Everyone was shocked when recent footage emerged showing a militia of armed thugs in Kafr Qasim hitting police officers and causing them bodily harm, all the while warning them they must stop their law-enforcement activity lest "blood will spill." The footage underscores just how bad things are when it comes to law and order in Israel. The absurdity became all the more apparent when it emerged that the militia had reportedly been sanctioned as the de facto police force of the Arab town.
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The lacking sense of security Israelis feel in the face of the rampant crime in Arab communities is what led to the formation of such militias; they have filled the void left by the police's shortcomings in providing routine security. But the story behind the incident in Kafr Qasim is something else entirely.
It appears that the Islamic Movement has a thuggish radical militia operating under its nose that wants to create enclaves of religious separatists within Arab communities. The goal is to make all these communities stand apart from the Israeli state and various government institutions in order to "avoid bloodshed."
The fact of the matter is that this is the precise modus operandi adopted by the Muslim Brotherhood around the world. This violent approach has been used and modified into incitement and terrorism through various mosques and Islamic schools around the world. This is the same ideology that al-Qaida, ISIS, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have espoused.
Veterans of Israel's security establishment vividly remember how Hamas' military wing got to be what it is, and its story shares a stark resemblance to what has been unfolding in Kafr Qasim. It all began with Islamists who were ostensibly engaged in a justifiable cause: fighting crimes on the streets of Gaza; cracking down on drug dealers, prostitution, illegal sales of alcohol, and other vices. That so-called noble goal was what made them into the strongmen of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the assassinations of various opponents such as communists and collaborators with Israel. Eventually, they began perpetrating terrorist attacks against Israelis.
Back then, these thugs called themselves the "political wing" of Hamas. It began holding talks with Israeli authorities to promote its interests, which included the accreditation of the Islamic University in Gaza and the sanctioning of various other welfare programs. But alongside those seemingly innocent activities, they also engage in incitement, propagating radicalism and recruiting new terrorists to carry out attacks against Israelis. It took a long time until Israel and other countries woke up and realized that the "political" and "military" wings were one and the same.
When terrorist mastermind Mohiyedine Sharif's home was destroyed in 1998, a little booklet was found in the rubble. Its headline: "Hamas: Historical roots and charter." It was written by al-Qaida founder Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
It turned out that Sharif, who was responsible for the deaths of many Israelis, drew inspiration from the global jihad leader. Sheikh Azzam also wrote in his booklet about another work, written by a Syrian Muslim Brotherhood official, describing it as a spiritual guide for how to conquer the world by means of Islam: welfare that can recruit the masses, creating Islamic militant enclaves, deception and tactical partnerships (including with the enemies, such as Hamas' collaboration with Shiite Iran) as a means of obtaining short-term goals and creating false temptations for the enemy, while simultaneously pursuing the path of terrorism to spread fear.
This is how the Muslim Brotherhood members have interpreted the legacy of their prophet. Islamists are not bound by any agreement, as demonstrated by the breach of the Hudaybiyyah Treaty in 628, signed between Muhammad's followers and the people of Mecca. This is also the case in Egypt and Jordan, when Islamists have repeatedly challenged the authorities, as well as in the strife between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. It is also very much present in how the Muslim immigrants have treated their host countries in Europe and beyond by taking advantage of their generosity.
They still harbor the belief that Islam will one day take over the victim, either by elimination or by conversion and the seizing of possessions through their "own volition." That is how "Palestine" will once again become Islamic: with patience, in stages, and with our willing collaboration of course.
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