The authentic voice of 'moderate' Palestinans

The next time that the BBC or The Guardian tell you that the Palestinian Authority are moderate and wish to work for a peaceful accommodation with Israel, remember this video...

PA Mufti calls for the killing of Jews quoting Islamic Hadith from Palestinian Media Watch on Vimeo.
That is the principal Palestinian Authority religious leader, the Mufti Muhammad Hussein, presenting the killing of Jews by Muslims as a religious Islamic goal. The location was an event celebrating the 47th anniversary of the founding of Fatah. Here Mufti Muhammad Hussein cited the Hadith (Islamic tradition attributed to Muhammad) saying that the Hour of Resurrection will not come until Muslims fight the Jews and kill them:

"The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews.
The Jew will hide behind stones or trees
Then the stones or trees will call:
'Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'"

You will have seen that Hadith quotation on this blog before but then it is one that anti-Semitic Islamists do love to quote.

Before you dismiss this as just words for a domestic audience, remember that in July 2011 a Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll found that 73% of Palestinians "believe" this Hadith. Maybe the years of the Palestinian Authority promoting the killing of Jews and Palestinian Authority religious leaders' citing this Hadith to justify it, may have contributed to the high acceptance of it in PA society.

In case you think that Mufti Muhammad Hussein is a lone voice, the moderator who introduced the Mufti at the Fatah event quoted another Islamic belief, that Jews are the descendants of apes and pigs:

"Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs (i.e., Jews)
is a war of religion and faith."

In case you think that religion and politics are separate in the Palestinian Authority remember that the Mufti is appointed by the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The Mufti voiced this incitement to hatred and killing of Jews at an official Fatah celebration. For the avoidance of doubt, Mahmoud Abbas is also the Chairman of Fatah.


I did look to see if the BBC had managed to report the hate speech of Mufti Muhammad Hussein but could find no mention on the news website. I think a follow-up complaint to this one may be called for...