Will the last one out of Palestine please turn off the lights?
Apparently, the ambitious young are doing what they always do when confronted with a massively incompetent government and no chance to advance themselves: voting with their feet. And the Mufti of Jerusalem isn't having it:
"Based on [the ruling of the prophet Muhammed and his friends], emigration from the blessed lands to live permanently in other countries is not permitted in terms of religious law. The people living in these areas must remain in their places of residence, and not leave them to infiltrators and conquerors, and they will thus perform an act of honor, and will be a support for the Al-Aqsa mosque... and will merit the good tiding of the prophet...
If they had rule of law in the territories of the PA, they probably wouldn't need rule-of-mullah.
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Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: May 17, 2007 05:39 PM
It's also a mistatement of shariah (I think): the actual rule is that one should leave Muslim lands for non Muslim lands. A Palestinian moving to Pakistan or Morocco is fine. An Iraqi moving to the US is not fine.
It's another case of shariah imitating halacha, or at least coming to the same conclusion. Moving to Israel is approved, moving from Israel is disapproved. And living in Egypt is also disapproved. This of course did not keep Maimonides, who included these laws in his Mishneh Torah, from living (and producing all his major works) in Egypt--although he did arrange to be buried in Tiberias.