Italian Muslim Leader to Speak to Capital District Audience
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Jewish Educational Resources of New York (JERNY) announces that it will host a conference call with Sheikh Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 4:15 p.m eastern standard time. The conference call is free and open to anyone who registers in advance at www.jerny.org. The live conference call can be is accessed anywhere in the world through the use of an American phone number.
Sheikh Palazzi is a leader of the Muslim community in Italy and a scholar with impeccable academic credentials from both the traditional Sunni Muslim schools of Saudi Arabia and Egypt as well as the Sufi Masters.
In 1998, Sheikh Palazzi and Dr. Asher Eder of Jerusalem, co-founded the Islam-Israel Fellowship Council, promoting a positive Muslim attitude towards Jews and Israel based on the authentic teachings of Muhammad as expressed in the Qur'an and the Hadith. Sheikh Palazzi serves as Muslim co-Chair of the Fellowship. Dr. Eder serves as the Jewish co-Chair. Sheikh Palazzi boldly speaks out against radical Islam and its influence on the Middle East and the world.
Sheikh Palazzi was born in Rome, Italy to an Italian Catholic father who converted to Islam and a Muslim mother of Syrian descent. After completing his secular and religious education in Rome and Cairo in 1987, he served as an Imam for the Italian Islamic Community. In addition to numerous Masters Degrees, Sheikh Palazzi, by decree of the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Baz, holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Sciences from the Institute for Islamic Studies and Research in Naples. He is also received his authorization to teach both Qur’anic exegesis and Islamic law from the University of al-Azhar as-Sharif in Cairo.
He was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Muslim Association in 1989, and is now its Secretary General. Since 1991, he was a Director of the Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic community, with a program based on the development of Islamic education in Italy, refutation of fundamentalism and fanaticism, and deep involvement in inter-religious dialogue, especially with Jews and Christians, but also with Buddhists and others. He is the leader of the Italian Muslim Assembly.
In 1997, Sheikh Palazzi joined the International Council of the Root and Branch Association and his essay entitled "The Jewish-Moslem Dialogue and the Question of Jerusalem" was published by the Institute of the World Jewish Congress. He has also been a lecturer in the Department of the History of Religion at the Università della Terza Età in Velletri, near Rome. Sheikh Palazzi is also in the international advisory councils of the international Intelligence Summit of the Jewish Legal Heritage Society.
On April 9, 2008 and as a guest of JERNY, Sheikh Palazzi presented lectures at the University at Albany and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and was also a guest on WAMC radio.
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About Sheikh Palazzi:
Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi is the Director of the Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community. After completing his secular and religious education in Rome and Cairo in 1987, he served as an Imam for the Italian Islamic Community. In addition to numerous Masters Degrees, Prof. Palazzi holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Sciences by decree of the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Baz. He holds a doctorate in Islamic sciences from the Institute for Islamic Studies and Research in Naples (by authorization of the former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia), and ijazah (authorization to teach) both Koranic exegesis and Islamic law from the prestigious University of al-Azhar as-Sharif in Cairo.
He was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Muslim Association in 1989, and afterward was elected its Secretary General.
Since 1991, he was a Director of the Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community, with a program based on the development of Islamic education in Italy, refutation of fundamentalism and fanaticism, and deep involvement in inter-religious dialogue, especially with Jews and Christians, but also with Buddhists and others.
In 1997, Prof. Palazzi joined the International Council of the Root and Branch Association and his essay entitled "The Jewish-Moslem Dialogue and the Question of Jerusalem" was published by the Institute of the World Jewish Congress.
In 1998, Prof. Palazzi and Dr. Asher Eder (Jerusalem) co-founded the Islam-Israel Fellowship, promoting a positive Muslim attitude towards Jews and Israel based on what Prof. Palazzi believes are the authentic teachings of Muhammad as expressed in the Qur'an and the Hadith. Prof. Palazzi serves as Muslim Co-Chairman of the Fellowship. Dr. Eder serves as the Jewish Co-Chairman.
He has also been a lecturer in the Department of the History of Religion at the Università della Terza Età in Velletri, near Rome.
Mr. Palazzi is also in the international advisory councils of the international Intelligence Summit and of the Jewish Legal Heritage Society.
Quotes from Shekh Palazzi
Islam…strictly forbids taking military initiatives by individuals, groups or factions (which is referred as "fitnah", i.e., sedition), strictly forbids targeting civilians and strictly forbids committing suicide.
A suicide bomber is by no means a martyr of Islam, but a criminal who dies while committing acts which Islam views as capital crimes.
Israel exists by Divine Right, confirmed in both the Bible and Qur'an. Consequently, as a Muslim who abides by the Qur'an, I believe that opposing the existence of the State of Israel means opposing a Divine decree.
When the Saudis started ruling an oil rich Kingdom, they also started investing a regular part of their wealth in spreading Wahhabism worldwide. Wahhabism is a totalitarian cult which stands for terror, massacre of civilians and for permanent war against Jews, Christians and non-Wahhabi Muslims. The influence of Wahhabism in the contemporary Arab world is such that many Arab Muslims are wrongly convinced that, in order to be a good Muslim, one must hate Israel and hope for its destruction.
The world should give pro-Israeli Muslims a chance. We owe this to the memory of Anwar Sadat, martyred by those same Wahhabi terrorists who today spread terror everywhere.
Denying that suicide and murder are capital sins in Islam represents a lack of correct doctrinal faith according to the Shari'a.
The only legitimate jihad in our time is not-military jihad, i.e., competing with non-Muslims. Wahhabis simply take words used in Islamic Law and apply them against Islamic Law itself. In Islamic Law, terrorism is a sin, and suicide another sin. Wahhabis call "jihad" acts of suicide tand "martyrs" those who die while committing them. With regard to murder and suicide, the conflicting positions of Sunni Islam and Wahhabism are fundamental and irreconcilable.
To win the War on Terror, it is necessary to understand that al-Qa'ida is a Saudi organization, created by the House of Sa'ud, funded with petro-dollar profits by the House of Sa'ud and used by the House of Sa'ud for acts of mass terror primarily against the West, and the rest of the world, as well.
Theoretically, Bush proclaims his intention to punish terror and to spread democracy, but the Road Map is the exact opposite of all this: it means punishing the victims of terror and rewarding terrorists, compelling democracy to withdraw in order to create a new dictatorial Arab regime. For the U.S. there is only one single trustworthy ally in the entire Middle East: Israel.
The implications of the Road Map are staggering: A Jew is not like other human beings, he can be deported from place to place, according to the cynical oil drenched dictates of political opportunism.
Now descendants of Ishmael, the Arabs, have a gigantic territory extending from Morocco to Iraq. The descendants of Isaac, the Jews, on the contrary, only have a tiny, narrow strip of land. However, Arab dictators are not satisfied with their huge territory. They want more. They also want the little heritage of the Children of Israel, and resort to terror in order to get it.
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