In this mailing:
- Khaled Abu Toameh: The
Iran-Hamas-Hezbollah Connection
- Bruce Bawer: Here's to the
"Experts", Terrorism's Great Whitewashers
by Khaled Abu Toameh • November 8,
2017 at 5:00 am
- Now that the Iranians
have sole control over Lebanon, their eyes are set on the Gaza
Strip.
- Hamas, for its part,
is thirsting for Iranian resources. Hamas knows that it will
have to pay a price.
- Iran and Hezbollah are
working with Hamas to establish a "joint front"
against Israel.
A recent
meeting in Beirut between Hamas leader Saleh Arouri (left) and
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah (right) was another sign of Hamas's
effort to pave the way for Iran and Hezbollah to infiltrate the Gaza
Strip. (Image source: Hezbollah via Al Manar)
The Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, has had
enough. Last week, Iran finalized its takeover of Lebanon when Hariri
resigned, and reportedly fled to Saudi Arabia.
Hariri, denouncing Hezbollah and its Iranian backers,
said he feared for his life. Hariri has good reason to be afraid of
Hezbollah, the powerful Shia terror group and Iranian proxy that
effectively controls Lebanon.
Indications show that Iran and Hezbollah are also
planning to extend their control to the Gaza Strip. Iran already
provides Hamas with financial and military aid. It is precisely the
support of Iran that has enabled Hamas to hold in power in the Gaza
Strip for the past 10 years. It is also thanks to Iran that Hamas and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another major terror group in the Gaza
Strip, are in possession of thousands of missiles and rockets. It is
Iranian money that allows Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to
continue digging terror tunnels under the border with Israel.
by Bruce Bawer • November 8, 2017
at 4:00 am
- Never mind that the
holy books of Islam quite clearly spell out the doctrine of
jihad and the heavenly rewards that await jihadist martyrs. No,
according to MSNBC "terrorism expert" Malcolm Nance, Manhattan
attacker Sayfullo Saipov's butchery was
"anti-Islamic".
- According to Nance's
theory, every Islamic terrorist in our time somehow overlooked
the real lessons of Islam and instead made exactly the same
flub, mistaking Osama bin Laden's bloodthirsty lesson of
murderous violence for the thoroughly peaceful tidings of the
Koran.
- To fail to see a
continuity between, on the one hand, the Islam of the
terrorists, and, on the other, the Islam of forced marriages,
honor killings, female genital mutilation (FGM) and the niqab
is to engage in denial and a total whitewash. But then,
whitewashing Islam is the true area of expertise of so many of
these so-called terrorism experts.
Olivier Roy,
a prominent French "terrorism expert," strives to uncouple
Islamic terrorism from Islam itself, even in its most extreme form.
(Image source: Internaz/Leonardi e Parlamenti/Flickr)
Thank heaven for the "terrorism experts."
After Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov mowed down pedestrians and
bicyclists in Manhattan on Halloween, murdering eight innocent
people, what would we have done without Malcolm Nance, who,
identified as an "MSNBC Terrorism Analyst," assured viewers
of that cable network that Saipov's action was
"not Islam, whatsoever. None of this is condoned.
Including the, you know, sacrificing and getting yourself killed at
the end of a terrorist attack, none of that is Islamic, it's
anti-Islamic."
Weirdly, Nance even chuckled partway through that last
sentence, as if the idea that jihad is jihad were too absurd to take
seriously.
|
No comments:
Post a Comment