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Do Muslim lives matter when killed by Muslims?

10 1
02.01.2024

When was the last time you saw on TV or in the newspapers a picture of a dead Muslim baby who had been killed by a Muslim? The media simply doesn’t show dead Muslim babies killed by Muslims. Is that because there are so few? No! The number of Muslim babies, women and other civilians killed by fellow Muslims is many times greater than the number of Muslims killed by Israel. But every Muslim whose death can be blamed — either rightly or wrongly — on Israel is displayed by Hamas to the willing media to broadcast these images around the world.

The only exception of which I am aware was when Hamas falsely blamed Israel for the bombing of a parking lot adjacent to a Gaza hospital. The media showed dead Palestinian babies and blamed their deaths on Israel. When it became clear that a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket was to blame, much of the media lost interest — except some Arab media that continued to blame Israel.

We really have no idea how many Muslims have been killed by Israel in Gaza. The Hamas-controlled health bureaucracy issues questionable numbers that don’t even purport to distinguish between civilians and combatants. Hypothetically, a majority of the........

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