The current controversy over Jews praying at their thousands-of-years-old Temple Mount (under Muslim control in Jerusalem) obscures the fact that it is the holiest site in Judaism that was conquered by Islam - which, according to their imperialistic tradition, built a mosque on top.
Holy Sites stolen by Islamic Armies in the past continue to be occupied today. Wherever Islam rules beyond the Saudi peninsula - that's a foreign conquered territory. Muslims have raised colonization to new heights during their history.
Wikipedia map shows how Muslim imperialism between the years 622 to 750 only. Such rapid expansion did not take place by simply proselytizing. They conquered by the sword. Convert or die. Their empire extended all the way to Spain and other parts of Europe. Later on they expanded into Africa and other lands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests
Africa today is mostly Islamic, after having been subjected to the Arab slave trade - a catastrophic event for their populations, although we almost never hear about it. http://www.arabslavetrade.com/
Muslims vow to rule over Europe once again. Once land has been in Muslim hands, they consider it to belong to them forever. That explains their stated intent to reconquer all of Israel - not just a part of it for a Palestinian state.
The Colonialist Crimes of Islam
By Ezequiel Doiny.
Islam is a colonizing power. While there is only one Jewish State smaller than New Jersey with a population of about 7million Jews, Islam has expanded from Saudi Arabia to the 57 countries member states of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation with an estimated population of an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims.
Lyn Julius comments about George Bensoussan' book Juifs en pays arabes: le grand deracinement 1850 - 1975:
...Bensoussan, threatens to stand the notion of ''Jewish colonialism'' on its head: it is the Jews who lived under Muslim rule who were the true victims of colonialism...By the time the Arab conquerors had swept over the Middle East and North Africa, the Jews had been living in the region for 1,000 years...
Under Islam, according to the eighth-century Pact of Omar, indigenous Jews and Christians were permitted to practise as long as they acquiesced to the ''dhimmi'' condition of inferiority and institutionalised humiliation..
...Bensoussan observes that the Islamic order was built on a ''colonial'' notion - submission. The Muslim submits to Allah, the Muslim woman submits to her husband, the non-Muslim dhimmi submits to the Muslim. At the very bottom of the pile is the slave... He produces incontrovertible evidence that, 100 years before Israel was established, most Jews in Arab and Muslim lands lived in misery and fear.
....Jews were regularly mobbed, robbed, their possessions looted, beaten up on the slightest pretext, or false charge brought by a jealous neighbour. Jews were feminised in the Muslim imagination - cowardly, submissive, unable to stand up for themselves.
...Bensoussan''s great achievement is not just to blow out of the water the myth of Arab-Jewish coexistence predating the creation of Israel, but unfashionably to place the colonial boot on the Arab foot...A sovereign Jewish state in the land of Israel begins to look like the liberation of a colonised, indigenous people from 14 centuries of subjugation...
Through its history of conquest, Islamic armies invaded many nations. In their process of colonization, Islam erased native cultures and converted holy places into Mosques. Holy Sites stolen by Islamic Armies in the past continue to be occupied today.
It is time for modern, moderate Muslim regimes to repent for Islam's violent past.
The same way that today Germany apologizes for the crimes of the Nazis, the same way that today Spain apologizes for the Inquisition, the Muslims today must apologize for the crimes of Islam and return stolen holy sites to whom they belong.
The same way that today Germany apologizes for the crimes of the Nazis, the same way that today Spain apologizes for the Inquisition, the Muslims today must apologize for the crimes of Islam and return stolen holy sites to whom they belong.
List of non-Muslim Holy Sites stolen by Islamic armies:
1. Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Holiest site for Judaism. Site of the two Jewish Temples. The Muslims built two mosques there, adding the legend that Mohammed tied his horse to a post there.
2. Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron. The Jewish Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are undeniably buried there. The Muslims built a mosque there.
3. There are 2000 Hindu Temples in India that were converted to mosques. During the reign of Aurangzeb, tens of thousands of temples were desecrated: their facades and interiors were defaced and their divine images looted. In many cases, temples were destroyed entirely; in numerous instances mosques were built on their foundations, sometimes using the same stones. Among the temples Aurangzeb destroyed were two that are most sacred to Hindus, in Varanasi and Mathura. In both cases, he had large mosques built on the sites.
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