I’ve given quite a lot of thought to the headline. Can I stand by it? The worst people in the world? Let me make my case.
There are a handful of Hamas billionaires living in Qatar who run the organization. Each of them came from humble beginnings. How did they come to such wealth if liberating Palestine is their full time job?
One possibility is their access to billions of dollars of international aid meant for the 2.2 million people living under their stewardship in Gaza. Maybe they don’t steal it outright. They do it indirectly by charging taxes on basic goods and economic activity to a population with an unemployment rate approaching 50%. Roughly three out of every four people in Gaza do not have access to enough food.
And what do those poor people get in return? Since broad scale economic prosperity above ground is too much to ask in exchange for most of the public’s meager resources, Hamas builds an admittedly impressive underground ecosystem for themselves. Like a perverse Disney slogan, this is where liberation comes true.
Hamas says it built 500 kilometers of tunnels to hide its fighters and weaponry — whenever they aren’t firing missiles at Israeli towns from civilian areas such as schools and mosques. Gaza has an area of 365 square kilometers. What are the odds that those tunnels — by definition legitimate military targets — aren’t under every innocent person’s home in Gaza?
Hamas robs poor people, provokes a war with a well-equipped and well-trained army, and then puts those same abused people at a severe risk of death in the war they started. They don’t even have the decency of accepting responsibility for the safety of innocent civilians, despite being voted into power.
But this is holy war! This is what Islam teaches us! Funny. These passages appear very early in the Quran:
[2:190] You may fight in the cause of GOD against those who attack you, but do not aggress. GOD does not love the aggressors.
[2:191] You may kill those who wage war against you, and you may evict them whence they evicted you. Oppression is worse than murder. Do not fight them at the mosque, unless they attack you therein. If they attack you, you may kill them. This is the just retribution for those disbelievers.
[2:192] If they refrain, then GOD is Forgiver, Most Merciful.
[2:193] You may also fight them to eliminate oppression, and to worship GOD freely. If they refrain, you shall not aggress; aggression is permitted only against the aggressors.
Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Hamas took over in 2007. They violently uphold their authority over a cowered public — reeks of insecurity and oppression, doesn’t it? — and fire rockets from places like mosques at Israel, a nuclear-armed state the chooses not to annihilate Gaza.
Now, there’s a Quranic case to make to evict Israelis where they expelled Arabs in 1948. This kind of argumentation is however susceptible to infinite regress — should Muslims prosecute every eviction in history?
Other than that, it looks like Israel practices Islam better than the Islamists do.
As if terrorizing their own people weren’t enough, they control whatever information flows in and out of Gaza. They broadcast the horrific toll of Israeli bombardment — dead children, destroyed neighborhoods, innocent kids covered in soot shaking and bloodied and certainly traumatized for the rest of their lives — to the rest of the world to seek their sympathy and anger over the natural result of the hell Hamas created in Gaza.
I know this behavior as the parent of three small boys. One kid screams and cries because the other hit him, but he leaves out the part where he was hitting his brother first. I know violence is bad and all, but at some point, his brother has the right to whack him upside the head. No one should encourage antisocial behavior.
This point gets lost on many of the intelligentsia of the West. They simply cannot believe Hamas are as bad as I describe. They’ve never had to deal with people with such a low regard for human life and contempt for the highest human ideals held in the West. No one wants to be someone else’s useful idiot. That doesn’t mean Hamas views their supporters in the West as idiots all the same.
Hamas are the worst people in the world. They are insecure thieves, cynics, liars and murderers. No society could ever flourish with people like that in charge.
It’d be nice to see that on a poster at a pro-Palestine rally for once.
I would even go a step further in describing Hamas . Medieval satanic scum where no God awaits them in the next .
Islam is a retarded ideology which clearly supports hate and murder . No religion is exempt from their arrogance and delusional superiority of mind .