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Searching for Condemnations in the Muslim World

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Fake quotes from grand muftis condemning Hamas show just the opposite.

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 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.

Comments

  2. They might work for a temporary alliance to fight a common enemy. However, in the end they have a desire to eradicate all the unbelievers once you have served your purpose. Islam takes from other cultures, and when they can they destroy them.
    This has been all throughout history, and is no different today.

  3. You are wasting your time because Islam is a terroristic and deceitful system of discrimination and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Quran.

    Islam and its Muslims fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, supremacy, segregation, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Quran, and Muslim actions should be legally challenged with a multi-faceted force of Western Laws like Muslims wield against Americans and Westerners. Like a Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designated by the USA Secretary of State, Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION(MTO) fighting against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL religion under Western Law because Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah. Under Islamic Law, Muslims are required to terrorize Non-Muslims becausee it is a Crime against Allah to neglect this Muslim DUTY; Jihad means warfare against Non-Muslims to ESTABLISH ISLAM’S RELIGION(Quran 3:151; 9:29; Muslim Law Manual – “Reliance of the Traveller”, o9.0 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Murderous, Criminal Enterprise of intolerance, continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran(Quran 2:216; 4:65,89,95; 5:14; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,21,29,36, 41,49,88,111,123; 21:92; 49:15 and more).

    Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous Muslim war, a religious duty, against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam due to UNBELIEF and BLASPHEMY against Allah when Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS(MTO) for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 3:151; 9:5,29,111 and more).

  4. Even more enlightening than these official statements are the comment section from arabic news sources…Rank and file islam is more disgusting – use google translate

    • No surprise here. Islam makes of Muslims mentally-deranged human filth with no instinct toward decency and morality.

      And just note the attitude of Saudi Arabia and UAE, just the same old mentally deranged Muslim lies and rubbish – and the pathetic belief that they are the victims and never wrong.

      Remember the recent talk between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu about bring Saudi Arabia into the Abrahamic Accord? Nothing about Mohammed bin Salman’s attitude encourages me to think he has enthusiasm for close relations with Israel. Muslim to the core, forget that one. Well then, let him find himself left out of any U.S. favours. The Abrahamic Accord is based upon the well-intended delusion that Muslims can and will have a spiritual renewal of sorts. That would necessitate a rejection of Islam and it won’t happen.

    • So true Kagman. This is also why MEMRI, with its translations of Kutbahs and speeches to Muslim audiences, is so important.

  5. Every time a church (other victims) was attacked violently in Indonesia, the Indonesian Cleric Council would issue a statement regretting the incident, but then blamed the event on either the local authority or on the victims, never stated that the action was unIslamic and condemned the actors.
    So, the international muslims should learn from Indonesia on how to pretend to be sympathize for the Hamas victims but put 100% of the blame on Israel. A pure hypocrisy show..

  6. Honestly, when I see condemnations from muslims, I know they are fake. If they were genuine, they’d register their protest by openly denouncing and renouncing islam!

    So please don’t call for them to lie: it comes naturally to them

  7. I read the Qur’an several years agoout of curiousity. When I finished I thought “This is just a Warlord movement for conquest and complete control of even its own members to do the dirty work by pretending the Authority and orders came from the Supreme Allah.” Its cleverly written to cover all questions and critiscims & so dangerous that the entire world is at stake. The only thing religious about it is the power of belief. Years later when Isaw what it made people do I had to admit there really is a Devil/demons which I had always denied as childish superstition. It cannot be allowed in my country USA

  8. Try searching for condemnation in the UK. Many areas celebrate these type of events openly.
    Although it is now the muslim world I suppose.

  9. My late father always told us “Never trust a muslim and never turn your back toward a muslim because they will kill you”. He was so right because we’ve been seeing it happen over and over again.

    I DO NOT TRUST MUSLIMS AT ALL AND I DISLIKE THEM. Islam is a great route for psychopathic people to explore their dark, evil, perverted and murderous side.

  10. Islam is everything a religion should not be. Islam is cruel, violent, hateful and encourages the killing and rape of non-islamic followers.

    Now what would happen if the Southern Baptist or Methodist churches preached the same ideology of jihad against all other people? The government would shut them down, the media would comet and condemn their teachings and demand their leadership be arrested for inciteing violence.

    So just why do we give ISLAM just a pat on the head and excuse their violence against the rest of us?

    Is it because we are afraid of being called RACIST?

    If so we and the media and government are totally wrong. Violence, rape and murder should never be tolerated PERIOD.

  11. Islam as a “religion” is a ruse for committing the rottenest, anti-social behaviors in the history of the world. No redeeming side to Islam. Work tirelessly to destroy it, like a cockroach or a poisonous snake.

  12. Searching for Condemnations in the Muslim World
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    Yeah, keep searchin’. Funny how apologists have to keep making uop fake “moderates”…

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