{"id":119962,"date":"2025-03-22T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=119962"},"modified":"2025-03-22T14:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:40:32","slug":"22-05-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=119962","title":{"rendered":"The West is facing an Islamic holy war"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/jns-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/the-west-is-facing-an-islamic-holy-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The West is facing an Islamic holy war<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Melanie Phillips<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Governments and the public alike persist in a state of lethal timidity and denial, but they must start connecting the dots.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-jns.org\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Destruction-of-Cars-in-Oct.-7-Attacks-in-Southern-Israel-1320x880.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>A view of cars charred by Hamas terrorists during the massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, at a field near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, Nov. 26, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir\/Flash90.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A documentary film released this weekend in more than 100 movie theaters across America explores the processes by which antisemitism exploded across university campuses, in street demonstrations and on social media following the Hamas-led atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It shows how throughout this vast uprising, Hamas have been celebrated as freedom fighters rather than terrorists. The film\u2019s director, Wendy Sachs, has also\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2025\/03\/12\/october-8-documentary-eruption-antisemitism-hatred-israel-after-hamas-attack-premiere-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a>\u00a0that this tsunami of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred wasn\u2019t a spontaneous eruption of feeling. It was orchestrated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Hamas narrative of murderous lies has been embedded into campuses by the vicious anti-Israel group, Students for Justice in Palestine. The film produces evidence that links SJP to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood,\u00a0the global Islamist group that spawned Hamas, ISIS and Al-Qaeda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sachs says she was shocked and surprised to discover that SJP wasn\u2019t just another student group but connected to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">What was most mind-blowing, she said, was the revelation from 1993 when the FBI wiretapped Hamas members in a Philadelphia hotel room and recorded them talking \u201cabout how to make their messaging more palatable to an American audience and how when they\u2019re speaking to people on the left, they\u2019re going to speak in terms of social justice and apartheid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Which, of course, is precisely what\u2019s been carried out to devastating effect. And these activists aren\u2019t just aiming to destroy Israel and murder Jews. They\u2019re aiming to destroy America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Last September, SJP\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2024\/09\/05\/eradicate-america-students-justice-palestine-calls-total-collapse-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201cTrue divestment necessitates nothing short of the total collapse of the university structure and American empire itself,\u201d\u00a0and that its aim was \u201cto undermine and eradicate America as we know it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">This aim is no secret. Jihadi warriors from both the Sunni and Shi\u2019ite Islamic world in Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran have repeatedly threatened that, after they have destroyed Israel and the Jews, they\u2019re coming for the West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">That\u2019s why the uproar over the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil\u2014the Syrian-born student agitator who orchestrated the anti-Israel mayhem at Columbia University and now faces losing his green card and being deported\u2014is so profoundly ill-judged.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"OCTOBER 8 | Official Trailer | In Theaters March 14\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kyB_WXg2-E\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Democrats and other liberal useful idiots have been screaming that that Khalil is being persecuted for expressing his support for \u201cPalestine.\u201d This is rubbish. He\u2019s a foreign visitor who organized a violent takeover of campus with Hamas-linked activities and who conspired to commit civil-rights violations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The protests against his arrest aren\u2019t just morally bankrupt. They also obscure the fact that Khalil and his ilk are active participants in a highly organized Islamist uprising against the West. Western liberals who think such people are supporting the \u201coppressed Palestinians\u201d have been played for suckers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">People in the West are constantly being shocked by developments inspired by the Islamic world. They were shocked by the Oct. 7 atrocities. They have been shocked by the violent \u201cpro-Gaza\u201d demonstrations. They have been shocked by the recent terrible scenes from Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Those scenes are indeed beyond horrifying. Christians, Druze and Alawites\u2014supporters of the deposed president, Basher al Assad, who himself caused the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Syrians\u2014have been subjected to barbaric mass slaughter by the new Islamist government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Christians have been crucified, tied to boards with their arms extended and then had their brains blown out. Men have been forced to crawl on the ground before being shot. Bodies of Christians and Druze have been dragged through the streets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">But we\u2019ve seen this same kind of depravity before. We saw it in the Oct. 7 attacks in which Israeli babies, children, women and men were slaughtered, raped, beheaded, burned alive and kidnapped to be dragged through Gaza\u2019s streets, starved, tortured and murdered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">We saw it in the atrocities committed by ISIS, who in 2016 burned 19 Yazidi women to death in cages after they refused to have sex with their captors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And we\u2019ve seen it in the systematic persecution of Christians across Africa. For many years, Islamists have been targeting Christians through beheadings, rapes, abductions and being burned alive. In recent years, thousands of Christians have been slaughtered, forcibly converted to Islam, kidnapped for ransom or sexual enslavement, and driven out of their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In 2020, an emergency meeting convened by experts in religious freedom at the Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Fla.,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avemarialaw.edu\/international-strategy-conference-persecution-and-genocide-of-christians-in-sub-saharan-africa\/\">recorded<\/a>\u00a0that over the past decade, more Christians had been murdered for their faith by Islamic extremists in Nigeria\u2019s northern and central belts than in the whole of the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">More than 2,000 Christians have been murdered in Nigeria since 2018, with nearly two-dozen Christians there beheaded in 2020 by local Boko Haram militants, some with direct links to ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In eastern Kenya, extremists extracted Christians from a public bus and executed them on the spot. Last month, 70 Christians were found beheaded in a church in Congo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And so on, and so on. Evidence like this has been there for all with eyes to see for decades. Yet people have refused to see it because they refuse to acknowledge the enormity of what\u2019s happening to our world. They refuse to realize that what\u2019s taking place both at home and abroad is all part of the same thing\u2014holy war to conquer the world for Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Palestinian cause is being used as a wedge issue to weaponize Western antisemitism against Israel and the Jews, whose destruction is viewed as an essential front in the wider war against the West, Christianity and the entire non-Islamic world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In the West itself, this war is being waged by the Muslim Brotherhood\u2014a covert, Sunni Muslim group aiming at global Islamic domination. The Brotherhood shrewdly calibrates its activities to vary between terrorist violence and the subversion of Western societies through immigration and a high birthrate, political entryism and intimidation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/policyexchange.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Understanding-Islamism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rep<\/a>ort published in 2020 by the British think tank Policy Exchange noted that the Brotherhood\u2019s goal is \u201cto capture power in order to make governance more Islamic\u201d and to \u201cseek to mobilize Muslims behind an agenda of communalism, sustained by a narrative of grievance and victimhood, in the service of an ideology that at its heart contests the legitimate foundations of the modern Western state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Shia Iran is also intent on Islamizing the rest of the world. In Britain, alarm by the security service over potentially violent Iranian infiltration has reached such heights that all organizations connected to the regime in Tehran are now\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/those-working-for-iran-in-uk-must-register-or-face-five-years-in-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">required to register<\/a>\u00a0with British authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Yet even now, the British government refuses to ban the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or the Muslim Brotherhood. Across the West, governments and the public alike persist in a state of lethal timidity and denial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">There have been no massive street demonstrations against the Syrian atrocities. There have been no protests at the massacres of Christians, not even by the church itself. The war to destroy Christianity across Africa and Asia is never even mentioned. The only outrage is against Israel for defending itself against these horrors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Why is this? In part, it\u2019s through ignorance about the Middle East and Jewish history. In part, it\u2019s antisemitism. In part, it\u2019s the pernicious belief that people with brown or black skins can never be criticized\u2014even when they are slaughtering others with brown or black skins. In part, it\u2019s through simple fear and funk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It\u2019s also because it busts the narrative about Israeli \u201ccolonization\u201d and reveals instead that there is a massive worldwide problem with Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The West won\u2019t accept that it\u2019s facing an Islamic holy war because it believes it can\u2019t win against the world\u2019s 1.8 billion Muslims. So it\u2019s giving up without even putting up a fight, sheltering instead behind the comforting fiction that if Israel behaved differently everything would be absolutely fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It needs instead to take off its blinders, join up the dots and fight like Israel to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-jns.org\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Melanie-Phillips-400x400.jpg\" width=\"20%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><strong>Melanie Phillips<\/strong>, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, The Builder\u2019s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save It, is published by Wicked Son and can be purchased on Amazon. 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