Hamas-The Islamic Resistance Movement was founded in 1987 as an offshoot from the Muslim Brotherhood which was founded in 1928. Its main raison d’etre according to its charter is ‘to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip’. Appropriately, Hamas in Arabic means ‘devotion and zeal in the path of Allah’. In Hebrew it means ‘to do violence/wrong’ as a verb, and ‘violence’ as a noun. They are unfortunately an excellent example of the long time plague of the fusion of violence with religious zeal.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:12:06 +0000
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