The Muslim world speaks: Hamas must meet its end
Though I am not Israeli, and I am not Jewish, the anguish of the Bibas family is mine. I am devastated by the return of the bodies, the babies’ remains separated from those of their mother, which Hamas withheld for a further day. These are the most agonizing events since that October 7th day.
This unforgivable crime, perpetrated on infant Jews and their mother, clarifies to the world the depravity of Hamas and the Palestinian civilians who abducted them. That this act was only one amid thousands of acts perpetrated with zeal, ecstasy and abandon on October 7 remains incomprehensible.
Walking through devastated home after home in October 2023, I followed the footsteps of the dead. I moved slowly, methodically, examining the scenes of murder, torture, sexual violation and abduction. Later, I spent hours with Dr. Chen Kugel and Dr. Nurit Bulbit at Abu Kabir (Israel’s National Forensic Center in Jaffa) where I witnessed autopsies of the murdered, and, as a physician, examined the anatomy of lethal, genocidal Islamism.
Islamism does indeed have an anatomy writ large.
Its signature is carved deep in flesh wounds; charred black in furnaces of bones and teeth; imprinted in swollen wrists restrained, even in death, with electrical cables and zip ties; perforated in the peppercorn spray of gunshot wounds, tiny at entry, cavernous at exit; ripped asunder in the blasts of grenades and cascades of their shrapnel; handwritten in the bloodied calligraphy of frenzied stab wounds; chiseled deep in the murderous handiwork of the hatchet’s swing. Sometimes Islamism’s signature was legible only with radiology, the annihilation so absolute. But the seal is eternally the same: the silenced anatomy screamed of Islamism’s elimination of the Jew.
No one spared. Mercy to no being. Neither woman, child, nor infant, not even countless animals, saved from Islamism’s barbarism. All, eradicated.
For Palestinians, this is a tragedy of staggering proportions. October 7 stains the Palestinian people with a broad brush, and permanently so. Your terror, your barbarity, your monstrous zeal leave a permanent brand not only on Israel and the Jew, but on each of you. Palestinian acts have stained even pristine Islam. You appeal for the world’s mercy, aid, intervention, humanity, yet you gather around the tiny Bibas coffins in a ghoulish display at the handover of the baby hostages inside coffins lined with propaganda. You cheer and gawk and parade, defiling even corpses of babies. Your hatred dehumanizes you and debases all of humanity.
Hamas committed the unforgivable. Yet Hamas was not alone. Countless survivors and eyewitnesses, men, women, and even children have testified to me that Palestinian civilians sanctioned, supported and joyously participated in this atrocity. And because you are Muslim, you stain me.
For Muslims, October 7 is a stain on us all. We have tolerated the intolerable. From Doha to Davos, pro-Islamist Muslims and their sycophants have described Hamas as resistance fighters and denied they are terrorists. I know so because well-healed Muslims have raged at me, rendered me pariah.
In lionizing Hamas, we have erased and denied their atrocities. Muslim queens have questioned the validity of the evidence of the evil, some, like Rania on CNN, others, like Sheikha Moza, in turning their gaze away. We have refused to acknowledge the atrocities even when the witnesses are Muslims like me. The refusal to witness has been unwavering, even when the victims – both the dead of October 7 and the hostages – are themselves Muslims.
Instead, rich as Croesus, we have bankrolled sophisticated propaganda wars to demonize the Israeli and provide Hamas cover. We have manipulated and inverted the world’s empathy for the terrorist over the terrorized, even as it cowers among human shields of Palestinian civilians and then emerges in perfectly pressed uniforms to preside at ghoulish ceremonies for those they murder.
We have provided billions in aid knowing it flows to Hamas in the schools and hospitals and kindergartens and homes of the Palestinians – and through all of them the tunnels. We have kept captive in the Gaza enclave any Palestinian civilian who might want to flee, save those who pay a princely sum to the Muslim war profiteers selling safe passage through Rafah. We have expertly empowered, lionized, and aggrandized the intolerable.
Look at the harm it has done to mankind, to ourselves the Muslim Ummah, and to those we purport to beseech the world to support. See the harm done to the innocent Palestinian, future unborn generations of Palestinians and to the vanishing mirage of one-day Palestinian statehood alongside Jewish statehood that even the most optimistic now question.
Each act on October 7 is abhorrent to Islam: targeting the civilian, the woman, the elderly, the child, the infant, all are outside the bounds of Islam.
The violence, debasement, and gratuitous mutilation of the Jewish person in life and even after death, the sexual violation of women, the taking of civilians as hostages and their maltreatment in captivity, all are profound violations of all Islamic values and a stain upon all Islam.
Hamas and its civilian participants are punishable for the worst crimes against humanity in Islam, which are also seen as crimes against our Maker. Those Muslims who support them are accomplices.
I am not alone in this sentiment, clerics at the highest level of my faith share exactly my sentiments. In reaction to Hamas parading bodies of the deceased hostages the leaders of Islam made their outrage public.
“What we saw today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah, and a sin that does not represent the followers of the Prophet, peace be upon him’ declared the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh
“Hamas has brought shame to Islam on a level never seen before,” pronounced the Grand Mufti of UAE Grand Mufti, Ahmed al-Haddad
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have long outlawed the Islamist mothership, the Muslim Brotherhood, as has Egypt. They know it as an imposter purporting to be doctrine when it is instead thinly veiled violent totalitarianism. They know Islamism perpetrates only harm to humanity.
For the Saudi Kingdom, Custodian of the Two holy cities in Islam and Islam’s spiritual epicenter, Islamist ideology is explicitly outlawed; no financing of Islamism is permitted; Islamist clerics are banned from preaching; Islamist ideology has been expunged from all textbooks in schools, colleges, mosques and elsewhere. Saudi youth is specifically safeguarded from indoctrination. The Kingdom has banned all violent and nonviolent Muslim Brotherhood ideology.
Yet October 7 was possible only because of the financial, military and strategic support of the Islamist Iranian regime paired with Qatari patronage. Billions were funneled into the Gaza enclave for Al Jazeera to whip up support through propaganda that is force-fed in an endless loop to billions of Muslims, and that amplifies pro-Islamist sympathies far beyond the Muslim world.
The statements of the Saudi and UAE Grand Muftis portend a gathering of apical powers in Islam in condemnation of all who favor Islamism over Islam. The Grand Muftis have tremendous authority, but their public condemnation is only possible with (and indeed signifies) the highest level of support of their monarchies. Condemnation of Hamas by the leaders of Islam will gain momentum. These condemnations explicitly direct the Muslim world away from an Islamism that, until now, continually grows stronger.
In the coming weeks as the Arab world meets the urgent task of a post-war Gaza, there will be increasing coordination not only to envision a government for Gaza without Hamas but to systematically deprive the Islamist machine of its lifeblood: Palestinian victimhood, Islamist antisemitism and cold, hard cash.
While the Jewish nation, the Jewish people and the Bibas family might begin their unbearable grieving, the time for Hamas to meet its Maker has arrived. It will be the Muslim world that ensures this.
Source » msn
