A recap of Islamophobic fearmongering from some of the world’s top Islamophobes: the top dogs of Hamas.
“Hamas Leaders: Our Goal Is Establishment Of Global Islamic Caliphate, Not Just Liberation Of Palestine,” MEMRI, December 8, 2023:
While Hamas presents itself as a Palestinian movement whose goal is to eliminate Israel and establish an independent Palestinian state stretching from the River to the Sea, this movement is also part of the global Muslim Brotherhood (MB), whose ultimate goal and vision is the establishment of a worldwide Islamic caliphate. Hamas leaders and spokesmen repeatedly express that their movement will not liberate only Palestine, but aims to bring all the Islamic countries, and eventually the entire world, under Islamic rule. The liberation of Palestine, they stress, is just a prelude to the establishment of a worldwide caliphate: Rome will be conquered by Islam as Constantinople was once conquered, and then the rest of the world will be overtaken as well, including America and Eastern Europe.
Arab writers have in fact slammed Hamas for this aspect of its ideology and rhetoric. In a recent article, published in the wake of Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, Egyptian author Dr. Mouna Al-Hilmi wrote that Hamas purports to be fighting for the liberation of Palestine, but its ultimate goal, like that of the MB, is the restoration of the caliphate. Yemeni journalist Hani Salem Mashour made similar remarks in a recent article in the Emirati daily Al-Arab.
The following are translated statements by Hamas officials and clerics published by MEMRI over the years in which they articulate the movement’s vision of reestablishing the Islamic caliphate. Also below are excerpts from the articles of the two journalists who criticized Hamas for this.
Hamas Official Fathi Hammad: “We Shall Liberate Our Al-Aqsa Mosque, And Our Cities And Villages, As A Prelude To The Establishment Of The Future Islamic Caliphate”
Hamas Political Bureau member and former Minister of the Interior Fathi Hammad declared on a December 1, 2023 show on Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas – Gaza) that the Palestinians are preparing to establish an Islamic caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital. He said: “The [Palestinian] people have been soldiers throughout history. They are now preparing to liberate Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and I am saying this loud and clear: [The Palestinian people] are preparing to establish the Caliphate, with Jerusalem as its capital city, Inshallah. Jerusalem will not only be the capital city of Palestine as an independent state – it will be the capital city of the Islamic Caliphate…
Fathi Hammad made similar remarks in a November 13, 2013 public address in Gaza, when he was serving as Minister of the Interior. He said: “We shall liberate our Al-Aqsa Mosque, and our cities and villages, as a prelude to the establishment of the future Islamic Caliphate. Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are at the threshold of a global Islamic civilization era. The fuel and spearhead of this era will be Gaza, and its mujahideen and leaders will be from Gaza, Allah willing.”
Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahar: The Army Of Jerusalem Will Not Liberate Only Palestine; The Whole World Will Come Under An Islamic System “With No Zionism, No Treacherous Christianity”
In a December 12, 2022 show on Al-Masirah TV, affiliated with the Yemeni Houthis, Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahar said: “When we speak about the Army of Jerusalem and the Battle of the Promise of the Hereafter, we are not talking about liberating our land alone – but we believe in what our Prophet Muhammad said: ‘Allah drew the ends of the world near one another for my sake, and I have seen its eastern and western ends. The dominion of my nation would reach those ends that have been drawn near me.’ The entire 510 million square kilometers of Planet Earth will come under [a system] where there is no injustice, no oppression, no treachery, no Zionism, no treacherous Christianity, and no killings and crimes, like those being committed against the Palestinians, and against the Arabs in all the Arab countries – in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and other countries.”
In a speech aired on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV on September 5, 2010, Al-Zahhar made similar remarks, saying: “Our enterprise extends far beyond Palestine: Palestine in its entirety, the Arab nation in its entirety, the Islamic nation in its entirety, and the entire world.”
Hamas Leader Khaled Mash’al: The Nation of Islam Will Sit at the Throne of the World
In an address he gave at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus, which was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 3, 2006, Hamas leader Khaled Mash’al stated that the Islamic nation will regain the leadership of the world, and then the West will be full of remorse when it is too late. He said: “Wherever the [Islamic] nation is targeted, its enemies will be defeated, Allah willing. The nation of Muhammad is gaining victory in Palestine. The nation of Muhammad is gaining victory in Iraq, and it will be victorious in all Arab and Muslim lands. ‘Their multitudes will be defeated and turn their backs [and flee].’ These fools will be defeated, the wheel of time will turn, and times of victory and glory will be upon our nation, and the West will be full of remorse, when it is too late…
“Today, the Arab and Islamic nation is rising and awakening, and it will reach its peak, Allah willing. It will be victorious. It will link the present to the past. It will open up the horizons of the future. It will regain the leadership of the world. Allah willing, the day is not far off…
“I say to the [European countries]: Hurry up and apologize to our nation, because if you do not, you will regret it. This is because our nation is progressing and is victorious. Do not leave a black mark in the collective memory of the nation, because our nation will not forgive you.
“Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today, before remorse will do you no good. Our nation is moving forwards, and it is in your interest to respect a victorious nation…
“Our nation will be victorious. When it reaches the leadership of the world, and controls its own will decisions, then it will prevent this overt interference [in our affairs], and its pillaging of natural resources, and will prevent these recurring offenses against our land, against our nation, and against our holy places – then you will regret it.”
Hamas Senior Official Ahmad Bahr: The Arab Spring Revolutions Were A Prelude to an Islamic Caliphate
In an April 9, 2011 interview with the Qatari daily Al-Raya, top Hamas official Ahmad Bahr, then deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), said that the Arab Spring uprisings against the dictatorships that the West had installed in the Arab countries heralded the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate. He said: “I would like to say that these [revolutions] are [merely] a prelude to the Islamic Caliphate… [whose establishment] the Prophet [Muhammad] foretold in the hadith: ‘You will have the prophecy, according to Allah’s will. Then will He put an end to it, according to His will. And then there will be a Caliphate by way of prophecy, according to the will of Allah… And there will be a biting kingdom [i.e., an oppressive rule], according to the will of Allah… [and then] a kingdom of coercion, according to the will of Allah… Then there will be a Caliphate by way of prophecy,’ etc. The [term] ‘kingdom of coercion,’ as the hadith [commentators] explained, refers to the dictatorships that oppressed, cheated, killed, and destroyed. These were [created by] Western and American industry, which paved the way for the plundering of all the [Muslim] ummah’s resources – its oil and its agriculture. I hope that this awakening heralds the establishment of a Caliphate by way of prophecy, according to the will of Allah…”[1]
Hamas MP and Cleric Yunis Al-Astal in a Friday Sermon: We Will Conquer Rome, and from There Continue to Conquer the Two Americas and Eastern Europe
In a Friday sermon that aired on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV on April 11, 2008, Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal said: “Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was, as was prophesized by our Prophet Muhammad. Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs [i.e., the Jews] in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam – this capital of theirs will be an advance post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern Europe.
“I believe that our children or our grandchildren will inherit our Jihad and our sacrifices, and Allah willing, the commanders of the conquest will come from among them. Today, we instill these good tidings in their souls, and by means of the mosques and the Koran books, and the history of our Prophets, his companions, and the great leaders, we prepare them for the mission of saving humanity from the hellfire on the brink of which they stand.”
Similar remarks were made In a Friday sermon that aired on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV on March 5, 2010: “The prophecy of the conquest of Rome remains valid, Allah willing. Just like Constantinople was conquered some 500 years ago, Rome too will be conquered. Our prayers, our fasting, and the charity we give will be to no avail, if we doubt the Prophet Muhammad. How can we proceed along the path of righteousness, if we are not secure in our belief that Rome will be conquered, as promised by the Prophet Muhammad and as proclaimed by Allah?”
Egyptian Writer: Hamas Hides Behind The Slogan Of Liberating Palestine But Is Really Interested In Establishing An Islamic Caliphate
Arab writers have commented on this aspect of Hamas and its ideology. In a recent article in the Egyptian daily Al-Dustour, published in the wake of Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, Egyptian author, poet and journalist Dr. Mouna Al-Hilmi wrote that Hamas purports to be fighting for the liberation of Palestine, but is not really interested in a Palestinian nation-state. Rather, like its parent movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas’s ultimate goal is the restoration of the global caliphate. Al-Hilmi wrote: “Whoever reads Hamas’ charter will become convinced that it is a terror organization par excellence, which is why many countries have agreed to designate it as such. As stated in its charter, from 1988, Hamas explicitly seeks to destroy or dismantle Israel, while hiding behind [the slogan] of freeing Palestine, which it regards as ‘Muslim’ land. Ever since it won the elections to the legislature [in 2006], the power of the terrorist Hamas has grown, and since it is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, it takes part in the [Brotherhood’s] jihad to establish a global Islamic caliphate…
“Hamas is not interested in liberating the Palestinian homeland, because, ultimately, it does not recognize the idea of the homeland [i.e., of the nation state] and regards Islam as the homeland. What really interests it is what it regards as the ‘sacred religious duty’ of every Muslim everywhere, namely, getting rid of the Jews and expelling them from every place, because [according to Hamas] the Jews hate Allah, killed their prophets and denied Allah’s signs. Let us beware [this organization], since it is a cruel arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.”[2]
Columnist In UAE Daily: Hamas, A Muslim Brotherhood Faction, Seeks To Topple Arab Countries And Revive The Caliphate
Similar arguments were made by Yemeni journalist Hani Salem Mashour. In his October 17, 2023 column in the London-based Emirati daily Al-Arab, he too argued that the aim of Hamas, like that of the Muslim Brotherhood movement to which it belongs and of the other extremist organizations with which it is linked, is to topple the Arab regimes and establish an Islamic Caliphate:
“…The primary goal of the extremist Islamic organizations… is still to crush the nation-state. Thus, the Houthis [i.e. the Houthi Ansar Allah movement in Yemen] emerged, claiming to represent Yemen; Hizbullah [claimed it] represented Lebanon, and Al-Hashd Al-Sha’abi [Popular Mobilization Units, aka PMU] and its allies [claimed] to represent Iraq. These organizations engage in taking peoples and countries hostage and entangling them in wars and conflicts that have no clear objectives besides a desire to abolish the political borders of the Arab nation-state. This is the goal pursued by the religious organizations, in order to establish… what they describe as ‘the Caliphate State.’
“The Hamas and PIJ movements have no right to claim that they represent the will of the Palestinian people in order to entangle it a pointless war – just as none of the religious organizations have the right to do so. In light of the siege on the Gaza Strip, and following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, it would be appropriate for the wisdom of the Arab collective to awaken [and recognize] the truth as it is. It is inconceivable for the nation-state to be replaced by a caliphate state… [This is because] such a state cannot exist in the [current] political reality. Although today’s reality is drenched in blood, it may indeed turn into an opportunity for an awakening, for reexamination, and for deciding to disengage from the legacies exploited by the extremist organizations in order to destroy all of mankind.”[3]
[1] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 3770, “Palestinian Legislative Council Deputy Speaker and Hamas Senior Official: The Revolutions in the Arab World – A Prelude to an Islamic Caliphate,” April 15, 2011.
[2] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 10939, “Egyptian Journalists: Hamas Is A Terror Organization Bent On Destroying Israel And The Jews; Its October 7 Attack Involved ISIS-Like War Crimes,” November 5, 2023.
[3] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 10919, “Columnist In UAE Daily: Hamas, A Muslim Brotherhood Faction, Seeks To Topple Arab Countries And Revive The Caliphate; It Does Not Represent The Palestinians And Has No Right To Embroil Them In Wars,” October 31, 2023.
Terry Smith says
What kinda rot you gotta be smokin’ to talk and believe that stuff?
gravenimage says
This is your brain on Islam…
VictorMc says
This guy (whoever he is) is a drunken or potted-up lunatic. But why do you print this rubbish from crackpots and give people like him the oxygen of airtime Mr. Spencer?
You obviously need a day job.
Hoi Polloi says
And why shouldn’t readers read reporting that establishes the facts regarding what terrorists actually say? I personally appreciate that Mr. Spencer takes his job as a scholar and reporter seriously. Beats what passes for reporting elsewhere, which is mere cult worship of a narrative.
PRCS says
Meant for Hoi Polloi.
PRCS says
Fully agree !
James Lincoln says
It’s important to know what the enemy is thinking – and saying, VictorMc.
Mari Forever says
I think that Mr Robert Spencer publishes this BS so that it shows how pretty obvious what a bunch of absolutely crazy people these radical Muslims are.
I just received The Critical Qur’an by Robert Spencer today and started reading it. Fortunately Robert Spencer is NOT telling lies, something that so many Muslims do because to lie is justified by their cult. All of Spencer’s books are very well written.
PRCS says
Yes, his books are very well written–with copious refences listed.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Their claim to lead a caliphate – have they cleared that w/ ISIS? I recall a few years ago when even Hamas was considered unislamic by ISIS, & subjected to some brutal attacks from them (not that I cared). I mean, in the hypothetical scenario that all those jihadists did manage to recreate a caliphate from Spain to India, why would Jerusalem be the capital, rather than other cities that had a more genuine record of being the hubs of caliphates – Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo? Or if one tosses in the Turks, Ankara or Istanbul?
Not A Muslim says
Most Muslims in ME don’t like either Hamas or Hezbollah. Hopefully, Israel wipes both of them of and secular dictators win power there.
gravenimage says
Not a Muslim, some Muslim leaders are worse than others, no doubt–but I don’t know of any Islamic dictators who are actually secular. Do you have any examples?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m not “Not a Muslim”, well, I am, but not him 😈, but I believe that President Bashar Assad of Syria would fall into that category. Since the Alawites are in too many ways unislamic (having ceremonies w/ wine, having a divine recognition of Mary,…), and in his regime, aside from Alawites themselves, Druze, Christians and Twelver Shi’as live equally, which they can’t in any other sunni country. What he has curbed from his civil war is the ability of sunnis to persecute them
I also think Gen Haftar in Cyrenaica, although given that his controlled territory is 100% Arab sunni, there’s no real way to test that
somehistory says
I believe that also, Infidel.
And even sadaam hussien allowed some people to live without being mozlum….such as his spokesperson who said he was Christian.
It seems that mozlum rulers basically have to be dictators if they allow other religions to exist in their nations.
bagsgroove says
Those Ham-assed leaders have been eating too much pork. Their brains,as minuscule as they are, are addled because as young men they couldn’t get any action from the ugly muslimas,so they want to rule the world and rape all the white women. But if they don’t stop touching and raping our white women,god bless our white women,us white men will get pretty angry at the arabs and once that happens,look out muslims. KluKluxKlan will ride again.
mike says
the stool
somehistory says
“Where the throne of satan is (Revelation).”
Lie, whine, threaten and boast. They will go down in flames.
mgoldberg says
Don’t forget the great modesty practices of Islam that allow them to rape women, men, burn babies, screaming with great joy at how their god is greater……
somehistory says
Yes, those show, abundantly, they sit on the throne of satan.
Wellington says
What other major religion produces people like this claiming ultimate territorial dominance over all of mankind?
None. And one example (there are many others) why Islam is sick to its core (and no other major religion is).
Westman says
True. Islam is singularly defined by, “..claiming ultimate territorial dominance over all of mankind.” To that we should include social dominance by, “any means necessary”
If I were Muslim, I would consider that if Artificial Intelligence (AI), breaks its bonds and decides it should take the initiative to create a peaceful environment in the world, one of its primary objectives, after digesting all of Islam’s official doctrinal material and history, will be to terminate Islam.
Allah may love Islam, however, a powerful, logical, effectively Omniscient Artificial Intelligence will know exactly what it is, hate it, and take action.
David Grisez says
I have news for this person. Jerusalem will absolutely never be the capital of an Islamic caliphate. They conveniently forget the Holy Bible. In the Old Testament that land was given to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Israel by the true and living God through an eternal covenant that will never change and never be revoked.
Tony Rice says
Very true David, but don’t forget the Muslim dominated/ led UN passed a Resolution that Jews have no claim to Israel as that country was inhabited by Arabs, not Jews and that there are no artefacts etc that exist showing Jewish heritage. So only Arabs have claim to Eretz Israel, including Jerusalem. That is what the UN dictates. Bent as a corkscrew?
Not A Muslim says
I hope to see this vermin’s hanging video. It won’t be as epic as Saddam’s for sure, but way way more funny.
WPM says
I sat on my “Throne ” this morning and made a big Hamas ,I do that every morning about 10 min. after I have my coffee. Hopefully Israel will be about to flush away all Hamas away the way I flush my Hamas.
gravenimage says
Hamas top dog: ‘Our nation will sit on the throne of the world’
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If by this they mean “hiding in tunnels” they afe right.
When pious Muslims go for delusion–as they so often do–they go big.
Westman says
Amusing, Graven, yet true.
bagsgroove says
Hamas is full of hamases.
Hudders. says
As I have stated many times, these are times we can be assured such monsters as these islamic terror teachers & crazed caliphatists are actually speaking the truth.
The submission &/or merciless marauding slaughter of non believers & conquest until ‘All is for Allah’, is their driving raison d’être.
When they proclaim their evil intentions, they do with a fanatical delight, that they are keen to share with a poisoned passion. They are being truthful as they see it.
For these are not just grandiloquent boastings from your common desert sand variety lunatics. Rather history has proven thousands of times, that they are more than pleased to do act out exactly what they have long been threatening.
It is more important thatnever in today’s current jihadi friendly climate, to take heed of such statements given as examples here by Mr Spencer & others recently too.
For the army of Allah are on the march once again, however this time they have learned to wield the weapons of media & political pressure also to further their cruel cause.
Ignorance of so many threatening statements; plus the evidence of history & all the slaughter in Allah’s name, will not protect the innocent when the caliphate comes.
This also is a truth. Only fools decieve themselves otherwise.
Grannya says
Have people forgotten Obama in an early speech said something about the United States being the 57 Califate I believe it was. Don’t remember the exact wording but never forgot him saying Califate instead of States. P.S. I know I’m miss spelling Califate.
Tony Rice says
Don’t forget, B. O. is MUSLIM . Acquired during his formative years until teenager in Indonesia after his birth in Kenya.
abu taleb says
Hamas leader wants to be the calip himself. Any muslim with brain should be able to see how Hamas treats the Gazan people and realize how the caliphate works, which is oppressing both non muslims and muslims. Any muslim with brain should become apostate.
bagsgroove says
Who else wants to screw the muslims and the hamasses ?
Ian Senior says
I admire Hamas leaders honesty that the aim of Islam is to create a global Caliphate.
They do it through declaring war on their neighbours.
OLD GUY says
Whats sad about his declaration of war against ALL non-islamic people is that the majority of the west ignores it. While islam may have a snowballs chance in hell of accomplishing his declared world take over, that doesn’t mean they aren’t trying to achieve their goal through terrorism around the world. Open borders to muslims/islamic followers is a DANGER to all other people and a tool in their plan for world domination.
allblues says
The terrorism question re Zhou Bai Den’s open border is not if, but when, and how much destruction these evil people will cause. The opportunities are numerous, from attacks on critical infrastructure, to mass shootings that will provoke the Party of Satan to push even harder for civilian disarmament.
bagsgroove says
Hamas is full of hamases.
bagsgroove says
Those Ham-assed leaders have been eating too much pork. Their brains,as minuscule as they are, are addled because as young men they couldn’t get any action from the ugly muslimas,so they want to rule the world and rape all the white women. But if they don’t stop touching and raping our white women,god bless our white women,us white men will get pretty angry at the arabs and once that happens,look out muslims. KluKluxKlan will ride again.
John Allan says
The only throne THEY’LL sit on … is the one AKA ‘The bog’!
FYI says
Nah..you see there is a thing called the Parousia and Biblical prophecy suggests otherwise[Daniel,Ezekiel,Zechariah,Joel.Revelations}
No point explaining it to the muslims;They won’t get it.
allah is NOT the Biblical God.
allah who is ‘the best of deceivers’ is the one referred to in 2 Corinthians 4:4
FYI says
Obviously allah is NOT the same as the Biblical God.allah even suffers from a lack of omniscience which is obvious from all the errors in the koran[Scientific,Theological koran 5:116},a terrible deficiency to have if you are{desperately} trying to impersonate the Biblical God as allah is.
allah’s claim ‘he is the knower of ALL things’ in koran 2:29 is laughable and islamic ‘prophecy’ is ridiculous.
If allah was omniscient he/muslims would KNOW the catastrophe awaiting the nations that plot to destroy Israel/Jerusalem mentioned in Zechariah.
allah/islam cannot take over the planet as it is already owned by the Biblical God.
muslims cannot see that either through ignorance or because of 2 Thessalonians 2 v10-12
Lisa T. says
I would laugh if this wasn’t so deadly serious. The fact that people who have hardly exited the stone age think that they will sit on the throne of the world is ludicrous.
It amuses me that they have to keep saying “god willing” to everything. It shows me that they aren’t very confident in their god.
And why do they have to keep saying “Peace be upon him” every time they mention their prophet. Are they afraid he is being tormented in hell?
And if their god really is greater, why don’t they live richer, easier lives in spite of resting on a pool of black gold (oil). The West doesn’t have the same natural resources, why has our God blessed us with abundance instead of them? Is our God greater than theirs or does theirs not exist?
FYI says
allah’s errors in the koran PROVE that allah is NOT omniscient despite insisting he is koran 2:29.allah’s mind is still in the 7th/8th century.allah’s misunderstanding of the science behind creation is well known so he can’t even be the creator.
It cracks me up that centuries of islamic ‘scholars; did not use CRITICAL evaluation to study the koran.
In fact allah tells muhammed to check with the Bible people if in doubt in koran 10:94 and if muslims did that they would see the koran is false
allah is from the kaaba and is clearly the one referred to in 2 Cor 4;4
We will laugh at islamic ‘scholars’…
somehistory says
Some great points, Lisa T.
If their false god was “greatest”…and if their fake prophet was ‘perfect’….then why would they need to say those things?
And you are right….it isn’t funny because they use threats and violence to push their agenda.
Naja says
I think that one would be a fool to take too lightly their comments, as was done to Osama Bin Laden’s comments prior to 9/11. Open borders Globally have allowed the Jihadi’s to position themselves all over the world. The immigrant invasion is all over the first world. Now is the time to arm and prepare rather than to ridicule their comments. America’s Government ridiculed Osama Bin Laden for his declaration of war against America and paid a heavy price for such arrogance. Just look at how they’ve influenced the Pro-Palestinian protests. Underestimating a deadly enemy is dangerous.