Saturday, March 29, 2008

Wow! Found this Story on Jihad Watch...

...well, actually this story would never show up on that Muslim-hating website. Why? Because it is a story about a Jewish rabbi calling for Muslim children to be hung from trees as a "deterrent" from even thinking about future attacks of retaliation on Israel.

The chief rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, is calling on the Israeli government to carry out "state-sanctioned revenge" against "Arabs." Here are some of the rabbi's own words from an article in Haaretz, which, of course, is not getting much air-time in the main stream media:

"In the newsletter, which was distributed to synagogues around the country, Eliyahu proposes "hanging the children of the terrorist who carried out the attack in the Mercaz Harav yeshiva from a tree."

...and...

"[The state] has to pain them [Palestinians] to the point where they scream 'Enough,' to the point where they fall flat on their face and scream 'help.' Not for the sake of satisfying the need for revenge but for the purposes of deterrence."

Full story: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/968729.html

...and finally, from another article:

"A state that really respects the lives of its citizens would have hanged the 10 sons of the terrorist on a tree 50 amot [25 meters] tall, so that others would see it and be afraid," wrote Eliahu, according to the Jerusalem Post."

"Eliahu called on the Zionist state to take "horrible revenge" for the attack at the Yeshiva in Jerusalem. "We have to exact a revenge that is so painful, it will burn into the souls of all our enemies the message that Jewish blood is more valuable than gold and platinum."

I should add that the rabbi's words are going to be published in this weekend's edition of the newsletter "Eretz Yisrael Shelanu," which is dispersed at synagogues throughout Israel.

In fairness, the Reform Party in Israel did issue a statement of condemnation for the rabbi's words. But the problem is that this isn't the first time this same rabbi has issued inflammatory statements against Muslims. Israel's attorney-general has pressed charges against this rabbi, only to withdraw the charges later when the rabbi offered up a "shady" apology. If the government truly wanted to censor this rabbi, they could do so. I guess as long as they keep it as quiet as possible and issue a pseudo-condemnation, they have covered their behinds.

Now, my point is this: If a sheikh or an imam had said these very words, it would have been all over the internet and mainstream press. There would be denouncements of these words by heads of state, and calls for an apology. There also would have been calls for the Muslim community as a whole to denounce these words...but when they are directed toward Muslims, hardly a peep is heard. Sad...very sad.

May Allah continue to give the Ummah strength. Ameen.

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