Why Hamas crushed a rival jihadist group -- as I said here, "Hamas can now tell gullible Western officials that it is fighting against 'extremism'!"
"Jihadi Public Relations," by Walid Phares in Human Events, August 18 (thanks to JRH):
How far will terrorists go to cloak themselves in legitimacy? Last week’s action in the Gaza Strip, now governed by the terrorist network Hamas, is a good example.Hamas’ attack against the Jund Ansar Allah (JAA, “The Soldiers or the Partisans of Allah”), a Jihadist group inside Gaza, was intended to provide the Palestinian Islamist organization a pass to become a “mainstream” movement, acceptable internationally as a partner in peace negotiations with Israel. [...]
By now, the “Jund” has been crushed, its Mosque seized and its survivors pursued.
But what are lessons we need to learn from this pool of piranhas, where big Jihadi fish eat little Jihadi fish?
1. According to many commentators on al Jazeera, Hamas chose to finish up the “Jund” as a maneuver to lure the West in general -- Great Britain and the United States in particular -- into “engaging” the organization, lifting its name from terror lists and adding it to the peace process between the Palestinians and Israel. Hamas spokespersons rushed to say “we too are fighting the extremists, the terrorists as you are fighting them and pursuing al Qaeda,” which resonates greatly in Western ears, especially with the Obama administration and the Brown government: Soon enough sympathizing journalists, apologist academics and even diplomats and envoys will be citing the “glorious” deeds of Hamas as evidence of fight “against terrorism.”
The U.S. narrative lately has been underlining that there is no war against “Global Jihadsim” but a “war against al Qaeda” only. So those in the business of Jihad, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and a plethora of other groups, can make their credential known to the West by slapping some local, little al Qaeda boys, and claiming a green card to the world of “accepted Jihadists.”...
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Sorry off topic, Remember Naseem the Ahmadi from Pakistan who used to post - up with Allah/down with infidel- comments here. "Husband beats wife to death with a grass hockey stick"
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=193419
Naseem Ali 34, resident of Almadina Market was murdered infront of her four children after filing a case against her husband who abandoned his family with a second wife. hmmmm, probably a different Naseem.
JW's Nasseem's husband had passed away and she only has two children.
Gang warfare in Gaza.
The former "extremists" of Hamas, that is the Fast Jihadists who don't ever mind their tongue, put into splendid relief the Slow Jihdists of Fatah who for Western audiences, show themselves to be able to mind their tongues, though anyone who wanted to see what was staring him in the face, during this last farce of the "Palestinian" "new blood" coming in, though with the same set of impossible and cruel and outrageous "minimal" demands, and the same rewriting of world history, as ever, could have done so.
And now Hamas has found its very own Hamas, the extreme "extremists" many of whom -- but not all -- were wiped out by Hamas the other day.
Now the remaining "extreme" "extremists" need only find "extremely" "extreme" "extremists" to make them look good, and they'll be in, at the E.U., at the U.N., dappertutto -- like Flynn.
Where have all the trolls gone… It’s a good thing.
Right, “Hamas”, the “good Guy”, the man with the white turban who’s fighting the evil Jihadists within!
Not gonna buy it. Just look at their charter. What? Is the international MSM memory only 3 seconds old? The enemy of my enemy is nowhere near a friend, let alone someone I’d even wave at in a neighbourly fashion.
Hamas is a social pimple on the history of mankind. Anyone who subscribes to their beliefs is complicit and subject to evisceration from mankind.
Hamas' fight against terrorism is nothing but a big ruse...it is misdirection...and concealment.
Only an apostate jihadist is a good jihadist, in the meantime let them kill each other.
I clicked on the link and read the whole thing.
And here is something I found:
"The founder of the Jund Ansar Allah Abdel Latif Moussa was killed *during the explosion of one of his suicide bombers* as he targeted advancing Hamas fighters."
If I am reading that correctly, Abdel Latif Moussa was sending a subordinate, a carefully-trained-and-brainwashed suicide bomber, a murder-'martyr', against the deemed-insufficiently-islamic Hamas fighters. But the guy, seemingly, detonated prematurely and so...Abdel Latif Moussa got blown up by his own side.
Own goal. Friendly fire, and so on. Perfect.
(Of course, the alternative explanation is that this particular murder-'martyr' whom Abdel Latif Moussa or his cronies had groomed so carefully, and fitted out so nicely with his explosive belt, was doublecrossing them, and working for Hamas all along..War is deceit, after all.)
dumbledoresarmy, either way, that good ol Muslim phrase, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is great when seen in action.
Power play and buy legitimacy at the same time? These are very shrewd leaders.
As in previous posts, I must suggest that people go back and read the comments on the linked article.
There are some very lovely people out there supporting Hamas.
Of course Hamas actually did it because a more islamic tham Hamas movement in Gaza is a deadly threat to Hamas.
I love the irony of "Hamas: you're not Islamic enough" "Not Islamic enough? I'll show you I'm Islamic enough by blowing up your mosque with you inside it"
By the way, did Hamas damage any copies of the "Holy Koran" in the mosque or elsewhere during the fight ? Should the Islamic world lead protests against their evil desecration ?