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Hizballah joins Iranian jihadists in waging “health jihad” against coronavirus

Mar 29, 2020 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The Ayatollah Khamenei’s call to wage “health jihad” is becoming manifest in specific actions:

“Hezbollah has been using the coronavirus outbreak for propaganda purposes all week, publishing videos showing alleged “Hezbollah health units” helping disinfect parts of Lebanon and Iran with water hoses, a method the Middle East Monitor noted that scientists have dismissed as “ineffective”

Propaganda is a primary tool of Iran and its proxies. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps also “claimed that its jihadis are working on a vaccine to fight the Chinese coronavirus and that it would engage in several ‘biological defense exercises.'”

Iran has been scrambling to keep its people believing in its mullahs and jihadists by whatever means possible. The mullahs are trying to stave off a unified revolt in the face of their incompetence and their practice of putting their people last on the priority list. Iran has been diverting funds from domestic priorities during coronavirus outbreak to pay for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Now the mullahs are attempting to indoctrinate their people with the expected propaganda that the virus is America and Israel’s fault, and to encourage victimhood paranoia by claiming that the coronavirus was “specifically built for Iran using the genetic data of Iranians.”

“Hezbollah Joins Iranian Terrorists in Jihad Against Chinese Coronavirus,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, March 26, 2020:

The Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah announced it would invest in doctors, medical equipment, and clinics to treat Chinese coronavirus patients in Lebanon, joining a growing list of terrorist organizations waging what Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dubbed a “jihad” against the pandemic.

Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that disguises itself as a political party in Lebanon. It has deep ties to the Iranian regime and is active in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere in the region in addition to Iran and Lebanon.

Iran’s Tasnim News Agency claimed that Hezbollah “is deploying 1,500 doctors, 3,000 nurses and paramedics and 20,000 more activists” to help contain the coronavirus outbreak in Lebanon, where government officials have documented 368 cases of coronavirus and six deaths as of Thursday. It is not clear where Hezbollah, an organization that specializes in acts of violence to promote radical Islam, is finding doctors, nurses, and paramedics to hire for the fight against the Chinese virus. The 20,000 “activists” are presumably jihadists who participate in promoting the terrorist organization elsewhere.

“It is a real war that we must confront with the mindset of a warrior,” Tasnim quoted Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah’s executive council, as saying on television. “Our role is to complement the government apparatus and not to stand in its place.”

Safieddine repeatedly compared Hezbollah’s efforts to wartime actions and described the terrorist organization as “fighting coronavirus with capabilities initially put to confront war and aggression.”

Safieddine notably made the announcement rather than the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, who has mostly kept a low profile since the outbreak reached the Middle East. Rumors abounded this month that, in light of dozens of senior members of the Iranian Islamic regime testing positive for the virus, senior Hezbollah members who often meet with them have self-quarantined to prevent from contaminating more people. Some reports speculated that Nasrallah himself had either self-quarantined or become sick after being exposed to the coronavirus.

Hezbollah has been using the coronavirus outbreak for propaganda purposes all week, publishing videos showing alleged “Hezbollah health units” helping disinfect parts of Lebanon and Iran with water hoses, a method the Middle East Monitor noted that scientists have dismissed as “ineffective……

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  1. Boromir's Horn says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 9:19 am

    I heard if you pound your head on the floor 5 times a day, you won’t get rid of the virus, but your head will hurt so much you won’t feel it’s affects.

    • David says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 5:42 am

      B H: Isn’t it like banging your head against a brick wall? (lol)

  2. RichardL says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 10:04 am

    I was not aware that JW has “moderators” who filter comments. If that is new, I am not sure I will trust JW as a source of information anymore. I am using JW because I want to have unfiltered ideas, especially when I disagree with contributors I mostly like.

    • A Gnostic Agnostic says

      Mar 29, 2020 at 10:55 am

      They can filter whatever they want: they own the site. You don’t need to “trust” anyone or anything, there is only one truth that is accessible to all, but each has their own responsibility for seeking it.

      This site is informing people as to why ‘Islam’ is truly not a religion of ‘peace’ but rather ‘believer vs. unbeliever’ (ie. us vs. them) which is the opposite of peace: actually perpetual conflict.

      Islam is being uprooted as the global root of Nazism/fascism/socialism: China and the U.S. are aware that COVID-19 was manufactured and carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood (ie. Deep State) as a global attack against “unbelievers” in the so-called “cause of Allah”. However the attack was botched: the designers of the pathogen did not effectively validate the inefficacy against “ethnic” Muslims (despite it being intended) and it is killing both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. They are still going forward with their manufactured narratives of blaming it all on the U.S. / Israel, but because Islamic nations are taking heavy casualties, they have to hide their dead. That is how Islam works: blame others for what they House of Islam is itself guilty of. It is their religion.

      They have the root of Nazism, and the Muslim Brotherhood is losing their minds because of.
      They can not stand that the world is going to learn who the real Jews/pigs are… themselves.

      • SKA says

        Mar 29, 2020 at 4:11 pm

        How did they imagine they could engineer a virus that distinguished between Muslims and non-Muslims? Muslims are a heterogenous population. There is no genetic “marker” for Islam.

        • David says

          Mar 30, 2020 at 5:40 am

          SKA, Perhaps Allah can tell the difference? The genetic marker is the bruise on the forehead. The bigger the bruise, the more devout.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 30, 2020 at 12:30 am

        A Gnostic Agnostic, you may believe that the Coronavirus was ginned up by Muslims, but that does not mean that sane people agree.

        Islam is deadly enough–pretending they came up with a naturally-occurring disease makes no sense.

      • william carr says

        Mar 30, 2020 at 11:04 am

        Not the only ones who have apparently lost their minds!

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 12:26 am

      From what I have seen Jihad Watch mostly removes posts that are abusive, incite violence, or threaten other posters. Why do you find that inappropriate? And no–this is not new.

      Certainly, posters who don’t agree with Jihad Watch–including actual Jihadists–are allowed to post here. Jihad Watch is certainly not an echo chamber.

      • James Lincoln says

        Mar 30, 2020 at 9:36 am

        gravenimage says,

        “Jihad Watch is certainly not an echo chamber.”

        You are correct.

        That’s what helps it to maintain its credibility…

    • David says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 5:36 am

      This is a bit like phoning a radio station. You might have a valid point, but they can’t put everyone on air. Could you have heard a false rumour?
      JW is doing a great job! How many of these reports do you hear on the MSM? None that I have read!
      My comments appear instantly in the comments section. Try it, and see.

  3. A Gnostic Agnostic says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 11:13 am

    Once again, ‘the accuser is the accused’.

    Deep State / Muslim Brotherhood is attempting to scapegoat their own employment of COVID-19 in the “cause of Allah” onto their adversaries: U.S. / Israel. This scapegoating of the crimes of the Muslim Brotherhood onto others is the root of Islam (not to mention the ‘original sin’) itself: to blame another for what one is themselves guilty of (as Adam blamed Eve for his own actions).

    Islam is at the end of not only their road, but *the* road: unleashing COVID-19 upon the human populace while simultaneously attempting to blame it on their most-hated adversaries is naught but the nail in the coffin needed to once-and-for-all formally recognize Islam for what it is: the global root of Nazism/fascism/socialism.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 7:45 pm

      I hate Islam, but there is no evidence at all that COvid-19 is some sort of Islamic plot. It didn’t even start in the Islamic world. What do you have to back up your claim?

  4. Dingus macgee says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 11:19 am

    Smart as a stick these cavemen jihadis . How about suicide bombing the virus ?

  5. mortimer says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 11:58 am

    Most Muslims superstitiously believe that water purifies them. They don’t have the scientific knowledge to understand the action of soap.

    Islamic ritual washings only involve water. This doesn’t kill germs or viruses. Soap does.

    Hopefully, Muslims will be challenged by the corona virus to become more thoughtful, and this will open their minds to a scientific investigation of the anomalies, errors, and absurdities within the Islamic primary texts.

    Closed-mindedness is the worst and most dangerous part of Islam, blockading and sand-bagging the Muslim mind to facts and reason.

    The Muslim closed minds remain in the pre-scientific 7th century … VERY DANGEROUS.

  6. tim gallagher says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 5:13 pm

    I’m a bit puzzled by this report, where Hezbollah is investing in sensible approaches to the corona virus, such as disinfecting and doctors, because I thought other Muslim sages were telling their Muslim mates that this virus can’t affect Muslims if they mumble the right words from the Koran, and another wisely said that women’s exposed ankles were the cause of this virus (so no need to disinfect, no need for doctors or modern medicine if that’s the cause). Oh well, I guess it’s just the usual type of chaos, the usual imbecilic shit fight you get from the braindead Muslim spokesmen on any subject under consideration. The Muslim spokesmen are all over the place in their opinions about the virus. All these disgusting terrorist groups will, no doubt, use any tactic to gain more moronic followers.

  7. gravenimage says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 12:22 am

    Hizballah joins Iranian jihadists in waging “health jihad” against coronavirus
    …………………..

    Idiots.

  8. E T says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 8:34 am

    Mow, Larry and Curly out for a walk.

    • James Lincoln says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 9:43 am

      E T,

      I get the intended humor, but the real Mow, Larry, and Curly characters were not particularly dangerous to society.

      Slapstick “pies in the face”, etc., never killed anybody…

      • E T says

        Mar 30, 2020 at 11:08 am

        James, I change the names, you are right, we need to protect the innocent. I will remind everyone of three other not so wise men:

        Andrew Young, the US ambassador to the UN, who under Carter, said Khomeini was a saint.

        Carter’t Advisor, James Bill said Khomeini was a man of impeccable integrity and honesty.

        Jimmy Carter, US president

        Carter’s betrayal of dissidents, Reporters Without Borders, students, lawyers, women’s rights activists, political prisoners hung right on the prison grounds by the Revolutionary guard Saint Khomeini’s men. What really happened in 1979 should never be forgotten.

  9. Giacomo Latta says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 10:06 am

    All tyrants who are uncertain about their grasp on the unwashed need a putative enemy for non-thinkers to rally against. In Iran, COVID-19: just what the doctor ordered.

  10. Dingus macgee says

    Mar 31, 2020 at 12:02 am

    They should behead and suicide bomb the virus .

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