Okay, raise your hand if you saw THIS coming. I must say, I didn’t.
Muslim Group Publicly Condemns Anti-Semitic Violence and Hate, Hamas, Terrorist Attack on Israel
As violence and hatred toward Jews continues to worsen amid the Middle East war sparked by Hamas’ terrorist attack on an Israeli music festival, one Muslim group is denouncing antisemitism in all its forms and sending a message to their Jewish “brethren.”“We Muslims have one word for Jews. Shalom,” reads the headline of the message pinned to the top of the social media page of Muslims Against Antisemitism (@MAA_UK on X/Twitter). Posted on Saturday, the message that follows is a reprint of a statement tweeted by MAA when it was formed back in 2018.
When Hamas attacked Israel last month on October 7, the Muslim group immediately began condemning both the attack and those who take joy in it (emphasis added):
“Let’s be very clear. Celebrating the brutal murder of Jews (or Palestinians), is NO cause for celebration. Today, many people have lost their precious lives. Celebrating in cars at this time is horrible & shows utter contempt and antisemitism towards all Jews.”
“Please watch out for each other at this time. Antisemitism must not be tolerated in communities because of what is taking place in the Middle East. Jews in the U.K. cannot and must not be targeted by those who carry the poison of antisemitism within them.”
“There is NO justification for murder,” MAA declared on October 8, the day after the attack, noting that “Killing Israelis going about their lives has nothing to do with a ‘free Palestine’ but everything to do with brutal murderous barbarism by fundamentalists.”
The message closes with a quote, in Hebrew, from the Book of Psalms:
“In peace, we say these words: Hiney ma tov u’ma-nayim. Shevet ach’im gam ya-chad.”
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity” is the English translation of the Bible quote.
WOW. According to strict interpretation of the Koran, Surah, and Hadiths, this is of course balls-out apostasy, but all the more courageous of them for being so. Hats off to the MAA for their reasonable, humane, and downright noble stance, that’s all I have to say about it. Coming at such a time, it is most welcome.
(Via Sefton)
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Taqiyya anyone?
Possible of course, but I don’t think so. I have been in many muslim countries and count quite a few friends in those places. They are not all radical killers nor do they all support the radical killers. For example, Bangladesh is a 90+% muslim (sunni) country whose leaders have been trying to keep the government secular, and succeeding.
Turkey is an unusual place as all the people I know are not much different than the baptist’s I know. It’s also clear there are radical muslims with Erdogan at the top of the list.
India has about 175 million muslims, mostly sunni.
I’m for killing everything in gaza strip however. I know there are some innocents there, but not enough. Perhaps when enough is destroyed, and nothing of hamas remains alive, there can be some survivors.
The thing to bear in mind, which can admittedly be kinda tough to do sometimes, is that some unknown percentage of Muslims in the US came here expressly to ESCAPE the wild-eyed jihadi radicals, and therefore have no use for them whatsoever. Don’t know where the MAA is based out of, but if it’s here it would tend to bolster their credibility, I should think.
Good point Mike. Almost everyone I meet expresses an interest in coming here. There is always a probing comment, like “are you hiring?” and if so I’ll be glad to come to the US.