The United States will no longer contribute to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees, the State Department announced Friday [August 31], amid widespread Palestinian outrage charging that the decision violates international law and will aggravate an already dire humanitarian situation, particularly in Gaza.
The Washington Post should explain to readers, if it can, what “international law” the “Palestinians” claim has been violated. I do not think there is any. Contributions to UNRWA are voluntary. In any case, the invocation, without more, of a vague and unexplained “international law” should be noted by the reporters.
The statement called the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, an “irredeemably flawed operation” and criticized other countries for not sharing the burden of supporting the Palestinians.
Nowhere in this report is there any information about other donors to UNRWA. One would like to know, for example, how much the Gulf Arab states, with their hundreds of billions received annually from an accident of geology, have contributed to UNRWA. But nothing is said in the Post article about what Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar have given to UNRWA over the years. Would it not be relevant to point out that of the top fourteen contributors to UNRWA, all but one — Saudi Arabia — are non-Muslim Western countries? If, as the “Palestinians” claim, “international law” requires the funding of UNRWA, why are the Muslim Arab states not contributing? Why has UNRWA been almost entirely funded by non-Muslims?
Blaming UNRWA and other international donors for failing to reform the organization’s “way of doing business,” the statement said the United States remained “very mindful of and deeply concerned regarding the impact upon innocent Palestinians, especially school children.”
Among the administration’s many complaints about the agency — to which the United States contributed about one third of a $1.1 billion 2017 budget — is the way the United Nations calculates the number of Palestinians officially recognized as refugees. It would like to decrease the number from the more than 5 million who are counted today to the few hundred thousand alive when the agency was created seven decades ago, according to U.S. officials.
There is a serious error in this paragraph. It misstates how the American government thinks the number of legitimate “Palestinian” refugees should be calculated. It is not a matter of “the few hundred thousand alive when the agency was created,” but rather, of how many who were refugees in 1949 are still alive today. There are no longer “a few hundred thousand” such survivors, but rather, at most between 20,000 and 40,000 legitimate refugees, and it is only these whom the Administration thinks merit its support.
The administration has generally tried to cut back foreign aid, refocusing its attention on those countries and organizations that match “U.S. policy priorities,” officials said. The UNRWA pullback is also a response, in the words of Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to Palestinian hostility toward the United States, which intensified after U.S. policy changes that Palestinians deem pro-Israel.
Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said the pro-Israel bias of President Trump’s administration has disqualified it from any role in the peace process.
If the “Palestinians” refuse to deal with the United States, then there will be no “peace process.” That’s not a bad thing. For Israel, that can be a good thing. Israel keeps the peace in only one way, through deterrence — the same way that NATO kept the peace with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. As long as Israel is perceived by Muslim Arabs as overwhelmingly more powerful, they will not try a full-scale onslaught. Putting an end to all this peace-processing is not something to lament, but to welcome. For such a “peace process” with Muslim Arabs could only lead to a treaty — like the disastrous Oslo Accords — whereby Israel would give up something tangible, such as control of land important for its defense, in exchange for promises from “Palestinians” that will be broken at the first conceivable opportunity, on the model of Muhammad’s treaty with the Quraysh at Al-Hudaibiyya in 628 A.D.
“By cutting aid, the U.S. is violating international law,” Erekat said, speaking several hours before the State Department announcement. He argued that “UNRWA is not a Palestinian agency” but was established by the United Nations, “and there is an international obligation to assist and support it until all the problems of the Palestinian refugees are solved.”
UNRWA is a “Palestinian” agency insofar as it is staffed almost entirely by “Palestinians,” distributes largesse only to “Palestinians,” and lobbies governments worldwide to contribute ever larger amounts to those same “Palestinians.” There is no “international obligation” to assist and support UNRWA “until all the problems of the ‘Palestinian’ refugees are solved.” We know what Saeb Erekat means by that: he means that such aid should continue indefinitely until the “Palestinians” get what they want, and what they want is the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state, and its replacement by a Muslim Arab one.
“Erekat added: “Some may argue that it is U.S. taxpayers’ money and that it is up to them how it is spent. But by the same token, who gave Trump the damn right to steal my land and my capital and my future and my aspirations and my freedom by deciding to blindly support the occupying power called Israel?”
Erekat has it partly right: it is up to American taxpayers, and their government, to decide if they want to keep funding this unique class of “refugees” — consisting not just of real refugees, but of their ever-increasing number of descendants.
Notice the hysterical blaming of America: how did Trump “steal my land and my capital and my future and my aspirations and my freedom”? Doesn’t the PA right now have the ability to mold much of its own destiny? Wasn’t it the “Palestinians” themselves who by making incessant war have done so much to destroy their own futures? Was it Trump who caused the “Palestinians” to destroy the greenhouses that in 2005 had been handed over to them intact by the Israelis, in the hope that the Arabs would continue with the business, and even expand it, only to find that the “Palestinians” in Gaza ruined them all? It is Trump who has caused Hamas to divert so much money, time, and energy to the digging of terror tunnels from Gaza into Israeli territory, where terrorists might travel through them into Israel, and attack Israeli civilians, or might tunnel, in the other direction, into the Egyptian-held Sinai, in order to smuggle weapons back in to Gaza? Blame Trump, blame Israel, blame the West for all the supposed ills endured by the “Palestinians,” who for 70 years have been the most spoiled of all refugees in modern history, taken care of by UNRWA, a special U.N.agency devoted entirely to lavishing support on every descendant, no matter how distant, of every original Arab refugee. No other group of refugees has a U.N. Agency devoted solely to its indefinite care and feeding.
Erekat also predicted that the potential end of UNRWA, if other funding is not forthcoming, would spell disaster for places where large numbers of Palestinian refugees reside, leaving them at risk for recruitment by extremist groups such as the Islamic State.
Erekat makes hysterical claims. He promises that without America’s $360 million contribution to UNRWA, there will be “disaster.” Then he offers a bit of standard blackmail. Give us the funding we “Palestinians” are used to getting, he insists, for otherwise some of our refugees may join the Islamic State and similar groups. If that reasoning were to be accepted, then Muslims everywhere could join in, with similar threats — give us more aid money (in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Nigeria, you name it), or else “extremist groups” may prevail. There is no logical end to this kind of threat. And the biggest blackmailer has been UNRWA, for if America and the West decrease the amounts they give or, worse still, cease to contribute to UNRWA at all, it will supposedly collapse (not the slightest hint is dropped that rich Arab donors could easily replace the Americans) and — so the threat goes — the “radicalization” of “Palestinian” refugees will inevitably follow. Thy will have no alternative except to join the ranks of the “extremists.”
UNRWA provides aid, mostly in the form of education, health care, food security, and other essentials, to some 800,000 Palestinians registered as refugees in the West Bank and 1.3 million people in the Gaza Strip, as well as 534,000 in Syria, 464,000 in Lebanon and 2 million in Jordan.
The United Nations, both among Palestinians and others, defines refugees as anyone who has been driven from their homes by war, persecution or violence. Descendants of refugees are included, as long as the displacement continues.
This is the single most misleading statement in the entire piece. The United Nations does not define refugees as including their descendants for any group other than the “Palestinians.” People who fled India, or Pakistan, during Partition in 1947, may be refugees, but for the U.N., their descendants are not. The children born in South Korea to refugees from North Korea are not considered to be refugees. The children of Vietnamese boat people, born in the United States, are not considered by the U.N. as refugees. Nor are any of the tens of millions of descendants of other refugees from the many conflicts that have been waged since World War II.
All U.N.-registered refugees maintain an internationally recognized “right of return” to their land and homes, an issue that has long been one of the core points of dispute in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Reducing the number of eligible refugees — as the administration would like to see happen, although only the U.N. General Assembly can do it — would drastically change the dynamic as the White House prepares to release its own peace plan to resolve the conflict.
Separately, the Trump administration said last week that $200 million slated for direct U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority would be “redirected” elsewhere.
The loss of funds will be hard on the Palestinians, said Ghassan Khatib of the West Bank’s Birzeit University, but will do little to change these people’s status as refugees, he said.
“It is only the U.N. that is entitled to give legal status or a description of refugees, and not individual countries,” he said. “The change in the American position will not have an impact on the international understanding of refugees.”
If the American government not only ceases to support UNRWA, but explains, at every conceivable occasion, and at every forum — as, at the U.N., the indomitable and articulate Nikki Haley can be counted on to do — that there is no reason to have one definition for “Palestinian refugees” and another that is to be used for all other groups of refugees, whoever they may be.
In Gaza, Amal Khalil, a 53-year-old widow, is worried. She has relied on aid from UNRWA to feed herself and her family for many years.
“It has already been reduced more than once. I do not know that it will be further reduced or stopped completely,” she said.
Here we have the personal stories of individual hardship, designed to appeal to our sympathies and to close off our reason. If Amal Khalil — a “widow” — has relied on UNRWA “all of her life,” why was nothing done to teach her, or her children, during all those decades, some skill by which they might end their apparently total dependence on aid from UNRWA? Why is the culture of permanent dependence encouraged by UNRWA, if not to keep alive the “refugee” question, rather than to help solve it? Part of the political plan is to prevent “Palestinian”refugees from integrating into the societies they now live in. Millions of them are forbidden to buy housing in their host countries; they are forced to live in refugee camps, where they also find certain professions are not open to them.
Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for UNRWA in Gaza, told a local radio station that if funds to the organization were suddenly stopped, the entire education system would be in danger of collapsing, with only enough money to last through September.
More of the same Dire Warnings. As Saeb Erekat insists that the cuts in American aid would end in “disaster,” and others speak of “catastrophe,” a spokesman for UNRWA in Gaza claims that “the entire education system would be in danger of collapsing” without that all-important funding from the Americans. But why? Aren’t there 57 Muslim countries, including four states that are fabulously rich (Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar) that could easily make up for any shortfall caused by an end of American aid to UNRWA?
Hit particularly hard would be Jordan, where the 2 million Palestinian refugees — a fifth of the country’s population — use UNRWA’s services. Providing them all health care, education and shelter would fall to the cash-strapped Jordanian government.
Again, the Post report misses the main point about Jordan. That country is hardly without rich friends it can count on. Just this June, Jordan received a new commitment of $2.5 billion from Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and Kuwait. This might have been mentioned, as well as the likelihood that the amounts given to UNRWA by those three countries could easily be raised by 10-15% (which would more than offset the decrease in America’s contribution to UNRWA in Jordan), but of course, the “Palestinians” don’t want any of this to be mentioned: for them, it is important that the West be made to feel guilty, the West that should come up with whatever funds are now needed. The world’s non-Muslims owe us, the “Palestinians,” a living, and we mean to shame or terrify them into providing it.
On Friday, Germany and Japan pledged to donate more, but it is unlikely the increases will cover the U.S. withdrawal.
Again, we see Western nations stepping in to make up the shortfall created by America’s ending its contributions. But why should they? Seventy years after the “Palestinian” refugees were created — at the same time, many more Jews, leaving behind far more property, had to flee Arab lands as Jewish refugees — the assumption still seems to be that the West should be supporting this group of Muslim Arabs and all of their descendants till the end of time, through UNRWA. Why? On what theory? Let the Deep-Pocketed Big Four in the Arab Gulf — Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar — come up with a few hundred million dollars more per year for UNRWA, sums the donors will hardly miss — so that a much greater proportion of the contributions to “Palestinians” through UNRWA are supplied by other Muslim Arabs. Otherwise, these payments to UNRWA from the West may come to be regarded by their “Palestinian” recipients, or more likely are already, as a kind of proleptic jizyah.
The American government has done a very useful thing. It has, by its forthright policy of ending its entire contribution to UNRWA, raised in the public consciousness the question that needs to be asked of the propagandists for UNRWA: why should the “Palestinian” refugees have been treated, over the last 70 years, so differently from how all the other hundreds of millions of refugees since World War II have been treated? The world deserves an answer, something a bit more helpful than Saeb Erekat’s vague reference to “international law.” Why is it only the “Palestinian” refugees who get to include, in their ever-expanding number, all of their descendants, no matter how distantly removed they may be, by both time and place, from the land their ancestors felt they had to leave? Why are the “Palestinians” the only refugees whose numbers always increase? And why do so few of the dead “refugees” ever get taken off the rolls?
Let the “Palestinian” leaders warn of “disasters” and “catastrophes” and a “doomsday scenario” for their people all they want. Let Saeb Erekat mutter darkly about the violation of “international law,” but note that he is unable to cite any such international law that requires either the United States, or indeed any other country, to support any particular group of refugees. And above all, let the marvelous Nikki Haley and others similarly situated keep asking aloud, at the U.N. and at every other forum, why there is only one group of refugees in the world, the “Palestinians,” who have been allowed to constantly increase their numbers by counting all the descendants of the original refugees as refugees themselves. Eventually, if asked repeatedly and loudly, someone is going to have to answer that unanswerable question.
Ellie says
While the media and the leftist western governments were guilting westerners into taking in millions of fundamentalist Muslim “refugees” Saudi Arabia and the other oil rich Arabs refused to take in a single struggling Muslim! Strangely not one tried to enter their “kingdoms.” Could it be that the leftist leaders of the west are socially engineering our populations?
It was the Saudis and other Muslim nations that told Muslims living in the area where Israel was first established to stay there! They told them that they would destroy Israel in a few days time. Well, that didn’t happen but they decided to leave the Egyptians, Saudis, and others living in Israel as political pawns with which to minipulate the west.
The leftists of the west have used the entire situation to help the fundamentalist Muslims (Muslim Brotherhood) get back their caliphate that they have been waging a terrorist war for since the 1920’s! The westernization program of the countries created by the western powers after WWI in the Middle East turned into a destabilization program as the far left activists coming out of communist dominated Ivy League schools began to take power during the 60’s and 70’s. They have been building their “global community” for that long! Americans have been kept totally in the dark about the truth of fundamentalist Islam and how things really function in that totalitarian ideology.
The Muslims that had come to the US prior to 1980 were well vetted by a State Department that was still run by people who cared about this country. They were also educated in universities that had western educators in them. Many of them had come to western countries to be educated. Those countries had cleared out the sharia terrorists. Iran has banished the Mullahs to France! Then Jimmy Carter allowed the Shaw of Iran to get out of hand and then overthrown. THEN he allowed the Mullahs to return from France and turn Iran into the world’s largest sponsor of Islamic terrorism!
All of the countries that Carter, the Bush family, and Clinton worked to destabilize were once allies to the west. Syria was once the most westernized area of the region. Syria helped the US during the first Gulf War! Then Assad ticked Bush off by refusing to help him with the invasion of Iraq! That is when the globalists realized Assad was not going to go quietly and began training, arming, and sending Islamic terrorists into Syria to take out Assad! What do you think they were doing? Looking for WMDs?! The Dems and the RINOS were all in on it! They want Syria. Once they have given Syria back to the fundamentalists they will have everything except Israel! The globalists have been working with the Muslim Brotherhood for decades to give them back their caliphate and make it a sector of their “global community” that they have been forming since the 70’s.
SB says
We should not give them one damn tax payer dollar! What the ef do they give to us!
J D S says
The only REAL PALESTINIANS are the Jews. God gave all that land to the Jews, period end of report.
Now if the Jews inhabit Palestine I’m all for giving to then to help rebuild Palestine to what it should be.
Ray Jarman says
This is one of the best articles on JW in a while. What stood out particularly is the statement of the woman claiming that she has received funding from UNRWA for years to feed and cloth her family. My question is where is the man of the household? Also after so many years, why can’t her, as it seems worthless, off springs earn a living? Just like here in America, I am tired of providing funds for people to lazy to work.
Mr. Fitzgerald could have mentioned the money that the PA pays terrorists and their families or that the schools that are supposedly in jeopardy pay for the teaching of anti-Semitism in those very schools. Also during the last Israeli/Palestinian war, the PA was hiding missiles and mortars in these very schools and using the school as a shield. Our UN Ambassador Haley needs to educate this clown, Saeb Erekat, that as my professor stated on the first day of “International Law” is that it does not exist. The UN can’t even uphold the treaty that bans the killing of whales and even after using the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 as a justification for hanging Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, wars continue. Also, if to wage war as an aggressor is internationally illegal, why hasn’t the UN invoked sanctions and called for condemnation of nations such as Pakistan which continually attacks Indian residents in Kashmir and assists the Taliban to wage war in Afghanistan?
UNRWA should be defunded by every nation and then maybe, a true peace could be established.
Cicero says
A wonderful honest and hard hitting article about the funding of the Palestinians, the role of UNWRA and the obligations of the West to support this ever expanding pool of dependants.
It blew away all the cobwebs in my mind on this subject
Thank you
brane pilot says
The UNRWA is an instrument of Islamic Jihad against Israel.
For over 70 years.
The Muslims can afford to pay for their own Jihad.
The USA is done.
Skullbone says
One post on the WP websiate claims we are:
“Inhuman. Depraved. Cruel. Vicious.
This is the message 2018 America sends to the world.”
Some people are so ignorant and deluded…
Rob says
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22663
Kepha says
Defunding UNRWA is one of the better things the Trump administration has done.
But it would be better to push for the Arab states to naturalize the descendants of Falastin refugees domiciled in their countries.
Ren says
Here’s how the Washington Post should cover the issue: “The United States will no longer contribute to the United Nations relief agency for muslim terrorists…”
dumbledoresarmy says
Better still, “The USA has served notice to both the so-called ‘palestinian’ Arab Muslims, and to deeply-duplicitous Muslim Pakistan, that it intends to stop paying jizya and tribute to the ummah, or Mohammedan Mob”.
It needs to be explained that Muslims will wage jihad whether the USA pays the Muslim mob (in various countries) jizya, or tribute, or not.
Nothing the USA or any other non-Muslim country does or does not do – short of total surrender, adoption of Islam and transformation into a sharia despotism under ruthless and amoral Muslim overlords – will cause the Jihad waged against it to cease.
To be a target of jihad ALL one has to be and do is… refuse to convert to Islam, refuse to recognise Mohammed the long-dead Arab Muslim slave-raider/ trader and warlord, as a ‘prophet’. The USA was aggressively and persistently attacked by the Musiim Barbary pirates at a time when the Jewish state of Israel had not yet been restored; the USA did not rule over nor had it had anything much at all to do with *any* land dominated by Muslims.
j_not_a says
Yup.
Peter Clemerson says
According to its own web site, when established in 1950 UNRWA took responsibility for the welfare of 750,000 refugees. Using its own definition of a Palestinian refugee, it now states that this figure has grown to 5 million today. This is a compound growth rate of 2.83%, the number doubling every generation. Assuming the same compound growth rate in the future, and there is no reason not to, in 2030, the number UNRWA dependents will be 7,000,000 and in 2040, the number will be 9,250,000.
I can not recall any spokes-person of any UN organization drawing attention to the absurdity of this situation. While I have no personal respect for Trump, if it requires a Trump to draw attention to such an absurdity, I am obliged to credit him.
Raja says
Trump may not be a role model for the man on the street but he sure is a role model for politicians across the globe, especially the Left-leaning ones.
There is so much scope to tame the beast and scourge of political Islam. Sky is the limit.
j_not_a says
Cutting off aid to lazy, cowardly, lying, violent, dysfunctional, inbred, obese welfare fraudsters, no matter from which izlumic hellhole, I have one word to say – fanfreakintastic. This type of scamming should have been stopped a long time ago.
TKF says
Don’t give the fanatical Palestinian Arabs another red cent. Tell them Allah will provide. Let them eat Korans!
j_not_a says
That’s like eating excrement. Fitting though.
dumbledoresarmy says
The US has already cut off a significant part of the monies paid to Islamic Pakistan. And now they are cutting off UNRWA.
Frankly, not one Islamic entity or agency should receive so much as a cent from the USA.. nor any sum of money in ‘aid’ from any non-Islamic country, anywhere. Because, due to the Mohammedan megalomania, malignant narcissism and sense of total entitlement instilled by the cult, all such monies – all such ‘aid’ – has been received as of right, without a particle of gratitude, and essentially treated as if it were either jizya – the money that dhimmis paid to their Muslim overlords, to buy (sometimes) their lives for another year (until the jizya came due again), or else, tribute, which boils down to much the same thing… “here is a LOT of money, now please don’t hurt us”.
Time to cut the bastards off. Every last one of them. Because.. the Mohammedans take the money – that jizya, that tribute – and then.. they DON’T refrain from engaging in terrorism and other forms of aggression. They never have. No dhimmi was EVER ‘protected’ in any meaningful sense of the word; Muslims around them always found some excuse to attack them, rob, rape, kill, burn and destroy, sooner or later.
Best for America to STOP pouring money into the bottomless pit of aggression and human-rights-violations that is the dar al Islam.. and instead, redirect that money for the benefit of … Americans. Clear debts, and … REBUILD. Mend crumbling infrastructure; put some money into I.T. and cybersecurity and into educating the current and upcoming generation of young Americans so they can face – and defeat – the mortal challenge presented not only by the Ummah but ALSO by the amoral totalitarian despots currently running China.
dumbledoresarmy says
This article is not only relevant for Americans. It is also relevant for citizens of every other non-Islamic nation – such as Australia, where I am from – that currently gives ‘aid’ to UNRWA and often also in other forms to the so-called ‘Palestinian’ Arabs, mostly Muslim.
Let us all read and re-read what Hugh says; then resolve to communicate with our own governments, expressing our *support* for what the USA has chosen to do – defund UNRWA – and demanding that *our* governments, also, should do the same. Think of the money we’ll save! Let’s STOP sponsoring the Jihad. Let’s STOP encouraging it. STOP THE JIZYA. STOP THE TRIBUTE.
And we should state our support for the cessation of ‘aid’ to all *other* Islamic entities, whether state or non-state. Notably Pakistan, with its rampant and gross abuses of the human rights of the indigenous non-Muslim minorities; but there are plenty of others that should also be de-funded.
And the LAST thing any infidel nation should do, when there are Muslim acts of jihad terror carried out within the gates, is rush to this and that Islamic organisation, in-country, offering wads of funding. The more acts of jihad are carried out on our soil, the LESS money any mohammedan NGO within our gates should receive. No matter what flowery nothings they greasily recite in public for the benefit of the gullible kuffar. Toss ’em off the gravy train!
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article, – “By cutting aid, the U.S. is violating international law,” Erekat said..”.
Translation, “..By ceasing to pay the jizya, the US is violating the sharia of Islam”, Erekat said.”
Let us always, always, bear in mind that at bottom, for mohammedans like this creep, ‘international law’ means one thing and one thing only.. .the sharia of Islam. No other system of law is recognised or accepted.
dumbledoresarmy says
From Saeb Erekat, as quoted by the “Post”.
“Erekat also predicted that the potential end of UNRWA, if other funding is not forthcoming, would spell disaster for places where large numbers of Palestinian refugees reside, leaving them at risk for recruitment by extremist groups such as the Islamic State..”.
In other words: cutting off the jizya paid to the so-called ‘Palestinian’ Arab Muslims will fuel Muslim ‘extremism’…
We have heard this before, so very, very often. Hugh Fitzgerald dissects the topic very well, in his article above; but he has also discussed it, at length, many years ago, in an article that bears re-posting, especially for the benefit of people who have come on board here since it was first published at jihad watch, away back in 2006 – TWELVE long years ago!
“Fitzgerald: 95 things that fuel Musilm extremism”.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/10/fitzgerald-95-things-that-fuel-muslim-extremism
“The American presence in Iraq fuels Muslim extremism.” – a conclusion concluded from the National Intelligence Estimate by many concluders in solemn conclusory conclave assembled.
“Ninety-Five Other Things That Also Fuel Muslim Extremism:
“1. Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses.”
“2. The British government’s protection of Salman Rushdie.
“3. The American coup against Mossadegh in 1953, cited by some Iranians as the direct cause of the takeover of Iran by the Ayatollah Khomeini more than 25 years later.
“4. The remarks of Pim Fortuyn about Muslim attitudes toward liberal Dutch mores.
“5. The movie by Theo van Gogh about the subjection of women in Islam.
“6. The election of (apostate from Islam – dda) Ayaan Hirsi Ali to the Dutch Parliament.
”7. Hindus passing by mosques as Friday Prayers end.
“8. The failure of Americans in Iraq to sufficiently subdue the Sunni insurgents.
“9. The failure of Americans in Iraq to sufficiently subdue the Shi’a militias.
“10. The failure of Americans in Iraq to sufficiently subdue the Kurdish desire for independence.
“11. The failure of Americans in Iraq to give Baghdad an instant makeover so that it resembles the most prosperous and advanced American city.
”12. The failure of Americans to solve every economic problem in Iraq, to make Sunnis and Shi’a friends, to get the oilfields pumping at full capacity, and to make donations even beyond the many tens of billions spent directly on reconstruction in Iraq.
“13. The failure of the Americans, in obtaining debt relief from all Infidel creditors for Iraq (but not from any of the Muslim Arab states), to persuade those same Infidel countries to supply another $50-$100 billion.
“14. The refusal of the French state to permit the wearing of the hijab.
“15. The insistence, by the French state, that texts by Voltaire, Montaigne, Proust, and other writers deemed or perceived to be anti-Islamic by Muslims, be assigned to students, as required reading, by the Ministry of Education.
“16. The selling of alcohol by Christians in Basra.
“17. The existence of Christians in Basra.
“18. The continued functioning of Christian churches in Baghdad.
“19. The Copts in Egypt who complain when Muslims attack their churches and other institutions, or kidnap and forcibly convert Coptic girls to Islam.
“20. The Filipinos who try to hold private religious services in Saudi Arabia, land on which no non-Muslims should be present in any case.
“21. The American airmen who were assigned to bases in Saudi Arabia and who showed insufficient obeisance to their Saudi masters, all daggers and dishdashas, with their sneers of cold command. …
“36. The reference by Pope Benedict to a 14th century Byzantine emperor’s remarks in the course of a scholarly address at Regensburg.
“37. The refusal of Pope Benedict to continue to apologize, and his apparent refusal to completely humiliate himself, before Muslims demanding such humiliation.
“38. The Israeli “occupation” of Sinai, Gaza, and the West Bank, that is, of Judea and Samaria, after the Six-Day War.
“39. The Israeli “occupation” of Gaza and the West Bank, that is, Judea and Samaria, after the Camp David Accords.
40. The Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank, that is, Judea and Samaria, after the full withdrawal from Gaza.
“41. The Israeli “occupation” of the sacred Arab and Muslim soil on which the only Jewish state was created in 1948.
“42. The presence of Jews in the Middle East.
“43. The presence of Jews, un-cowed, anywhere in the world….
”
86. The continued existence of Jews.
87. The continued existence of Christians.
88. The continued existence of Hindus.
89. The continued existence of Sikhs.
90. The continued existence of Buddhists.
91. The continued existence of followers of Confucius [and of the Tao, and of Shinto].
92. The continued existence of agnostics.
93. The continued existence of atheists.
94. Everything.
95. Nothing.
“Some, especially in Lutheran lands, may be satisfied with these 95 theses. Others may prefer to round out the polemical embonpoint by adding another five items to the list.
“Still others may wish to keep adding to the list from the rich profusion of items offered by each day’s Jihad news — items in keeping with the nature and quite unnecessary nurture of the belief-system of Islam.
“It took very little time to compose this list. It would not take much longer to add another hundred, two hundred, three hundred items to the list of things that “fuel Muslim extremism.””
Posted by Hugh at October 10, 2006 10:35 AM
Raja says
dumble,
Thank you for the 95 things that devout Muslims hate. Considering the thousands of jihad attacks the number 95 is just a starter.
BTW, don’t they hate anything and everything under the sun for the devil’s lustful call to get 72 virgins in “heaven”
Harold Armitage says
Germany is making up the deficit apparently.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-and-other-donors-speed-up-funding-for-palestinians-after-us-aid-cut/a-42373586
Lars says
It is interesting that the W letter in the Washington Post logo on the picture looks like the symbol for Allah the moon god and also an advertisement for the Wish Shopping company on my Android phone but I have no positive wishes regarding Allah at all.
mtman2 says
Human swine resulting from the Satanic Verses that empties their souls of any true Godliness.
They know Abraham, Issac + Jacob are the progenitors of the true Faith= not Ishmail.
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Only Christ Jesus who is the fulfilllment of the phrophesied Redeemer Job spoke of in 19:25-29 can set them free.
Their paganism is a direct source spawn by Satan to kill Christ followers + Jewish peoples from their inception= an evil incarnate death cult entrenched in a Geo-Political mind+soul prison…
Franklin T. Livingston, EFO says
Who said this, to whom, when, why and what have we ever done about it? Would you consider this statement to be contrary to our Constitution, our way of life, a danger to our National/Homeland Security and the preservation of our Constitution? Would you think these are words of an enemy? Surely, both the House and the Senate studied this but where are the reports?
“The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every musselman [muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
This statement was a part of a March 28, 1786, letter from John Adams and Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, the United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Continental Congress, concerning their conversation with Tripoli’s to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman as to why his pirates/terrorists hijacked our merchant ships, stole the ships and cargo while holding the sailors for ransom. http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-09-02-0315
Just Google March 28, 1786, letter from John Adams and Thomas Jefferson to John Jay
Why are we failing to mention the obvious issues in the 1786 letter that still exists today? Here are the main points in 1786; are they the same today with the Muslim Brotherhood in America and their plan they wrote to destroy us?
a. “it was founded on the Laws of their prophet”;
b. “that it was written in their Koran”;
c. “that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners”;
d. “that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and”;
e. “to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and”;
f. “that every musselman [muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
g. “that it was a law that the first who boarded an Enemy’s Vessell should have one slave more than his share with the rest”;
h. “which operated as an incentive to the most desperate Valour and Enterprize;
i. “that it was the Practice of their Corsairs to bear down upon a ship;
j. for each sailor to take a dagger in each hand, and another in his mouth, and leap on board, which so terrified their Enemies that very few ever stood against them.”
k. “That he verily believed the Devil assisted his Countrymen, for they were almost always successful.
http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-09-02-0315
The Muslim Brotherhood wrote a plan to infiltrate America and destroy us from within by what they call their “Civilization-Jihadist Process” plan dated May 22, 1991, this makes them our enemy! Google: An Explanatory Memorandum: On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America and read it!
On January 9, 2017, Sen. Cruz (R-Texas) filed S.68 and Rep. Diaz-Balart (R-Florida) filed H.R.377 both bills titled “Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017” it will require the Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress on the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization and for other purposes.
Each of us must DEMAND our House and two Senators co-sponsor these bills and if they won’t, FIRE THEM for their failure to uphold our Constitution, their oath of office and our NATIONAL SECURITY! America must have open and transparent hearings on the Islamic threat identified over 232-years ago!
Here is the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Civilization-Jihadist Process” plan dated May 22, 1991, designed to slowly infiltrate America and destroy us from within! Simply Google: Government Exhibit 003-0085 3:04-CR-240-G in U.S. v Holy Land Foundation, et al.
Raja says
I am going to send this article to key pol personalities in India for information, as it is very educative.
Islam can be eradicated.