What I'm about to tell you is very graphic, but it's an image that's so burned into my mind that it's helped me to understand what it is we truly deal with when it comes to Islamic extremism.
I tell you this now so that if you're easily bothered by these things, you can click off now.
If not, you've been warned.
You doubtless remember the days of ISIS and the videos they would release online of prisoners they would kill. They were brutal and meant to inspire terror in your heart and mind. They also wanted you to get angry, because national anger in America usually means retaliation and retaliation usually results in fresh recruits.
Islamic terrorism is far more clever than many people realize, but I digress.
I'd seen videos of beheadings. I won't describe them, suffice it to say that they were brutal and that it would take an absolute animal to do it, but that's what Islamic extremism does to people. It turns people into savages bent on nothing but total domination and the destruction and death of everything and anything that opposes them.
While I can accurately say that I'm desensitized to the brutality of the world thanks in part to my policeman father and growing up during the Wild West of the internet where the worst the world has to offer was easy to find, there was one video that truly horrified me. It was a beheading video like those previously released by terrorists...but this one was carried out by a child.
A young boy who couldn't have been more than 11 or 12 stood in front of a prisoner laying on his stomach and holding a knife. After shouting something, he gripped the man by the hair, brought the knife to the man's neck, and...you can fill in the blanks. The boy placed the head on top of the now-dead body after he was done.
Why do I tell you this story?
Because it truly highlights the single-minded brutality of Islamic extremism. Terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah do not give much thought to humanity, including their own. They serve a god who demands total obedience and the destruction of those who don't submit.
This needs to be understood because there are elements in our modern society that not only fail to understand this, they actively support these groups in either their ignorance or their hatred. You've probably seen pictures and videos of these people yourselves.
Bonchie covered the New York Pro-Hamas Rally on Sunday where you can see this ignorance in action.
Pro-Palestine protesters are in Times Square shouting, “Resistance is justified when people are occupied” pic.twitter.com/nRwnabDFZb
— Caroline Downey (@carolinedowney_) October 8, 2023
These people are so caught up in their first-world lives that they couldn't possibly comprehend what it would be like to live under Hamas' rule. Many of these same people often describe themselves as social justice advocates, feminists fighting the patriarchy, and even LGBT rights activists.
None of these groups would exist if Hamas extended its rule globally. Members of the LGBT community would be thrown off of roofs or hanged, feminists would get a true understanding of what a patriarchy is as the rights of women are stripped away, and the only justice people would get is Sharia, an intolerant and unbending rule of law that harshly punishes anyone who breaks it.
Many of these people have a skewed idea of what religious extremism is. Western leftism has so infected their brains that they think a nuclear family walking into a church on Sunday is the height of terrorism. They see Judeo-Christian beliefs as evil, and as such, are blinded to the realities of the world and the brutality of what lies in regions of the world outside of the U.S. military's influence.
It doesn't help that our culture is currently in the trend of taking a villain and making them into a sympathetic protagonist. You've seen movies released lately like Maleficent, and Cruella, and plays like Wicked, all attempting to paint famous villains as merely misunderstood or deserving of your love.
I'm here to tell you, this sometimes makes for a good twist on old tales, but reality is sometimes what it seems. Evil is evil and good is good. It's not hard to see evil if you're not blinded by the media, the activists, or trendy forms of storytelling.
Islamic extremists aren't freedom fighters. They're not just trying to survive. They're not misunderstood. They're not good. They are evil, and they would happily kill you, their loudest advocate at the college campus, women, children, and everyone you've ever known if it meant the advancement of their cause. They'll have their children kill you too, and put it on camera in order to send a message.
This is not a civilization you're used to. There is no first-world graciousness or expectation of politeness. This is savagery and you saw it on display over the weekend in Israel.
