Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 12-03-2018
The Palestine Information Network (PIN) says the suggestion by an Israeli member of the Knesset to replace ‘Allahu Akbar’ in the Athan with ‘Israel is great’ has received spirited reactions from other members of parliament.
Middle East Monitor reports that the chairman of the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee in the Knesset was addressing a parliamentary session on the revocation of residency of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem when the suggestion was made by Likud member Yoav Kisch.
During his speech Kisch mockingly called on Arabs to recognise that Israel is greater and Allah.
“I know that when you pray you say ‘God is Great’, you should say ‘Israel is great’.
Pin’s Ebrahim Moosa says a Palestinian member of the Knesset, Ahmad Tibi than challenged Kisch on his suggestion.
“Tibi went on to say that ‘Allah is the Greatest as well as Israel is much weaker than in considers itself to be’. Thereafter within the Israeli Knesset many of the Palestinian members recited the takbeer and it’s quite a powerful thing.”
Moosa says this not the first time that the takbeer was chanted in the Knesset.
“When the athaan law was being debated about a year ago, one of the law makers went on to recite the athaan within the Israeli parliament. It’s quite significant to know that despite whatever Islamophobic rhetoric has come out, it was actually the excuse for the Greatness of Allah to be proclaimed, even within the Israeli parliament.”
The Muezzin Bill proposed by Kisch would ban all public places of worship from using speaker systems between 11pm and 7am.
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