A S A H E N G A T H E R S H E R C H I C K S • U n d e r h e r w i n g s a n d y o u w o u l d n o t…that all the countries bordering with Israel,not just Syria, would enter the war…We willnot enter the war officially, but we will openthe borders to the fighters. We will allow thetransfer of money and equipment, to supportthe Lebanese resistance and the Palestinianresistance in Gaza.In accord with the principles of jihad, PresidentSaleh further stated,This war has become a duty incumbent uponus. Every Muslim has the individual duty to fighton this front… I believe this is a battle for theIslamic nation, not the Arab nation.Past and present, Shi’ites and Sunnis certainlydo concur on the centrality of jihad war in Islam,particularly when waged against non-Muslims forthe extension, or maintenance, of the rule of IslamicLaw. The distinguished Shi’ite theologian al-Amili(d.1622) wrote the following (p213) about jihad warin the Jami-i-Abbasi, his seminal Persian manualof Shi’a Law:Islamic Holy war (jihad) against followers ofother religions, such as Jews, is required unlessthey convert to Islam or pay the poll tax.The simultaneous bloodletting in Lebanon andnorthern Israel as well as Gaza and southernIsrael—but two examples of what SamuelHuntington aptly termed “Islam’s bloody borders”around the globe—flow from the timeless logic ofjihad. All of historical Palestine—modern Israel(within the 1949 armistice borders), Gaza, Judea,Samaria, and modern Jordan—whose pre-Islamicinhabitants—Jews, Samaritans and <strong>Christian</strong>s—were conquered by jihad in the fourth decade ofthe 7th century—is considered “fay territory”, apermanent part of the Dar al-Islam, where IslamicLaw must forever prevail.Israel, governed by a “usurper” infidel people,i.e., Jews, on such “fay territory”—no longer anappropriately oppressed dhimmi people living underthe yoke of Islamic Law—must be destroyed in acollective jihad by the entire Muslim community.Qaradawi’s views—apparently shared by anoverwhelming majority of contemporary Muslimswho refuse to accept Israel’s legitimacy withinany state borders—are in turn, dependent upona negationist, ahistorical Muslim narrative whicherases the pre-Islamic identity of the indigenousJews, Samaritans, and <strong>Christian</strong>s of historicalPalestine. During one of his widely viewed QatarTV sermons this past February 25, 2006, Qaradawielucidated these ideas:All the school of Islamic jurisprudence—theSunni, the Shiite…—and all the ancient andmodern schools of jurisprudence—agree thatany invader, who occupies even an inch ofland of the Muslims, must face resistance. TheMuslims of that country must carry out the resistance,and the rest of the Muslims must helpthem. If the people of that country are incapableor reluctant, we must fight to defend the land ofIslam, even if the local [Muslims] give it up.They must not allow anyone to take a singlepiece of land away from Islam. That is what weare fighting the Jews for. We are fighting them...Our religion commands us... We are fighting inthe name of religion, in the name of Islam, whichmakes this Jihad an individual duty, in which theentire nation takes part, and whoever is killed inthis [Jihad] is a martyr. This is why I ruled thatmartyrdom operations are permitted, becausehe commits martyrdom for the sake of Allah, andsacrifices his soul for the sake of Allah.We do not disassociate Islam from the war.On the contrary, disassociating Islam from thewar is the reason for our defeat. We are fightingin the name of Islam.The current plight of Iran’s Jews (since the 1979Khomeini-lead restoration of a Shi’ite theocracywhich mimics their tragic historical legacy of fourcenturies of brutal subjugation under Iranian Shiiterule from 1502-1925) is what today’s Jews in Israelshould anticipate as an optimal outcome should theforces of jihad prevail, and destroy the autonomousIsraeli state. Shortly after the recent outbreak ofhostilities along the Israeli-Lebanon border, even inthe face of Ahmadinejad’s unabashed and repeatedcalls for Israel’s annihilation, Iran’s small remnantJewish community (in the southern city of Shiraz),was cynically exploited—holding a pro-Hezbollahrally covered on state-run television. Earlier,Professor Reza Affshari’s seminal 2001 analysis ofhuman rights in contemporary Iran summarised thepredictable consequences for Jews of the Khomeini“revolution”:As anti-Semitism found official expression…and the anti-Israeli state propaganda becameshriller, Iranian Jews felt quite uncertain abouttheir future under the theocracy. Early in 1979,the execution of Habib Elqaniyan, a wealthy,self-made businessman, a symbol of successfor many Iranian Jews, hastened emigration.The departure of the chief rabbi for Europe inthe summer of 1980 underlined the fact thatthe hardships that awaited the remainingJewish Iranians would far surpass those ofother “protected minorities”.Afshari also captured the crushing psychosocialimpact on Iran’s remaining Jews of restored Shi’itetheocratic rule—the recrudescence of a fully serviledhimmi mentality:The Jewish leaders had to go so far as toopenly denounce the policies of the State of Israel.It was disquieting to read a news item thatreported the Jewish representative in the Majliscriticizing, in carefully chosen words…actionsof his co-religionists in Israel, especially whenupon the conclusion of his remarks the other(Shi’ite) deputies burst into the chant ‘Deathto Israel!’ The contemporary state violating thehuman rights of its citizens left behind a trailof pathological behaviours…Equally baffling,if not placed against the Jewish community’spredicament, was the statement by the Jewishleaders concerning the arrests of thirteen Jewscharged with espionage for Israel in June 1999.‘The Islamic Republic of Iran has demonstratedto the world that it has treated the Jewishcommunity and other religious minorities well;the Iranian Jewish community has enjoyedconstitutional rights of citizenship, and thearrest and charges against a number of IranianJews has nothing to do with their religion.’The bureaucratic side of the state needed sucha statement, and the Jewish leaders in Tehranhad no choice but to oblige.Having returned their remnant Jewish communityto a state of obsequious dhimmitude,Iran’s currenttheocratic rulers focus their obsessive anti-Jewishanimus on the free-living Jews of neighbouringIsrael. This goal—reimposing dhimmitude (again,at best) on the Jews of Israel by jihad—is sharedby the Sunni Islamic umma 1 as well, from SheikhQaradawi, to the ideologues and clerics ofHamas and the “moderate” Palestinian Authority.For example, Palestinian Authority (PA) SheikMuhammad Ibrahim Al-Madhi expressed thesesentiments with regard to Jews during a Fridaysermon broadcast live on June 6, 2001 on PA TV,from the Sheik ‘Ijlin Mosque.We welcome, as we did in the past, any Jewwho wants to live in this land as a Dhimmi,just as the Jews have lived in our countries, asDhimmis, and have earned appreciation, andsome of them have even reached the positionsof counsellor or minister here and there. Wewelcome the Jews to live as Dhimmis, but therule in this land and in all the Muslim countriesmust be the rule of Allah.More recently, interviewed by Wall Street Journalreporter Karby Legget in late December of 2005,Hassam El-Masalmeh, who heads the Hamascontingent at the municipal council of Bethlehem,confirmed the <strong>org</strong>anisation’s plan to re-institute thehumiliating Koranic poll-tax on non-Muslims, (i.e.jizya). El-Masalmeh stated explicitly,We in Hamas intend to implement this taxsomeday. We say it openly—we welcomeeveryone to Palestine but only if they agree tolive under our rules.Writing in the midst of the 1976 Islamic jihadagainst the <strong>Christian</strong>s of Lebanon—spearheadedby the Palestinian Liberation Organisation underYasser Arafat—Bernard Lewis observed then,We are prepared to allow religiously definedconflicts to religious eccentrics...but to admitthat an entire civilization can have religion as itsprimary loyalty is too much...This is reflected inthe present inability, political, journalistic, andscholarly alike, to recognize the importance ofthe factor of religion in the current affairs of theMuslim world...If our political, journalistic, and scholarly “elites”ever arrive at this understanding, perhaps theywill grasp the accompanying vocabulary of theMuslim combatants and their spokespersons, inthe context of the jihad against Israel. “Resistance”means a genocidal jihad, whose “justice” amountsto the violent restoration and forcible maintenanceof dhimmitude for those surviving Jews (and<strong>Christian</strong>s) in a vanquished Israel.1 Worldwide community of Muslims.About the AuthorDR ANDREW BOSTOM is a physicianspecializing in Epidemiology.Since 1997 he has beenpart of the full-time medicalfaculty at one of the two majorteaching hospital affiliates ofBrown University, which is oneof the “Ivy League” universities that is locatedin Providence, Rhode Island, USA. His currentresearch focuses on the relationship betweenkidney and cardiovascular disease. He is theauthor of The Legacy of Jihad.www.andrewbostom.<strong>org</strong>18
T h e y s h a l l p u t M y N a m e u p o n I s r a e l • A N D I W I L L B L E S S T H E MInteresting statistics aboutjewsandmuslimsThe Global Jewish population:Approximately 14,000,000 or about0.02% of the world population.JEWS have received the followingNobel Prizes:LITERATURE:Paul Heyse (1910), Henri Bergson (1927), Boris Pasternak (1958), Shmuel Yosef Agnon(1966), Nelly Sachs (1966), Saul Bellow (1976), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978), EliasCanetti (1981), Joseph Brodsky (1987), Nadine Gordimer World (1991).PEACE:Alfred Fried (1911), Tobias Michael Carel Asser (1911), Rene Cassin (1968), HenryKissinger (1973), Menachem Begin (1978), Elie Wiesel (1986), Shimon Peres (1994),Yitzhak Rabin (1994).PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY:Adolph Von Baeyer (1905), Henri Moissan (1906), Albert Abraham Michelson (1907),Gabriel Lippmann (1908), Otto Wallach (1910), Richard Willstaetter (1915), Fritz Haber(1918), Albert Einstein (1921), Niels Bohr (1922), James Franck (1925), Gustav Hertz(1925), Gustav Stern (1943), Ge<strong>org</strong>e Charles de Hevesy (1943), Isidor Issac Rabi (1944),Felix Bloch (1952), Max Born (1954), Igor Tamm (1958), Emilio Segre (1959), DonaldA. Glaser (1960), Robert Hofstadter (1961), Melvin Calvin (1961), Lev DavidovichLandau (1962), Max Ferdinand Perutz (1962), Richard Phillips Feynman (1965), JulianSchwinger (1965), Murray Gell-Mann (1969), Dennis Gabor (1971), William HowardStein (1972), Brian David Josephson (1973), Benjamin Mottleson (1975), BurtonRichter (1976), Ilya Prigogine (1977), Arno Allan Penzias (1978), Peter L Kapitza (1978),Stephen Weinbergv (1979), Sheldon Glashow (1979), Herbert Charles Brown (1979),Paul Berg (1980), Walter Gilbert (1980), Roald Hoffmann (1981), Aaron Klug (1982),Albert A. Hauptman (1985), Jerome Karle (1985), Dudley R. Herschbach (1986), RobertHuber (1988), Leon Lederman (1988), Melvin Schwartz (1988), Jack Steinberger (1988),Sidney Altman (1989), Jerome Friedman (1990), Rudolph Marcus (1992), Martin Perl(1995), Alan J. Heeger (2000).ECONOMICS:Paul Anthony Samuelson (1970), Simon Kuznets (1971), Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1972),Leonid Kantorovich (1975), Milton Friedman (1976), Herbert A. Simon (1978), LawrenceRobert Klein (1980), Franco Modigliani (1985), Robert M. Solow (1987), Harry Markowitz(1990), Merton Miller (1990), Gary Becker (1992), Robert Fogel (1993).MEDICINE:Elie Metchnikoff (1908), Paul Erlich (1908), Robert Barany (1914), Otto Meyerhof (1922),Karl Landsteiner (1930), Otto Warburg (1931), Otto Loewi (1936), Joseph Erlanger(1944), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1944), Ernst Boris Chain (1945), Hermann JosephMuller (1946), Tadeus Reichstein (1950), Selman Abra ham Waksman (1952), HansKrebs (1953), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1953), Joshua Lederberg (1958), Arthur Kornberg(1959), Konrad Bloch (1964), Francois Jacob (1965), Andre Lwoff (1965), Ge<strong>org</strong>e Wald(1967), Marshall W. Nirenberg (1968), Salvador Luria (1969), Julius Axelrod (1970), SirBernard Katz (1970), Gerald Maurice Edelman (1972), Howard Martin Temin (1975),Baruch S. Blumberg (1976), Roselyn Sussman Yalow (1977), Daniel Nathans (1978),Baruj Benacerraf (1980), Cesar Milstein (1984), Michael Stuart Brown (1985), Joseph L.Goldstein (1985), Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] (1986), Gertrude Elion (1988),Harold Varmus (1989), Erwin Neher (1991), Bert Sakmann (1991), Richard J. Roberts(1993), Phillip Sharp (1993), Alfred Gilman (1994), Edward B. Lewis (1995).The Global Islamic population:Approximately 1,200,000,000or 20% of the world population.MUSLIMS have received the followingNobel Prizes:LITERATURE:1988 Najib MahfoozPEACE:1978 Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat1994 Yaser Arafat:1990 Elias James Corey1999 Ahmed ZewaiPHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY:(none)ECONOMICS:(none)MEDICINE:1960 Peter Brian Medawar1998 Ferid MouradWhere Muslims are promoting the brainwashing of their children in militarytraining camps, teaching them how to blowthemselves up and cause maximum deathsof Jews and other non-Muslims. In contrast,Jews are not promoting brainwashing theirchildren in military training camps, teachingthem how to blow themselves up and causemaximum deaths of Muslims and other non-Jews!The Jews don’t hijack planes, nor killathletes at the Olympics or blow themselvesup in German restaurants. There is not a singleJew that has destroyed a church. The Jewsdon’t traffic slaves, nor have leaders callingfor Jihad and death to all the infidels (goyim– gentiles).Perhaps the world’s Muslims shouldconsider investing more in standard educationand less in blaming the Jews for all theirproblems.Muslims must ask “what can they dofor humankind” before they demand thathumankind respects them!(The data on this page was not collated by CWM).19
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