Carola Contesse Strauss

As a Muslim Arab, I am disgusted and heartbroken by what I saw across Western cities on October 7, 2026: people celebrating the October 7, 2023 massacre. Glorifying the murder, rape, and kidnapping of civilians is morally bankrupt, inhumane, and a disgrace to humanity. This wasn’t an ISIS or Al-Qaeda camp. This was in Western cities: people openly celebrating a massacre carried out by the filthy Muslim Brotherhood terrorists of Hamas against Jewish children, women, and civilians from all around the world in Israel. Utterly shameful. How did we reach a point where this needs to be explained? An eight-month-old baby was kidnapped. Women were raped. Children were murdered. Families were slaughtered. Human beings were dragged from their homes. No cause justifies this. No country justifies this. No grievance justifies this. Nothing justifies raping a woman. Nothing justifies kidnapping a baby. Nothing justifies murdering innocent people. And to see people in Western cities celebrating, glorifying, excusing, romanticising, or sanitising this horror in the name of “democracy” and “freedom of speech” is beyond disgusting. It is morally bankrupt. Shameful. Depraved. Inhumane. Heartless. Indefensible. What breaks my heart most is that we are even having this conversation. When did rape require a political explanation? When did kidnapping babies become something to celebrate? When did massacring Jews become something people could cheer for in the streets and still pretend they were standing for humanity? There is nothing progressive about celebrating barbarity. There is nothing courageous about glorifying terrorism. There is nothing democratic about cheering a massacre. This is not humanity. This is a moral disgrace. And the fact that anyone can celebrate such suffering should make every decent human being, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or otherwise, feel both heartbroken and furious.