An Islamic Truth by Qanta
A. Ahmed
For the full article go to “The Times Of Israel”
- https://tinyurl.com/y563z3q4
Qanta A Ahmed an honorary
Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University, a British
physician has visited Israel, speaking at universities and research institutes
around the country
Ahmed is opposed to the
boycott against Israel, saying that the boycott movement attempts to vilify
Israel. Ahmed is opposed to the occupation of the Palestinian Territories, but
admits that she doesn't know how Israel can relinquish control over a region
hosting "a virulent Jihadist ideology" and leaders calling for
Israel's destruction. In 2010, Qanta wrote, "Call me an Accidental
Zionist, if you must, but Eretz Yisrael is a vital shelter, an only shelter,
from lethal, genocidal anti-Semitism... If we care for wider humanity at all,
we must all be 'accidental' Zionists and want for the Jews, for the Israelis,
what each Muslim already has for themselves: a future, a nation and a faith, secured."
Nowhere does the Quran make
mention of the Muslims’ claim to the Holy Land. Instead, God reveals in the
Quran that The Holy Land is designated for the followers of Moses. Because the
Promised Land is theirs according to the Quran, only the followers of Moses may
determine where their capital must lie.
It is this Islamic truth that
political Islamists vehemently deny.
Those who masquerade as Muslims
Fast-forward 1,300 years to
the 21sth Century and we find totalitarian Islamism
– profoundly distinct from Islam
– ensures a new anti-Semitism courses through the Muslim
psyche.
Today’s Islamists cry
‘Islamophobia!’ when challenged on their ideology, arguing that calling it
political totalitarianism amounts to anti-Muslim racism and bigotry. Indeed,
the notion of Islamophobia is
becoming so powerful a social construct that it is chilling public discourse
even for Muslims who dare expose Islamism.
This outcry is not confined
to Muslims but is spread throughout the wider world, as many glorify Islamists
as a persecuted religious minority rather than the totalitarians they are.
In the process, those naïve
of Islamism condemning the designation of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital (in the
belief they are advocating for Palestinians), become willing instruments for an
explicitly fascist ideology, an Islamism that seeks not an accommodation, or
parallel statehood to Israel, but its figurative and literal annihilation.
In the Palestinian
territories, as in many Muslim majority societies, Islamism is
effectively ‘the other occupier’ -–
confining freedom of thought, critical analysis and educated scrutiny of Islam.
It’s time Muslims examined
this other occupation of Islam by Islamism. In the guise of advocating for the
Palestinian cause, many conceal or find socially accepted release for rabid yet
sanitized anti-Semitism.
One Muslim commentator echoed
the sentiments of millions of Muslims around the world when he dismissed the
Quranic declaration of Israel as the promised land for the Jews as irrelevant
claiming, “The Quran is not a historical document.”
This is how far we Muslims
have strayed.
This renunciation of what the
Quran tells Muslims is an uncontestable truth today. Theological destiny for
the Jews is at the root of the Middle East conflict; whether as Jews it is
pursued, or by Muslims, it is denied.
The Holy Land which God has written for you
The Israel-Palestinian
conflict is neither about politics nor Zionism, neither about borders nor land
or water. It is not even about the fate of statehood for the Palestinians. It
is about the central denial of an Islamic truth: the denial that the Jews have
rights to the land.
Yet today, millions of
Muslims, under the influence of Islamism, pursue lethal hatred of Jews,
abandoning the Quran itself. 2006 Pew research
confirmed anti-Jewish sentiment remains overwhelmingly centred in predominantly
Muslim Majority countries.
A genocidal hatred
Lacking critical knowledge,
and access to Islam free of Islamism, faith-illiterate Muslims (including the
Middle East and North Africa Region and Western Europe) accept anti-Semitism as
Islamic creed. All too often, the rest of the world follows suit.
Islamists use Holocaust
denial to garner grassroots support for delegitimizing Israel and to recruit
Islamist “foot-soldiers” who are terrorist collaborators or operators. Because
the Holocaust “wasn’t real,” Islamists argue, the state of Israel was created on
“false pretenses.” Seeking de-legitimization with a view to full destruction of
Israel quickly gains legitimacy.
Modern day Islamism – birthed by the Muslim Brothers
in 1928 Egypt — has since incorporated a new anti-Semitism, a
lethal genocidal hatred for all Judaica, all Jewry and Israel as a central
tenet of belief. This blinds Muslims with a religionized anti-Semitism that
prevents us from seeing that Islam has mandated Israel and its capital for the
Jews.
As Muslims, we can be blind
no more. Islam demands, we must see what is written.
