Oh the irony -
One more piece of evidence that the rise in antisemitism in the west is directly tied to the attitudes imported by middle eastern immigrants, NOT the skin heads.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2 ... terrorism/
One more piece of evidence that the rise in antisemitism in the west is directly tied to the attitudes imported by middle eastern immigrants, NOT the skin heads.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2 ... terrorism/
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- A memorial service for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Michigan featured praise for prominent terror figures as well as denunciations of the United States’ “terrorism.”
On Saturday, a memorial service for slain Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah took place at the Hadi Youth Community Center in Dearborn, Michigan. The event, which was live-streamed on YouTube, featured fiery speeches from local religious leaders and activists who praised Nasrallah and Iran’s leadership while condemning America.
Imam Usama Abdulghani, who led the memorial, declared that Nasrallah was now “happy,” and that his martyrdom “at the hands of the wickedest and most evil of Allah’s creations” was a “reward” from Allah for all of the “jihad’ he has waged.
Teacher and activist Tarek Bazzi delivered a passionate speech, celebrating not only Nasrallah but also the Iranian revolutionaries who shaped Hezbollah’s ideology. He praised Iran’s former leader Ruhollah Khomeini and current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling Nasrallah “immaculate” and “perfect.”
Offering condolences to “the entire Muslim nation,” Bazzi challenged attendees to identify any other religion that has produced men as “godly” as Khomeini, late Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and others, naming several key figures revered in Hezbollah and Iranian circles.
In a sharp denunciation of U.S. policy, Bazzi accused American institutions — specifically the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon — of projecting their own “terrorism” onto “the soldiers and saints of the Lord of the universe.”
The service was also marked by local Shiite poet Hassan Salamey, who referred to Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei as “our greatest leader,” while warning he may possess Ali’s sword “on your throats in Tel Aviv.”
Dearborn, with its large Muslim population, has long been a focal point for anti-Israel demonstrations, drawing attention to growing radicalism within the U.S.
In April, a viral video showed anti-Israel protests in Dearborn, where demonstrators were captured chanting, “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” during an International Al-Quds Day rally. The video stirred national controversy and intensified scrutiny of pro-Hezbollah activities in the U.S.
The clip showed activists condemning both Israel and America in the harshest of terms, with Bazzi insisting the chants were only logical.
In response, Steven Stalinsky, director of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), told Fox News that the Dearborn rallies have been happening for over 20 years and have become a “hotbed of hate,” where rallies and sermons can be seen “in support for Hamas, Hezbollah, [and] Iran.”
Nasrallah, who served as Secretary-General of Hezbollah since 1992, was a founding member of the Iran-backed Shiite terror group. Revered by Hezbollah supporters for leading the group through conflicts with Israel, Nasrallah was killed on Saturday in a precision airstrike on his Beirut bunker. Under his leadership, Hezbollah’s terrorism capabilities grew significantly.
Israel has been engaged in ongoing clashes with Hezbollah after the group launched attacks following Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israeli civilians, which left nearly 1,200 dead and more than 240 hostages taken.
Having actively sought to expand its influence beyond the Middle East, Hezbollah is designated a terrorist organization by more than a dozen countries and international entities, including major Western nations, members of the European Union, and most Arab League member states, due to its involvement in terrorist activities against American, French, Israeli, and other targets.
Former President Donald Trump has denounced Hezbollah, stating, “No terrorist group other than al-Qaeda has more American blood on its hands.”
On Sunday, Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton called for the elimination of “all of Hezbollah’s leadership” while insisting that the United States “should let Israel win” against Tehran’s key terrorist proxy in the region.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.
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- Hezbollah terrorists engaged in sex slavery, rape, mass murder of Syrians
‘Hezbollah perpetrated rape, mass sexual abuse and committed ethnic cleansing,’ expert says
By Benjamin Weinthal Fox News
Published October 1, 2024 4:00am EDT
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer on what's left in Hezbollah leadership: 'I don't think there's a lot there'
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Sr. Vice President for Research Dr. Jonathan Schanzer weighs in on the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah following IDF strikes and the possible response from Iran.
JERUSALEM—Photos of Syrians celebrating the assassination of Hezbollah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah last week put the spotlight on the brutal activities of the terror group's role in sex slavery, mass starvation and kidnappings in the Syrian civil war which led to the deaths of over half a million Syrians.
Walid Phares, a leading expert on Hezbollah and Lebanon, told Fox News Digital that Hezbollah has "committed ethnic cleansing" in Syria. He said Hezbollah "was behind the uprooting of millions of Syrians, of all communities, mainly Sunni. They have perpetrated rape. They have perpetrated mass sexual abuse, including keeping sexual slaves."
Israel’s targeted assassination of Nasrallah last weekend has prompted greater interest in the inner workings of the Shiite terrorist organization that is widely considered the de facto ruler over Lebanon.
IRAN OFFICIAL ADMITS COUNTRY’S ROLE IN TERROR BOMBING THAT KILLED 241 US MILITARY MEMBERS: REPORT
The Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist entity is mainly known in America for bombing the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, which killed 63 people in 1983, and the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut also in 1983, resulting in the murders of 241 U.S. military personnel.
Hezbollah Radwan forces train in Southern Lebanon, close to the Israeli border. (AP/Hassan Ammar)
A new investigative video series by the Center for Peace Communications (CPC) shines a rare light on the U.S.-designated terrorist movement Hezbollah’s role in sexual slavery, rape and mass murder. The shocking expose about Hezbollah’s enslavement of a Syrian woman aired days after Israel reportedly launched devastating explosions of pagers held by thousands of Hezbollah terrorists across Lebanon in September.
CPC President Joseph Braude told Fox News Digital "Hezbollah’s war on Israel obscures its larger war to subjugate much of the region — as a tyrant in Lebanon, an occupier in Syria, a mafia of sex and drug trafficking, and the nerve center of Iran’s Arab empire. Millions of Arabs whose lives have been shattered by the militia want a different future. Hezbollah does not want the world to hear their voices."
CPC's previous series, called "Whispered in Gaza," which was viewed over 20 million times, led to a Fatwa being issued against Hamas by Iraqi and Pakistani clerics. It was used by Gaza anti-Hamas activists during the July 2023 street protests against the terror organization's rule.
Syrians gather in the lobby of a damaged apartment block, bearing a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, right, and Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah, following a car bomb near the revered Shiite shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus on April 25, 2016. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images)
He added "'Hezbollah’s Hostages,' an eight-part series produced by the Center for Peace Communications and presented by The Free Press, features the actual recorded testimony of Lebanese and Syrian civilians in Hezbollah’s grip. To protect their identities and honor their lives, each recorded interview is accompanied visually by creative images and animation."
One video depicts the kidnapping and sexual enslavement of Alya, a married 20-year-old woman from the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. She reveals how Yusuf, a member of Hezbollah, "stalked" her for months and eventually took her hostage.
Hezbollah took the side of the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad after civilians launched a protest movement in 2011 to secure democracy in the highly repressive nation.
Hezbollah terrorists aided Assad in his scorched-earth campaign to wipe out opposition to his regime, resulting in the killing of over 500,000 people. Syria is now a fragmented and war-ravaged country.
HEZBOLLAH BIGGER CHALLENGE THAN HAMAS TO ISRAEL: ‘CROWN JEWEL IN THE IRANIAN EMPIRE OF TERROR’
Hezbollah’s ally, the Sunni terrorist movement Hamas, engaged in rapes and sustained sexual assaults of Israeli women and men after the jihadi terrorist organization invaded Israel on Oct. 7."They have perpetrated rape. They have perpetrated mass sexual abuse, including keeping sexual slaves."
Hezbollah joined Hamas’ war against Israel on Oct. 8 when it launched rockets into northern Israel. Hamas slaughtered nearly 1,200 people on Oct. 7, including over 30 Americans.
The fundamental corruption and mafia-style criminality of Hezbollah’s global organization has been examined by Matthew Levitt, the director of the Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at The Washington Institute.
28 September 2024, Syria, Idlib: Syrians celebrate in Idlib city after the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah confirmed the death of its leader in an Israeli airstrike. (Photo by Anas Alkharboutli/picture alliance via Getty Images)
He published a 2018 report on "Hezbollah's Corruption Crisis Runs Deep." Levitt noted that "some prominent figures in Hezbollah are involved in horrific criminal enterprises, including trafficking in sex and human beings." He cited the example of Hezbollah official Ali Hussein Zeaiter, who according to media reports, was linked to "a large prostitution network, mainly employing Syrian women."
Hezbollah’s criminal enterprise and terrorism continue to impact Americans.
HOW LEBANON'S HEZBOLLAH GROUP BECAME A CRITICAL PLAYER IN THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
Zoya Fakhoury, executive director of the Amer Foundation, told Fox News Digital that "Hezbollah is a proxy group of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that has the blood of thousands of innocent individuals, including American citizens, on their hands. The death of Hassan Nasrallah is a significant step towards accountability for many individuals but particularly for my family. My father, Amer Fakhoury, was a former U.S. hostage unlawfully detained under direct orders from Hassan Nasrallah."
Syrians celebrate in Idlib city after news claiming the killing of Hezbollah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah. The Israeli military said it attacked the headquarters of the Hezbollah militia in a Beirut suburb on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Photo by Anas Alkharboutli/picture alliance via Getty Images)
She continued, "He was used a political pawn by Hezbollah and died because of the torture he faced in Lebanon. We hope to see the Lebanese government take this opportunity of the dismantling of Hezbollah to free Lebanon from the occupation of the Islamic Republic and work towards a path of peace."
In August, Fox News Digital reported the new book by Fakhoury’s four daughters covering a first-hand account of his detainment and the harrowing rescue operation to bring him back home to the United States in their book, "Silenced in Beirut: American Businessman Amer Fakhour’s Six-Month Ordeal as a Hostage In Lebanon."
Walid Phares, a leading expert on Hezbollah and Lebanon, told Fox News Digital that Hezbollah has "committed ethnic cleansing" in Syria. He said Hezbollah "was behind the uprooting of millions of Syrians, of all communities, mainly Sunni. They have perpetrated rape. They have perpetrated mass sexual abuse, including keeping sexual slaves."
Phares, who has advised U.S. presidential candidates on Mideast foreign policy, said the Hezbollah jihadis defend their hostage taking of women as under Islamist Sharia law that they can take women from the "enemy camp."
Pictures of Hassan Nasrallah, the late leader of the Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut days earlier, hang above a stall as people shop in Damascus' Sayyida Zeinab district on Sept. 29, 2024.
He said there is no doubt that if Hezbollah captured Israeli women, they would treat them the same way as the enslaved Syrian women. Phares added that if Hezbollah captured a kibbutz, village or town in Israel, one "can expect that they will kill the males and the capture the women. Some would be raped and killed and other Israeli women would be kept by Hezbollah."
Hezbollah is not different from the Islamic state in applying jihadi ideology, said Phares. Hezbollah "is a global threat. Look at how they treat their own women and how they separate them and organize them in the service of jihadists."
Braude said that "'Hezbollah’s Hostages' debuted on Sept. 16, one day before pagers exploded across Lebanon. A new episode debuts every Monday through Nov. 4. In forthcoming episodes, we will probe the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeh, just outside Beirut, with help from Shi’ite civilians who live there."
He added "Dahiyeh is the shadow capital of Lebanon — home of Hezbollah’s intelligence apparatus, politburo, and prisons — as well as the central node to all Iran’s proxies in the region, from the Houthis of Yemen to Iraq’s militias to Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas. Yet the same landscape is also home to some of Hezbollah’s many opponents – and in later episodes, we meet them too: Shiite veterans of the countrywide 2019 street protests, who dared to demand a different future; civic activists striving to end the war on Israel, liberate young minds, and restore the rule of law in Lebanon."
Fox News' Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.
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