ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
‘The massacre that took place in Israel may be just a prelude to what awaits the whole world’
Matan Hasidim/Makor Rishon
March 7, 2024

“I feel that since October 7, humanity has been in a very delicate and dangerous transitional state. Everything I’ve been shouting and warning about for years has suddenly come out all at once for the whole world to see through the GoPro cameras of the Hamas terrorists,” says Yasmine Mohammed, one of the world’s leading activists for the rights of Muslim women and support for ex-Muslims. “If the West sobers up and realizes who it is up against and how the worst versions of Islam entered the most important Western institutions, and if it then proceeds to tackle it at the core, then there could remain a chance to correct course,” she says, “but if Western liberals continue to play the role of useful idiots for Muslims who use them to promote their ideology, then things will get much worse. The massacre that took place in Israel may be just a prelude to what awaits the whole world.” READ MORE

JNS Accepting that Israel’s enemies are waging a religious war can reframe the narrative The renowned 15th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Khaldun stated that jihad is “a religious duty because of the universalism of the [Muslim] mission and the [obligation to convert] everybody to Islam by persuasion or by force. … Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.” This definition of jihad is universally accepted by all Islamic schools of thought. It is the reason why, in the seventh century, Islam conquered the Land of Israel, which had a majority Jewish population descended directly from the ancient Israelites. Under Muslim rule, the indigenous inhabitants immediately became subject to the rules of dhimmitude, a set of onerous apartheid religious and legal restrictions that oppress and abuse non-Muslims or dhimmis. The modern State of Israel, as historian Bat Ye’or explained, “represents the successful national liberation of a dhimmi civilization.” To many religious Muslims, this liberation is intolerable. READ MORE