By Fred Jackson
A Palestinian academic has told Palestinian Authority television that the killing of Jews is a mandatory religious obligation established by Islam’s founder, Muhammad.
For those who have been reading up on Islam in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, the confession of Hassan Khader will not come as much of a shock. In the interview with Palestinian television, Khader quoted Muhammad's teachings which tell Muslims that “the Hour” — or their day of resurrection — will not arrive until they fight the Jews.
The interview was monitored by an Israeli-based group called Palestinian Media Watch. That group’s director, Itamar Marcus, tells WorldNetDaily that “by depicting redemption as dependent on Muslims’ murder of Jews, the murder of Jews is being presented as mandatory religious obligation.”
Marcus also says the interview proves what many have said all along about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: it is not about borders. Instead, he says, it is Islam's “irreconcilable religious war against the Jews.”
Many evangelical Christians in the U.S. have been making that argument in denouncing President Bush's push for Israel to keep making concessions as a way to bring peace to the area. They say the goal of Yasser Arafat and his followers has never been peace with Israel — and that it is naïve to think otherwise.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press).
