“There is no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256), but that statement is all too often honored in the breach. Agam Goldstein-Almog was perfectly free to choose to die rather than to recite the Islamic prayers.
“Freed hostage recounts torture of women in Gaza’s terror tunnels – Washington Post,” Jerusalem Post, January 18, 2024:
As soon as Agam Goldstein-Almog (17) was abducted from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7 in Gaza, she was forced to put on a headscarf and a long dress, commanded to look at the ground, was forced to recite Islamic prayer, and her abductors gave her a name from the Quran, Salsabil, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
In an interview with international media, Agam described the horror she experienced for nearly two months as a hostage inside Gaza while speaking from a kibbutz in central Israel that has largely become a temporary refuge for displaced Israeli civilians.
In the interview, Agam addressed the female hostages still in Gaza. She asked, “Have you eaten enough today? Are you together, or have they separated you? Has he harmed you again? Has he asked you, again, if you’re married, if he could set you up with someone from Gaza? Has he entered your shower again, stripped the pajamas that he gave you, touched the would [sic] from the bullet that he shot, that really hurt you? But his control hurt more.”
Agam was taken to the Hamas tunnels underneath Gaza, to apartments and a school that was also a rocket launching site. Her captors allowed her to shower five times in the 51 days she was in Gaza, the Washington Post reported.
Some hostages had been kept alone in small rooms with their captors. They told Agam and her mother that they had been sexually assaulted “with great difficulty and tears.”…
Rick Gordon says
The form of Islam practiced by Hamas is truly barbaric. I cannot understand how/why students or other citizens in the US can support such behaviors by these terrorists.
abu taleb says
That is Islam practised by their prophet, which means that is the true Islam. Please don’t say as if Hamas is practicing the wrong Islam.
bagsgroove says
Since hamass likes to rape, whenever they are captured and not executed immediately as is the proper procedure,they should bring in the gay brigades to sexually attack the muslims who would then be thrown off high buildings when they were released to go back home for being homosexuals !
Sean says
Take the other pill, the one that lets you see Islam for what it truly is.
Hudders. says
@Rick Gordon.
THIS IS ISLAM.
Brutal. Perverse. Cruel. A twisted death cult. Exactly as found in the qur’an.
Anything else is not islam. It is false. Or a lie that helps them.
Place any so called ‘moderate’ muslim amongst their friends in Gaza & you can be sure that they would soon practice the real islam too.
They are only moderate when it suits.
dumbledoresarmy says
This testimony by Agam is very important because it makes absolute nonsense of any claim that this is a war of ‘national liberation’ or ‘resistance to oppression’ or whatever.
It reveals that what Hamas is ALL ABOUT is the forcible imposition of Islam! It’s Jihad bloody Jihad!
Western ‘progressives’ need to get a clue that what they are supporting when they march in the streets screaming about the ‘evil Joooz’ and chanting their support for Hamas and ‘free Palestine’ is .. a Muslim religious war that aims at killing, subjugating or ‘converting’ non-Muslims.
Starting with the Jews of Israel.. but Hamas is on the record as stating quite plainly that their aims are not merely ‘local’ (destruction and Islamification of Israel) but GLOBAL. WEstern progressives need to have it hammered into their heads that when people like Hamas use terms like ‘occupation’ and ‘oppression’ they are using those words in a special Islamic sense; ‘occupation’ = ANY territory occupied by a non-Islamic sovereign entity that insists on living by non-Islamic laws, beliefs and customs and ‘oppression’ = non-Muslims who aren’t under the muslim boot, i.e. Muslims are ‘oppressed’ by the mere existence of any person anywhere who isn’t yet a Muslim and who, on being ‘invited’ to become a Muslim, says No.
From Hamas’ point of view, even the faraway tribespeople in the depths of the Amazonian forests, and the Lapps of Lapland, or the Inuit of Nunavut, are illegal occupiers because they are not Muslims, and their mere existence qua non-Muslims constitutes ‘oppression’; and ‘liberation’ means… Muslim invasion, occupation and force-conversion, killing or enslavement of any and all such ‘oppressive’ and ‘occupying’ non-Muslims.. anywhere, anywhere on earth.
somehistory says
Yes, it shows how foolish and evil are the lies that say it’s the Jews who are in the wrong; that it’s the Jews who terrorize and torture and who have so terribly mistreated mozlums for decades.
hamas knows they are the ones doing those things; but even if their infidel supporters read this page and your comment, pride won’t allow them to admit to being wrong. What is more
Their hatred of the Jews and their arrogance prevent them from admitting the Truth.
somehistory says
I have never been in her situation and I hope and pray never to be. But, I truly believe I would rather just die than be forced to tell that big, gigantic, evil lie that claims that their demon god is greater than the God of the Bible.
I’m also truly sorry that any person is made to endure such as these young women and children, and even the elderly have.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
I definitely see your point.
But, the counterpoint would be to lie (and prevent one’s death) in order to “regroup”, state publicly that the islamic prayers were made under duress, and live to fight another day.
somehistory says
James, I’m thinking of how I would feel if I agreed with the lie.
As Jesus said, “The one trying to save his soul, will lose it. But the one losing his soul for my sake, will find it.”
(most translations say “life” )
“Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“For whoever wills to save his soul, destroys it; but whoever will give up his soul for my sake, this one saves it.”
I think I would rather die faithfully keeping to the Truth. But each one must make that personal decision as each one sees it.
We know when Jesus was taken by the Sanhedrin, Peter (saying, “I do not know the Man,” denied Jesus three times) and the others abandoned Him. But they came back and stayed faithful.
so, it’s up to each Christian in his relationship with God.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Thank you for your very thoughtful reply.
bagsgroove says
Some day soon, it will be the moslems who will be begging for mercy, but no one will offer them anything but hatred. We’ll see how they like that ?
Major Tom says
Weren’t Mohammed’s last allegedly recorded words……”I have been made victorious by terror!”
Simba says
May the faith of the Christians not Fail in these last days.
Old Guy says
The fools among us will praise Islam until they face the misery, then they will pray that the Christians take up arms and defeat this enemy. We’ve had to do it before and will do it again. Keep your powder dry.