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June 06, 2008
oooh! Smackdown!
What do you wanna bet Al Jazeera burns this tape:
Bar Ilan University political scientist Dr. Mordechai Kedar told a Moslem show host on the Arabic-language Al Jazeera television network, "Jews were in Jerusalem while your ancestors were drinking wine and blowing to idols." In a heated debate with the narrator, he added, "We don't need your permission to build" in the capital of Israel, Jerusalem.
The encounter occurred earlier this week, when Jews around the world celebrated Jerusalem Unification Day. Dr. Kedar has frequently appeared on the widely viewed Qatar-based network but this time encountered a sharp attack from the show's host, Jimal Rian.
"Building in Jerusalem is another nail in the coffin in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority," narrator Jimal Rian asserted. Dr. Kedar answered in fluent Arabic, "This was our capital 3,000 years ago, and we were here when your forefathers were drinking wine, burying girls alive and worshipping pre-Muslim idols. This is our city and it will be our city forever."
His reference to Muslims drinking wine, which is forbidden in Islam, infuriated the host. Rian wagged his finger in the air and said excitedly, "If you want to talk about history, you cannot erase Jerusalem from the Koran, and don’t attack the Muslim religion if we want to continue talking."
Dr. Kedar replied, "Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran. Jerusalem is a Jewish city."
The Al Jazeera host responded by quoting a verse from the Koran in which he thought Jerusalem was mentioned by name, but stopped in the middle upon realizing that it only refers to "the farthest place."Dr. Kedar: "Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Koran even once. You can't rewrite the Koran on air on Al Jazeera."
In case you're wondering... from the koran, Sura 17, verse 1:
"Glory to Him who caused His servant to travel by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We have blessed, in order to show him some of Our Signs, He is indeed the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing."
The moslems base their claim to Jerusalem on this verse, which is based on mohammad's claim that Allah miraculously transported him there from mecca in one night, on the back of al-Buraq, a magical horse with the head of a woman, wings of an eagle, the tail of a peacock, and hoofs reaching to the horizon.
Of course, only one of his followers at the time believed mohammed's magical horse claim, everyone else believed he was full of proverbial poo-poo. The one person who did, Abu Bakr, was henceforth known as "al-Siddiq" (the "believer").
Despite arab attempts to revise history, the cult of islam was established 1300 years ago, more then 1700 years after Jews made Jerusalem their capital. The prophet of doom never made it to Jerusalem, and the word "Jerusalem" appears nowhere in the koran. The city of Jerusalem is mentioned 622 times in the Torah by name and is referred to thousands of times by other names.
I was slightly amused to note that Jimal Rian was "outraged" at the suggestion that moslems were drinking wine back in the day, and was not troubled at all by the suggestion that moslems were burying girls alive. Of course, the moslems have since changed that practice, now they only bury them to the waist, and throw stones at them until they are dead. Such is the progress of 1300 years of islam.
Dr. Kedar, Kol HaKavod!
Posted by LindaSoG at June 6, 2008 06:28 AM
Comments
"The one person who did, Abu Bakr, was henceforth known as "al-Siddiq" (the "believer")."
Are you SURE that's what it means? Seems to me it probably means something like, 'the gullible dimwit'.
Posted by: Mister Prickly at June 6, 2008 04:01 PM
a magical horse? If I didn't know you better, I'd think you made that up.
Posted by: karla at June 7, 2008 07:43 AM
Wow! You are getting to know your Koran!
Be careful, they might force you to wear a burka.
Posted by: Bruce at June 9, 2008 07:12 PM
bwaahaha. pwn3d!!1!1 on the tube.
Posted by: raz0r at June 10, 2008 09:58 AM
There's another reason they can't have it. HA! It belongs to the Jewish people...period.
Posted by: Stepperg at June 10, 2008 10:17 AM
I thought the same thing regarding the girls being buried.
Don't have to dig as deep a hole now.......... gee, at the current rate of progress they should be ready for the 21st century in about 1500 more years.
Posted by: Paul at June 11, 2008 12:26 AM
Thanks for that story, from which I found this article about that, here...
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=39615
and the video of it with english translation, here...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VHpMhAzj-Tk
(for hebrew translation link, see 1st url, above)
Posted by: yonason at June 12, 2008 11:37 PM