From The Gathering Storm

Attention all Palestinian Muslims!

 Orders from Headquarters! “Do not, REPEAT, do NOT search for a better life abroad.”

Alarmed by the growing number of Palestinians who are emigrating from the Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Authority’s mufti has issued a fatwa [religious decree] forbidding Muslims to leave.

Sources in the PA Foreign Ministry told The Jerusalem Post that some 10,000 Palestinians have filed requests to emigrate from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year. They said the requests had been approved. “According to our statistics, there are at least 45,000 emigration applications being reviewed by different countries.”

The sources said most of the applicants were young men seeking work abroad. They said the majority of them wanted to move to the US, EU and Canada.

Can you blame them? Like Bush said, every human being longs for freedom and opportunity. But a Palestinian Mufti thinks better.

Entitled “No Permission to Emigrate from Palestine,” the fatwa reads: “There has been much talk in Palestine about emigration, especially among the young people, due to the difficult security and economic situation. This is being done in search of a better life abroad. Many are continuing to rush to the gates of the embassies and consulates of the Western nations with requests for visas in order to reside permanently in those countries.

“We hereby declare that emigration from the blessed lands is not permitted according to religious law. The people living in these areas must remain in their homes and must not leave them to conquerors. Those who abide by this ruling will perform an honorable deed and will support the Aksa Mosque.”

Got that Palestinians? Your spiritual leaders demand that you must not only perform physical suicide for Allah but he also wants you to suffer economically.

However, the fatwa permits Muslims to travel abroad temporarily for study and work “as long as they are committed to returning and living in the blessed lands.”

Yeah. Right. Like they’ll really come back once they’ve tasted a civil and rewarding life.

A recent public opinion poll conducted in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip showed that that 82.7 percent of the Palestinians are pessimistic regarding their conditions. The survey, conducted by the Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah University in Nablus, also reported that 92% of respondents feel insecure because of the growing lawlessness in the PA-run areas.
No surprise there.

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