There are three sins for which the Torah defines not only the act, but the person himself, as an abomination. In many other cases, the Torah describes the action as an abomination, yet stops short of defining the individual as such.

One of these three sins is that of offering one’s child as a human sacrifice to the Molech. The blatant disregard for one’s own child’s life in the name of religion is not merely a reprehensible act. A person who can calmly commit such an atrocity is himself an abomination.

In our modern world, thank God, it is quite uncommon to find parents offering their children as human sacrifices. Society has indeed come a long way since the days of antiquity.

There is, however, a society whose actions are in many ways even worse than those associated with the Molech, yet whose behavior is often justified—or at least minimized—by much of the world.

Fundamental Islamic movements have produced societies in which mothers and fathers willingly sacrifice their own children in an effort to injure and kill those they deem undesirable. These “undesirables” or “heretics” include babies, siblings, parents, and grandparents. Included among them, though certainly not limited to them, are every Jew.

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