Bibas Babies' Kidnapping and Muslim Dr.'s Response

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If a Muslim physician denounces Hamas’ massacre on October 7, can Mainline Christians hear (shema שׁמע) her voice and stop blaming the massacre on “the occupation”—stop blaming Israel for Hamas’ deeds? Please read more below--Dr. Kathleen J. Rusnak

The Muslim world speaks: Hamas must meet its end

Dr. Qanta A. Ahmed

Though I am not Israeli, and I am not Jewish, the anguish of the Bibas family is mine. I am devastated by the return of the bodies, the babies’ remains separated from those of their mother, which Hamas withheld for a further day. These are the most agonizing events since that October 7th day.

This unforgivable crime, perpetrated on infant Jews and their mother, clarifies to the world the depravity of Hamas and the Palestinian civilians who abducted them. That this act was only one amid thousands of acts perpetrated with zeal, ecstasy and abandon on October 7 remains incomprehensible.

Walking through devastated home after home in October 2023, I followed the footsteps of the dead. I moved slowly, methodically, examining the scenes of murder, torture, sexual violation and abduction. Later, I spent hours with Dr. Chen Kugel and Dr. Nurit Bulbit at Abu Kabir (Israel’s National Forensic Center in Jaffa) where I witnessed autopsies of the murdered, and, as a physician, examined the anatomy of lethal, genocidal Islamism.

Islamism does indeed have an anatomy writ large.

Its signature is carved deep in flesh wounds; charred black in furnaces of bones and teeth; imprinted in swollen wrists restrained, even in death, with electrical cables and zip ties; perforated in the peppercorn spray of gunshot wounds, tiny at entry, cavernous at exit; ripped asunder in the blasts of grenades and cascades of their shrapnel; handwritten in the bloodied calligraphy of frenzied stab wounds; chiseled deep in the murderous handiwork of the hatchet’s swing. Sometimes Islamism’s signature was legible only with radiology, the annihilation so absolute. But the seal is eternally the same: the silenced anatomy screamed of Islamism’s elimination of the Jew.

No one spared. Mercy to no being. Neither woman, child, nor infant, not even countless animals, saved from Islamism’s barbarism. All, eradicated.

For Palestinians, this is a tragedy of staggering proportions. October 7 stains the Palestinian people with a broad brush, and permanently so. Your terror, your barbarity, your monstrous zeal leave a permanent brand not only on Israel and the Jew, but on each of you. Palestinian acts have stained even pristine Islam. You appeal for the world’s mercy, aid, intervention, humanity, yet you gather around the tiny Bibas coffins in a ghoulish display at the handover of the baby hostages inside coffins lined with propaganda. You cheer and gawk and parade, defiling even corpses of babies. Your hatred dehumanizes you and debases all of humanity.

Hamas committed the unforgivable. Yet Hamas was not alone. Countless survivors and eyewitnesses, men, women, and even children have testified to me that Palestinian civilians sanctioned, supported and joyously participated in this atrocity. And because you are Muslim, you stain me.. . 

Dr. Qanta A. Ahmed is a British-American physician who came to prominence as a doctor specializing in sleep disorders. She has also worked as an author, women's rights activist, journalist, and public commentator.

Ahmed is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants.[2] She grew up in London, and graduated from the University of Nottingham. She went to New York City for medical training in 1992. Without a US visa to extend her stay, she left to practice in Saudi Arabia for a year. She wrote down her daily experiences as a woman practicing medicine, and published them in a book. In June 2013, Ahmed visited Israel, speaking at universities and research institutes around the country.

Ahmed became a US citizen in 2015, while maintaining her British citizenship. She currently resides in New York City.

The Rev. Dr. Kathleen J. Rusnak is a Lutheran Pastor, a Holocaust Scholar, and a Theological Specialist on Judaism and Israel.

From Dr. Rusnak: Follow my Blog for insights into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an admittedly complicated situation. Indeed, it is complicated, and there are a lot of misconceptions and misinformation. My goal is to describe and define some of the elements of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict in terms of politics, history, and theology - including analysis of the October 7th Massacre, the hostage situation, and the subsequent global focus.