Understanding the Jihad Against Israel and America
Article 28, which is free of any eschatological references, clearly “widens the circle of hate” towards Jews, as historian David Littman first observed, targeting all contemporary Jews: “Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Muslim people: ‘May the cowards never sleep.’”
Articles 22 and 32 invoke modern conspiratorial themes reminiscent of European (secular) antisemitic motifs, especially the latter (article 32), which makes explicit mention of the Czarist Russian forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. But even these articles are peppered with Koranic citations, including references in both articles 22 and 32 to Koran 5:64, mentioned previously as the Koran’s ancient antecedent to The Protocols. (Arberry translation, Koran 5:64: “The Jews have said, ‘God’s hand is fettered.’ Fettered are their hands, and they are cursed for what they have said. Nay, but His hands are outspread; He expends how He will. And what has been sent down to thee from thy Lord will surely increase many of them in insolence and unbelief; and We have cast between them enmity and hatred, till the Day of Resurrection. As often as they light a fire for war, God will extinguish it. They hasten about the earth, to do corruption there; and God loves not the workers of corruption.”)
Jihad is the other pillar of Hamas’ foundational Jew-annihilationist ideology featured in the 1988 Covenant. Once again, this is already suggested in the opening statement before the preamble which includes the following quote by Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: “Israel will exist, and will continue to exist, until Islam abolishes it, as it abolished that which was before it.” Hamas openly claims to be a wing of the International Muslim Brotherhood. Article 2 of the Hamas Charter states: “The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. The Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times.”
But the body of the Hamas Covenant includes unequivocal statements of Hamas’ irredentist commitment to the annihilation of Israel via jihad. Jihad martyrdom is lauded in article 8 “the Hamas slogan,” (in fact borrowed from the 1928 Charter of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood), which states, “Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its Constitution; Jihad is its path, and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.” Article 13 makes plain that Hamas’ jihadism is completely incompatible with any meaningful Middle East peace settlement:
Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that … there is no solution to the Palestinian question except by Jihad. All initiatives, proposals, and International Conferences are a waste of time and vain endeavors.
And article 15 (subtitled, “Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine is a Personal Duty”) elucidates classical jihadist theory — including jihad martyrdom (i.e., homicide bombing) operations — as well as its practical modern application to the destruction of Israel by jihad, and the need to recruit the global Muslim community, or “umma” in this quintessential Islamic cause:
The day the enemies conquer some part of the Muslim land, jihad becomes a personal duty of every Muslim. In the face of the Jewish occupation of Palestine, it is necessary to raise the banner of jihad. This requires the propagation of Islamic consciousness among the masses, locally [in Palestine], in the Arab world and in the Islamic world. It is necessary to instill the spirit of jihad in the nation, engage the enemies and join the ranks of the jihad fighters. The indoctrination campaign must involve ulama, educators, teachers and information and media experts, as well as all intellectuals, especially the young people and the sheikhs of Islamic movements …
It is necessary to establish in the minds of all the Muslim generations that the Palestinian issue is a religious issue, and that it must be dealt with as such, for [Palestine] contains Islamic holy places, [namely] the Al-Aqsa mosque, which is inseparably connected, for as long as heaven and earth shall endure, to the holy mosque of Mecca through the Prophet’s nocturnal journey [from the mosque of Mecca to the Al-Aqsa mosque] and through his ascension to heaven thence. “Being stationed on the frontier for the sake of Allah for one day is better than this [entire] world and everything in it; and the place taken up in paradise by the [horseman’s] whip of any one of you [jihad fighters] is better than this [entire] world and everything in it. Every evening [operation] and morning [operation] performed by Muslims for the sake of Allah is better than this [entire] world and everything in it.” (Recorded in the Hadith collections of Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi and Ibn Maja). “By the name of Him who holds Muhammad’s soul in His hand, I wish to launch an attack for the sake of Allah and be killed and attack again and be killed and attack again and be killed.” (Recorded in the Hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim)
Unfortunately, Hamas’ views on the jihad against Israel, and Islamic Jew hatred, are entirely concordant with those of the most authoritative religious educational institution within Sunni Islam for over 1200 years, since the late 8th century — Al Azhar University, in Cairo, Egypt. Consider a fatwa written January 5, 1956, by then Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Hasan Ma’moun, and signed by the leading members of the Fatwa Committee of Al Azhar, and the major representatives of all four Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence. [English translation from State Department Telegram 1763/ Embassy (Cairo) Telegram 1256 D441214] This ruling elaborated the following key initial point: that all of historical Palestine — modern Jordan, Israel, and the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, as well as Gaza — having been conquered by jihad, was a permanent possession of the global Muslim umma (community), “fay territory” — booty or spoils — to be governed eternally by Islamic Law. The January, 1956 Al Azhar fatwa’s language and arguments are indistinguishable from those employed by Hamas (in its Covenant), revealing the same conjoined motivations of jihad, and conspiratorial Islamic Jew hatred:
Muslims cannot conclude peace with those Jews who have usurped the territory of Palestine and attacked its people and their property in any manner which allows the Jews to continue as a state in that sacred Muslim territory.
[As] Jews have taken a part of Palestine and there established their non-Islamic government and have also evacuated from that part most of its Muslim inhabitants … Jihad … to restore the country to its people … is the duty of all Muslims, not just those who can undertake it. And since all Islamic countries constitute the abode of every Muslim, the Jihad is imperative for both the Muslims inhabiting the territory attacked, and Muslims everywhere else because even though some sections have not been attacked directly, the attack nevertheless took place on a part of the Muslim territory which is a legitimate residence for any Muslim.
Everyone knows that from the early days of Islam to the present day the Jews have been plotting against Islam and Muslims and the Islamic homeland. They do not propose to be content with the attack they made on Palestine and Al Aqsa Mosque, but they plan for the possession of all Islamic territories from the Nile to the Euphrates.
The continual, monotonous invocation by Al Azhar clerics of such jihadist and antisemitic motifs from the Koran (or other foundational Muslim texts) is entirely consistent with the published writings and statements of the late Sheikh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi — Grand Imam of this pre-eminent Islamic religious institution from 1996, till his death in March 2010.
My book The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism includes extensive first-time English translations of Tantawi’s academic magnum opus, Jews in the Koran and the Traditions. Tantawi wrote these words rationalizing Muslim Jew-hatred in his 700-page treatise:
[The] Koran describes the Jews with their own particular degenerate characteristics, i.e. killing the prophets of Allah [Koran 2:61/ 3:112], corrupting His words by putting them in the wrong places, consuming the people’s wealth frivolously, refusal to distance themselves from the evil they do, and other ugly characteristics caused by their deep-rooted lasciviousness … only a minority of the Jews keep their word … [A]ll Jews are not the same. The good ones become Muslims [Koran 3:113], the bad ones do not.
As an ethnic jew and a christian convert I find myslf doubledamned by Islam.
Hamas is part of the PLO and, over the years, the declarations and actions of the PLO have been vicious attacks, intended to demean, rob and kill both jews and their christian allies.As one who is both, I feel particularly threatened, and wonder why those making terrorist threats and taking terrorist actions are not punished and forced to cease and desist.
Those who endorse the Koran automatically endorse its commandments. And those are to kill jews and christians. Exhorting, inciting to murder is criminal. The first amendment protections do not extend to conspiracy to commit homicide.
Our “supremes” need to define Islam as an international criminal conspiracy and our congressmen need to outlaw it.
White Tiger, as I often say, in the last days Jews and Christians will, finally, stand together side by side in their suffering. Sadly this isn’t the case yet. I wonder how long it takes for the church (and I’m not talking about those that accept replacement theology) to realize that it is not enough to say we pray for sha alu shalom Yerushalayim but that we also corporately have to stand up and be the voice in the wilderness that speaks out for the sake of our Jewish brethren.
Shalom brother.
What is to understand? Islam hates everyone not Islam. We, the infedels, only need to know that we cannot associate with them.
Ago,
Yes, but such Obviosity (is that a new word?) is always ignored because it requires acknowedging clear and incontrovertable truths, something Media Liberals and lawyerly government officials simply cannot allow.
Everything muslims say with their own mouths, books, prayers and pronouncements proves who and what they are. Over and over, in every scrap of prayer and shred of identity to their faith, their hatred and violence is both praised and threatened. Their violent intentions, as THEY state them, are 100% consistant and unchanging. They are evil, blood thirsty villians bent upon nothing less than the destruction and genocide of entire peoples.
They cannot be swayed or calmed with earnest calls for peaceful coexistance, anymore than Sharon Tate could secure HER safety from the knives of her determined killers…Unarmed, offering no resistance, screaming “why?” and offering riches, she begged for her life and that of her unborn child, while their response was “bitch, I have no mercy for you”
Thus is Islam, as Islam itself says it is.
Laughing at OUR foolish pleas for negotiation, mutual respect, understanding, and peace.
All while sharpening the knives they will use to slit our throats.
We do not invent these tales of their planned cruelty.
We merely REPEAT to the willfully ignorant and disengenuous Left what THEY are saying to their own people, consistantly and without pause, over and over again.
There are but Two Messages from spoken by Islam:
1) We are cruel, uncompromising, and mean you nothing but grievous harm.
2) When you dare to quote us, will call YOU the liar.
Period.
Well said.
islam is as islam does.
I’ve been trying to tell everyone this for YEARS.
MUSLIMS ARE OUR ENEMIES.
They will continue to be so, as long as there are Muslims.
Meanwhile, we have a Muslim Brotherhood mole in the office AND the bedroom of our Secretary of State, and nobody seems to be concerned!
Well, there you have it. Islam, like communism, is inherently evil. It’s the jihad stupid. Islam crossed with multiculturlism is a perfect storm. A death wish for the west.
Thank-you for all the effort you have put into researching and elucidating the interconnections of jihadism, the Koran, and the political ideology embedded within Islam. How can your analysis and all the other ones presented over the last years be heard widely enough to cause the scales to fall from the eyes of those in our increasingly vulnerable West?
It seems often, as if there is a weakness, almost an urge to surrender. When the enemy is already here and is so protected by our policies of correctness, what will it take to come workable solutions?
A powerful, explicit, informative article on the identity and nature of the enemy that America and the West refuse to recognize as such. This should be must reading followed by a battery of relevant questions for every politician and military war commander in the West and, most especially, in America. What was for me of special interest was the fact that this threat has been recognized as such going far back in American history. Why has this history been ignored or forgotten? How tragic it will be if an ignorant, backward, violent group of religious fanatics defeat a demonstrably, technologically and militarily superior “enemy” because of the latter’s determination to defer and obscure all in their equally fanatical effort to maintain a politically correct posture of religious appeasement.
This article sums up what is the underpinning of islam that uses to create hate and war with non muslims. From what I have observed as an exmuslim it follows these following stages:
First, its “we are better and morally right people”. (entire 1.2 billion muslims believe that)
Second, “they are inferior and morally corrupt people” *(entire 1.2 billion muslims believe that)
Third. Then they act like victims “we are oppressed/victims” (ie the so called ‘palestinian issue’)
Fourth, “They (jews and americans) are islam’s/ Allah’s enemies”. (radical muslims in the west often repeat that to rouse hate and jihad against the West.)
Fifth, they create tension by using propaganda. (ie jews and america are evil and want to take over the world to dominate muslims)
Sixth, They deny their own atrocities against non-muslims using Taqiya (i e “islam is religion of peace”) The intent of taqiya is meant to keep the infidel off guard until islam can get a strong hold in the territory. ie by building more mosques. Once it gains ground in the infidel land then full war is declared, meaning you either submit, pay jizya or die.
Islam is a relgion of war, nothing else. It is also so deeply deceptive, that it is even keeping the muslims themselves in the dark. All the so called rituals they follow to ‘worship allah’ is in fact meant to keep them in deception. It has no merit for any spirituality. Most what they follow is in fact taken on from pagan rituals that mohammed incorporated (ie lied to early muslims about Abraham to make hajj authentic) into islam ie fasting, the hajj . In the end islam divides mankind into two camps, al-islam and dar-ul-harb which means house of god and house of war respectively. The article above illustrates perfectly how islam sets up hate and war against the infidels to conquer them. So the conclusion is that even muslims dont even know that they are part of a such a grand evil and they will fight and die to help it survive. So the real enemy is not the muslims its mohammed, and where is mohammed? he is in allah, the quran, the sunna, the hadith and the sira, which is all what muslims regard as Islam.
One of the most interesting paragraphs on Wikipedia
is about the meeting Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and a jihadi Amabassador.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
I appreciate Rep.King’s domestic investigation of jihdist-sharia 5th columnist Quisling Muslims. Now I wish Congress would act legislatively against mosques, imans who are threatening the USA. I want profiling of Muslims coming in and out of the USA. No PC baloney. Just do it. I want any taxpayer funds to CAIR or any Muslim outfit-agency, stopped post haste. Rep. King should make sure this too is investigated. And when Dem pols,and it always Dem pols, seek to defend these suspicious Muslim PACS et al, I want the public to know who they are. Yes, I know this sounds like tarring but one only has to go to Londonstan , much of Europe to see the effect of jihadist-sharia-madrassas Muslims blackmailing the citizens and govts. there. That must not be allowed to occur in the USA.
You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah ; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, “We are Christians.” That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant.(Quran 5:82)
Bostom and like have finally created the Norway massacre. A lesson for others.
Bostom and like have finally created the Norway massacre. Wake up America!!!!!
There is a lively debate taking place in the UK media between left and right wing commentators as to the causes of the English riots, in which hundreds of shops and businesses have been looted. However, both sides agree that the looting has been inexcusable. I hope both sides will also agree with me that Muslims have played an important role in helping to tackle the looting and preserve public safety. This would be an especially important acknowledgment if it came from those Islamophobic commentators who consistently denigrate Muslims.
“When accused of terrorism we are Muslims, when killed by looters, we become Asian”, a Muslim student explained to me. He was commenting on the media reportingof the death of three young Muslims in Birmingham on Tuesday night. Like many other Muslims, they were bravely defending shops and communities as rioters went on a violent rampage of looting.
In recent days Muslim Londoners, Muslims from Birmingham, and Muslims in towns and cities around England have been at the forefront of protecting small businesses and vulnerable communities from looting. Having worked closely with Muslim Londoners, first as a police officer and more recently as a researcher, for the last ten years this commendable bravery comes as no surprise to me. But their example of outstanding civic duty in support of neighbours is worth highlighting – especially when sections of the UK media are so quick to print negative headlines about Muslims on the flimsiest of pretexts.