A shahid, or martyr, in the Islamic context is one who kills for Allah and is killed in the process (cf. Qur’an 9:111).
“Jesus the Palestinian terrorist and his 72 dark-eyed virgins,” by Maurice Hirsch, Palestinian Media Watch, December 25, 2022:
Official PA daily depicts terrorist murder of Jewish teenage girl as Jesus
One of the many ways in which the Palestinian Authority distorts history in order to invent a centuries-old Palestinian identity, is to turn Jesus the Judean (Jew), who promoted peace on earth, into a Palestinian terrorist who was murdered by the Israelis, thus becoming the first Palestinian “Martyr,” who is now reveling in heaven with Allah, in the arms of 72 dark-eyed virgins.
While the language the PA uses to describe Jesus as a terrorist and as someone enjoying his virgins is less direct, the meaning is the same.
When referring to Palestinian terrorists, the PA calls them “self-sacrificing fighters,” or “fidai”. So, when the PA and its officials use the same terms to describe Jesus, they are in fact saying he is a terrorist.
As Palestinian Media Watch has shown, here, here, here, here, and here, among other places, the definition of Jesus as a terrorist enjoying his virgins is not a fringe idea, but rather one expressed by the highest order in the PA.
Jesus the “Palestinian” terrorist murdered by the Jews
When PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh sought to declare Jesus a terrorist, and link him to Palestinian terror, he referred to him as a “Palestinian self-sacrificing fighter” who, similar to the PA descriptions of suicide bombers, “paid for his mission with his life” and whose birth takes place “at the same time as the anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian revolution” – i.e the anniversary of the first Fatah terror attack:
“The birthday of our lord Jesus, peace be upon him – the first Palestinian self-sacrificing fighter from whom we learned Martyrdom-death, and who paid for his mission with his life – takes place at the same time as the anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian revolution (i.e., the anniversary of “the Launch” of Fatah, counted from its first terror attack against Israel), for which thousands of Martyrs have paid with their lives so that we will live and remain, and so that our children will dream of a better future.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 28, 2020]
Muwaffaq Matar, a member of the Revolutionary Council of PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and regular columnist for the official PA daily similarly adopted Jesus as a Palestinian and compared him to terrorists calling him a “self-sacrificing fighter”:
“It was our fate that the first self-sacrificing fighter (Jesus) [parentheses in source] would be Palestinian, and that the self-sacrificing fighter for peace on the land of Palestine and on earth would also be Palestinian.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 10, 2022]
The same idea was repeated by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, a regular columnist for the official PA daily and former advisor to former PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on national affairs. As part of a wider attack on Zionism and demonization of Israel, Al-Ghoul compared Jesus to terrorists killed by Israel, charging that the terrorists were killed “just as they [the Zionists] crucified Jesus”:
“From their perspective, a good Palestinian Arab is a dead, murdered, and crucified Palestinian – just as they crucified Jesus, the first Palestinian self-sacrificing fighter.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 20, 2022]
While saying that he thinks “that the Palestinian people are on the brink of a great intifada” and talking about the importance of Jerusalem, Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki also declared that Jesus was a Palestinian crucified by Israel/the Jews:
“When Jesus the son of Mary, who was Palestinian, ascended to Heaven, when the Israelis or the Jews crucified him, we [Muslims] say that he ascended to Heaven.”
[Facebook page of Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, May 31, 2022]
Zakki made a similar claim just days earlier:
“[Whoever] sold himself to the Zionist movement knows that Jesus the son of Mary is Palestinian.”
[YouTube channel of Al-Mayadeen (Lebanon), May 28, 2022]
Since the PA has been claiming for such a long time that Jesus was a Palestinian, it is not surprising that they comment when others adopt their narrative. Such was the case when the song “Save Palestine,” was played as part of a song competition named after former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat in Zimbabwe. The competition was held by the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists and the Zimbabwe Palestine Solidarity Council. In addition to referring to Jesus the Palestinian, the lyrics of the song add that those who fought Jesus then are now destroying “his people”:
Official PA TV host 1: “Let us watch the song ‘Save Palestine,’ which participated in the Yasser Arafat Prize in Zimbabwe.” …
Lyrics in English: “Jesus is a Palestinian. Those who fought him 2,000 years ago are now destroying his people.”
PLO Ambassador to Zimbabwe Tamer Al-Masri: “It was agreed with the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists that a prize named the Yasser Arafat Prize for Journalism would be presented as part of the annual prizes for excellence.
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, Nov. 21, 2021]
This was also the case when a Lebanese priest demonized Jews saying that they are “infidels” who “crucified Jesus”
Mar Elias Btina Church Patriarch Gerasimos Ataya:“These [Jews] who are rising up against the Palestinians are the ones who crucified Jesus. If they crucified Jesus and did not care, and they killed him, crucified him, then what they are doing to the [Palestinian] people [is no surprise]. [The Jews] are an infidel people, may Allah decide their fate.”
[Official PA TV, From the Diaspora, July 25, 2022]…
CogitoErgoSum says
According to verse 4:157 of the Quran Jesus was neither crucified nor killed. The Quran makes this perfectly clear. Allah saved Jesus from death. What kind of Muslim does not know this and thinks that Jesus was a martyr? Obviously the answer is the stupid kind.
commonsense says
It’s likely that the Jew-hating Arab Muslims who claim that Jesus was crucified by the ancestors of present-day Israelis are fully aware of what the Qur’an actually says about the crucifixion. What we have here is a textbook example of taqiyya.
commonsense says
The PLO ambassador, according to the article, is Tamer al-Masri. “Al-Masri” means “the Egyptian” or “from Egypt.” So much for his being an actual Palestinian.
As Mortimer, who until recently frequently posted many comments here, revealed, many who profess to be Palestinians come from elsewhere; as revealed by their surnames:
“About half of the ‘Pallies’ have family names (Nisbah نسبة) which reveal their country of origin and reveal their family’s recent arrival in Israel. These families do not have thousands of years of residence in ‘Palestine’ as they claim:
“Masri” or “al-Masri” = from Egypt. (literally means “the Egyptian” in Arabic), “Khamis” = from Bahrain, “Salem Hanna Khamis”, “al-Ubayyidi” or “al-Obeidi”= from Sudan “al-Ubayyid”, “al-Faruqi” = Mosul, Iraq, “al-Araj” = Morocco, a member of the Saadi Dynasty “Hussein al-Araj”, “al-Lubnani” = the Lebanese, “al-Mughrabi” = the Moroccan (“Maghreb,” meaning “West” in Arabic, and usually is referring to North Africa or specifically to Morocco), “Dalal Mughrabi”, “al-Djazair” = the Algerian, “al-Qurashi” = Saudi Arabia “clan of Quraish”, “al-Azd” = Yemen “Azd tribe”, “al-Yamani”= the Yemeni “Issam Al Yamani”, “al-Afghani” = the Afghan, “al-Sidawi” = from “Sidon” Lebanon, “al-Fayyumi” = from “Faiyum” Egypt, “al-Hijazi” or “Hijazi” = present-day Saudi Arabia, “al-Hindi” = the Indian “Amin al-Hindi”, “al-Tamimi” or “Tamimi” = from the tribe or clan of Banu-Tamim “Azzam Tamimi”, “Hamati” = from Syria ( Hama city), “Omayya” = from Saudi Arabia “Banu Omayya tribe”, “Othman” = Ottoman Turkey, “Murad” = Yemen “Murad tribe”, “Alawi” = from Syria (minority religious group in Syria), “Iraqi” = from Iraq, “Halabi” = from Aleppo, Syria, “Dajani” = from Saudi Arabia, “Mattar” = from Yemen (the village of Bani Mattar), “al-baghdadi” = from Bagdad, Iraq, “Tarabulsi” = Tarabulus-Tripoli, Lebanon, “Zubeidi” = from Iraq “Zubeidi tribe”, “Saudi” = Saudi Arabia, “Metzarwah” = Egypt, “Bardawil” = Bardawil lake” area of Egypt, “Nashashibi” = Syria, “Bushnak” = Bosnia, “Zoabi”= from Iraq. A real international group … they were settlers in Mandatory Palestine or imported by the Ottomans.”
Many thanks, Mortimer.
Deodata says
Palestine has never existed until 100 years ago.
History of PALESTINIAN STATE:
1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state
2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.
15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the United Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
18. Before the United Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
19. Before the theocracy of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
20. Actually, in this piece of land there has been everything, EXCEPT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Psst, Mohammed, here’s something you might wanna know before you beatify Mr Christ: he was a Joooooooooooooooo!
Siddi Nasrani says
Is that a fact! I fort Mr Christ was a Christian. ( Sark)
Deodata says
Will someone explain to me, when Jesus was born it took 642 years for Islam conception? I suspect, as normal, the narrative alters from day to day to suit the point they are trying to make.
Scotsman48 says
These morons are mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence.
They are, in their own words, admitting that Israel existed when Jesus was a ”Palestine terrorist” and I can see just how insane these people really are…
They are ARABS and always have been until Mr Arafart turned them into people of Palestine, 1964, and he himself was an Egyptian, an ARAB.
Tell a lie, tell a big one and tell it often and it will become true by itself…
Herr Goebbels…Who was a lover of islam.
The MSM in the US-UK etc are practicing today exactly what Goebbels spoke of and people are falling in line.