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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Why are the Islamic jihad groups fighting against Israel? Why do they think that committing the dismaying actions we saw in Israel on Saturday is the right, and indeed the righteous, thing to do?
As the death toll from Saturday’s jihad massacres in Israel continues to mount, the world looks on in horror at the atrocities that were committed — the wanton massacre of people at a peace concert, the beheaded babies, and so much more. It is hard for Americans and Europeans to fathom how or why any human beings would do such things.
Now, however, two jihad groups, including the one that was behind the massacres, Hamas, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, have issued statements that clarify exactly what they think they’re doing. As you might expect, they both make for chilling reading.
The indispensable Palestinian Media Watch reported Monday that “a Telegram channel associated with Fatah’s military wing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, is calling on Palestinians to slaughter Jews who they term ‘apes and pigs.’” That’s actually a reference to the Islamic holy book, the Qur’an, which, in three separate passages, refers to Allah punishing Sabbath-breaking Jews by transforming them into apes and pigs (2:53-65; 5:59-60; 7:166).
Fatah’s exhortation to jihad also includes this: “Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, and he will lay them low and give you victory over them, and he will heal the hearts of people who are believers.” That also is from the Qur’an (9:14) and expresses one of the biggest differences between Judaism and Christianity on the one hand and Islam on the other. While both the Jewish (Deuteronomy 32:35) and Christian (Romans 12:19) traditions say that vengeance for wrongdoing is up to God, and not for any individual to pursue, the Qur’an tells Muslims that they are to be the executors of the wrath of Allah: he will punish errant human beings by the hands of the followers of Muhammad.
This is how the jihadis who killed Israeli civilians wholesale on Saturday could do so while believing they were doing nothing less than carrying out the will of the one and only God. They believe those whom they killed to be enemies of Allah and the Muslims, and consequently to have deserved everything they got, and more.
Fatah’s communiqué is thus packed with Qur’anic references, as if to emphasize that as far as Muslims are concerned, the murder of Israeli civilians is a holy struggle. That’s why Muslims across the world have joyfully celebrated the attacks instead of expressing revulsion at their bloody excesses. So when Fatah calls upon Muslims to “strike the sons of apes of pigs, kill everyone who is a settler, slaughter everyone who is Israeli,” it not only has no qualms about issuing such a broad-based call for murder but knows this call will resonate with many other believers throughout the world.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif hailed the beginning of what he called “Operation Al-Aqsa Deluge.” He said that the massacres of that day were just the “first strike,” and that much more was coming. Deif declared: “I say to the masses of the people and our nation, and to the free people of the world: Today, the wrath of Al-Aqsa has exploded – the rage of our people, our nation, and the free people of the world. I say to our pure mujahideen: This is the day that you make this criminal enemy understand that its time is up. ‘Kill them wherever you may find them.’” That also was a quotation from the Qur’an (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5).
These documents of Hamas and Fatah are nothing new. Hamas and its allies always speak of their conflict with Israel in Islamic theological terms; yet this is the one aspect of the conflict that Western policymakers never take into consideration.
Chief Mac says
Leave no Islamofascist breathing. Destroy them and everything they have ever had
Do not stop no matter what
Jeff Bargholz says
Then shit on what’s left and plant trees.
Atikva says
There is no need to lower ourselves to their level, we are civiized, they aren’t. This is war. We eliminate them, then we go home, mourn and start rebuilding.
Jeff Bargholz says
We can mourn our dead and the dead jews but not theirs.
I like you but I don’t care about lowering myself.
Atikva says
I certainly didn’t think of these terrorists and their helpers when I talked about mourning! Actually, since they love death so much, I consider it a mitzvah to fulfull their wish.
Kasandra says
The shameful sanitization of Islam by our institutions, and most particularly by our academic and media institutions, has been going on for decades. I suspect many members of these institutions are, even today, searching for a motive for last Saturday’s atrocities as they do every time a Moslem yelling “Allahu Akbar” plows his car into a crowd of pedestrians or shoots up a nightclub. And they never seen to find it.
Beez says
Jesus never condemned war, and he never condemned soldiers, not even those who crucified him. He seemed to accept war as part of the human condition. He spoke of God’s peace, “shalom,” which is not the absence of war. He condemned greed, avarice, lust, envy, deceit, arrogance, deceit and pride.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
American Standard Version
3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every [a]purpose under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Cheryl Danver says
A soldier is acting under the orders of his government, and the government (whether good or evil) is still given authority by God. And imbued in that authority is the right to take a life (“he does not bear the sword in vain”).
Cornelius was a Centurion, which meant he had to kill at times, or direct men to do so, even under the authority of Pagan Rome. Yet he was embraced into the Church.
Leftist Christians who claim the death penalty is wrong or that Governments don’t have the right to go to war evidently don’t believe the Bible.
Matt C. says
The way the paragraph was worded, insinuates and suggests that the Lord Jesus Christ was just a man and He showed up as simply a man, a good man, to be an example, and show mankind the way, of peace. If He did teach that, He was teaching that to the “little flock (Israel) for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. The kingdom of heaven being the literal, physical, Davidic kingdom on earth. Which will be established after this dispensation of grace concludes and after Daniel’s 70th week runs its course. The Lord Jesus earthly ministry was to Israel, to fulfill the five mandates of the Davidic covenant: Redeemer, Deliverer, Avenger, King, Blesser. He has only fulfilled the first mandate. Again though, He did not come simply to show what a good and wise man He was. He is, “I Am,” and He came to be “…manifest to Israel,” John 1:31. That, in fact, He gave Himself a ransom for all, was revealed until the Lord told the apostle Paul. God’s spokesman in this dispensation of grace.
Una Salus says
Steve says
Douglas Murray said it all. A wall, a border and huge military apparatus exists not to “oppress” Palestinians, it exists to keep Palestinians from slaughtering Jews en masse. And the chattering classes, the pseudo intellectuals and celebrities are on the side of Hamas- the bien pensant think it’s “progressive”, “chic” and “daring”.
Mark Sochor says
Palestinian is a 20th century construct. They are Arabs. Jews have lived in Judah for 4,000 years. Arab claims are Muslim claims. World domination is their aim.
jd says
Liberals have spent years canceling and ostracizing us. It is time we do the same to them. They will be the death of us all.
Beez says
Expel Tlaib, Omar, et al. from Congress.
Arye ben-Shaoul says
I would say Islamic terrorists are way more honest than Western Leaders, who are like parrots, repeat time after time that Islamic murderers, rapists, baby killers don’t represent Islam. Well, to help they pushing this bullshit more persuasively, I decided to help. Here is a few topics they have to mention when whitewashing Islamic terror.
a. Islamic terror never represents Islam.
b. Koran and Hadith don’t represent Islam.
c. None of teachings by Islamic clerics represents Islam
d. Muhammad crimes in the name of Islam and Allah don’t represent Islam
e. (my favourite and the most important) Islam doesn’t represent Islam.
roberta says
I wonder if these morons have been doped up on Captagon like the ISIS terrorist were.
According to numerous accounts, Captagon has become immensely popular with the fighters of the Islamic State. The Washington Post says Captagon is “fueling Syria’s war and turning fighters into superhuman soldiers.”1 According to other reports, the gunmen in the terrorist attack on Paris last November had used the pills, which might explain what some observers described as their relentless, “zombie-like” focus during the assault.2 A series of alarming news stories have described the drug as a form of “chemical courage,”3 instilling those who take it with incredible strength and endurance, and the coldly robotic, fearless detachment that allows them to engage in a murderous rampage.
I dont really have to wonder, I already know.
Atikva says
ISIS left one of their flags in the site of the carnage at the peace festival in the Negev.
Jeff Bargholz says
Captagon is fentanyl, yes?
I’m not surprised that cowardly terrorists would take that stuff.
CowboyUp says
It’s an amphetamine molecule linked with a theophylline molecule., which makes it a milder form of amphetamine, with less rise in blood pressure. There are a lot of counterfeits going around the ME, that are amphetamines, methamphetamines, and caffeine, because they’re cheaper and easier to make.
CowboyUp says
It’s a milder form of amphetamine, with less rise in blood pressure. There are a lot of counterfeits going around the ME, that are amphetamines, methamphetamines, and caffeine, because they’re cheaper and easier to make. They’re basically meth heads.
roberta says
Forgot the quotation marks. Copy and pasted that off of a search.
Mark Sochor says
And this has been true of Islam for 1,500 years. About time some of the morons in the West heard about it. Letting millions of Muslims to simply stroll in all over the world by feckless traitors to civilization didn’t help. Lying to us about who they are is part of their creed. This past week the mask is being pulled off. God help us.
SFTOBEY says
In reality it’s about 1,400 years, but otherwise I agree with you.
TRex says
Until my dying day there will be a huge, flashing “WTF?!” sign in my mind’s eye. On 9/11/01 we were sent a clear message from the muslim world. The apologists tried to couch it as some protest over financial bullshit, thereby masking the true intent of the attack. “Dubya”, the stupid, vowed to avenge the carnage. Then, lo and behold, he threw the doors wide open to the cretins who danced in streets and chanted “death to the infidels”. I have heard there have been 3 million of these closeted terrorists allowed into the US since then.(WTF?) The same has happened across much of Europe due to their failing welfare systems. I will never understand (WTF?) why a cult that has vowed to wipe out all non-believers has been welcomed with open arms to bring their ideological hatred right into the bosom of its sworn enemies.(WTF?) I have yet to hear one valid explanation of why this is a good idea given the diametrically opposing worldviews in play.(WTF?!) The West has become the personification of Neville Chamberlain.
TRex says
I forget to mention, then 7 years after the ignored “wake up call” of 9/11, we elected a guy named OBAMA.(WTF!)
Beez says
To be fair, he lied about his identity and intentions.
Cheryl Danver says
It doesn’t help that we have morons on both the Left and the Right claiming that the CIA blew up the twin towers and the Muslims were only “patsies”. Never mind that they took full credit for it in the beginning and celebrated all over the World.
We have some people under the tent of “Conservatism” (obviously the freak show part of the tent) who claim that Islam isn’t the real threat – it’s the Jews. Admittedly there are a lot of Jews drawn to Leftist politics, but they are still outnumbered by Gentiles and contrary to what these people say, there ARE Jews who are not Leftists, and some are even Conservative politically.
These people foolishly claim that Jews only care about Israel, while they want open borders for the U.S. Never mind that the U.S. is Israel’s only true ally, and if the U.S. is overrun by Muslims and/or immigrants who support the Left, Israel will no longer have help from the U.S. Anyone who wants open borders for the U.S. clearly does not care about Israel.
Some “Conservatives” are still downplaying these atrocities or imply that Israel did this to their own people to drag the U.S. into a War. The hatred for Jews in some on the Right is very clear.
Jello says
By their words you shall know them.
Kit_Jefferson says
History has more than it’s share of cults that indoctrinate people to do the bidding of one individual who claims they’ve received the word of “God” on some hill illuminated by lightning, in some desert cave where they were visited by an archangel or received a vision along with a set of golden tablets. Muhammed was a piker who created his cult with revenge in mind against those who had slighted him. What better way to obtain power than to state you are a messenger of the Almighty and to create a litany condemning to death your enemies. That is Islam.
Cheryl Danver says
Communism is one of the biggest Death Cults there is. Humans will use any excuse to go on a murderous, pillaging rampage, and God is just one excuse use. Another excuse is “Liberation”, which the Left always claims their goal is. How many Leftist “Peace Activists” support the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War?
Humans in reality, only go to war for two reasons: Power (either over others or over their own lives) and Possession (land, resources). Everything else…….patriotism, freedom, religion….is just an excuse. A third reason might be ‘self defense’ which is absolutely justified under the right conditions.
Degüello says
Any group that hates dogs, singing and puts their women in sacks is not worth my thoughts.
goro says
So if I acted like that, men in white coats stop me on the street and take me away to an asylum in an ambulance. Mormon ranch hands break into my home at night and carry me away to a work farm with other delinquents.
Why do they get a pass? They’re brown? Great replacement. They are a lot of them? Coward leaders. And aren’t there more of us?
I’m waiting for Merrick Garland to swoop in and arrest everyone running for their lives on civil rights violations, so he can go back to his cockroach rich perverted friends and slobber over it while they hump each other’s legs.
Bloated John Kirby and quivering Jake Sullivan mount a John Adams Johnny Cochran legal defense when it comes to brown baby beheaders. But to people who want to make America great again, can’t imprison them fast enough. Maybe I should chop up some children our burn up some old folks.
Juan Williams says he doesn’t know how this movement can be defeated. I have a perfect solution, one where I can provide a front row demonstration to anyone. Take up the crown of hell. Bury them all. Let me crown one queen after another and after another with a bullet in the head as their crown.
It is time to rethink mutually assured destruction. Clear the board. Let the birds fly. They say 20 US cities will go up. It can’t happen fast enough. The domestic enemies as well as the foreign all go bye bye.
Don’t blame me. Blame the past 30 years. You did this.
SPURWING PLOVER says
We have a Traitor in the Whitehouse selling out to the enemy and the DNC and NYT don’t day a thing
Beez says
A traitor occupied the WH for 8 years, and the DNC & “MSM” affirmatively supported him.
RS says
All things are coming together as Jesus predicted. When God made this earth and everything in it, God saw everything he made was good. Genesis 1:31. The Fall of man came from the serpent who was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord had made. The serpent the great deceiver that caused man to sin., Revelation 12:9.
The Serpent knows he has a short time on this earth….and he is ravishing it.
Fullfillment of scripture. Signs of the End of the Age on the Mount of Olives. Matthew 24:1-9.
“Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name claiming, “I am the Christ, and deceive many. (We are in the Era of Deception now.)
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. (The sufferings that would precede the coming of the Messiah.) Then you will be persecuted and hated by all nations because of me.
All prophecy is being fulfilled, just as foretold.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Those who think Islam is the Religion of Peace might want to read the Koran and find out the truth they wont get from their Collage Classes
CowboyUp says
The original fatah charter, the hezzbolla charter, and the hamas charter makes it clear there can be no peace as long as they exist. The fakestinians have to be made to fear Israeli retaliation so much that they stop their fellow fakestinians from attacking Israelis. That’s going to take a lot of dead fakestinians, like it did with the Germans and Japanese.