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Hamas: “We love death like our enemies love life!”

Jul 31, 2014 1:02 pm By Robert Spencer

This is just another statement of the Islamic jihadists’ oft-repeated desire for death. A Muslim child preacher taunted those he has been taught to hate most: “Oh Zionists, we love death for the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan.” Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he “loved death more than they loved life.” Nigerian jihadist Abubakar Shekau said: “I’m even longing for death, you vagabond.”

Ayman al-Zawahiri’s wife advised Muslim women: “I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death.” And as one jihadist put it, “We love death. You love your life!” And another: “The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.” That was from Afghan jihadist Maulana Inyadullah.

Of course, this idea comes from the Qur’an itself: “Say (O Muhammad): O ye who are Jews! If ye claim that ye are favoured of Allah apart from (all) mankind, then long for death if ye are truthful.” — Qur’an 62:6

“Hamas: We ‘love death for Allah,'” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, July 31, 2014:

Two of the most senior Hamas leaders appeared on Hamas TV yesterday saying that Hamas loves death like Israelis love life.

A recorded statement by Hamas Chief of Staff Muhammad Deif, prepared during the current Gaza war, announced:

“Today you [Israelis] are fighting divine soldiers,
who love death for Allah like you love life,
and who compete among themselves for Martyrdom
like you flee from death.”

Hamas TV also chose to broadcast yesterday a statement former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in the past:

“We love death like our enemies love life!
We love Martyrdom, the way in which [Hamas] leaders died.”
[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), July 30, 2014]

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Palestinian Media Watch reported last week that Hamas TV claimed Palestinian civilians who died in the current conflict were privileged to have died as Martyrs.

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  1. Beagle says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:08 pm

    Bin Laden often quoted 9.38:

    “O you who have believed, what is [the matter] with you that, when you are told to go forth in the cause of Allah , you adhere heavily to the earth? Are you satisfied with the life of this world rather than the Hereafter? But what is the enjoyment of worldly life compared to the Hereafter except a [very] little.”

    In some translations “adhere” is replaced by “cling”. So much for the ambiguity in translation, you gotta read Arabic, garbage.

  2. Richie says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    “We love death like our enemies love life”

    I have to give this lunatic credit for bold honesty- The above statement is absolutely true- islam is a death cult- they kill with such ease because they put no value on human life.
    Life is God’s greatest creation- yet Muslims are eager to destroy life, proof to me that their ‘religion’ does not look to God, but rather to Satan. Muslims can rejoice, because they will all one day see the master they serve (Satan) in Hell

    • John Mustart South Africa. says

      Aug 1, 2014 at 8:19 am

      Correct. They say they love death so much. Then why are they complaining when they get killed by Israeli’s. They should rejoice and thank the Israeli’s for sending them to the land of silence. They really are so confused that they make absolutely no sense at all.

  3. Richie says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    “We love death like our enemies love life”

    I have to give this lunatic credit for bold honesty- The above statement is absolutely true- islam is a death cult- they kill with such ease because they put no value on human life.
    Life is God’s greatest creation- yet Muslims are eager to destroy life, proof to me that their ‘religion’ does not look to God, but rather to Satan. Muslims can rejoice, because they will all one day see the master they serve (Satan) in Hell

  4. Richie says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:14 pm

    and people demand we treat this death cult with respect

  5. Bettina says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:17 pm

    Does anyone else have trouble viewing this video clip? All I see is a large white space with an exclamation point in the middle!

    • Richie says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 2:32 pm

      It plays fine for me, could be server issues

  6. ecosse1314 says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:23 pm

    A wee bit OT…but did any one read the story about the Malaysians complaining that when the team was led out at the Commonwealth games. In Scotland…the team was led by a Scottie dog. Apparently it hurt their Islamic sensibilities. Not as much as the wee dog which refused to walk in front and had to be carried…..

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 4:24 pm

      I did.

      I laughed myself into stitches, too, when I read the spoof on the LibertyGB site.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 4:40 pm

      As a Yank—where the Commonwealth Games get some coverage, but it’s not extensive unless you really seek it out—this is the first I’ve heard of this.

      Who but Mohammedans would be offended by cute little Scottie dogs? They’re pretty much the definition of adorable…

      • ecosse1314 says

        Jul 31, 2014 at 5:12 pm

        You may try and take our freedom…but do not insult our Scottie dogs…………… . Or our tablet………………….or whisky kilts etc etc

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Jul 31, 2014 at 6:32 pm

          You forgot haggis, and the bagpipes.

          Me, I reckon that if ever any Mohammedan fort/ military base otherwise known as a “mosque” in Edinburgh or Glasgow or wherever starts blasting the azhan at 4 am, the local Scottish infidels should fight back with bagpipe music at aircraft-engine decibel level from loudspeakers, about 2 seconds before the azhan starts.

          The Scottish resistance to Islam should be recruiting every piper they can get, for future use when needed.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 31, 2014 at 9:04 pm

          How about Mel Gibson as William Wallace crying “they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!”?

          Not strictly historical, perhaps, but there are worse rallying cries.

          I’m American, but part of my heritage is lowland Scots.

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Aug 2, 2014 at 4:01 am

      Memo to Rio de Janeiro. Lead the Malaysian team out with a pig at the next Olympic Games.

  7. Diane Harvey says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:41 pm

    “Two of the most senior Hamas leaders appeared on Hamas TV yesterday saying that Hamas loves death like Israelis love life.”

    So, what’s up with all the complaining about disproportionate deaths?

    You muslims are simply getting what you want and claim you love. You should be thanking us.

  8. Mike says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    If Muslims love death more than life, they should be happy that their firing missiles into Israel has provoked the bombing of Gaza. Their fellow Muslims in Syria and Iraq are killing each other with the same alacrity. As some members of the US marines stated. “The Muslims want to meet Allah. It is our responsibility to arrange the meeting.”

  9. Uri says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Their death wish is Israel’s command.

    Open wide and say Allah!

  10. Charli Main says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    If you love death so much, please hurry up and die.
    The world will be a better, cleaner and safe place when you and your ilk are out of it.

    • Jeff says

      Aug 1, 2014 at 12:24 am

      Right on! And hopefully the left wing terrorist enablers in this country can go with them.

  11. Champ says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    Hamas: “We love death like our enemies love life!”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Surely the obama administrations knows this about Hamas, and yet Israel is still expected to make *peace* with these terrorists. Insane! The world has gone mad under obama (impeachment be upon him).

  12. Agniel says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    Let the world respond to these Muslims with kindness and generosity — let us be as one in helping them be united with what they love.

  13. gravenimage says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    Hamas: “We love death like our enemies love life!”
    ……………………………………..

    We have, of course, heard this many, many times before.

    Why should we show the least “respect” to this arid, nihilistic creed?

    For some reason, I’m developing and urge for a nice cold Pepsi Cola right about now…

  14. Vapourking says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 8:20 pm

    I’ve spent some time conversing with Muslims on the various forums, more or less to get a better understanding of the overall mindset.
    The preference for death over life is absolutely true, there’s countless threads devoted to the subject of dying, this life seems nothing more than prerequisite screening for entrance into Allah’s exclusive club paradise.
    The psychology of this belief explains much about a Muslims life, the burden of Islam requires constant maintenance littered with pointless obstacles consigning the follower to an empty miserable existence, where death becomes a welcome relief.
    They couldn’t care less about the deaths in Gaza in fact most probably wish it was them, however facing the reality that Jews own them atm burns them up inside.

    • umbra says

      Aug 1, 2014 at 6:38 am

      Non entirely true. Most are cowards. Almost all are pretensive and childish. While some welcome death, but the vast majority are glad just being limited to the islamic cheer squad. As for those who wants death, they have already lost a substantial portion of their mental capacity, specifically the capacity to reason objectively and clearly. These susceptible fools have of course been brainwashed with false promises of rewards in the after life.

      Being childish, they hate to lose to anyone, even their own co-religionists. Furthermore, losing to Jews is immeasurable painful and embarrassing, requiring immediate remedy (translates to slaughter). However, few would actually go up against anyone who is capable of defending himself/herself. Consequently, they attack in packs (pack mentality). When this does not work (e.g. for technological reasons against the IDF), they either wait or use immoral underhanded tactics (human shield, kidnap, assassination, etc).

  15. Kepha says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 10:20 pm

    They really ought to be careful about this kind of statement. One of these days, they’ll provoke someone badly enough, and the provoked party will start handing out martyrdom very liberally, until perhaps a whole country or two becomes seriously depopulated.

  16. Fr. Basil says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 10:34 pm

    \\ Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he “loved death more than they loved life.” \\

    If course he loves death.

    God said through King Solomon in Proverbs, “All who hate Me love death.”

    Since they admit they love death, it follows they hate the real God.

  17. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 11:32 pm

    Ontopic.

    To get an idea of the mindset that is, probably, more common than not, among the Muslim inhabitants of Gaza and far too many other neighbourhoods within the regions ruled and ruined by Islam. Megalomania, total sense of entitlement, and withering nihilism and fatalism.

    Clip made available by a Jewish Israeli blog (maintained by an Aussie Jew who made aliyah some years ago) that I read regularly.

    http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/30-jul-14-ordinariness-of-utter-evil.html

    Wednesday, July 30, 2014
    30-Jul-14: The ordinariness of utter evil

    Please, everyone, click on the link and read, and watch the video clip you’ll find there. This clip shows a young – I would say *very young*, perhaps not even twenty – Gazan Arab Muslim woman, in her Slave Hood, inside Israel where her third child is being treated by Jewish doctors. She is being interviewed.

    Don’t just listen to what she says. Look at her. Look at her body language, at her facial expression, at her eyes.

    Words like “hypnotised”, “brainwashed”, “cultist” and “trance state” come to mind. It’s downright bone-chilling.

    She’s as dangerous, and as thoroughly hypnotised, as any enthusiastic graduate of the Hitlerjugend or any kamikaze pilot.

    And yet: if she has been killed in the backwash from an Israeli strike on a missile-launcher in her backyard, or if she is killed because she is standing on a rooftop guarding a Hamas arsenal, or if she is killed by a Hamas rocket that “falls short”, her body will be paraded for the media as that of an “innocent civilian”, and the Jewhaters in the West will screech and accuse Israel.

    Innocent, she ain’t. Anybody want to guess how this zombie would respond to news of a Muslim mass murder of Jewish children in Israel, or at a Jewish school in the US or Australia or France or the UK??

    I’m guessing she’d be joyously ululating and handing round trays of candy to her friends to celebrate.

    Because that’s the other side of this “we love death” stuff.

    They love *our* deaths, the deaths of Jews and Christians. They love it when we die by *any* cause (e.g. a natural disaster or a disease), because they attribute that to their infernal allah punishing us as we deserve; but they love it even better when they get to murder / human-sacrifice us dirty unbelievers, or get to watch their fellow Muslims doing it.

  18. Jay Boo says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 1:02 am

    Good morning Muslim world
    Islam worships no God
    ‘Splain this (admission)
    “Ayman al-Zawahiri’s wife advised Muslim women: “I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instill in them a LOVE FOR RELIGION and death”

    Muslims don’t worship God they only (worship religion)
    How pathetic is that to PRETEND to worship God but in reality only have a LOVE FOR RELIGION.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 2, 2014 at 1:41 am

      Y’know, Jay Boo, you’re not the only person to suspect that.

      Some years ago, a former frequent poster here – and also contributor of feature articles – one “Hugh Fitzgerald” (not his real name, I have no idea who he really is, but he is formidably erudite), was wont to say that “the true object of worship in Islam is Islam”.

  19. Jerry says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 6:46 am

    Long ago Golda Meir stated that

    Peace (in the Middle East) will come, as soon as
    the Arabs (Muslims) will learn to love their own
    children more than they hate “us” (the Jews).

    Nothing in that respect has changed for the
    last 1400 years!

  20. eib says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    How appropriate that they embrace death! Damnation is death without end, with no redemption.
    To love life is the beginning of Christianity and civilization.
    Any civilization based on the love of death will do nothing but commit murder.

  21. eib says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 12:07 pm

    The love of death strengthens no one.
    It makes a soul more fit for damnation, and one’s worship yet more profane.
    Islam is profane.
    Mohammed is a false prophet.

  22. Geppetto says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    What could be more huane and compassionate than giving them what they profess to love?

  23. Dt says

    Aug 2, 2014 at 9:56 pm

    If they love death so much than why to they scream and cry about injustice when their people are killed. Shouldn’t they celebrate if they love death?

    If they keep up this craziness they are going to get what they love…because they are making the whole world hate them and many nations have nuclear weapons.

  24. M. says

    Sep 16, 2014 at 12:14 am

    Desire for whose death?

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