Note that Mohammed Afeef Shadid says: “As the nation of Muhammad, we have the right to Palestine in its entirety.”
He is grounding his claim to Palestine in the Islamic religion, the one aspect of the conflict that Western analysts consistently ignore. He is saying that because the “Palestinians” are Muslims, they have the right to all of Palestine. Not because they were there first (they weren’t), or because they have any legal claim to the territory (they don’t), or because historically there was a Palestinian state at that spot (there wasn’t). No, his claim is based entirely on the Islamic assumption that every land that was once ruled by Islam belongs to Islam forever, for Muslims must “drive them out from where they drove you out” (Qur’an 2:191). Yet no Western peace-processor has ever betrayed the slightest awareness of this, or its importance. Only vilified, marginalized and ignored “Islamophobes” respect the “Palestinians” such as Mohammed Afeef Shadid enough to listen to them and ponder the implications of what they are saying.
“Palestinian Islamic Scholar Mohammed Afeef Shadid: Our Right of Return Is Not Only to Palestine; We Must Use Palestine as a Starting Point to Conquer the World, Deliver It from Darkness to Light,” MEMRI, May 11, 2022:
Palestinian Islamic scholar Mohammed Afeef Shadid said in a sermon at the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque in the West Bank town of Tulkarm that the “right of return” is not limited to Palestine. Palestine should serve as a starting point to conquer the world, and to “liberate this sick world and deliver it from darkness to light.” The video was uploaded to the Al-Aqsa Call YouTube channel on May 11, 2022….
Shadid says:
We were expelled from Palestine eight decades ago, and we will return to it, to every inch of it, not only to the homes which we left, carrying the house keys and nothing else. This is a reduction of our right. As the nation of Muhammad, we have the right to Palestine in its entirety: every grain of its soil, every drop of its water, every whiff of its air. But that is not all. Palestine should be a center, a capital, and a starting point for conquering the world. Our sympathizers in the world, as well as our enemies, should know that the cause of our right of return does not pertain only to Palestine. The whole world is our battlefield. Our goal is not to liberate Palestine alone, but to liberate this sick world and deliver it from darkness to light.