This gesture is reminiscent of Mehmet the Conquerer ordering the shehada, the Islamic confession of faith, to be proclaimed in the great Hagia Sophia cathedral in Constantinople after the Muslim conquest of 1453. Note also the avowals that jihad -- violent jihad -- has brought them victory. "Hamas leader prays in Gaza synagogue," from YnetNews, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
Hours after thousands of Palestinians desecrated synagogues in Gaza, setting them on fire and taking buildings apart by hand, members of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, headed by senior Hamas chief Mahmoud Zahar, arrived at the synagogue in Kfar Darom and held a Muslim prayer session at the site.Ahmad Jabari, another senior figure in Hamas, said that Hamas would continue to attack Israel. “The withdrawal proves that the resistance is the only legitimate weapon. We will strike at any hand that reaches for our weapons,” said Jabari.
'Jihad the only way'
“The jihad and the resistance are the only ways to liberate our homeland, not negotiations and agreements,” said Jabari. The Hamas leader ruled out the possibility that Hamas members would join Palestinian security forces, saying, “we will never be part of that corrupt Authority,” before waving his gun.
Earlier, thousands of Palestinian burst into abandoned Israeli settlements in Gaza Monday morning, where they burned a synagogue and took away pieces of the rubble. They Palestinian Authority later bulldozed the synagogue.
Palestinian security forces stood on the side and did not act to restrain the crowds, and failed to prevent the chaotic scenes.
In Kfar Darom, dozens of gunmen from the Popular Front wandered around unchallenged by Palestinian Authority security forces, who sat underneath trees in silence.
The mask has not merely slipped in Gaza. That black balaklava has been entirely ripped off. Jihad, jihad, jihad. Use the word. The Arabs and Muslims are using it, day after day, not least in Gaza. It is a Jihad. It is prompted by the tenets of Islam, and those tenets do not say "compromise with the Infidels." Those tenets do not say "leave them with a tiny rump state." Those tenets do not say "Push them back to the pre-1967 armistice lines" or "Push them back until they are sufficiently small." No, Islam tells Muslims not to countenance, not to endure, any Infidel state, any state which permits non-Muslims the right to determine their own destiny, any entity or institution which would allow non-Muslims that modicum of power that would keep them from being reduced to the status of dhimmis -- no, neither the Qur'an, nor the Hadith, nor the example of Muhammad himself, permits such an interpretation.
Some, but not enough, Israelis, have come to understand this -- not enough in time to prevent the Gaza disaster. But whether the Israelis do or do not come to comprehend their enemy, and the relentless Jihad against them, that is no reason for the rest of us, the Infidels outside the MIddle East, of not recognizing the nature of the war against Israel, and how it merely prefigures, and is not the cause of, the larger world-wide Jihad against all Infidels, to be conducted with whatever means prove most efficacious. It does not make sense to pursue open military challenges to the West. It does make sense to divide and demoralize and terrorize not only that West, but all parts of the Infidel population, whether they are within dar al-Islam (the Christians who remain in the Middle East, along with the Jews in Israel; the Hindus and Buddhists and Confucians in such Muslim-ruled countries as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, or even within Infidel lands where a small Muslim population still manages, as in Europe or Thailand or the Philippines or even India, to conduct attacks on Infidels despite the disparity in numbers.
Why is it that the Western world, and the Americans in particular, fail to comprehend this, and waste time actually ignoring the problem of Islam, and pretending that the matter can somehow be solved if alternative regimes, a primitive democracy rather than a primitive despotism in Iraq, for example, will somehow help to contain the threat of Islam. It will do no such thing. The way to contain Islam is not to better the lot, still less to sacrifice one's own men and materiel and money to do so, of Muslims, however plausible some of the westernized representatives (Shalabi, Rend al-Rahim Francke, Kanan Makiya, Allawi himself), the unrepresentative representatives, may be, but to play upon and exploit the natural divisions within this or that Muslim state or population, so as to turn Muslim against Muslim, or, in the case of the Kurds, by supporting them to the hilt, to make the case of all non-Arab Muslims everywhere wishing to shake off the dominance of the Arab supremacist ideology for which Islam has always been a vehicle.
The Dome of the Rock is much better situated as a sea wall.
The reason for the muslim prayer at the site was a symbolic jesture to acknowledge Allahs victory over the filthy joos. They should have kept the building intact and turned it into a mosque. That would have been even better. But prayers will do...flooding the place with Allah and forcing YHVH out. Sort of like washing the sidewalk down with a garden hose. Wont work...YHVH is unaffected by garden hoses. You cant get rid of YHVH no matter what you do. Allah has been trying to get rid of YHVH for over a thousand years, yet YHVH is still here. Thats why those prayers are symbolic. This falls under the 'nice try but no banannas' phase of things, 'looks good, sounds good, lasts a long time and does nothing'. Allah knows how to break things, kill people and hold prayer sessions, but he does not know how to get rid of YHVH...must be frustrating...no wonder Allah throws so many tantrums...
Islam = Nazism.
Allah = Satan.