The impact of October 7 has been so severe that there is now a “before October 7” and “after October 7.” The world is not the same. The issue of jihad war, and the evidence of 1,400 years of expansionary jihad violence is in focus. What Hamas did on October 7 may be new to the West, but it has many historic antecedents. It is part of what the jihad is. In the recent past, we saw it with the Islamic State; even now, Christians in Africa are experiencing a genocide at the hands of brutal jihadists. But now the jihad has struck Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East.
And please, many need to stop the nonsense about the West only caring about Israel because it’s made up of “white people.” I’ve heard many advance that view. If you go to Israel, you will also see the Mizrahi Jews, the Ethiopian Jews, the B’nei Menashe (Indian) Jews, the Kaifeng Jews (Chinese), and among them all, multitudes of Arabs living their daily lives in Israel in peace. I have personally had Arab cab drivers tell me that they hate the Palestinian Authority and love living in Israel, where they can work and are treated better by the Israeli government. Israel is the most diverse country in the world, and its varied citizens live together in peace, except, of course, for the Palestinian “resistance.” The lies about Israel being an “apartheid state” are grossly off base, and anyone peddling them doesn’t deserve to be trusted as a source of information.
Before October 7, Jihad Watch, the David Horowitz Freedom Center team, along with many other organizations in the counter-jihad movement, understood what jihad was about. Hamas’ modus operandi on October 7 was not a surprise for anyone who has been following jihadist activities.
Jihad can be unspeakably brutal. It also encompasses the patient insidiousness and deceit of the stealth jihad, that endeavors to fool gullible Western countries into becoming useful idiots. For instance, the West accepted the “Islamophobia” subterfuge based on claims of victimhood and charges of racism and bigotry. The term was heavily promulgated by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in order to shut down criticism of Islam and to bring Sharia blasphemy laws forbidding criticism of Islam to the West. Charges of “Islamophobia” became a tool of subjugation. With October 7, the discussion is back on the table in the full ugliness of what jihad is.
Westerners first flung open their doors to unvetted immigration of mostly Muslim migrants on a massive scale during the Syrian war. This mass migration continued for years, and has largely been comprised of illegal, unvetted economic migrants. That stream broadened to include African Muslim illegals. Now, open doors is a globalist norm. In the globalist view, anyone can enter Western countries and people are welcome to come in any quantity, unvetted. This created conditions that were ripe for jihad by immigration, aka the hijrah. It is already a success. Given low Western birthrates and high Muslim birthrates, Western countries will be dominated by vast Sharia-believing populations in the decades to come. History teaches that when Muslim migration and influence increase, so does violence against non-Muslims. Yet in the West, no one even bothered to monitor the hate coming out of mosques.
What happened on October 7 shifted the jihadist scheme to the next level, and this is still largely unrecognized. It is also causing upheaval within both the Right and Left camps. Take, for instance, the recent FrontPage Magazine article, “Goodbye Candace: A statement by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.” It has gotten plenty of attention. See HERE, HERE, HERE, and there’s more, including vibrant discussions on social media. They key point of the article was that Candace Owens, an icon among many on the Right, was reckless in condemning Israel’s war on Hamas, and her sympathies for pro-Hamas talking points was appalling. She also gave airtime to the infamous Norman Finkelstein, who falsely claims that Israel is an apartheid state, and Andrew Tate, a convert to Islam who proudly promotes the idea that “ISIS are the real Muslims.” Owens’ pro-Palestinian views do not make sense for one who advocates for black dignity. Palestinian racism is a stain on Palestinian society. In fact, to this day, Arab anti-black racism is a serious problem, and Muslims still hold black slaves in Mauritania, Algeria, Sudan and Libya. No one on the Right is campaigning to shut down Owens’ right to speak her mind, but the Horowitz Center has also exercised its free speech rights and said its goodbyes for good reasons.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the West are not merely exercising their freedom of expression, and they certainly are not peaceful. They are the next step in the jihad war against the West, with the jihad against Israel as a springboard. But this fact is not recognized by many supporters of the Palestinians, including Amnesty International:
People in European countries who would like to express solidarity with Palestine face restrictions, including banning of flags, banners, slogans and more, in blatant violation of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly…..Amnesty has said that peaceful protests against Israel cannot be seen as a security issue.
The group further said that some countries, including Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany, have been blocking the EU from collectively calling for a cease-fire or calling out violations of international humanitarian law by Israeli security forces….
Pro-Palestinian protests in the West are indeed a “security issue.” They are an expansion of the jihad “resistance” and an encouragement to target Jews. Such protests manipulate Western freedoms. Islamic supremacists are working to shut down the freedom of speech at any hint of criticism of Islam, but they cry foul in fighting for their free speech rights when advocating for violence against Israel and fomenting hatred of Jews and widespread anarchy in their cause of jihad. The pro-Palestinian protests are the next stage. They are promoting revolution. The chant “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free,” which is presented as harmless, is an open call to obliterate Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, a call to violence and murder — as was demonstrated on October 7. Every Sharia-believing Muslim knows and understands that. Mosab Hassan Yousef, a.k.a. Son of Hamas, revealed the bare truth about Hamas at the UN, exposing the idiocy of Westerners who call for a ceasefire from Israel. He is candid about his love for his people, but he is also clear about the threat of Hamas and why it is imperative that Israel wins in the Gaza war. No Westerner can identify with what Yousef has experienced. He was raised by Hamas. He begins:
Hamas’ first crime against children in the Palestinian societies is not arming them or encouraging them to carry out suicide bombing attacks, it’s the religious ideological indoctrination that I had to go through with one intention in mind: to annihilate the state of Israel. This is Hamas’ primary goal. In this truth there is no confusion. I speak as a firsthand witness on Hamas of their intention. My father is one of the founders of Hamas.
And he finishes with this warning:
If Hamas is not defeated in Gaza it will inspire many groups around the globe. They will see that few thousands of savages can blackmail the International Community, the superpowers and bring democracies to their knees. Many of them are watching now. Many of them are very happy about how the world is responding and many of them are satisfied to see the state of confusion and fear and anxiety. This is the time to get united because if Israel fails in Gaza all of us, we will be next .
Watch Yousef discuss the inside story of Hamas, the reasons for October 7, and why Israel MUST win:
Candace Owens, who is either soft on Hamas or advocates for it in her general advocacy for the Palestinian cause, is gravely flawed in her thinking. She and others like her claim to represent America First, but they do not understand that fighting Hamas, as Israel is doing, is putting America first. The ideology behind Hamas is that of the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks global conquest. The Brotherhood’s motto is “jihad is the way.” What’s more, the Muslim Brotherhood is Sunni. While Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, Hamas also serves as a uniting force between the Sunni and Shia jihadist ambitions of establishing a global caliphate, as Shia Iran finances and supports Hamas. Iran calls Israel the “little Satan” and America the “Great Satan.” This war concerns America and the West as much as it concerns Israel. See HERE.
The jihadist aspiration is so widely held among Muslims worldwide that the hopes that many people had that Saudi Arabia would normalize relations with Israel came to nothing in the face of jihad. Those hopes dissipated as the Saudis published a map on which Israel didn’t exist, but had been replaced with “Palestine,” and the Saudis didn’t waste any time in condemning the “occupation” soon after the Hamas atrocities of October 7. Five months before that, Saudi Arabia had released Hamas prisoners after meeting with top level Hamas operatives. No one asked why, and few even noticed.
Some are beginning to wake up. Germany has criminalized the chant “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free,” because the chant is indeed criminal. The Czech Republic is poised to follow suit.
“Jihad is the way” is unwelcome on Western soil for those who have eyes, as are pro-Palestinian activists planting the seeds of division and ultimate jihad conquest. The willfully blind on both sides of the political spectrum are a threat to the continuing freedom of Western societies. Those on the Right who have opposed reckless immigration policies and yet have suddenly demonstrated a blind spot over Israel are disappointing, and raise the question: how much of their pro-Palestinian stance reflects a hitherto hidden antisemitism?
John Pepple says
I don’t care whether Israel is white or not, because it’s culture that matters to me. Israel is culturally like other Western societies, while Hamas-run Gaza is not. And yes, the useful idiots should be dealing with slavery in North Africa and not the Palestinian issue.
Kesselman says
“The Jews and Christians are perverts, fight them.” 9:30 “Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.” 9:123 “Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin, and bellies.” 22:19 “Do not hanker for peace with the infidels; behead them when you catch them.” 47:4.
Are these words from a book most Muslims adhere to not enough to understand what the civilized world is up against? They should be for the Irish as well as for everybody else in Europe and America.
Add to this ordinary people’s everyday experience on streets and markets the behavior of Muslims. You meet them as ungrateful, arrogant, demanding, and uncharming people from a backward culture.
The useful idiots in the West have not grabbed the essence of Arab-Muslim culture.
GreekEmpress says
The useful idiots can’t get it through their heads that they’ll be targets next.
Where are they as Christians are being annihilated in Africa?
Where were they when Armenians were eradicated from Artsakh?
Crickets.
Rick Olsha says
The world is now dealing with IDIOTS like Hamas murdrerers !!!!
AM ISRAEL CHAI !!!!!