What Shin Bet is embarking on is essential. One must be well informed about an enemy if there is to be any hope of defeating it. Jihad Watch has been dedicated to spreading knowledge of the Islamic ideology for decades. This particular enemy is committed to its cause so completely that “martrydom” is its highest calling.
While the Western mind tends to be more secular, committed Muslims generally are not. The Sharia is vitally important to every aspect of a Muslim’s ethos. So while it may come as a surprise to Westerners how infiltrated with Hamas operatives that UNRWA was, it is not at all surprising to those who understand Islam and its all-encompassing structure. As such, from simple Friday prayer to jihad and anything in between, it is covered under the Sharia. Not every Muslim wages jihad by the sword, which confuses people, when it should not. No one was confused when separating ordinary Germans from Hitler’s Nazi machine and the Third Reich, although, of course, sometimes individual cases were not so clear.
“Let those who sell the life of this world for the next fight in the way of Allah. Whoever fights in the way of Allah, whether he is killed or victorious, on him we will bestow a great reward.” (Quran 4:74)
“Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed. It is a promise that is binding on him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfills his covenant better than Allah? Rejoice then in your bargain that you have made, for that is the supreme triumph.” (Quran 9:111)
The words of Muhammad: “I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred.” This is why modern-day Jihadists often say that they love death. (Sahih Bukhari 52:54)
“Allah guarantees that He will admit the Mujahid in His Cause into Paradise if he is killed, otherwise He will return him to his home safely with rewards and war booty.” (Sahih Bukhari 52:46)
During the battle of Uhud, Muhammad was desperate to push men into battle. He promised paradise for those who would martyr themselves, prompting a young man who was eating dates to throw them away and rush to his death. (Sahih Muslim 20:4678)
A man asks Muhammad “which of men is the best?” Muhammad replies that it is the man who is always ready for battle and flies into it “seeking death at places where it can be expected.” (Sahih Muslim 20:4655)
Islam is also highly effective in stealth realms, it manipulates propaganda and twists Western kindness and its vulnerabilities as well as weaknesses.
Let’s hope the efforts of Shin Bet succeeds and spreads — not only throughout Israel, where leftists are also a destructive force in the country — but also throughout the West.
“Shin Bet to establish Islamic studies program to address Oct. 7 intelligence failures,” by Amir Bohbot, Jerusalem Post, October 11, 2026:
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) is preparing to establish a new Islamic studies program as part of an initiative led by agency chief David Zini to address intelligence failures exposed by investigations into the October 7 massacre, particularly the failure to understand Hamas’s ideology and religious extremism.
The new program will operate alongside the Shin Bet’s long-established Arabic language institute, which provides language training for personnel across various positions within the organization. The institute is considered to maintain exceptionally high professional standards and periodically also trains IDF personnel.
Zini’s initiative will bring together lecturers, subject-matter experts, and senior current and former officials to provide comprehensive instruction on Islam.
He has also decided that the program will incorporate research into Islam, with curricula tailored to the Shin Bet’s operational challenges across different arenas. The goal is to strengthen and deepen understanding of the religion and its various interpretations among personnel working in different professional fields.
Lack of understanding of Islam deemed failure of Oct. 7
One of the central conclusions drawn by Israel’s intelligence community from the failures of October 7 was a fundamental lack of understanding of Islam, its various branches and interpretations, Palestinian culture, particularly in the Gaza Strip, and broader developments across the Middle East….
Beans🫘 says
Not seeing his anywhere on the news somehow. Two more pilots arrested in UAE with plan to hijack two planes and crash inside Israel. Pilots from Maldives.
Not as important as a Palestinian sheep being stolen…
Billy says
Islam and its Muslim Organizations are a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise against all Non-Muslims, and every citizen must understand this fact. Islamization, like Cultural Marxism, deceives, manipulates, propagandizes, and virtue-signals against the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, by: Islamic Law dba Islam, discrimination, deception, theft, segregation, violence, and terrorism through our Western Institutions with Muslim MONEY and Muslim LIVES as taught in Islam’s Qur’an to make Islamic Law supreme(Qur’an 2:191; 3:54; 4:89, 91; 7:99; 8:30; 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). Actually, Islam champions the daily practice of Islamic Law, Sharia, which is created from the Qur’an, the Sira, the Hadith, the Tafsir, the Tarikh, past Islamic Legal Rulings, etc., a collective-perpetual-conflict system, to solidify power and control. Furthermore, Muslim Islamization includes Muslim Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Organizations using Governments, Bureaucracies, Mosques, Muslim Homes, Muslim Schools, Halal Organizations, Islamic Centers, Sharia Courts, Muslim Non-Profits, etc. to fund, to educate, and to support Islamic Law and Muslim Propaganda against all Non-Muslims(Qur’an 1:5; 3:51, 101, 118; 5:3, 44-48; 8:60, 45:18; 48:29, etc.).
Emilie Green says
Knowledge of Islam is essential. Shin Bet’s efforts follow those of Jihad Watch, Stephen Coughlin and the extremely helpful; Dr Bill Warner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Coughlin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Warner_(writer)
Coughlin and Spencer were purged by Obama in 2011. Both taught the true nature of Islam and for that reason were ousted.
mgoldberg says
Let’s hope that R Spencer, Coughlin, Bill Warner are consulted and asked for materials, lectures, et al. I wonder if there’s any way to encourage this on any of our parts?
jimjames says
Excellent idea! Hopefully Robert Spencer will be a part of the professors invited to at least guess lecture.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If they can’t land Robert, they can land Ofer Binstock, someone who copiously cites qur’an on @X, and who can draw them the links b/w jihadist activities and islamic texts
Kenneth Price, Ph.D. says
The Israeli establishment, especially on the Left, held appropriate, Western, Liberal views that all peoples are the same (outside of language, dress, culinary interests, etc.) and what all want is good (whatever that means per individual culture) jobs, universal healthcare, public transportation or self-driving cars, respect for all cultures, religions, nationalities and individual differences and a disdain of religion. So Israel, pushed by ignoramuses in the U.S. govt. believed that shtupping Gaza with money, literally cash, would pacify the population and keep terrorist groups such as Hamas and PIJ, in lovely homes and offices, at bay. Alas, all of Israel’s guardians, too clever by half, believed that Hamas, PIJ and the average Gazan were satisfied with their creature comforts and access to Israeli hospitals and jobs in Israeli kibbutzim. Israel’s leaders believed that Gaza’s terror chiefs understood what the IDF would do to Gaza, to essentially destroy it as a habitable place, So, why would Hamas and PIJ risk the destruction of Gaza and the deaths of thousands or tens of thousands? Readers of Jihadwatch and students of history understand how culture, religion, greed and envy have a long history of warmongering against naive neighbors who value the “good life” and think that everyone else has the same values. In many ways, Hamas is worse than the NSDAP. In its founding document, the 25-point plan authored in part by AH, called for expelling all the Juden from Germany. In Hamas’ founding document, it states nearly explicitly that its goal was the murder of all Yahudi. (It deleted that stated goal on advice from their American supporters that “es pasht nisht” while the Left was endeavoring to portray Hamas as merely a Gazan political party) Elie Wiesel’s warning ought to be remembered: “When someone says he’s planning to kill you, believe him.” And some two Millenia ago, the Talmud advised: “When someone is coming to kill you, pre-empt and kill him.”
James Lincoln says
Hopefully, the Shin Bet can work closely with the US State Department.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Or even better, the FBI
James Lincoln says
Yes, Infidel.
Magooey says
Where are the American Universities on this issue? Are they all so under the thrall of Qatar that they cannot give people a Western view of the Middle East? Has there been such a massive import of academics over recent decades that there is no independent Western scholarship focusing on the Middle East anymore?
Glen Cook says
How would I get access to course material or is that out of the question?