Hany Ghoraba
IPT News, Apr. 26, 2022
“It is important to understand that Ramadan, for Islamists, is not just time for worship, but for jihad, too. Their teaching manual [Islamic jurisprudence] assert and link all decisive military battles in the history of Islam with Ramadan.”
When terrorists randomly attacked Israeli civilians in recent weeks, some surprising voices reacted with horror. The string of attacks that killed 14 Israelis drew condemnations from Turkey, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan, among others.
To top anchors on Qatar’s state-owned Al Jazeera network, however, the attacks were cause for celebrations and praise.
“The martyrdom of the attacker of the Tel Aviv operation, the Palestinian computer expert, the son of Jenin camp, Ra’ad Hazem, after he made the Israelis taste humiliation and so they spent a dark night of terror imprisoned in their homes, while an entire army of thousands of Israeli soldiers pursued him for 9 hours, he freely wandered until he reached Jaffa,” Al Jazeera host Ahmed Mansour wrote April 8. “He clashed with an Israeli force in Jaffa and was martyred, may God have mercy on him.”
IPT Senior Fellow Hany Ghoraba is an Egyptian writer, political and counter-terrorism analyst at Al Ahram Weekly, author of Egypt’s Arab Spring: The Long and Winding Road to Democracy and a regular contributor to the BBC.
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