Palestinians Petition for "Sacred Space"
by Clare M. Lopez
September 18, 2011
by Clare M. Lopez
September 18, 2011
Watching the determined, decades-long campaign of Arab Muslims to destroy the small State of Israel, it can be difficult to understand why this very tiny sliver of Levantine land should matter so much to a people who already occupy more than 20 nation states of their own. Aside from the Jew-hatred that is intrinsic to Islam as expressed throughout the Qur’an, hadiths, and Sira (life of Muhammad), there is at least one other reason. That reason is about much more than a mere territorial dispute and traces its justification to the Islamic doctrine of “Sacred Space.”
