Friday, February 12, 2016
Canadian publisher and editor calls on Palestinians to launch armed attacks, destroy Israel
Mohamad Hisham Khalifeh (محمد هشام خليفة), a Canadian of Lebanese descent, is the founder, CEO and Editor in Chief of Al Forqan Newspaper (جريدة الفرقان) printed in Windsor, Ontario and distributed in Windsor, London and Detroit.
Khalifeh is known of his open support of the Palestinian armed struggle against Israel. On November 12, 2012 he posted
a poem spurring the Palestinians to launch armed attacks on Israelis,
liberate Palestine and destroy the State of Israel. The Israelis, namely
the Israeli Jews, are portrayed is Khalifeh’s poem as “infidels” and “morally corrupt people.”
Khlifeh
recorded himself reading the poem and embedded the audio file in a
video clip featuring armed operatives of the Palestinian terrorist
organization Hamas firing rockets from Gaza aimed at Israel and training
to launch attacks on Israeli targets.
The following is the transcript of Khalifeh’s poem “Gaza” (originally in Arabic), which appears on Khlifeh’s official YouTube channel:
Gaza
Fire [at Israel]
Fire because you are courageous
Fire because you are the typhoon
Show them your bravery, raise your head, show them the descendants of the [Caliph Omar] al-Mukhtar [liberator of Jerusalem]
Break your shackle, show your sword, destroy the siege imposed on you
Destroy the brutal Zion [Israel]
Destroy the foundations of the morally corrupt people
Destroy the hostile enemy
Shake the thrones of the infidels
O Palestinian, do not compromise
Remove the disgrace of your [Muslim] nation
O Palestinian, O fighter
You are a freeman made of steel
Fire because you are courageous
Fire because you are the typhoon
Show them your bravery, raise your head
Show them the descendants of the [Caliph Omar] al-Mukhtar [liberator of Jerusalem]
Intifada stabbing attacks aimed at Jews are “sacred duty of jihad”
Khalifeh’s
editorial on the front page of Al Forqan (Issue 33, October – November
2015, p. 1) was dedicated to the Palestinian al-Quds Intifada (violent
struggle including terrorist attacks), also dubbed the Knife Intifada.
According to the Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the ongoing al-Quds/ Knife Intifada (September 13, 2015 – February 7,
2016 the number of people murdered in Palestinian terrorist attacks
reached 31 and 304 people were injured (28 of them seriously). The
Palestinian new wave of terrorism included 119 stabbings,
41 shootings and 23 car rammings in addition to firing rockets (from
Gaza), detonating explosive charges, and many thousands incidents of
firebombings and stone/rock throwing.
The Palestinian al-Quds Center for Research documented during October 2015 to January 2016) 90 stabbing attacks, 50 thwarted stabbing attacks, 91 shooting attacks, 24 car ramming attacks, 1,100 firebombing attacks and 3,321 stone/ rock throwing attacks
In
his editorial, Khalifeh hails the Palestinian youths who go armed with
knives in a mission to stab Israeli Jews. Khalifeh explains that by
carrying out the stabbing attacks the Palestinian youths fulfil the
“sacred duty of jihad” and defend the “honour and dignity” of all Arabs,
all Muslims and in fact all mankind.
The following is Khalifeh’s editorial (originally in Arabic):
“The Duty of Jihad
“Everyone carries out the jihad in his/ her
way, that what said to me one of the pilgrims [in Mecca] and this
summarizes the course of events in our Arab and Islamic countries,
armies and parties, weapons and munitions, rockets and [fighter] jets…
and the Palestinian teenager is [standing] alone wielding a
knife in his hand, defending the honour and dignity of every Arab and
every Muslim, and moreover every person. He [the Palestinian teenager] does not accept the injustice in the face of the Zionist usurper.
“The
Knife Intifada, initiated by the sons of al-Quds [Jerusalem] who
scarified their souls, exposed the falsity of the allegations made by
those who espouse the duty of jihad and fight in Syria and Iraq and everywhere but not in Beit al-Maqdis [Jerusalem]. The executions of Jerusalemites (children, women and elders) did not move the manhood in the heads of the leaders of the Arab and Islamic nation! The violations against the holy site in al-Quds [Jerusalem] have not affected those who protect the holy shrines! [Note:
the killing of the Palestinian terrorists during attack by Israeli
forces is portrayed by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas as
“executions”]
“The Knife Intifada
was born orphan from the womb of a bereaved mother, but the sons of
this sacred place with the determination of the heroes will be mentioned
in history of this nation that in the midst of the current events there
was a group which recognized the right of the sacred duty of jihad!
“Unlike the one who claims everyday that he is defending al-Quds [Jerusalem] and draws on a map the way towards it. You would see them in all countries but Palestine, such as Hezbollah [in Lebanon],
ISIS
[in Iraq and Syria], the fundamentalist jihadists [in the Muslims
countries], the Houthis [in Yemen], Boko Haram [in Nigeria], Popular
Mobilization Forces [in Iraq] etc., all of them want to liberate al-Quds
[Jerusalem] but they lost the compass!!!
May Allah
forgive those who truthfully knew the way to al-Quds [Jerusalem]. May
Allah forgive the Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab [who conquered Jerusalem in 635] and the leader Salahuddin Al Ayyub [who conquered Jerusalem in 1187]. I’m asking Allah to give victory to the youths of Palestine and every freeman who does not accept injustice and shame.”
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