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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Muslims Observe Ramadan in Tel Aviv

Jun 9, 2016 7:59 am By Robert Spencer

Four dead, five wounded. My latest in FrontPage:

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Shoppers who were strolling through Tel Aviv’s upscale Sarona Market on Wednesday when they suddenly encountered two (and possibly three) Palestinian Muslims observing Ramadan. The death toll is now four, and as five other people were wounded, it could rise. Ramadan has just begun, and there have already been jihad murders in Bangladesh, Egypt, and Jordan, among others — and now Israel. There will be many more.

Observing Ramadan? Yes. The killers, reportedly Palestinian cousins from Hebron, were performing what they no doubt thought was a pious act: punishing the Jews, about whom the Qur’an says: “You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews…” (5:82) The Qur’an exhorts believers: “Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people…” (9:14)

Thus in fighting against unbelievers, a Muslim becomes an executor of the divine wrath. It was against this backdrop that Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani recently called on Muslims to use this Ramadan to “get prepared, be ready … to make it a month of calamity everywhere for nonbelievers.” Ramadan is the perfect time for a “month of calamity everywhere for nonbelievers” because it is the time during which Muslims are supposed to be redoubling their piety and increasing their devotion to Allah. What better way for a Muslim to increase his devotion to Allah than by allowing Allah to use him to punish “the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers”?

The nonbelievers upon whom al-Adnani and others like him want to bring calamity include, above all, Jews, as a jihad group emphasized in its own Ramadan message four years ago: “The month of Ramadan is a month of holy war and death for Allah. It is a month for fighting the enemies of Allah and God’s messenger, the Jews and their American facilitators. One of our groups aided by Allah managed to bomb a bus full of Jewish tourists, plunderers of holy lands, after careful tracking. The holy war is not confined to a particular arena and we shall fight the Jews and the Americans until they leave the land of Islam.”

In keeping with the character of the murders as an act of Islamic piety, some eyewitnesses noted that the killers were disguised as ultra-Orthodox Jews. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “War is deceit,” and so deceiving unbelievers in wartime is a pious act just as killing them is, and deceiving them in order to kill them is best of all.

It came as no surprise, therefore, that Palestinian jihad groups were thrilled with the mass murder of innocent Israelis shopping. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh tweeted: “Glory and salutations to the Hebronites,” along with a victory emoji. Hamas also tweeted out a cartoon depicting the shooting as a Ramadan treat, a bullet encased in sweet dough. Fatah was less openly gleeful but still blamed Israel for the murders, tweeting: “Israel is reaping the repercussions of choosing violence against the Palestinian people.”

In reality, the Israelis are reaping the repercussions of living in close proximity to a people who believe that Jews are the children of apes and pigs (Qur’an 2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166), thus accursed for disobeying Allah’s express commands. Israel is reaping the repercussions of being neighbors of a people who believe that Allah has put the Jews “under humiliation wherever they are overtaken” (Qur’an 3:112). Israel is reaping the bitter repercussions of living among a people who believe they have a divine command to “drive them out from where they drove you out” (Qur’an 2:191): as Palestinian propaganda tirelessly repeats the false claim that the Palestinians were forcibly expelled from Israel when the modern Jewish state was created, the Palestinian jihad to destroy Israel utterly takes on the character of the fulfillment of the will of Allah.

Mainstream analysts consistently dismiss the idea that these Qur’an verses, and many others that excoriate and demonize Jews, have anything to do with the contemporary conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. But as many Muslims worldwide read the entire Qur’an during Ramadan, it is useful to reflect upon the fact that this means that the Muslim book’s many anti-Semitic passages are being newly recalled by multitudes.

Jihad groups routinely and unanimously couch their appeals and justifications in Qur’anic terms. The jihad murders in Tel Aviv Wednesday are a grim reminder of the fact that the Qur’an directs so much vitriol against the Jews that blood is bound to be spilled over it – especially during Ramadan.

Brace yourself: there are 25 days to go.

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  1. WorkingClassPost says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 8:12 am

    My guess is that many non believers in koranic filth, will be observing ramadamn many times on their favourite news channel over the next few weeks.

  2. David says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 8:20 am

    Ramadan! Just another lame excuse to commit MURDER or other acts of terror on your totaly INNOCENT neighbors!
    What a horrific and satanic “religion”!
    Should have been flushed down the toilet, with the rest of the, ah hum, SEWAGE, long, long ago!

    • mortimer says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 9:15 am

      Ramadan is THE REASON to commit jihad murder and terrorism…not ‘an excuse’. Ramadan celebrates the Koran and jihad-terror is the result of the celebration. The purpose of Ramadan is to stir up hatred of the kafirs and love of jihad and DEATH.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jun 9, 2016 at 11:28 am

        You got that backwards mort
        Muslim have no (reason), Ramadan is just an attempted EXCUSE.
        Islam was founded to EXCUSE Muhammad’s disgrace.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jun 9, 2016 at 11:29 am

        David is very correct.

    • ICH says

      Jun 10, 2016 at 7:56 am

      agreed David

  3. Angemon says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 9:04 am

    Brace yourself: there are 25 days to go.

    Sums it up nicely. Plus, the Euro is coming.

  4. mortimer says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 9:13 am

    ‘THE MONTH OF JIHAD’ (Ramadan) has arrived!

    Everybody watch for suspicious Muslims. We are all on the front line of jihad.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 11:35 am

      After the carnage what we too often forget is that Muslims themselves are exceedingly vulnerable too.

      Never, ever forget that every Muslim’s religion is founded on an evil buffoon and despite the bloodshed Islam is still and has always been a satanic buffoon’s JOKE.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 11:44 am

      WATCH!

      “Watch me pray
      Are you impressed
      Hey! I said, Watch me pray”

      “I feel pretty,
      Oh, so pretty,
      I feel pretty and witty and bright!
      And I pity
      Any girl who isn’t me tonight.”

      “Grrrr! That makes me so angry.
      You are not watching me do my DUTY
      Don’t these infidels realize how special Muslims are?”

      Time to spill so blood to show them they cannot ignore Muslims at Ramadan.

  5. JOHN SPIELMAN says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 9:41 am

    ramaDAMN, the season for reason to kill in the name of allah(satan of the Bible) and molech, baal of the Canaanite peoples) who love human scrifice

  6. linnte says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 9:47 am

    Mr. Spencer, thank you for your “reading the Qur’an” posts for Ramadan. I am saving them too. Such good information! You are the best teacher anyone could ask for!

    • WorkingClassPost says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 10:34 am

      Yes, I’m reading through them slowly also.

      Too much to absorb all at once, probably take me the length of ramadamn to get through them.

      That Mo bloke sure had plenty to say, for such a murderous bastard – a bit like those serial killers and rapists who keep a diary to list all their atrocities.

      • linnte says

        Jun 9, 2016 at 10:47 am

        That’s why I saved them. Like pouring over a good novel that is too good to finish! Hahahaha!

  7. c matt says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 10:35 am

    Another day, another 10 Muslim terror attacks.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 11:09 am

    Just yesterday the brutal and murderous jihad terror attack in the city of Tel Aviv in the State of Israel was heinous act of Islamic terrorism. Be it by operatives of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, or members of some other like-minded jihad entity. Even if those two jihad-mind Muslims were engaging in a “lone Wolf” jihad attack. All such deadly violent action is sanctioned in the “holy book’ of Islam the Koran. Which instructs in violence and killing for the cause of Islam. As found in, for example, 4: 89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. In other words the Koran inspires and causes such hideous violence. Furthermore, another role the Koran has in such deadly Islamic terror attacks in the Jewish nation of Israel is that the Koran contains many negative about the Jewish people. The reason that the Koran reads as it does have much to do with the history of the founder and prophet of Islam, who is Muhammad. This is for a specific time period of his life Muhammad lived among many Jewish people and he liked them at first. Later then they would not accept his claim of being of prophet, Muhammad then took is dislike to them that then turned into bitterness and even hate for them. So in the hate and bitterness he spoke many derogatory things about the as even referring to them as “apes and swine.” Such word of bitterness and hate, along with other thing he said, where written down on things and then later after his death those words were together together and then eventually, in time went in the composition of the Koran. Therefore, that why the Koran reads and in does about the Jewish people, as in calling them descendants of “apes and swine.” As seen in the Koran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60. Furthermore, as a Christian I can keyboard that there is a chance the Muhammad actually might had been a prophet but the important thing to understand is that Muhamad was NOT a prophet send by God. Instead, Muhammad was a deceptive, lying false prophet send by Satan to lead many people astray and even and straight into hell. Jesus, in fact, had predicted and warned of the coming of such men as Muhammad. For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15. In addition, the Bible further warns that “many false prophets are gone out into the world.” First John 4:1. [K.J.V.]

  9. Mo says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 2:49 pm

    Why is this death cult allowed to be practiced in Israel AT ALL?

  10. Guy Jones says

    Jun 9, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    “The holy war is not confined to a particular arena and we shall fight the Jews and the Americans until they leave the land of Islam.”
    ——–

    An odd and dishonst statement, for two reasons. A) given that Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Christianity predate Islam’s founding, the reference to “the land of Islam” is typically arrogant and self-entitled. B) These statements make it sound as though the only motivation for jihadist violence is the presence of western troops and/or, Israelis, in the Middle East. In other words, the old trope of terrorism as allegedly legitimate “resistance” against an alleged oppressor, on behalf of the allegedly “oppressed,” and, all that. But, we know that the supremacist nature and scripture of Islam demands never-ending jihad against “infidels.”. So, the notion that jihadist violence would never occur if Israel didn’t exist, or, if western troops left the Middle East, is a total lie. Muslims have been at war with non-Muslims for 1,400 years, since that vile ideology’s founding.

    • linnte says

      Jun 9, 2016 at 6:37 pm

      Thanks Guy! You just solidified my attempt to NOT see Israel as the oppressor here. I know it sounds silly, but I have been so indoctrinated by the left for all my life. Trying to SEE Israel as good has been hard for me! It “clicked” with your words! Thanks!

  11. melancholy observer says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 6:56 am

    Just yesterday in my neighbouring suburb of Hornsby in Sydney , Australia an ‘escaped psychiatric patient’ rushed at police with a knife. The scenes brought mayhem and terror at the Hornsby Westfield shopping centre. The police shot and wounded him but unfortunately ricocheting bullets hit two oldele ladies as well. The news of course was major front page story on Sydney’s daily Telegraph. At the end of the article which emphasised his psychiatric status, it was pointed out that he was mumbling in Arabic and shouted ‘allah el aqbar’.The culprit’s name was Jerry Sourian an escaped psychiatric patient. I would like to know whether Islamic militancy could have exacerbated his psychiatric condition, or vice versa? The media of course doesn’t seem interested in the issue, only emphasising his psychiatric condition and the botched police response!

  12. cookiebaker says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 7:09 am

    Another atrocity of horrific portions and the “lockjaw” press and politacrats stay silent.
    How can the rest of the world stand mute to this too ?
    Easy with the HUGE myth the nation and the land belongs, to a old Roman misnomer placed on the in-posters.
    The one above he asked and found one Nation willing to accept the terms before evening knowing the “details”.To live in this holy land.Certain deviant , barbaric practices are forbidden and the only the true inhabitants can make it grow!
    Hebron in “modern” times has a quota and waiting list for Jews to live there!While the “religion of peace”(not)!Uses the cemeteries to graze animals and celebrates and perpetrates carnage and mayhem. And Who would you rather have as your neighbors?

  13. Jane Conlon says

    Jun 10, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    Those Muslims do love to observe that Act Like a Rat holiday.

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