On al-Jazeera on Friday, the Gaza imam Hussein Abu Ayada revealed the secret of the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s actually an ill-kept secret, for Palestinian leaders, and supporters of the Palestinian cause in the Islamic Republic of Iran and elsewhere, mention it frequently. But it never, ever shows up in all of the mountains of literature that Western policymakers and mainstream foreign policy analysts have produced…
“This is a war,” Abu Ayada declared, “between Islam and disbelief, between Islam and Judaism, between the distorted faith and the true Qur’an, the true belief. I say to the people: we are confronting the Jews. This is a religious and ideological war. Anyone who wants to get out of this war and watch from the sidelines will be dealt with by Allah. We are pleased with the decrees of Allah.”
There you have it. Virtually no one in the West acknowledges this or realizes its implications, but Muslim leaders have been clear, just as Abu Ayada is clear: this is a religious war.
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