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A Sobering Take on Death Cults
American Thinker ^ | 14 May, 2025 | Richard Kirk

Posted on 05/14/2025 4:40:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber

If any book could open the eyes of clueless pro-Hamas student protesters, Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults would likely be the one. Packed with eyewitness accounts of the horrific October 7 massacre and Israel’s subsequent response, only ideological intransigents would instinctively ignore the massive moral gulf separating Hamas from its Jewish enemies.

Far from a philosophical analysis, Murray addresses the Democracy–Death Cult clash by relating what he saw; what he gathered from interviews; and, incredibly, by what was available via phone messages, social media posts, and filming of the atrocities — much done by the terrorists themselves. “Using GoPro cameras and mobile phones the terrorists broadcast their acts of violence with pride. By late in the day on October 7, it was already clear that these acts included burning people alive, shooting innocent people, cutting off people’s heads, and raping men and women. Sometimes before killing them. Sometimes after.”

The account Murray provides of the attack is vivid and personal. Parents get messages of their children’s last desperate minutes while Hamas fighters, unlike the Nazis, publicize the grisly torture they inflict on Jews. Relevant detours into the history of Israel’s struggle for survival come as a relief, as do paragraphs devoted to the burgeoning population of Gaza and non-Jewish Israel — figures that conclusively rebut the popular “genocide” accusations against Israel. “Apartheid state” calumnies are likewise countered with facts about Arab participation in Israel’s government even at the highest levels.

The story of one Hamas terrorist, Yahya Sinwar, serves as a singular representative of the Death Cult throughout Murray’s work. Sinwar was a leader of the October 7 attack, having been recruited into Hamas years earlier. In 1988, Sinwar was imprisoned for the murder of four Palestinians he suspected were informers

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: jihad

1 posted on 05/14/2025 4:40:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Releasing Sinwar certainly looks like a mistake. Maybe the mistake was taking him as a prisoner in the first place.


2 posted on 05/14/2025 4:40:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

How many times do you give second chances or aid and comfort to individuals who want to kill you and your loved ones? Sympathy for the guilty is TREASON to the innocent.


3 posted on 05/14/2025 4:45:06 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

While the Democrats all but openly supported the Hamas massacres of the Jews, even the Russian Foreign Minister had good things to say about Israel’s response to it.


4 posted on 05/14/2025 4:48:15 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

https://www.timesofisrael.com/lavrov-appears-to-liken-israels-war-on-hamas-in-gaza-to-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/


5 posted on 05/14/2025 4:49:49 AM PDT by BobL
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To: PGalt

Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora

R. Eleazar said, “Anyone who becomes merciful upon the cruel one will end by being cruel to the merciful: It is written (I Samuel 15:9), ‘But Saul had pity upon Agag and upon the best of the sheep and the cattle’; and it is [also] written (I Samuel 22:19) about Nob the city of priests, ‘And he smote Nob the city of priests with the edge of the sword.’


6 posted on 05/14/2025 4:54:29 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: MtnClimber
[The story of one Hamas terrorist, Yahya Sinwar]

[Yahya Sinwar - Hamas terrorist]

Night before the 10/07/2023 Massacre of innocents (tunnel picture)



When the IDF finally found Yahya Al-Sinwar


7 posted on 05/14/2025 5:12:53 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

Please. Can we talk about something other than the Democrat Party for a single day?

/s


8 posted on 05/14/2025 5:52:29 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: MtnClimber

The biggest death cult in the world is the Democrat party.


9 posted on 05/14/2025 6:02:49 AM PDT by DFG
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


10 posted on 05/14/2025 6:24:36 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

They are just satan worshippers doing what satan worshippers do...


11 posted on 05/14/2025 7:58:28 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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