Program live from Judaism's holiest site delivers threats against Jews
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – The official radio network of a major terror organization has been exclusively broadcasting daily from the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site, WND has learned.
The radio network regularly features Iranian and anti-Semitic propaganda and death threats against Jews.
The Al-Quds network, the official radio station of the Islamic Jihad terror group, has been exclusively broadcasting special nightly Ramadan prayers from the Mount's Al Aqsa Mosque since last week. The station also is broadcasting the Tarawih prayers, special Sunni Muslim prayers recited at night during Ramadan.
Saleh Al-Massri, Al-Quds radio station manager, told WND the Temple Mount broadcasts provide Islamic Jihad with "an opportunity to spread Islam and its values and to bring some happiness to the suffering Palestinians who can't reach the Al Aqsa Mosque for Tarawih prayers."
Islamic Jihad, together with Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, took responsibility for every suicide bombing in Israel the last three years. Islamic Jihad also carried out scores of deadly rocket and shooting attacks and is one of the most active Palestinian terrorist organizations.
According to Palestinian leaders in the Gaza Strip, the nightly prayer broadcast ...   more »

by Gerald A. Honigman
My wife, Elisabeth, amazes me for many reasons.
Not long ago, however, she raised a question that I had thought about before, but this time she truly shoved it onto the front burner of my brain…
We'll return to this shortly.
During the 19th century, European scholars of the Middle East--German Jews in particular--were prone to paint a picture of a tolerant Muslim world which treated non-Muslims admirably.
While it is true that live Christians and Jews could be a better source of revenue for Muslims via special taxes than dead ones (and forget about non-"Peoples of the Book"--they converted or were killed), and there was no Holocaust per se of Jews under Muslim domination, it is also true that dhimmi populations never knew what the morrow would bring. Massacres, forced conversions, subjugation, and so forth were no strangers in the realm of Islam; a reading of Middle Eastern Jewish scholars such as Albert Memmi and Bat Ye'or is a must on this subject, as is newer work edited and/or authored by Andrew Bostom.
It seems that the whitewash--which still continues--was largely done to contrast an allegedly tolerant Arab/Muslim East--where Jews are commonly known as kilab ...   more »