Following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Subhi Al-Yaziji, dean of Koranic studies at the Islamic University of Gaza; he is also a former head of the Palestinian Islamic Scholars Union in the Gaza Strip and former department head at the Ministry of Religious Endowments.
The interview aired on Al-Aqsa TV on May 25, 2012:
Subhi Al-Yaziji: "The conquest of Andalusia (i.e. Spain) is an old dream, something Muslims proudly hope for and will continue to hope for in the future.
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"We place our hopes in Allah and trust that the day will come when our triumph will not be restricted to Palestine.
"Our hopes go beyond that – to raise the banner of the Caliphate over the Vatican, the 'Rome' of today, in accordance with the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad: 'Constantinople shall be conquered, and then Rome.'" [...]
