Today’s edition of Haaretz has an editorial by Fiyaz Mughal explaining the religious logic of Muslim fundamentalists – extremists (to use his word) who are using the corona virus pandemic as a recruitment tool. The
headline reads “Jews and Apostate Muslims Deserve Punishment.”
Click on the title above for the entire article. Or read an excerpt below:
” . . . extremist individuals and groups are using this period of trepidation to try and promote hatred, racism and extremism. Their narratives are simple and sound much like a broken record, though they will have some traction with the disaffected, misinformed and unaware. They are feeding off fear, and – especially for modern societies – the unusual and dispiriting experience of individual powerlessness in the face of the pandemic.
“The narratives espoused by Muslim extremists are depressingly familiar: the ‘other’ is blamed. One target is inevitably history’s favorite scapegoat, the Jews. But ordinary Muslims are in the extremists’ sights as well. . . .
“As Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, director of research at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism notes, ‘Jihadis see the [coronavirus as] manifestation of the wrath of God, both upon the non-believers for their rejection of God’s law and crimes against Muslims, and upon those Muslims who have forsaken the duty of Jihad.'”
In a similar vein, the internet is swamped these days with US church “leaders” proclaiming a similar, if not identical, message.
Obviously, one religion’s fundamentalists are not much different from another’s.
Whether “Muslim” or “Christian,” jihadists all sound alike.
I’ll offer only one example. You can easily find more if you look. Watch the clip below:
So, what’s the difference between this man and an ISIS spokesman?
