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“Fight
to Free Muslim Lands!”
This emotive
and inflammatory call is a significant influence in various conflicts
today, particularly in Palestine.
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Who has
'right' to a land is a very valid question.
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Does invasion – whether military or economic
– confer rights of ownership? |
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In 636 AD, Palestinian Jews welcomed the invading
Muslim armies as a relief from Byzantine oppression. Since then, Arabs
of various religious persuasions have lived in Palestine for many generations. |
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Does the present day Israeli military power, economic
persuasion, or religious zeal, confer any right to Palestine? Some lucid
thinking on this issue is desperately needed. |
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The very concept 'Muslim lands' is as misleading
and deceptive as the concept of 'Jewish' or 'Christian' or 'Hindu' lands!
A falsification of history in the name of religion takes God's name in
vain, and is thus blasphemous! |
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Rights of ownership will always belong to residents – not conquerors! |
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This was true in Nazi occupied France and in Israeli
occupied Southern Lebanon. Neither the sword nor the gun has ever conferred
a 'right'! The religion of the violent does not convert that land to their
religion, no matter what it might be. The land, all land, everywhere,
belongs ultimately, entirely, only – to God its creator.
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Even the so-called Promised Land given to Israel
was a tenancy with conditions (Leviticus 25:1,23), which expired
when those conditions were continually violated. That was the consistent
warning of Moses and of Israel's prophets!
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Many of those who oppose the State of Israel's occupation
policies toward Palestinian land do not oppose the residency of Jews but
of the political/economic oppression that has accompanied it. |
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Christian Arabs were living in Palestine before
Mohammad was born! Therefore, their descendants most certainly have rights
to their own land today, in the fullest sense of this word! |
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‘la
ilaha illa lllah’ – there is no god but God!
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Let
all
that call themselves Muslim
note these
words!
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Now, concerning the right of Jews to
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• Qur'ãn, Table, Sura 23,24: it is written
that Moshe [Moses] calls to his people, the Jewish people, and says –
"come to the Holy
Land that was given to you by the Lord and don't be left behind."
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• Qur'ãn, Night Journey, Sura 26: it is written
that Allah said to the people of Israel –
"Settle in the Land
of Israel."
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Therefore true
Islam recognizes the historical right of Israel to live in their land
and to live in it as 'Israel'!
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