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During the conference, which took place in the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, Prof. Sharon warned against the attitude of Islam to history and geography.

“The basic attitude [of Islam] is that all history is, in fact, Islamic history,” Sharon told Arutz Sheva. “That means that all the major figures of history are Muslims, from Adam down to our own time.”

Sharon said that this attitude assumes that any Jewish or Christian religious figure, be it the Jewish Kings David or Solomon and even the Christian Jesus, is in fact a Muslim figure, a fact that essentially dismisses any Jewish or Christian claim that is faith-based.

According to the Muslims, says Sharon, “Since the creation of the world there has been only one religion and that is the religion of Islam. So if anybody says, for example, that there is a place connected with Solomon and that’s the place where Solomon’s Temple stood, a true Muslim would tell you: ‘Yes, you’re absolutely right, but don’t forget that Solomon was a Muslim.’”

He added, “You can understand that through Islamization of history you’ve got Islamization of geography. Anywhere that was connected with these prophets, which were all Muslims [according to Islamic attitude], becomes Muslim territory.”

Sharon said that from Islam’s point of view, their appearance in history was that of a liberator, that is to liberate all the Muslim areas, according to their belief, that Jews or Christians took over.

“There is no Islamic occupation,” he said. “If somebody occupied anything, it will always be somebody else, not the Muslims. There’s no Islamic occupation, there’s only Islamic liberation.”

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