If Kamal Khalaf and his friends and allies have brought support for the Palestinian jihad with them to Canada, what other attitudes and assumptions might they have brought? Do you think that people who believe the things Khalaf says reject the Islamic doctrine of jihad and the imperative to conquer and subjugate unbelievers?
“Canadian Arabic-Language Paper Publishes Column Calling for Israel’s Destruction,” by Mike Fegelman, Honest Reporting Canada, January 3, 2022:
In a recent December 31 column in Meshwar Media, an Arabic-language publication that has been accused of antisemitism and of publishing blood libels, praising terrorists and comparing Israelis to Nazis, Kamal Khalaf extols the virtues of the Palestinian “revolution” in the 1960s, when Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization achieved widespread international legitimacy in his terror war against Israel.
While Arafat was not successful in his attempts to destroy Israel, Khalaf praises Palestinian terror groups Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of Israeli civilians in murderous terrorist attacks. “In Gaza, the Al-Qassam Brigades defend the defenseless and besieged people, with all their capabilities,” Khalaf writes. (HRC received an independent expert translation of this column).
One of the most horrific attacks carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades was in 2002, when a suicide bomber affiliated with Hamas entered a Tel Aviv discotheque popular with teenagers, and blew himself up, murdering 21 young Israelis, whose only crime was being Jewish.
Not content to merely murder the young, Hamas also sent a suicide bomber to the Park Hotel in the Israeli city of Netanya to target a Passover seder of predominantly older Israelis. The bomber entered, blew himself up, and massacred 30 civilians.
These are two out of countless terrorist attacks which Hamas has perpetrated against Israelis.
As appalling as Khalaf’s advocacy for Hamas is, he offers us an insight into why Israel is so hated in his eyes: Israel’s creation, he argues, was based on “assembling peoples and gangs under the banner of religion to replace a people on their land.”
As has been pointed out ad nauseum, the Jewish People’s presence in the Land of Israel is neither novel, nor new. For three millennia, the Jewish People have lived in their ancestral homeland, outliving empires large and small, who sought to supplant the Jewish presence in the Holy Land.
In 1948, the Jewish People achieved independence from the United Kingdom in their quest for self-determination, an accomplishment which every progressive voice in the world should laud as a template for other groups to emulate.
Of course, when one denies the Jewish People’s historic ties to their homeland, it is no surprise then when the State of Israel is seen as utterly illegitimate. And when this abhorrent historical revisionism takes place, destroying all of Israel becomes a moral necessity.
As Khalaf continues (emphasis added): “We must actually start working to end the project of the state of Israel on Palestinian land, and build our historic national home one every inch of it.” In essence, Khalaf is tacitly proposing the active destruction of Israel, the world’s only Jewish State. Although he does pay lip service to the idea that Jews would be allowed to exist under a future Palestinian state, the incessant antisemitic incitement from both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) suggests that any Jews who would find themselves unfortunate enough to be living in a Palestinian state would be living in grave danger. In order to deflect criticism, Khalaf also writes that Jews are part of the Palestinian people and that they too will live in a democratic, modern and free Palestinian state….
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
This article refers to “blood libels” (plural), but the linked-to article describes not one of them. How many blood libels are there? Someone please list the content of the top five blood libels.
gravenimage says
Mark, the original blood libel is that Jews murder Christian children and use their blood in matzos–and absurd and obviously completely baseless claim dating back to the middle ages. But there are various iterations of this calumny, most often used by Muslims today.
In some cases, it has been the same basic scenario–that Jews are murdering Muslim children.
There’s a 29-part Syrian television series that makes this claim, and Al Aqsa TV (Hamas) has made this same claim about Zionist Jews. Muslim “scholars” have also claimed this. A Saudi cleric claimed that Jews used blood collected for medical use to bake Matzos. Egyptian, Jordanian, and Lebanese politicians have said the same, as well as Lebanese poet Marwan Chamoun. Some have said that it is a policy of the state of Israel. All variations on a grotesque theme.
mortimer says
Elementary, my dear duped Canucks ! Prime Minister Jihadi Justin is in bed with the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. Kamal Khalaf and many thousands of devout JIHADIST have been quietly slipped into Canuckistan by a deceitful and dull-witted prime minister who is convinced that Islam is benign.
Apparently, unknown to injudicious Jihadi Justin, Kamal Khalaf and his comrades believe the 164 jihad verses in the Koran are divine decrees directed to them personally!
The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 2:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 3:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 4:71-72, 74-077, 84, 89-91, 94-95,100-104; 5:33, 35, 82; 8:1, 5, 7, 9-10, 12, 15-17, 39-48, 57-60, 65-75; 9:5, 12-14, 16, 19-20, 24-26, 29, 36, 38-39, 41, 44, 52, 73, 81, 83, 86, 88, 92, 111, 120, 122-123; 16:110; 22:39, 58, 78; 24:53, 55; 25:52; 29:6, 69; 33:15, 18, 20, 23, 25-27, 50; 42:39; 47:4, 20, 35; 48:15-24; 49:15; 59:2, 5-8, 14; 60:9; 61:4, 11, 13; 63:4; 64:14; 66:9; 73:20; 76:8.
Most Muslims believe that the 164 jihad verses are valid today.
gravenimage says
Canada: Arabic-language publication praises jihad terror groups, calls for destruction of Israel
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Will Canada investigate these thugs and their calls for violence? Don’t count on it…
Holger Kruger says
If muslims or jihadis come to my home for bring harm to me or my family. I will defend my home and my family. So good as i can.
Holger Kruger says
And I`m not an Israeli….
Thomas Richard says
Daily….Canada becomes a strengthened bulwark of Islam…..a direct threat to America……
Michael Copeland says
Khalaf indicts Israel for “assembling peoples and gangs under the banner of religion to replace a people on their land.”
Now what was it that non-European Turkic invaders accompllished in largely Christian and Greek Anatolia? Remind us, please, Khalaf. And what did muslim invaders achieve in Buddhist Afghanistan? Hindu India? Christian Ethiopia?
Del says
Justin Trudeau allows and even encourages filth like this to exist. He deliberately imports these animals. What can Canadians expect when Trudeau, who prays and preaches at mosques and holds secret meetings with Islamists, but lies when he claims to be a Christian?
OLD GUY says
Why is the Canadian Government so hell bent on allowing theseMuslim/islamic people to enter the country? Same question for our American politicians? Makes no sense at all to allow a foreign enemy to infiltrate your country by the thousands of people that hate you and what your country destroyed.