Misunderstanding Islamism and the Gaza War
American Thinker,
by
Joel Gilbert
Original Article
Posted By: rememberwhen,
11/3/2023 1:03:41 PM
Why did Hamas terrorists gleefully mass murder civilians in Israel?... And why did the crowds of “civilians” cheer and beat the dead bodies of Israelis paraded in the backs of pickup trucks in Gaza? Further, why do governments and Muslims throughout the world claim to support Hamas and/or the Palestinians? To comprehend all of this, Westerners need to gain an understanding of the religio-political movement called “Islamism.” Islamism is an entirely different phenomenon than Western political parties, and its goals and values are vastly different. Islamism is the 100-year-old movement for Islamic revival, and has been led by Iran since its Islamic revolution in 1979.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 11/3/2023 1:18:27 PM (No. 1591082)
Palestinians are Hamas. Hamas are Islamists. Islam hates Jews. Islam wants the Jews erased from the Earth. Islam were Nazi allies in WWII. Islam hates America. Islam requires obedience to it, period no joke. Islam is a cancer upon the world.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 11/3/2023 1:23:57 PM (No. 1591092)
Baloney. Their so called holy book says Surah 9:5 " Kill the non believer wherever you find him ".
Surah 5 :15 Take not the Jews and Christians as your friends.
No misunderstanding about that.
By the way, it's " Satan " not Satin ".
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
slipstik 11/3/2023 1:45:38 PM (No. 1591104)
Islam cannot coexist with ANY other ethic.
This is an existential threat to humanity.
There is no negotiation.
To us, they're crazy. To them, we are a disease
This situation cannot continue.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 11/3/2023 2:25:27 PM (No. 1591144)
Strange thing. What is happening in Gaza is reminding me of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Two cities so utterly evil they were wiped out of existence. The kind of hatred being shown by Hamas and the residents of Gaza does not happen in a vacuum. It is taught since birth. In the home, in the community, in the schools, and in the mosques. Killing off Hamas terrorists will not put an end to the violence. The environment that spawned that hared still exists. That environment is Gaza and can see it getting utterly wiped out of existence just like Sodom and Gomorrah to put an end to the hatred that lives there.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 11/3/2023 2:49:12 PM (No. 1591174)
Yes, good stuff.....but it's not 100 years old. It is 1,400 years old. And they all want ALL of us dead or enslaved. They do NOT want to "live in peace beside our neighbors". They only do that at the point of a spear, or some other weapon. And then, they are only waiting for the spear holder to get tired, so they can kill him.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 11/3/2023 4:32:41 PM (No. 1591243)
It is not misunderstanding it is ignorance. Read some books on the Islamic conquest of Christendom.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/3/2023 4:40:53 PM (No. 1591249)
A key characteristic of Islam (not just Islamism) for fourteen centuries has been acute, toxic , violent intolerance of all cultures, belief systems that are different. The focus of their hatred has not been just the West and Judaism but eastern civilizations of Hinduism and Buddhism. The sum total of Hindu/Buddhist people slaughtered by the Sultans and Emperors (from their own court chronicles) is 86 million over seven centuries - dwarfing the Holocaust. Their descendants will never forget or forgive.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 11/3/2023 5:06:17 PM (No. 1591257)
How many know that Constantinople was a Christian city until the Muslims conquered it and changed the name to Istanbul....and converted a huge church into an infernal mosque?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 11/4/2023 7:32:20 AM (No. 1591603)
Required reading in my book. Having spent time in the Middle East during my time in the military, they absolutely hated us. The author is absolutely right that there will never be "peace" so Bibi better hold the line and reclaim the Gaza Strip and bomb them further back into the stone age.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
franq 11/4/2023 8:00:40 AM (No. 1591614)
Can't be true. Islam is the Religion of Peace. W told me so.
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An excellent analysis of the realities of Islamism. Should be required reading for everyone involved in US foreign policy.