I’m finishing work soon on a book entitled The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, which explodes many, many historical myths that are current today. And along the way, it also shows that Muslims declaring other Muslims insufficiently Muslim on some grounds or other and then beginning to kill them is a phenomenon as old as Islam itself, beginning with the Khawarij in the seventh century and recurring in revivalist movements throughout Islamic history. This is just the latest example of this phenomenon, in a long, long line.
“ISIS declares war on Hamas with sickening execution video as it vows to overthrow them from the Gaza Strip for failing to stop Trump’s Jerusalem move,” by Alex Green, Mailonline, January 5, 2018:
The Egyptian branch of ISIS has declared war on Palestinian terrorist group Hamas for failing to stop Donald Trump declaring Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
In a brutal propaganda video – purporting to show the execution of a Hamas affiliate – the jihadi group declared war on the Palestinian terror group, which controls much of the Gaza Strip.
Tensions between the rival terrorist organisations have spiralled since 2015, when ISIS released a video saying it would overthrow Gaza’s ‘tyrants’ for their apparent lack of religious fundamentalism.
ISIS’s most recent video released on Wednesday shows the man, accused of selling weapons to Hamas, on his knees in an orange jumpsuit.
In the footage the group says it had also declared war on Hamas for its crackdown on small ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim Salafi groups in Gaza.
According to Site, a US monitoring agency that keeps track of jihadi platforms, the 22-minute video shows a man, identified as Abu Kazem al-Maqdisi, urging Islamic followers in Gaza to mount attacks on Hamas.
Maqdisi, who is originally from Gaza but now preaches hate in Sinai, says in the footage: ‘[Hamas] uses its smuggled weapons to empower that which was not revealed by God.
‘It also fights supporters of the Islamic State in Gaza and the Sinai and prevents the migration of these supporters from Gaza to the Sinai.’
Towards the end of the recording, the narrator identifies the Hamas collaborator as Musa Abu Zamat.
Zamat is then shot in the back of his head at point-blank range by an Islamist holding a pistol, reports the International Business Times.
One militant steps forward, saying: ‘Never surrender to them. Use explosives, silenced pistols and sticky bombs.
‘Bomb their courts and their security locations, for these are the pillars of tyranny that prop up its throne.’
The propaganda video cuts to images of Khaled Meshaal, the former Hamas leader who stepped down in April this year, alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran has publicly backed the Palestinian group in recent years, providing it with missiles and funding its extensive tunnel network it uses to enter Israeli territory, reports Newsweek….
Mo says
Another book?! Robert, HOW do you do it? I’m already 2, maybe 3 books behind in buying/reading!
CRUSADER says
“The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS”
HIGHLY anticipated book
and also
VERY useful and necessary
With Gratitude!
Looking forward….
DEUS VULT
+++++++++
mortimer says
Crusader, we defeat Islam as an ideology by spreading information about it’s ideological errors. Islam does not contain the Golden Rule and is opposed to critical, rational thought.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Mo–Robert Spencer is indefatigable.
Tim says
agreed Mo, as far as energy goes Robert and Pres. Trump must be smoking the same stuff. Of course if one smokes the same stuff you must expect millions of people want you dead also.. Looking forward to your latest, Robert.
Older Canadian says
Oh wonderful. Now ISIS has moved from Syria and Iraq.
It will never stop.
Jack Dawkins says
Memo to ISIS;
Islam is a Jewish plot
Remember911 says
LOL that should mess with their heads nicely.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Ibrahim itace is not far away from believing that.
He claims that Saudi Wahabism and Iran are zionist mossad plots.
All this would be comical
If it didn’t mean so much death and mayhem.
LeftisruiningCanada says
I’d prefer Ibrahim to die to himself and be made alive in Christ, but it’s not my choice..
mariam rove says
Terrorists V terrorists! Good news here! M
gravenimage says
Good to see you posting again, mariam. Happy New Year to you!
I wanted to ask you what you think of the demonstrations in Iran?
Linde Barrera says
ISIS = Islamic cowards. Hamas = Islamic cowards. Salafists = Islam cowards. Taliban, Hezbollah, PA, PLO, etc. While it would not be Christian of me to
wish/hope that they all shoot each other and rid the world of their disgusting selves, (because they all have a soul and can be converted to Jesus Christ, God Incarnate) I wish there were somewhere these cowards and maniacs could live apart from Western civilization so they would not bother anybody but their own type. And that fabulous fictitious place would make them get castrated or sterilized so that they could not have offspring. Just thinking out loud for a possible movie!
gravenimage says
Actually, the Muslim world *was* largely isolated from the West until recently, and we were all a lot safer.
mortimer says
Linde, just introduce one SUBSTANTIAL doubt in the mind of a Muslim and he cannot be fervent about Islam. After seeing a serious error, absurdity or preposterous claim in the Koran and finding no valid answer, a Muslim often sours on Islam, realizing, he has been tricked.
DFD says
Of course I am OFF TOPIC – as I am mostly
(But thanks that so far nobody has complained 🙂
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So, here is something of interest – I think.
Actually, sad truth would be more appropriate, I believe.
Whatever…
Nation of sheep (Also known as USA – but she’s missing Europe,
we have several like these. OK, OK, many such as these…)
tinyurl.com/y924wshb and: Cultural Hegemony (Also known as Frankfurters…
Well, the “fruits” of their labors) and: tinyurl.com/y8u5hntn and: Offensive Lingo
(Don’t you wish for a safe space for us normies?) tinyurl.com/y8bbdytu and… Detroit & Hiroshima
tinyurl.com/y9rn28ao and: Ambortionists & Mars tinyurl.com/yc7wcfcd and: Solving the right problem?
tinyurl.com/y87kg9kn and: Mainstream Media – everywhere! and: tinyurl.com/yaeb5s4v
Breaking News – also everywhere! and: tinyurl.com/ybr7zpc3
PS: Sorry for “sticking” the links together, but postings of mine containing links are automatically deleted.
Remember911 says
Gibberish. Seek help.
gravenimage says
DFD, I genrederally appreciate your off-topic posts.
But why do you consider the US to be a nation of sheep? Some are, certainly–but there is more breadth and freedom of thought here than in many, perhaps most, places.
I agree that public vulgarity is an ugly thing–but given the horrors of encroaching Islam, far from the worst thing we face.
And there have *always* been hospital errors–there are, indeed, more safeguards against them now than ever before in history, and overall the US has some of the best hospitals in the world. The only thing that has changed is that we hear about them more now. My stepmother is a retired nurse–this just isn’t something the public knew about much until recently. I’m not making light of this–far from it–just saying that this is not a new or worsening problem. Just the opposite, in fact.
DFD says
Graven, yeah, that post went wrong, completely garbled. It’s over here: tinyurl.com/yav8k94l These are links to pictures, not my statements, but comments to these, and these themselves are caricatures.
Have fun with these, though, they are also somewhat sad… As is often the case with satire and sarcasm.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Please don’t use compressed URLs. They are useful in tweets and such (where character counts are restricted) but otherwise … how do I know it’s not a malicious site?
gravenimage says
I’m not sure what your point is then, DFD.
PRCS says
Is genrederally a real word?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Just a few thoughts on your completely, outrageously, OT post 🙂
1) It always pays to be wary of those who refer to everybody else as ‘sheep’ (apart from Jesus; He is God, so it’s ok) It often comes from a place of contempt towards everyone who doesn’t know the great and weighty secrets of reality they have come to grasp.
2) + 3) In broad agreement with the points. There are plenty of groups and individuals who have been working to undermine traditional Christian morality in the West, the marxists being just one of them. As a Christian i obviously see these as an expression of fallen mankind’s rebellion against our Creator.
The beliefs that are producing the content we see in the images you posted are also part of the reason why islam is finding the West an easier target than before.
4) The images aren’t exactly the best comparison due to the scales, but it’s a fair point. While it’s not impossible for government spending to create very nice looking places, the source of the cash used to fund it usually comes from tax and/or massive debt. Pyongyang looks great in photos, as do many capitals of dictator run nations, but it sure isn’t a sign of any created wealth.
5) That’s an interesting one. Actually, many pro aborts would say the two are the same, and are just easy easily disposed of if we choose. Either that, or they would say that, while the one is independent life, the other is totally dependent, and cannot therefore be considered a separate life at all. They consider the unborn to be merely like another bodily organ, to be removed if convenient.
The problem with that is the fact that the unborn have their own unique human DNA, making them not part of the mothers body in the same way as an organ, and also the fact that the mothers body, from conception, is secreting high levels of progesterone which acts like a localized immuno-suppressant, so that her body doesn’t start attacking the unborn child like can happen with organ transplants.
It is not her body; she is caring for someone elses body. Big difference.
6)It puts things in perspective. We accept accidents involving medication because of their unquestionable benefits. Firearms are however condemned by many, because of the accidents and misuse of them. There is some difference, since we talking about willful misuse, but i think the point holds. If we transfer the case to motor vehicles, it is even stronger imho.
7) + 8) Yeah, the level of news media is pretty bad a lot of the time. Some is OK. The better ones get more to the point of things by talking about the ideas behind the events, rather than just presenting everything as unconnected events. The CBC in Canada is so bad..so very very bad.
Thanks DFD, was fun! But SO off topic 😉
DFD says
Nice to hear there are fellow Christians!
elee says
Cage fight! Two walk in, one walks out!
Napoleon Bonaparte: “When one’s enemy is destroying himself one does not intervene.”
The prize is the UNRWA subsidy stream. Please contact your Senator, especially if he or she sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, and urge prompt passage for S 169, Marco Rubio’s bill conditioning future US funding for UNRWA on disavowal of anti-Semitism and membership in anti-Semitic organizations.
RonaldB says
Bad idea.
Unconditional defunding for UNRWA is far preferable. Passing Rubio’s bill would just provide cover for continued funding of a useless and harmful parasite organization.
gravenimage says
Since the “Palestinians” are never going to disavow their hatred of Jewish people, this may be a moot point. I think Rubio’s bill is a good step.
eduardo odraude says
RonaldB, the situation is perhaps the very opposite of what you suggest. Passing Rubio’s bill would provide cover for ending funding of UNRWA. After all, it’s much harder for the Left to complain about cutting off anti-Semitic organizations, than it is for the Left to complain about cutting off “Palestianians”. Rubio’s bill sounds like a good idea.
Hugo Hackenbush says
Mr. Spencer, can’t wait for the new book! Just what I’ve been looking-for since the Will and Ariel Durant series (the volume called “The Age of Faith”) with Mr. you-know-who on the cover.
Hope you will publish on the Kindle or Nook for those of us saving space and weight on a plane.
gravenimage says
Hugo, my understanding is that the versions for Kindle and Nook come out a couple of weeks after the hard-bound book.
Hugo Hackenbush says
Thank you, will watch for the release.
762x51FMJ says
This is a classic example of why Jimmy Carter
was an idiot…
Jimmy Carter’s Arab spring, ( give back Sinai to Egypt and refuse to back the Shah of Iran).
The world is still paying for Jimmy Carters appeasement to Islam.
gravenimage says
True.
balafama says
oh my GOD im in africa right now and just burst out laughing at the article
Manny says
I wonder if the Sunni/Shi’a animosity has anything to do with this. Isn’t Hamas Shi’a? I know ISIS is Sunni.
gravenimage says
Even though Hamas has sometimes worked with Hizb’allah, which is Shia, Hamas itself is Sunni. Most “Palestinian” Muslims are Sunnis.
Manny says
Thanks. Hi Bella his Shi’a. Got them confused.
Eur says
Robert, do not forget to include the Almoravid invasions in Spain. The almoravides were the isis of that time, they decided to invade the peninsula, mentioning that the Muslims, who already dominated a good part of the peninsula, were not Islamic enough. You can also refer to almanzor and hizo razzias against the Christian kingdoms … The history of Spain and the myth of al andalus is a good source to understand jihad. When there were political tensions among the Muslims, the leaders used to declare jihad to unite the Muslims … and they attacked the Christians of the north, they stole, destroyed churches, raped, kidnapped …
gravenimage says
Islamic State declares jihad on Hamas for failing to stop Trump’s Jerusalem move
……………………
OK–that got a laugh.
I wish Muslims would spend all their savagery declaring Jihad on each other. If only…
balafama says
this is why muslims keep killing each other . even if there are no more infidels they’ll turn on one another
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yep, the snake will eat itself given chance.
RonaldB says
Here’s a question.
One Muslim fanatic is murdered by another Muslim fanatic for not being fanatic enough.
Does the murdered fanatic claim his reward as a shahid or as an apostate? If the murdered fanatic receives the usual terrorist family subsidy from the PLO, should the price of the virgins be deducted?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Let God sort them out.
Manos says
The religion of peace. Halaluyah, Amen.
elee says
The utopian joys of dar-es-salaam, on exhibit in Tehran and Yemen and Somalia.
Champ says
“Islamic State declares jihad on Hamas” …
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mohammedans eat their own …and have been since the beginning.
Yep islam is *wholly* evil.
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslims do eat their own. What a foul creed.
R Russell says
Fantastic news. Maybe they will wipe each other out!!
Let’s get all the remaining Copts out of Sinai before it is too late.
jewdog says
I like the intra-jihad. Just make some popcorn and watch the fun.
Sam says
“Islamic State declares jihad on Hamas for failing to stop Trump’s Jerusalem move”
I am all for Jihad against Hamas and Hezbullah. I would say go for it guys!!!
Let’s not forget Islam is still a “religion of peace”
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“… Muslims declaring other Muslims insufficiently Muslim on some grounds or other and then beginning to kill them is a phenomenon as old as Islam itself …”
I call it the Takfiri Two-Step. Even when there are no kufars in sight, the killing still continues.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Thomas Kimball says
This just in ! Local Palestinian imam holds gun to his head and says” if America moves it’s embassy to Jerusalem I’ll shoot , I really mean it! Stop or the Muslim gets in the head” pictures at 11:00 .
Thomas Kimball says
In further news the U.N. has declared the action taken by the Imam as islamiphobic and condemned the action as hateful and bigoted . Both the British PM and Adolph Merkel of the 4th Reich have also weighed in on the matter condemning both President Trump and the Palestinian Imam! More news as it develops:
gravenimage says
🙂
Voytek Gagalka says
Excellent news! Let them jihad each other and thus be an end of both of them. And those Mohammedans dream about “conquering of the whole world”? As valid as their invented “paradise”: it will NEVER happen.
Thomas Kimball says
You really have to use your imagination to think up stuff crazier than muslim reality! Not to mention the insanity of western politicians!!!!!
Silvia says
I don’t have the time to read the whole thread now but this shit gets better. The terrorist with the gun who’s about to execute the other terrorist, is the son of some big shot terrorist from Hamas! ROFL.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Another example of how the Palestinians are considered as caged fighting dogs kept hungry and vicious by their ‘brothers’.
gravenimage says
Yes. No other “refugee” situation has ever gone on for so long.
Thomas Kimball says
Ah, the good ole days, plain old muslim on muslim violence! Who needs predator drones when you have ISLAM!!!!!! Kind of nostalgic seeing a muslim with a pistol pointed at another muslims head! Come on guys what would the pope think?
LeftisruiningCanada says
He might think that a muslim with a gun in his hand, is not a muslim.
Ray Jarman says
I personally think that Israel could benefit in several ways. First, if the PA & Hamas fight against IS, Israel will have a much weaker enemy. Second, if IS were to defeat the other two, Israel in partnership with the US would be able to reduce the entire Arabic (I use the word Arabic since as Robert Spencer has pointed out many times, there never has been a Palestine, so how can a group refer to themselves as belonging to a nation that doesn’t exist) opposition to a point that a one state option would suffice. Either way Israel would be the winner.
mortimer says
Islam considers all man-made law to be blasphemous!
Quote: “Bomb their courts and their security locations, for these are the pillars of tyranny that prop up its throne.”
Lawyers, judges, police officers, soldiers are all considered legitimate targets for ISIS, since they have not submitted to the Caliphate.
(Where in the world is Caliph al-Baghdadi?)
Santa Voorhees says
Well, let them kill each other then!
CRUSADER says
During the Crusades,
it was useful when Muslims
would fight amongst themselves…..
DEUS VULT
+++++++++
LeftisruiningCanada says
Unfortunately, it was also useful to the muslims when we turned on ourselves, and our own guys wrecked Constantinople.
Seems like it takes that kind of thing for islam to get the upper hand.
eduardo odraude says
Way cool. Looking forward to the new book. Very much enjoyed the most recent one, Confessions of An Islamophobe.
Sharyati says
Well same story since the days of the Caliph-ul-Rashidun. Aisha declaring war on Ali, Ali being murdered at Karbala, all 3 rightly guided caliphs, except i think Abu Bakr being murdered, now the ISIS callling the Hamas Takfiri. An unbroken tradition i should say.!!!
CRUSADER says
Not only should you say it.
You did!
😉
Sharyati says
🙂
Chris Malan says
That’s good news, isn’t it? Two Muslim groups having a go at each other. Unless it’s some kind of trick and they’re actually working together to achieve something.
Baucent says
This is the mad mad world of Islamic fantasies and rivalry. I’m surprised the ISIS group didn’t suggest Hamas was the puppet for the Israeli Mossad.
LeftisruiningCanada says
There’s a guy on here who can found saying that kind of thing.
larry says
Well, when Muslims are killing other Muslims, don’t get in the way.
Linnte says
Which is exactly why I think the USA should stay out of Islamic nations business and let them destroy each other.
Linnte says
This book is NEEDED Mr. Spencer! Thanks and God BLESS you!
Eur says
Robert, do not forget to include the Almoravid invasions in Spain. The almoravides were the isis of that time, they decided to invade the peninsula, mentioning that the Muslims, who already dominated a good part of the peninsula, were not Islamic enough. You can also refer to almanzor and hizo razzias against the Christian kingdoms … The history of Spain and the myth of al andalus is a good source to understand jihad. When there were political tensions among the Muslims, the leaders used to declare jihad to unite the Muslims … and they attacked the Christians of the north, they stole, destroyed churches, raped, kidnapped …
Mahendra Singh says
ISIS = Violent Muslims
HAMAS = Violent Muslims committed to Israel’s destruction
ISIS declared Jihad on Hamas. The only punishment Jihad brings is death.
possibly with torture as a bonus.These words should be music to our ears,
because it Muslim on Muslim violence, which is good news.
tgusa says
Isis vs. hamas.
Popcorn, get your hot popcorn here!
Gamaliel says
May Allah grant them both victory against each other. Allahu Akbar!
dumbledoresarmy says
I think there’s an apocryphal story about when Shiite Islamic Iran and Sunni-dominated Islamic Iraq were going at each other hammer and tongs, and some Israeli statesman was asked what he thought, and he remarked sarcastically that he wished them a long and healthy war.
It’s an ‘always-fight’ mentality that Islam inculcates in its adherents: a default mindset of suspicion, deceit, and preemptive aggression, because they always suppose the worst of everybody including the bruvvas; they’re always watching each other with a beady eye. There is no real trust in the Dar al Islam. A girl-child can’t trust her own father or brother not to kill her on some flimsy pretext cooked up in his own perfervid addled-by-Islam imagination.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali talks about the mind of Islam, the suspicion and aggression, in her book ‘Nomad”.
And Jacques Ellul, in his brief and brilliant essay on ‘Jihad’ that he wrote as foreword for Bat Yeor’s “The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam”, observes succinctly that “wars within Islam have been numerous, and always with the same features”.
I quote – “…Since the jihad is not solely an external war, it can break out within the Muslim world itself – and wars among Muslims have been numerous, but always with the same features.
Hence, the second important specific characteristic is that the jihad is an institution and not an event, that is to say it is part of the normal functioning of the Muslim world. ..”.”.
The first of those two statements throws an entirely new light on all those many claims that jihad is about ‘internal struggle’. What if it is in fact.. what we vulgar kuffar call “civil war” or “internecine warfare”?
So anything that Islamic State and Hamas might engage in, toward each other, is nothing but the Ummah engaging in a bit of ‘inner struggle’…