The real Jihad is against the Bible (and Israel)
Diana West writes that the real Jihad is against the Bible (and against Israel). Why Israel? Ye'or asks. "Given the immense territories conquered and Islamized over thirteen centuries of expansion and war," she writes, "why would Muslim countries keep plotting to destroy Israel?" And further: "Why does the immense oil wealth of Muslim nations nourish a flood of hatred that poisons the heart of humanity against such a small nation? Why is Israel considered so alarming?"Read the whole thing. It makes sense of the worldwide obsession with Israel.
The well-read global citizen might regurgitate something about land, modern Zionism and the post-1948 "plight of the Palestinians," but these are stock narratives overwriting the age-old reason. "What Israel possesses," Ye'or explains, "is the Bible."
To appreciate the depth and breadth of this perhaps obvious but seldom pondered explanation, it's essential to realize that Jewish and Christian Bible characters, from Abraham to Moses to Jesus, pop up in the Koran as Muslim prophets who actually preach Islam, not Judaism or Christianity. This is the time-wrinkling, religion-morphing way in which Islam repudiates what it regards as falsifications in both the first (old) and second (new) testaments. Given that the Jewish and Christian religious books long predate the Islamic religious book, it's not surprising that in their Koranic guises the biblical characters "wander," as Bat Ye'or writes, "in uncertain space with no geographical or temporal references." Still, Muslims claim that these same "Muslim" characters lived in "Palestine," Bat Ye'or writes, on the basis of the "Jewish and Christian scriptures that they reject."
It follows from this highly unstable construct that Islam sees the biblical past as Islamic history "usurped" by Jews and Christians. Thus, "the land in which it took place -- though ... never mentioned in the Koran -- is (considered) a Muslim land, and Jewish and Christian holy sites are all (considered) Muslim," writes Ye'or, the pre-eminent modern historian of "dhimmitude," the diminished condition of non-Muslims under Islamic law (Shariah).
The land of Israel itself -- whose "every region, town and village is mentioned in the Bible with historical and chronological precision" -- is thus "sacrilegious" to Muslims, she explains. "They observe with destructive rage this unfolding return of history that they claim as their own. ... Any confirmation of the veracity of the Bible is seen as an attack on the Islamic authenticity of the Koranic figures taken from the Bible."
Labels: bible, Global jihad, Islamic indoctrination, Koran, Sharia law
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:32 PM
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It's known as "Replacement Theology" re the Christians. So the evangelical Christians, while friendly now, can make one nervous, as they believe that they are G-d's Chosen now and that the Jews are going to burn in Hell if they don't convert. (I have, however, met some evangelicals who believe that it is G-d's prerogotive to sort it out, not theirs. Now, those Christians, I celebrate.) The progressive Episcopal Church hosts programs that end up convincing their members to not have relationships with their progeny who join the Jews. The Muslims seem to be under a similar conviction. Both groups in history have tried to delete the Jews, even after spells of friendship, when the Jews refused to convert and disown their Judaism.
So, bottom line, these huge Muslim and Christian religions are codependent in their obsession with "replacing" and converting the Jews. As long as the smart, high achieving Jews don't renounce their Jewish identification, these others become shamed, vindictive, and in worst cases, murderous.
They (Muslims and Christians) need to revise the parts of their theology that depend on what others do for their own fulfillment. So, instead of codependent focus on Jews other than as friends, they need to build themselves an independent identity irrespective of getting Jews to validate their theology.
Your totally right as this article proves.
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=5490
PA TV: Western Wall area to be turned into Arab housing neighborhood.
Palestinian Authority TV:
Western Wall area to be turned into Arab housing neighborhood -Jewish presence in Jerusalem will be erased from history.
Aug. 17, 2011
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