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Pamela Geller: Obama administration refuses to admit that Hamas is the same as the Islamic State

Aug 26, 2014 10:50 am By Robert Spencer

HamasStill more denial and obfuscation of the reality of Islamic jihad from the Obama Administration. “Obama admin refuses to admit Hamas is ISIS,” by Pamela Geller, WND, August 24, 2014:

On Wednesday, a reporter asked State Department spokesperson Marie Harf this question: “Prime Minister Netanyahu said that Hamas and ISIL were one and the same. Do you agree with that premise?”

It was a premise that I recently articulated at our American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, rally for Israel and persecuted religious minorities. On Sunday, Aug. 17, in New York City’s Union Square, we held a rally in support of all religious minorities that are being persecuted, oppressed and slaughtered in jihadi wars. Jews, Christians, Hindu, Buddhists, Sikhs, Yazidis: All converged on Union Square to protest Islamic supremacism and conquest. In my opening remarks, I said Hamas was ISIS in Gaza (minute 1:10).

Netanyahu recently said the same thing. Hamas is ISIS. ISIS is Hamas. But Marie Harf made it clear that she did not, saying: “I think by definition they are two different groups. They have different leadership, and I’m not going to compare them in that way.” Of Netanyahu she said: “I’ll let him speak for himself, but I’m not going to use that comparison.” Harf concluded: “They’re both foreign terrorist organizations designated under United States law, but I’m not going to do any more comparison of them. Obviously, they’re quite different in some ways.”

In which ways? Of course, when Netanyahu says Hamas and the Islamic State are one and the same, he is talking about the fact that they share the same beliefs, the same goals, the same outlook. They are both Islamic jihad groups dedicated to imposing Shariah by force and terrorizing infidels. This is something I have been saying for years: nationality, ethnicity, race, etc., matter no more than the color of their socks. It’s all jihad. It’s all Islam.

A is A. Jihad is jihad. And the Muslims fighting to establish an Islamic state in Israel have the same ideology and follow the same playbook as the Muslims fighting for an Islamic state in Iraq and Syria (Islamic State – ISIS), and the Muslims fighting for an Islamic state in Lebanon (Hezbollah), and the Muslims fighting for an Islamic state in China (Uighurs), and the Muslims fighting for an Islamic state in Nigeria (Boko Haram), and the Muslims fighting for an Islamic state in Russia, and the Muslims fighting for an Islamic state in the Philippines (MILF), and the Muslims fighting for an Islamic state in the Maghreb and Arabia (al-Qaida), and the Muslims fighting for an Islamic state in Afghanistan (the Taliban), and the Muslims fighting for an Islamic state in Somalia (al-Shabaab), and so forth.

In his unending quest to protect the global jihad and Islam, Obama takes exception to this wicked truth. Once again, Obama’s State Department shows its breathtaking denial of reality. And the consequences of this Islamophiliac fantasy to Americans will be catastrophic.

Because of answers like Harf’s, and the Obama administration’s general weakness, fecklessness and denial in the face of the jihad threat, the world is looking at America with contempt and scorn.

Meanwhile, this is not the only way in which Benjamin Netanyahu is standing for the truth. I am heartened that he and others (even FBI Director James Comey) are using the term “savage” to refer to the jihadists of the Islamic State, despite the media’s jihad against that word. Who can forget the frenzy in the media and the Muslim world when we posted our now famous pro-Israel signs in 2012? The signs read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.”

It took a while for people around the world to catch up, but they have – except the jihadi in the White House and a few others. Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority refused to run our ads, claiming they were disparaging to … savages. We are suing.

The mainstream media and the Obama administration are on a continuing quest to obscure, deny and obfuscate the truth about Islam and jihad. But that’s the thing about the truth: It cannot forever be hidden. And with every day’s headlines about the newest jihad attacks, it becomes more obvious.

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  1. Ashley says

    Aug 26, 2014 at 10:57 am

    OT: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/isis-demands-66m-ransom-26-year-american-woman/story?id=25127682

  2. Tom Davis says

    Aug 26, 2014 at 11:10 am

    Well, of course Hamas is not the same as the IS. We all know that arsenic and cyanide are not the same.

    • nacazo says

      Aug 26, 2014 at 4:30 pm

      Choose your poison. Do you want caliphate now by force or caliphate after all jews are killed?

  3. Beagle says

    Aug 26, 2014 at 11:13 am

    It is true that only the IS leader al Baghdadi is claiming to be the Emir or caliph of all Muslims. In every other critical respect they are the same.

    Both are Islamic jihad groups who espouse struggling in Allah’s cause to make Islam the only religion, sharia the only law, and Muslims the only rulers.

    Perhaps they differ on filming crimes against humanity and uploading it to social media. But they agree that crimes against humanity and war crimes are legitimate tactics of warfare in the eyes of Allah.

  4. Champ says

    Aug 26, 2014 at 11:34 am

    Hamas and IS are separate branches from the same evil tree: islam …and Pamela Geller and Benjamin Netanyahu are right.

  5. nacazo says

    Aug 26, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    Mosab Hassan Yousef (Son of Hamas Founder) said:

    “The destruction of the state of Israel is not Hamas final destination. Hamas’ final destination is building the islamic Khilafah (caliphate) which means an islamic state on the rubble of every other civilization. These are the ultimate goals of them.”

    The differences are as follows:

    – ISIS wants to only use force to get to the caliphate.
    – Hamas is open to other options such as elections, and their favorite: kill ALL the Jews before establishing the caliphate.

    They may also differ on who will be the Caliph.

    Other than that, they are in agreement but for the Imams in the White House they are different which is kind of true but not really.

    • voegelinian says

      Aug 26, 2014 at 2:08 pm

      Well, from your evidence it’s not specifically kill all Jews that is Hamas’ prerequisite for a Caliphate, but the conquest of Israel (which of course will entail a general massacre of Jews but not, thankfully, of all Jews). The ISIS spokesmen could well want to persuade Hamas to hold off on that and concentrate all their energies on helping the ISIS Caliphate establish itself — in order to make the conquest of Israel supposedly easier in the future. Or the ISIS elites could be comfortable having the two goals continue in tandem.

      • nacazo says

        Aug 26, 2014 at 6:29 pm

        Read chater 7 off the hamas charter. is the killing of all the jews.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Aug 26, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    Technically Obama is partially right.

    Muslim Maggots are not the same thing as Muslim Flies though they both feed off of the same dung pile of Muhammad and Islam.

  7. duh_swami says

    Aug 26, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    They all go by ‘The Book’…You know ‘The Book’, it’s the one that’s good for all time and all Mahoundians are expected to follow to the letter. There is nothing any jihadist is doing that Allah frowns on. How can that be when they are following his orders? There is not much, if any differences between them, if they are pious.

  8. pumbar says

    Aug 27, 2014 at 1:15 am

    A picture of some moderates hitting the gym and getting their kids to school on time…

  9. AmySoldier says

    Aug 27, 2014 at 1:55 am

    When the first in a series of future dirty bombs go off crippling New York and London, Saudi Arabia and Iran will have done their homework to insure Western Intel “knows” the leaders of ISIS are the “bastards.” Troops will invade ISIS. Bombings. But Saudi Arabia and Iran will not be touched, … or so they like to think as they today make their plans for the destruction of the West.

    People today need to be informed of the intentions of the educated, wealthy, devout Muslim leaders of nations such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, etc. With the masses at least with an understanding what the thinking is behind the assaults that will occur to ISIS and their religious co-conspirators within the other nations of Islam.

    ISIS was planned for and created during a past conference of leaders of Islamist nations. ISIS will be their buffer to the backlash from the West after the dirty bombs cripple several major Western cities.

    The people need to be informed of the objective of a Muslim as spelled out in the Qur’an, and what the Qur’an requires of the leaders of Islamist nations with resources. Why ISIS was created as a means to further the objective. And why Western nations didn’t wait for the crippling Muslim strike before simultaneously attacking the top five, ten Islamist nations.

    Islamists want war. The West …?

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