Hamas Member Reveals That Organization’s Goal is Not Just to Free ‘Palestine’: Can the leftist/Islamic alliance survive Hamas’ universalist mission; The Project to Make Europe Islamic

Hamas Member Reveals That Organization’s Goal is Not Just to Free ‘Palestine’

Can the leftist/Islamic alliance survive Hamas’ universalist mission?

Virtually every political and media analyst in the Western world agrees that Hamas is a national liberation movement, dedicated to freeing Palestine from an alleged Israeli occupation. Most also assume that if the Palestinians are given a state, Hamas’ mission will end, and the organization will fade away. A video that surfaced Saturday, however, suggests that all of that analysis, despite being nearly universally accepted, is false.

The video is of a hijabed woman, identified as “Elham, Member of Hamas, Planner of a Suicide Bombing,” explaining matter-of-factly that “we don’t only fight against occupation. Our goal is to spread Islam to all, everywhere.” This suggests that Hamas would not be satisfied with a Palestinian state, but would continue its war against the diminished Israel that would remain after the creation of a Palestinian state until the remainder were Islamized as well. What’s more, Elham’s statement amounts to a declaration of war against every state that is not governed under Islamic law.

Hamas member says that for Islamists like her, fighting for Palestine isn’t the end goal.

The end goal is to spread Islam across the world pic.twitter.com/7fczY5pjfo

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 10, 2024

Of course, there is no indication that Elham speaks for Hamas as a whole. However, many other Hamas spokesmen have said essentially the same thing. Last December, Fathi Hammad, a member of Hamas’ Political Bureau, also spoke of Hamas as having a universal mission beyond the destruction of Israel. He explained that “the [Palestinian] people have been soldiers throughout history. They are now preparing to liberate Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and I am saying this loud and clear: [The Palestinian people] are preparing to establish the Caliphate, with Jerusalem as its capital city, Inshallah. Jerusalem will not only be the capital city of Palestine as an independent state – it will be the capital city of the Islamic Caliphate.” —>READ MORE HERE

The Project to Make Europe Islamic:

“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the faithful our soldiers.”

Thus spake Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 1997 when he was still mayor of Istanbul. For that, he earned a conviction for inciting religious hatred. Turkey was still trying to be a European-style secular country, even dreaming of joining the EU.

That sentence made famous by the man who has now been heading his country for over 20 years — as prime minister and then as president — comes from a poem written by Turkish nationalist poet Ziya Gökalp in 1912, during the First Balkan War, which led to the Ottoman Empire’s loss of most of its remaining European territories and population.

It was three years before the genocide of Armenians and the mass murder and expulsions of other Christians, mainly Assyrians and Greeks. Genocide laid the foundations for an almost Muslim-only Turkish state, and the killers were Kurds as well as Turks.

Today, the Turkish president has proven ties to the Muslim Brotherhood — a worldwide Muslim-supremacist organization — whose professed goal is to spread Islam and impose Sharia law on the whole world.

The Muslim Brotherhood was established in 1928 by an Egyptian teacher, Hassan al-Banna, and it traditionally had its headquarters in Cairo. After the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, Mohamed Morsi, won the presidential election in 2012 in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring and was ousted by a military coup in 2013, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE declared the brotherhood a terrorist organization. Its leaders found refuge in Qatar — and in Turkey.

Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs, Diyanet, is very active among Turks living abroad, particularly in Europe. In 2018, Erdoğan compared Diyanet’s members and imams to “an army of 140,000.” Turkish imams in Europe are generally considered to be allied with the brotherhood, which, from its new Turkish base, has shifted its efforts to Muslims living in Europe. The Turkish nationalist pan-European Muslim organization Millî Görüş is also said to have close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood.

In 1982, the brotherhood drew up a 14-page, 12-point strategy to “establish an Islamic government on earth.” From 2004 to 2010, Mahdi Akef was the 7th General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Its goal remained unchanged: “The Muslim Brotherhood aims to create a worldwide Islamic state. We Muslims immigrate everywhere, and there’s still a long way to go before we take over Europe.”

The brotherhood does not distinguish between Sunni and Shiah Muslims. It played a role in the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 and later in the establishment of Al-Qaeda. Hamas also has strong personal, financial, and ideological links with the brotherhood.

In Europe, many EU-subsidized Muslim organizations have ties to the brotherhood. In 2021, the European Conservative and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament published a very useful report on these connections called “Network of Networks — The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.”

The EU pays for and encourages projects aimed at promoting Islamic immigration to Europe, such as the Eurislam project, whose goal was to find ways better to integrate Muslim newcomers through mutual adaptation by immigrants and Europeans.

The European Commission has a history of promoting Islam in the name of protecting minorities (Muslim, non-white, LGBTQ, etc.). September 21 is European Action Day Countering Hate Speech Against Muslims. In 2017, Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission, wrote to all “Muslim compatriots” to assure them that “they are not only key stakeholders in European society, but also that they can find in the European Commission a loyal friend . . . .” Mr. Timmermans worried about “anti-Muslim hatred” and “illegal on-line hate speech,” proclaimed that young Muslims “represent Europe’s future,” and concluded that “our common European project needs to be rethought together.” —>READ MORE HERE

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