From the essay by King Abdullah:
“King Abdullah also asks how Jews can claim a historic right to Palestine, when Arabs have been the overwhelming majority there for nearly 1,300 uninterrupted years?..With very minor exceptions, Jews have lived for many centuries in the Middle East, in complete peace and friendliness with their Arab neighbors.”
Response:
Who lived in “Palestine” before Muslims hoards took it over? Obviously from King Abdullah’s statement, the Jews, for the Jews who supposedly “lived in complete peace and friendliness with their Arab neighbors” did not all of a sudden drop from the sky; they were there
before the Muslim conquest. “The
Muslim historian Baladhuri (d. 892 AD), maintained that 30,000 Samaritans and 20,000 Jews lived in Caesarea alone just prior to the Arab Muslim conquest; afterward, all evidence of them disappears. Archaeological data confirms the lasting devastation wrought by these initial jihad conquests, particularly the widespread destruction of synagogues and churches from the Byzantine era, whose remnants are still being unearthed.”
In addition to the Jews there were Christians. It is a matter of historical record that Muslims invaded and took over all of that part of the Middle East somewhere around the year 636 AD.
“Occupation by force of arms,
in their own eyes, in the eyes of Islam, is not at all associated with injustice. To the contrary,
it constitutes a certificate and demonstration of authentic ownership.”
Not only does the Muslim believe that, as conqueror, his conquest “constitutes a certificate and demonstration of authentic ownership” but also that this ownership
continues even if the land is retaken by a non-Muslim force. The reason for this is, as stated before, the conjured command from Allah to conquer the whole world for Muslim rule. So if we are to agree with the Muslim view that land belongs to him by right of conquest, then he has to grant the same consideration to those who conquer land under Islamic rule. Of course, you will never hear this from Muslims because they do not believe they commit any aggression at all; it’s the kafir who is the aggressor simply by his existence.
“The essential pattern of the jihad war is captured in the great
Muslim historian al-Tabari’ s recording of the recommendation given by Umar b. al-Khattab to the commander of the troops he sent to al-Basrah (636 AD), during the conquest of Iraq. Umar reportedly said:
‘Summon the people to Allah; those who respond to your call, accept it from them, (This is to say, accept their conversion as genuine and refrain from fighting them), but those who refuse must pay the poll tax out of humiliation and lowliness. (Qur’an 9:29)
If they refuse this, it is the sword without leniency. Fear Allah with regard to what you have been entrusted.’
“Violent jihad warfare on infidels is the norm, not the exception, in Islamic history. Once successful, jihad leads to the imposition of humiliating, degrading, violent, and expensive oppression under
dhimmitude, the institutionalized imposition of a special tax and a lowly status upon those who refuse to abandon their faith and adopt Islam. ***Among the worst victims of jihad and dhimmitude have been the Jews and Christians who lived in historic Palestine. ***
In short, Blacks in the Jim Crow South endured far less maltreatment than dhimmis did under the Muslims.
“Jihad was pursued century after century, because jihad, which means ‘to strive in the path of Allah’, embodied an ideology and a jurisdiction. Both were formally conceived by
Muslim jurisconsults and theologians from the 8th to 9th centuries onward, based on their interpretation of Qur’anic verses and long chapters in the Traditions (i.e., “hadith”, acts and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, especially those recorded by al-Bukhari [d. 869 AD] and Muslim [d. 874 AD] ).
“…By the time of the classical Muslim historian al-Tabari’s death in 923 AD, jihad wars had expanded the Muslim empire from Portugal to the Indian subcontinent. Subsequent Muslim conquests continued in Asia, as well as parts of Eastern Europe were also conquered and Islamized.
“Arab Muslim invaders engaged, additionally, in continuous jihad raids that ravaged and enslaved Sub-Saharan African animist populations, extending to the southern Sudan. When the Muslim armies were stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683, over a
millennium of jihad had transpired.”
As far as how Jews fared in Christian Europe is concerned, “…we cannot ignore the testimony of Isaac B. Samuel of Acre (1270-1350 AD), one of the most outstanding Kabbalists of his time. Conversant with Islamic theology and often using Arabic in his exegesis, Isaac nevertheless believed that it was preferable to live under the yoke of Christendom, rather than that of Islamdom.”
Bear in mind here that those Christians who mistreated Jews, or anyone for that matter, did so against Christ’s teaching; Muslims who mistreat non-believers do so in
imitation of their prophet Mohammed, their “perfect” example.
What all this means is the land belongs to the Muslim conqueror, but King Abdullah is not willing to grant this to others, e.g., the Spanish Conquistadors or the Jews.
So the claim that, “With very minor exceptions, Jews have lived for many centuries in the Middle East, in complete peace and friendliness with their Arab neighbors” is just Muslim fantasy. What goes around comes around.
Ref: “The Legacy of Jihad in Historical Palestine”, by Andrew G. Bostom ,
americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4999
) Thank you.
, but I don’t see where it mentions Joseph either by name or by position (husband). Maybe with the “guardian of Mary” phrase in the last verse, but even that’s a stretch because it seems to be talking about people fighting about who would be the guardian of Mary - and I don’t know who that is - I don’t know of anyone fighting over being Mary’s husband or having such a dispute? 