Sari Nusseibeh Quotes
Hamas is a political-religious movement systematically throwing shackles on the mind.
Sari Nusseibeh, Palestinian Essayist & PLO Representative in Jerusalem, President of Al Quds University, Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life, 2007
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Few Islamic leaders have publicly made such unequivocal statements about the problem of extremism and fanaticism.
Journalists and writers are among the most persecuted people in Islamic nations and even writers in non-Muslim nations have been murdered and intimidated for writing material that fundamentalist Muslims thought was heresy.
Son of Reverend Billy Graham. The statement was made in the aftermath of September 11.
This statement of the Prophet is often quoted by Yusuf al-Qaradawi and other moderate, modernist Islamic clerics and leaders urging people to eschew terrorism and Muslim fundamentalist extremism.
Many Muslims used passages in the Koran to justify the terrorist attack on New Work and the Pentagon.
The Nazis and most of the Arabs were allies in WWII. The Jews of Palestine—although they were opposed to many of the British policies regarding Palestine—were active in the Allied cause contributing units to the British Army. Although the Germans were brutal to civilians, murdering millions, they refrained from public pronouncements or exhortations to kill civilians in most cases. The Arabs did not. The Mufti was actually given the rank of General in the Nazi SS and had his own SS unit. In this despicable exhortation he actually uses a concept and wording from the Koran. See {584355}. This quotation is important in that it refutes a common claim by some Palestinians that it was only the Germans who were responsible for the Holocaust and the post war Jewish Refugee problem and that the Palestinians had to bear the price rather than place Israel in Europe. This quotation and the other by the Grand Mufti prove that Palestinians were not only complicit in persecution of Jews but took a leadership and advocacy role.
Sari Nusseibeh (Arabic: سري نسيبة) and Foreign Policy (United States). He lives with his family in Beit Hanina.
