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During the chaos following the fall of the Mubarak regime in , she managed to escape and fled to Israel. She claims that the Qur'an mentions Jewish rights to the land of Israel in a clear manner. In , she renounced Islam. Rama Yade , a Franco-Senegalese politician who served in the government of France from to and the current vice president of the centrist Radical Party , has been described as "notoriously pro-Israeli".

Abdurrahman Wahid , Indonesia's president from until , was criticised for his pro-Israel views.

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In a interview to ABC, Wahid said that the Islamic world should start recognising and acknowledging Israel's right to exist and prosper. He added, "I think Muslims are rational and rationality dictates that. Wahid replied, "I think there is a wrong perception that Islam is in disagreement with Israel. This is caused by Arab propaganda [ In Italy, Sheikh Prof.

Palazzi argues against calls for jihad against Israel and says there is no religious demand for Israel to give up control over Muslim holy places. Mithal al-Alusi , a secular Muslim Iraqi lawmaker, who is openly pro-Israel, [86] paid a heavy price for visiting Israel in September , criticizing Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations, and advocating peace with the Jewish state. In , apparently as payback, a gunman opened fire on Alusi's car just after it left his house, killing two of his sons, Ayman, 21, and Jamal, 30, while he escaped unharmed.

Upon his return to Iraq, he was stripped of parliamentary immunity so that he could face charges of traveling illicitly to Israel. Later that year, Iraq's Federal Supreme Court ruled in his favor, maintaining it was no longer a crime for Iraqis to travel to Israel. Indeed, I recognize their sovereignty over their land. I believe in the Holy Koran, and this fact is stated many times in the book. For instance 'O my people!

Abdalla Mwidau, mayor of Mombasa during the s, and a Muslim supporter of Israel, was elected to Kenyan parliament as the representative of Mombasa-South. In , Mwidau conducted an information campaign among Muslims in the USA, in which he praised Israel's assistance to developing African countries and specifically its assistance to Muslim education in Kenya. His political rivals, led by Sharif Kassir, denounced these activities, calling Mwidau a "Zionist agent". Mwidau remained in parliament until his death in Responding to a question whether he believed that Muslims have a right to rule Jerusalem, Hadlaq said, "On the contrary, verse number 21 of Surat Al-Maeda of the Holy Quran emphasizes the right of ' Bani Israel '".

He said that Israel's model of democracy is unique and surpassed many of what he described as the "tyrannical, totalitarian" Arab regimes. According to Al-Hadlaq, Israel has in the past made strategic concessions for peace, in Sinai , the Gaza Strip and South Lebanon , proving her desire for peaceful negotiations, but the response she earned was a hail of rockets from the "terrorists of Hizballah and Hamas". Tashbih Sayyed , a Sunni Pakistani-American scholar, journalist, and author, was a supporter of Israel and critic of the Islamist movement. He said that Israel is vital for the stability of the region.

Sayyed praised the treatment of Arabs in Israel, and applauded the "strength of the Jewish spirit that refuses to give in to evil forces despite thousand of years of anti-Semitism ". He concluded by saying "I am convinced that it is true that God created this earth but it is also a fact that only an Israel can keep this earth from dying". Tashbih condemned the press that portrays the Israelis as villains, and "chooses to ignore all rules of ethical journalism when it comes to Israel. Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman said in an interview with The Atlantic that "I believe that each people, anywhere, has a right to live in their peaceful nation.

I believe the Palestinians and the Israelis have the right to have their own land. The group spokesperson, Hasan Afzal, a political economics student at the University of Birmingham, explained in an interview with Israeli Channel 10 that Muslims in Israel are freer than they are under oppressive regimes in Arab countries.

Afzal said that calls for Israel's destruction are "nonsense" and condemned Hamas who he says is "determined to kill indiscriminately. Hafeez said he's been marginalized by his community and family. Israel is a democratic state. Muslims in Israel have more rights than possibly most Muslims in the Arab world and then there is the reality of the actual conflict. In the UK, most of us can't impact what will happen in Israel, we can't stop rockets falling from Gaza or forge a peace process, but we can tackle the delegitimisation and demonisation of Israel. He has said, "No Muslim country boycotted East Timor or banned its citizens from traveling there after it became independent from mainly Muslim Indonesia.

As with East Timor, we did not see any Muslim boycotts.

However, when Israel became independent in , Muslim countries acted with unrelenting hostility. Israel was established in the exact same manner as were Australia and America. History will not rewind. Kamal believes that Muslim countries must recognize the state of Israel, and the Muslim world must boycott Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran if they rejected peace. Muhammad Zahran , whose family was born in East Jerusalem , moved to Jordan , and finally to the United Kingdom , is a Palestinian blogger, lecturer, publicist, and religious Muslim who supports Israel.

He has accused Jordan of practicing Apartheid , and is a supporter of Israeli settlements in the West Bank , saying that those who oppose it "are just encouraging the terrorist groups indirectly. They're giving legitimacy to Hamas. Most of my people think as I do, but they're afraid to say so. It's a bizarre situation because the Arab countries don't really care what happens to the Palestinian people. The only assistance that we have ever received from any country was from the 'Zionist enemy.

Ed Husain a former radical Islamist and author of The Islamist , a book about Islamic fundamentalism and an account of his five years as a radical Islamist activist. Husain also cofounded, with Maajid Nawaz , the counter-extremism organisation the Quilliam Foundation.

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Husain has condemned suicide bombing of Israeli civilians as well as the "killing of Palestinian civilians by the Hamas-led Gazan government". Many people condemn Israeli settlements and call for an economic boycott of their produce, but I saw that it was Arab builders, plumbers, taxi drivers and other workers who maintained Israeli lifestyles. Separatism in the Holy Land has not worked and it is time to end it. How much longer will we punish Palestinians to create a free Palestine?

We stand in support of the existing unqualified recognition of the state of Israel behind internationally recognized borders". The group's founder, M. Zuhdi Jasser , a former Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy , [] said that Muslims need to recognize Israel as a state, to stand against radical Islamist groups by name, not by theory, tactic, or condemning terrorism, but by name—Hamas, Al Qaeda and other groups. Now each country is going to have to deal with it". During the Lebanon War , Jasser defended Israel's actions, and wrote "I have no reason to believe that Israel is not doing anything but just protecting itself from forces that are using homes north of it to bomb northern Israel".

Afdhere Jama , an American-Muslim writer and editor of the Huriyah magazine, added, "My main difference with the majority of Muslims is the belief that a Jewish homeland is an important progress for all of us, especially one in their ancestral land of Israel". He continued, "Muslims in the United States must decide whether they see groups like Hamas and Hizbullah as legitimate resistance or the cause of Muslim troubles in the region".

Mohammed said that the Qur'an never mentions Jerusalem as a holy city, and added, "It's in the Muslim consciousness that the land first belonged to the Jews. It doesn't matter if the Jews were exiled years or years, the Holy Land, as mentioned in Quran belongs to Moses and his people, the Jews. Stephen Suleyman Schwartz , an American Muslim author, and adherent of the Hanafi school of Islam, contends that Israel is the historic, sacred land of the Jews, given to the Jews by god "as their eternal home".

Ahmed , a British-born Pakistani Muslim who today lives in New York, is a staunch defender of Israel, who has been accused by her critics of being a " Zionist in a Muslim guise". She is firmly opposed to the boycott against Israel, saying that the movement attempts to vilify Israel in almost every argument. According to Palazzi, "The most authoritative Islamic sources affirm the Temples.

He claims that the Qur'an "expressly recognizes that Jerusalem plays the same role for Jews that Mecca has for Muslims". The Qur'an cannot deal with the State of Israel as we know it today, since that State came into existing in only, i. However, the Qur'an specifies that the Land of Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people, that God Himself gave that Land to them as heritage and ordered them to live therein.

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It also announces that — before the end of the time — the Jewish people will come from many different countries to retake possession of that heritage of theirs. Whoever denies this actually denies the Qur'an itself. If he is not a scholar, and in good faith believes what other people say about this issue, he is an ignorant Muslim.

If, on the contrary, he is informed about what the Qur'an and openly opposes it, he ceases to be a Muslim. He translates it thus:. Enter the Holy Land which God has written for you, and do not turn tail, otherwise you will be losers. In reaction, he was inundated with hate mail. The Quran , chapter 17 Al-Isra , verse And thereafter We said to the Children of Israel: When the promise of the Everlasting Life comes We shall bring you all together. The Quran , chapter 5 Al-Ma'ida , verse 20— And [remember] when Moses said to his people: In the Muslim world, support of Israel is mostly met with opposition.

In , Sarah Nasser, a Muslim college student in Canada known for her pro-Israel views, received death threats after expressing support for the Jewish state's right to exist. During the assault, the attackers shouted at Choudhury, labeling him an "agent of the Jews.

In , Alaa Alsaegh, a Muslim from Iraq who posted online a poem expressing support for Jewish people in Israel, was reportedly attacked in St. Louis, with a Star of David being carved into his back. Mohammad Zoabi, a self-described Muslim Zionist from Nazareth who has voiced strong support for Israel, decided to take a break from social media and keep a low profile after he reportedly received death threats from fellow Arab Israelis.

Later he was forced to flee Israel after receiving serious death threats. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Part of a series on Islam Beliefs.

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Profession of faith Prayer Fasting Alms-giving Pilgrimage. This article relies excessively on partisan sources. Please improve this article or discuss the issue on the talk page. February Learn how and when to remove this template message. Israel portal Islam portal. The Qur'an's Covenant with the Jewish People". Los Angeles Jewish Journal. He explains that this position, which meets opposition from all Arab countries, the United Nations and even the majority of Israelis, is clearly supported in the Qur'an.

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Nations were constituted by an act of self-determination of their members. The plebiscite became the instrument whereby the will of the nation was expressed. In America as well as in revolutionary France, nationalism meant the adherence to a universal progressive idea, looking toward a common future of freedom and equality, not toward a past characterized by authoritarianism and inequality. In Germany the struggle was led by writers and intellectuals , who rejected all the principles upon which the American and the French revolutions had been based as well as the liberal and humanitarian aspects of nationalism.

German nationalism began to stress instinct against reason; the power of historical tradition against rational attempts at progress and a more just order; the historical differences between nations rather than their common aspirations. The French Revolution, liberalism , and equality were regarded as a brief aberration , against which the eternal foundations of societal order would prevail. That German interpretation was shown to be false by the developments of the 19th century. Liberal nationalism reasserted itself and affected more and more people: Though his immediate hopes were disappointed, the 12 years from to brought the unification of Italy and Romania, both with the help of Napoleon III , and of Germany; at the same time the s saw great progress in liberalism, even in Russia and Spain.

The victorious trend of liberal nationalism, however, was reversed in Germany by Bismarck. He unified Germany on a conservative and authoritarian basis and defeated German liberalism. The German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine against the will of the inhabitants was contrary to the idea of nationalism as based upon the free will of man. The people of Alsace-Lorraine were held to be German by objective factors, by race, independent of their will or of their allegiance to any nationality of their choice. In the second half of the 19th century, nationalism disintegrated the supranational states of the Habsburgs and the Ottoman sultans, both of which were based upon prenational loyalties.

In Russia , the penetration of nationalism produced two opposing schools of thought. Some nationalists proposed a westernized Russia, associated with the progressive, liberal forces of the rest of Europe. Others stressed the distinctive character of Russia and Russianism, its independent and different destiny based upon its autocratic and orthodox past. These Slavophiles , similar to and influenced by German romantic thinkers, saw Russia as a future saviour of a West undermined by liberalism and the heritage of the American and French revolutions.

One of the consequences of World War I was the triumph of nationalism in central and eastern Europe. Those states in turn, however, were to be strained and ravaged by their own internal nationality conflicts and by nationalistic disputes over territory with their neighbours. But the Bolsheviks also claimed the leadership of the world Communist movement, which was to become an instrument of the national policies of the Russians.

After the war he found nationalism one of the strongest obstacles to the expansion of Soviet power in eastern Europe. National communism , as it was called, became a divisive force in the Soviet bloc. In Tito, the Communist leader of Yugoslavia, was denounced by Moscow as a nationalist and a renegade; nationalism was a strong factor in the rebellious movements in Poland and Hungary in the fall of ; and subsequently its influence was also felt in Romania and Czechoslovakia and again in Poland in Yet Britain may have shown a gift for accommodation with the new forces by helping to create an independent Egypt ; completely, and Iraq and displayed a similar spirit in India, where the Indian National Congress , founded in to promote a liberal nationalism inspired by the British model, became more radical after Japan, influenced by Germany, used modern industrial techniques in the service of a more authoritarian nationalism.

The Treaty of Versailles , which provided for the constitution of the League of Nations, also reduced the empires of the defeated Central Powers , mainly Germany and Turkey. By , 35 years after its founding, the United Nations had added more than member nations, most of them Asian and African. Whereas Asian and African nations had never totalled even one-third of the membership in the League, they came to represent more than one-half of the membership of the United Nations.

Of these new Asian and African nations, several had been created, entirely or in part, from mandated territories. Communism recruited supporters from within the ranks of the new nationalist movements in Asia and Africa, first by helping them in their struggles against Western capitalist powers, and later, after independence was achieved, by competing with Western capitalism in extending financial and technical aid. But Chinese Communism soon began to drift away from supranational Communism, as the European Communist countries had earlier.

By the late s Russian and Chinese mutual recriminations revealed a Chinese nationalism in which Mao Tse-tung had risen to share the place of honour with Lenin. As Chinese Communism turned further and further inward, its influence on new Asian and African nations waned. Ambitions among new Asian and African nations clashed. The complex politics of the United Nations illustrated the problems of the new nationalism.

The struggle with Dutch colonialism that brought the establishment of Indonesia continued with the UN mediation of the dispute over West Irian Irian Jaya. Continuing troubles in the Middle East , beginning with the establishment of Israel and including inter-Arab state disputes brought on by the establishment of the United Arab Republic , concerned the UN. Other crises involving the UN included: Many new nations, all sharing the same pride in independence, faced difficulties. As a result of inadequate preparation for self-rule, the first five years of independence in the Congo passed with no semblance of a stable government.

The problem of widely different peoples and languages was exemplified in Nigeria, where an uncounted population included an uncounted number of tribes at least , with three major divisions that used an uncounted number of languages more than language and dialect clusters. The question of whether the predominantly Muslim state of Jammu and Kashmir should go with Muslim Pakistan or Hindu India lasted for more than 20 years after the India Independence Act became effective in Desperate economic competition caused trouble, as in Israel where the much-needed waters of the Jordan River kept it in constant dispute with its water-hungry Arab neighbours.

But the policies pursued by France under Pres. Charles de Gaulle and the problem of a divided Germany showed that the appeal of the nation-state was still very much alive. We welcome suggested improvements to any of our articles.

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