Muslim Prayers as Incitement
In Paris, Muslims block the streets every Friday….
Not on only did the Beersheba municipality state that an active mosque in a Jewish city is a threat to its security, but the mayor even referred to Muslim prayers as “incitement”.
Here’s a report from the International Middle East Media Center:
Mosque in Beersheba to Remain an Islamic Museum
The Beersheba Municipality has rejected a petition by the Bedouin Muslims of the Negev to pray in the old mosque of Beersheba.
The Baseiso mosque was built in 1906 by the Ottoman Empire and served as a mosque until 1950. At that time, the Israelis decided to convert the mosque into a Museum for Islamic and Israeli culture.
The High Court of Justice rejected a petition by the Negev’s Muslim Committee and the Bedouin Rights Protection Foundation to convert the museum into a mosque for local Muslims to use it for prayer.
The Municipality stated that, “an active mosque in the heart of a Jewish city is unthinkable.” They also claimed that converting the museum back into a mosque for public prayer would threaten the city’s security.
Beersheba Mayor Rubik Danilovich stated that, “the city views Muslim prayer as an element of incitement.”
There remains no active center for the five thousand Muslims remaining in Beersheba, which compels them to pray on the street, in other public places, or not at all.
Since 1948, the population of Beersheba is mostly Jewish with no significant Arab population.
Now — what about those prayers? In the course of praying the requisite five prayers a day, an observant Muslim will recite the Fatihah, the first surah of the Qur’an and the most common prayer in Islam, seventeen times. The final two verses of the Fatihah ask Allah: “Show us the straight path, the path of those whom Thou hast favoured; not the (path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray.” The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the “straight path” is Islam — cf. Islamic apologist John Esposito’s book Islam: The Straight Path. The path of those who have earned Allah’s anger are the Jews, and those who have gone astray are the Christians.
This is not my interpretation; it comes from the classic Islamic commentaries on the Qur’an. The renowned Qur’anic commentator Ibn Kathir explains that “the two paths He described here are both misguided,” and that those “two paths are the paths of the Christians and Jews, a fact that the believer should beware of so that he avoids them. The path of the believers is knowledge of the truth and abiding by it. In comparison, the Jews abandoned practicing the religion, while the Christians lost the true knowledge. This is why ‘anger’ descended upon the Jews, while being described as ‘led astray’ is more appropriate of the Christians.”
Ibn Kathir’s understanding of this passage is not a lone “extremist” interpretation. In fact, most Muslim commentators believe that the Jews are those who have earned Allah’s wrath and the Christians are those who have gone astray. This is the view of Tabari, Zamakhshari, the Tafsir al-Jalalayn, the Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas, and Ibn Arabi, as well as Ibn Kathir. One contrasting, but not majority view, is that of Nisaburi, who says that “those who have incurred Allah’s wrath are the people of negligence, and those who have gone astray are the people of immoderation.”
Wahhabis drew criticism a few years back for adding “such as the Jews” and “such as the Christians” into parenthetical glosses on this passage in Qur’ans printed in Saudi Arabia. Some Western commentators imagined that the Saudis originated this interpretation, and indeed the whole idea of Qur’anic hostility toward Jews and Christians. They found it inconceivable that Muslims all over the world would learn as a matter of course that the central prayer of their faith anathematizes Jews and Christians.
But unfortunately, this interpretation is venerable and mainstream in Islamic theology. The printing of the interpretation in parenthetical glosses into a translation would be unlikely to affect Muslim attitudes, since the Arabic text is always and everywhere normative in any case, and since so many mainstream commentaries contain the idea that the Jews and Christians are being criticized here. Seventeen times a day, by the pious.
The Hadith also contains material linking Jews to Allah’s anger and Christians to his curse, which resulting from their straying from the true path. (The Jews are accursed also, according to Qur’an 2:89, and both are accursed according to 9:30). One hadith recounts that an early Muslim, Zaid bin ‘Amr bin Nufail, in his travels met with Jewish and Christian scholars. The Jewish scholar told him, “You will not embrace our religion unless you receive your share of Allah’s Anger,” and the Christian said, “You will not embrace our religion unless you get a share of Allah’s Curse.” Zaid, needless to say, became a Muslim.
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I have an idea, muslims block the streets every Friday…. WHY? is it because they dont have mosques to pray in??? I suggest closing the mosques so they have a REAL reason for gathering in the streets…Councils just need to announce that mosques in those districts nearest to where muslims do this , will be CLOSED DOWN , their permits removed and the mosques not allowed to reopen…problem solved! watch them scuttle back to their mosques like the vermin they are..
The number in the title is innacurate. They must pray 5 times a day. Each prayer is repeated 17 times a sitting. 5×17=85. They are asserting the divide between them and christians and jews AND consigning both other groups to hellfire 85 times a day.
85, not 17.
That is not prayer. That is brainwashing. Combine that with the fasting during ramadan and you have THE classic cult indoctrination technique.
That bit about christians and jews is at the very end of the prayer so it will “stick in” the most- so it’s probably the real purpose of the prayer. Any advertising executive or comedian can tell you that.
Comedians know you have to leave your best jokes for the end of your act because that is what people will walk away with.
That 85 times a day is part of the reason why the more muslim someone gets, the more anti semetic they become. If you see someone with one of those dent’s on their head its the exact same thing as having a nazi symbol on their arm. You are looking at someone who really does fantasize about killing jews.
The straight path of the Muslims of the true religion is: Suicide Bombers; stoning women to death; male perverts “marrying” underage little girls in a forced marriage; male perverts legally raping underage little girls, sometimes as young as five years, after a forced marriage; hanging homosexuals and lesbians by the neck until dead, or cutting off their heads with a sword; husbands legally beating their wives; relegating women to second class status; lashing underage little girls who try to escape male perverts after forced marriages; murdering apostates who no longer wish to participate in criminal activity, permitted by the Crime Syndicate of Islam, like that mentioned above; Honor Killings, usually innocent daughters for becoming “too Westernized,” or for failing to wear proper Muslim rags; lashing old women for flimsy excuses; murdering girls who seek and education; punishing women who want to drive a care in Saudi Arabia; Muslim sadists chopping off clitorises of little girls; Muslim sadists chopping off hands, feet, and gouging out eyes of petty thieves, both male and female. What a true religion!! Thanks but no thanks.
I have no problem with Muslims believing that I, as a Christian, have “gone astray.” I do have a problem with them attempting to kill me or coerce me into their Satanic religion. I do have a problem with their intolerance, tempermental and violent reaction to any criticism of their religion, a religion, whose texts are a farse and could never stand to any type of critical investigation like the Old and New Testaments of the Bible do. While Yeshua protected the women caught in adultery and commanded her to go and sin no more (“neither do I condemn you” He said), Muhammed, as the Haddith records, commanded the adulterous to be buried up to her neck and stoned. The more the west, both secularists (mostly cowards) and Jews and Christians expose Islam the better for all.
zoroastrians have 5 times prayer and muslims have 5 times prayer the timing is the same .50% of koran is bible stories and 15 % muhammads biography.
I routinely reflect on what the koranimals pray about in order for me to stay focused upon their hatred towards us & this page is of importance to our struggle.
God damn them all.