Some still insist on believing that Hamas is a ‘fringe’ or ‘extremist’ group, when it’s actually an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most prominent Islamic religious organizations around the world which controls entire governments and much of the Muslim community, and that most Islamic religious authorities don’t support the atrocities it committed on Oct 7.
Not true.
The latest declaration of support for the Oct 7 attacks comes from hundreds of Muslim religious leaders and numerous associations.
“Hundreds of religious scholars and clerics from across the Muslim world held a conference in Istanbul, Turkey and issued the “Charter of the Islamic Nation’s Religious Scholars regarding the Al-Aqsa Flood and Its Implications.”
The Al Aqsa Flood is the Hamas name for Oct 7.
“Signed so far by 39 organizations and unions of religious scholars and by 350 individual clerics from around the Muslim world, the charter states, similarly to the ideology of the Hamas movement itself, that the conflict with Israel is a religious one between Muslims and infidels, and that Hamas’ “resistance” against Israel constitutes “jihad for the sake of Allah.”
“Seeking to rebuff the harsh criticism voiced against Hamas for its October 7 attack and for the heavy cost of the war that broke out as a result of the attack, the charter declares that “the Al-Aqsa Flood was a link in the continuous chain of defensive jihad against the occupying Zionists and against the British and the Americans”
Notice how we’re in there too.
“The first chapter of the charter, titled “The Islamic Position on the Occupation of Palestine and on the Zionist Entity,” stipulates that all of Israel’s territory is Islamic land, and therefore that Israel is illegitimate and the Muslims are obligated to fight it until it is eliminated.”
This is not “extremism.” It’s simply Islam.
Nothing that Al Qaeda, that Hamas or that ISIS did, is anything except Islam as written in the Koran, embodied in the principles of Sharia law and as expounded upon in the Hadiths.
That is what we are up against. And denying it just blinds us to the war we’re in.