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Ghoneim: No to the JewsMay 24, 1998
At an Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) conference at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, co-sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), among others, Ghoneim told the audience in Arabic, "The Jews distort words from their meanings. . . . They killed the prophets and worshipped idols. . . . Allah says he who equips a warrior of Jihad is like the one who makes Jihad himself." Ghoneim then reminded the audience of the Jews' "infidelity," "stealth," and "deceit," and told the audience that the Israeli/Palestine conflict was fundamentally not a dispute over land, but over belief: "Suppose the Jews said ‘Palestine you [Muslims] can take it.' Would it then be ok? What would we tell them? No! . . . The problem is belief, it is not a problem of land." Ghoneim then led his rapt audience, which numbered as many as five hundred, in a special song, with the audience responsively repeating each refrain:
Transcript [Translated from Arabic]:
[No to the Jews Descendants of the Apes We vow to return Despite the obstacles] (CHORUS)
The collaborators have sold The Land of Ascension Without Shame They bowed to the Jews
(Chorus)
"Oh Ben Gurion" Zion is ours [Line is unclear] A mean Jew
(Chorus)
Generations have past Refusing humiliation The heroes attacked The heroes of steadfastness
(Chorus)
Oh Children of Salah [Al Din] And Children of [Ibn al] Jerah Jerusalem is allowed to everybody [is vulnerable to rape] And the Arabs are bowing down.
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