Just a few days ago we brought you news of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an solidarity hand gesture with Muslim Brotherhood Islamic demonstrators.
He was using the hand sign of a new movement called “R4BIA” which has emerged in a lightening fast fashion as you can read about in this excellent Front Page article from a few days ago, and that 4 finger salute that Erdo?an is giving is the symbol of the movement that their very professional PR firm has come up with.
Well walking through the Old City in Jerusalem tonight, imagine my surprise seeing the following T-Shirt already for sale:
Let’s review what this symbol stands for:
R4BIA is a symbol of freedom
R4BIA is the birth of a new movement for freedom and justice
R4BIA is the birth of a new world
R4BIA is the return of Muslims to world stage
R4BIA means justice, freedom and conscience
R4BIA is the place where the so-called values of the West collapsed
R4BIA means the Egyptian heroes who became free by dying
R4BIA is Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the whole geography of Islam
R4BIA is the name of those who wake all the Islamic world with their death
R4BIA is the place of people who show the death is a revival
R4BIA is our daughter Asma
R4BIA is the grandchildren of Hasan Al Banna
R4BIA is the new name of our children who will change the world
R4BIA is a new breath to humanity
R4BIA is justice for everyone against rotten Western values
R4BIA is the soul of a free man and a free woman
R4BIA is the tear, the sadness, the sobbing
R4BIA is the joy, the happiness, the good news
R4BIA is the child, the woman, the young, the old
R4BIA is a man like a man
R4BIA is straight as an Aleef, humble as Waw
R4BIA is a pure martyrdom
R4BIA is a new world
R4BIA is Ummah
R4BIA is solidarity, togetherness, brotherhood
R4BIA is unification of Islamic World
R4BIA is the shame of the accomplice of the massacres
R4BIA is the end of munafiqeen who support the massacres
R4BIA is the end of oil sheikhs
R4BIA is the end of capitalists
R4BIA is the end of Zionists
R4BIA is the end of immoral press
RABIA is the arena of martyrdom
R4BIA is the mother of martyrs
R4BIA is a smiling martyrdom
Meanwhile in better news, it started raining, and raining pretty hard as I left Jerusalem. That’s significant. Succoth (the festival we celebrate now by eating in a booth with a flimsy palm roof) traditionally marks the first rain. And somehow, only in Israel, of course, the first rain really does come during Succoth. But only in Israel does this Jewish festival mean something. But of course, Judaism can be separated from Israel, right?
