OMG: British Muslims for Israel

British Muslims for Israel - yes you heard right. Or as they say on their website: "Representing moderate muslims and advocating democracy and liberty in the Middle East."

Here's the part from the about us on their website:

Defending and promoting liberal democracy in the Middle East
Here at BMFI, we do not believe the Arab-Israeli conflict is a war over land or religion, but it is a clash of ideas. Israel, as a Western liberal democracy, extends equal rights to all of its citizens, regardless of religion or race. Muslims have more rights in Israel than in any other country in the Middle East.

While Egypt guns down Sudanese refugees fleeing the murderous oppression of their government, Israel gives them home and shelter; while Lebanon denies Palestinian refugees access to healthcare, Israel provides emergency treatment for the residents of the West Bank and Gaza strip; while Syria keeps the Palestinians in refugee camps and sporadically slaughters them, Israel offered full citizenship to all its Palestinians after the Arab states attempted to destroy Israel and slaughter its Holocaust survivors in 1948.

Israel undoubtedly has made some bad choices, but what other country in the region holds enquiries to censure itself? BMFI is not solely for Zionists, but it is for all those British Muslims who recognise Israel's right to exist and believe that a peaceful solution must be achieved.

Groups such as the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, Viva Palestina, Stop the War do NOT speak for us

http://www.britishmuslimsforisrael.com/BMFI/Welcome.html

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[AshillaBeige]

My mom is a muslim who is "for" Israel, but it would be nearly impossible for a muslim to be against Palestine entirely, or to turn away from things the Israeli military does. Israel does a lot of good, just like America, but just because there's good there doesn't mean you can ignore the bad.

The opposite is true for Palestine. Just because it's leaders and the extremists within do bad thing does NOT mean Palestinians are bastards or don't deserve to keep their homes.

[Joniversity]

@AshillaBeige For the most part i think Israelis don't have an issue with being pro-Palestinian. heck, according to elections at least half of the Israelis are too.

What annoys us is when pro-Palestinian becomes nothing more than anti-Israeli.

[AshillaBeige]

@Joniversity Exactly. People need to be more understanding of the Palestinian situation. They're preyed upon by extremists as they are born into poverty with little to no access to education. Their only opportunity to have any sort of learning experience or to even feed your children is to send them to extremist madrasas.Parents are often fooled into it.

It's just like say the Maoist regime in China. Many Chinese did bad things not because they're evil, but b/c of environment. It's complex.

[Joniversity]

@AshillaBeige Well it's not that simple. First of all most Pallis go to UNWRA schools (the P.A. has actually cracked down on Hamas operated subversive madrasas) - but the indoctrination there is horrible (it's sad to see) - search Google for "The Indoctrination Of Palestinian Children" you'll see what i mean.

IMHO the problem lays more in the fact that Pallis are often used as pawns by EVERYBODY in the M.E. including Israel.

I will do a video on the matter soon. You should sub me :-)

[Marchawc]

Well this is a breath of fresh air! :)

[chalitzah]

I am sure that this is a fake/scam website, designed to make money for this guy. The 'British Muslims for Israel' site basically just links to this guy's paypal account, asking for a donation. I searched and it's not a registered charity or group. It has no contact information. The whole thing is designed to solict a donation for a private bank account. I find this disappointing, given that his message is in support of us. I suspect he just wants to scam some well meaning people.

[BarriosGroupie]

The irony is that Arab women in Israel have more freedoms than in most Arab countries!

[MrILoveYeshua]

That sentence alludes to Jews that are supposed to be killed according to the koran, b/c only after that the day of ressurection and of judgement will come. The 2nd prophet in koran is Jesus, the 3rd is Moses, and 1st it talks about is mohamad (a child molesting, homicidal maniac).

So either you are practicing al-Taquyya or you have no clue of the teachings of the koran and sunna.

[MrILoveYeshua]

What really surprices me is the title. Could any1 plz answer the following. How can you be a muslim and pro-Israel??? As I remember the koran clearly teaches the annihilation of israel and jews. It says in the koran that upon arrival of the Messiah and mahdi who will appear with the Messiah, there will be a mojority following one prophet, another little minority who will follow another prophet and no1 at all who has been following the other prothet.

[mfpsychoboy]

Why are you OMGing? The founder of this group is also the group's only member.

[mardastheEitheist]

@chalitzah

No, i don't think so, the donation button is just like in any other website on the "Contribute"-page, whereas i must admit, that the blog is only updated sparsely, maybe twice a week. The website is rather badly led and designed than fraud.

[Lagolop]

@shining3210

Sadly, you are 100% correct.

As wonderful and refreshing it is to hear this guy, he is a rarity.