The Genocidal Hamas Charter
Charles Johnson
Thu Sep 26, 2002 at 11:28 am PDT • Views: 771
A good piece by David G. Littman points out that the official charter of Hamas is openly genocidal, and even refers to the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion—but nobody seems to care.
The 1988 Hamas charter (an acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement” in Arabic) is both political and genocidal — yet the United Nations has never denounced it. It claims to be a wing of the International Muslim Brotherhood, an organization founded in Egypt in 1922. Hamas is against any Middle East peace process: “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad. All initiatives, proposals, and international conferences are a waste of time and vain endeavors” (Article 13).
And then there is the Hamas slogan, which has inspired countless jihadist bombers: “Allah is its goal, The Prophet its model, the Qur’an its Charter, jihad its path, and death for the cause of Allah its most sublime belief” (Article 8).
Hamas is committed to continuing jihad against “the Jews” until Allah’s victory is implemented. The land of Palestine, it affirms, must be cleansed from their impurity and viciousness. Muslims are obligated by order of the Prophet to fight and kill the Jews wherever they find them. This call to genocide is justified by a hadith which concludes article 7 of the charter:
The Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to implement Allah’s promise, whatever time that may take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: “The Day of Judgment will not come about until the Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them), until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: Oh Muslim! Oh Abdullah!, there is a Jew behind me, come on and kill him. Only the Gharqad tree would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.”
Frank says: