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Palestinian Authority: Israelis are like the Christian infidels of the Koran
Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin ^ | September 30 2002 | Itamar Marcus

Posted on 09/30/2002 11:55:00 AM PDT by knighthawk

The recent PMW report PA: Hiding Terror behind Popular Uprising documented increased Palestinian incitement directed at the general population, as part of the Palestinian Authority’s attempt have its terror war against Israel be perceived as a popular uprising.

PMW has received numerous questions as to the meaning of the images of the elephants and the attack birds used in the clip:

The words of the clip included the following:

“… Allah is with us, He is stronger than the Zionists… they are infidel possessors of the elephant. We are... Allah’s flock of Attack Birds. Therefore thrust upon them stones, stones from Hell!" [PATV, September 22, 2002]

This clip is referring to Sura 105 in the Koran, “The Elephant”:
“Have you not considered how Allah dealt with the army of the elephant?
“Did He not confound their stratagem and send against them flocks of birds which pelted them with clay-stones, so that they became like the withered stalks of plants which cattle have devoured?”

This Sura is a reference to a pre-Islam Ethiopian assault against Mecca. The Ethiopians, attempting to spread Christianity among the Arabs, moved on Mecca from Yemen, employing in their army one or more elephants. According to the Moslem tradition, flocks of birds, sent by Allah, attacked the Ethiopian "possessors of the elephant" with small stones, killing the enemy soldiers. The Christian attack was repelled and Mecca was saved. Based on this Islamic tradition of defeat of the Christian forces, the term "possessors of the elephant" is a common Islamic religious slur, which refers to those who attack Allah and His holy places.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: authority; christians; israel; israelis; koran; pa; palestinian

1 posted on 09/30/2002 11:55:00 AM PDT by knighthawk
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2 posted on 09/30/2002 11:55:49 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
Well, let's see what Allah does for saddam as saddam goes down
for the count.
3 posted on 09/30/2002 11:57:33 AM PDT by AdvisorB
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To: knighthawk
Ever scince reading the koran back in the 60s I've tought that islam is the anti-christ.
4 posted on 09/30/2002 11:58:29 AM PDT by fella
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To: knighthawk
More sweetness and light from the "religion of peace".

5 posted on 09/30/2002 11:58:33 AM PDT by Yankee
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To: knighthawk
We should drop a 50 megaton elephant on Mecca and Baghdad for starters.
6 posted on 09/30/2002 11:58:47 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Yankee
My God would never have asked me to kill anybody in His name, and would have abhored my doing so. So I really wonder, which is the true religion of peace? Perhaps the one in which the founder suffered death rather than allow his enemies to be smitten?
7 posted on 09/30/2002 12:05:26 PM PDT by rogerthedodger
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To: knighthawk
Consider me a possessor of one o' them elephants.
8 posted on 09/30/2002 12:13:45 PM PDT by Sender
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To: knighthawk
We are... Allah’s flock of Attack Birds.

Gobble, gobble sandnazis.

10 posted on 09/30/2002 12:31:35 PM PDT by facedown
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To: facedown
Jihad jive turkeys!
11 posted on 09/30/2002 1:11:15 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: sheik yerbouty
You jihad jive turkeys
you're tellin' me lies
Yeah, jihad jive turkeys
you wear a disguise
Oh, jihad jive turkeys
so misunderstood
Woah, jihad jive turkeys
you really no good
12 posted on 09/30/2002 1:27:18 PM PDT by facedown
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To: fella
Yeah, before I read it, I bought into that "peaceful Islam" rubbish. Taken with the Quran and the Sunnah, Mohammed's actions bespeak absolute psychosis.

Islam is a challenge brought against the entire world, like a more ancient form of Nazism (in fact, the tenets of these two "faiths" have startling similarities). To ignore the very real threat of Islam is to risk the same fate as the millions upon millions who have been slaughtered or subjugated in the name of Allah for the past 14 centuries.
13 posted on 09/30/2002 3:30:02 PM PDT by Imal
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To: facedown
That's pretty good!
14 posted on 09/30/2002 11:18:07 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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