{"id":2062990,"date":"2023-10-11T06:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-and-hamas-are-embroiled-in-a-zero-sum-religious-war-and-so-is-the-west\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T06:56:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:56:20","slug":"israel-and-hamas-are-embroiled-in-a-zero-sum-religious-war-and-so-is-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-and-hamas-are-embroiled-in-a-zero-sum-religious-war-and-so-is-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel and Hamas are locked in a religious war, and the West is also involved."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-and-hamas-are-embroiled-in-a-zero-sum-religious-war-and-so-is-the-west%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2062990&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>The \u200cUnthinkable Evil of Hamas:\u200b A Religious Struggle<\/h2>\n<p>The events of the past \u200d120 hours have made it abundantly clear that\u2063 Israel can no longer coexist alongside Hamas. The violence unleashed by Hamas against unarmed civilians, including\u200d women and children and the elderly \u2014 much of \u200bit filmed and livestreamed online\u200d \u2014 has\u200d shocked the world. On Tuesday, we learned that at a kibbutz near \u2062the Gaza border called Kfar\u200d Aza, Hamas terrorists slaughtered entire families, including \u2063at least 40 babies and small children,\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i24NEWS_EN\/status\/1711697093151056355?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some of whom they beheaded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Western world has not seen this kind of \u200dbarbarity in\u200c nearly 80 years, and most of us recoil\u2063 from it in horror and incomprehension. Make no mistake: Kfar Aza will\u2063 take\u2063 its place in history alongside Auschwitz and Treblinka. The evil of \u200cHamas is that kind of evil, perhaps not in scale but in \u2064kind. In some ways, it is worse because while the \u200dNazis took \u200dcare\u200d to hide what\u2062 they were doing from the world, Hamas has broadcast its atrocities, boasted of, and \u2064reveled in them. It\u2019s clear all Hamas members are guilty and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-and-hamas-are-embroiled-in-a-zero-sum-religious-war-and-so-is-the-west\/\" title=\"Israel and Hamas are locked in a religious war, and the West is also involved.\">deserve swift execution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1361063937\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-12063e8c3772ba97618f3a1675e9776f fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-12063e8c3772ba97618f3a1675e9776f\"><\/div>\n<p>Delivering justice to \u2064Hamas is \u2063now Israel\u2019s grim\u2063 task, and they will go about it as best they\u2063 can. But\u200b another, perhaps more difficult, task is confronting the Western \u200cworld at large. In the immediate wake of \u2064the Hamas atrocities, demonstrations were staged all over the Western world \u2014 \u200c <em>in support of Hamas<\/em>. Those who marched in the streets, who signed pro-Hamas student\u2064 statements, who posted memes \u2062online praising Hamas are not, by and large, antisemitic neo-Nazis. They are left-wing\u2064 zealots, BLM and LGBT activists, the woke grandchildren of radical Baby Boomer politics, brain-washed by\u200d \u201canticolonialism\u201d propaganda, which they regurgitated before\u2063 a watching world.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"VJcyZuPoaNqrQpKvLSA7H8i2getXkhEzRT9dWY0bmBfG5ICDnO3s6xlFMj\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That is\u200b all that is it! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7DhTIeJ0yl\">pic.twitter.com\/7DhTIeJ0yl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BLMChicago (@BLMChi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLMChi\/status\/1711793142742073573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October \u206410, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This should not surprise you.\u200b The people who cheer the beheading of\u200c babies are of course those who\u2062 also cheer\u200c the slaughter of babies in the \u2063womb. They are, like Islam itself, post-Christian, and their morality, \u2062like the \u2064morality of Hamas, is\u200d decidedly pagan. That means they do not believe \u2063in universal\u2062 human\u2063 rights or inherent human dignity. They do\u2062 not\u2064 believe in the Christian doctrine of <em>imago Dei<\/em> and the moral imperatives that flow \u2063from it. They do not believe in objective morality or truth. They reject the Christian\u2064 precepts that constitute the basis for Western civilization.<\/p>\n<p>These are \u2063the barbarians who reside beyond the gates of \u2064the Christian West. They believe only in power, and they will do whatever they can to gain it.\u200c Once they have \u2062it, they will\u200d exercise it as\u200c they see \u200dfit, unconstrained \u2064by \u2062questions of\u200b right and wrong, or notions of justice\u200b and morality whose premises they\u2063 reject. They\u200b will not have qualms about their own hypocrisy or \u2062inconsistency. Appeals to\u200c compassion and\u2063 mercy will fall on deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>These are the same people,\u200c after all, \u2064who insist that\u200b \u201cwords are violence\u201d and\u2064 that debates and free speech and even jokes must be suppressed because\u200d of the \u201charm\u201d \u200bthey cause to vulnerable and marginalized\u2063 people. If you say a man \u200ccannot become a woman, \u200bthey want you to be\u200b fired, to be\u2062 silenced, to lose everything. If\u200d you \u2062say we must not castrate and mutilate children in the name of gender ideology, they want your own\u2062 kids to\u200d be taken \u200bfrom you. Confronted by the wholesale slaughter of women and children, the\u200b decapitation of babies by armed \u200bmen, they respond with a\u2063 shrug \u2063and a meme. They do\u200b not care about violence as such, they simply want\u200b to be the ones \u2062to wield it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1d9c77591a27fbced1369f43ccc320df fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1d9c77591a27fbced1369f43ccc320df\"><\/div>\n<p>Do not think these people \u2063are just confused or ignorant. They are pagans, \u2064and like the Hamas terrorists \u2064whom they champion, they cannot be reasoned\u200b with or \u2064accommodated. If it is obvious \u2062that\u200c Israel and Hamas cannot coexist, it is \u2063equally obvious that these\u2064 two worlds, the Christian and the\u2064 pagan, also cannot coexist. We will become all one\u2063 thing or all the other.<\/p>\n<p>Under such circumstances,\u2063 we need to recognize this struggle for \u200cwhat it is: a \u2063fundamentally religious \u200cstruggle \u2064between\u2063 two irreconcilable religious worldviews. For many centuries the Christian West was\u2063 able to see this clearly. It\u2019s why the Catholic Church\u2063 worked tirelessly for centuries to \u200dstamp out paganism in northern Europe. It\u2019s why the Spanish conquistadors, confronted by human sacrifice cults in the New World, toppled\u200d them and razed their temples. They understood that there \u200dcould be no peace with such a regime. \u2062It had to be destroyed utterly.<\/p>\n<p>So the problem we confront today is old, and the solution is\u2063 the same. But\u2063 do we\u2063 even have the ability, at this\u2062 late hour, to recognize the problem and\u2062 do what is necessary?\u200b Probably not. We are likely too\u200b far along in the \u2063process of \u200cdechristianization.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at how we responded to 9\/11. \u2062Many have been calling \u2064the Hamas attack Israel\u2019s 9\/11, which is an apt comparison. But Israel should not make the mistake America and its leaders did. We did not recognize the 9\/11 \u200dattacks \u200das\u2064 a religious act. In fact, \u2062we actively denied that the\u200c massacre was religiously motivated, and so\u2062 we failed to respond on religious grounds. Remember the infamous words of then-President George W. Bush immediately after the massacre of 3,000 Americans. Surrounded by Islamic leaders who \u2063more or less shared the basic worldview of \u2062the al-Qaeda terrorists, he proclaimed that Islam was a \u2062\u201creligion of peace,\u201d and insisted there could be no connection between the killing and the religion the killers professed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3c6eca401697d56801285d3c47119918 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3c6eca401697d56801285d3c47119918\"><\/div>\n<p>It was incredible\u200d to behold at the time. And what followed was equally incredible. We invaded Iraq\u2063 on \u2064the \u200dpremise that the Iraqis were just like us, or that we could\u2062 make them like us. Absurdities followed. \u200cThe State Department flew political scientists to Baghdad to devise an \u200b\u201cIslamic\u201d\u200c basis for constitutionalism and the rule of law. In Afghanistan, we went well beyond offering education to Afghan girls \u200cand women and instead spent decades and untold billions catechizing them into gender theory and queer studies. For \u200dyears\u2063 our leaders repeated <em>ad nauseum<\/em> the \u2062fatuous notion that deep down all people want to be\u2064 free. Never did it occur to them that some people would \u200brather have justice or power\u2063 or revenge.<\/p>\n<p>All of these \u2064things were indications that we had \u200bfinally severed ties \u200cwith our Christian past and\u2063 stepped firmly, perhaps\u200c without realizing it, \u200cinto the pagan\u200b future. \u200cWe never grappled with the\u200d root causes of 9\/11, never entertained the notion that \u200ba people\u2019s relationship to God shaped everything and was \u2063therefore insurmountable. All such discussion was totally absent from the public square. We bought\u200b into the lie\u2062 that all religions are the same, \u200cdemocracy\u200c and classical liberalism are fungible and can be\u200c imposed at will on any culture, and that religious differences are mostly matters of aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>What a monstrous lie \u2014 and \u2064a dangerous one,\u2064 too, as \u2064we are\u200d learning every day now. \u2063The conflict unfolding\u2064 in\u2063 the Middle East is fundamentally religious in ways that are fairly obvious. What\u2062 is less obvious, because we \u200bare\u200c a post-Christian people, is that the conflict unfolding \u200din \u200dAmerica is equally religious. Hamas and the \u200cpagans stand \u2063on one side; Christians and Jews \u2064stand on the other. Only one side is going \u2063to win.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Why is it alarming that some individuals lend their support to Hamas despite the organization&#8217;s atrocities, such as beheading babies<\/h2>\n<p><span>  T adhere to traditional Judeo-Christian values and instead embrace a moral relativism that justifies violence and destruction in pursuit of their ideological \u200bagenda.<\/p>\n<p>It \u200bis crucial to recognize that the support \u200bfor Hamas goes beyond mere political disagreement. It highlights a dangerous alignment of progressive\u200d ideologies with extremist groups that espouse \u2063hatred and\u2063 violence. Those\u2063 who sympathize with Hamas \u200dfail to grasp the true nature \u2064of this terrorist organization and the threat it poses not only to Israel but \u200cto\u2063 the world\u2064 at large.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas is not simply a \u2063political party or a resistance movement.\u2064 It is a radical Islamic terrorist group that seeks the complete destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic state in its place. Its\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-pro-palestinian-spin-meets-hamass-horrific-abuses-of-israeli-women-and-children\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Pro-Palestinian Bias Exposed: Hamas's Brutal Attacks on Israeli Women and Children\">charter explicitly calls<\/a> \u200cfor the \u2063killing of Jews and\u2062 rejects any peaceful coexistence with Israel. \u200bHamas has carried \u2063out countless acts of violence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deeply-sick-over-30-harvard-university-groups-blame-israel-after-hamas-commits-atrocities\/\" title=\"Over 30 Harvard University groups accuse Israel for atrocities following Hamas actions.\">including suicide\u200d bombings<\/a>, rocket attacks, \u200dand kidnappings, all aimed at instilling fear and \u200bcausing maximum\u2062 casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The recent events, particularly the slaughter of innocent civilians, reveal\u2064 the depth of Hamas&#8217; depravity. Their willingness to behead babies demonstrates a level of evil that \u2062is unparalleled even in the darkest\u200c chapters of history. Yet, shockingly, there are those who not only \u200cturn a blind eye to these atrocities but actually lend their support to this vile organization.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of these pro-Hamas movements within the Western world is deeply troubling. It shows \u2064a dangerous erosion of moral clarity and a distorted sense of \u2062justice. Those who\u200c champion \u200bthe cause of Hamas \u2063often claim to be advocates for human rights \u200band social justice, yet they conveniently ignore the \u200dgross violations committed by \u200cthis terrorist group. They cannot claim to support the rights of women, children,\u200d and the LGBTQ+ community \u200dwhile openly endorsing an organization that targets and brutally murders civilians, including members \u200dof these\u2063 very groups.<\/p>\n<p>The ignorance and naivety of these activists\u200b are alarming. Many of them have fallen victim to\u2062 a twisted\u2062 narrative propagated by\u2063 anti-Israel propaganda. They have been \u200dmisled\u200c into believing\u200d that Hamas is a righteous\u200d force fighting \u200cagainst oppression when, in fact, it is the complete opposite. By supporting Hamas, they inadvertently align themselves with a\u200c group that oppresses its\u200c own people, suppresses basic \u2062freedoms, and undermines any chance for peace in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Confronting this distorted worldview is\u2062 not an easy task, but it is a necessary one. It requires \u2063challenging the\u2064 narratives that fuel\u2062 this support for\u2062 Hamas and exposing the truth\u200d about its true nature and actions. It also necessitates\u200b engaging in dialogue, educating others, and promoting a more nuanced understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, it is essential to reaffirm the values of\u2063 human \u2064dignity, \u2063respect for life, \u200cand \u2064the pursuit of peace. The\u200c evil exhibited by Hamas \u200dmust serve as a clear reminder of \u200bthe importance \u2063of standing firm against all forms of extremism and violence,\u2062 regardless\u200c of their ideological or political justifications. The\u2064 international\u200c community, governments, institutions, and \u200bindividuals must come together to unequivocally denounce \u2064Hamas and\u2063 support Israel&#8217;s right to defend \u200citself against this brutal terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of this unthinkable \u2063evil, it \u200bis imperative that we remain steadfast in our commitment to justice, peace, and the principles that uphold the dignity of all \u200dhumanity. Only by doing\u200b so can we ensure a safer, more \u200ctolerant, and\u2064 compassionate world\u200b for future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent 120 hours have revealed that Israel cannot coexist with Hamas anymore. The world was shocked by the violence inflicted by Hamas on unarmed civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, which was extensively documented and livestreamed online. 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