because of womb Jihad. In general you are wrong. In a total war not the number of soldiers is significant to gain victory. It was true in former days, but not in the 21st Century. Gaining victory in the battlefield depend on new technologies and cyber. Millions of soldiers and officers with very low or insufficient schooling are as good as worthless. The more advanced weapon technology an army posses, and the more skilled soldiers (of all ranks) who can use their weapons with 100% output, the better chances are to win a war. The Nazi’s had known this formula already in the ’30. They had invested in an army equipped with the best weapons and the most modern technology. This is how they could manage the Blitz Krieg, and get the whole of Europe on it’s ass. The British understood that their chances to win the war should improve with finding technological solutions to beat the German Luftwaffe and their submarines. When the radar and sonar were invented, the situation improved directly. After the invention of Enigma they had matter in hand. As for beating the Islamic enemy inside Europe. It depend, as in Chess game, on several entry point. When we will start to see them as enemies? How our governments are about to tackle the problem? How much help they will gain from their political-correct multicultural friends who are willing to betray their own paisan’s?
James Lincoln says
R Thomasson,
Your remarks regarding the use of advanced technology during World War II are correct.
But that was a completely different set of circumstances.
The problem is, there is no permissible “advanced technology” to combat “womb jihad”. This form of jihad totally changes the demographics of the country and consumes it “from within” as muslims continue to gain political strength in numbers.
The only “advanced technology” that I can think of – which would be impossible to introduce – would be forced tubal ligation of all muslim women and forced vastectomy of all muslim men.
gravenimage says
You are right, R Thomasson. But if much of this war is fought at the ballot box, this will make no difference.
R Thomasson says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv0jav4lNsk
This people had also believed that the world belong to them. They failed after 5 years of war with millions of deaths and replaced people. These people had the best scientists, the most modern weapons and the most skilled soldiers. They were not a bunch of goat f***** who only posses the pride of belonging to Allah’s fan club.