{"id":7987,"date":"2023-11-22T20:03:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T19:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7987"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:03:17","slug":"european-islamists-ignore-or-celebrate-hamass-october-7-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2023\/11\/22\/european-islamists-ignore-or-celebrate-hamass-october-7-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"European Islamists Ignore \u2014 or Celebrate \u2014 Hamas&#8217;s October 7 Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2023\/10\/26\/european-islamists-ignore-or-celebrate-hamass-october-7-massacre\/hamas-london-protests\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7988\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7988\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/hamas-london-protests.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/hamas-london-protests.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/hamas-london-protests-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Islamists in Europe have overwhelmingly come out in support of Hamas\u2019s October 7 brutal massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>European Islamists Ignore \u2014 or Celebrate \u2014 Hamas&#8217;s October 7 Massacre<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/fwi\/fwi-research\/european-islamists-ignore-or-celebrate-hamass-october-7-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle East Forum<\/a> | November 22, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Islamists in Europe have overwhelmingly come out in support of Hamas\u2019s October 7 massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis. That support has been expressed in different ways: explicitly approving of Hamas\u2019s murder, rape and abduction of Israeli civilians; justifying the crimes by blaming Israel; and by remaining silent and refusing to condemn Hamas publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Some Islamist groups, especially Muslim umbrella groups that benefit from public funding and are official interlocutors between Muslim communities and European governments, have flatly refused to distance themselves from Hamas and resorted to moral equivalency by staking out equidistant positions between the aggressor and the attacked. Others have spread antisemitic propaganda by attempting to relativize or \u201ccontextualize\u201d Hamas\u2019s murderous rampage as a response to Israel\u2019s existence. Still others have issued carefully contrived and often anodyne statements that use linguistic gymnastics to claim they have condemned Hamas when they have not.<\/p>\n<p>Following is a country-by-country roundup of the responses Islamists have offered since Hamas\u2019s October 7 attack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/islamism.news\/news\/european-islamists-ignore-or-celebrate-hamass-october-7-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamists in Europe have overwhelmingly come out in support of Hamas\u2019s October 7 brutal massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[184,52,179,181,245,185,177],"class_list":["post-7987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam-in-europe","tag-belgium","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-islamism","tag-italy","tag-spain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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