Take the Gaza Challenge Quiz!

Image used with permission, from the Hashlamah Project.

Yesterday, in preparation for attending a Hamas-front-organized “Free Gaza” protest, I composed a list of 24 question to potentially ask attendees about Gaza.

You may or may not be surprised to learn that when asked, not one single person at the protest (besides myself) had been to Gaza, and not one even regularly speaks with Gazans who live in Gaza. This includes the Diaspora Palestinians, who were a significant percentage of the protest.

Well, needless to say, after hundreds of death threats, in Arabic and English, and being called homophobic and antisemitic slurs in Arabic, for holding a sign that merely said “Free Gaza From Hamas” (written in Palestinian flag colors, no less). Arabs were told, in Arabic, that they were not religiously permitted to speak with a Jew. Several who tried were told that they were violating the commands of Allah if they so much as engaged in conversation with me.

“How can we have peace if you won’t allow Arabs to even speak peacefully with even one Jew, when you outnumber me all of these hundreds to one?” I asked.

Their answer was to physically pull any Arabs who wanted to discuss with me, away from me. Anyone who came up to threatened me with murder, or challenging me to fight. I accepted, but then the challengers all strangely backed off, once I invited them to do so like civilized men, in the ring, at my martial arts school, rather than in a park with dozens of police officers around, who would simply break it up and arrest us both.

Fighting a fair and regulated, civilized fight, did not seem to interest them. I wonder if anyone else can draw the same analogy as me, to the similarities with Hamas and other Neo-Salafi Terror Cults operating in and out of Gaza?

Look for a full write up on all of the significant encounters at that protest in an article to follow.

For now, however, I present you with the “Gaza Challenge Quiz”. The quiz is composed of the following questions:

1. How many malls are in Gaza?
a) 1-3
b) 6-10 or more
c) 100
d) 0 – because what kind of Concentration Camp has malls!?

2. How many Olympic-sized swimming pools?
a) 1
b) 0
c) 10

3. What is the most common farmland in Gaza used to grow?
a) None, they have to have all of their food shipped in by humanitarian relief organizations, since the people are starving
b) Sabra Hummus
c) Strawberries, Citrus, Dates, Olives and various vegetables.
d) Corn

4. How many resorts are in Gaza?
a) 0
b) 1-6 or more
c) 100
d) Undisclosed, five public ones but several private ones, used by very wealth Gazans connected with Hamas.

5. Approximately, how many luxury boats are docked on the beaches of Gaza?

a) “Luxury boats!? Are you insane?! There are no luxury boats in Gaza! It is a concentration camp!
b) Approximately 100
c) 1
d) Approximately 30

6. What country makes the solar panels seen on many homes in Gaza?
a) China
b) Israel
c) United States
d) None! It’s an open air concentration camp! You don’t have SOLAR PANELS in concentration camps you filthy Zionist!

7. How many Starbucks are in Gaza?
a) 1-5
b) More than 10
c) None, duh! It’s an open air concentration camp! You don’t have Starbucks in concentration camps you filthy Zionist!

8. What third party organization verifies reported Hamas death tolls?
a) The UN
b) Doctors Without Borders
c) Red Crescent
d) Jam`at Al-Fitrah, Gaza City chapter
e) No third party nation, nor organization is permitted to verify reported Hamas death tolls from the Hamas Ministry of Health

9. What country is the Hamas organization originally from?
a) Egypt, from the Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood)
b) Jordan
c) Gaza, Palestinian Territories
d) Israel
e) The West Bank, Palestinian Territories

10. What country do the leaders of Hamas live in?
a) Gaza, duh!
b) Israel
c) Lebanon
d) Syria
e) Qatar

11. Hamas leaders are:
a) Very poor
b) Middle class
c) Rich
d) Millionaires
e) BILLIONAIRES

12. How many children of Hamas leaders have been sent to fight and die as Shuhadah (Martyrs) against the Zionist Entity?

a) 1
b) 19
c) 99
d) 114
e) 0

13. What country controlled Gaza before 1967
a) Palestine
b) Israel
c) Egypt
d) Jordan

14. What year was the Palestinian-controlled Palestinian state destroyed by foreign oppressors?
a) 1948
b) 1967
c) 1917
d) There has never been a Palestinian state run by Palestinians, ever in history

15. What decade saw the emergence of “Palestinian” as a wide-spread ethnic identity?
a) 1010s CE
b) 1930s
c) 1940s
d) 1960s
e) There has always been a Palestinian ethnic identity, going back to Biblical times, in the Bronze Age!

16. How many plans for a Palestinian State, proposed by an array of nations and the United Nations have Hamas and other Palestinian leadership rejected?
a) 1
b) 12
c) All of them.

17. “From the River to the Sea” is from a poem referring to:
a) Freeing all peoples to live in harmony in the region
b) Purging the “Arab Land” of non-Arabs, particularly Jews
c) The tour route Jewish kids go on during Birthright

18. What is the name of the river referenced in the phrase “from the River to the Sea?”
Fill in the blank: ___________________________________________________

19. Who named the region “Palestine”
a) Israel
b) Rome and Britain
c) Iran
d) The Prophet Muhammad (sal)
e) Moses
f) Goliath
g) No one knows
h) Yasser Arafat

20. What does the Arabic word “Palestine” or “Filistine” literally mean?
a) Death to the Jews
b) Arabs Land
c) In Greek, the meaning is, “To Struggle” or “To Grapple” just as the Hebrew name “Israel” – as the ancient Philistines were in fact originally invaders from Greece.

21. What peoples are Palestinians descended from?
a) The Ancient Canaanites
b) The Ancient Philistines
c) Arab Colonizers from the Caliphate
d) Jews from the region who were converted to normative Islam by the Caliphate Colonizers, who in some cases raped them through forced marriage, and in others made Jews have second class “Dhimmi” citizenship, unless they converted to the Caliphate’s version of “Islam”
e) Generally, a mixture of both c and d according to all historical records

22. Within the State of Israel, what rights do Jews have that Palestinians do not have?
a) To ride at the front of the buses
b) To attend the same movie theaters and restaurants
c) Jews have free health care, while Arabs do not
d) Jews have free access to the Temple Mount, while Israeli police and IDF brutally prevent Arabs from this holy site.
e) Arabs can be IDed randomly, for no reason, by Israeli police, while Israeli Jews cannot be
f) The right of due process, arrest only with probable cause, and trial by jury
g) None of the above

23: Within the State of Israel, what rights to Arabs have that Jews do not:
a) Jews have mandatory military service in the IDF, while this is optional for Palestinians
b) Palestinians may ascend to and pray at the mosques (masjidayn) at the site of the former Temple, destroyed by the Ancient Romans.
c) Palestinians have no rights over Jews! This is an Apartheid State and if anyone has more rights than someone, it is the Jews over the Palestinians.
d) Palestinians are not permitted to build mosques in the State of Israel.

24: How many mosques (masaajid) are there in the State of Israel
a) 1
b) 2
c) 0
d) Approximately 10, and more are being demolished every day
e) There are over 400 mosques in the State of Israel, of which some 73 are located in Jerusalem, and more continue to be built every year.

ANSWERS:

B
A
C
B and D
B
B
A
E
A
E
E
E
C
D
D
C
B
N’har Ha’Yarden in Hebrew; Nahr al-‘Urdun in Arabic; Nahra Yurdnan, in Aramaic, commonly called the “Jordan” River in English.
B
C
E
G
B
E

Surprised by any of these answers? Help spread the word and see what people who have never been to Gaza have to say about this “Open Air Prison” the size of Los Angeles County, a veritable “Concentration Camp.”

About the Author

Dr. Micah Naziri was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. The son of a multitude of peoples, Micah has Ashkenazi Jewish, German, Native American and Melungeon Sefardic background. Micah has often said he has “one foot in the masjid and the other in shul.” Spiritually, Micah considers his understanding of Judaism to be “Judeo-Sufi,” or “Istislam” as described by Rabbeinu Bachya ibn Paqudah, in his Medieval Judeo-Arabic work “Guide to the Duties of the Hearts” (Al-Hidayat ila Fara`id al-Qulub), which quoted Muhammad and his son-in-law `Ali profusely – reference each as being “a great chasid” – while fully embracing the Torah as the framework of religious practice for the Jewish people. Dr. Naziri is the founder of the Martial Sufi Tariqah alternatively known as the Taliyah al-Mahdi (2001) and the Jamat al-Fitrah (2005), as well as Hashlamah Project Foundation (2012), and the White Rose Society “reboot” (2016). As the founder of the Hashlamah Project Foundation, Micah uses his education in Near Eastern Languages, Religions and historical models of building bridges between Jewish and Muslim communities, to help reconcile and unite Jews and Palestinian Muslims. He is a prolific author who has penned numerous academic articles, donating 100% of the proceeds to charities working towards social justice. He has also authored a science fiction novel fused with history and politics. His Master’s thesis on the religious milieu of Judaism in Muhammad’s life time, in Arabia, has been published by New Dawn Publications and is available on Amazon, with all proceeds similarly going to charity work. He has served as an editor for written works on Martial Arts and Eastern Medicine, transcribing and creating numerous titles for some of his teachers. He has himself authored several martial treatises using the pen name Seng, Hern-Heng – his Taoist lineage name given to him in 2006 by Huang, Chien-Liang. On that front, he is currently working on a new Taoist translation of the Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) based on the original Mawangdui manuscripts. Micah became well-known for activism confronting an anti-Muslim protester peacefully and reasoning with her outside of a Dublin, Ohio mosque. After nearly 45 minutes of debate and reconciliation, the woman embraced a Muslimah woman from the mosque, and went into the mosque with her and Micah for bagels, coffee and a tour of the house of worship. When she left, the Muslims there gave her a gift bag. Micah became somewhat infamous – loved by some, hated by others – not only for several high-profile, viral protests, but also for teaching free self-defense classes available to all interested parties from historically oppressed communities. Law enforcement, however, have without question been the most hostile to Naziri, as he became a regular protester against police brutality and murder of unarmed African-Americans. Micah has been equally as virally-known as an avowed anti-rape activist, who confronted the Stanford Rapist, Brock Turner at his home in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio, after he was released from his mere three-month jail sentence for raping an unconscious woman. Today, Micah continues activism in the areas surrounding Yellow Springs, and abroad, focusing on weekly protests and vigils supporting families of innocent, unarmed African-American youths, gunned down by local police or vigilante citizens attempting to hide behind gun culture and the Second Amendment, such as in the recent case of Victor Santana – who was recently arrested, charged with murder, and convicted after months of pressure put on Montgomery County prosecutor Matt Heck by protests Micah organized in conjunction with Donald Dominique of the New Black Panther Party. Micah is currently coordinating expanded work with international Hashlamah Project chapters and the Jam`at Al-Fitrah, the name used in the Palestinian Territories for the Sufi Martial Tariqah known as the Taliyah al-Mahdi. He is seeking grant-writing partnerships to grow the Hashlamah Project organization’s efforts – particularly in the State of Israel and the Palestinian Territories.