As civilized people, it's sometimes hard for us to fathom the utter barbarity of which other - well, I hesitate to use the term human, so let's say other members of our species - are capable. Some of us have been to other parts of the world where barbarity is commonplace, and we still have a hard time wrapping our civilized minds around it.

Case in point: After Israel resumed ground operations in Gaza after Hamas balked at giving back the few remaining hostages, some brave Gazans took to the streets to protest Hamas's continued rule. 

Here's what happened to one of them.

Hamas thugs fatally tortured a young Palestinian man protesting their rule — and left his body on his family’s doorstep in a sick warning to other foes in the Gaza Strip, according to police.

Uday Al Rabay, 22, was beaten for four hours and died after he participated in an anti-Hamas protest in the Palestinian territories last week, said a senior officer affiliated with the opposition Fatah party.

“Uday was martyred by the criminals of Hamas. And what’s his crime? He told the truth, because he refused to be silent on injustice, because he did not kneel to Hamas,” said Mazen Shat, a police officer tied to Fatah, to the Telegraph.

The victim’s body was left swollen and bloody in the attack, according to pictures purportedly of Uday that were shared on the messaging app Telegram.

Please note that this young man was not only a Gazan, he was what you would presume Hamas would think of as one of their own - a young man, presumably a Muslim himself. And they beat him to death and left his body for his family to find.

Utter savagery.

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Some of the people who attended his funeral showed great courage, given what had just happened to young Uday.

Gaza has seen major protests in recent weeks against Hamas — the first of their kind since the Islamist terror group seized control of the territory from Fatah, a nationalist party, in 2007.

Uday was allegedly kidnapped by Hamas fighters shortly after participating in such a protest last week.

At his funeral Saturday, attendees allegedly chanted anti-Hamas slogans, according to footage shared on X.

This is the kind of thing so many young skulls full of mush in the United States are supporting. This is the kind of thing that some college professors are supporting. This is the kind of thing that may well be supported by so many of the young, military-aged men that are in our country illegally, thanks to the Biden administration. This is savagery, barbarity of the worst sort, and Hamas, Hezbollah, and groups like them seem to escalate from barbarity to barbarity. There are key large-scale events, like 9/11 in the United States and the October 7th attacks on Israel, but there are also people like Uday, who went to a protest to advocate for getting his home and family out from under the boot of Hamas - and he was tortured to death for expressing that view.

We are engaged in a major conflict. Israel is the front line. The conflict is radical Islam vs. civilization. That is what it is. Europe may well already be lost. The next century may be very uncomfortable. But this is a conflict that civilization cannot afford to lose.

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