Earlier this month, I posted how Dr Ramy Abdu, an Assistant Professor of Law and Finance and founder and Chairman of Euromed Monitor (an independent, nonprofit organization “for the protection of human rights”) attacked some, including my good friend Thani Al Shirawi. Their crime was having tea with the son of the late Rabbi Menachem Froman, who Abdu alleged “recorded one of the most famous violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque” – holding a marriage ceremony for his son inside during which he drank alcohol.
Of course, it was a pernicious libel as I demonstrated in my post.
Now Abdu has a real life mosque desecration to speak out against.
A Saturday night dance party by Palestinians at a West Bank Muslim holy site featuring alcohol and techno music has elicited condemnation from across the Palestinian political spectrum.
Videos from the Nabi Musa mosque between Jerusalem and Jericho showed a rave held at the scene, featuring young Palestinians and Arab Israelis dancing and drinking.
Prominent Palestinian disc jockey (DJ) Sama Abd al-Hadi led the festivities. Abd al-Hadi, originally from Ramallah, is considered a pioneering artist in the budding Palestinian electronic music scene, as well as one of the first female DJs in an overwhelmingly male-dominated field.
Abd al-Hadi was arrested Sunday night by Palestinian Authority police, the Kan public broadcaster reported, citing Palestinian sources.
The festivities appeared to have alcohol and men and women dancing together at the Muslim holy site. Most forms of Islam forbid drinking alcohol, and mixed dancing is also controversial in many parts of conservative Palestinian society.
A number of other Palestinians, apparently angered by what they considered to be the desecration of the site, arrived and confronted them. The partygoers told the newcomers that they had received permission from the Palestinian Authority Tourism Ministry in Ramallah to hold the event.
“Whisky! Alcohol! Women! Tourism Ministry, this isn’t religious morals. In fact, these aren’t morals,” one of the angry demonstrators said as he videotaped the site with his phone.
I am sure you’ll be as shocked as I am that we have not heard a peep about this from Abdu as of the time of this post.
Funny, that.
