On August 15, Israeli police arrested Raed Salah, the head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, which is the largest Islamist organization operating within the pre-1967 borders. Salah played a significant role in inciting the most recent violence on the Temple Mount, as Reuven Berko explains:
[Salah] controls an enormous funding empire that pays mercenaries (the men of the Murabitun and the women of the Muribitat) to riot on the Temple Mount, in Jaffa, and at other sites depending on their rate and his orders.
The massive amounts of cash being pumped into the Islamic Movement, as well as its twin sister Hamas, come from global Islamic charities and, indirectly, from Turkey and Qatar. The Northern Branch is an exact copy of its fellow terrorist organizations, all of which have roots in the global Muslim Brotherhood movement: al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Islamic State, and [so forth]. . . .
[Israeli] discussion about Salah’s activity as an inciter and a motivator of terrorist acts is reminiscent of the debates among . . . researchers . . . when Hamas was in its infancy. Many made the mistake of thinking that the ideology, which focused on “talk,” was separate from the actions, which focused on killing. Even today, the West is incapable of comprehending that dawa (proselytizing) is not ideological propaganda, study of the Quran and the hadith, or religious and historical enrichment as the murderous Islamic Movement claims, but rather a system of recruitment and motivation that uses “legitimate” Islamic messages to drive the Islamist terrorist machine.
Read more on Israel Hayom: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=19699