By Laura Mansfield
Yesterday the people of �Palestine� elected HAMAS to lead them.
Why am I concerned? If we listen to the words of our leaders, we are supposed to believe that Islam is a religion of peace. And HAMAS is the �Islamic Resistance Movement�, defining itself as a Muslim group. So we should be able to assume that HAMAS is a peaceful organization.
Right?
Wrong.
Let�s start with the HAMAS slogan:
Allah is its goal, the Prophet its model, the Qur�an its Constitution, Jihad its path and death for the case of Allah its most sublime belief.
Jihad is its path? Does that sound peaceful to you?
Let�s take a look at this in more depth.
�In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate��
Those are the opening words of �Al Fatah�, the opening surah or chapter in the Qu�ran. They are also the opening words of the Hamas Charter, making it very clear that Hamas is at its deepest roots, an Islamic organization. Of course, that comes as no surprise to those who are familiar with HAMAS. After all, the official name of HAMAS is the �Islamic Resistance Movement�.
The closing lines of the Introduction to the HAMAS charter say:
�Allah has decreed: Lo! I very shall conquer, I and my messenger, lo! Allah is strong, almighty.�
If anyone has any doubts about the peaceful nature of HAMAS, those doubts should be gone by the time you reach that point in the charter.
Bin Laden declared his Jihad against the United States in his famous fatwa in 1996. But nearly eight years ago, in 1988, the HAMAS charter declared Jihad against Israel:
�the Islamic Resistance Movement erupted in order to play its role in the path of its Lord. In so doing, it joined its hands with those of all Jihad fighters for the purpose of liberating Palestine.
HAMAS wastes no time making its stance against Israel clear in the Introduction to its Charter:
Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors.
HAMAS is quite open and proud of its link to the Muslim Brotherhood. Its charter explicitly states the following:
The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine. The Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a world organization, the largest Islamic Movement in the modern era. It is characterized by a profound understanding, by precise notions and by a complete comprehensiveness of all concepts of Islam in all domains of life: views and beliefs, politics and economics, education and society, jurisprudence and rule, indoctrination and teaching, the arts and publications, the hidden and the evident, and all the other domains of life.
Diversity doesn�t seem to be a strong point of HAMAS. Article four of their Charter defines those welcome to join the group:
The Movement welcomes all Muslims who share its beliefs and thinking, commit themselves to its course of action, keep its secrets and aspire to join its ranks in order to carry out their duty.
It appears that being Muslim is a requirement for membership.
The Charter makes it clear what kind of government it wants established in Palestine:
As the Movement adopts Islam as its way of life, its time dimension extends back as far as the birth of the Islamic Message and of the Righteous Ancestor. Its ultimate goal is Islam, the Prophet its model, the Qur�an its Constitution. Its special dimension extends wherever on earth there are Muslims, who adopt Islam as their way of life; thus, it penetrates to the deepest reaches of the land and to the highest spheres of Heavens.
It�s rather ironic that an organization that wishes to establish an Islamic state, with the Qu�ran as its Constitution, should come to power in a democratic election. Under Islamic law, democracies are not allowed. Islamic shari�a insists that laws must be handed down from Allah, and must not be made by man. The ruler of an Islamic state, or its Caliph, must be a direct biological descendent of the Prophet Mohamed in order to attain legitimacy.
Is HAMAS likely to be a viable and trustworthy partner in the �Peace Process� with Israel? Not very likely, based on the following passage in their charter, which comes from the Hadith, which document the sayings and teachings of the Prophet Mohamed:
The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!
The Jews will hide behind the rocks and trees and the rocks and trees will call out to the Muslims that the Jew is hiding there and ask the Muslim to kill the Jew? In case this doesn�t make clear the stance of HAMAS towards the peace process, the following excerpt from article 13 of their Charter makes their position crystal clear:
There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.
How does HAMAS feel about the United States? They make that clear in article 22 of the Charter:
The enemies have been scheming for a long time, and they have consolidated their schemes, in order to achieve what they have achieved. They took advantage of key elements in unfolding events, and accumulated a huge and influential material wealth which they put to the service of implementing their dream. This wealth [permitted them to] take over control of the world media such as news agencies, the press, publication houses, broadcasting and the like.
[They also used this] wealth to stir revolutions in various parts of the globe in order to fulfill their interests and pick the fruits. They stood behind the French and the Communist Revolutions and behind most of the revolutions we hear about here and there. They also used the money to establish clandestine organizations which are spreading around the world, in order to destroy societies and carry out Zionist interests.
Such organizations are: the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, B�nai B�rith and the like. All of them are destructive spying organizations.
They also used the money to take over control of the Imperialist states and made them colonize many countries in order to exploit the wealth of those countries and spread their corruption therein. As regards local and world wars, it has come to pass and no one objects, that they stood behind World War I, so as to wipe out the Islamic Caliphate
It goes on to say:
The forces of Imperialism in both the Capitalist West and the Communist East support the enemy with all their might, in material and human terms, taking turns between themselves.
That doesn�t leave much room for negotiating with the United States. The United States has officially designated HAMAS as a terrorist organization.
In fact, on March 23, 2004, following the death of HAMAS �spiritual leader� Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, HAMAS released a statement explicitly threatening attacks against the United States:
"The Zionists didn't carry out their operation without the consent of the terrorist American administration, and it must bear responsibility for this crime," the statement said.
A few days later, HAMAS backed off these statements, saying that it would focus its efforts on Israel instead.
HAMAS propaganda is being taught to youth in many mosques in this country, and many prominent Muslim leaders in the US have strong ties to HAMAS, and are openly supportive of the organization.
The people of Palestine freely elected HAMAS to lead them. That is their right.
The people of the United States need to read the HAMAS Charter, and understand what HAMAS stands for.
Over $150 million in US aid is slated to be dispensed to Palestine in 2006.
Do we want $150 million of our tax dollars being controlled by HAMAS?
Is it even legal, given the US laws regarding funding of terrorist organizations?
Read the Hamas Charter Here !
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