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On March 2, 2025, pro-Al-Qaeda Bayt Al-Maqdis media outlet released Issue 33 of its Ibnat Al-Islam [Daughter of Islam] women's magazine. The 121-page issue, which is mostly in the Arabic language, with English and French sections, discusses a flurry of jihadi topics. It also includes an article criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to relocate Gazans, among other issues of relevance to Muslim women.[1]
Lead Article: "Imbecilic Trump And Ambushed Displacement"
The opening article, titled "Imbecilic Trump and Ambushed Displacement," authored by female writer Umm 'Amara Al-Muhajira (i.e., the immigrant), lashes out at President Trump for his vision of the future of the Gaza Strip.
The piece described President Trump as a "bully" whose election is one of the upshots of the failure of democracy as a system, with a man in charge mocking and demolishing the democratic establishment - showing the true face of America. The article accuses Trump of impudently blackmailing other countries to remedy a "ruined" America, as with Mexico and Canada, and in his pursuit of other goals.
President Trump's Displacement Plan Is Not New: It Is A Repeated Jewish Demand
In addressing the situation in Gaza, the author argued President Trump employed the same tactic as with Canada and Mexico: threatening forced displacement, emptying the land of its people, and occupying it. The piece notes that such approach is in fact not new, but rather "a repeated Jewish demand, but this time." However, she acknowledged that this familiar tactic is most dangerous this time around, because the Gaza Strip is in a disastrous state and the people of Gaza are the ones bearing the burdens of this catastrophe.
The displacement of people from their land constitutes a "firm tenet" of the Zionist movement since its inception, the author stated, and is part of "expansionist" territorial aspirations that will include parts of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. To support this point, the author cited statements by Israeli figures, including politicians, diplomats, and journalists.
"Accelerated Steps Towards Israel's Achievement Of Its Aspirations, With American Support And Blackmail"
Putting things in a current context, Umm 'Amara argued that the concept of the Greater Middle East, launched in 2004 by President George W. Bush, has always been linked to political and economic initiatives aimed at reshaping the Middle East and North Africa region "to be in line with the interests of the United States and its allies." According to the piece, the steps towards achieving Israel's aspirations are being accelerated, "with American support and blackmail."
"There is an effort to merge the Jewish mind with Arab resources, and impose normalization of ties with Israel on all Arab peoples to achieve economic control over the region."
Egypt's President Abdelfattah El-Sisi's Proposal Is Nothing "But A New Scheme And A New Form Of Siege"
The author also lashed out at Egyptian President Abdelfattah El-Sisi, warning that his anticipated plan for Gaza is only a new scheme and a new form of siege against the people of Gaza, to prevent the threat of Palestinians entering into Egyptian territory. She noted that El-Sisi "must not be unaware of [Theodore] Herzl's vision of a State of Israel that extends from the Nile River to the Euphrates River."
El-Sisi and all leaders in the region know what is "overtly stated in the Zionist Yinon Plan," the author continues, targeting their countries as part of "Greater Israel" that will include Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, and "establishing a number of proxy states to ensure the superiority of Jews in the region," she wrote.
Mobilization For Jihad To Counter Israel's Territorial "Aspirations" And Arab Leaders' "Scheming"
Discussing the ways to counter Israel's "aspirations" and Arab leaders' "scheming," Umm Amarah urged Muslims in the region to prepare appropriately for the upcoming confrontation.
She wrote: "The people who need to prepare most for jihad and master its arts and sciences are the people of Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine. They need to mobilize for a faith-based education that shatters weakness and creates awareness, vigilance, and piety."
The enduring conflict is an individual, filial, and societal responsibility to protect the generations from the campaigns that target the Muslim faith and seek to instill weakness and coexistence with disgrace: "The confrontation with the Jews and the Crusaders is inevitable, and whoever does not prepare for it in all piety, will die humiliated under the hooves of the horses of the nonbelievers."
"The Edifices Of Jihad That Threaten The Zionist-Crusader Projects Have Already Been Erected, And The Mujahideen Are Present Across All The Arenas Of Conflict"
Encouraging people of the region to ready themselves for upcoming confrontations, the author said that the edifices of jihad that threaten the Zionist-Crusader projects have already been erected, and the mujahideen are present all across the arenas of conflict, even if the media disregards this reality: "This is the time of encouraging one another to go forth for jihad, to champion sharia and just retribution, and to raise the word of Allah Almighty."
She concluded the piece by urging Muslims in all fields of media, da'wah [preaching], and jihad to work in harmony to restore and rally around the approach of the Prophet, "to thwart the plot of the Zionists and the Crusaders."
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