Thursday, January 06, 2011

Now We Have Koranic Rights

My Right Word

See in this Ma'an story:

A new settlement project in the Jerusalem community of Silwan will see the neighborhood split in two, a spokesman for the area's Land and Real Estate Defense Committee said on Thursday. The new development, set for 5 dunums of land some of which take up the Silwan valley, a fertile area southeast of the Old City walls known alternatively as the Valley of Jehosaphat, or Kideron Valley.
The area contains a spring, known as Job's Well, and variously identified as the Well of Nehemiah, and En Rogel. Its locally-known name comes from a passage in the Quran, saying a spring burst forth where God commanded Job to stamp his foot. The spring is estimated to be more than 100 meters deep.

Fakhri Abu Diab, the head of the committee, said a development plan for the zone included the construction of public buildings, a network of swimming pools and activity areas...


So, Biblical rights don't count but Koranic ones do???

P.S. But isn't Job's Well in Oman?

Or northeast of "Palestine"? (see: Arabian tradition places the scene of Job s sufferings in the Hauran at Deir Eiyub (Job's monastery) near Nawa. There is a spring there, which. he made to flow by striking the rock with his foot (Koran 38 41), and his tomb.)

Here:

[38:41] Remember our servant Job: he called upon his Lord, "The devil has afflicted me with hardship and pain."


[38:42] "Strike the ground with your foot. A spring will give you healing and a drink."


Talk about religion and politics and land.

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