HOW TO DISARM THE TERRIBLE JIHAD PSYCHOSIS AGAINST JEWS
AND ISRAEL THAT AFFLICTS THE MUSLIM WORLD TODAY
by Dr. Asher Eder
Jewish Co-Chairman
Islam-Israel Fellowship
The Root and Branch Association
JERUSALEM, Yom Chamishi (Fifth Day - "Thursday"),
18 Adar I, 5760 (Christian Date: February 24, 2000) (Muslim Date: 18
Thul-Quada, 1420), Root & Branch:
In Islamic theology the term "Jihad" can
mean waging "holy war" against enemies of Islam, Muslim peoples or nations.
Here in Israel, we are confronted with "Jihad" in the form of holy war.
Jihad against Jews was demanded by the so-called Grand Mufti of Palestine,
Haj Amin el-Husseini, already in 1943 (before the foundation of the State
of Israel!).
Mufti el-Husseini, one of the worst Nazi collaborators, called for Jihad
against Jews in a broadcast from Radio Berlin during the height of the
Holocaust: "Kill the Jews wherever you find them, this is pleasing to Allah".
Jihad against Jews was again demanded by the "Fourth Conference of the
Academy of Islamic Research", meeting -- not in Nazi Berlin during World
War Two -- but twenty six years later in 1969, in Cairo, Egypt.
The Fourth Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research was attended by
high ranking delegates from 24 Muslim countries. The Conference was
convened at the behest of Gaml Abd-el-Nassr, then President of Egypt, at
Cairo's Al Azhar University.
The Conference Proceedings were published in 1970 by the "General
Organization for Government Printing Office", Cairo, in Arabic as well as
in an official English translation.
In its "Resolution and Recommendations...", the Conference stated:
"First:
(a) That the causes for which combat and Jihad must be taken up as defined
in the Holy Qur'an are all manifest in the Israeli aggression.
(c) The Conference calls for strengthening the struggle which is being
waged by the Palestinian people [note: the struggle which is being waged BY
the Palestinian people, not AGAINST them!], and providing it with all means
of escalating the battle to fulfill its objective.
"Fifthly:
(a) "Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power,
including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies
of God and your enemies, and others besides, whom you may not know, but who
God doth know" [Qur'an, sura 8, verse 60].
"Sixthly:
(a) The Conference denounces the support of certain countries for Israel,
and Israel's aggression, and declares such support: a challenge at Muslim
Peoples, a demonstration of enmity toward them and a total disregard of
their sentiments.
(b) The Conference declares that Muslims everywhere will not remain mere
spectators in the face of Zionist racist convetousness in the Arabic and
Islamic worlds nor will they shrink from giving their lives in defence of
their countries and sanctuaries, and for the restoration of their usurped
land..."
(excerpted from the "Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Academy of
Islamic Research", Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, 1969)
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We should not be fooled into believing for one moment that the Camp David
Accords with Egypt, Madrid Accords, Oslo Accords with the PLO, Wye
Agreement (or any other agreement so far) has rendered the above calls for
Jihad obsolete.
The PLO's late "Minister of War" was given the name "Abu Jihad" (literally
"Father of the Holy War").
The name of the PLO's chief thug and murderer, "Yasir Arafat", is a nom de
guerre (Arafat's real name is Abdul Rauf el-Codbi el-Husseini. "Arafat" is
the nephew of the above mentioned Nazi war criminal Haj Amin Husseini,
so-called Grand Mufti of Palestine).
Taken from the name of a hill next to Mecca mentioned in the Qur'an,
"Arafat" signifies the culmination of a Muslim's "hadj" (pilgrimage), in
this case the liberation of all the land of Palestine [PLO = Palestine
Liberation Organization].
The Jihad psychosis generated by calls for Jihad -- including the calls for
Jihad quoted above as well as many others -- have given birth to criminal
terrorist groups such as "Islamic Jihad", "Hamas" and "Hizbullah".
These terrorist groups enjoy widespread material and ideological support in
the Muslim world. Their criminal murderers are celebrated as heroes. Some
Muslim states grant them shelter and backing (e.g. via UNO resolutions).
Even suicide bombers (!) etc. are not seen as terrorists in these sick
societies.
Fighting fanatical terrorists with conventional weapons alone (police,
military actions; etc) can AT BEST be only one means of defense.
The incredibly naive notion, held by many foolish Israeli and Western
politicians, that improving the economic situation of Arab Muslims will
undermine support for Jihad fanatics, is also absurd.
(Note: The Palestinian Arabs enjoy a higher standard of living than most
of their Arab neighbors. Jihad groups are primarily financed by the
wealthiest Muslim nations!).
Addressing the psychological and religious dimensions of Jihad is in the
long run INFINITELY more important than military or economic measures,
however necessary they may be.
Fortunately, in addressing these psychological and religious dimensions of
Jihad, does NOT require playing mind games with Arab Muslims.
THE QUR'AN ITSELF is the spiritual weapon that will enable true Muslims to
disarm the Jihad psychosis, liberate the minds of their peoples from its
terrible grasp, and pave the way for TRUE peace between Muslims and Israel.
I expressed this thesis in my essay entitled, "PEACE IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN
ISHMAEL AND ISRAEL ACCORDING TO THE QUR'AN" in 1969. The current, revised
version of my essay, which carries a Forward by Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi
Palazzi, will soon be distributed via email through the Root & Branch
Information Services.
My thesis is supported by the fact that many Muslim nations, such as
Nigeria, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which do not accept the
(pseudo-religious) call for Jihad against Israel, have established VERY
WARM diplomatic relations with the Jewish State (as opposed to the VERY
COLD "peace" agreement with Egypt, which in Egyptian eyes is really just a
truce until they and their fellow Jihad warriors are ready to launch the
next Arab war of agression against Israel).
The Root & Branch Association's Islam-Israel Fellowship, of which Shaykh
Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi is Muslim Co-Chairman and I am Jewish Co-Chairman,
is now working together with Muslim scholars and statesmen in various
countries to harness the spiritual power of the Qur'an to disarm the Jihad
psychosis, liberate Muslims from its evil grasp, and to develop a spiritual
atmosphere conducive for true peace between Muslims and Israel.
Shabbat Shalom/Salaam from Jerusalem,
Dr. Asher Eder