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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, released the following statement:
“For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar (University) has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning,” declared then-U.S. President Barack Obama, during his much ballyhooed June, 2009 address in Cairo, Egypt. Obama further opined that “Islam—at places like Al-Azhar,“ maintains “a proud tradition of tolerance.”
Al-Azhar’s learned, authoritative Muslim theologians issued a fatwa, or Islamic religious ruling, October 19, 2023, pertaining to the ongoing conflict sparked by Hamas’ October 7, 2023 invasion of southern Israel. Notwithstanding Mr. Obama’s affirmation of Al-Azhar’s vaunted “learning and tolerance,” and absent any mention of Hamas’ jihad carnage—murdering, dismembering, torturing, raping, and burning some 1,200 largely non-combatant Israelis, including infants, children, women, and the elderly—the fatwa ruled that all of Israel’s citizens remained legitimate targets for such heinous jihad depredations. This Al-Azhar ruling was celebrated by Al-Qaeda, and came on the heels of an earlier official Al-Azhar statement celebrating the jihad depredations of Hamas as “the resistance efforts of the proud Palestinian people.”
This latest fatwa by Al-Azhar in fact reflects an “updated” 75-year continuum of similar edicts issued since 1947, sanctioning the jihad genocide of modern Israel’s Jews, namely: just after the announcement of the 1947 partition plan, upon Israel’s 1948 declaration of independence, and following the defeat of the Arab Muslim jihad war, at the close of 1948. These Al-Azhar edicts, were redolent with classical Islamic jihadism, and conspiratorial Islamic Jew-hatred.
Seven years after the 1949 armistice agreements, two complementary fatwas, one by then-grand mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Hasan Ma’moun, written January 5, 1956, and another January 9, 1956, signed by the leading members of the Fatwa Committee of Al-Azhar, and Al-Azhar’s major representatives of all four Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence, re-stated and elaborated the rationale for the jihad against the Jews of Israel. Bearing in mind that Egypt then occupied Gaza, and Jordan occupied Judea/Samaria (the West Bank), nonetheless, these religious rulings maintained that all of historical Palestine—modern Jordan, Israel, and the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza—having been conquered by jihad, was a permanent possession of the global Muslim umma (community), “fay territory”—booty or spoils—to be governed eternally by Islamic law.
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