Posted on 03/08/2006 7:53:16 PM PST by Calpernia
Hate sites for Palestinian children - for 3 1/2 years!
By Laura Mansfield
When CNN contacted me this morning about the reports of a "new" Palestinian kids online magazine, I sent them the information I have collected over the past few years as I have monitored this website and numerous other Arabic language websites.
The results of the interview were aired this evening on CNN during Wolf Blitzer's prime time show, The Situation Room.
The following is an excerpt from CNN's transcript of The Situation Room located here: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/08/sitroom.02.html .
BLITZER: Today, there are some troubling reports of a Hamas-endorsed Web site directed at children that preaches hatred and encourages suicide bombings and terrorism.
CNN has launched its own investigation into the veracity of these reports.
Closely following the story for us is our Internet reporter, Abbi Tatton.
Abbi, what are we learning?
TATTON: Wolf, this is a site that has been getting a lot of attention today, so much so that it's currently down.
It looks like it has been hacked. But what we did earlier today is save up a few of these pages to show you the contents. What are we talking about here?
First of all, the site is clearly aimed at children. There are cartoons all over the place -- this image here, a small child on the back of a horse with a large sword. Also, there are many disturbing images on the site.
As to reports that this site is new, that is not the case. Counterterrorism analyst Laura Mansfield tells us she has been following the contents of this site since it was registered in 2002.
As to whether it's promoting martyrdom, we had senior editor Octavia Nasr here at CNN look around and translate the contents. She says the site talks about the struggle. There are pictures of kids throwing rocks. They're called heroes on the site.
In the context of the struggle, there is glorification of images of suicide bombers. Now, the Beirut-based Web master, Laura Mansfield tells us, does have ties to Hamas, rather than the site being from Hamas itself. We tried to get comment from that Web master and from Hamas, but we were unable -- Wolf.
BLITZER: Abbi, thanks very much. Thanks to our entire Internet team for bringing that to us.
A history of this website over the past four years is available at the Way Back Machine.
Ping!
"Still if the bad guys are pitching hate to kids then there should be some outrage."
Islam has NOTHING else to pitch.
Meanwhile, at the Yale madrassa and the Hahvahd madrassa, everything is peachy. The white male President is being forcibly removed from the Hahvahd madrassa and the Taliban is now in place in the Yale madrassa.
Cool beans.
Laura reported on that too.
http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/default.asp
Former Taliban Foreign Envoy now a member of Yale freshman class
The Yale Bulletin and Calendar for March 23, 2001, announced a debate between a young Afghan man, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi and Yale law professor Harold Hongju Koh.
According to the Bulletin:
Hashemi has represented Afghanistan in several European conferences and countries over the last two years. He has spoken on such topics as his country's three-year drought, the continuing 22-year civil war in Afghanistan and U.N. sanctions against the region, emanating from human rights grievances, drug trafficking and the decision of the Taliban government to offer asylum to suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. Hashemi has spoken at the University of California (UC) at Los Angeles and UC-Berkeley, Pomona College and Diablo Valley College, and will meet with U.S. State Department officials.
Now, five years later, the former foreign envoy for the Taliban, is once again at Yale University.
According to the Yale Herald, Hashemi is now a freshman at Yale, a member of the class of 2009, majoring in Political Science.
According to the Herald:
Hashemi is but one of many older, non-traditional Yalies enrolled in Yale’s Nondegree Students Program, one of two Yale academic programs designed to accommodate students who cannot study full-timedue to other commitments.
Hashemi lives in of-campus housing, half a world away from Quetta, Pakistan, where his wife, Asyah, lives with their five year old daughter, Suraya, and their four year old son, Suleman.
Sunday’s New York Times Magazine included an in-depth interview with Hashemi. It’s very interesting reading, and I’d highly recommend it.
But it doesn’t answer my question: how does a former official of the Taliban end up a student at Yale University?
Good for Laura.
Ping/bump.
Well, he has no green card, so we know he's not working.......so his "other commitments" are....... on-campus recruiting? For the JROTC? (Jihadi Reserve Officer Training Corp[se] ).
While Durbin and Schumer are protecting the anonymity of his phone calls due to lack of demonstrable "probable cause."
Ping for later...
Hamas For Kids
The headline for this story of death cult child abuse is inaccurate; in fact, the Hamas children’s web site the article describes has been in operation for at least a year: Hamas Launches Web Site Encouraging Kids to Become ‘Martyrs’.
It's been around since October 2002.
Here's the first version.
(Hat tip: LGF readers.) link: 40 comments
And their propaganda arm in America? CAIR of course. CAIR: Exposed here;
Unbelievable!
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