In the wake of the savage HAMAS attack against Israel on the morning of 7 October 2023, many are waking up to its genocidal intent against Jews. Understandably, there are memories of pogroms past, of the horrific toll of the Holocaust, and references to “Nazis” and the “Einsatzgruppen.”
This time, though, as Israel prepares to do what must be done to wipe out the HAMAS presence in Gaza, we need to understand exactly who and what it is: an Islamic terror group, dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel and the killing of as many Jews as possible. We might start with the HAMAS Covenant, published in 1988, the year that HAMAS was formally established. Its opening lines tell us exactly who HAMAS is and why it exists:
“ISRAEL WILL EXIST AND WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST UNTIL ISLAM WILL OBLITERATE IT, JUST AS IT OBLITERATED OTHERS BEFORE IT” (THE MARTYR, IMAM HASSAN ALBANNA, OF BLESSED MEMORY).
We’ll note here that this quote is from Hassan al-Banna, the 1928 founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. And here is the motto of the Muslim Brotherhood:
‘ALLAH IS OUR OBJECTIVE; THE PROPHET IS OUR LEADER; THE QURAN IS OUR LAW; JIHAD IS OUR WAY; DYING IN THE WAY OF ALLAH IS OUR HIGHEST ASPIRATION.’
Why this fanatical hatred? We find the answer in the Qur’an, in the Islamic doctrine of Sacred Space, and the laws of dhimmitude. The Qur’an, believed by Muslims to be the literal word of Allah (the Arabic word for “God”), lays the foundation for HAMAS’ visceral Jew-hatred.
THOSE WHO REJECT (TRUTH) AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK [CHRISTIANS AND JEWS]…WILL BE IN HELL-FIRE…THEY ARE THE WORST OF CREATURES. (Q 98:6)
BUT WHEN THE FORBIDDEN MONTHS ARE PAST, THEN FIGHT AND KILL THE INFIDELS WHEREVER YE FIND THEM… (Q 9:5)
CURSES WERE PRONOUNCED ON THOSE AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHO REJECTED FAITH [ISLAM]…(Q 5:78)
The HAMAS Covenant also includes this quote from the hadith collection of Sahih Muslim:
JUDGMENT DAY WILL NOT COME UNTIL YOU FIGHT THE JEWS AND KILL THEM. THE JEWS WILL HIDE BEHIND STONES AND TREES, AND THE STONES AND TREES WILL CALL: OH, MUSLIM, OH SERVANT OF ALLAH, THERE IS A JEW BEHIND ME, COME AND KILL HIM…
Then there is the historical record, which informs us of the Islamic institution of dhimmitude and the doctrine of Sacred Space. As the armies of Islam overran formerly Christian and Jewish lands in the 7th century, there were too many to kill or convert; and so, beginning with the 638 CE Pact of Umar (the 2nd Caliph), the institution of the Ahl al-Dhimma was established to subjugate Christians and Jews to a rigid set of rules that would relegate them to a legally enforced inferior status intended to be so onerous as to compel them to convert to Islam.
Along with dhimmitude, the Muslim conquests developed a concept known as “Sacred Space”. That is, the Dar al-Islam (House of Islam) must conquer all the Dar al-Harb (House of War) because according to Islam, the entire world belongs to Islam and must be conquered and subjugated to it. Once conquered and/or occupied, such land is waqf, forever endowed to Muslims by Allah. Any such waqf, if ever lost to Islam, must be fought for by jihad until it is re-conquered.
As we look at the modern-day Jewish State of Israel, we can see that the Jewish people not only are no longer dhimmis but have established a powerful country in their ancestral homeland. These remarkable accomplishments are intolerable to the forces of jihad and help to explain why HAMAS and other Islamic terror groups like it have been so intent upon wiping Israel from the face of the map.
Cross-posted with the author’s permission from The United West.
somehistory says
Kind of OT
“NPR affiliate pulls show after guest doubted that Hamas killed women, children during terror attacks”
“The program featured Khaled Hroub, a professor at Northwestern University in Qatar and a research associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.”Professor Hroub has written multiple books about Hamas and was on the program to provide a factual history of the Islamist group. The program was live and as it progressed, Professor Hroub expressed doubt that women and children had been killed by Hamas in its October 7 attack on Israel,” WBUR said.
“’On Point’ Host Meghna Chakrabarti countered with statements of fact to correct the record. But that does not negate the impact of hearing Professor Hroub’s statements,” WBUR continued….”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/npr-affiliate-pulls-show-after-guest-doubted-that-hamas-killed-women-children-during-terror-attacks/ar-AA1in8Qi?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=75298fffd50d4e9994ae3502640ca64b&ei=16
Walter Sieruk says
All that pro-Hama and anti- Jewish state of Israel hate is because according to Islam, the Jews are “apes and swine in human form.” Such vicious and malice -filled vicious murderous spite and hate of jihadist Muslims ,as those of Hamas ,Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad for the Jewish people is based upon the foundation of Islam’s “holy book” the Qu ‘ran.
The roots of this awful Muslim murderous hostility towards the Jewish people is the result of a firm but blind and unquestioning Muslim faith in the Qu ‘ran. 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 Qu ‘ran 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 Qu ‘ran 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 and then eventually, in time went in the composition of the Qu ‘ran.
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 Qu ‘ran 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 Muhammad 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 have gone out into the world.” First John 4:1. [N.K.J.V.]
Jayell1 says
I quote –
‘The reason that the Qu ‘ran 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 much for the ‘Holy Qur’an’ being the ‘Word of God’. It’s Mohammed’s memoirs of his career in religious fraud and his petty vitriolic pique after the Jews saw through his pretence and wouldn’t allow him to play a big part in their ‘game’. He clearly didn’t have any message at all apart from the intellectual property he and his associates had misappropriated from the Jews and others purely to use as the key element in his pseudo-political self-promotion, so he turned the tables and used them as a plank in his campaign to assert himself over what was now the ‘opposition’, no doubt resorting to an element of the already-established racist tribalism to beef up his appeal with his arabic audience. Overtones of the Nazi’s tactical scapegoating of the Jews 1,400 years later?
Compare with the Christian attitude which respects the rights of others as free agents to determine the acceptability to them of any message one has to offer; if one meets rejection, leave the town to its own devices and shake the dust off your feet – it’s up to God what happens to them..