Al Azhar Mosque in Egypt held a forum on Wednesday night titled "The Prophetic Approach to Dealing with Sedition: The Conquest of Khaybar as a Model." The speakers included professors at Al Azhar University.
Dr. Habib Allah Hassan said that combating corruption is the ultimate goal of divine messages, and the mission of all prophets is call people to worship God and fight corruption.
He cited the noble verse: "And fight them until there is no fitnah [persecution/sedition]" [Quran 2:193] as evidence of the necessity to extinguish sedition. This was exemplified during the Prophet’s time—may God bless him and grant him peace—when Muslims faced sedition from the Jews. Thus, the battle had a noble objective: to eliminate sedition. The Jews of Khaybar posed a significant threat to Muslims due to their unified opposition, making the Conquest of Khaybar a battle for survival and a means to quell sedition.
But just in case you didn't get the massage, he added:
Zionists today continue to employ the same deceptive tactics as their predecessors against Muslims. They attempt to present myths as facts, such as claiming a fictitious historical presence in the land of Palestine, with support from international conspirators, despite having no religious claim to Palestine, neither historically nor presently. ... The Zionist ideology is a dubious concept aimed at usurping the rights of rightful owners, in violation of all religious teachings, including Judaism itself. He described them as a destructive force that the West has imposed on Muslim lands to eliminate their threat in Western countries.
The next speaker added more:
Dr. Khaled Abdel Nabi stated that anyone who examines the Jews’ methods of inciting sedition will discover their extreme cunning and diverse tactics. .... The conflicts that arose between Muslims and Jews resulted from the Jews’ violation of these treaties and their efforts to incite sedition within Muslim society. He noted that a review of Jewish history reveals that their societies were often built on stirring strife among people.
The moderator agreed: "Historical analysis of Jewish actions shows their mastery of this form of corruption with great cunning, aiming to destabilize and dismantle societies."
Al Azhar is mainstream Islam in Egypt. These are not fringe opinions on webs with tiny audiences - this is the way Egyptian Muslims are taught to think.
At the same time, former Grand Mufti of Egypt, Dr. Ali Gomaa, says the entire Torah is corrupt. The Torah doesn't list kosher or non-kosher animals - that was added by rabbis much later. He said that rabbis say that no non-Jew can be a prophet, which would come as a surprise to Balaam. He insists that the Holy Quran establishes a sound, scientific approach to dealing with religions and divine scriptures, based on investigation, scrutiny, and a return to the original sources, not whims and distorted traditions.
Yes, the 7th century Quran knew more about the Torah than the Jews of the previous 1,500 years.
When a rabbi in Israel says something that sounds bad, it is usually a misinterpretation or a real fringe voice - yet it generates headlines and it used as evidence of Jewish bigotry for years afterward.
This stuff happens every day in Egypt. Publicly. Reported widely in Arabic.
And ignored in Western media.
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