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While Old Joe Biden’s handlers hunt for “white supremacist terrorists,” the actual terrorists of the Islamic State (ISIS) have been regrouping and growing more assertive. ISIS has just released a new issue of Al-Naba, its weekly newsletter, containing a feature article forthrightly entitled “Kill the Jews,” and issuing a call for global war between Muslims and Jews and their allies. For seven decades now, Western policymakers have steadfastly ignored the role that Islam plays in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but ISIS’ bloodthirsty new call is a fresh reminder that to continue to pretend that the clash has nothing to do with religion is both naïve and dangerous.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported Sunday that the ISIS article refers to the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, to support its denigration of the Jews. The ISIS editors wrote: “Allah revealed the qualities of the unbelieving Jews,” that is, Jews that remain Jews and do not convert to Islam, “in many verses in his wise book, and He described them in detail and precision. There is no doubt about the wisdom of this precise, divine description, so it should serve as a lesson and warning for you to take caution and to be prepared. A Muslim shuns the conduct of the Jews, the adherents of their customs, and their aides, and he takes heed of their deception; out of necessity, he prepares to wage war against them.”
Indeed, all this is abundantly supported in the Muslim holy book, which states that the Jews are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82), are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and that Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).
The ISIS article, according to MEMRI, also states that in the Qur’an, Allah revealed numerous negative qualities of the Jews, including their “unbelief and polytheism”; their “distortion and corruption of Allah’s word”; their “suppression of the truth”; their “betrayal of the covenants and killing of the prophets”; their “severe hostility toward the believers”; their “curse and heartlessness”; their “cowardice in battle”; their “practice of usury and robbery”; their “continued striving for corruption and chaos”; their “acceptance of wrongdoing”; their “lust for [earthly] life”; their “arrogance and pretension”; and their “jealousy and malice toward Muslims.”
In light of all this, ISIS explains that the struggle against Israel is eschatological, not political, although it acknowledges that analysts have generally missed this: “Most people have disregarded the Quranic characterization of the Jews and its aim. They have instead concerned themselves with a historical narrative of events, thereby deviating from the roots of the conflict.” These mistaken analysts, says ISIS, think that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict arose over “lands and possessions.” It asks: “Is there any pretext left on which someone can claim that the war with the Jews is not religious?”
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