And We're Supposed To Let These People Immigrate Here?

I have previously noted calls from Israeli politicians for the West (Europe and the U.S.) to take in Palestinian's from Gaza, but now I'm seeing stories like these:

• "Full horror of Hamas festival massacre is revealed - Survivors describe gang rape and mutilations, with the terrorists deriving sick pleasure from targeting men and women's genitals: 'They had a thing for sexual organs, breast amputation'"--Daily Mail. 

A recent op-ed published in Israeli National News, "Nazis, Muslims and the Jews," similarly states:

    Hamas terrorists, without an ounce of inhibition or remorse, shot youth in cold blood at the music festival at Re’im, burnt and beheaded Jews, vaunting their sadistic impulses upon children, men, and the elderly – raping women and girls. They decapitated a baby cut from the mother’s womb in front of her eyes. The pyromaniacs set fire to homes, barns and cars.

Nazis and Jews

    The murder of approximately 1,200 Israelis in an orgy of bloodshed evoked the sensation that Nazis carried out such a horrific massacre of helpless Jews on that ‘Black Saturday’ on Gaza’s border. Decades of Palestinian Arab terrorism upgraded from stoning and stabbing Jews to the diabolical nightmare of Nazi crematoria – burning Jewish people alive.

    Later, in a child’s room in Gaza, Israeli soldiers came upon an Arabic translation of Mein Kampf, Hitler’s bible. The kidnapping of 241 Israelis to Gaza became an additional chilling chapter of this unparalleled ordeal.

Are the Palestinian Arabs Nazis by ideology?

    Berl Katznelson, the foremost leader of Labor Zionism until his death in 1944, was a witness to Arab massacres of Jews in the 1920s and 1930s. He referred to “the Palestinian Nazis who succeeded to unite here in [Eretz] Israel the zoological antisemitism of Europe and the lust for the dagger of the Orient.” The connection between Nazis and Palestinian Arabs led the esteemed songwriter Naomi Shemer to offer a remarkable insight:

“Arabs like their murder hot, moist, and steamy, and if they will ever be free to fulfill themselves, we [Jews] will yearn for the good sterile gasses of the Germans.”

In Kfar Aza and Be’eri, Nir Oz and Sderot, there was no Palestinian Arab industrialized war machine in operation; rather just primitive hordes of “Muhammad’s monsters”[1] mangling and mutilating Jews whose innocence, in the double sense of the word, became ready prey for the Gazan rabble run wild. To define those Hamas Palestinian Arabs as ‘terrorists’ is a gross understatement, perhaps a euphemism.

It's not too surprising, really. This type of thing has historically happened in warfare; but this type of behavior is, correctly, associated with savages and barbarians. It was similar accounts from survivors of American Indian raids that so angered American settlers. 

    But while some societies seek to discourage or punish such behavior, others will excuse or glamorize it. Islam seems to fall into the latter category. For instance, reading a book on the Italian Campaign of World War II, it noted in passing that Muslim troops from North Africa that had joined in the invasion of Italy seemed to have a propensity for raping the Italian women in the areas in which they operated. In reading an account of T. E. Lawrence, it indicated that he'd been sodomized after being captured by Turkish troops. I remember coming across a reference to Yassar Arafat cutting a baby out of a mother's womb in order to terrorize the father of the family before having him killed. And there are the atrocities of the Armenian and Assyrian genocides carried out by Turkey during World War I.

    In the 2015-2016 time frame there was quite the uproar over sex slavery practiced by ISIS with its female Yazidi and Christian captives, with ISIS affirming it was permitted under Islamic law and Western apologists desperately arguing it was not. But a year earlier, Boko Haram--a terrorist group in Nigeria--did the same with Christian girls the group had taken prisoner using the same justification. And of course there are the rape gangs in England and the accounts of rapes and sexual assaults throughout Europe as waves of Muslim immigrants swept across their borders.

    The reality is, as one author put it, "Islam Is a Religion of Violence". Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains that when Mohammad first began preaching his new religion in Mecca, his teachings involved charity and related concepts. But after a lack of success and having to flee Mecca to Medina, he changed his tune:

    Anyone seeking support for armed jihad in the name of Allah will find ample support in the passages in the Quran and Hadith that relate to Mohammed’s Medina period. For example, Q4:95 states, “Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home).” Q8:60 advises Muslims “to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know.” Finally, Q9:29 instructs Muslims: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”

    Mainstream Islamic jurisprudence continues to maintain that the so-called “sword verses” (9:5 and 9:29) have “abrogated, canceled, and replaced” those verses in the Quran that call for “tolerance, compassion, and peace.”

    As for the example of Mohammed, Sahih Muslim, one of the six major authoritative Hadith collections, claims the Prophet Mohammed undertook no fewer than 19 military expeditions, personally fighting in eight of them. In the aftermath of the 627 Battle of the Trench, “Mohammed felt free to deal harshly with the Banu Qurayza, executing their men and selling their women and children into slavery,” according to Yale Professor of Religious Studies Gerhard Bowering in his book Islamic Political Thought. As the Princeton scholar Michael Cook observed in his book Ancient Religions, Modern Politics, “the historical salience of warfare against unbelievers … was thus written into the foundational texts” of Islam.

    There lies the duality within Islam. It’s possible to claim, following Mohammed’s example in Mecca, that Islam is a religion of peace. But it’s also possible to claim, as the Islamic State does, that a revelation was sent to Mohammed commanding Muslims to wage jihad until every human being on the planet accepts Islam or a state of subservience, on the basis of his legacy in Medina. 

"The key question," according to the author, "is not whether Islam is a religion of peace, but rather, whether Muslims follow the Mohammed of Medina, regardless of whether they are Sunni or Shiite."