According to US and Canadian intelligence agencies the ****'ite jihad
terror organization Hezb'allah, sup****ted by its patron Iran, is
poised, once again, to launch a lethal attack against "Jewish targets"
far removed from the battlegrounds of the Middle East. Although no
substantive evidence has emerged identifying a specific target, both
Canada and Latin America have been suggested as possiblities, the
latter being where, in Buenos Aires, Hezb'allah struck twice during
the 1990s, killing 29 at the Israeli embassy in 1992, and murdering at
least 85 more in a 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center.
The ostensible reason given for this renewed jihad terror activity is
"revenge" for the February (2008) assassination of Hezb'allah's
murderous terror master Imad Mugniyah, killed by a car bomb in
Damascus, Syria. Hezb'allah blames Israel for this assassination, an
allegation rejected by Israeli officials. Ultimately, however,
Hezb'allah's chronic, annihilationist jihad against Israel reflects a
rigid adherence to both classical jihad theory, and the ugliest
elements of Islamic theology regarding Jews.
The distinguished ****'ite theologian al-Amili (d.1622) wrote the
following (p.213) about jihad war in the Jami-i-Abbasi, his seminal
Persian manual of ****'a Law:
"Islamic Holy war [jihad] against followers of other religions, such
as Jews, is required unless they convert to Islam or pay the poll
tax."
And the Jews stubborn malevolence -- ****trayed in the darkest colors
by Islam's sacred texts -- is their defining worldly characteristic.
Examples of this archetypal Jew hatred from the Koran, and hadith
(traditions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad), amplified by the early
Muslim biographies of Muhammad, include:
Koranic verses labeling Jews as malevolent enemies of Islam (5:82);
disobedient slayers of their own prophets who suffered justifiable
abasement (2:61), including, for some, transformation into apes and
swine (5:60);
the canonical hadith (Sahih Muslim Book 026, Number 5431), and
accounts provided by early Muslim biographers of Muhammad (such as Ibn
Saad, below), that the Jews caused Muhammad's protracted, excruciating
death from poisoning:
"The Jews discussed about poisons and became united in one poison. She
[a Khaybar Jewess, Zaynab Bint al-Harith] poisoned the goat putting
more poison in the forelegs.. Allah's Apostle took the foreleg, a
piece of which he put into his mouth...Allah's Apostle sent for Zaynab
[and]...handed her over to [those] who put her to death...Allah's
Apostle lived after this three years, till in consequence of his pain
he passed away. During his illness he used to say: I did not cease to
find the effect of the poisoned morsel I took at Khaybar..."
Hezb'allah's name, "The Party of Allah", derives from Koran 5:56:
"And whoever takes Allah and His messenger and those who believe for a
guardian, then surely the party of Allah are they that shall be
triumphant."
In a public statement issued February 15/16, 1986, Hezb'allah stressed
its indelible links to Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini ("We obey the
orders of one leader wise and just...") and conceived of itself as a
"nation" linked to Muslims worldwide by "...a strong ideological and
political bond, namely Islam." Expressed in the political language of
the Koran, Hezb'allah's ideology encomp*****, (as per the slogan
adorning the party emblem, "The Party of Allah is Sure to Triumph" )
at least three major objectives: transforming Lebanon into a Shari'a
state; destroying Israel; establi****ng regional, followed by
international Islamic hegemony, i.e., bringing the region, then the
world under Shari'a law.
=2E..we do not constitute an organized party in Lebanon. Nor are we a
tight political cadre. We are an umma linked to the Muslims of the
whole world by the solid doctrinal and religious connection of Islam,
whose message God wanted to be fulfilled by the Seal of the Prophets,
i.e., Muhammad. This is why whatever touches or strikes Muslims, in
Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines and everywhere reverberates
throughout the Muslim umma of which we are an integral part. Our
behavior is dictated to us by legal principles laid down by the light
of an overall political conception defined by the leading jurist
(wilayat al-faqih)
As for our culture, it is based on the Holy Koran, the Sunna and the
legal rulings of the faqih who is our source of imitation (marja' al-
taqlid). Our culture is crystal clear. It is not complicated and is
accessible to all.
No one can imagine the im****tance of our military potential as our
military apparatus is not separate from our overall social fabric.
Each of us is a fighting soldier. And when it becomes necessary to
carry out the Holy war (Jihad), each of us takes up his assignment in
the fight in accordance with the injunctions of the Law, and that in
the framework of the mission carried out under the tutelage of the
Commanding Jurist.
=2E..our struggle [against Israel] will end only when this entity is
obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no cease fire, and no
peace agreements, whether separate or consolidated.
Demonizing Israel and Jews -- via motifs in the Koran and hadith --
Hezb'allah views the jihad against the "Zionist entity" as an
annihilationist war intrinsic to broader conflicts: the struggle
between the Islamic world and the non-Muslim world, and the historical
struggle between Islam and Judaism.
The most senior clerical authority for Hezb'allah, Husayn Fadlalah has
stated,
"We find in the Koran that the Jews are the most aggressive towards
the Muslims...because of their aggressive resistance to the unity of
the faith."
Fadlallah repeatedly refers to anti-Jewish archetypes in the Koran,
hadith, and sira: the corrupt, treacherous and aggressive nature of
the Jews; their reputation as killers of prophets, who spread
corruption on earth; and the notion that the Jews engaged in
conspiratorial efforts against the Muslim prophet. Fadlallah argues,
ultimately, "Either we destroy Israel or Israel destroys us."
Muhammad. Hassan Nasrallah, current Secretary General of Hezb'allah,
and a prote=CC=81ge of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, presently Iran's highest
ranking political and religious authority (i.e., its "Guardian
Jurisprudent"), has reiterated these antisemitic and annihilationist
views with particular vehemence. Invoking motifs from Islam's
foundational texts, Nasrallah has characterized Jews as the "grandsons
of apes and pigs," and as "Allah's most cowardly and greedy
creatures." He elaborates these themes into an annihilationist animus
against all Jews, not merely Israelis.
Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic
religions sees what they did to the prophets, and what acts of madness
and slaughter the Jews carried out throughout history...
Anyone who reads these texts cannot think of co-existence with them,
of peace with them, or about accepting their presence, not only in
Palestine of 1948 but even in a small village in Palestine, because
they are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any
moment...There is no solution to the conflict in this region except
with the disappearance of Israel.
If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly,
despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we
would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli...
[I]f they [the Jews] all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble
of going after them worldwide.
The ****'ite jihadist organization Hezb'allah thus proclaims with
triumphant exuberance its visceral opposition to Judaism and the
existence of Israel, stressing the eternal conflict between the Jews
and Islam. Eradicating Israel, and terrorizing, perhaps even
destroying Jewish communities worldwide, represents an early stage of
Hezballah's Pan-Islamic ambitions, and its jihad against the rest of
the non-Muslim world. Blithely ignoring this reality, and allowing
places such as Toronto, Canada, or Dearborn, Michigan to become hubs
for Hezb'allah fund-raising and organizing is both morally repugnant,
and destructive to our must fundamental Western values expressed with
such eloquence in George Wa****ngton's 1790 letter to the Jewish
community of New****t, Rhode Island.
The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud
themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and
liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike
liberty of conscience and immunities of citizen****p. It is now no more
that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one
class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent
national gifts. For happily the Government of the United States, which
gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires
only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves
as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual
sup****t.
May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land,
continue to...enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while
every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and
there shall be none to make him afraid.
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