Page 72 - The Winter of Islam and the Spring to Come

The Winter of

ISLAM

and the Spring to Come PALESTINE

What should be the

Muslim perspective

regarding Israel
and the Jews?

I n this section of the book we shall be
examining the oppression and pains
our Palestinian brothers have been
suffering for the last 60 years or so.
However, before looking at the events in
Palestine there is one very important point
we need to clarify, the attitude that Muslims
need to adopt toward Israel, Zionism and
the Jews. First and foremost we need to
make it quite clear that, in this book as in
our other works, the criticisms in it are not
directed against the Jewish people or Israel
as a whole. It is a known fact that, under the
influence of various superstitious tradi-
tions, radical thinking or ideologies based
on atheism, some Jews support a policy that
incites and is based on violence. However,
that does not mean that all Jews are respon-