This is quite likely. Hamas enjoys a vogue right now and the world loves it. But too many horrific rape stories might sour the affection of even the most ardent Leftist.
“US State Department–Hamas won’t release women hostages because they will tell about sex crimes,” by Vered Weiss, World Israel News, December 4, 2023:
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller revealed in a press conference that Hamas won’t free the remaining women because they don’t want them to talk about possible sex crimes in captivity.
With increasing reports about the frequency and severity of sexual crimes, including rape and genital mutilation, perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th, Matthew Miller has posited the hesitancy of releasing female hostages, the main issue that led to the end of the ceasefire and the resumption of fighting, is to prevent them from revealing similar crimes during their confinement.
In a press conference, Miller said, “The fact that they continue to hold women, hostages, the fact that they continue to hold children, hostages, just the fact that it seems one of the reasons they don’t want to turn women over they’ve been holding hostage, and the reason this pause fell apart, is they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody.”
State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller suggests “one of the reasons [Hamas doesn’t] want to turn women over that they’ve been holding hostage — and the reason this pause fell apart — is they don’t want those women to talk about what happened to them.” pic.twitter.com/GOlM3PHgVR
— The Recount (@therecount) December 4, 2023
“There is very little that I would put beyond Hamas when it comes to its treatment of civilians, and particularly its treatment of women,” he adds.
Last week, 110 elderly women, mothers and their children, and foreign nationals were released by Hamas.
As of last Friday after the ceasefire, 136 hostages remain who are mainly male, but there are still a number of women, including one who was seen in October 7th footage revealing blood on the seat of her sweatpants as she was shoved by terrorists into a van….
Barbara says
they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody.
Which means the terrorists know what they did is wrong!
Wellington says
A polite correction, Barbara, to what you stated.
The Hamas terrorists don’t for a moment believe what they did is wrong, rather they know that much of the world will THINK what they did is wrong and thus they are trying to adjust for this for PR reasons only but for zero true ethical reasons.
In the collective mind of Hamas, not only was nothing done wrong, it was a glorious tribute to Allah—and thus demonstrating again, as if any further demonstration is necessary, that Islam is sick to its core.
Until Islam is overwhelmingly looked upon as egregious throughout, to its very existence from origins onwards, then many stupid and deadly games will continue. They’re still continuing right now, courtesy of deficient people and entities like Biden, Harris, Trudeau, Pope Francis, Macron, former (and highly destructive) Western leaders like Blair, Obama, Cameron and Merkel), the UN, the EU, et al.
What an absurd time we live in. Like no other. Even previous ages were often tragic but at least not absurd. Now we live in an age both tragic and absurd.
mgoldberg says
I think the greek playwriters thought there was only two paths for greeks to follow; either get drunk or be abused by their gods and their desires. For muslims until they realize what a deal with the devil they make surrendering their souls to their ‘perfect’ messenger who yes, commands the rapeing, beheading and torture of infidels leaving the muslim helples to think of what he’s bargained for…..
Rob Porter says
Wellington, well said. It strikes me forcefully how Muslims claim to hate homosexuals and homosexuality, yet time and again they sodomize both men and women victims. After U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed in Benghazi, we learned that Muslim filth sodomized his dead body. Then Mohammad had his “scattered Pearls”, little boys who he and his vile companions sodomized for pleasure.
Muslim cruelty manifested itself graphically in the jihad atrocities at Mumbai (2008), Westgate Mall, Nairobi (2013), Paris (2015) where victims were excruciatingly torn apart while alive, yet today we have morally destitute Westerners, in fact depraved scum, stating that Israelis are “occupiers” and on October 7 ‘got what they deserved’ when murdered in all too typical Muslim style. Ah yes, tiny infants decapitated and burned to death, women and girls raped so brutally that their pelvis broke. And these Westerners aren’t revolted and outraged? 1,400 years of Muslim savagery, not just October 7, Muslim ‘occupation’ of foreign lands, yet to Western imbeciles it’s a sin for Jews to retaliate to Muslim barbarism. In my long life I’ve never seen Western society so ignorant and sink so low.
Napoleon says
You’re spot on!
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington.
bill says
Well they do not think it is wrong according their religion but they know it will be a propaganda victory for Israel if the media or MSM publicise it. The question is will they cover it up?
From The Other Side of Town says
That is why they did what they did.
Dr truth says
They don’t think it’s wrong – they think it’s allowed by Islam to punish women by raping them. But they think the world will believe it’s wrong …
gravenimage says
Spot on, Dr truth.
bagsgroove says
Let us do the same to hamas and the palestinians and not hide anything
PRCS says
To bring ourselves down to their level?
Count me out.
gravenimage says
Yes, PRCS. Civilized people do not act like this, nor do they desire to.
Verk says
No. Just dispatch them straight to their prophet in hell. We are not sadists like them.
marc says
In islam, being raped is a death sentence for the victim, due to their vile understanding of “honour”, so the victims hide the crime.
Hamas didn’t think this through, we look at victims of rape very differently and will encourage them to share the crimes so we can hold the rapist responsible.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
This is rather stupid, because hamas made video of the poor young woman being forced to walk and everyone who watched it on the news, could see her bloody clothing. It was obvious that she had been raped.
And there is a heck of a lot of other evidence that the victims have been raped, and worse…murdered.
the scummy dross will not escape punishment. They will go down like the feculent matter they are.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
Seeing the bloodied clothing made me absolutely sick.
And I can’t un-see it.
somehistory says
I can understand that, James, as it had the same effect on me. Multiply the poor girl by how many others? Demons, all who do or approve of such.
Hudders. says
It is heartbreaking that it’s as likely that these terrorist monsters & islamic jihadist perverts, would rather murder those poor female hostages now, than risk even the slightest element of truth about the horrors endured during their criminal captivities come to light & have revealed the true nature of the deviant sicko ‘freedom fighters’, the west has rushed to identify, support & sympathise will.
The sexual crimes committed by the Oct 7th devils, the subsequent similar treatment of female hostages & the bestial behaviours of islamic males to non believer women & young girls worldwide overall today, must never be forgot & as much light should be shone on this monstrous subject & it’s disturbing facts.
abu taleb says
Islam jihadists always use rape to humiliate the victims as well as to satisfy their animal sex lust. And Islam sanctions the rape by saying it is the muslims’ right to have sex with the victims because they have captured the victims so the victims belong to the captors. What a sick and disgusting religion.
Rob Porter says
Just consider this, after ISIS in Iraq and Syria had brutally murdered thousands, most Christians Yazidis and Kurds, mass murdered older Yazidi women considered too old for sex with their fighters, Western countries like Canada allowed these barbarians to simply walk into their countries without retribution. Canada’s Justin Trudeau publicly stated that these ISIS men ‘had somethig to offer. It would be fascinating to know what.
Contrast this with Nigeria in 2016. It hired South African mercenaries to deal with Boko Haram and Fulani Tribesmen murdering Christians. In 3 1/2 months these mercenaries accomplished what the entire Nigerian military had failed achieve in 6 years. They took no prisoners, just killed the Muslim trash through hunting them down or herding into ‘kill blocks’ where waiting mercenaries mowed them down. Sadly, as the mercenaries predicted, in time Boko Haram and Fulani Tribesmen regroup and returned – but by then to a Nigeria led by a Muslim president.
Where is western compassion and help for Armenians being brutally murdered by Azerbaijan Muslim savages?
Stephen says
Rape is the muslim way of sex … fullstop
Do you think those muslim woman want to have those 10 children hanging on their hip …
Rape is how muslim have sex …. end of story
PRCS says
Paraphrasing an old joke:
Muslim foreplay wake up b#*ch.
ed says
They may have already been murdered
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That ought to be the working assumption of the Israelis as they continue to pound Hamas
Major Tom says
There’s an old adage about kidnapping……Presume the victim is dead until rescued…….
Goofy says
According to the Qur’an the warriors of Allah have acted in strict compliance with their book.
As long as Islam is recognised and protected as a religion this will happen and there is nothing that can be done about it.
What is it exactly that makes Islam deserve to be accepted and respected as a religion?
Islam’s claim to be related to Abraham is obviously wrong, Islam is in no way Abrahamic. There is no link to connect Ismael with Muhammad, who himself claimed that his parents were pagan and were in hell. So there is no lineage of believers in the God of Abraham connecting him with Muhammad!
Apart from that God of Abraham and Allah have nothing in common; God is spirit, love and forgiveness; Allah is the opposite. Try to compare and contrast the Bible with the Qur’an and you will love our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ even more!
Islam’s alleged ties with Judaism and Christianity are merely used to blaspheme the two. Isa (Jesus) is relegated from being the Son of God and our Salvation (Jeshua) to be a mere prophet and helper of Muhammad. According to Islam Isa on his return will fight the Christians for erroneously believing in him!
The Jews mocked Muhammad for cutting and pasting Jewish kids tales and pass them off in his Qur’an as eternal words of Allah (Eternal but with the possibility of abrogating them and replace them with something better than the already perfect word of Allah!). That didn’t sit well with Muhammad
The Muslims are not happy either with the fact that Muhammad died from being poisoned by a Jewess whose family he had just brutally murdered. In his innocence he could not imagine that she would bear grudges and be so evil as to poison him!
What the Muslims forget is that she was the very woman who made Muhammad earn the title of prophet! Muhammad had sworn that if he passed on things in the Qur’an which were not of Allah, Allah would kill him by cutting his aorta. In his agony before dying he explained his pain as if his aorta was being cut!
Without this Jewish woman Muhammad would be a mere messenger of Allah and not a prophet but the anti-Semitic Muslims give her no credit for that. No sign of gratitude here!
Noah Andeark says
When muslimas cheat, and they DO cheat, they seek out Jewsih men who are known for being kind, considerate, and inventive. It’s a historical fact that no muslim “man” has ever been able to satisfy a woman.
Troybeam says
These women will not be released. They will be killed or become converts to survive. Islam is evil. how long will it take for humanity as a whole to understand that.
Phoebe says
It’s also possible that some of the women won’t be returned because they’ve been given away as sex slaves. In fact, one of the videos that they took had someone saying (in Arabic, of course) to a man who was dragging a young woman by the arm, “Save that one as a sex slave.” So she would not longer be a hostage, but “the spoils of war,” no?
RobTheGray1 says
I’ve never seen such a collection of thoughtful comments, and it restores my faith in those members of humanity who have chosen a righteous path. The fact that some humans choose the ugliness of barbarity and evil is an ugly truth that we must acknowledge, but men of good will and good judgement also exist, thank G-d, and for this I am grateful.
gravenimage says
US State Department says Hamas won’t release female hostages because they will tell about jihadis’ sex crimes
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And yet when Muslims are in full power they boast about these crimes. But for right now, this kind of thing means that fewer clueless Infidels are apt to support them.
And so the victims continue to suffer as hostages and sex slaves.