Because jihad had such a great image up to now.
This is not a sign of Hizballah’s “moderation,” although the establishment media will try to portray it that way. This is just Shia contempt for a Sunni organization, the Islamic State. Shi’ites in general don’t carry out lone jihad massacres such as Barcelona, although there have been exceptions.
“Hezbollah condemns Barcelona attack, saying it ‘harms the image of jihad,'” by Yasser Okbi and Maariv Hashavua, Jerusalem Post, August 20, 2017:
Hezbollah on Friday strongly condemned the terror attack allegedly carried out by ISIS on Thursday in Barcelona.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, in which a van rammed into a crowd on a busy tourist street in the Spanish city, killing 14 and injuring over 100. It was followed by another similar attack in the coastal city of Cambrils, in which five suspects were shot and killed by police.
The Lebanon-based terrorist organization said the attack was “further proof of the criminal culture” of ISIS, and that the group’s members “are influenced by a culture of hatred of people and the killing and destruction of their property, on false pretexts that are unacceptable to common sense or religion.”
Hezbollah also added that “turning innocent civilians into targets for murder is part of a satanic plan carried out by [ISIS] terrorists” and that the group’s goal “is to harm the image of jihad and to contaminate the image of Islam.”
The Shi’ite organization called on the world to work together to eliminate ISIS, first by pressuring regional and international forces that support the group with funding and defense….
Kristian says
It is a different matter, of course, when the attack would have been in Tel Aviv.
James says
Only 114 casualties ? The Muzz are slipping.
mgoldberg says
When in the throes of the Iran/Iraq war, and the stalemate had the front thru those border areas, the shias, marched young men, boys with head bands saying ‘I have permission from the Ayatollah to enter heaven directly’ and were marched thru the mined areas to blow up the hidden armaments so the tanks wouldn’t be destroyed. I remember something like 25,000 were killed. And that was their own.
manat bint allaha says
and that is bad news how?
FYI says
“It harms the image of jihad”?
How about..
allah….harming the image of the True God?
muhammed….harming the image of all True Prophets?
jibreel….harming the good name of the Angel Gabriel?
the koran….harming the Biblical revelation and Original Commandments of God which it doesn’t follow?
islam…harming the image of muslims?
I’m sorry but I really have to laugh at the Hizbollah ,this “party of god”.
What God are we talking about here guys?
allah ,who curses the Jews and the Christians k9;30?
The anti-Semitic god of islam.
allah, who appears to have completely misunderstood the importance of impressing upon his followers the need to actually OBEY GOD’S ORIGINAL COMMANDMENTS IN THEIR UNEQUIVOCATED FORM
-no murdering,no stealing,no sexual slavery of women,no taqqiya(LYING!)etc..
allah, who thinks he can overthrow the Judeo-Christian God{the God of the Two Chief Commandments}?
That’s not going to happen!!
Would it kill you to read,follow and OBEY God’s Original Commandments(..allah doesn’t list them in his koran…and muhammed seems not to have understood the importance of obeying them…)?
See if you can find the Two Chief Commandments(..allah totally forgot these…).They are called Chief for a reason.
Now I am off to draw a herd of elephants…. in the room called islam…
manat bint allaha says
don’t kill, makes murder look bad.
Veracious_one says
noticed they did not condemn the Quranic verses that instruct the Mohammedans to kill…
underbed cat says
No and they never can speak about it….we know why.
SK says
Be aware of the spin! Hezbollah is angling themselves as an wholesome “alternative” and “better” than AQ.
WaPo writers are being hooked
https://mobile.twitter.com/LizSly/status/891805053056692224?
https://mobile.twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/892011053340659712
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/08/16/washington-post-reporter-smears-iraq-war-vets-potential-extremists-shilling-hezbollah-terrorists/
James says
Murder by bullet or murder by bomb, you’re dead either way. Odd how these organisations don’t get that.
Eur says
We have no solution, in social networks everything is auticritic to our society and empathy towards the Muslims. The Moroccans came to Catalonia to live better by fleeing their societies in which they had no opportunities.
Social housing, scholarships, social assistance, free health, free education, access to vocational training, work … even religious freedom … everything they do not offer or allow. However they educated their children in hatred of the unfaithful and did not care when they were meeting with a Salafist and receiving messages of more hatred. Now they even receive hugs and support from Catalan society. Lambs hugging wolves. We are committing suicide. Muslims owe for the truth, although it hurts them, their culture and religion is not compatible with a free and democratic society, their religious message is of hatred of the different, of conquest and submission. Enough now, Islam must stop or there will be a rise of fascism, hatred … and this will end in war, all against all. Islam must disappear.
ElderlyZionist says
“Shi’ites in general don’t carry out lone jihad massacres such as Barcelona…”
Lebanese Shia, and Hizballah in particular, are known for targeted assassinations of political opponents, such as Bashir Gemayal and Rafik Hariri. They may murder dozens of bystanders with their bombs, but they have a specific target. This is one of the ways they have imposed a reign of terror on Lebanon, and they will repeat the tactic any time it suits them.
Lydia says
Harming it by not being bloody enough, not killing enough, not using big enough shiny swords and machetes? Was it too wimpy for their image?
brane pilot says
Islam is beginning to over-reach in Europe.
Islam is still 10 years behind where it needs to be to conduct tactical operations designed to cow the populace into final submission.
This could blow up in their face.
L. Kson says
It is a little different with Barcelona……since there have been large demonstrations against ” Israelis occupation ” of Palestine……the Catalans are very pro Palestine and anti Israel…….
Here is one reason why they might have denounced the attack….
alex smythe says
I understand that in general, Catalonian separatists have facilitated the mass-importation of poorly-vetted Muslim immigrants into Catalonia, and have supported fast-tracking them to Spanish citizenship, with the hopes (likely justified), that these new Catalonians would vote for independence from Spain in a referendum.
If true, this kind of view is too short-sighted and costly, as we have just seen with the terrorist attacks in Barcelona. Anyhow, Spain is much stronger as a united country. Catalonians can keep their language and culture without breaking the country apart. Would any Spaniards on here please comment?