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Sarah Idan is a former Miss Iraq who is now an American citizen. More on Sarah Idan can be found here: “‘This was not about freeing Palestine’: Former Miss Iraq tours decimated southern towns,” Times of Israel, December 30, 2023:
The 2017 candidate from Iraq for Miss Universe caused an international uproar after meeting and taking a selfie with Miss Israel Adar Gandelsman in Las Vegas, captioned, “Peace and Love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel.” The pair remain close friends and met up this week in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square during Idan’s third trip to Israel.
Within three days of posting that first selfie in 2017, the virulent backlash to the photograph caused her family to again become refugees as they were forced to leave Iraq, emigrating to the US….
Just think: Idan took a single selfie with Miss Israel, and that display of decency was enough to trigger death threats against her whole family, who were then forced to leave Iraq. No doubt, even in the United States, as she runs for office, she will need round-the-clock security.
Idan told Channel 12 that she is surprised by the lack of a popular uprising against Hamas in Gaza.
“What is really sad is that the Gazans have not taken action against Hamas. What are they waiting for? In Iraq, we had Saddam Hussein and he was brutal and Iraqis couldn’t really stand up to him, but the minute the US came in they went and they brought down his statues and they celebrated the victory.”
Saddam Hussein was a dictator, a singular monster whom most Iraqis were glad to see deposed and executed. But Hamas is a mass movement, deeply rooted in Islam, and regarded with favor by the majority of Palestinians. In fact, Hamas is now more popular in Gaza than it was before October 7, when 67% wanted Hamas’ rule in Gaza to end. But since October 7, 52% of Gazans now support Hamas; it’s quite a reversal of sentiment. This is something Sarah Idan can’t quite bring herself to believe. But in time she will.
“What I [Sarah Idan] don’t understand is why, when the IDF went into Gaza to take out Hamas, is why Gazans are not helping the IDF. Why they did not take this opportunity to turn against Hamas because now Hamas is weakened. So do they approve? Do they approve of the killing? I hope not,” she said.
Sarah Idan understands that Hamas is an enemy of the Palestinians in Gaza. It is Hamas that brought poverty and violence to the Strip. It is Hamas — though not only Hamas — that poisoned the minds of the Palestinians in the Strip who are, horribile dictu, enthusiasts for what Hamas did on October 7. They do not deplore, but applaud, the acts of that day: the beheading of babies, the children burned alive, the girls and women gang-raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered, the women whose breasts were sliced off, the men whose eyes were gouged out and genitalia cut off, the children killed in front of their parents and their parents in front of their children. All this is well known. Yet in a mid-December opinion poll, not only did 52% of Gazans say they approved of what Hamas did on October 7; worse still, 85% of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank), approved, for an overall approval rating for Hamas of 72% of Palestinians. And it is not just the Palestinians, but people all over the Arab world who support Hamas despite, or more likely because of, what its operatives did to Israelis on October 7.
Idan still has some learning to do about the full malignancy of Islam. She may be held back from fully comprehending the ideology because of familial piety, her love for her parents and other family members, who, I am assuming, think of themselves as Muslims but are so only in a cultural sense. Eventually, as Idan realizes how many Muslims all over the world are cheering on not just Hamas, but also Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the PFLP, and so many more murderous groups, when she studies the calls for violence in the Qur’an, and the Qur’anic description of non-Muslims as “the most vile of created beings,” Sarah Idan should experience a salutary shock. She is now running for Congress. Whether she wins or losses in the primary or the general election that follows, Idan will be able to express her new, deeper understanding of Islam, to an American public intrigued by her history, her good looks (which will be enrolled in the service of a good cause), and her obvious decency, so different from what the sour-faced and perennially outraged members of the Squad have on offer.
It may always have been dangerous to tell the truth, but I confess that it seems to be more dangerous now.
The cancer that continues to metastasize quickly in the U.S. is Truthophobia. Credible surveys demonstrate professors and students fear speaking on college campuses. The evidence shows colleges are failing miserably at improving students’ ability to think critically. Most of those students and professors know little of the history of Islam or the violence still being committed today in the name of Islam.
About the only upside for me has been no longer donating to colleges. The donation instead goes to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
Until Islam is eradicated, all this evil will be allowed. We need to pray for muslims, that they can see that their real roots are in the Judeo-Christian world view. Let’s bring as many over as we can before the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ, which is soon. Islam is a doctrine of demons and any sensible reading of the Koran will bring the average thinking person to that conclusion.
The problem is that most who follow Islam don’t read the Qur’an for themselves; they depend on the Immans to interpret it for them. There do seem to be portions that are nonviolent, of which this lovely lady & her family seem to be a part, but they are few & far between.
Islam will never be eradicated, but I do hope that many will come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ!
The ‘people’ don’t read the Qur’an, because (as I was told by a Muslim colleague) translations are not official, in ANY way or any other language than Arabic. If you haven’t been raised in an Arabic speaking society, you won’t be able to read the Qur’an, and if you HAVE – you will be a Muslim.
Oh yes, and (officially) any Muslim who turns against Islam is supposed to be ki**ed out of hand!
At some point the EVIDENCE against allowing muslims into a Christian Nation should be enough to just say “NO”! England is on the verge of collapse – France too – WHY??
Because they don’t think that they will ever have to feel the sword of Islam across their traitorous necks.
Didn’t she get the memo? Islam is the religion of peace.
I wish her much luck. She is a Moslem woman willing to take risks.
We don’t want any Sharia Laws forced upon us we don’t want traffic blocked by Islamics facing toward Mecca keep it to yourselves in the Middle East
That they even sort of look alike probably freaks out the hateful left and islam.
There will never be peace in earth as long as Islam is around.
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.”
“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
-Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).