Jerusalem's Mufti Mohammed Hussein posing in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
The Paleostinian mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, on Thursday published a fatwa, or Islamic religious decree, banning anyone "from giving up, or selling Jerusalem and the land of Paleostine to the enemy" ‐ a reference to Israelis.
The fatwa was issued on the eve of the Arab summit that is scheduled to convene in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
next week to discuss a number of issues, including US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s yet-to-be-announced peace plan and his decision, announced in December, to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the embassy there from Tel Aviv.
The fatwa is seen as a warning to the heads of Arab states against supporting Trump’s decisions and peace plan, which the Paleostinians have denounced as a "conspiracy aimed at liquidating the Paleostinian cause and national rights."
On Wednesday, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...reiterated his rejection of the Trump plan, calling it a "big conspiracy."
"Paleostine, which includes Jerusalem, is Waqf (Islamic trust) land, and it is religiously forbidden to give it up or facilitate the transfer of its ownership to the enemy," Hussein said in his fatwa. "Paleostine is part of the Islamic public properties."
It was the second fatwa of its kind since 2014, when Hussein reminded Moslems that it was forbidden to sell their property to Israelis after it transpired that Jewish families had purchased homes from Arabs in Silwan, outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Several Paleostinians suspected of selling property to Israelis have been killed, while others have been sentenced to prison by Paleostinian Authority courts.
Hussein said the transfer of ownership of Moslem-owned property to the "enemy" was illegal and "considered treason."
Any Paleostinian who sells his land to his enemy is a sinner," the mufti ruled.
He also ruled that it was forbidden for a Paleostinian to accept compensation for his or her property from the "enemy" because this would mean assisting in the "eviction" of Moslems from their homes.
The fatwa said that Jerusalem was the "eternal capital of Paleostine." Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was illegitimate and null, it added.
Hussein said in his fatwa: "Jerusalem and Al Aqsa Mosque are Islamic waqf until doomsday. They can’t be sold or given as gifts or passed on by inheritance. No one is entitled to give them up, or to give up Jerusalem or any part of it, or any part of Al Aqsa Mosque, to the enemy."
Israel, he charged in his decree, "usurped Paleostine, expelled its people, stole their money and committed the most horrific crimes against houses of worship, all this with the help of the colonialist countries that continue to help it with its wicked aggression."