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Hamas Sees Itself as Liberal
By Micah Halpern

Tuesday March 7, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Hamas has told al Qaeda to butt out, to take a hike, to leave them alone.
Unofficially and politely, but firmly, never-the-less.

Here's what happened:
A video of al Qaeda's inimitable number 2 man, Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri, was circulated over the weekend.
The video had Zawahiri proclaiming and sermonizing on morality, on Islamic fundamentals and on the chosen path for newly-elected political Hamas.

In response:
One Hamas spokesman said: "Hamas believes that Islam is completely different to the ideology of Mr. al Zawarhiri."
Another Hamas spokesman, this one in Gaza, said: "Our battle is against the Israeli occupation and our only concern is to restore our rights and serve our people. We have no links with any group or element outside Palestine."
On al Jazeera Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said: that Hamas was elected through its moderate approach to Islam, which did not compare to al Qaeda's exclusionary tactics. "We are not a movement that labels people infidels or that abandons them. We are a movement that lives the realities of the people and that uses wisdom ... to turn them to Islam."

Did you ever, even in your wildest dreams, think that Hamas would be labeled as "liberal" ?!

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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