Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as well as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have opened registration recently for their annual summer camps for Gaza youth, where children as young as nine are trained in marksmanship, kidnapping, and tunnel warfare, as they’re encouraged to become next-generation terrorists.
Pelosi Blames ‘White Supremacy, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia’ for Jan. 6 Attack on U.S. Capitol
By Craig Bannister | July 1, 2021 | 1:25pm EDT
Announcing the creation of a Select Committee to investigate the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) blamed the attack on attitudes of white supremacy, anti-Semitism and islamophobia.
Speaker Pelosi made the claim at her weekly Thursday press conference, where she announced the passage of H.R. 503 establishing the committee.
Pelosi said that the FBI and DHS have determined that domestic terrorists are a greater threat to the U.S. than are foreign terrorists, and attributed the attack on the Capitol to bigoted “attitudes” held by the protestors:
“It’s really important for you all to know what our purpose is for this.
“And, that is, the findings of the legislation speak to the testimony of the director of the FBI, when he basically said that there were more deaths from domestic terrorism than from global terrorism in our country in the previous year. Testimony from the Department of Homeland Security about concerns that are out there.
“All of these institutions talking about, well, I hate to even go there, but it is what they have said, in terms of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, islamophobia – all of these attitudes that have provoked – well, contributed – to what happened on January 6th.
“And, so that is our purpose. You can go to Speaker.gov to read the findings which establish the purpose of what we are setting out to do, to make sure that this never happens again.”
However, the comments from the FBI and DHS cited by both Pelosi and her legislation do not actually claim the January 6 attack on the Capitol was the result of these bigoted attitudes.
As Pelosi’s H.R. 503 legislation explains, the DHS bulletin is warning about the possibility that future violence by domestic violent extremists might be “emboldened” by the attack on the Capitol – and the comments by the director of the FBI were general observations about domestic extremism made last September, four months before the January attack on the Capitol:
Whereas on January 27, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security issued a National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin that due to the ‘‘heightened threat environment across the United States,’’ in which ‘‘[S]ome ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.’’ The Bulletin also stated that—
(1) ‘‘DHS is concerned these same drivers to violence will remain through early 2021 and some DVEs [domestic violent extremists] may be emboldened by the January 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. to target elected officials and government facilities.’’; and
(2) ‘‘Threats of violence against critical infrastructure, including the electric, telecommunications and healthcare sectors, increased in 2020 with violent extremists citing misinformation and conspiracy theories about COVID–19 for their actions’’;
Whereas on September 24, 2020, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Christopher Wray testified before the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives that—
(1) ‘‘[T]he underlying drivers for domestic violent extremism – such as perceptions of government or law enforcement overreach, sociopolitical conditions, racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and reactions to legislative actions – remain constant.’’;
(2) ‘‘[W]ithin the domestic terrorism bucket category as a whole, racially-motivated violent extremism is, I think, the biggest bucket within the larger group. And within the racially-motivated violent extremists bucket, people subscribing to some kind of white supremacist-type ideology is certainly the biggest chunk of that.’’; and
(3) ‘‘More deaths were caused by DVEs than international terrorists in recent years. In fact, 2019 was the deadliest year for domestic extremist violence since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995’’
Video: Islam’s Long War on the West with Raymond Ibrahim
Shillman Fellow breaks down the many obstacles to lasting peace.
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NEVER UNDERESTIMATE HOW FAST AN AMERICAN POLITICIAN WILL CRAWL IN BED WITH THE ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY!
The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is the American arm of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), South Asia’s largest Islamist group. As such, ICNA is related to terrorist organizations and spreads fanatic ideologies. Recently, United States Senator from Michigan and Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Debbie Stabenow, gave ICNA an award for community service.
Sen. Stabenow Gives Award to Group Linked to Terror and Bigotry
ICNA harbors death squad leader, while promoting domestic violence against women.
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Joe Kaufman is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Chairman of the Joe Kaufman Security Initiative. He was the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Republican Nominee for U.S. House of Representatives (Florida-CD23).
The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is the American arm of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), South Asia’s largest Islamist group. As such, ICNA is related to terrorist organizations and spreads fanatic ideologies. Recently, United States Senator from Michigan and Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Debbie Stabenow, gave ICNA an award for community service. In learning about this travesty, this author contacted Senator Stabenow’s office, in hopes of persuading the Senator to rescind the award. Her staffer allotted me just one short minute to rattle off five reasons why she should do so. The following will discuss each reason.
As mentioned, ICNA is linked to groups involved in South Asian terror. Being related to JI means ICNA is also related to JI’s militant wing, Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), a group found on the US State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) that has been responsible for several terrorist attacks in the Kashmir region of India. In December 2017, ICNA, under its subsidiary Helping Hands for Relief and Development (HHRD), organized an event featuring Qari Rehmtullah, the Timergara, Pakistan chief of Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF). FIF is a US-banned front for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
For the past three decades, ICNA has harbored Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, a former death squad commander in JI’s then-military wing, al-Badr, during the 1971 genocide committed in what is now called Bangladesh. In November 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentenced Khan to death (in absentia) for the torture and murder of 18 individuals, at the time of the massacres. Without an extradition treaty between Bangladesh and the US, Khan has been able to remain here. Khan has served as National Vice President of ICNA and President of ICNA New York. According to Khan’s LinkedIn page, he is currently acting as an imam for ICNA.
ICNA has been tied to support for Hamas and other terrorist outfits. In July 2014, ICNA co-sponsored a pro-Hamas rally in Downtown Miami, where rally goers repeatedly shouted, “We are Hamas” and “Let’s go Hamas.” In August 2006, JI’s Al-Khidmat Foundation (AKF) took a delegation to the Damascus, Syria home of then-global Hamas leader, Khaled Mashal, and handed him a check for $100,000 to continue terrorist acts against Israel. At the time ICNA was a partner and top donor to AKF. ICNA has used the web to promote terrorist groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Taliban and the financing of al-Qaeda-related militants in Chechnya.
ICNA actively propagates material touting domestic violence as a valid method for husbands to punish wives they consider unruly. ICNA’s subsidiary Why Islam (WI) features on its website the controversial text, Gender Equity in Islam, by accused Hamas financing co-conspirator Jamal Badawi. It states, “Men are the protectors and maintains of women… [T]he righteous women are devoutly obedient… As to those women on whose part you fear disloyalty and ill conduct, admonish them (first), (next) refuse to share their beds (and last) beat them (lightly).” The book says some have suggested the use of a small toothbrush (miswak) to be used for the beatings.
ICNA’s leadership has targeted Jews and homosexuals with bigotry. Abdul Rauf Khan is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of ICNA subsidiary ICNA Relief. In July 2014, Khan, an avid Louis Farrakhan fan, promoted on Facebook an anti-Semitic video labeling comedian talk show host Bill Maher, “Zionist Jew Bill Maher.” In April 2018, Khan removed most of his Facebook page, after this author exposed him for posting the anti-gay propaganda piece, “Why is it haram [forbidden] to actively be gay?” which was produced by a media outlet that openly supports Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HT), a radical Muslim group that calls for homosexuals to be put to death.
Up until recently, ICNA’s Why Islam featured a message board on its website, where the forum moderators used it to make posts deriding Jews and in favor of Hamas and the destruction of Israel. One Why Islam moderator, Marwan, in response to a story about an Indian restaurant called “Hitler’s Cross” that was adorned with Nazi symbols, crudely joked, “Nazi restaurant… I wonder if they have kosher meals.” Another WI mod, Br Jim C, wrote concerning Israel, “Those Jews that speak out against such atrocity by holding their public officials accountable are the ones who deserve peace and life… The rest will one day end up in the Mediterranean sea.”
On March 1, 2021, US Senator Debbie Stabenow presented ICNA with a Certificate of Congressional Recognition. According to the certificate, it was awarded to the group “for providing compassionate support services for individuals and families in Southeast Michigan during the coronavirus pandemic.”
In the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak, ICNA took the opportunity to set up stations in different parts of the US to provide food and essentials to local communities. Normally, this would be viewed as an altruistic endeavor, for many have suffered as a result of the virus. But given the group’s radical background, there is no doubt that this was done specifically to provide cover for ICNA’s extremist identity and to create the façade that the group is a civic-minded charity. The cynical exploitation of the Covid crisis proved to be a PR boon for ICNA, earning it Congressional legitimization and approval in the form of Stabenow’s award.
It is obvious that, when Senator Stabenow gave ICNA this honor, she was either ignorant of ICNA’s terror-related and bigoted history or she ignored it. However, now that it has been brought to her attention, it is incumbent upon the Senator to rectify this grievous error that bears her signature and rescind this award immediately. Failure to do so in light of the facts, as presented above, makes Stabenow complicit in enabling ICNA to carry out its radical agenda and continue to deceive the public as to its sinister intentions.
Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.
Forget About Making Peace with the Islamic World
The great humorist, Jerome K. Jerome, suggested many years ago that, “… we all love peace, but not peace at any price.”
Peace is only a reality between states that are rational and can in time become friendly towards each other. Today leftists and all those who shout out the vacuous phrase, “peace and justice,” have turned those once noble words into soiled and tarnished rags.
They have become the very folk who, through one of life’s supreme ironies, shout down dissenting voices and thus become guilty of the very violent behavior they claim to oppose. The universities and colleges have become hotbeds of radicalized students who chant slogans of peace and justice yet howl down invited speakers with whom they disagree. Free speech withers on today’s university campus while tenured professors, smiling indulgently, espouse the monolithic message of the Left, which tolerates no disagreement.
That word, “peace” has permeated the democracies for decades and flowed from numerous pulpits. But despite untold forests cut down in order to produce posters, books, banners, placards, and learned tomes calling for peace, there is less peace in the world today and more hypocrites selling it like snake oil peddlers.
On the banks of the East River in New York City stands the Temple of Peace, the huge United Nations building that claims to be its repository, but which in reality is the ultimate Temple to Hypocrisy. The worshippers of “Peace” are the supreme idealists who never abandon their dreams, even if their naïve acts lead them to inadvertently make tyrants stronger and create living nightmares for the very victims for whom they claim they are bringing peace.
If a nation desires peace with its neighbor, but that neighbor implacably rejects peace, then any imposed peace process from outside is nothing more than a handmaiden to futility or worse. The peacemaker often creates a catastrophic erosion of security for the peace-loving nation, which because of its peaceful intentions is the only party that is then leaned upon to make endless and one-sided concessions to a belligerent enemy. Such has been the curse of the peace process for Israel in its attempts to survive relentless Arab and Muslim aggression.
Israel’s leaders have sought peace above all else and considered its attainment with hostile neighbors as the great panacea. But making peace must never be the goal of a nation when confronted by irredeemable enemies who look upon peace with contempt. For almost a century Jews have begged the Arab and Muslim world to agree to a lasting peace in the Middle East. They have offered what no other nation or people would dream of offering to a belligerent. But they have received nothing, for the simple reason that the Muslim Arab is only interested in a limited ceasefire so as to continue aggression against the Jews as soon as he feels strong enough. In this, he follows the example of Islam’s founder, Mohammed.
Deterrence and unwavering strength is the only salvation for Israel or any non-Muslim nation resisting the latest Islamic onslaught. A blinded West, increasingly confronted with Islamic terrorism and betrayed by the self-inflicted and suicidal trinity of political correctness, multiculturalism and diversity, is fast becoming submerged under a tide of hostile Muslim immigration.
To cry peace, peace, when there is no peace, as the Jewish prophet, Jeremiah, taught us long ago, is not an expression of hope but a foolish and dangerous abrogation of reality. It dulls the mind and the aspiration of a people who then become lost and blinded under a veritable veil of self-deception. Peace is impossible for a nation like Israel without its own demonstration of unassailable military strength and its utter rejection of concessions to an implacable enemy. The Muslim Arab world respects strength. It treats concessions with complete and utter scorn. It considers overtures of peace as a sign of weakness and thus becomes emboldened in its aggression.
When that enemy is an Arab and Muslim entity unwilling to make any concession whatsoever, and when the world expects Israel always to give and the Muslim Arabs, particularly the so-called Palestinians, always to take, then to continue along that same path to nowhere becomes an Israeli self-delusion, leading to worse: Self-destruction.
“Then said Satan: This besieged one, how shall I overcome him?
He has courage and ability, he has weapons and imagination.
So he said: I shall not take his strength, nor muzzle nor bridle him.
Nor soften nor weaken his hands, only one thing I shall do;
I shall dull his brain and he will forget that he is in the right.”
So wrote the Israeli poet, Natan Alterman, in his poem, Gone like a Dream. He was expressing his deep anxiety over the weakening resolve and steadfastness of the Jews of Israel and of the Diaspora in their support for the reconstituted Jewish state and their illusory belief in the sincerity of their intractable foe, the fraudulent Arabs who call themselves Palestinians.
It is high time for Israel to be making demands upon the Arabs, starting with territorial concessions from the vast Arab and Muslim world. Based upon prior precedents in Muslim history going back to the time of Mohammed and his dealings with the Jewish and Christian tribes in Arabia, the Muslim Arabs will never make peace or accept a Jewish sovereign state in territory they have previously conquered in the name of Allah. Thus, Israel should now begin reclaiming Jewish Biblical and ancestral territory it has foolishly given away since the Oslo “peace” Accords including Gaza and parts of Samaria.
There is no hope for the Jewish state surviving in the nastiest neighborhood in the world if it presents itself as inwardly irresolute and unwilling to engage in war. The Muslim Arab adversary should always be fully aware that Israel is resolute, steadfast and more ready to wage war than agree to a fraudulent peace. If the Arab and Muslim world rejects Israel, it must live with the consequences of its enmity and become the ultimate loser. A Jewish state, which no longer seeks to make peace at any price will prosper and grow. It will also engender respect from both its friends and its enemies.
As W.B Yeats once wrote, “…peace under a semblance of peace… is but a manifold illusion.”
Born and educated in England, Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer, published author of seven books, including a collection of short stories titled The Blue Hour, and the acclaimed four volume Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state. He has been a broadcaster and is also an accomplished musician.
Image: Antoine-Jean Gros
Pope Francis: ‘Tear Down the Walls’ against Islam!
Only your walls, not his.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Pope Francis wants any and all walls, real or figurative, that stand between the West and Islam broken down immediately—or so he’s constantly saying.
Most recently, on Sunday, June 13, 2021, he called for the “growth of a more supportive humanity that tears down the wall of indifference.” This was spoken in the context of urging Europeans to take in more illegally arrived Muslim migrants.
Earlier, in March 2019, when asked “a question about migration in general and about U.S. President Donald Trump’s then threat to shut down the southern border with Mexico,” the pope pontificated in platitudes: “Builders of walls,” he said, “be they made of razor wire or bricks, will end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build…. With fear, we will not move forward, with walls, we will remain closed within these walls.”
Less than a week before that, Francis lectured the mayor of Rome about the need to be more welcoming to Muslim migrants. “Rome,” he declared, “a hospitable city, is called to face this epochal challenge [floods of Muslim migrants demanding entry] in the wake of its noble history; to use its energies to welcome and integrate, to transform tensions and problems into opportunities for meeting and growth.”
“Rome,” he exulted, “city of bridges, never walls!”
The grand irony of all this is that Pope Francis lives in the only state to be surrounded by walls—Vatican City—and most of these bastions were erected to ward off ongoing Islamic invasions.
In 846, for example, a Muslim fleet from North Africa consisting of 73 ships and 11,000 Muslims, landed in Ostia near Rome. Muslim merchants who frequently visited Italy had provided them with precise intelligence that made the raid a success. Although they were unable to breach the preexisting walls of the Eternal City, they sacked and despoiled the surrounding countryside, including—to the consternation of Christendom—the venerated and centuries-old basilicas of St. Peter and St. Paul. The Muslim invaders desecrated the tombs of the revered apostles and stripped them of all their treasures.
Pope Leo IV (847-855) responded by building many more walls, including fifteen bastions along the right bank of the Tiber River, the mouth of which was forthwith closed with a chain to protect the sacred sites from further Muslim raids and desecrations. Completed by 852, the walls were in places 40 feet high and 12 feet thick.
Further anticipating the crusades against Islam by over two centuries—and thus showing how they were a long time coming—Pope Leo (and after him Pope John VIII) offered the remission of sins for those Christians who died fighting Islamic invaders. Such was the existential and ongoing danger Muslims, referred to in contemporary sources as “Sons of Satan,” caused for Europe—more than two centuries before the First Crusade was launched in 1095.
Indeed, just three years after the initial Muslim invasion of Rome, “in 849 the Muslims attempted a new landing at Ostia; then, every year from around 857 on, they threatened the Roman seaboard,” explains French medieval historian C. E. Dufourcq:
In order to get rid of them, Pope John VIII decided in 878 to promise them an annual payment [or jizya] of several thousand gold pieces; but this tribute of the Holy See to Islam seems to have been paid for only two years; and from time to time until the beginning of the tenth century, the Muslims reappeared at the mouth of the Tiber or along the coast nearby.
Today, many Muslims, not just of the ISIS-variety, continue to boast that Islam will conquer Rome, the only of five ancient apostolic sees never to have been subjugated by jihad (unlike Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Constantinople).
Similarly, many Muslims all throughout Europe continue exhibiting the same hostility and contempt for all things and persons non-Islamic, whether by vandalizing churches and breaking crosses, or by raping “infidel” women as theirs by right.
And that is the point that Pope Francis—whose own ancient city would never have lasted to the present if not for walls—misses: walls should only go down and bridges should only be extended when both parties are willing to live in amicable peace. Otherwise they serve only to make the destructive work of those who have for centuries been trying to conquer and destroy in the name of Islam that much easier.
For more on how walls saved Western civilization, see Raymond Ibrahim’s Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.
Muslim wives expose dirty secrets of CAIR leaders
Housewife Imane Sadrati’s claims of spousal abuse at the hands of a prominent Muslim set in motion a “Me Too”-style campaign rarely seen in the insulated Islamic community.
Sadrati is not an ordinary Muslim housewife. She is married to Hassan Shibly, who had championed himself as a “human rights” advocate in his former top executive position at CAIR-Florida (Council on American-Islamic Relations). Their estranged relationship had enjoyed a measure of privacy in the insular Islamic organization.
That was before Sadrati decided to revolt against the Muslim taboo of not discussing personal scandals, and turned her divorce into a high-profile media event. Her accusations of 12 years of abuse were shocking enough, but Sadrati’s decision to publicly denounce her husband, a nationally recognized Muslim leader, qualified as a public relations nightmare for CAIR’s management team.
Many of their fears were well founded. Sadrati alleged in a two-hour NPR broadcast that she lived in a misogynistic marriage and her husband’s “physical and emotional abuse” started early in their relationship. Listeners were privy to the worst of the allegations: Sadrati claiming her husband used her as a punching bag, and even initiated “violent blows,” while she was pregnant.
Shibly was given an opportunity to respond on NPR portraying himself as more of a victim than his wife. He wrote off his estranged spouse’s allegations as “blatantly false” and reverted back to his prominence as an Islamic leader claiming nothing good would come of “talebearing, gossip, slander and harming others.”
Within 15 days of Sadrati’s broadcast going live, Shibly was forced to resign from his position. His resignation appeared to embolden other Muslim women to come forward -- all of whom had their own ugly allegations to impart about having worked with Shibly at CAIR.
NPR interviewed six female employees, in total, and together they portrayed Shibly as a “bully" and “serial predator” who used his power to “seduce” and “sexually harass women.” He was viewed as a “blatant pervert,” for many years by several CAIR female employees.
Laila Abedelaziz, who held an executive position in CAIR, claimed the failure of CAIR male executives to adequately address Shibly’s predatory behavior can be traced to the group’s fear of generating more discriminatory behavior toward Muslims and attracting more anti-Islamic sentiment in the country.
Shibly’s predecessor -- Nezar Hamze -- whom Shibly has referred to as “my brother for life,” didn’t fare much better at CAIR. His photo and bio were removed from the website after his association with “terror-related” groups was called into question.
Journalist Joe Kaufman pressed the former CAIR employee about his side jobs in groups with “tremendous terror-related histories” (including ”Islamic Relief (IR) and the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF). From his view, Hamze says the groups are “law abiding and social service organizations,” claiming Kaufman got his information from anti-Muslim websites.
That said, Israel won’t allow IR into its country, labeling the group a front for Hamas. And SFMF earns the same dubious reputation as an umbrella organization for radical Muslim organizations.
Nezar Hamze is now gainfully employed full-time and wears a law enforcement uniform, serving as a county sheriff in Boward, Florida. He appears to have weathered the controversy and remains unapologetic about his association with alleged terror-related groups.
“The mainstream media likes to paint CAIR as a group interested in protecting the civil rights of the Muslim community,” Joe Kaufman wrote in Front Page magazine. “The reality is that CAIR is a support network for terror with both foundational and financial links to Hamas.” CAIR was named as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a Hamas terror funding case, according to two Federal cases brought by the Justice Department.
NPR, and other liberal outlets, routinely ignore the more salacious details of CAIR’s association with terror groups: But the high-profile Shibly divorce fits their leftist narrative of giving voice to an abused Muslim wife.
The broadcast helped launch Sadrati’s own informal “Me Too” campaign. Undoubtedly, she influenced other Muslim women to come forward. Now she’s demonstrating how religious women can empower themselves -- despite previous taboos. She claims her husband cut her off financially, but she countered the move by establishing a GoFundMe page.
Perhaps CAIR can show the same mental resourcefulness by demonstrating how a self-styled “human rights” organization can clean up their “human-rights” violations among their own rank-and-file.
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Palestinian Terror Youth Summer Camps Begin: Military Training, Indoctrination, Planning ‘Demise of all Jews, Israel’
Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as well as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have opened registration recently for their annual summer camps for Gaza youth, where children as young as nine are trained in marksmanship, kidnapping, and tunnel warfare, as they’re encouraged to become next-generation terrorists.
This summer’s camps, which begin on Tuesday and are designed for young primary school students as well as college- and even post-college age Gaza residents, are dubbed “Sword of Jerusalem,” after Hamas’ recent conflict with the Jewish state, which began after the U.S.-designated terror group launched over 4,000 rockets at civilian population centers throughout the Jewish state last month.
Many camps carry anti-Israel themes and are named after terrorists who murdered Israelis in the past.
According to Hamas’ Telegram channel, the camps aim to “fan the flames of jihad [Islamic holy war] among the generation of liberation, instill Islamic values, and prepare the long-awaited army for the liberation of Palestine.”
In a promotional video for the camp, teens are seen using simulators to attack Israeli forces and civilians with various weapons, including rifles, missile launchers, and drones:
In another clip, children are seen enduring more intense military training:
In addition to sports and games, the camps seek to instill extremist Islamic ideology of jihad, martyrdom, and glorification of terror, while teaching a wide range of military and combat skills, including knife and firearm training.
In an attempt to market its terror training camps for Gaza youth to a Western audience, a spokesman for the terror group explained the camp’s goals in English, including the teaching of Islamic principles and “faith in Allah,” as well as preparing the youth for “liberation” of their land from Israel, while providing them with “basic military training and light weapons skills.”
He also praised the Palestinian youth, who he described as having “always been the fuel of uprisings and protests, such as the first intifada, the great victory march, and the latest demonstration at the Al-Aqsa mosque.”
The terrorist-designated Islamic Jihad is also running camps for teens this summer, offering field trips and activities such as painting and Quran memorization, in addition to intensive activities at military sites.
According to Tawfiq Qanita, who heads the group’s indoctrination department, young teens are specifically chosen for their future roles.
“We specifically chose this age group of 14- to 17-year-old children, because this is the age group that we count on to be the commanders of tomorrow,” he said.
“This age group needs indoctrination in the fields of security, culture, and ideology. They also need physical and military fitness,” he added.
In one clip, young Palestinians attending the camp are seen simulating the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier:
Qanita also explained the message such camps send to the Jewish state and Jews everywhere.
This is why we say to the Zionist enemy: You are facing a generation that will not accept the ’67 or ’68 (borders), and not even the ’48 (borders). They will accept nothing less than Palestine in its entirety. They will accept nothing less than the demise of all the Jews, the demise of Israel. This is what they strive for. This is what they want. This is this generation’s goal.
Since taking control of Gaza, Hamas — as well as the Islamic Jihad — has engaged in intense indoctrination aimed at imbuing Palestinians with its extremist ideology, with the summer camps being one of the most effective ways of doing so.
Every year, tens of thousands of Palestinian children and teens attend such camps.
Over the last few days, videos of Hamas gunmen appealing to Palestinians to send their children to their summer camps appeared on multiple social media platforms, as photos of dozens of Palestinian children registering for the camps appeared throughout Palestinian media outlets.
Despite the recruitment and indoctrination of young children by the Gaza terror groups being no secret, journalists and human rights groups have largely ignored the flagrant war crime.
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