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* Nils A. Haug: Toward a Jihadist Caliphate
* Howard Levitt: The Social Compact with Canadian Jews Is Broken and Needs to be Restored


** Toward a Jihadist Caliphate ([link removed])
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by Nils A. Haug • April 17, 2024 at 5:15 am
* Not only are Jews under threat, but Christians and all "unbelievers" in the radical jihadist agenda as well.
* Although an "ostrich" mentality towards these genocidal objectives prevails among Western decision-makers, the reality is quite different: The driving ideology behind Hamas's murderous intent is exemplified by the "Doomsday Clock" located in Palestine Square, Tehran, Iran. Inaugurated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2017, the clock counts down the time towards Israel's anticipated destruction in 2040, sixteen years from now. Iran's barrage of missiles and drones launched at Israel on April 13, 2024, was presumably another step toward fulfilling that destructive intent.
* Even though Iran remains essentially responsible for the actions of its agents, it has yet to suffer any consequences despite its direct attack on Israel on April 13-14. All the while, taking full advantage of US appeasement and unencumbered by meaningful sanctions, Iran races ahead with development of nuclear weapons for the sole purpose of eliminating Israel and, thereafter Jordan and ultimately the "Great Satan," the United States from the world map.
* On April 1, 2024, Abolfazl Bazargan, an Iranian international relations expert, made it clear, with a straight face, that "...for the purpose of bringing about peace - you have to create nuclear deterrence, even if only one (bomb)." Peace, however, seems to mean "after jihad has obliterated all opposition and established an Islamic Caliphate." This objective is couched in rational terms to appease West powers, the sympathetic world leaders, who might be persuaded that it is fair and right that Iran possess a nuclear weapon just as Israel, the US, UK, North Korea, and other nations possess such weapons. The underlying jihadist ideology of world hegemony is concealed under a veneer of rationalism, social justice, victimhood, and fairness.
* "It's a belief that goes a long way in explaining the dehumanization of the Jews: It's much easier to brutalize and slaughter, the way Hamas did on October 7, if you think that Jews are apes and pigs. In our rational Western way of thinking, all of this is unfathomable." — Idit Bar, expert on Islamism, Times of Israel, February 2, 2024.
* Refusing to directly confront Iran as the source of Middle Eastern terror -- and instead rely on diplomatic "conflict resolution" that enables Iran to buy time -- amounts to a form of appeasement. At this time, preparation for war is the best deterrence, especially in the current circumstances of a misguided faith in "talking."
* It was an attitude of pusillanimous appeasement by UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Nazi Germany in 1938, with the Munich Agreement, that directly resulted in Hitler's unrestrained march on neighbouring countries, thus inaugurating WW2. In like mode, US President Joe Biden's acolytes now appease Iran's Ayatollahs, an approach that commenced under President Barack Obama. Once again, the consequences for the West and the world at large will be horrendous.

Abolfazl Bazargan, an Iranian international relations expert, recently said on Iran's Ofagh TV that "...for the purpose of bringing about peace - you have to create nuclear deterrence, even if only one (bomb)." Peace, however, seems to mean "after jihad has obliterated all opposition and established an Islamic Caliphate." (Image source: MEMRI)

On February 9, 2024, Imam Sheikh Abdul Salam Zoud at the Masjid As-Sunnah Lakemba in Sydney, Australia, made the following live-streamed pronouncement:

"There is no solution other than Jihad which continues until Judgement Day. The Prophet Muhammad, the Righteous Caliphs – none of them conquered the world by peaceful means. They conquered it through Jihad. The goal of Jihad for the sake of Allah is not to kill people and take over their lands. Rather, the goal of Jihad is to remove obstacles before the spreading and rule of Islam."

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** The Social Compact with Canadian Jews Is Broken and Needs to be Restored ([link removed])
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by Howard Levitt • April 17, 2024 at 4:00 am
* Given their small numbers and the omnipresence of antisemitism, the Jewish community is reliant on protection from society: the courts, the legal system, the police and public sentiment itself. That is the social compact under which the community is able to thrive — and give back.
* But the social compact is now broken.... First, after Oct. 7, even before Israel invaded Gaza to root out Hamas, there were hate rallies....
* It quickly became obvious that their targets were not Israelis, but Jews everywhere: in workplaces, unions, universities and on the street....
* What is their goal? To intimidate the Jewish community, in the hope that it will capitulate and that its members will forfeit their identities as Jewish Canadians and perhaps even feel forced to leave.
* It is not just Jews who are under attack. Our entire civilization is threatened. The chants a short time ago to "shut down Christmas".... are deliberately targeting the functioning of society.
* [I]f there was a ceasefire now, Hamas would regroup and strengthen, as it has after every previous ceasefire, and would still run Gaza. The Israeli hostages would be stuck in Gaza indefinitely and Hamas would, as it keeps promising, repeat the Oct. 7 attacks a second, third and fourth time until Israel is eradicated.... If bad behaviour is permitted, it gets worse.
* It is not as if Hamas will somehow reform its ways: its 1988 charter has two main objectives, killing all Jews and the eradication of Israel.

After Oct. 7, even before Israel invaded Gaza to root out Hamas, there were hate rallies in Canada. It quickly became obvious that their targets were not Israelis, but Jews everywhere: in workplaces, unions, universities and on the street. What is their goal? To intimidate the Jewish community, in the hope that it will capitulate and that its members will forfeit their identities as Jewish Canadians and perhaps even feel forced to leave. Pictured: Anti-Israel protesters in Montreal, Canada, on November 18, 2023. (Photo by Alexis Aubin/AFP via Getty Images)

There are very few Jews in the world. Not even one per cent of the world's population is Jewish. Not even 0.1 per cent. In fact, only about 15 million of the world's population of 8 billion people — less than .02 per cent — are Jewish. Canada has the fourth-largest population of world Jewry at 335,000, less than one per cent of our 39 million population, dramatically smaller than the Muslim population, now approaching two million.

Canada's Jewish community has always taken pride in this country, contributing mightily in science, medicine, business and all forms of media and culture. It is part of Jewish upbringing to add value to the society in which one lives, which is perhaps why, despite the minuscule numbers, nearly 40 per cent of world chess champions have been Jewish and 22 per cent of Nobel Prize winners.

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