Muslim Sheikh Pays Solidarity Visit to the Jews of Hevron

Noam Arnon, a spokesperson for the Jewish community of Hevron, told Arutz Sheva about a very unusual guest who came to show his support on Monday.

Making the trip from Italy to Hevron for the second time in recent years, the head of the Italian Muslim Assembly, Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, met with local Jewish leaders in a show of solidarity.

The sheikh, an Italian national who received his Islamic education from leading mainstream Saudi and Egyptian Sunni institutions, believes that his religion obligates its followers to support Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

In support of his position, Sheikh Palazzi quotes Koranic passages and traditions that affirm God's assignment of this land for the Jews.

As Palazzi has written of himself, he is "a Zionist Muslim clergyman and a friend of the Jewish people."

"We are talking about a unique personality," Arnon told Arutz Sheva. "A man who connects warmly with everyone he meets. A very brave individual."

During Sheikh Palazzi's visit to Hevron, community leaders discussed with him ways in which Islamist fundamentalism might be curbed.

"He emphasized Saudi Arabia as responsible for extremism," Arnon said. "It funds mosques in Europe and the United States and then determines who will be allowed to speak in them. In this way, Islam becomes more and more extreme, which is a dangerous trend."

In his activities in Italy, Arnon explained, Palazzi teaches what he calls "the real Islam", which he believes includes tolerance, Jewish-Muslim fellowship and Zionism. "He even organized a protest outside the Iranian embassy in Rome when Ahmadinejad talked about destroying Israel," Arnon added.

Sheikh Palazzi, who is also the Muslim co-founder of the Islam-Israel Fellowship of the Root & Branch Association, told his Hevron hosts that Italian Jews are now shifting their political positions further to the Right. In the past, according to Palazzi, Jews in Italy were primarily supporters of the Left, but a slow change in underway. Arnon said that Sheikh Palazzi believes his efforts, as a non-Jew supporting Israel, have contributed to that shift.

Asked about threats against the Zionist sheikh Arnon was adamant that he was perfectly safe in Hevron. "He walked around [here] without bodyguards," he said. However, Arnon said that he would probably be unable to openly enter Gaza or Ramallah under current circumstances.

Palazzi's visit in Israel continues for another few days, during which he will be making his way to other communities in Judea and Samaria to express his support for continued Jewish development and sovereignty in those regions.

INN

(IT) Degenerate Islamophobia vs. Common sense - Islamofobia degenerata e Buonsenso

Islamofobia degenerata e buon Buonsenso

[Questa foto avrebbe dovuto essere scattata prima che Debbie dicesse che Sean è un fascista]

È piuttosto fastidioso sentire islamofascisti declamare ‘decapitate coloro che insultano l’Islam’ o ‘l’America ha meritato l’11 settembre’. È tanto fastidioso quanto sentire islamofobici declamare ‘uccidete i mussi’ oppure ‘bombardate la Mecca’. Ma è doppiamente fastidioso quando questo Sentire viene espresso da Personaggi pubblici.

I Muslims Against Sharia (Islamici Contro la Sharia) si considerano orgogliosamente parte della Comunità anti-islamista. In quanto ad islamici, alcuni hanno un’Esperienza diretta di cosa significhi vivere sotto l’Oppressione islamista. E sanno tutti fin troppo bene quali siano i Pilastri nella Lotta con l’Islamofascismo.

Comunque, alcuni anti-islamisti sono consumati dall’Odio, tanto che gli islamofascisti non rappresentano un Obiettivo abbastanza grande per loro: essi odiano tutti gli islamici. Razionalizzano il loro Odio dicendo che tutti gli islamici sono uguale e che non ci c’è alcun islamico moderato. Bill Warner, un islamofobo dalla Florida (Bill Warner, an Islamophobe from Florida), da non confondere con Bill Warner, il Direttore dello Study of Political Islam/ Studio dell’Islam Politico, riassume ciò piuttosto bene, dicendo: ‘Io, Bill Warner, concordo totalmente con Debbie Schlussel, lei mette il dito nella piaga nuovamente, è tutta una Frode, una Frode islamica, non c’è alcun islamico moderato (I (Bill Warner) totally agree with Debbie Schlussel , she hit the nail right on the head again, it is all a fraud, a Muslim fraud, there are no Moderate Muslims)’. La Cosa buona è che nessuno ascolta veramente Bill Warner, specialmente dopo che si è messo in ridicolo, poiché - questo auto-proclamatosi anti-jihadista - ha fatto Comunella con un lacché del CAIR, Jim Sutter, e l’islamofascista MT Akbar, tentando di diffamare Khalim Massoud di MASH e Pamela Geller di Atlas Shrug (teamed up with CAIR lackey Jim Sutter and Islamofascist MT Akbar in a pathetic attempt to defame Khalim Massoud of MASH and Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs). La Cosa cattiva è che la Gente ascolta Debbie Schlussel. Anche io l’ascoltavo. Debbie ha fatto del Lavoro magnifico esponendo i legami fra il Governo e gli islamofascisti. Sfortunatamente, ciò non è tutto quel che ha fatto.

Mettendo a parte la Tendenza a diffamare altri anti-islamisti che non vedono le Cose esattamente come Debbie (lei chiama regolarmente Steven Emerson, Brigitte Gabriel, John Loftus, e Walid Shoebat bugiardi e frodatori), o la sua Tendenza a pensare che lei è l’unica vera diva conservatrice (a momenti stacca la testa ad uno dei suoi commentatori perché si è permesso di dire che Laura Ingraham è una conservatrice; Monica Crowley, secondo Debbie, è senza talento), Debbie non vede alcuna Differenza fra islamici e islamofascisti.

Il 25 maggio 2009, è stato un giorno nero per gli islamici anti-islamisti. Il Deputato Muftì del Dagestan, Akhmed-khadzhi Tagavev è stato assassinato, presumibilmente da Terroristi wahhabiti (Dagestan's Deputy Mufti, Akhmed-khadzhi Tagayev was murdered, presumably by Wahhabi terrorists). Ahmed Tagaev era conosciuto per la sua Posizione anti-estremista. Ha ripetutamente scritto in merito al Problema dell’Estremismo islamico nel suo Articolo in un Media locale e on-line.

Ma Debbie non la vede così. Nella sua demente Declamazione ‘la tua Fine nella Religione di Pace, intra-pacifica (Your Day in "Religion of Peace" Intra-"Peacefulness")’, Debbie scrive: ‘Non prendetevi in giro e non crediate che – come dichiarato dall’Agenzia News Interfax –Tagavev, il Deputato Capo Muftì del Dagestan, fosse una sorta di moderato semplicemente perché si opponeva all’Islam wahhabita ed è stato da esso ucciso. Il Tipo era estremista come molti Clerici islamici, ma semplicemente non era dalla stessa Parte estremista dei wahhabiti’. Mi chiedo quanto conoscesse Ahmed Tagaev. Io l’ho conosciuto, e non era affatto estremista. Combatteva gli estremisti ed ha pagato il Prezzo ultimo, ma per Debbie è semplicemente un altro islamico morto. Il Pensiero che probabilmente CAIR e ISNA stiano gioendo della Morte del loro Nemico, non dovrebbe fermarla per un Momento? Lo dubito. Per Gente come Debbie, l’unico islamico buono è un islamico morto.

Commentando ‘il Centro di coordinamento degli islamici del Caucauso del nord organizzerà presto un Incontro, per vedere come proteggere i Clerici islamici dagli estremisti’, Debbie scrive: ‘Correzione: i Clerici islamici sono estremisti’. Sicuro, la Maggioranza dei Clerici in America sono estremisti. Estremisti pagati dai Petrodollari wahhabiti. Gli stessi Petrodollari contro cui combatteva Ahmed Tagaev. Debbie definirebbe estremista pure Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, un Clerico islamico che è più pro-Israele della maggior Parte degli ebrei americani?

Diciamo che Debbie è così presa dall’Islamofobia, che non potendone fare a meno, gioisce ogni volta che un islamico muore. Ma dov’è finito il Buonsenso? Attitudini come la sua inducono islamici in Dubbio a pensare piuttosto ‘hey, questi anti-islamisti non sono così male, sono contro l’Islamismo, non contro gli islamici’ oppure inducono loro a pensare ‘Osama ha Ragione; essi odiano tutti gli islamici e dobbiamo difenderci’? Non capisce che lei sta causando più Danni che Cose positive quando si tratta di Guerra al Terrore? Oppure le interessa solo che sia soddisfatta la sua Rettitudine personale?

I.A.

Fonte: http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/05/degenerate-islamophobia-vs-common-sense.html

My Prayer for the Jewish People

by Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi

As a Zionist Muslim clergyman and a friend of the Jewish people, I cannot keep silent. I feel a moral urge to declare that the nations of the world are once again preparing bad days for the Jewish people.

A US Administration, which pays lip service to a supposed "war on terror," is ready to bow to Saudi-funded Islamist terror and to accept the Saudi diktat compelling Jews to withdraw from the Land of Israel. The Jewish people is at risk of getting restricted by order of its American "friends," ever closer to what Abba Eban used to call "the Auschwitz borders."

People are rarely satisfied with their politicians, and the case of contemporary Israelis is no different. Most of them feel betrayed by both leftist politicians who try to introduce surrender to Abu Mazen as a "step toward peace," and by reputed nationalist politicians who declare they oppose Jewish deportation from Judea and Samaria, but who do not move a inch to prevent it.

The more time passes, the more moral leadership of the Jewish people at home is restricted to a powerless minority. The nightmare of Oslo returned and became even darker in Annapolis. That was the reason for the recent creation in Jerusalem of the New Jewish Congress, a federation of different authentic Zionist groups and organizations, blessed by the New Sanhedrin and by the most authoritative Israeli rabbis, and supported by 30% of concerned secular Israelis. I regretted being unable to attend the founding session, held in Jerusalem, Israel, on November 27, but I was thankful to Allah the Most High for giving me the opportunity to thank Prof. Hillel Weiss for the honor of the invitation and to send the participants my greetings.

I was glad to have been given the opportunity to reiterate that the territories of Judea and Samaria are the home Allah granted to the Jewish people, and that any attempt to steal them from their legitimate owners is a declaration of war against a Divine decree. In my humble view, each of my Jewish brothers and sisters is morally obligated to struggle for the integrity of the Land of Israel, in order to ease the task of the Jewish people to be a "light unto the nations" and to pave the way for Redemption.

The oil lobbies are imposing the follow-up of Oslo, and compelling the whole civilized world to bow to a leader of kleptocracy like Abu Mazen and to again fund his anti-Jewish terror. In these tragic days, my heart is with the Jews in Israel, with all those Jewish families at risk of deportation from Judea and Samaria to appease oil-sultans and their Western counterparts.

I pray that hardship is overcome and defeated by a new Jewish leadership, which will prove that the Zionist dream is still alive. The dream of the Jewish people to live in peace and security in the Land of Israel was not crushed by strong governments in the past, and will not be crushed even today, despite the attempts of Arab dictators, the American politicians who cave in to their demands, and the corrupt Israeli politicians who bowed down in submission in Annapolis. One might easily envision that the nightmare that began in Oslo will now reach its most terrific level, with a possible ascendancy of Hamas gangsters over the areas to be vacated by Israel, including even Jerusalem.

President George Bush claims he reads the Bible daily, but seems to forget that it is written there that the Land of Israel is G-d's gift to the Children of Israel, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It was not given to anyone else, including the descendants of Ishmael, since they received plenty of territory in other locations. Even so, whoever attempts to steal any of the Divine inheritance of the Jewish people declares war not only on a particular nation, but on G-d and His decree. As long as the US stood up for the rights of Israel in her land, Allah rewarded them with a flow of abundance and blessings, while the Soviet Empire - which denied the national rights of the Jewish people - was canceled from maps. Now, the risk is that the US Administration wants to emulate the Soviet Union. I pray for a new US Administration, more respectful of the rights of the Jewish people over its land.

Sheikh Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi is the Director of the Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community, Muslim Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Islam-Israel Fellowship, Root & Branch Association, Ltd.

Source: Israel National News