[Renderofveils]

“Our battle is against the Israeli occupation and our only concern is to restore our rights and serve our people. We have no links with any group or element outside Palestine,”

You know... apart from that whole "Saddam paying the families of our suicide bombers" thing.

[indcons]

Hmmm.....interesting. I think the Hamas statement has more to do with the Shia-Sunni split in Islam than any deeper ideological differences over the treatment of infidels. Hamas is primarily a Shia outfit while Al Quaida is a Wahabbi Sunni outfit.

Their aims are the same though. BTW, there is no ideology called "moderate" Islam.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1589104/posts

[plain talk]

“No one has the right, whether a Palestinian or not, to abandon a grain of soil from Palestine which was a Muslim land that was occupied by infidels. It is the duty of every Muslim to work on getting it back,” he said. ...

“We are not a movement that labels people infidels or that abandons them. We are a movement that lives the realities of the people and that uses wisdom ... to turn them to Islam,” he said.

Sounds like they need to get their act together on this infidel thing.

[naturalized]

Hamas does not accept the presence of a Jewish state in the Mideast and has sent dozens of suicide bombers into Israel. The United States and European Union consider Hamas a terrorist organization.

The majority of countries, however, consider Hamas suicide bombers to be merely missionaries for the religion of peace. < /sarc >

[beethovenfan]

Moderate? They still want to destroy Israel. A moderate
Moooslim is one taking his dirt nap.

[Fred Nerks]

“When Hamas entered parliament, it did so under the slogan: Islam is the solution. When the people decided to vote for it, they believed that Islam can solve their economic, social and political problems as well their military battles against the occupation.”

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They want work, toilets that flush, hospitals and schools? Looks like Politics are ruining a perfectly good jihad. (sarc.)

[varg]

The only moderate Muslim is one six feet under.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Hamas is moderate??? Yeah, right. And Richard Simmons is just a little flamboyant.