In a year marked by tragedy, war, and ideological battles, some unexpected voices are cutting through the noise—Muslims who stand with Israel and denounce Islamist extremism, not with vague words, but with moral clarity.
At a live event in London, hosted by StandWithUs and J-TV, Muslim thinkers Ed Husain and Amjad Taha addressed a packed Jewish audience, offering insight, criticism, and above all, hope.
The event took place just days before the grim revelations that Hamas terrorists had murdered the Bibas children—10-month-old Kfir and his four-year-old brother Ariel. These details hang like a dark cloud over any conversation about peace. And yet, it is precisely in the face of such barbarism that voices like Taha’s shine brightest.
Taha, a prominent Gulf commentator, minced no words: “Nothing can justify kidnapping a baby. No cause, no reason.” Speaking as a proud citizen of the UAE—a country that quickly condemned Hamas’s October 7 massacre—Taha offered a stark contrast to apologists who try to blur the moral lines. For him, Hamas didn’t just attack Israel; it attacked humanity, and even betrayed Muslims by using their suffering as a weapon.
