The Party of Satan

Mike L.

The snippet below originally published by Jerusalem Post staff.

Qaradawi slams Hezbollah over military involvement in Syria, says group trying to sow discord in the Muslim world. 

The president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, who previously spoke in defense of Hezbollah and Iran, slammed the Lebanese Shiite organization over its military involvement in Syria, in an interview with Al Arabiya aired on Sunday.

“When Hezbollah was fighting against Israel, I defended it. I stood against the Muslim scholars in Saudi Arabia, the most renowned scholars who warned us against Hezbollah,” Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi said.

He said Hezbollah was the "party of Satan," in a reference to the organization's name, that means "party of God" in Arabic, and accused Hezbollah of trying to sow discord in the Muslim world.

He said Hezbollah was the "party of Satan," in a reference to the organization's name, that means "party of God" in Arabic, and accused Hezbollah of trying to sow discord in the Muslim world.

I always find it fairly amazing when the most obvious facts about the Middle East and the Arab war against the Jews go almost entirely unremarked upon by the mainstream media.  For example, one such fact is that in Syria we have radical Jihadis fighting radical Jihadis.

The first major gain in the rise of political Islam was the 1979 revolution in Iran.  Iran's ally in the region is Syria, despite the fact that Assad is a secular dictator.  Iran's proxy in the region is Hezbollah, "The Party of God," in Lebanon.   Hezbollah, much like the Muslim Brotherhood, is an Islamist regime.

The Muslim Brotherhood, however, is backing the Syrian rebels, many of whom are also part of the larger Islamist network.

Thus we have Sunni radical Jihadis fighting Shia radical Jihadis in Syria, yet this almost never gets referenced.

Also it should be noted, what kind of a "scholar" is it that calls one's political opponents envoys of the devil?  This is emphatically not scholarship as we understand it in the west.  No western scholar would ever refer to any organization as The Party of Satan.  In fact, any number of progressive-left western scholars, such as for example, Judith Butler, think of Hezbollah, and even Hamas, as "human rights organizations" fighting against western imperialism.

The United States should stay out of this civil war.  There are simply no good options here.  We cannot back Assad, because Assad has proven himself not a "reformer," as the deluded Hillary Clinton said, but a dictator willing to use extreme violence against his own people for the purpose of maintaining power.  At the same time the US cannot (or should not) support the rebels because a large percentage of them are radical Jihadis supported by the Brotherhood, which is the granddaddy of the radical Jihad to begin with.

It should also be noted, by the way, that more people have died in the Syrian civil war over the last few years then have died in the entire Arab war against the Jews since 1948.  In fact, were you to consider death counts in war throughout the twentieth century you would find that the Arab-Israel conflict ranks exceedingly low on the list with something over fifty thousand people dead, about two-thirds Arab-Muslim and one-third Jew.

Whatever anyone wants to make of the above facts, I just think that sometimes it is important to acknowledge the obvious.