Averroes wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:05 pm
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:31 am
Why and How Hamas has No Moral Compass?
Reporter Stands by Story of Hamas Massacring Babies, Reveals Another Horror
In this case, Hamas deliberately and intentional massacre babies without qualms when they saw them;
the usual
what-about Israel doing the same is never comparable, because babies and children are killed as a side-effect [collaterally] and never deliberately.
That report was made by an Israeli reporter from an Israeli media, and it was later found to be fake news:
I have always make reservations that whatever News I read or heard, they could possibly be fake News.
In the above article, the reporter informed she saw the 'dead babies' with her own eyes, there is some credibility as compared if she merely relied on hearsays from others.
This latest news?
JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV/BRUSSELS, Oct 12 (Reuters) -
Israel's government showed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO defence ministers graphic images of dead children and civilians on Thursday, saying they were killed by Palestinian group Hamas as it builds support for its response.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office also released on social media a picture of a dead infant in a pool of blood and the charred body of a child, part of an apparent effort to stoke global anger against the Gaza militants over Saturday's attack.
https://www.reuters.com/world/nato-mini ... 023-10-12/
This is fake news?
Possibly but not likely since Reuters has reasonably credibility.
Contrary to Judaism and Christianity, in Islam it is not allowed to kill babies, women, children and old people in combat. In a narration of Prophet Muhammad(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), it is reported the following saying:
- “Go in Allah's name, trusting in Allah, and adhering to the religion of the Messenger of Allah. Do not kill a decrepit old man, or a young infant, or a child, or a woman; do not be dishonest about booty, but collect your spoils, do right and act well, for Allah loves those who do well.”(Abu Dawud, Jihad, 90; Naylu’l-Awtar,7/246)
The Hadiths are not part of the contractual terms ALL Muslims had entered into a contract [covenant] with Allah.
Thus whatever are in the Hadiths are merely guides and not obligatory.
I refer to 5:33 which is a contractual term and thus obligatory and duty bound for all Muslims to comply with the commands of Allah.
As such, it is inherent with the religion that all believers within their contractual terms must comply with 5:33 upon any threat [fasadin] even the slightest to kill non-believers.
However, being humans, not all believers will comply with 5:33.
However if ONLY 10% of all believers were to comply with 5:33 that would be 150 millions
of them around the world and that was what happened with a minority of believers [within Hamas] committing the most heinous possible evil act in complying with their contractual terms as a believer.
Even if the Hamas leaders do not permit the killing of civilians, 5:33 as God's words will prevail over all else.
Whereas in Judaism and Christianity as well, there are explicit verses in the Bible that commands the killing of babies, women and Children! In the Bible it is written in the Book of Numbers 31:17-18
- 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. [Numbers 31:17-18]
This is the usual 'what about' which is off topic.
Two wrongs do not make one right.
All Christians signed a contract with Jesus and God [John 3:16] where the terms of the contract are only in the Gospels. The overriding moral maxim of the Gospels is 'love all, even enemies' as such it imply no humans ought to be killed else one would have sinned.
Whatever are in the OT, Acts and Epistles are merely appendixes and guides to the contract thus not obligatory.
There will be Christians who killed humans, but they are doing the killing on their own but can never be in the name of Christianity.
The OT are applicable to the Jews.
However that Jews must comply with the OT fully is debatable.
Regardless, killing of babies is one of the most heinous evil acts.
On topic, Hamas killed and behead babies because it is sanctioned in their holy texts which contain the contractual terms of their contract with God.
And this is what the Israeli government have been doing for more than half a century to the Palestinian women and children. For this, Noam Chomsky who is of Jewish background called Israel a rogue sadistic terrorist pariah state. Ten years ago, he analysed the situation in an interview. Now, ten years later his analysis is still relevant even though the situation got much worse as he anticipated. For example, he was asked to talk about the analogy between Israeli occupation of Palestine and the apartheid system of South Africa. He said:
Noam Chomsky wrote:In the occupied territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. To call it an apartheid is a gift to Israel, at least if by apartheid you mean South-African style apartheid. What's happening in the occupied territories is much worse. There is a crucial difference: the south-African nationalists needed the black population, that was their workforce with 85% of the workforce of the population. They needed them, they had to sustain them. South-Africa did try to sustain them, they did not put them on a diet.
The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the occupied territories is totally different. They just don't want them. They want them out or at least in prison. That's a very striking difference, which means that the South-African apartheid analogy to the West Bank and occupied territories is just a gift to Israeli violence. It's much worse than that. If you look inside Israel, there is plenty of repression and discrimination. I have written about it extensively for decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HiUagHbSc0
There had been and will be killing of children and babies all over the world.
I don't believe the wanton killing of children is enacted and permitted in their Constitution of Israel.
Whereas Hamas and other Muslims killing of humans [babies, children and adult] are permitted within the contractual terms of their contract with God.
For example, if a Muslim is questioned on Judgment Day, why he killed humans including babies, children and adults, he will quote 5:33 as part of the terms of his contract to avoid hell, there is no way Allah will punish him for that; rather he will be rewarded 10 times greater than the ordinary believer.