So Enlightened Of You To Ignore My Words And Say I Kill Jews Over The Lack Of A Diplomatic Horizon

By Hussein Jibril, stabbing attack planner

Many of our apologists are educated people, which makes it a little strange to have them disregard what we actually say about violence against Jews and attribute it to something else. That must be what enlightened people do  – ignore my actual words about ridding Palestine of the filthy Jew and claim the violence is born of frustration at some elusive diplomatic horizon for a non-violent resolution to a century-old conflict. Enlightened.

Really, it’s fine. I don’t have a problem with you pretending I said something different from, “Kill the Jews,” “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” “Hitler should have finished the job,” or something of that ilk. It’s important for our cause that you maintain the pretense, because it plays better in the West than the unvarnished Jew-hate that genuinely drives the conflict. Just don’t expect me to come to you afterwards seeking friendship, because there is no WAY I can expect you to actually listen to me when I have something to say.

In the end, I can’t see you as anything but a tool – useful one, I admit – rather than someone with whom I can share a real connection. If you really cared about me, or even about my values, you would listen to me when I express what I want. What I want is to subjugate the Jews and restore the superior status of Islam, but you keep insisting that’s not what I mean. We can never be friends in any true sense, just people who have some overlapping goals. That’s unfortunate. You must see me as a tool to achieve your ends, or you’d be listening openly instead of overlaying your prejudices on my words. It’s mutual, then.

Are you going to pretend that if and when my people and I succeed in throwing off the yoke of Jewish self-determination, I’m going to show you any respect or consideration? I hope not, because that expectation will just be irritating. If you think your current behavior as a useful idiot will shield you when the bigoted, repressive society I represent seizes control, you’re not very enlightened at all. One might even say racist, as if we Palestinians are incapable of saying what we mean, and need you and your colleagues to interpret our rhetoric for the rest of the West. By then you will exhaust your utility, and can be dispensed with. There will be no friendship to which you can appeal, because you don’t show, and never have shown, anything resembling the attention and respect that marks real friendship.

They say Muslim culture never went through the European Enlightenment. You make it look like we dodged a bullet.

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