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After Hamas paraded the coffins of 9-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel to the cheers and jeers of its supporters, before turning over the coffins, locked with keys that did not fit to Israel, people looked for something to restore their faith in the goodness of mankind in the Muslim world.
Millions thought they found it in fake quotes from the grand muftis of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
“What we say today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah,” Saudi Grand Mufti Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Sheikh (pictured above) reportedly claimed in one viral social media post.
“Hamas has brought shame to Islam on a level never seen before,” Grand Mufti of Dubai Ahmed al-Haddad allegedly proclaimed.
Photos of the two Islamic religious leaders illustrated with these quotes racked up millions of views on social media. Some even found their way into news stories sourced from social media.
The problem was that the quotes were fake and never existed outside social media. The Saudi quote was soon disavowed while an Emirati journalist stated that the local media had “never heard of them” and that they were “mere rumors”.
Why did so many people spread and probably invent these fake social media posts? Because they wanted to believe that Muslim religious leaders would condemn Hamas mocking the bodies of the Jewish children it murdered and there was still some hope for decency left in the world.
But those condemnations don’t exist.
The only official statements out of Saudi Arabia and the UAE were vocal condemnations of Israel and proposals for an ‘alternative plan’ that would leave the PLO and Hamas in power under a fake ‘front government’ of technocrats.
Ahmed Al Yamahi, the UAE appointed ‘president’ of the Arab Parliament, accused Israel of a “genocidal war in Gaza” “unequivocally placed the blame for this escalation on the Israeli occupation authorities”, urged the UN to “hold the Israeli government and its settlers accountable for their crimes and violations against the Palestinian people” and and called for Arab unity to support the ‘Palestinian’ cause.
And unlike the fake grand mufti quotes, these were published directly on government sites.
The Saudi and UAE governments issued statements condemning terrorist attacks in their own countries and even some abroad, and many condemnations of Israel, none of Hamas for its treatment of the Bibas children.
Coverage in state owned media outlets sometimes read like outright Hamas propaganda.
A story in Al-Bayan, a Dubai state owned media outlet, described Hamas as having “handed over the bodies of four Israeli prisoners” while falsely claiming that they were “killed in deliberate Israeli airstrikes designed to kill them”.
Al-Bayan used the term ‘Asra’ to refer to the murdered children which in Arabic tends to refer to ‘prisoners of war’ as in Koran 8:67: “It is not for a Prophet that he should have prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great slaughter (among his enemies) in the land.”
While not every media story from the Saudis and Emiratis was this bad, the more sympathetic accounts tended to appear in English while the Arabic language coverage was muted or hostile.
I found no official condemnations from either Saudi Arabia or the UAE: all I could find was an interfaith panel discussion with Jewish and Muslim participants at the Dialogue of Civilizations in Abu Dhabi. The Muslim participants were veterans of dialogue with Jews and Israelis, and had expressed opposition to Hamas and Islamic terrorism against Israel.
At the panel, one Emirati participant called for a moment of silence for the Bibas children.
But such views were coming from a small group of young activists with a large presence on social media rather than from actual government officials and religious leaders. The Abraham Accords has made it possible for such views to be aired, even with government sponsorship, at interfaith events, but they are not by any means the actual position of their governments.
The single condemnation at an interfaith panel, like the fake quotes of the grand muftis, shows that there is no larger rejection of the Hamas coffin spectacle in the Muslim world. The distaste for Hamas in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as in other parts of the Arab world, have nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with hostility toward the Muslim Brotherhood.
The UAE offered an initial condemnation of the Oct 7 attacks followed by a long string of condemnations of Israel throughout the war including support for war crimes charges.
And the UAE was the least bad of them all.
The unfortunate truth is that there is very little opposition to Muslim terrorism unless it’s directed at fellow Muslims. ISIS has the highest margin of Muslim opposition not because it burned people alive and raped little girls, but because it declared a caliphate and treated all Muslims who refused to acknowledge its supremacy as heretics and infidels. Al Qaeda enjoyed wide support in the Muslim world when it was flying planes into skyscrapers, but once it bombed a hotel wedding in Jordan and began a civil war in Iraq, its popularity diminished among Muslims.
The UAE turned on the Muslim Brotherhood after it plotted to seize power. The Saudis joined the crackdown on the Brotherhood a year later. But a few years before all this, there had been an uproar over the Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai.
The Saudis and the UAE distrust Hamas because of its sponsorship by their enemies, Qatar and Iran, and its origins as a Muslim Brotherhood organization, but their objections have nothing to do with its killing of Israelis of whatever age or opposition to terrorism as a general principle.
After the atrocities of Oct 7, Saudi approval ratings for Hamas rose from 10% to 40%. 95% of Saudis polled did not believe that Hamas had killed civilians. The vast majority of Saudis opposed improving relations with Israel and believed that it would eventually be destroyed.
Expecting the Grand Mufti to condemn Hamas is a fantasy. As is Saudi normalization.
The Abraham Accords is at best a regional alliance against common enemies in Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, and not based on a deeper friendship or a recognition of mutual humanity. Those desperate to believe otherwise have been forced to invent fake condemnations to substitute for the real ones that should have been issued, but weren’t and never will be.
Americans and Israelis have spent too long living in a fantasy world when it comes to peace in the Middle East. Fake quotes are no substitute for dealing with the reality of Islamic terrorism.
Condemnations from the Muslim world regarding Hamas’ death and cruelty fetish will be hard to find. One of the notable condemnations was by the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia with his fatwa on Hamas. But this, aparently, has proved fake.
The West has to understand, and come to terms with, the Muslim world view based on Islam. It is radically different to the West’s Judeo-Christian ethos. Those in the multicultural West must understand that the ultimate role of Muslims is to strive for a global caliphate where Muslims are a dominant monoculture.
Those of us in the West should take stock of the violent rise of Islam in our countries. This is a foretaste of what daily life would be like for non-Muslims in a majority Muslim country where the Sharia will be the law that applies to everyone and non-Muslims will be regarded as inferior non-citizens and humiliated under dhimmitude exclusion laws.
Believe them when they TELL you who they are:
“There is no moderate islam” There is only islam.”
Turkey’s President Erdogan (who turned a secular
government into just another muslim dictatorship.
Trolls forge fake condemnations of the sub humanity of homicidal Hamas homos to make people think their Islamic atrocities aren’t really a core tenet of islam, and what does the islamic world do? It increases its sub humanity to the Nth degree.
Any Westerner who’s surprised has been brainwashed by the Minitrue Media or is just plain stupid. Not stupid enough to be a Psuedostinian, who are the proved dumbest people on Earth, but hopelessly retarded by Western standards.
Of course, American IQ levels have become increasingly sub-standard ever since our self serving, anti-citizen and evil overlords in Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1965, which opened America up to hordes of immigrants from the Turd World. Ted Kennedy, the Whale of Chappaquiddick, bloviated to Congress at the time that “our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. … Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset.” Yeah right. That rapist was quite the prognosticator – in a pig’s eye. Too bad for him he didn’t prognosticate his death by brain cancer, and too bad for us he was a bald faced liar about immigration. Dying of brain cancer was probably the only decent thing he ever did.
For every Nigerian college student we get, we have a million mentally retarded islamopithecine jihadis foisted on us, and for every Indian college student or R&D employee, we get a million Turd Worlders.
Basically, America has more than enough retards to believe islamopithecine lies. We have “woke” retards, Turd World retards and islamopithecine jihadis, who’re the most severely retarded of them all. In fact, they’re the dumbest “people” on Earth and the worst liars.
islam is incompatible with humanity and civilization.
I see we have four retards here who want to live under sharia.
Sometimes, you can’t bring people to reality. These dissenters are probably the rainbow attired, overfed fruitcakes who would show solidarity with their little brown brothers in Gaza right up to being thrown from a 3rd floor rooftop, trussed up like a turkey.
That’s one of the things that stuck with me from Sir Richard Burton’s analysis of the Arab societies he visited during the 1800s. Despite their backwardness, in some ways they were ahead of us, within their own culture at least. In techniques of argumentation, propaganda, persuasion, myth making, misleading their fellow Arabs to incite wars. Skillful use and misuse of language and story telling.
Just about all of those skills revolve around lying and provoking. Genesis 16:12:
“[Ishmael] will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
“pictured above” seems to be incorrect.
If they really believe that Israel is committing genocide, then their behavior could be understandable. The first priority is publicizing facts. For example, the figure of 600,000 Gazans killed in the current war is becoming widely accepted. OTOH, I read that the population of Gaza has increased over the past year. Which is correct, and how can that fact be more widely publicized?
The World Population in Review notes the Urban 2023 population of Gaza was 778, 187, while the 2024 population was 800, 636, a 2.88% increase. The Arabs in Gaza try to say those numbers are wrong while theirs are correct, with a 6% decline. In a country where Arabs also say 100K have “fled”. To where? No other Arab nation will take them.
The 600K number is pure propaganda. 600K dead in the entirety of Gaza would have caused such an unbearable stink and groundwater contamination, the entire remaining population would have been decimated by disease, and driven into the Mediterranean Sea for relief.
The only certainty is Muslim Arabs are raised to lie, especially to non-Muslims.
There will be no condemnations from the Muslim World because what happened on 10/7 and the barbarism on display in the return of the Bibas family’s remains is what the Muslim World preaches and has preached for nearly two millennia.
Blaming Hamas and Gazans is like blaming guns for school shootings.
“Blaming Hamas and Gazans is like blaming guns for school shootings.”
I beg to differ. Gazans are human and as such they have agency. They CHOOSE to behave in the way that they do, they CHOOSE to be inhumane barbarians of the lowest sort and they CHOOSE to exult in their depravity.
I remember right after 9-11 Muslims and their allies were spewing the “tiny minority of extremists”, “religion of peace” song and dance nonsense. I knew it was a deceitful sham then and is the same today.
“War is deceit.” – Mohammed
If you were to ask the terrorists and terror supporters at the muslim terror org CAIR, they’ll tell you that their colleagues and co-religionists are representing (p)islam in exactly the manner of their pig-faced dog pedophile “prophet”, mohammed.
If you remember, mohammed was the perverted warlord that shat the contents of the koran into the arabian sands as diarrhea, following carnal relations, then later a meal of his favorite pig, or “dad” as he called it.
Of all the RINOs, George W. Bush was the most despicable (even worse than Liz Cheney) by popularizing the phrase “Religion of Peace”. After 09/11, yet. And denying the reality that the vast majority of Muslims (and virtually all “Palestinians”) supported the abduction and murder of Sheri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas is a lie that will ensure continual repetition of October 7th and 09/11. There is a “clash of civilizations” Or more accurately, a clash between civilization and inbred barbarians who embrace the teachings of a 7th century warlord and pedophile.
Just now saw Fox’s Lawrence Jones interviewing National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Lawrence quipped “Hamas doesn’t seem to be an honest broker here.” (paraphrased)
Waltz didn’t, but I was hoping he would explain to the American viewers that Hamas lives by Taqiyya, or the practice of using lies and deception to promote Jihad and conquer the infidels….. and is something Mr. Spencer might expound upon.
If your God tells you lying is a virtue, then we got this whole Western Civilization thing wrong.
Of course they lie. They’re not even particularly adroit liars. Remember the “victims of Israeli terror strikes on Gaza” who climbed on to and off of stretchers for the benefit of cameras in a continual loop? They get away with that because the legacy media, RINOs and Dhimmicrats are too candyass and deceitful to call them on even the most fatuous happy horseshit.
Indeed!
Even if the condemnations HAD been made, they were Taqiyya
“What we say today in Gaza is a disgrace to Islam, an act of blasphemy against Allah,” Saudi Grand Mufti Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Sheikh (pictured above) reportedly claimed in one viral social media post.
“Hamas has brought shame to Islam on a level never seen before,” Grand Mufti of Dubai Ahmed al-Haddad allegedly proclaimed.
Can we say Taquiyya to the max?
I can just hear Biden’s little toadie Antony “Blinkered” Blinken rushing over to the Middle East and proclaiming how much the Saudis are our best of buds. Of course they had to keep those USAID $$$s rolling in.
these are fake quotes
they never said them, people invented them to make Islam seem like something other than it is
For me Daniel it doesn’t matter who said them
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” – Blaise Pascal
Because when I need the Truth I always listen to you and Blaise Pascal, Do you really think I will give up my faith because of some stupid quote from you and this guy?
Are you that dumb?
THX, You seem to be getting more desperate with each passing day. Take up knitting.
I dislike THX as much as you, but are you really unaware of who Blaise Pascal was?
No, and I don’t care. Unfortunately, I can’t be expected to know who every crackpot writer/philosopher was.
But if THX quoted him he can’t be that great.
From the article: “Americans and Israelis have spent too long living in a fantasy world when it comes to peace in the Middle East. Fake quotes are no substitute for dealing with the reality of Islamic terrorism.”
I’m sure Daniel would agree that Islamic terrorism sprngs directly from Islam itself. It is the inherent and ineradicable malevolence of Islam that must be acknowledged, publicized, and fought against, with the understanding that this battle will be ongoing, and not time limited. Nothing less than the survival of Western civilization is at stake.
The survival of Western civiilzation.
Sorry for the redundant last sentence…I didn’t see it until my comment was posted.
I want to add that we in the West must play the long game, as Muslims do. Their goal is for the entire world to be conquered and ruled by Muslims, and Shari’a to be imposed globally. Our goal, on the other hand, must be to prevent this, using every means at our disposal – poitical, economic, and military where appropriate. Ultimately, our objective must be to relegate Islam to the metaphorical dustbin of history.
well said
Thank you, Daniel.
Until the world is willing to tell the truth of Islam, revealing quotes directly from their own “holy” books and unmasking what their psychopathic prophet said, the world will remain embedded in the delusional state that it is a religion of peace. The ever-increasing mental instability of humanity in addressing truth seems to be dictated by the immediate cognitive dissonance created when one faces just how pathological, inhumane, duplicitous, pedophilic, and obsessively cruel this “religion” has been and remains so to this day.
Like other forms of brainwashing, the use of intermittent punishments and the facilitation of a global state of fear induction via cultural censorship, male, Islamic rape gangs, and unilateral imprisonment for statements addressing the truth of Mohammad, are like dominos felling the rightful distrust that every citizen of the world should have and the fundamental questions that should be asked about a religion of peace that is so blatantly violent, cruel and places no intrinsic value on life.
Kfir and Ariel were the helpless victims of this egregious, malevolent behavior and still the world is overwhelmingly silent.
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
—Martin Niemöller
The world is unwilling to face the Islamic intention of creating a worldwide, evil caliphate. All Islamists are masterfully using Mohammad’s Quran playbook easily moving the Western world’s multiculturalists into submission as they gleefully chant “from the river to the sea” against our Jewish people.
Make no mistake they are already maligning and destroying Western cultural values as the world continues to proclaim itself a champion of the very people salivating to rape your children, lop off the heads of your LGBTQ+ people and put you ALL into the humiliating slavery of dhimmitude. What will you do when there is no one left to speak for you?
Speaking of Abraham Accords.. Outside of the Bible are there any pre-Islamic sources that specifically reference Ishmael’s lineage to Abraham? If not then what a vexation it must be to have to rely on the annals and chronicles of a hated enemy for something that is presented as intrinsic but would likely have otherwise been lost to history.
See the Cowards hide their faces their always hiding their faces
Bring back colonialism. It kept the civilized world in line. If they create problems, you kill a few hundred thousand. After 911 we should have leveled Mecca. Would have sent a real message. There are no innocent muslims. This is not a “joke”. I truly mean it.
I meant “UNcivilized” world.
MORE ON FAKESTINIAN PALLYWEID
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New study: There was no famine in Gaza… according to famine review groups’ own data.
UK Lawyers for Israel says use of inaccurate data, inconsistent methodology, potential bias led to false assertions that were utilized by ICC when charging Netanyahu with war (sic) crimes.
By Jeremy Sharon.
February 24, 2025.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-study-there-was-no-famine-in-gaza-according-to-famine-review-groups-own-data/
Imagine if Islam was successful and Israel driven into the sea. Next step, Spain. It was once under Sharia law so must be restored. Westerners have absolutely no idea of how dangerous and threatening Islam is.
“95% of Saudis polled did not believe that Hamas had killed civilians.”
Not because they did not believe that Hamas had killed Israelis.
Only because they do not consider any Israelis to be civilians.