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For decades, Hamas was not popular in Egypt. It was seen, rightly, as the local branch, in “Palestine,” of the Muslim Brotherhood. And the Muslim Brotherhood has been fought by every Egyptian regime since that of King Farouk. Gamal Abdel Nasser fought the Brotherhood. After Anwar Sadat, once a Brotherhood supporter, signed the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, the Brotherhood called for his overthrow. Sadat crushed the Brotherhood, and for that, he was assassinated in 1981 by the Tanzim al-Jihad, an Islamic group allied to the Brotherhood. Hosni Mubarak also fought the Brotherhood during his 30 years of rule (1981-2011).
After he was overthrown in a popular uprising, a caretaker regime took over, quickly followed by the first truly democratic election in Egypt’s history. Held in 2012, Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Freedom and Justice Party that was affiliated with the Brotherhood, was elected President. A year later, he was ousted in a coup d’etat by General Abdelfattah Al-Sisi, whose regime has continued to fight the Muslim Brotherhood, and naturally, it has also opposed Hamas. Most Egyptians have been inculcated with the belief that Hamas, as a part of the MB, is a danger to Egypt’s wellbeing. That is, they were ready to believe the worst of Hamas — until the last few months.
More on the sea change in Egyptian popular attitudes toward Hamas since October 7 can be found here: “Egyptians used to hate Hamas. Now they love them.” Elder of Ziyon, March 5, 2024:
The Fikra Forum of the Washington Institute asked Egyptians in November/December what they thought of Hamas after the October 7 massacres.
While we had seen other polls showing broad approval of Hamas’ terrorist attacks in the Arab world, this one is especially interesting because it compares Egyptian attitudes of Hamas after October 7 with their historic disapproval of the group.
The turnround in Egyptian attitudes towards Hamas is stunning.
In 2020, 73% of Egyptians viewed Hamas negatively and 23% positively. That has now flipped to 75% who now approve of Hamas compared to only 21% who disapprove….
Egyptians think that Hamas is the only group that actually risks its members to fight Israel; the other groups are just blowhards. There is no bravery in lobbing rockets from a distance. That is why Hamas is so popular: its willingness for martyrdom in its zeal to murder Jews up close.
The poll also found that 94% of Egyptians don’t believe that Hamas killed civilians on October 7. This is in line with Palestinian polls that showed that over 90% also don’t believe that Hamas committed any war crimes on that date….
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How did Hamas go from being deeply disliked by almost three-quarters of Egyptians, to being applauded by three-quarters of them? In 2020, 73% of Egyptians viewed Hamas negatively and 23% positively. But after Hamas’ atrocities on October 7 and the war with Israel that has followed, everything has flipped. The nearly three quarters of Egyptians who previously had a negative view of Hamas now have a positive view. What happened? On October 7, 3,000 Hamas operatives pushed their way into Israel, where both at the site of the Re’im dance party, and at more than 20 kibbutzim, they managed to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder Israeli men, women, and children. Babies were beheaded; children were burnt alive; girls were gang-raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered, the breasts sliced off women and used by Hamas “fighters” to play catch, the genitalia were cut off men and their eyes were gouged out; children were murdered in front of their parents, and parents in front of their children. This is what Hamas did. And Egyptians did not recoil from the horror. Instead Hamas’ ability to inflict terrible damage on the Israeli civilians made the group soar in Egyptians’ estimation.
But, some will say, the Egyptians knew nothing about the atrocities. They only claimed to know that Hamas had attacked the IDF. In the poll, 94% of Egyptians said they didn’t believe that there were any Israeli civilians who were attacked on October 7. Don’t take that poll’s results at face value. They are claiming that disbelief because, while they approve of the atrocities, they don’t want the world to know that they do, so it’s best to pretend you “don’t believe” those claims of atrocities.
But the world’s media was focused for weeks on the events of October 7, that is, on the attacks on Israeli men, women, and children. The mainstream media, on television, radio, and newspapers, carried the stories about the atrocities in detail. So did the Arabic-language channels on the BBC, VOA, AFP, DW that were listened to into Egypt. Millions of posts on social media, including those by Hamas members themselves, described the killings of civilians. Pro-Palestinian professors, such as Hamid Dabashi and Rashid Khalidi, exulted in the Hamas killings of civilians.
Here, as one example, is what Khalidi, a professor at Columbia, had to say: “Gaza has been under siege for 16 years. Israel had assumed that it could live a peaceful, quiet life whilst putting its boot heel on the Palestinians in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. And sooner or later, that had to explode. Now, it exploded in a particularly ugly fashion, with these massacres; it resulted in the highest death toll among Israeli civilians in the entire history of Israel’s wars, since 1948.”
It was clear to everyone in Egypt, as elsewhere: on October 7, Hamas committed “massacres” of “Israeli civilians.”
It would simply not have been possible for 94% of Egyptians to disbelieve in what was being broadcast repeatedly, all over the world. They did know, and they approved. That’s why three quarters of them now hold Hamas in such high esteem, after years of despising the group because of its affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The moral of this unedifying tale is this: Rape, torture, and murder Israeli civilians to your heart’s content. The Egyptians, and the other Arabs, will love you for it.
Is it a sin to pray to God to euthanize depraved psychopathic murderous rabid Islamic swine,
like one would euthanize an injured horse ?
This is an important theological question.
No disrespect to horses is intended.
Depraved psychopathic murderous rabid Islam has been a scourge on humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
I believe that it is more effective to cast out their demons – they must be possessed, to glory in such vileness. If you are not a charismatic (I’m assuming an RC background from your name, so thinking of the charismatic movement within the RCC), another option is that I found it a lot easier to ask God to bless my enemies after realising that, in His sight, repentance is the blessing that unlocks all the others .
In case it is useful, I will summarise how I understand exorcism to work in these circumstances, for you to weigh and discern:
1) You don’t need to be a leader, only a serious follower of Jesus. Mark 16:17 lists the signs that will follow those who believe, including “In My Name they will cast out demons”.
2) That does not mean that you function as a loose cannon – it is important to seek God on whether it is right to exercise this gift in respect of any particular individual or group, because you are operating as part of a chain of authority. You may find that God takes the initiative – I have a story in connection with that, which I will tell later.
3) Jude warns against discourtesy or presumption in dealing with evil spirits. We are made “a little lower than the angels”; fallen angels are made subject to us because they are fallen. We don’t want to be friends, but neither need we be gratuitously rude.
4) Demons are not spatial – so you do not need to be in the same place as someone who is possessed or demonised in order to minister in this way.
5) Demons are not sensory – so, as long as you vocalise, the tone or pitch of your voice makes no difference. If you are in a public place, you can speak under your breath. cont. next
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6) In an emergency, you seek God’s guidance and push ahead – but if you have time to prepare, then try to write down what you want to say. This is because you can expect some resistance, and sometimes it takes the form of making your memory go blank. Also have water to hand in case your throat suddenly dries up. On one occasion, I felt uncomfortable with reading a prepared sentence, and I asked the Lord about it. I got a dry “You are relaying orders, not building a relationship.”
7) You may be guided as to a form of words to use – my default is: “In the Name of my dearest Lord Jesus, I command you, Satan and you demons and every spirit hostile in heart towards the Living God, that every one of you that is present/acting in [person/place] is to be silent, to be bound, and to go to the feet of the Lord Jesus.” The “every spirit hostile in heart” means that you do not need to worry about names or functions – if they don’t like God, they are out. Silencing them means that they can’t communicate with the person(s) involved or with other demons; binding them means that they can’t do any harm on the way out. Sending them to the Lord’s feet means that He disposes of them as He sees fit. I wondered about Matthew 12:43-45, but the Lord said to me that if it was pastorally necessary, He could send demons back, in order to avert the “seven other demons” scenario – but they would still be silent and bound.
8) Provided that you are not operating overtly in public, it isn’t a problem if you are unsure whether a demon is present in a situation or not. It is better to go through an exorcism exercise unnecessarily, at worst wasting your breath and a bit of your time, than to miss the chance of giving needed help. cont next
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The story I promised: I was living in a town with 7 mosques near my home. One day, the Lord said to me “I love these people but that monster Mohammed is leading them astray.” I said that I would do anything He wanted, and, in the next couple of weeks, He guided me each time I went out, to different mosques. Some I knew were there – some I had no idea about. Each time, I stood outside and said my piece addressing the demons within the place. The Lord said that it silenced the rival voices so that He could speak to the people. In this situation, I did not get to see any results – but I had already had the experience of very quietly ordering a demon who was making a nuisance of itself to be silent in the Name of Jesus, when I was in the Prison Service, and had witnessed the prisoner’s bewilderment as his inspiration for the sniggering comments he was making dried up.
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob has His plan for the evil of this world and He is just about to bring down His gavel. It won’t be pretty and will begin a 7 yr. period that will see 5 billion of earth’s inhabitants die horrible deaths (mainly at their own hands…nuclear war, plannedemics, etc).
But first, Jesus will rescue His church (all born again believers who have accepted Christ’s sacrifice, in their place, have repented of their sins and follow Him daily). Secondly, He will prevent mankind from annihilating themselves via nukes. Then He will redeem His Chosen people (the survivors…1/3rd of world Jewry…and protect them in Petra, Jordan while He brings His judgments to bear at Armaggedon and finally He will set up His Millenial Kingdom and rule and reign over the survivors of earth’s peoples for 1,000 years from King David’s throne in Jerusalem.
Maranatha, come Lord Jesus……….<
Me thinkest you have not remembered all the Word. When those who continue to sin and justify their sin that depravity sets in; then their is never a chance to be redeemed. That, need I explain, is the majority of Islamist who accept the jihad against all peoples, even between their 3 sects of Islam, of course only when they are not fighting infidels.
The Egyptians have never gotten over the 10th plague – God’s slaying of their firstborn – and drowning of Pharaoh’s army in the Red Sea.
There is no moderate Islam. There is only Islam.
And, as the Ayatollah Khomeini himself once said, “There are no jokes in Islam.”
Hamas is popular in Egypt because it murdered 1,200 Jews on October 7th. It should be remembered that in 1985 an Egyptian policeman massacred 8 Israeli Jews at Ras Burqa in the Sinai (half of them children). They died of exsanguination because the Egyptians refused to allow them to be medically evacuated to Israel and receive prompt medical treatment. Most Egyptians regarded the policeman as a hero.
Egypt like other Arab countries was ethnically cleansed of its Jewish population, which was reduced from 80,000 in the 1940s to 3 or 4 today.
The “peace” between Egypt and Israel is a farce, much like Oslo.
Islam and the middle east is a layered culture. This is the culture that lives by “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. They hate the MB because it is Salafist and too overbearing for Egypt, but they also hate Jews. They clearly don’t Hamas because of their hostility to Jews, but because of association with the MB hence the Egyptians don’t want Hamas coming to Egypt but will cheer them on in their battle with Israel. Not a good culture.
If the Egyptians LOVE hamass so much they should TEAR DOWN THEIR WALL and let a few MILLION into Egypt!! I’m sure Israel would rather have them all in one location rather than have TWO fronts to fight! Sometimes people need to EXPERIENCE something to REALLY know if they like it!! Ask the “sanctuary cities” here how they REALLY like being “sanctuary cities”!!!
The same can be said for the Western feminists running the universities at Harvard, MIT, and diverse other places.
Everybody in the world received the exact same information on what happened in that massacre, and it stimulated them into full support for Hamas against Israeli “genocde”.
Truth is irrelevant to Islam, and likewise the post modernist left.
Gulags and concentration camps are not so much imposed by totalitarian regimes as much as they arise out of the blood lust of people themselves who revel in the cruelty itself.
We expect no better from Muslims. Egyptian Muslims are not that much of a shock to see revel in the blood of innocents, but western women are celebrating and ignoring the absolute denigration of women too..
And it flows naturally from who they have actually become too. This is what feminism now supports.
Cruelty is like an aphrodisiac to the Culture of Death.
Egypt is sinking into mind-boggling corruption. Even the vital tourist industry languishes as the word spreads that you cannot even leave the airport without being fleeced and robbed by the police. I would highly recommend that you find an old copy of ‘From Cairo to Damascus’ by John Roy Carlson. He attached himself to a band of 1948 Egyptian ‘warriors’ stoned on hashish and going to the barely new state of Israel to rape, slaughter and mutilate all the Jews. Incidentally it is a fantastic exciting true story and expose of radical Islam.
. If Israel gets no love from the US regime , it won’t get much from Egypt, either.
Related:
https://www.jns.org/grave-concern-about-twitch-award-for-gamer-who-justified-oct-7-attacks/
The Arab Muslim Lebanese “fr0gan.” In her vile posts, she reveals a racist Arab trying to cover her bigotry.
Anti-semitism could not stay contained forever. What has been being done in the dark is being brought into the light in these last days, and that includes the darkness in the hearts of people. We do not live in a spiritual vacuum; the more people reject God, the more evil is released to fill the void. We saw that evil released like a flood on October 7, and the world will never be the same. Maranatha.
An oracle concerning Egypt.. all still future: Isaiah chapter 19