A tip of the hat to Imre H who sent me
this incredible link to the Israeli Foreign Ministry about "Quranet- a bridge between Islam and the West". Apparently this website was part of the
'Tomorrow's Spaces' exhibit at the Presidential residence in
Jerusalem during the recent
Israel 60th celebration. This amounts to official
dhimmitude by a country that is the literal canary in the mines of
Jihad. How could the 'sons of Apes and Pigs' stoop so low as to give the Qu'ran a pass as being 'beautiful'. Clearly, no one of note in
Israel who understands Arabic and the Qu'ran such as Professors
Raphael Israeli and
Mordechai Nisan at Hebrew University, world ranked experts on Islam and the Middle East, were consulted.
Witness these tidbits from the Foreign Ministry promotional piece on Quaranet:
- Quranet transforms the Quran into a unique and useful educational tool for parents and teachers, and thereby renders the beneficial power of the Quran widely accessible.
- Quranet interweaves the Quran, in unprecedented fashion, with modern educational approach, thereby helping the Islamic world and the West to understand each other.
- Quranet reveals the beauty of the Quran and its respect for human dignity, thereby providing a resounding response to warped exploitation of the Quran for the justification of terror.
- Since many issues are common to Islamic and Western culture, we aspire to develop Quranet into a social network in various languages, and create communities with shared interests, thus establishing a bidirectional bridge between the two cultures.
Bat Ye'or will surely have some choice words to say about this latest
dhimmi excess by Israelis who should know better. But then note that a professor of developmental psychology at Ben Gurion University, together with Bedouin graduate students created this 'dhimmi' bridge, Quranet. Beduoins are loyal citizens of
Israel and have served in the
IDF. I have met one who is the deputy regional consul for
Israel in San Francisco at a conference in
New York back in late 2006. I have no brief or grief against them. In fact I laud their valor. Rather it is Israeli Arabs in the north of
Israel who support the Northern Branch of the I
slamic Movement -a group of
Hamas Wannabes - who concern me more. They offer unstinting vocal support for 'land day" and 'el Nakba' catastrophe commemorations on Israel's birthday. They are patently disloyal citizens as they do not recognize the existence of the State of Israel.
Quranet in
Israel simply perpetuates the Islam as a 'religion of peace syndrome' while not recognizing the l
aw of abrogation in the final Qu'ran verses that make earlier allegedly tolerant verses null and void and turned Jews into targets of
Jihad. A fact that may not dawn on the Israeli Ben Gurion U professor and his Bedouin grad students and the 'three distinguished sheiks' who are obviously thrilled about the launch of Quranet.
