User:Marokwitz/Muslim Zionism
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Muslim Zionism, in its broadest sense, is support among some Muslims of self-determination of the Jewish people and a sovereign, Jewish national homeland. Specifically this may refer to the belief by some Muslims that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and hence the establishment of the State of Israel, is in accordance with teachings of Islam.
Notable Muslims who publicly supported Zionism include Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a self-described former member of a terror organization and current Islamic thinker and reformer,[1] Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Director of the Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community,[2][3] and Tashbih Sayyed, a Pakistani-American scholar, journalist, and author,[4] and Salah Choudhury, a Muslim Bangladeshi journalist and editor of Weekly Blitz newspaper.