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by Yoni Israel
The West only knows of Islam what its own scholars and experts convey. Some of the nature of Islam can also be gleaned from the behavior of Muslim propagandists living in the West. But for their part, Muslims don’t care to know what the West teaches about their history and religion. It makes sense, therefore, to learn directly from Muslims how they see Islam. Additionally, the West, including the large Jewish community there, knows little, if anything, about the Jewish community that thrived in the Hejaz prior to the rise of Islam.
The Jewish community in the Hejaz (the western portion of what is today Saudi Arabia) traced its origins to the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BC. By the time of Mohammed, there were three very important Jewish tribes living there: the Banu Qaynuqa and the Banu Najjar that had settled in and around the city of Media, and the Banu Harith that had settled in and around the city of Najran. Jews, as we shall see, had the most profou
December 16, 2020
Special Dispatch No. 9092
Online Conferences Sponsored By Turkey Call To Consolidate The Turkish Presence In Jerusalem, Say Turkish People s Claim To Holy Places In Palestine Is No Less Than The Claim Of The Palestinians, Encourage Jihad Against Israel
December 16, 2020
In early November 2020, two online conferences sponsored by Turkey were held on the topic of Jerusalem and Palestine. The conferences were attended by Muslim clerics and politicians, many of them Palestinian and Turkish members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and of Hamas. While stressing the importance of the Palestinians jihad and armed struggle against Israel, the participants also highlighted Turkey s support for the Palestinian cause and emphasized that the Turkish people, no less than the Palestinians, have a claim to the holy places in Jerusalem.