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On October 9, 2023, the Sydney Opera House was supposed to be the scene of a Jewish solidarity rally with the victims of the Oct 7 Islamic massacres in Israel.
Muslim mobs instead took over, waving terrorist flags and screaming, “Where are the Jews” and F___ the Jews” while the authorities did nothing. Despite the widespread availability of videos and eyewitness accounts, the authorities and the media vocally denied it ever happened.
Arson attacks at two synagogues, one of which was set on fire during the Shabbat while congregants were inside, a restaurant and other Jewish community areas followed. The Iranian who set fire to a synagogue on the Sabbath claimed that he didn’t know it was a synagogue (despite the giant Star of David outside) and blamed mental illness. He was sentenced to time served and released with the magistrate claiming that locking up the arsonist was “disgraceful.”
On the 11th anniversary of the Lindt Cafe siege (another Muslim terrorist attack blamed on ‘mental illness’), Muslim terrorists struck again at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
The ‘Chanukah by the Sea’ party was set up near the beach’s children playground and featured music, ice cream and in the evening, there was to have been a menorah lighting. The two Muslim terrorists, a Pakistani and Lebanese, brought heavy weapons and IEDs to the party and were able to kill sixteen people, including a 10-year-old girl, a rabbi and a Holocaust survivor, and wound another 40 people: some of whom are in critical condition. Survivors described bodies lying everywhere. Adults threw themselves over children to protect them while the Muslim terrorists fired on them from above.
This was the second time this year a Holocaust survivor had been struck in a Muslim terrorist attack. The first time was the Molotov cocktail attack on a solidarity rally in Boulder, Colorado when a Muslim terrorist tried to burn elderly Jewish people alive.
Australian and international leaders issued statements condemning the attack. None of those statements, including from the Australian government, the British Royal family, and the Trump administration, however made any mention of Islam.
Earlier this year, Hamas had expressed its appreciation at the decision by Premier Anthony Albanese to recognize a PLO/Hamas Islamic ‘Palestinian’ terrorist state. And Hamas media justified this latest attack. In the past, Hamas had released a music video with the message, “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah.”
This form of worship usually comes around this time of year. As Jews light menorahs and Christians put up Christmas trees, Muslims try to get closer to Allah by killing them.
In Germany, the latest attack on a Christmas market was broken up. The reported head of the attack plan to ram a car through a Christmas market was a mosque ‘prayer leader’. France has scrapped its New Year’s Eve celebration and is on ‘very high’ alert for Islamic terror attacks on Christmas markets in its own cities.
This isn’t “extremism”, “senseless hatred” or any of the other euphemisms so often used by politicians and the media trying to tiptoe around the ultimate uncomfortable truth.
It’s Islam.
The end of the year is a special time for Christians, Jews and because of that, also for the Muslims trying to kill them because different religions worship in their own way.
A 12-year-old Yazidi girl enslaved by ISIS remembers her Muslim rapist telling her that his rape is an act of worship and that by raping her, “he is drawing closer to Allah.” Another told a 15-year-old girl that his rape is a “prayer to Allah.” The survivors told of their rapists devoutly praying to Allah before and after they raped them.
The Muslim terrorists shout “Allahu Akbar”, praising the supremacy of their deity, before every murderous attack. This is also how they draw closer to and worship Allah. Every single Muslim terrorist, suicide bomber, car rammer and rapist believed sincerely that he was worshipping Allah, following the teachings of the Koran and his religion.
We have spent decades pretending otherwise and it has gotten us absolutely nowhere.
Two devout Muslim men went out to Bondi Beach where as many as a thousand Jews had gathered to practice their religion by celebrating Chanukah. The collision between the two religious practices, one of celebration and the other of mass murder, ended in blood and death. By the time the month is out, a similar collision may take place between Christians and Muslims, both practicing their religions, with bloody results.
And then there will once again be sirens, reporters stammering into microphones and thoughts and prayers being offered to this latest “senseless tragedy” of “extremism”.
The end of the year, when days get shorter and darker, is met with seasons of light by some religions, like Judaism and Christianity, and with greater darkness by Islam.
Religion is not a vague diffuse spirituality. It is not meant to infuse us with some liberal sense of harmony and goodwill. What religion is meant to do is provide us with clarity.
About good and evil.
Islam is not an ‘Abrahamic religion’. At no point in time did Abraham spread his beliefs by killing unbelievers. It is not a ‘religion of peace’ except in the Islamic definition of peace in which everyone is subjugated to its particular belief system. It is not a religion of coexistence because there isn’t a single example of long-term Islamic coexistence.
Over 1,000 years of Islamic history right down to the present day shows it’s impossible.
The Muslim terrorists who attacked the ‘Chanukah by the Sea’ party shot at children getting ice cream and snacks. But there is a deeper meaning to Chanukah. This, the last of the Jewish holidays, emerged as a resistance to the brutal paganism that sought to eliminate the Bible and G-d from the memory of mankind. The Greek and Arab pagan armies that the Maccabees fought against lost not just the physical, but the spiritual war.
Islam’s idea of the spiritual war is the familiar ‘strong horse’ and ‘weak horse’ theory of political power. Any religion whose members they kill has lost the ‘spiritual war’. Kill enough of them and Islam wins. That is why they keep killing us and will never stop.
Winning the war for us begins with having the moral clarity to be able to tell apart good and evil, darkness and light, and actual religions from a death cult so we can fight back.
This season, let us bring light into our homes and communities, but beyond candles and bulbs, let it be the light of truth, the light of goodness that burns away evil, banishes darkness and shows us the way to drive out those whose worship is killing us.
