PA TV: Killing of Jews is Mandatory
20:07 Dec 28, '04 / 16 Tevet 5765
israelnationalnews.com
Contrary to the anticipated decrease in the PA’s hate broadcasts since the demise of Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Media Watch has issued a report claiming the PA media message has not changed.
PA religious leaders have long advocated the killing of Jews as a religious necessity. Monday, PA TV broadcast the same call, advocating genocide as a historical necessity – this time from a senior PA academic rather than from a religious leader.
Dr. Hassan Khater, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia and a PA TV lecturer, recently appeared on PA TV, citing the Islamic tradition (Hadith) demanding genocide in the name of Islam’s founder Mohammed. Khater quoted the same verse used repeatedly in sermons by terror-supporting religious leaders in the PA. He did so as part of a lecture focusing on what he described as the war of the Jews against Arabs’ trees.
"Mohammed said in his Hadith: ‘The Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you fight the Jews, [until a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree] and the rock and the tree will say: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'," Dr. Khater said, on prime time PA-run television.
The segment, broadcast originally on July 13, 2003 and rebroadcast Monday, Dec. 27, 2004 on PA TV can be viewed here.
“The continued teaching that this Hadith applies today could well be a dominant factor driving terror against Israeli civilians,” Said PMW Director Itamar Marcus. “By depicting redemption as dependent on Muslims' killing of Jews, the PA world view presents this genocide as a religious obligation and historical necessity - not related to the conflict over borders, but as something inherent to Allah's world.”
One example provided by PMA of the traditional call for genocide of the Jews, was broadcast earlier this year by a religious leader. It can be viewed here.
The Friday sermon, broadcast on PA TV September 10, 2004, depicts Sheik Ibrahim Madiras telling followers: "The Prophet said: the Resurrection will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them. The Muslims will kill the Jews, rejoice [in it], rejoice in Allah's Victory. The Muslims will kill the Jews, and he will hide. The Prophet said: the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: oh servant of Allah, oh Muslim this is a Jew behind me, come and kill him! Why is there this malice? Because there are none who love the Jews on the face of the earth: not man, not rock, and not tree. Everything hates them. They destroy everything, they destroy the trees and destroy the houses. Everything wants vengeance on the Jews, on these pigs on the face of the earth, and the day of our victory, Allah willing, will come."
PMW claims that the PA has, in fact, not decreased its promotion of hatred and genocide at all. “World attention has brought pressure on the PA to change the content of the Friday sermons, in which religious leaders have repeatedly called for the genocide of Jews,” said PMW Director Itamar Marcus. “The PA has not eliminated the message, however, but has merely transferred it to another framework.” |
