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Monday, March 7, 2011

Hamas confused about Democracy

It could be just me, but I have this feeling that Hamas really wants jihad and Islamic theology to rule the day instead of that democratic, free speech and justice thingy we keep harping on about.  With the moves toward fundamental Islam Hamas has been making the past 2 years, when they say they support the new-forming Egyptian government it is not out of a sense of loyalty to Egypt, it is a loyalty to islamic doctrine and the hegemony which comes with it.

Khaled Masha'al speaks in tones we can understand, but choose not to.  Hamas is still viewed by a good number of people as a legitimate political entity, democratically elected by the people.  Their charter calls for the death of the Jews and the destruction of Israel, all based in Qur'anic theology and the words of Muhammad through the hadiths. 

Those who support Hamas support the elimination of all Jews and turning Israel into the fake country of Palestine.  Hamas is an enemy of free peoples everywhere.  This article tells us what they are going to do, and why.


From AFP/Yahoo March 6 by Simon Martelli

Egypt revolt gave us back our lives: Hamas chief

KHARTOUM (AFP) – Exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal hailed the sweeping political changes in Egypt, which he said had given the Palestinian people their lives back, in a speech in Khartoum on Sunday.

"Today we are witnessing Cairo returning to its natural state, after it disappeared from that state for a long time," the Palestinian Islamist leader said in a speech broadcast live on Sudanese state television.

And that natural state is Jeffersonian democracy, as told to us by our leaders, right?

"The people in Egypt and Tunisia have given us back our lives," he added.
Meshaal was speaking at the opening of the eighth Al-Quds (Jerusalem) International Foundation conference, being held in the Sudanese capital this year and funded by Iran.

Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, in 1979, and president Hosni Mubarak, who came to power two years later after his predecessor was assassinated by Islamists, was overthrown last month after weeks of nationwide protests.

The toppling of Mubarak was celebrated across the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, which neighbour Egypt had blockaded since 2007 when the Islamists seized power and ousted the secular Fatah movement of president Mahmud Abbas whose writ is now limited to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Hamas, which won parliamentary elections a year earlier, has refused to amend its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel.

OK.

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