Anyone who is shocked that the brutal murderers of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7 have not been excoriated worldwide, and that all over the West we have seen people tearing down the posters of kidnapped Israelis, has simply not been paying attention. The groundwork for this has been laid for years. Consider a case from the recent past: just last June, Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian policeman who murdered three Israeli soldiers, was hailed as a “martyr” and a “hero.”
When Salah walked through a door in the security fence that had been loosely tied with plastic cuffs, from Egypt into Israel, he was not met with gunfire. The two Israeli soldiers on duty did not suspect trouble; they assumed that the Egyptians carefully vets all of its policemen and soldiers assigned to the border, and would have kept out any recruits suspected of extreme anti-Israel sentiment. There had been no trouble on the border, save for a recent upsurge in smuggling that both Egypt and Israel had vested interest in controlling. Why would those Israeli soldiers have suspected any danger? In this case the too-trusting Israeli soldiers were wrong, and they paid for that error with their lives. Without warning, Mohammed Salah shot them down – there was no firefight – and about an hour later he was killed by IDF soldiers, but not before killing a third Israeli soldier. Salah was found to be carrying, along with a number of weapons, the true source of his antisemitic frenzy – the Qur’an. After the murders, the Egyptian government maintained a prudent silence about Salah’s motives. But it agreed to pay compensation to the families of the murdered Israeli soldiers.
While the Egyptian government maintained its silence, many influential Egyptians and other Arabs, too, have hailed Mohammed Salah as a “hero” and a “martyr.” The president of the Egyptian soccer team Zamalek announced that its clubhouse had been renamed “Mohamed Salah” in honor of the “martyr” who murdered two Israelis. The Jordanian “comic” Nikolas Khouri on his show on Al-Jazeera’s AJ+ Social Media Outlet claimed that “the Egyptian policeman who killed Israeli soldiers Is a Hero, the Pride of the Arabs.” Others in the Egyptian and Arab media similarly praised the “brave deed” of Mohammed Salah. So did Arab lawmakers. More on their reaction at that time can be found here: “Jordanian MP hails Egyptian who killed three IDF soldiers,” JNS, June 11, 2023:
A Jordanian member of the Arab Parliament [the representative body of the Arab League] Khalil Atieh, on Saturday, June 10, praised the Egyptian “martyr” who killed three IDF soldiers in a terrorist attack on June 3, Israeli media reported.’
Speaking at the Arab Parliament in Cairo – the Parliament of the Arab League — Atieh requested that a Sura from the Koran be read in honor of Mohamed Salah Ibrahim, who last week shot dead Sgt. Lia Ben-Nun, 19, Staff Sgt. Uri Iluz, 20, and Staff Sgt. Ohad Dahan, 20, along the Sinai border.
“We congratulate Egypt, and its martyr Mohamed Salah,” said Atieh. “I request from this honorable council that we stand for a reading of al-fatiha, for the souls of the martyrs from the Arab and Muslim people who died a holy death for the sake of Palestine.”
The Palestinians on social media expressed their glee at Salah’s “heroic deed” and its consequences. They noted the IDF’s “operational failure,” and praised Salah as proof of the “unity of the arenas” and as a symbol of the Arab world’s partnership in the Palestinian struggle against Israel and for Al-Aqsa Mosque. Many also pointed out the fact that peace between Egypt and Israel, as with other countries in the region, is just a mirage. The Palestinian media also published cartoons expressing glee over the attack and the deaths of the Israeli soldiers. More on the Palestinians’ reaction can be found here.
After the terrorist’s identity was revealed, the Palestinian media and social networks began publishing many pictures of him, along with praise. Many of them called the perpetrator “the new Suleiman Khater.” Khater was an Egyptian soldier who murdered seven Israeli tourists in 1985 at Ras Burqa; five of his victims were children, and two were women. In several places in Judea and Samaria (Nablus and the Jenin refugee camp), mourning houses were opened in Salah’s memory and the public was invited to visit them. In Ramallah, a symbolic funeral was held for him.
On Palestinian social media, many Palestinian web surfers praised the attack under the hashtags #Egyptian_soldier, #Long_live_Egypt, #The_Arabs’_true_pride, and subsequently #Muhammad_Salah (the name of the Egyptian policeman who carried out the shooting), #The shaheed_Muhammad_Salah.. Thus, for example, Heba al-Natsheh, who presented herself as a media figure from Hebron wrote under the hashtags #Egyptian_soldier and #Long_live_Egypt, “Good morning to the honorable weapon that healed our hearts.” She attached a photo of a weapon attributed to the perpetrator of the attack, with the caption “One Nation.”
Members of Hamas were especially enthusiastic and proud of their “martyr” and “hero” Mohammed Salah. Salah al-Bardawil, a member of Hamas’s political bureau in the Gaza Strip, wrote under the hashtag #The_Egyptian_soldie,r that no one but Allah knows what the Egyptian soldier was thinking before he left his home, nor before he left his base, and no one told what he said when he prepared his weapon, and what his thoughts were when he saw an “enemy” committing crimes against his ancestors and forefathers… Bardawil blessed him to go to paradise, where he would be together with his friend, Suleiman Khater[the killer of 7 Israeli tourists in Egypt in 1985], and with the prophets, the righteous, and the shaheeds….
The widespread glee expressed about Mohamed Salah’s cold-blooded murder of two unsuspecting Israeli soldiers, his being held up as a heroic “shahid” (martyr) whom Arab youth should emulate, the naming of a sports complex after him in Egypt, the Jordanian member of the Arab Parliament who called for the Al-Fatihah – the profession of faith that makes up the first surah – to be said in his honor, the Hamas expressions of delight at the “brave deed” of Mohamed Salah, are just some of the evidence that the Arabs are overwhelmingly supportive of, even proud of, Mohamed Salah’s cowardly and foul act, as they are of the Oct. 7 jihadis. The former head of the Egyptian army’s reconnaissance service, and a strategic expert, Maj. Gen. Samir Farag, confirmed that “what the Egyptian soldier Mohamed Salah did is the biggest blow dealt to Israel since 1973, when he attacked the Israeli army forces and shot down 3 soldiers with a rifle that contained only 100 rounds.”
All of this should have given Israel, and the West, pause. The depths of hatred expressed by Egyptians at every level, their glee and diseased pride at this cowardly act of murder, should have worried Israelis. Now the same phenomenon is recurring. It should not be ignored again.
Jim says
The problem seems to be that people in their world are taught from childhood on to believe in myths and theological metaphors as realities to be complied with. They need to learn a realistic, objective picture of the world in which there are no demons to be killed like dragons in myths. Islam does not have a scientific worldview in its scriptures nor in the teachings of its clerics, theologians and politicians. As long as this is the case, they will continue living in the middle ages or perhaps the stone age and commit more atrocities that they are proud of.
bill says
They say it themselves, they love death, life means nothing to them except serving ‘allah’.
That is why Islam societies never achieve great heights. Their achievements in architecture show what might have been possible, but there was no possibilty for art and music to flourish as Moham had declared them forbidden
pete says
Wonder what architecture the Muslim achieved without nonmuslim help
janet says
You’ve got to be taught from year to yea\
Its got to be drummed into your dear little ear
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Hudders. says
For ‘Martyrs’ & ‘Heroes’, read ‘Murderers’ & ‘Scum.’
The true historical islamic mindset clearly displayed here.
The closer they follow that unholy guide book of death, the koran,
plus the more horror, evil & mindless medevial mayhem they can inflict on innocents;
– the better a muslim hero they are.
Coming to a town, city or village near you soon.
Martyrs & heroes.
bagsgroove says
All the moslem murderers should be dispatched to a hell of eternal agony. They will get a shock when they find there is no allah in existence. Bunch of uneducated fools who just believe in killing. What a great contribution to humanity !
Walter Sieruk says
If a jihadist of Hamas , or any other jihadist just after his Islamic suicide /homicide attack right after he died ,to his shock and horror, he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of an awful place the Bible calls “hell.” Luke 16:19-31. That jihad minded Muslim of Hamas was dangerous to self and others because that he was indoctrinated with and likewise believed in the doctrine found in the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78;31.,of a lust –filled sex paradise with many virgins, in in for his use only, because he died as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam. That jihadist will discover the hard way that he was instructed in and put his faith in a false doctrine that is from a false religious book of false religion .This doctrine of a paradise for the jihadist who died fighting for Islam was only an enticing religious story of fiction. The Bible does give warning against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. [N.K.J.V]
As for dying in a murderous jihad attack, in spite, of the Muslim clerics falsely calling it a “martyrdom operation.” That jihadist after in dies in a jihad murder attack, and learn too late, the truth of Bible with informs its reader that a murderer “will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.
In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears ; they will heap up for themselves teachers ;and they will away their ears from the truth and be turned to fables.” Second Timothy 4 : 3,4.
Walter Sieruk says
The Muslims who are the jihadists of Hamas are dangerous, deadly and deluded. By the word “ deluded “ it means that they are under the spell of the deception of the false doctrines of the false religion that is Islam.
This deception of deceit may be seen, by all those who are willing to see, in the Islamic doctrine of a virgin filled paradise designed specify for the male Muslim jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam, in what they so inappropriately call a “martyrdom operation.” Many a times a jihadist/Muslim is so very deluded that he actually put on his video recording that after he dies in the jihad as a “martyr” he will then in paradise have a “wedding with virgins.” This firm but blind unquestioning folly is the result of such a man believing in deception of a false doctrine. With Light of the Wisdom of Jesus a belief in a “wedding with virgins.” is the outcome of a person accepting as the “truth” an invalid and false. For Jesus taught “you are mistaken, not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30. [N.K.J.V.]
A jihadist will after dies and such a murderous way will have a very hard and harsh “reality check” In that “his expectation will perish…” Proverb 11:7. For he will then discover that he was deceived by false doctrine and lie of “a paradise with virgins” and to his shock and horror he will find himself trapped and suffering ,with no hope of escape, in the fires of hell. As the Bible teaches a murder “will not inherit the kingdom of God,” Galatians 5:21. This is sad and tragic but nevertheless it’s the reality of the truth.
Walter Sieruk says
Such deadly jihadists aren’t really “martyrs” or “heroes.” In reality ,they are dangerous to self and others because of their false religion which is Islam.
Islam must ,truly , be a death cult. The followers of that religion even celebrant death.
Some of them even chant “They love life. We love death.”
Walter Sieruk says
In great contrast to the death cult which is Islam, Is Christianity which is centered on Jesus, Who taught and offered life and not death.
For example. Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” John 10:10. [N.K.J.V.]
Jerry says
Unfortunately, Islam isn’t even a genuine religion.
The self proclaimed last and final prophet started his career as a gigolo.
He was employed by an amazingly powerful successful and rich female
merchant named Khadijah, about twenty two years older who became
his “sugar mummy” and later married him.
When she died, his cash flow was reduced and he made his former
pastime as a desert warlord, plunderer of desert caravans and oases
mass murderer of men looter of gold and precious stones and taker
of women, girls and “unblemished” pre-puberty young and toddler boys
mainly as sex slaves.
The label Islam is indeed derived from the root of Salaam which means
peace, but it doesn’t mean peace. Islam only means submission.
Thus, there is no true peace in Islam, and there never was.
The fake religion was invented with as dual purpose in mid. The first
was to serve as a marketing tool to recruit soldiers for the marauding
bandit bands he formed to create and expand his ancient Arabia mega
crime enterprise. The other was to provide a convoluted and contrived
excuses for his crimes and to allay the fears of his recruits of what will
happen if he were to lose a battle and they die in the process.
He offered and attractive deal to his recruits. He would organise and
lead the criminal raids and make them successful, and they could loot
to their heart contents and take sex and other slaves and could keep
four fifths of the loot and the slaves and give him as his share one fifth.
The (fake) mega self repairing and replenishing Virgin Warehouse in
the hereafter with the solemn promise that anyone who died on a Jihad
(Islamic) holy war would instantly go there was invented in answer
to the natural question – What will happen to me if I die in your battle.
But, in order to have that instant ticket to heaven Jihad had to be first
invented.
Most humans are social animals who acquire a degree of empathy for
others and are reluctant to attack rob rape and murder those who are
innocents who never done any wrong so the wrongs had to be invented>
Mohammad invented the fable that all people are born Muslims and
thus anyone who isn’t a Muslim is a “Kaffir” – a person who blatantly
knows the “truth” but wilfully denies it. That definition of “Kaffir”
immediately criminalises all non Muslims (and insufficiently compliant
Muslims) and condemns them to death.
Originally Mohammad was trying to recruit the Jews and Christians to
join him under the false representation that what he was offering
them was simply an improved version of their own faith.
He was totally unsuccessful with the Jews and as his disappointment
grew he developed a genocidal agenda towards them.
He also had relatively little success with the Christians and they were
also added to his hateful genocidal agenda, but with less fervour as
against the Jews.
Alena says
Nice sum up.
Karen Ann Dowden says
Well said, simply put. These people stormed out of the Arabian peninsula attacking and killing people and took over many lands. The only way it was held together was by creating a religion.
The majority on the planet still have no clue of the true teachings of Islam – a warlike doctrine – or the origins of same.