Dear Friends,

I realize that it has been months since our last newsletter. Some of you already know through the grapevine that my mother, Adene, passed away on March 6th. It was a peaceful passing, and we are blessed to know that she is now at home with our Lord and Savior. After 8 years of having mom with us in our home, it has been an adjustment not having her with me during the everyday routine of life.

I am very thankful for the way the Lord has brought me through this period in my life. Thank you for your support and prayers. Just knowing you all were there for us was a great comfort.

In April and May, Usama and I were on a mission trip to Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. It was a joy for us to be able to make the trip together and a blessing for me to be able to see the hand of the Lord at work in the lives of people to whom we ministered. Seeing old friends and meeting new ones was something I have missed, and it was a blessing to be by my husband’s side once again.

Usama just returned from another trip which he took to participate in a conference in Ohio. On the 25th of July, we will be making a trip to Louisiana and Mississippi. The dates that we have scheduled to speak are on our website at https://thestraightway.org/events.

Usama will be giving the main parts of his presentation “ISRAEL OR PALESTINE” which is very powerful and just what people all over the world need to know for today. I know that some of the churches that we have recently spoken at have posted their recording of the presentation. You can find it on YouTube, but it is even more effective to see it in person. We would love to come to your church, and we are just a phone call away from scheduling a visit.

Usama completed a 5 part article series since our last newsletter. I have included all 5 parts below. Please share these articles with this  important information with everyone you know.

May the Lord bless and keep you and yours.

Vicki

by

Usama Dakdok

Part 1

Let us begin by asking this very important question. How many times is the word “Palestine” mentioned in the Qur’an? The answer is zero because there is nothing significant about Palestine in Islam. How many times is the word Palestine mentioned in the Bible? The answer is still zero. Why? It is simply because the name “Palestine” for the land did not exist until 150 years after Christ. That is many decades after the Bible was finished.  

Now how many times is Israel or the children of Israel mentioned in the Qur’an? The answer is 44 times. What about in the Bible? Israel and the children of Israel are mentioned all over the Bible because the Bible is the history of Israel. 

What does the liberal media and our school textbooks teach on the subject of Palestine and Israel? Sadly, the media and the public schools are controlled by Muslims as they follow the advice of Joseph Goebbels who said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it…” We read the lies repeated in the pages of our textbooks since 2003. Now we are harvesting the fruit of these lies through our own children who have been brainwashed by these lies. In this article, I will share with you some of these lies and our response.  

Will Muslims lie? Doesn’t the Qur’an forbid lying? Let me share with you a couple verses. First, in Qur’an 16:106, we read: “Whoever becomes an infidel in Allah after he believed, except one who was compelled and his heart is secure in faith, but whoever opens his chest to the infidelity, the wrath of Allah will be on them, and they will have great torment.” Here we see that the Qur’an gives permission to Muslim believers to deny that they are Muslims if they are compelled. That is denying their faith which is the most sacred thing about any religion.  

Some Americans are simply naïve for believing that Muslims are a wonderful part of American society. After all, they are American citizens. If you ask how Muslims became citizens, the answer is very simple. It is because they raised their hands and gave an oath. That is why we must understand what the Qur’an teaches about Muslims giving an oath to non-Muslims because in Qur’an 2:225, we read: “Allah will not hold you responsible for your mere utterance in an oath, but he will hold you responsible for that which your hearts gained (meant) And Allah is forgiving, forbearing.” That is permission from Allah to the Muslims who live in America to lie when they give their oath to become citizens. 

What about what Mohammed, the self-proclaimed prophet of Islam, taught about lying? Amazingly, when I talk to Muslims they will say that lying in Islam is forbidden, except in three cases. That is when they quote Mohammed saying in the Hadith: “It is lawful to lie in three cases. A man to his wife that she will be pleased with him, or at a time of war, because war is deception, or to make peace between people.” I don’t believe Muslims are listening to themselves when they quote such sayings of Mohammed because here Mohammed taught Muslims to lie to everyone - which is their wives, their enemies, and their friends. So how can lies be forbidden in Islam? I am amazed that we allow such Muslims to write our textbooks and educate our children throughout this land. 

Following are some of the lies written and repeated throughout our major textbooks in all our public schools in America: World History: Patterns of Interaction, McDougal Littell, 2007, Page 1017, “The land now called Palestine consists of Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.” 

People, Places, and Change, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt /Holt, Reinhart & Winston, 2005, Page 384, “In the 60’s B.C. the Roman Empire conquered the region, which they called Palestine.” 

World History, McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, 2008, Page 996, “Many Jews had immigrated to the Palestine Mandate, believing it to be their promised land.” Also: “The Zionists wanted the land of ancient Israel to be a home for the Jewish people.” 

Here is my response:  The State of Israel is not called Palestine. The name Israel predates the Roman name of Paleaestina by over 1200 years. The UN granted Israel “sovereign nation” status in 1947. 

Here are a few more lies:  The World and Its People, McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, 2005, Pages 473 and 509, “If Abraham moved to the land of Canaan (Palestine) he would be blessed...” 

Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, McGraw-Hill, 2006, Pages 45-48, (The following four separate quotes are from these pages) “Israelites formed a branch of Hebrews who settled in Palestine (modern-day Israel).” “Abraham migrated to Palestine about 1850 B.C.E....” “According to their scriptures some Hebrews migrated from Palestine to Egypt during the eighteenth century B.C.E.” “This branch of the Hebrews departed under the leadership of Moses and went to Palestine.... These Hebrews known as the Israelites, fought bitterly with other inhabitants of Palestine and carved out a territory for themselves.” 

Glencoe World History, McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, 2005, Page 56, “Although later [after King David] the Israelites would be conquered and scattered, Palestine remained the Promised Land in the minds of many Jews.” Page 57, “Conflict in Palestine. Conflict in Southwest Asia has a long history. When the Israelites entered Palestine around 1220 B.C., other peoples were already settled there. One of these peoples was the Philistines. For over two centuries, Israelites and Philistines fought for control. By 1020 B.C., the Israelites found themselves on the verge of being conquered by the Philistines.... David, the next king of the Israelites, defeated the Philistines and established control over all of Palestine.” (Notice here that the dates are completely off. For it was 1500 B.C, not 1220 B.C. We will expose this lie in a future article.) 

People, Places, and Change, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Holt, Reinhart & Winston, 2005, Page 230, “…Jesus was born in Bethlehem, a small town in ancient Palestine.” 

World Cultures:  A Global Mosaic, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004, Page 565, “Jesus, the founder of Christianity, was born in Palestine...” 

Once again, here are the responses to these lies: The historically improper use of the word Palestine de-legitimizes the modern State of Israel and gives unwarranted support for current Palestinian claims for statehood. The term Palestine did not come into common use until about 1600 years after events described in the book of Genesis. Jesus was not a Palestinian. Israel should be substituted in the above textbook statements for Palestine in both passages since the name Palestine is used incorrectly. The name “Israel” predates the term “Palestine” by over 1100 years. Israel, not Palestine, is the Promised Land, widely believed to have been promised to the Jewish people. 

These were simply lies concerning the past and Israel’s history before the creation of the State of Israel in 1947. What about the lies concerning the wars which Israel faced after 1947 and the teaching of the Qur’an and the Bible about Israel? That is what we will be exploring in Article 2 of this series, “Israel or Palestine.” 

In Part 1 of this article, we exposed some of the lies about the history of Israel and the Jewish people that are written in American textbooks. Similar material is used by the media around the world to claim that the Jewish people are occupying the land of Israel which should belong to the Palestinian people. We refuted these lies with historical evidence. However, the lies continue. Here is the latest example of this propaganda.

On Monday, January 22, 2024, the Jerusalem Post released the article “Hamas Propaganda Doc Denying Atrocities, Blaming Israel for Civilian Deaths on October 7.” This article was written by Hamas with one of its major points being Hamas’s claim that the problem between Hamas and Israel did not begin on October 7 but has been a 105 year long struggle. That is why I believe the entire article is simply propaganda.

Hamas prints these lies hoping to gain sympathy and support from every people group and religion to turn the world against Israel. It still surprises me that we have allowed both Muslims and liberals to put these lies in our textbooks for the last two decades. Below are some of the lies used to brainwash our students and why we now see them supporting the Palestinians.

In the book, The World and Its People, McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, 2005, pages 473 and 509, “War soon broke out between Israel and its Arab neighbors.” Notice that Israel is the aggressor launching war against their peaceful Arab neighbors.

Another lie we read is in Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction, McDougal Littell, 2005, pages 585-589, Main Idea Q. “What land did Israel gain from the wars against its Arab neighbors?” It is the repeat of the previous lie but just given in the form of a question showing the occupiers, the Jews, stealing land from their Arab neighbors as a result of that war against their neighbors.

In the book, Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction, McDougal Littell, 2005, pages 585- 589, we read: “While the United Nations granted the Palestinians their own homeland, the Israelis seized much of that land, including the West Bank and Gaza Strip, during its various wars.” Once again, we see the claim that the poor Palestinians could not get their own land given to them by the United Nations.

What about the support of the United States for Israel? Do Muslims and liberals see that in the textbooks? We read in The American Vision, McGraw-Hill/Glencoe, 2008 on page 1038:

“American support of Israel also angered many in the Middle East. In 1947 the UN divided British-controlled Palestine into two territories to provide a home for Jews. One part became Israel. The other part was to become a state for Palestinian Arabs, but fighting between Israel and the Arab states in 1948 left this territory under the control of Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.”

The textbook continues to state: “1967. Israel wins Six-Day War and seizes more Palestinian land for what it calls security purposes.” Wow, once again, these evil aggressive Jews are truly occupying more land from the poor Arab Palestinian, loving and peaceful neighbors.

It seem to me that the textbooks are more concerned about the anger of the Palestinians than the anger of God Almighty, not realizing that spreading these lies all over the West, to brainwash the new generation of Americans will bring nothing but the destruction of America. For the unconditional promise of God to Abraham and the nation of Israel will always be: “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you.”

Now, let me respond to these hogwash lies in these textbooks. A force of combined Arab states waged aggressive war against Israel in 1948, 1967, and again in 1973. The 1973 war began as a sneak attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Notice the aggressors were the Muslims not Israel. They are the ones who launched these wars against Israel, not Israel against their neighbors. Because of these wars, Israel fought back in self- defense against Arab aggression and won each of the wars. Israel took land after the 1967 war to prevent future attacks from being staged so easily. In addition, Israel took back Jerusalem her historic capital since 1000 B.C. that had been partially occupied by Arabs.

The true history, which I was taught in Egypt, is simple. The Egyptians, the Jordanians, Assyrians, and many other Muslims countries refused for the Palestinians to take their own state land for they were wishing to accomplish Mohammed’s (the self-proclaimed prophet of Islam) desire to elimination the Jews, not only from Israel but from the earth. That is why the Arab League declared a jihad, or holy war, against Israel in 1948 hoping to obtain the entire land as an inheritance for the Palestinians (that is after the Arabs waged a war of extermination against Israel). After all, Mohammed said in Sahih Muslim 2922 - The Book of Tribulations and Portents: “The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews, and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree, and a stone or a tree would say ‘Muslim oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!’”

So what does the Qur’an teach about Israel? The story of the Jews and their inheritance of the Promised Land in the Qur’an is copied from the Bible and corrupted. (See Numbers 13-14.) We read in Qur’an 5:20-21: And when Moses said to his people, "O my people, remember the grace of Allah on you when he made prophets among you. And he made you kings, and he gave you what he did not give anyone of the world. O my people, enter the holy land which Allah has prescribed for you, and do not turn away on your backs so you will be turned back losers.” Qur’an 5:22They said, "O Moses, surely in it are powerful people, and surely we will not enter it until they come out. Qur’an 5:23 So if they come out of it, so surely we will enter."

Two men among the fearers, Allah graced on them, said, "Enter on them the door. So when you enter it, so surely you will be victorious. Qur’an 5:24 And on Allah, so depend, if you were believers."They said, "O Moses, surely we will never enter it as long as they are in it. So go, you and your lord. So engage in war. Qur’an 5:25 Surely we are sitting down right here."

He said, "My lord, surely I do not own anything except myself and Qur’an 5:26 my brother, so separate between us and the transgressing people. "He said, "So surely it is forbidden to them forty years; they will be lost on the earth. So do not grieve on the transgressing people.”

There are multiple errors in this passage. One is Moses claiming that there are many prophets among the Jews when he was the only prophet among them. Also, Mohammed claimed that he made many of the Jewish people kings when God was the only king of Israel during Moses’ time until they rejected Him by requesting and earthly king, King Saul, which was 500 years after Moses. Also, erroneously, Mohammed stated that Moses called this land the “Holy Land” when the real name was the “Promised Land.” The Holy Land is a name given to Israel by Christians 1500 years after Moses. The errors in this passage go on and on.

Allah did not forbid that land from them forever but simply for 40 years. However, the most important fact we gain out of this passage is that the land was given by Allah himself to the children of Israel after they wandered 40 years in the desert.

This is a clear deed to the Jews of the land of Israel in the pages of the Qur’an. This should end the propaganda claims that the Jewish people are occupying the land.

Who Are the Original People of the Promised Land?

In our previous article, I exposed more lies which were written in our textbooks that were about the occupiers, the Jews. I shared also about what the Qur'an teaches about the clear deed which Allah gave to the children of Israel, which Mohammed erroneously called the Holy Land instead of the true name, the Promised Land. Now let us investigate some facts from the Biblical teaching about the Promised Land. First of all, way back 1800 years before Christ, God made the promise to Abraham concerning the Promised Land. Let me ask the question, were there any people living in that land? If yes, who are they? We found the answer in the Book of Genesis, 15:18-21: “On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: 'To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.'”

Those were the original people of the Promised Land. Did you notice, the Palestinians were not among those people? When God gave this promise to Abram, he did not have any children. However, when he died, the promise of God was moved on to his son Issac. Then to Jacob and his12 sons, who are the fathers of the tribes of Israel. As we continue to investigate the Genesis account we discovered that instead of Jacob and his sons taking over the Promised Land, they actually moved to the land of Egypt. Did God forget his promise to Abraham? The answer is no. Because he did not give the Promised Land to the descendants of Israel until the sins of the original people of the land were completed. God is the true owner of all the earth. He did not intend for the children of Israel to possess the Promised Land until the right time. That is exactly what God told Abraham in Genesis 15:13-16: “And he said unto Abram, 'Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.'”

It is because of the sins of the original people of the Promised Land that God punished them and gave their land to the children of Israel. That is the account of the Book of Exodus. Don't forget the original justifiable laws which God used against all the people of the earth. "The wages of sin is death," Romans 6:23. This is the law which God used to punish all the people of the earth in the Jihad of water, the Holy War of God against all the people of Noah's day. It is the same law which God used in the Jihad of fire against five cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is also the same law which God used against his own children, the children of Israel, when they sinned against Him. The only difference we see here in Genesis with God's judgment against the original people of the Promised Land is that he waited patiently for over 400 years. However, when their sin was full, that is when the command of God was given to the Children of Israel for the annihilation of those wicked and sinful people.

Now we come to the following question, what does the Bible teach about Israel? We wrote in our last article the short summery of the Qur'an's teaching concerning the fulfillment of the promise of Allah to Moses concerning the Promised Land. There we saw in just a few verses, there were many errors. Let us now examine the true Biblical and historical facts from the Holy Bible.

We read in Numbers 13:1-2 “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 'Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.' ” Remember when we read the story in the Qur'an 5:20-26, Allah or Mohammed could not give us even one name of the spies, but in the book of Numbers we have the full account of the names of the tribes and the name of the spies who represented each of the tribes. When we go to  Numbers 13:17-19, 21: “Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, 'Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many; whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds; … So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.'” We can look on the map of the land today and see the geography of that large piece of land.

In Qur'an 5:23, We were shocked that 2 of the spies said: “Enter on them (the original people of the land) the door.” What door? Obviously, neither Gabreel, nor Mohammed, were familiar with the true Biblical account. There was no door around that body of land. We know from the book of Numbers, after Moses sent these 12 spies, that they came back with the report which we read in Numbers 13:25: “And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.” Numbers 13:30-31: “Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, 'Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.' But the men who had gone up with him said, 'We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.'” There were only 2 spies who believed that they are able to take the Promised Land. But as for the rest of the 10 spies, not only they did not believe, but they caused the rest of the children of Israel, to disbelieve. As a result of that we read, in Numbers 14:30: “Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” How long did Joshua and Caleb have to wait to enter into the Promised Land? The answer can be found in Numbers 14:34: “According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.”

So what happened during these 40 years? The answer is very simple, all the men who were 20 years and older were going in circles outside the Promised Land until they all died, except Joshua and Caleb. It was those two who led the new generation into the promised land. Because the older generation did not believe the promise of our Mighty God and in the power and might of God, in order for them to inherit the Promise Land.  We encourage our readers to read the rest of the account in the infallible Word of God, the Holy Bible, in the Book of Joshua. There you will also read about the rest of the wars which were lead by the judges and the kings of Israel.

The True History of the Original Palestinians

When genuine people read the Bible and discover that a long time ago the Palestinians lived in the Promised Land, immediately they think that they are the ancestors of the Arab Palestinians who live in the land of Israel today. This confusion is not just for Muslims but also for the rest of the world who do not know the true history of the original Palestinians.

 In her article titled “The Greek Age of Bronze, Weapons and Warfare in the Late Helladic Time 1600-1100 BC Texts,” Andrea Salimbeti wrote: “The land of origin of the Peleset, later identified as Philistines, is obscure. There are many theories such as Greece, Illyria, Crete, Western Anatolia, and Lands to the East, etc. One of the theories links the Peleset to the Homer Pelasgians who were allies of Troy, and one group lived in Thrace northeast of Greece. Those Pelasgians would have migrated south, and many would have gone farther south to Crete. Furthermore, since many biblical references refer to the Philistines’ origins as the Island of Caphtor, and since many scholars identify Caphtor with Crete, the idea more widely accepted is that the Peleset were originally Cretan.”

As Andrea stated, there are many opinions concerning the history of the original Palestinians, just as there are many opinions about many subjects and doctrines. How can one know which opinion is the accurate one? The answer is very simple. There is a book which holds the truth, and that book is the Holy Bible. Also, the history of my ancestors in Egypt have shed a strong light on the matter, which amazingly fits perfectly with the true history of the Bible. That is what we read in many of the writings of the prophets, such as in Jeremiah 47:1,4, Amos 9:7, and Ezekiel 25:16 and 26:17.

Let us examine the biblical account of the original Palestinians. First, in Jeremiah 47:1-2, we read: “The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, waters rise out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, they shall overflow the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell within; then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.’”

Notice this was the written prophecy of Prophet Jeremiah which was given before the Philistines marched south. Arab Palestinians marched north. That is not the case with the original Palestinians as we continue to read verses 3 and 4 of Jeremiah 47 and learn about the judgment of God on the original Palestinians and from where they originated. The scripture clearly states: “At the noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers will not look back for their children, lacking courage, because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for the Lord shall plunder the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.” Caphtor? Not Saudi Arabia? What about what Prophet Amos wrote to prove that the original Palestinians are not Arabs? For we read in Amos 9:7: “Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me, O children of Israel?” says the Lord. “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?" 

Now we know that the original Palestinians certainly were not Arabs. Prophet Ezekiel stated in his book in 25:16-17: “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast. I will execute great vengeance on them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I lay My vengeance upon them.’” Ezekiel 26:17 states:  “And they will take up a lamentation for you, and say to you: ‘How you have perished, O one inhabited by seafaring men, O renowned city, who was strong at sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!’”

Once again, a great, horrifying prophecy because God’s judgment must take place against the original Palestinians. If this is true, that means none of the original Palestinians would exist, just as it was in the case of Sodom and Gomorrah. So the judgment of God came upon the Palestinians. So how did the Caphtor/Sea/Northern People end up in the Promised Land? Let us go back to the article by Andrea to learn the true answer: “One of the most significant groups among the Sea Peoples who attacked Egypt in the fifth and eighth year of Ramesses III is the Peleset. This ethnonym has been identified with the Biblical Philistines by Jean-François Champollion soon after his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphic. Now, the Philistines settled in the towns Asdod, Askelon, Gaza, Ekron, and Gath at the time of the upheavals of the Sea Peoples.” Here is a map to show them traveling south and ending up in these five cities. 

Andrea continued: “Ramesses III fights against the Peleset both in the sea and in the land battles. In the Papyrus Harris, Ramesses III claims to have settled the vanquished Sea Peoples, among which are Peleset or Philistines, in strongholds bound in his name. This has induced some scholars to assume that the settlement of the Philistines in Canaan took place under Egyptian supervision.” We must recognize that Egyptian history has no agenda. Ramesses III was not a Jew nor a believer in God. He was simply writing the true history upon this papyrus.  

Andrea again continued: “After their settlement in Philistine, the Philistines rose to a position of power in the region owing to their military superiority over the local population, as exemplified by the famous engagement between David and Goliath.” We read about this in I Samuel 17:50: “So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David.”

Archaeologists have studied the DNA from Philistine grave sites. Their investigations explain the origins of the Philistines. DNA is one hundred percent true science. No one can deny it. This destroys any doubt concerning the true identity of the original Philistines. Surely they are not Arabs. They are certainly Greeks. As archaeologist Eric Cline states: “For more than a century we have debated the question of where the Philistines came from. Now we have the answer: Southern Europe, and probably more specifically mainland Greece, Crete, or Sardinia.” 

It is very sad that many Arab Muslims claim to be the original people of the land when in reality neither they nor the original Palestinians are the original people of the land. We have mentioned previously the names of the true original people to the land in Genesis 15:19-21. All those people were killed as a judgment of God when their sins were full as stated in Genesis 15:16. As for the original Palestinians who were resettled by Pharaoh, Ramesses III, they were also annihilated, not only throughout the wars with the Jewish people but also by the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar. What is so amazing is that not only the Arab Palestinians who live in the land of Israel are not Palestinians but none of the Arabs acknowledge them as Arabs either. They are simply a people group of mixed blood without heritage or culture. They may call themselves Palestinians, but that will not make them the owners of the land of Israel. 

Let me close with this. Say there was a man who lived in your town by the name of Mr. Smith and then died. A few years later, I moved to your town and renamed myself as Mr. Smith instead of Usama Dakdok. Will this automatically make me the true owner of all the property of Mr. Smith?  

What about the hatred of Muslims towards the Jews and Christians? This is what we will be investigating in our fifth and last part of this article.

The True Teaching of Hatred for the Jews and Christians

One of the great mysteries of the Qur’an is the doctrine of abrogation. Generally, people who do not have any deep knowledge of this doctrine can be easily deceived. However, the more we know about Islam, the wiser we become thus making it more difficult for Muslims to deceive us. 

Just recently, we watched the news media and what is happening around the world and on America’s college campuses. The voices of the protestors were getting louder and louder shouting, “Death to Israel, and death to America.” Some Muslims may defend Islam by stating that these are simply the voices of radical and extremist Muslims for Islam is innocent of these barbaric and uneducated people who claim to be Muslims. They may go further to say that Islam is a loving and peaceful religion. They claim it teaches that there are three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and that a Muslim cannot be Muslim unless he believes in Prophet Moses and the Torah, Prophet Isa (Jesus) and the Gospel, and Prophet Mohammed and the Qur’an. They may go deeper by quoting some of the verses of the Qur’an which are known by Muslim scholars as early abrogated (cancelled and replaced) verses. For example, in Qur’an 2:47 which is repeated in verse 122, Allah states: “O children of Israel, remember my grace which I graced on you, and I preferred you above the worlds.” Wow, you mean the Jewish people are Allah’s favorites? Yes, indeed. Also, in Qur’an 2:62 we read: “Surely those who believed (the Muslims) and those who are Jews and the Nasara (Christians) and the Sabeens (idol worshippers) whoever believed in Allah and in the last day and did good deed, so they will have their agoor (wages) with their lord and no fear on them, and they will not grieved.” Obviously, this verse teaches that not only Muslims and the Jews and the Christians will make it to Paradise but also the idol worshippers, the Sabeens, will join them. Wow. How can this be?

In the early days of Mohammad claiming to be a prophet, he was just a good politician, the one who holds and kisses babies. Hoping that the people would vote for him, Mohammed was willing to compromise his belief in one absolute god and to add all other gods to Allah, not only by his own words but also to the word of Allah in the Qur’an. These verses are known as the Satanic Verses. Qur’an 53:19-23 used to read: “Have you seen Al Lat and Al Ozza, and another, the third one Manat. These are the exalted cranes (intermediates). Whose intercession is to be hoped for.” Later, Mohammed discovered that pleasing the idol worshippers by mentioning their three gods in the Qur’an did not bring the result for which he was hoping. Therefore, Mohammed confessed that these verses were given to him by Satan and Allah corrected the Qur’an by removing these words and replaced them with verses 21, 22, and 23, which we have today in the Qur’an. What about those who believed among the Jews and the Christians and the Sabeens? Are they still okay? Will they make it to Paradise? Verse 2:62 still exists in the Qur’an. Allah did not remove that verse. Here is the catch. Even though we still read that verse in the Qur’an, Allah abrogated it with Qur’an 3:85 which states: “And whoever desires any other religion except Islam, so it (Judaism, Christianity, Sabeens, and any other belief) will not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he will be of the losers.” Loser here means spending eternity in hell. So in simple words, Mohammed tried to reach out to everyone in the early days by claiming to be a prophet. When that did not work, he separated himself and those who believed in him from the imaginary melting pot.

Now, let us see how the revelation of Allah changed in the final words of Allah in the Qur’an. This is where we learn about the true teaching of the hatred of Jews and Christians. In Qur’an 1:5-6 we read: “Guide us to the straight way, the way of those whom you have graced (the Muslims), not those whom the wrath is against (the Jews), nor the lost ones (the Christians).” These are the most repeated verses in the Qur’an. If Muslims only pray five times a day, they will repeat these words seventeen times. Since the wrath of Allah is against the Jews and the Christians, they will spend eternity in hell. In order for Allah to protect his Muslim believers so that they will never become a Jew or Christian, he gave them the command in Qur’an 5:51: “O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Nasara (Christians) as friends. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.”

Now, not only are Muslims no longer friends with the Jews and the Christians, they are now officially their enemies. A new command came from Allah to kill them all, as stated in Qur’an 9:29: “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah and in the last day. And do not forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, and do not believe in the religion of the truth (Islam) among those who have been given the book (Jews and Christians) until they pay the jizya (tribute) out of hand and they are subdued.” I know that Allah hated the Christians because they worship Jesus Christ and believe in the triune God which neither Mohammed nor his Allah knows. We can talk about that in another article.

The question we must ask here is why does Allah hate the Jews? The answer is very simple. It is because they broke the Sabbath, as it is written in Qur’an 2:65: “And indeed, you know those of you who transgressed in the Sabbath, so we said to them, ‘Become despised monkeys.’”  Wow! Allah transformed the Jews into despised monkeys? Yes, indeed, and that was the curse and wrath of Allah on them as stated in Qur’an 5:60: “Say, ‘Will I inform you of evil than that as a punishment from Allah?  They whom Allah has cursed and on whom he has poured forth his wrath, some of them he changed into monkeys and swine…’” Now we find out that in the Qur’an, they were not only changed into monkeys but also swine. What is the real story about the breaking of the Sabbath for some of the Jewish people? That is what we read in Qur’an 7:163: “And ask them about the village which was present by the sea, when they transgressed on the Sabbath, when their whales (he meant fish) came to them appearing openly on their Sabbath day; and the day they did not have Sabbath, they (their whales) did not come to them. Likewise, we tempted them because they were transgressors.” Allah tempted the Jewish people with evil? Then we read in Qur’an 7:166: “So when they revolted against what they were forbidden to do, we said to them, ‘Become despised monkeys.’”

I believe that Allah, the god of Mohammed, cannot be the god of the Bible for in James 1:13-14 we read: “Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘'I am tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.” I also believe that Mohammed, or whoever helped him write the verses of the Qur’an, was very ignorant of the true biblical teaching about the Sabbath. For we read in Exodus 31:14: “You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.” Notice the punishment for those who break the Sabbath was not to be turned into monkeys or swine but to be put to death. That is how the Jewish people practiced this law as it is written in the Book of  Numbers 15:32, 35: “Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.’”

Finally, let me close this article with the prophecy of Mohammed concerning when the day of judgment will come. Mohammed said: “The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews, and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree, and a stone or a tree would say, ‘Muslim oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!’” That is why the Muslims cannot wait for the glorious day of killing the last Jew. (Sahih Muslim 2922 - The Book of Tribulations and Portents .) By the way, the hatred of Israel is much smaller than the hatred of America. Muslims completely believe that Israel is a small devil but America is the Great Satan.

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