JPost reports:

The current economic turmoil in the US is “divine punishment,” Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday.

During a sermon before Muslim prayers at a Gaza City mosque, Haniyeh said God was chastising America for its support of the Israeli-led blockade imposed on Gaza.

Haniyeh said God’s punishment would also extend to America’s allies.

What Haniyeh won’t publically state, and what the rest of the world already knows, is that Islamism is the root cause of the current economic turmoil in the US.  Islamism was the singular motivating factor behind the catastrophic attacks against the United States on 9-11.  If only Muslims would have followed the suras in their Koran to not retaliate or fight, then the cause of the economic crisis the US is facing wouldn’t have been caused by Muslims pilotting American aircraft as missiles to plow into American skyscrapers to kill and maim.

Muslims like Haniyeh like to think their god exacts punishment on only non-Musims who sin. If that’s the case, then Haniyeh has a lot of explaining to do should he ever have the courage to recall the earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, and mudslides that have caused the deaths of millions of Muslims in the past decade.

Rabbi Noson Weisz says, “taking note of the futility of punishment for its own sake, Jewish tradition teaches that all Divine punishment is therapeutic, and all human punishment is defensive. God’s punishments are in the nature of painful operations required to remove a spiritual cancer, and the court-ordered punishments of the Torah are all based on the principle of “you shall destroy the evil from your midst” (Deut. 13:6). This phrase is mentioned in the Torah no less than seven times, always in connection with capital punishment. Untreated evil is a festering sore that destroys healthy societies. The execution of evildoers is to be regarded as a defense mechanism.”

Haniyeh should learn that the real God of Abraham says that all physical violence is rooted in spiritual evil.

In a society intolerant of baseless violence inflicted on defenseless victims, Muslims would not perpetrate homicide as part of their political ideology.  When society tolerates evil people, it raises the ceiling of what is considered conceivable behavior by those prone to violence, and ultimately this tolerance translates directly into injury inflicted on the innocent.

The Torah commands us to defend ourselves against such evil by destroying it from our midst.

Haniyeh has a lot to learn about the real G-d of Abraham.

It is against God’s law to slaughter innocent people who are doing no harm. And even when such slaughter can be justified under God’s law, it is still wrong to punish the guilty except in the special case when such punishment amounts to self-defense.

The perpetrators of the terrorist acts against the United States were not defending themselves against any form of onslaught, and therefore there is no possible way to defend their actions or to view them in any light other than pure evil.

In contrast, the United States is in precisely this position of needing to defend itself and its citizens against an evil onslaught. Any society that tolerates the granting of martyr status to terrorists is an evil society. According to the Divine rules that apply to this world, such a society is culpable as a whole.

By Jewish standards, a nation has every right — and even moral obligation — to impose God’s laws and punish the evil-doers, even if it is impossible to separate the innocent from the wicked, and inevitably some innocent bystanders must suffer.

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