by Ezequiel Doiny
Bensoussan puts the lie to accusations that Israel is a colonial power. The Muslims have raised colonization to new heights during their history.
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 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.
Below is a list of non-Muslim Holy Sites, 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.
4. The Babri Mosque in Ayodhya (North India) was built on the site of a Hindu Temple. In 1992 a mob of 150,000 Hindus razed the mosque. Nobel Laureate writer V. S. Naipaul has praised the act for "reclaiming India's Hindu heritage".
5. The great temple of Keshava Rai at Mathura was one of the most magnificent hindu temples ever built in India. The Temple was demolished in 1670 and on its site a mosque was built.
6. The Somnath Temple in India: destroyed by Muslim invaders and converted into a mosque. In AD 1025, Mahmud destroyed and looted the temple, killing over 50,000 people who tried to defend it. After independence, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel pledged on November 13, 1947, that the temple would be reconstructed. The mosque was not destroyed but carefully relocated. In 1951 Dr. Rajendra Prasad performed the consecration ceremony. The temple construction was completed on December 1, 1995. The then President of India, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, dedicated it to the nation."
7. Kashi or Varanasi is the most sacred site in Hinduism and the worship of Lord Shiva as Vishveshvara goes back to ancient times. The temple was demolished several times by Muslim invaders, and was reconstructed again and again by Hindu kings. A mosque was built which still stands.
8. A surge in church-mosque conversion followed the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus. Many of the Orthodox churches in Northern Cyprus have been converted to mosques.
9. Hundreds of Greek Orthodox churches in Turkey were converted into mosques. Hagia Sophia, the seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, was converted into a mosque, and then, in order not to return it to the Christians, into a museum where until today Christians are forbidden to pray.
10. The Assyrian International News Agency published a list of Christian Institutions converted into mosques or destroyed by ISIS in Mosul, Iraq in 2014.
"Since taking over Mosul on June 10, ISIS has destroyed, occupied, converted to mosques, converted to ISIS headquarters or shuttered all 45 Christian institutions in Mosul. The following is the complete list of the Christian institutions in Mosul, grouped by denomination.
Syriac Catholic Church:
1.Syrian Catholic Diocese - Maidan Neighborhood, Mosul
2.The Old Church of the Immaculate - Maidan Neighborhood, Mosul (The church goes back to the eighth century AD)
3.The New Church of the Immaculate - Maidan Neighborhood
4.Church of Mar (Saint) Toma - Khazraj Neighborhood
5.Museum of Mar (Saint) Toma - Khazraj Neighborhood
6.Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation - Muhandiseen Neighborhood
7.Church of the Virgin of Fatima - Faisaliah Neighborhood
8.Our Lady of Deliverance Chapel - Shifaa Neighborhood
9.The House of the Young Sisters of Jesus - Ras Al-Kour Neighborhood
10.Archbishop's Palace Chapel - Dawasa Neighborhood
Syriac Orthodox Church:
1.Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese - Shurta Neighborhood
2.The Antiquarian Church of Saint Ahodeeni - Bab AlJadeed Neighborhood
3.Mar (Saint) Toma Church and cemetery, (the old Bishopric) - Khazraj Neighborhood
4.Church of The Immaculate (Castle) - Maidan Neighborhood
5.Church of The Immaculate - Shifaa Neighborhood
6.Mar (Saint) Aprim Church - Shurta Neighborhood
7.St. Joseph Church - The New Mosul Neighborhood
Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East:
1.Diocese of the Assyrian Church of the East - Noor Neighborhood
2.Assyrian Church of the East, Dawasa Neighborhood
3.Church of the Virgin Mary (old rite) - Wihda Neighborhood
Chaldean Church of Babylon:
1.Chaldean Diocese - Shurta Neighborhood
2.Miskinta Church - Mayassa Neighborhood
3.The Antiquarian Church of Shimon alSafa - Mayassa Neighborhood
4.Church of Mar (Saint) Buthyoon - Shahar AlSouq Neighborhood
5.Church of St. Ephrem, Wady AlAin Neighborhood
6.Church of St. Paul - Majmooaa AlThaqafiya District
7.The Old Church of the Immaculate (with the bombed archdiocese)- Shifaa Neighborhood
8.Church of the Holy Spirit - Bakir Neighborhood
9.Church of the Virgin Mary - Drakziliya Neighborhood
10.Ancient Church of Saint Isaiah and Cemetery - Ras AlKour Neighborhood
11.Mother of Aid Church - Dawasa Neighborhood
12.The Antiquarian Church of St. George- Khazraj Neighborhood
13.St. George Monastery with Cemetery - Arab Neighborhood
14.Monastery of AlNasir (Victory) - Arab Neighborhood
15.Convent of the Chaldean Nuns - Mayassa Neighborhood
16.Monastery of St. Michael - Hawi Church Neighborhood
17.The Antiquarian Monastery of St. Elijah - Ghazlany Neighborhood
Armenian Orthodox Church:
1.Armenian Church - Maidan Neighborhood
2.The New Armenian Church - Wihda Neighborhood
Evangelical Presbyterian Church:
1.Evangelical Presbyterian Church - Mayassa Neighborhood
Latin Church:
1.Latin Church and Monastery of the Dominican Fathers and Convent of Katrina Siena Nuns - Sa'a Neighborhood
2.Convent of the Dominican Sisters, - Mosul AlJadeed Neighborhood
3.Convent of the Dominican Sisters (AlKilma Monastery) - Majmooaa AlThaqafiya District
4.House of Qasada AlRasouliya (Apostolic Aim) (Institute of St. John the Beloved)
And the world asks Israel to preserve the "status quo" on the Temple Mount?
Ezequiel Doiny
Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16050#.VHX_lMmCETw
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