Re: Terry Jones Plans Anti Islam Protest
Hamas and Islamic Jihad are a reaction to Israeli occupation. Despite that, Hamas was initially created by Israel, as admitted by Israel’s own leaders, as a divide and conquer strategy against the PLO, a secular, leftist, revolutionary group. And Hamas was founded in 1987.
You must remember that the Palestinian freedom movement initially was made up of secular, Marxist, groups which included many Palestinian Christians. They did plenty of bombings and hijackings as well, and killed a lot more Israelis than there Islamic counterparts could dream off.
The Islamist cause came later.