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		<title>Latest IS Beheading Video: New Levels of Ritual Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 05:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dawn Perlmutter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A preview of what the Islamic State intends to do.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/article-kassig2-1116.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245352" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/article-kassig2-1116-413x350.jpg" alt="article-kassig2-1116" width="316" height="268" /></a>On November 16, 2014 the Islamic State released a <a href="http://reblop.com/breaking-video-isis-video-which-shows-beheadings-of-syrian-pilots-and-an-american-aid-worker/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">16-minute video</span></a> that displayed the severed head of 26-year-old former U.S. Army Ranger Peter Kassig. The video was characteristically different than the four previous Islamic State beheading videos of American and British hostages by the man known as Jihadi John. Although there have been many previous videos of mass beheadings by various al Qaeda-linked groups and Islamic State militants, this film is unique in content and quality. The Islamic State is the first terrorist group to film and stage a formalized ritual mass beheading. Shot in high definition, slickly produced and edited with Hollywood precision, 19 jihadists simultaneously behead 19 Syrian air force pilots and military officers in a ceremonial ritual execution.</p>
<p>Prior to the ritual mass murders the first half of the video is the usual propaganda that provides justification for the violence. The video opens with images of a map of the world graphically indicating the Islamic State’s goals of world domination. The title that appears in segments throughout reads &#8220;Although the disbelievers dislike it.&#8221; The first 4 ½ minutes is a history of the Islamic State with tributes to its fallen leaders beginning with Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the father of modern beheading. There are images of alleged victims of American airstrikes, including dead children to evoke hatred and clips of Islamic State battles to demonstrate that the jihadist militants are the heroic good guys. This is all a prelude to the featured segment.</p>
<p>At exactly 8 minutes, halfway through the video, the Islamic State ritual begins. Syrian military personnel each accompanied by a jihadist militant are marched through the desert, led by Jihadi John. The militants are dressed in camouflage uniforms with black head coverings but their faces are not concealed. The Syrian soldiers are dressed in dark blue. Jihadi John is dressed in his usual black uniform with his face covered. The ritual procession continues with each jihadist taking a black handled knife out of a wooden box that contains the ceremonial weapons. The footage is very dramatic and powerful, zooming in with slow motion visual effects and melodramatic sounds as each blade is taken from the box. The ritual procession continues until the jihadists file into a formal line with nine on each side of Jihad John and their victims on their knees in front of them.</p>
<p>The jihadists hold their knives in their right hand and their victims in their left. The ritual execution begins with a reading of offenses by Jihad John who also has a Syrian soldier in front of him. Jihad John begins the ritual execution by insulting and threatening President Obama:</p>
<blockquote><p>To Obama, the dog of Rome. Today we are slaughtering the soldiers of Bashar and tomorrow we will be slaughtering your soldiers. And with Allah&#8217;s permission we will break this final and last crusade. And the Islamic State will soon, like your puppet David Cameron said, begin to slaughter your people in your streets.</p></blockquote>
<p>He points the knife at the camera during the threats to America. Then there is silence as the camera pans over the faces of the men who know they are about to suffer a horrible death and the faces of the executioners who are about to pledge their allegiance in sacrificial blood. Dramatic images and sound effects portray the moment as a sacred solemn rite. The camera fades to black and appears with Jihad John signaling with one word for the ritual killing to commence.</p>
<p>The victims are immediately pushed to the ground, the camera keeps fading in and out of black in-between the cutting of throats, with the loud sound of hearts beating in the background. In one of the most inconceivable mass murders ever committed, 19 men are simultaneously beheaded at one time by 19 other men. The camera returns to focus on Jihadi John. Of the four previous videos this is the first time we ever see him actually kill anyone, and it is obvious that he has experience. As he is cutting through the carotid artery the sound of blood hitting the ground is exaggerated adding to the horror. Then the culmination of the ritual killing and the most disturbing act in the entire film occurs when Jihadi John pulls his knife out of the throat of his victim and looks directly at the camera while exposing the partially decapitated neck. The look in Jihadi Johns eyes is chilling; pure, unadulterated feral bloodlust. Then the camera in fast motion displays Jihad John pounce on his victim in a wild animal movement to finish the decapitation. The camera then pans over all of the soldiers completing their beheading and zooms in on a large stream of blood.</p>
<p>The ritual ends with each soldier holding his bloodstained knife standing above his sacrificial victim, whose heads are placed on the center of their backs. The camera then shows the faces of the jihadist executioners, all from different countries, a multicultural mass murder team. They are somber and serious, not laughing or desecrating the bodies, demonstrating how a warrior should behave during and after the kill. Then as the camera slowly pans over images of the beheaded men a voiceover from Islamic State&#8217;s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Arabic says, “Know that we have armies in Iraq and an army in Sham of hungry lions whose drink is blood and play is carnage.” After viewing the ritual murders that is an apt description.</p>
<p>The next segment, also titled &#8220;Although the believers dislike it,&#8221; demonstrates how many individuals and groups from around the world have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.  The final segment at the 14:30 mark opens with the disarticulated head of American Peter Kassig at the feet of Jihadi John. The camera pans up Jihad John’s body and he makes the following statement in English:</p>
<blockquote><p>This is Peter Edward Kassig, a U.S. citizen of your country. Peter, who fought against the Muslims in Iraq while serving as a soldier under the American army, doesn&#8217;t have much to say. His previous cell mates have already spoken on his behalf.&#8217; But we say to you Obama &#8230; you claim to have withdrawn from Iraq four years ago. We said to you then that you are liars, that you have not withdrawn and that if you had withdrawn that you would return, even if after some time.&#8217;You would return. Here you are. You have not withdrawn. Rather, you hid some of your forces behind your proxies and withdrawn the rest. Your forces will return, greater in number than they were before.&#8217;You will return and your proxies will not benefit you.&#8217;And we also remind you of the haunting words that our Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi told you. The spark has been lit here in Iraq and its heat will continue to intensify by Allah&#8217;s permission until it burns the crusader army in Dabiq. &#8216;And here we are, burying the first American crusader in Dabiq. Eagerly awaiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive.</p></blockquote>
<p>The video ends with the classic image of the jihadist carrying a large Islamic State flag across the land. Dabiq is a highly symbolic location which has historical and religious significance for Islam. The Islamic State has designated the place for the &#8220;Final Hour&#8221; where Armageddon will begin in an Islamic apocalyptic tradition that designates the West as modern-day Romans. That is why Jihadi John referred to president Obama as the dog of Rome.</p>
<p>This video goes way beyond just propaganda and psychological warfare &#8212; it is the documentation of an Islamist ceremonial ritual mass murder. For the jihadist executioners it was an initiation ritual, a somber rite of passage that grants them status and honor as Mujahideen warriors. As a recruitment tool it is a tour de force, a murder masterpiece that will resonate with young men around the world. This video will recruit more soldiers for the Islamic State, incite lone wolves and inspire more beheadings in Western countries than any of the others that preceded it. Unlike the unsophisticated beheading videos that involve laughter and body desecration that diminishes the sanctity of the act, it elevates beheading to a ceremonial rite of purity that distinguishes it from accusations of barbarism.</p>
<p>The video also functions as proof of death of Peter Kassig and proof of life of Jihadi John who reportedly had been injured in a U.S.-led air strike. Significantly there is no new victim displayed at the end of this video as in the prior four. That is because the Islamic State has successfully sent its message. They no longer need to do their own dirty work. They have inspired lone wolves all over the world to continue their beheading tradition. The threat in this video that &#8220;tomorrow they will be slaughtering American soldiers&#8221; should be taken very seriously. The Islamic State has made good on every threat to murder hostages. This video should be viewed as a preview of what they intend to do. For example, if the Islamic State breaches the American Embassy in Baghdad they are going to make the Fall of Saigon look like a garden party. Instead of Syrian pilots it will be American Marines ritually murdered and filmed.</p>
<p>President Obama’s response was that this incident was &#8220;pure evil by a terrorist group.&#8221; How large does the Parents of Beheaded Americans Club have to get before President Obama will use the words &#8220;Islamic terrorists&#8221;? There should be no doubt that these murders are done in the name of Islam and for the honor of the Prophet Muhammad, whom they are emulating. Beheadings are ritual expressions of authentic Islam and the Islamic State has turned them into Hollywood blockbusters.</p>
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		<title>Obama and the Definition of &#8216;Islamic&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 05:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fatal flaw in the administration's strategy of mainstreaming radical political Islam. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obama.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244454" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obama-384x350.jpg" alt="obama" width="298" height="272" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-World-Obama-and-the-definition-of-Islamic-380696">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">In his speech on September 11 announcing that the US would commence limited operations against Islamic State, US President Barack Obama insisted, “ISIL, [i.e. Islamic State] is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have been Muslim.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To be sure, it is hard to see how any human faith can countenance IS’s actions. For the past several months, on a daily basis, new videos appear of IS fighters proudly, openly and wantonly committing crimes against humanity. This week for instance, a video emerged of an IS slave market in Raqqah, Syria, where women and girls are sold as sex slaves to IS fighters.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Despite the glaring contradiction between divinity and monstrosity, the fact is that IS justifies every single one of its atrocities with verses from the Koran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">IS referred to its sex slave market in Raqqah for instance as the “Booty Market&#8230; for what your right hands possess.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The phrase “what your right hands possess” is a Koranic verse (4:3) that permits the sexual enslavement of women and girls by Muslim men.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Whether it is mainstream Islamic jurisprudence or not to embrace the enslavement of women and girls as concubines is not a question that Obama – or any US leader for that matter – is equipped to answer. And yet, Obama spoke with absolute certainty when he claimed that IS is not Islamic.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama speaks with similar conviction whenever he refers to Iran as “The Islamic Republic of Iran.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama’s consistent deference to the Iranian regime, exposed by his studious use of the regime’s name for itself whenever he discusses Iran indicates that at a minimum, he is willing to accept the regime’s claim that it is an Islamic regime. In other words, he is willing to accept that everything about the Iranian regime is authentic Islam.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And that the Islamic Republic then, in keeping with his assertion that “no religion condones the killing of innocents,” similarly does not condone the killing of innocents.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Of course, there is a problem here. In fact, there are two problems here.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, in its treatment of its own people, the Iranian regime condones and actively engages in the killing of innocents, the vast majority of whom are Muslims. The Islamic regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran invokes the Koran to justify its killing.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Likewise, the political imprisonment, torture and general repression of Iranians from all faiths are justified in the name of Islam.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Consider two recent examples.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On October 25, 27-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged for allegedly killing a man who was trying to rape her. Jabbari was imprisoned for seven years prior to her execution.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Although her suffering was a cause celebre for advocates of human rights in Iran, the regime didn’t care. In contempt of the international community, it murdered her a week ago.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As her attorney Mohammed Mostataei explained at a conference held by UN Watch in Geneva last week, Jabbari was tried under Islamic law – the law of the land in the Islamic Republic of Iran. And under Islamic sharia law, intent in adjudication of criminal offenses is irrelevant. As a consequence, once regime inquisitors force a person to confess, he or she is doomed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Forced confessions are the stock in trade for Iranian investigators.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last month, 25 women in Isfahan, Iran’s tourist capital, were reportedly victims of acid attacks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The women had acid thrown in their faces while they were driving in their cars.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The public immediately suspected that they were targeted because their faces were not covered sufficiently to satisfy Islamic goon squads that drive around the city seeking – with the tacit if not open support of the regime – to terrorize the public into obeying their repressive, inhumane interpretation of Islam.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On October 22, human rights activists in Iran held demonstrations against the acid attacks outside the judiciary building in Isfahan and outside the Iranian parliament in Tehran. In both instances, protesters insisted that there is no difference between the repression inherent in the radical Islam propagated by IS and that practiced by the Iranian regime.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In both cities, demonstrators were attacked by regime forces with tear gas. Many were arrested.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">After the acid attacks were first reported, the Iranian parliament passed measures to strengthen the authority of the regime’s Basij shock troop squads to enforce repressive, misogynist Islamic dress codes on women and enforce other socially repressive aspects of the regime’s Islam.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Baron Alexander Carile of Barriew, a member of the British House of Lords and expert on terrorism explained last Friday in The Washington Times, “In essence, the regime responded to the acid attacks that have seriously injured 25 people so far by legitimizing the motives of their attackers.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to the UN, Iran executed 852 Iranians for various offenses from July 2013 through June 2014.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This of course is just the tip of the iceberg. The vast majority of the regime’s killing is carried out by its proxies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">IS’s persecution of those who have had the misfortune to fall under its control is a blight on the human race. And so is the persecution committed by Iran’s puppets – the Assad regime in Syria, and its Lebanese terror army Hezbollah.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since the Syrian civil war began three years ago, the Iranian-controlled regime has killed somewhere between 120,000 and 200,000 people.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, nearly 10,000 of the dead are children, another 6,000 are women. Other groups place the number much higher.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">More than 2.14 million Syrians are now refugees in neighboring countries. Half of the refugees are children. Another 4.25 million Syrians are internally displaced.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If it hadn’t been for Iran’s support for the regime, the vast majority of the victims of Syria’s civil war would still be alive and living in their homes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Thanks to Iran and its Hezbollah army, Lebanon is on the brink of sharing Syria’s fate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hezbollah has played a major role in the war in Syria, and over the years, with Iran’s total backing, it has murdered thousands of people in Lebanon, Israel and throughout the world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hezbollah has trained sister Iranian supported or commanded terrorist groups like Islamic Jihad and Hamas. With the blessing, and often acting on direct orders from the Islamic Republic, these groups have killed hundreds of innocents. Like Hezbollah, Assad and the mullahs in Tehran, they have also repressed their own people in the name of their Islamic devotion.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to Obama and his insistence that IS is not Islamic, but the Iranian regime is Islamic. How are we to understand this seeming anomaly? Throughout his tenure in office, Obama has gone out of his way to mainstream Muslim extremists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This has taken the form of granting senior appointments to people aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood. For instance, amid a Congressional investigation into suspected leaks, Mohamed Elibiary, a senior fellow at the US Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council, resigned his position.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Just before his resignation, Elibiary tweeted that the rise of the caliphate is “inevitable.” In 2004 he spoke at a conference in Dallas celebrating the legacy of Iranian dictator Ayatollah Khomeini. As Robert Spencer has reported, the conference was titled, “A Tribute to a Great Islamic Visionary.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, Obama had befriended radical Islamic leaders who openly support terrorism, including Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And of course, as we see more and more clearly each day, the centerpiece of Obama’s foreign policy has been appeasing the Islamic Republic of Iran in the hope of achieving détente with the nuclear weapons pursuing state sponsor of terrorism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The likes of IS, with its love of the video camera, discredit Obama’s narrative that radical, terror- supporting Muslims are peaceful. Since IS is openly evil, it is un-Islamic.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On the other hand, despite the fact that it is nearly as barbaric as IS, the Iranian regime is Islamic, because as far as Obama is concerned, it is good. And it is good because he wants to make a deal with the mullahs.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, Obama is neither an expert on Islam, nor a man moved by moral indignation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">He opposes IS because IS makes it hard for him to defend Islam from bad public relations. And he coos about the “Islamic Republic of Iran” because he is dedicated to his mission of whitewashing and mainstreaming the regime born of an Islamic revolution.</span></p>
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		<title>Kerry, Qatar and the Poisonous Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's alarming alliance with jihad supporters -- and how it undermines the cause against the Islamic State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243919" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n2-450x335.jpg" alt="132156075_21n" width="305" height="227" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Kerry-Qatar-and-the-poisonous-tree-379979">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It would be interesting to know which Arab leaders are telling US Secretary of State John Kerry that the absence of peace between Israel and the Palestinians is “a cause of recruitment” to Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Is that something he is hearing from Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani? The Qatari leader, whose kingdom has been cited by the US Treasury Department as a major funder of Islamic State (IS), is certainly one of Kerry’s favorite regional leaders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If Thani did blame Israel for the rise of IS, then his statement would constitute yet another instance of the double game Qatar has been playing with the Americans. On the one hand, the regime is financing jihad, and other the other hand, it pretends to side with the West against the jihad that it is funding.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is certainly the case in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to an investigative report published Friday in Yisrael Hayom, Qatar is financing the violence in the capital. Veteran Jerusalem affairs reporter Nadav Shragai wrote that the Islamic rioters who daily attack Jewish visitors and police forces on the Temple Mount are paid by Qatar through the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Qatari government and other Islamic funds are transferring vast sums of money to the Islamic Movement’s radical northern branch headed by Sheikh Ra’ed Salah. The Islamic Movement in turn is paying thousands of shekels every month to hundreds of women and men, mainly Muslim Israeli citizens, who call themselves the Murbitat.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Murbitat presents itself as an Islamic prayer group, but according to Shragai, the group’s job is to harass Jews and police on the Temple Mount. They scream and curse at Jewish visitors and in recent months have escalated their violence against them, and their police escorts. These violent attacks include assaults with rocks, firebombs and firecrackers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To prevent the police from blocking their entry to the Mount, members of the Murbitat enter the mosques in times of relative calm and then remain there for weeks at a time. The women are used as well to smuggle firecrackers and other weaponry onto the Temple Mount by hiding them in their burkas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a report published Sunday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Palestinian affairs researcher Pinchas Inbari explained the goals of the violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The riots and assaults on the Temple Mount have two goals. First, they aim to incite the Islamic world against Israel and return attention to the Palestinians. And second, they seek to destabilize the regimes in Egypt and Jordan.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Regarding the goal of galvanizing support for jihad by attacking Israel, Inbari recalled how immediately after longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential cleric, Qatar-based Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, gave a speech at a mass rally in Cairo and called for the Muslims to march on Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The rally was organized by the Muslim Brotherhood and attended by two million people. It marked the first time that Qaradawi had returned to Egypt since he was forced to flee in the 1960s for his support for jihad.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From Doha, Qaradawi has become the most influential cleric on the regime-controlled Al Jazeera satellite network. As such, he has become the most important Islamic cleric in the Sunni Islamic world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Inbari noted, following his speech in Cairo Qaradawi authored a book titled </span><em style="color: #000000;">Jerusalem: The Problem of Every Muslim</em><span style="color: #000000;">, in which he restated his call for an Islamic conquest of the city.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Saleh, who is extremely close to Qaradawi, stated that “Jerusalem is the capital of the imminently approaching Islamic Caliphate.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, the Palestinians and their Qatari financiers are seeking to galvanize the forces of global jihad, including IS, to view the Palestinian war against Israel and the Jews as the centerpiece of the jihad.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">These efforts are backed by both Fatah and Hamas, who are competing for Qatari money. Fatah chief and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas resonated the claims of the most radical jihadists when earlier this month he referred to Jews on the Temple Mount as “herds of cattle,” and called on Muslims to attack them for they “desecrate” the holy site simply by being there.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Doha-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal called on the Palestinians “to defend Jerusalem and al-Aksa, and on the Muslim nation to send a painful message of rage to the world.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As to the goal of using the violence on the Temple Mount to destabilize Egypt and Jordan, Inbari noted that efforts to intensify violence in Jerusalem have grown since the Egyptian military overthrew Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood regime in July 2013. “Presumably,” Inbari argues, “Qatar tried indirectly to help the Brotherhood in Egypt by inspiring support for them on the Jerusalem issue.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Jordanian regime even more acutely is threatened by the violence on the Temple Mount. Israel recognized Jordan as the custodian of the Temple Mount in its peace treaty with the Hashemite Kingdom. The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has capitalized on the violence on the Temple Mount to condemn the regime for what it claims is its failure to protect al-Aksa from the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contending with the violence in Judaism’s holiest site, and throughout its capital city, the Israeli government is caught in a trap.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While telling their fellow Muslims that they must wage a jihad for Jerusalem, Fatah and Hamas as well as the Israeli Islamic Movement tell Western leaders that their violence against Jews in the city owes to actions that Israel has taken to safeguard the lives and civil rights of Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To appease these specific purported grievances, the Palestinians demand that Israel deny protection and civil rights to Jews by among other things, denying Jews the freedom to visit the Temple Mount and denying Jews property rights in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than recognize that they are being played by double-speaking Palestinians and their jihadist supporters, Washington and Brussels are going along with their deceit. Both the Obama administration and the EU firmly side with the Palestinian demand that Jews be denied civil rights in Jerusalem. Both have condemned and threatened Israel for not preventing Jews from lawfully purchasing homes in Silwan and for allowing contractors to build homes for Jews in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This places the Israeli government in an impossible position. It is being attacked by jihadist forces who seek its destruction. It is told by Washington and Europe that if it doesn’t appease those who cannot be appeased by denying protection and civil rights to Jews, then it will lose whatever is left of its good relations with the US and Europe.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to Kerry’s claim that Arab leaders are blaming Israel for the rise of Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As IS forces draw closer to Baghdad and expand their control over Anbar Province in Iraq, it is becoming more and more apparent that the US-led campaign against the terrorist army is failing.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To a significant degree, Washington’s inability to forge a coherent and feasible strategy for containing and defeating IS owes to its refusal to understand the nature of the enemy and its goals.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What we see in Qatar’s financing of the violence on the Temple Mount is that the same forces that are financing IS are financing the violence against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of IS is the establishment of a global Islamic empire. The first targets on its target list are Sunni Mus &#8211; lim states that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of the Islamic violence on the Temple Mount and throughout Jerusalem is to overthrow regional regimes that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood while igniting a pan-Islamic war against the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By insinuating that Israel is to blame for IS’s rise to power, Kerry was not simply blaming the victim. He was empowering the aggressor.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For the West to defeat IS, it first needs to recognize that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right when he said at the UN last month that IS and Hamas – and increasingly Qatari-financed Fatah – are “branches of the same poisonous tree.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With his announcement Monday that the government had approved the construction of 1,250 new housing units in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Netanyahu showed that Israel prefers freedom and security to good relations with Washington and Brussels.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Washington and Brussels need understand that by forcing Israel to make that choice, they are hurting themselves and the cause of their own freedom and security far more than they are harming Israel.</span></p>
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