Sadik Froukh
Overview
Sadik Froukh celebrated Hamas terrorist war crimes against Israeli civilians in October 2023 while giving a sermon at a Muslim Student Association (MSA) prayer service. The MSA chapter at the University of Illinois Chicago (MSA at UIC) hosted the sermon.Froukh’s delivered his sermon in the wake of a series of Hamas terror atrocities and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023.
The Hamas terror attacks left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 2] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
Celebrating Hamas Terrorist War Crimes
On October 13, 2023, Froukh gave the sermon at a Friday prayer service run by MSA at UIC, where he addressed the October 7, 2023 terror attacks. The meeting took place on the UIC campus.In his sermon, Froukh said [00:00:01]: “Today, I stand here…with a smile on my face…with pride, and honor, and dignity, and happiness, with the recent events...Over the past six days, we have witnessed a series of attacks…carried out by sincere, courageous brothers…that are working for the sake of Allah. And the things that they have done has brought pride and victory to the ummah [Muslim nation].”
Froukh continued [00:00:53]: “We are ready…to go through any battle. And we will stay on this path until we die on this path.”
Froukh then said [00:01:11]: “Those in Gaza know for a fact that the best way to leave this world is fighting for the sake of Allah. That’s why you see them fighting like fierce warriors. You don’t see them like cowards, as the enemy, running away from battle.”
Froukh added [00:01:24]: “And we will not stop until either we see victory with our own eyes, or we die upon that path.”
Froukh also said [00:01:31]: “They call the fierce warriors, they call the mujahideen in Gaza, fighting for the sake of Allah, defending the third holiest land, looking for its liberation, fighting for its liberation, they call them terrorists.” Froukh then claimed [00:01:45] that Israelis were not “innocent civilians.”
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, about 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
As of December 25, 2023, Hamas had fired over 10,600 missiles from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack. While Hamas was the main group involved, members of other terror groups also joined in the atrocities.
Many Palestinian civilians, including women and children, also participated in the attack. In several instances, Gazans who worked in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
In a December 2023 poll, 57% of Gazans and 82% of Palestinians in the West Bank supported the terror attacks. 42% of Gazans were supportive of Hamas rule, up from 38% before the attacks, and 44% in the West Bank supported Hamas, up from 12%.
Hamas began by launching thousands of rockets at Israel and using motorized paragliders “to infiltrate Israeli territory and secure terrain.” Terrorist ground forces destroyed parts of the border fence with Gaza, murdering and kidnapping soldiers.
Terrorists then turned their attention to 22 communities around Gaza, where they went house to house to savagely murder, mutilate and kidnap anyone they found. They executed children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.
Terrorists beheaded children and babies, and massacred entire families, burning some alive who hid in their homes. Hamas terrorists kicked around the heads of beheaded victims like soccer balls. Israelis between the ages of three and 85 were kidnapped and taken forcibly to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.
Over 360 unarmed young men and women were surrounded and slaughtered at one music festival alone. Bodies were publicly desecrated, with some dragged through the streets of Gaza, then beheaded.
Women were raped next to the bodies of dead friends. Some were raped and then shot in the head. Others, including young girls, were raped and murdered or mutilated in other ways. Israeli officials opened an unprecedented investigation into the widespread sexual assault. Forensic analysis of corpses showed evidence of torture and rape.
Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off legs and raping the corpses of murdered victims.
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
The atrocities were acknowledged as the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, including by U.S. President Joe Biden, who also compared Hamas to ISIS. Hamas attacked on the annual holiday of Simchat Torah, which that year was on Shabbat, the weekly Jewish Sabbath.
The Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians are crimes against humanity according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The mass murder generated great sympathy for Israel from many countries but led to countless celebrations among Palestinians and anti-Israel organizations in America that back the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Hamas called the October 7, 2023 terror attacks “Al-Aqsa Flood,” a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before Israel was founded in 1948. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
Biographical Information
As of January 1, 2024, Froukh was a member of MSA at UIC.Also as of January 1, 2024, Froukh was listed online as a student in the College of Engineering at UIC. He was also listed [p. 5] as a student at UIC in Fall 2022.
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MSA
The MSA was established by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of "spreading Islam as students in North America." A 2004 FBI investigation uncovered an internal Muslim Brotherhood document in which a brotherhood leader identified the MSA as "one of our organizations."
The MSA reportedly has “nearly 600 chapters” located in the United States and Canada, and is “the most visible and influential Islamic student organization in North America,” boasting conferences, special events, publications, websites and other activities.
The organization includes a number of previous chapter presidents with explicit links to terrorist groups. Included are al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (Colorado State University), Somali al-Shabaab militant leader Omar Shafik Hammami (University of South Alabama) and Pakistani Taliban recruiter Ramy Zamzam of the MSA's Washington, D.C. council.
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Infamous Quotes
“Today, I stand here…with a smile on my face…we have witnessed a series of attacks…carried out by sincere, courageous brothers [of Hamas]…And the things that they have done has brought pride and victory to the ummah [Muslim nation].”
“We are ready…to go through any battle. And we will stay on this path until we die on this path…We will not stop until either we see victory with our own eyes, or we die upon that path.”
