i was born and raised as a Muslim in
Cairo Egypt but I grew up as a child in
the 50s in the Gaza Strip and uh the
reason I was in Gaza was because Gaza at
that time was part of Egypt i attended
Gaza elementary schools where we learned
hatred vengeance retaliation peace was
never an option the concept of peace was
something foreign actually the word
peace was never even mentioned in the
services of any mosque we recited poetry
every day in the school wishing up upon
ourselves to die as martyrs i used to
see girls reciting this poetry while
they're crying they would wish upon
themselves to die as a martyr see our
value system was about victimhood
thinking of ourselves as victims or to
be a martyr to go kill everybody and die
as a martyr either a victim or a martyr
there is nothing in between women don't
go to mosques but we used to hear the
service of the mosque either on radio or
on TV and I remember every Friday prayer
the sheh would be at the end of the
sermon he would curse may God destroy
the Jews and the infidel and the even
the Christians and non-Muslims and he
would call non-Muslims the enemies of
Allah if you grow up with cursing as a
form of prayer it can feel and sound
normal hatred can be normal because who
am I to judge i never noticed that this
is not holy so this is how I grew up 22
Arab countries did everything they could
to make life impossible for Israel to
exist the Arab League forbade absorbing
the so-called Arab Palestinians rejected
to give them citizenship in any Arab
country so you could see an a
Palestinian born in Cairo for instance
and never get the citizenship and die in
Cairo they born and die in Syria a a
Palestinian and they never get a
citizenship why because the Arab League
wanted the Palestinian problem never to
be solved this is not their agenda the
agenda is to keep them refugees from
birth to death the culture was so for
sacrificing they encouraged women to
stand up in front of the cameras and say
"I gave my son to the jihad and I want
my other children to die in the jihad."
Women who are for life for peace were
looked down upon women who would be
radical if not more radical than men who
will promote jihad for their children
were lifted up as honorable women to be
respected in society so for a woman to
be respected in Islamic society you have
to be as radical if not more radical
than men and that is why a lot of women
are silent they are proud to give their
children to jihad and many people told
that to my mother to my grandparents
after my father died that your boy
you're lucky he's in heaven now it's the
only way to go to heaven is to go and
kill the infidel and die in the process
the Arabs of Israel were pushed
constantly they are rejected from being
absorbed and constantly pushed against
the borders with Israel in order to keep
the problem alive the Arab world doesn't
have a shortage of land if you look at
the Arab world from the Atlantic Ocean
Morocco all the way to Persia from
Turkey all the way to Sudan at that time
when I was a child the Sinai was
practically empty desert nobody lived in
the Sinai like today there is Sharmishek
you know all the nice beaches this was a
military zone and there is absolutely no
need no pressing need for Arabs to be so
dwelled on wanting to throw the Jews in
the sea you know this international
conflict called the Arab-Israeli
conflict really is a fabrication this is
not a conflict over land and anybody who
thinks it's a conflict over land is
misguided because we don't see the truth
the truth is Arabs there is something in
Islam anti-Jewish anti-Christian
especially anti-Jewish and I will tell
you why those people calling themselves
Palestinians who live in the Gaza and
the West Bank are the pawns of the Arab
world i don't believe that they care
about their happiness or welfare they
are set up to live a miserable life on
purpose in order to show the world that
we're victims do you think Saudi Arabia
with all the money they have the Gulf
countries all these oil money they can't
give them good roads and good homes and
good police and turn it into a
productive area of of the Middle East
they can but that is not their objective
there is a hidden objective and I don't
understand why Western culture doesn't
get it why Western media doesn't get it
it's so obvious so the unemployed people
in Gaza and the West Bank all this high
unemployment where do they go to work do
they stand on the border of Egypt to get
a job do they stand on the border of
Syria or Jordan no they line up on the
borders of Israel the very people they
are supposed to kill it's a very
unnatural way of living and nobody sees
it but they go and blame Israel they
compare the living standard of the West
Bank and Gaza with Israel a democracy
the only democracy in the Middle East
why don't they compare the living
conditions of Gaza and the West Bank
with Egypt with Syria with Jordan and if
they do they will find that the standard
of living is even higher than many areas
of the Arab world but Western media are
too lazy to compare apples with apples
they want to compare apples and oranges
i don't know how can I call Western
media ignorant they should not be
ignorant and then they go and ask Israel
why don't you do some concessions for
the Palestinians i never hear them stand
up to Arab leaders and ask Western media
why don't they ask Arab leaders how
about some concessions to the Israeli
people and it's very convenient to blame
all of this terrorism on after 911
especially they blame the terrorism oh
it's because we have this terrorism
everywhere by Muslims it's all because
of the occupation if it wasn't for the
occupation of Gaza if it's not for the
occupation of the West Bank we wouldn't
have a problem the problem all is
because of Israel that's what they want
to give the impression and this is a big
lie because I lived in Gaza as a child
and I witnessed the terrorism against
Israel before the occupation of Gaza and
before the occupation of the West Bank
and our media here doesn't even know
that there was terrorism against Israel
before the occupation so people who are
Arabs who claim that they are doing
terrorism now because they want freedom
democracy no there is no freedom and
democracy in any Arab country let alone
the West Bank or Gaza so we have to
really call a spade a spade now this is
too serious to just take all these lies
and look the other way because it's very
very hard to know the truth if you rely
on Arab media if you rely on the culture
around you and because of life in an
oppressive society I moved to America I
moved to America in the end of
7879 and my life completely changed and
one time I wanted to go to attend a
synagogue and a church because I was
curious ious i thought they were going
to curse the Arabs the same way we
cursed them in our mosque the holiness
of the place they were praying for
everybody they were praying for peace on
earth how can we leave this earth a
better place it was a totally different
way of thinking the opposite of what I
grew up with and that's when I went to a
mosque here also in Los Angeles and I
thought that because they allowed women
that it was going to be different here
within America i am so glad that Islam
in America must be so different so I
went to the mosque and I heard
anti-semitism again in the mosque and I
was told "Don't assimilate in America
we're here to Islamize America." They
were looking down at American culture
they were looking down at this society
and I felt very uncomfortable i said "Oh
my god there is an agenda here." And I
never went back again it hit me how
could we do this how could we lie and
accuse people of something we Arabs know
very well we have done ourselves how
could this happen what kind of value
system allows a person or allows a
culture or a religion to lie and accuse
their enemies of something that they
know they've done themselves they know
that Abin Laden did that they know that
he was financed with Arab money with oil
money until today how could they accuse
the Jewish people of that look at the
map of the Middle East look at the map
you can hardly see Israel it's
impossible to convince any person who
has an IQ of a child that this problem
is over the land called Israel it's time
for the West to understand this because
it's not just not good for Israel it's
not good for the Arab world they are
collapsing a lot of people think that
the Arab world is so strong and so
powerful it's rotting from the core but
they don't know the religious leaders
are telling them to keep continue the
hate instead of telling them to repent
and find the true God the love and the
friendship in the eyes of many Muslims
in the eyes of Islam itself Jews and
non-Muslims they call them the kafir the
infidels they don't deserve the truth
they don't deserve justice and they
don't deserve mercy how can this happen
and we accept it and we don't say no the
Arab world will never have freedom and
democracy when the hatred is number one
when the jihad is number one when
killing your enemy is number one when
you're fixated on lies and slander you
will never have peace and democracy
nobody asks this question why all this
these lies and slander against the
Jewish people against America they call
America the great Satan and Israel the
little saint why do you know that on
Syrian TV on Arabic TV on Egyptian TV
the constant day and night lies about
the Jewish people is unbelievable there
was a show that was saying and in it was
not just religious leaders some of them
were scientists Arab scientists saying
that "Oh do you know why Israel went to
Haiti to help with the earthquake?" You
know why because Israel really wanted to
harvest the organs of the Haitian people
these are the
intelligencia of the Arab world when the
intellectuals of the Arab world say that
what do you expect from the man on the
street and you wonder why they hate
because day in and day out they are told
this i was told horrific things about
the Jewish people it took me years to
extract it out of my mind my heart and
my consciousness