Posted on 10/27/2023 4:26:19 AM PDT by SJackson
[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
One result of the gruesome October 7 jihad attacks in Israel is that the general public is seeing the naked bloodlust of Islamic jihadists, which the establishment media and Leftist authorities have done all they could to conceal for years.
The UK Express reported Monday that among the footage that Israel recently released of the Hamas jihad massacres of October 7, there is an audio file of “a Hamas terrorist ringing his mother with one of his victim’s phones, saying: ‘I killed 10 Jews with my own hands. I’m using the dead Jewish woman’s phone to call you now.’” The proud mother responds: “May Allah protect you.”
The mind boggles. What could possibly account for this mindset? What’s more, how could anyone possibly think that these gleeful murderers, taking joy in the deaths of those whom they hate, could have the moral high ground? Yet it is clear now that all too many people in the West assume that they do. Few understand how deep this love of death really goes.
Back in April 2020, a Syrian opposition journalist, Khatib Badla, explained that Muslim Arabs “have a trait that distinguishes us from all the other peoples of the world, which is a love of death. We dream of it, regard it as a source of inspiration and think about it every day. We love death and love the dead. Instead of hoping for longevity, for [a life of] giving and loving, we say, with defeatism… ‘God, [help me] go to battle and reach my grave. This is in addition to the grand slogans we [like to chant], such as: ‘death to America,’ ‘better death than humiliation’ and ‘seek death and you shall be given life [in the next world].’”
Badla was right, and the attitudes and assumptions that he so ably described are quite pervasive among Islamic jihadis. They generally tend to idolize murder and love death, as they frequently affirm. As police were closing in on him, Boston Marathon jihad murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote on the wall of the pleasure boat in which he was hiding: “You are fighting men who look into the barrel of your gun and see heaven.”
Tsarnaev wasn’t remotely singular in this. Muslim teenage girls from Austria who traveled to Syria for jihad announced: “Death is our goal.” Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said: “I’m even longing for death, you vagabond.” In 2021, as his enemies closed in on him, Shekau treated himself to the object of his longing.
In 2012, a Muslim child preacher taunted those he has been taught to hate most: “Oh Zionists, we love death for the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan.” In France that same year, jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah, who murdered little children inside a Jewish school, said that he “loved death more than they loved life.”
Al-Qaeda top dog Ayman al-Zawahiri’s wife once advised Muslim women: “I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death.”
And as one jihadist summed it up, “We love death. You love your life!” Afghan jihadist Maulana Inyadullah years ago said the same, while demonstrating a gift for a memorable phrase: “The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death.” More probably prefer Coca-Cola, but we get the idea.
This idea is not actually the strange opinion of a gang of “extremists.” It comes from the Qur’an itself: “Say, O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are favored of Allah apart from mankind, then long for death if you are truthful.” (62:6)
This is one reason why the forces of Hamas and its allies can never win in the long run: loving death is not natural. Loving life is. The young man who happily called home to boast to his mother about having murdered Jews has as his unwitting opponents the multitudes of people, Jews and non-Jews, in the West who are thrilled when they can save a life, not destroy one. When the lovers of life face off against the lovers of death, they have multitudes of silent allies: every living being stands as a rebuke to those whose only love is carnage and destruction, simply by virtue of having life.
Life is, as we have always been told, a gift. As the world looks on in horror at those who rejoice in destroying it, we are reminded in the most vivid possible way of how precious it is. And now the time has come to defend that principle, or face even greater horrors than what we saw on October 7.
Substitute4 “Jews” with “Christians”. It’s happens overseas and is now in America. It is only a matter of time they act out further. 9/11 is just one example.
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That’s the myth the LSM is pushing and Biden is using to hold back the IDF (on Obama’s orders I suspect): the myth is there are civilians in Gaza. Maybe kids under 12 count, but otherwise the “civilian” population in Gaza are by and large supporters and enablers of the Hamas scum. They cheered 9/11. They cheered the slaughter of unarmed true civilian Israelis.
In my opinion there are very few true “civilians” in Gaza except maybe for children.
Not till they’re done with the Saturday people, but they do both. Should include Hidus and others. Heck Sunnis kill Shia and vice versa.
Substitute4 “Jews” with “Christians”. It’s happens overseas and is now in America. It is only a matter of time they act out further. 9/11 is just one example.
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It’s not just Jews and Christians they hate and want dead, it’s everyone who is not muslim and other muslims who aren’t their particular brand of muslim.
In the Muslim world, there are only the rich and powerful Jihadi enablers, Jihadis who are too old to fight, Jihadis who are too young to fight, Jihadis want to die fighting.
Even if some of the folks in Gaza remain “innocent” they all are anti semites....every one and pray for the destrcution of Israel. Gazan children are taught this like kids here learn math. If people still are shocked by the Islamic culture of death...all I can say is... where have you been for the last 25 years?
Hamas is celebrated in our universities and schools.
Whoever they ARE in Gaza, they routinely encourage and support Hamas and Hamas leadership
“repulsive to Westerners”
Not to all Westerners. Some celebrate it.
He was taught to murder Jews since childhood.
Video: Palestinian Kindergarten Graduation in Gaza Shows Kids Taught to Be Terrorists and Kill Israelis
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Yup
Only because they are too young to understand. Otherwise, they are radicalized.
There are a few people in Gaza who are against Hamas. The Mossad was able to turn one of the sons of the Founder against the organization.
But everyone else is for Hamas, even if they're not actively fighting. Ignoring the children and the elderly, I would say maybe 1% of the population in Gaza is against Hamas.
Yes. This killer is their killer. We need to take that seriously.
Yes. Initial intelligence failure aside, Israel's air assault has been substantial and successful. They're obviously acting on good intelligence on the ground in Gaza. The delay which is easy to blame on western pressure may well be preparing the battlefield. As long as they have juicy targets to attack from the air that's cheaper than acting on the ground. Which is essential, but not as long as they have targets from the air, and fuel powering the tunnels is running out.
Agreed on all counts.
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