Why do arab journalists always default to defending terror groups? WHY? Why is the default reaction to Hamas a sympathetic one? Are these leftists/arab journalists just really THAT stupid?
And when it’s one terror group vs another, why is it suddenly ok to defend one over the other as somehow “noble”?
I came across an article today from about.com’s “mideast” correspondent Pierre Trsitam and was jaw-dropped to see him totally distort who Hamas is and what they stand for.
He describes how Al Qaeda in Gaza was recently crushed by Hamas forces. OMG look haw awesome Hamas is at fighting terrorists! Maybe we should legitimize them so they can help fight terrorism man caused disasters.
In addition he says Hamas is labeled a terror group but it’s not fair because Hamas just wants to live in peace and have their own country:
Trsitam writes:
Palestinians, Hamas included, aren’t interested in global Islamic jihad or a pan-Arab caliphate, let alone in attacking American interests. They’re interested in getting a country of their own.
What??? Seriously? They just want a “country of their own”?? Well I guess he’s right in a way except he fails to mention the desire of total annihilation of Israel and it’s Jews, it’s teaching of children to blow themselves up for Allah, it’s constant targeting of Israeli civilians, oh and those few choice words in their charter that clearly sponsors Genocide against all Jews.
Now, he’s either vastly uninformed or totally biased. Which is it? doesn’t really matter.
He goes on to chastise the West for labeling them terrorists and basically calls for accept them as a legitimate political organization:
But last week’s showdown should send a message to Israel and the United States: Hamas’ agenda is narrow, focused, and limited to the Palestinian cause. Branding it a “terrorist” organization may have had its propagandistic uses, and in many case earlier this decade the tag was accurate. But it’s out of date. So is both Israel’s and the United States’ monomaniacal (if not Salafist, in its own way) rejection of any dealings with Hamas.
Now, it doesn’t take a genius to take one look at the Hamas Charter and see the writing on the wall and why one would consider Hamas a terrorist organization.
Obliteration of Israel:
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
Refusal to acknowledge or negotiate with Israel:
“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”
Their belief in the age old Jewish Conspiracy “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” , a ludicrous anti-Semitic forgery.
“After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.”
Dreams of murdering Jews:
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.”
And More:
Current Hamas Positions
Some analysts insist that the Hamas is becoming more pragmatic in its ideology following assumption of a political role. The evidence for this is view is conflicting, and it is beclouded by the practice of dissemblance that was copied from Al-Banna and Sayyed Qutb. Recent statements by leaders include the following:
- Imam Yousif al-Zahar of Hamas said in his sermon at the Katib Wilayat mosque in Gaza that “Jews are a people who cannot be trusted. They have been traitors to all agreements. Go back to history. Their fate is their vanishing.”Ref IHT 1 April 08
- Sheik Yunus al-Astal, a Hamas legislator and imam, in a column in the weekly newspaper Al Risalah in 2008 discussed a Koranic verse suggesting that “suffering by fire is the Jews’ destiny in this world and the next.” Astal concluded “Therefore we are sure that the Holocaust is still to come upon the Jews.Ref IHT 1 April 08
- “We will not rest until we destroy the Zionist entity” stated Hamas leader Fathi Hammad in Gaza on Friday January 2nd 2009 - ref — BBC 2 January 09
- In a sermon aired on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa television, cleric Yunis Al Astal stated, “Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam.”I believe that our children, or our grandchildren, will inherit our jihad and our sacrifices, and, Allah willing, the commanders of the conquest will come from among them”He maintained that Rome would become, “”an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread though Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, even Eastern Europe.” Ref- Fox 14 Apr. 2008
We’ve done dozens and dozens of stories about Hamas here at IAC. Read them here: http://infidelsarecool.com/hamas/
About.com should fire this obvious terror sympathizer journalist. Why losers like this are allowed to keep their jobs just blows my mind. How can about.com’s executives be ok with this kind of stuff?
