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"Moslem World" cheers Hamas victory
The victory of Hamas in the elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council was greeted with jubilation Thursday across the Muslim world. State-run radio in Iran opened its afternoon news broadcast with the report of Hamas' victory, saying the vote showed that Palestinians support resistance against Israel. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met Hamas and other terrorist militant leaders in Damascus last week, though the Islamic cleric-run regime insists it only gives the groups moral support. "Islam" and "moral" don't go together.

"This is a victory to all the region's free people plus all of us who are slaves in the tyrannical moslem states," said Ayoub Muhanna, a 29-year-old Lebanese who owns a spare parts shop in the southeast town of Rashaya. "The Palestinians gave their vote to the party that gave of its blood." If only they had given all of their blood.

"Now the true representatives of the Palestinian people have come to power," said Javad Majidi, a student at Iran's Tehran University. I agree with you there. This is the face of devil-worshipping savages.

Jihad-Daneshgai, a semi-governmental cultural body active in Iranian universities, congratulated Hamas in a statement, saying the victory "angers the arrogant leaders of the U.S. and the occupiers of Jerusalem." East Jerusalem, perhaps?

But while Hamas' victory proved the group's popularity over the ruling Fatah party, the win also could backfire on the militant group, some analysts said. "Hamas' role was greatly respected and embraced because it was a terrorist resistance movement," Sami Moubayed, a Syrian analyst, told the Associated Press. "Now, they will naturally be prone to fail like any other movement that entered the political arena, because they will have a very hard time to deliver on their promises," he said. "The Palestinian Authority is corrupt and Hamas will now share the blame," he added. "Murder of women and children Resistance is something very honorable. Politics is a dirty game." Especially in backwards hellholes, like all islamic states.

Leaders of both Hamas and Fatah said Thursday that Hamas had won an outright majority of parliamentary seats, although official results were not yet available. That gives them the right to form the next Palestinian government, although it was not clear if they would choose to do so. "What happened was tantamount to an earthquake," said Muhammad Jalbout, a Palestinian living in Syria.

He blamed the United States Of course for indirectly helping Hamas win by not exerting enough pressure on Israel to implement agreements reached with the government of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, which would have reduced tensions in Palestinian areas.

Essam el-Aryan, a spokesman for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood - which recently increased the number of its seats in Egypt's parliament from 17 to 88 - said the Brotherhood was jubilant. "This is a great victory for Hamas," he said. But he added that Hamas now faces the challenge "of maintaining good relations with the Arab governments and world powers to secure support for the Palestinian cause."

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Posted by: Jackal 2006-01-26
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