GAZA: THE SLAVE REBELLION

ALLAH HAS ALWAYS PROHIBITED KILLING

5:28. "If thou dost stretch thy hand Against me, to slay me,
It is not for me to stretch My hand against thee
To slay thee: for I do fear God, the Cherisher of the Worlds.

5:32 For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. Our messengers came unto them of old with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), but afterwards lo! many of them became prodigals in the earth.

Allah SWT has consistently prohibited killing.  Unless He has permitted it for the punishment of a Hadd crime, such as murder or hirabah, it is a most grievous sin. 

What we note in this ayat is that Allah SWT decreed this to the Bani Israel.  It applies to Muslims as well.  This is borne out by the reference in the following verses, ayaat 33 and 34, to the Islamic punishment for hirabah.  Although there are some, especially on Wiki Islam, who say otherwise; we wonder who is behind their clearly biased and distorted interpretation.

Edward Snowden, may Allah SWT guide him to Islam, has revealed that the Dawlat al Islami and other such violent groups were trained by the Mossad and the CIA.  This does not surprise me.  I have long held this, given the fact that the preachings of these groups do nothing but paint Islam as violent, and benefit only the enemies of Islam in their efforts to paint us as violent.  In fact, the rantings of the Islamiphobes track exactly with the published rantings of such groups.  It is as if the authors are the same.  Now Snowden has revealed that they are.  (http://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-trained-by-israeli-mossad-nsa-documents-reveal/5391593;  http://defence.pk/threads/%E2%80%9Cisis%E2%80%9D-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-trained-by-israeli-mossad-snowden-documents-reveal.326559/;  )

I warn all of our youth to beware of agents in our midst who are preaching these distorted views of Islam. 

Given this, we must understand that Allah SWT has given us permission to fight.

Al- Hajj: 22:39 Permission is given to fight for those who have been wronged; and Allah is indeed Able to give them victory;

40 Those who have been driven from their homes unjustly only because they said: Our Lord is Allah - For had it not been for Allah's repelling some men by means of others, cloisters and churches and oratories and mosques, wherein the name of Allah is oft mentioned, would assuredly have been pulled down. Verily Allah helpeth one who helpeth Him. Lo! Allah is Strong, Almighty –

We should understand that we are only given this permission when we are unjustly attacked “only because we say Allah is our Lord.”  In other words, only for our religious beliefs.   If they come for our land, give it to them – it belongs to Allah anyway, not to any one people or nation.  When Abdul Muttalib was faced by the invasion of Abraha, he left Makkah saying the Kaa’abah would be protected by the One whose House it was – Allah SWT.  And Allah SWT did protect it. 

So if we fight for land or rule over a land or riches or glory, we might get what we want, but we will not get the Pleasure of Allah.  War is forbidden to us, only qatl fi sabillillah – fighting in the Way of Allah – fighting injustice and suppression of religious freedom. 

There is no doubt such suppression of religious freedom is occurring in Jerusalem.  Muslims are not free to pray there.  Even Christians are not free to worship in their holy places.  Houses of worship have been attacked during prayers and even the Church of the Nativity has been attacked. 

Now, Gaza is under siege.  The siege is not new really.  Gaza has been blockaded, bombed, and besieged for years now.  We remember valiant attempts to break the blockade just a few years ago. 

Some like to paint the struggle in Palestine as a religious issue.  It is not.  The Israeli Zionist government is not religious. It was founded on godless socialism.  None of its founders were religious.  Moreover, the State of Israel has discriminated against practicing Hasidic Jews, Sephardic Jews, Yemeni Jews, Indian Jews and Ethiopian Jews.  Israel is a racist state, promoting white supremacy.  Jews who are not Western European and Yiddish speaking do not have the same rights.  And Israeli Arabs (not the residents of Palestine, but the Arabs resident within the borders of the State of Israel itself) have the least rights. 

Then there are the “migrant” workers – the legions of near slave workers brought in to Israel from Palestinian territory to do all the menial dirty jobs.  They are sometimes forced to stay overnight in warehouses, or worse; locked up with inadequate access to food, and the bare necessities of life.  Moreover, they are subjugated to degrading treatment, warrant-less searches, sniper attacks within their own homes during frequent curfews, and unconscionable murder of children. ( See Human Rights Watch for numerous reports on Israeli attacks on civilian populations:  http://www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/israel-palestine  ).

The population of Gaza constitutes one of these pools of near-slave workers.  The bombings are just Israel’s way of disciplining uppity slaves.  Like Pharaoh before, the State of Israel is a godless despot, a parasite upon the people of the earth.

Recently some have resurrected old myths about Israel and its right to the land in Palestine.  They recall the alleged fatwa of the Mufti of Jerusalem.  A great Jewish author, the late Simha Flapan, in his book, The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities (1987) debunked this myth almost 30 years ago.  An interesting discussion of the ebb and flow of historical mythmaking can be found here http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/54220/l-carl-brown/state-of-grace-rethinking-israel-s-founding-myths  .

Even if the Mufti had issues such a fatwa to leave, what does that mean?  Clearly the ones who bring up this myth know little of Islam.  Such a fatwa would only be binding on those who follow the madhdhab of the Mufti, and would not be binding on adherents of other madhdhaahib or the Shia or Christians.  Furthermore, fleeing violence does not constitute abandonment of property.  If it did, the Jews would have no claim to property confiscated after they left their homes in Germany.  Moreover, not everyone left – so obviously the land would still belong to the people who remained. 

For those of you who like to paint this as a Muslim – Jewish thing, remember many Arabs are Christian.  The population of Beth Laham for example is Christian Arab.  That population works as slave-workers in nearby settlements overlooking the birthplace of Jesus (AS).  They live in an Apartheid-like world, where a simple trip to a town a mile away can take hours because Arabs may only travel on certain roads and must cross numerous check points. 

In the West we have a saying, “if you eat crackers in bed, you will have to lie in them.”  The godless Socialist Zionists started this hell.  They attacked the British, hijacked the first planes, sent out the Stern Gang and Irgun to destroy Palestinian villages.  They could have tried to talk to the Arabs before WWI; the Arabs have never denied the right of people of Jewish origin to return to the Middle East.  But they never even tried. 

However, too much water lies under the bridge for us to point fingers and lay blame.  Everyone is soaked in blood at this point.  But, continued human rights abuses by the State of Israel will not solve the problem.  Only serious dialogue will.  And Israel has never been serious. 

Over my 53 years of life I have seen many occasions where we came so close to peace, and every time Israel has done something to destroy the peace.  The last time we came so very close, Sharon took 200 troops up the Temple Mount to the Al Aqsa Mosque.  How was that a gesture of good will and peace? 

The West benefits from war in Palestine.  And Israel, as our proxy, is there to ensure that peace will never be possible.  As long as Palestine festers, the West will be able to control the Middle East, or so it thinks.