Friday, October 3, 2008
Following are excerpts from a sermon by Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Arifi, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on September 12, 2008.
Muhammad Al-Arifi: Studies conducted in Tel Aviv and in the Palestinian lands occupied by the Jews showed that they plant Gharqad tress around their homes, becase the Prophet Muhammad said that when the Muslims fight the Jews, each and every stone and tree will say: "Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him." The only exception is the Gharqad tree, which is one of the trees of the Jews, and if they hide behind it, it will not reveal their presence. According to reports of people who went there and saw it with their own eyes, many Jews plant Gharqad tress around their homes, so that when the fighting begins, they can hide behind them. They are not man enough to stand and fight you.
Oh yeah, that's worked out well before. This guy talks like Israel is some secret land you have to sneak into at night and smuggle out the photos.
Were the "people who went there and saw it with their own eyes," refused entry to Saudi Arabia because of the Israel entry stamp in their passport?
Not only does the US's good "friend" saudi arabia (from whence 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 hailed from) ban anyone who has a passport with an Israeli stamp, saudi arabia has Muslim Only roads and Muslim Only cities.
They are not man enough to stand and fight you.
Uh-huh. Met any IDF soldiers on active duty, buddy?
Then again, he assumes that his audience will see nothing wrong in talking to trees. 'Nuff said.
I had to wonder, by the way: what the [expletive deleted] is a Gharqad tree? I've been a Jew all my life, and I'm unfamiliar with the term; nobody ever pulled me aside and explained which tree I'm supposed to hide behind.
So I Googled it, and found this:
http://www.ahlalhdeeth.com/vbe/archive/index.php/t-779.html
Links are provided to two images:
http://www.geocities.com/alrazhi60/grgd3.jpg
http://www.qrflora.com/images/awshaz.jpg
(Those two images look nothing alike to me, but then what do I know -- I don't even know how to talk to trees.)
There's also a link to Binyamin Netanyahu planting such a tree, supposedly, and the link mentions "boxthorn"... but it's a dead link. Too bad.
This bit on Yahoo Answers was also illuminating:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080513013454AApJOC1
Oh, and I loved this answer:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423494/posts
Yeah what the heck is a Gharqad tree? Oh if it's a Jewish tree, that's where the Hadassah ladies play mah-jong under its leafy branches.
Maybe it's the Chanuka Bush?
iDE SOldiers yeah we know how great they are :P
they can just kill innocent Palestanians and if they can do more over this they will surely fight with the Syrian troops in the 1970's
To the last one:
Another person who comments with no personal knowledge of the subject. In almost every single encounter in face-to-face fighting, where the arabs have technological parity and usually numerical superiority, the Jews have held their ground and advanced, and the Arabs have fled, with very few exceptions. The truth is that Jews are brave and Arabs are cowardly - unless "talking tough" is your criterion. Whether non-combatant Palestinians have been killed in fighting is irrelevant to what you've said. The armed Palestinians run away as well rather then fight Israeli infantry in a frontal battle. I must remind you that the ones who use the cowardly and deceptive techniques are the Arabs - i.e. suicide bombings, propaganda war, etc.
Not sure what Syrian troops in the 1970s is connected but yes, in 1967 and the October War the Syrian "commandos" were defeated on every occassion, again often fleeing, by regular Israeli infantry troops.
Muslim propagandists have a lot to learn about the difference between being tough and talking tough, about being brave and talking brave.
To the last one:
Another person who comments with no personal knowledge of the subject. In almost every single encounter in face-to-face fighting, where the arabs have technological parity and usually numerical superiority, the Jews have held their ground and advanced, and the Arabs have fled, with very few exceptions. The truth is that Jews are brave and Arabs are cowardly - unless "talking tough" is your criterion. Whether non-combatant Palestinians have been killed in fighting is irrelevant to what you've said. The armed Palestinians run away as well rather then fight Israeli infantry in a frontal battle. I must remind you that the ones who use the cowardly and deceptive techniques are the Arabs - i.e. suicide bombings, propaganda war, etc.
Not sure what Syrian troops in the 1970s is connected but yes, in 1967 and the October War the Syrian "commandos" were defeated on every occassion, again often fleeing, by regular Israeli infantry troops.
Muslim propagandists have a lot to learn about the difference between being tough and talking tough, about being brave and talking brave.
I must say that from experience with the Palestinians in East Jerusalem, they're often "brave" only when they outnumber their victim by several, and display complete cowardice should the tide change, wheras I've seen many Jews fight bravely against bad odds. But hey - don't let facts disturb your beliefs.
"Oh yeah, that's worked out well before. This guy talks like Israel is some secret land you have to sneak into at night and smuggle out the photos."
This is by far one of the funniest sentences I've read in quite some time. If it didn't look so stupid, I'd write "roootflllllllll.". But it does, so I won't.
The best is
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Studies conducted in Tel Aviv and in the Palestinian lands occupied by the Jews showed that they plant Gharqad trees around their homes
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Studies conducted???? hahaha