PMW: Death Worship of Suicide Bombers

IMRA ^ | January 29, 2004 | PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH

[yonif]

In the shadow of the horror of this morning's suicide terror in Jerusalem, PMW is distributing an op-ed article that gives insight into the mind of the suicide terrorist. The article was published today in the Jerusalem Post. All TV quotations cited below in the article have been posted on PMW web site and can be seen by clicking the link below.

Jerusalem Post Op-Ed: January 29, 2004

It's Aspiration, not Desperation

Understanding the Death Worship of the Palestinian Suicide Bomber

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

"I always wanted to be the first woman who sacrifices her life for Allah. My joy will be complete when my body parts fly in all directions."

These are the words of female suicide terrorist Reem Reyashi, videotaped just before she killed four Israelis and herself two weeks ago in Gaza. What is surprising about this horrific statement is that she put a positive value on her dismemberment and death, distinct from her goal to kill others. She was driven by her aspiration to achieve what the Palestinians call "shahada," death for Allah. She had two distinct goals: To kill and to be killed. These independent objectives, both positive in her mind, were goals greater than her obligations and emotional ties to her two children. This aspiration to die, which contradicts the basic human instinct for survival, is at the core of the suicide terrorism fervor. Only when this death worship component is recognized as a basic tenet of Palestinian belief will it be possible to understand the challenges Israel and the world face from suicide terror.

Palestinian society actively promotes the religious belief that their deity craves their deaths. Note the words of a popular music video directed at children, broadcast hundreds of times on PA TV, which depicts the earth thirsting for the blood of children: "How sweet is the fragrance of the shahids, how sweet is the scent of the earth, its thirst quenched by the gush of blood, flowing from the youthful body."

This conviction that the deity thirsts for or craves human death as tribute and sacrifice has its roots in ancient beliefs.

The Bible cites ancient cultures of the Land of Israel: "Their sons and their daughters they sacrifice to their Gods" [Deut: 12]. Even the Israelites were drawn to it: "And they built altars to give their sons and daughters to Molech which God did not command nor consider this abomination [Jeremiah: 32]." As recently as 500 years ago, South American tribes used to leave children to die on mountain tops as presents to their gods. The common denominator driving human sacrifice cults was the belief that the deity craved the death of innocents.

This is precisely the belief that the leaders of Palestinian society are inculcating in their people. Moreover, Palestinians have been taught on PA TV by their religious leaders that they are born for the very purpose of dying for Allah: "The believer was created to know his Lord and to uphold Islam to be a shahid, or intend to be a shahid. If the Muslim does not aspire shahada, he will die as in the Jahiliya [pre-Islam faith]. If we truthfully request it of Allah, He will grant us its rewards even if we die in bed."

This message is of paramount significance. The Muslim is born in order to die the right death, according to Palestinian Islam. Death need not be the termination of life to be prevented, but can be transformed into the ultimate achievement, on the condition it is for the deity. Those who do achieve this death are promised rewards by religious leaders on PA TV: "All his sins are forgiven from the first gush of blood; he is exempted from the torments of the grave (Judgment)... he marries 72 Dark-Eyed [Virgins or Maidens of Paradise]... on his head is placed a crown of honor, one stone of which is worth more than all there is in this world."

EVEN CHILDREN are not spared the indoctrination that the deity wants their deaths. A telling example is the story of 14-year-old Faras Ouda, a boy elevated to heroism by the Palestinian leadership.

Yasser Arafat regularly singles out Ouda as a role model for children, addressing children on TV once as "peers, friends, brothers and sisters of Faras Ouda," another time telling them "This generation represented by your colleague, the hero Shahid, Faras Ouda!" Yet another time he said, "We are saluting to the spirit of our hero Shahid Faras Ouda, Faras Ouda, Faras Ouda!"

What was Faras Ouda's great accomplishment that Arafat elevated him to archetypical role model? The boy's goal in life was to die for the deity, as reported in the PA daily Al-Hayat Al Jadida: "On the day of his death Faras Ouda left his home with a slingshot, after having made himself a wreath decorated with photos of himself and having written on it 'The Brave Shahid Faras Ouda.'

Faras Ouda wanted to die for the deity, achieved it, and thus became Arafat's hero.

Palestinian mothers have been taught to aspire to death for Allah for their children. A mother explained recently on PA TV why she expressed joy upon hearing of her son's death: "A mother makes sounds of joy because she wants him to reach shahada. He became a shahid for Allah Almighty. I wanted the best for him; this is the best for [my son] Shaadi."

PA ideology rejects the value of 'life' that other societies hold supreme. As expressed by a senior historian, professor Issam Sissalem, in a lecture on PA TV: "We are not afraid to die, and do not love life."

Like their adult role models, Palestinian children have learned to see dying for the deity as their goal in life. In a chilling talk show interview on PA TV, two 11-year-old girls explain cheerfully and eloquently what they and their young friends desire:

Walla: "Shahada is very, very beautiful. Everyone aspires to shahada. What could be better than going to paradise?"

Host: "What is better, peace and full rights for the Palestinian people or shahada?"

Walla: "Shahada".

Yussra: "Of course shahada is sweet. We don't want this world, we want the Afterlife. We benefit not from this life but from the Afterlife... Every Palestinian child aged, say 12, says "Oh Lord, I would like to become a shahid."

Public opinion polls indicate that Yussra and Walla represent an overwhelming majority of Palestinian children who embrace this belief. According to three different polls, 70 to 80 percent of Palestinian children aspire to shahada.

In the ancient world, there was widespread belief that the deity wanted humans to die as the ultimate form of worship. People gave their children to the deity of Molech and the Baal. This ancient belief has now returned to plague the world. The world had assumed that the Palestinian suicide terrorist was facing a dilemma of having to choose between the "value" of killing Jews and the value of life. Clearly, this is false.

Killing Jews is one "value." Death for deity is itself a value, indeed, a value greater than life. Seeking shahada is not desperation but aspiration. As the mother explained her joy after her son's death: "I wanted the best for him."

Itamar Marcus is director of Palestinian Media Watch. Barbara Crook, a writer and university lecturer based in Ottawa, Canada, is PMW's North American representative.

www.pmw.org.il/new/bulletin%20Death%20Worship.html to view the TV quotations

[yonif]

Palestinian mothers have been taught to aspire to death for Allah for their children. A mother explained recently on PA TV why she expressed joy upon hearing of her son's death: "A mother makes sounds of joy because she wants him to reach shahada. He became a shahid for Allah Almighty. I wanted the best for him; this is the best for [my son] Shaadi."

What is this US, EU, UN and Russian roadmap trying to seek again?

[TheSpottedOwl]

Check this out.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Palestinian mothers have been taught to aspire to death for Allah for their children. A mother explained recently on PA TV why she expressed joy upon hearing of her son's death: "A mother makes sounds of joy because she wants him to reach shahada. He became a shahid for Allah Almighty. I wanted the best for him; this is the best for [my son] Shaadi.

Anyone who thinks we can reason with such insanity is smoking crack...or wants them to succeed in wiping out Jews.

Any decent human being recoils at the thought of killing innocent children that are being used to shield criminals, but I'm starting to rethink my position.

[Nix 2]

Amalek, Owl. Since the time before Saul. The *non-innocent.*

[TheSpottedOwl]

Amalek, Owl. Since the time before Saul. The *non-innocent.*

Yeah, that's why I pinged you. This article backs up your post to me.

[TheConservator]

The Palestinians appear to be working hard at becoming the first people in the history of this sorry planet to whom the phrase justifiable genocide could be properly applied.

After all, it appears it would make them quite happy if they were killed to the last man and woman.

Let Allah be praised.

[Prime Choice]

Boy, are those chumps in for a rude awakening in the Hereafter...

[TheSpottedOwl]

Did a google search on Amalek. Pretty interesting.

http://www.aish.com/holidays/purim/haman_heir_to_amalek.asp

Not done looking yet.

[TheSpottedOwl]

After all, it appears it would make them quite happy if they were killed to the last man and woman.

They're just unbelievable. Maybe we should help them achieve their goals.

[tkathy]

It seems they are in the throes of some psycho-sexual orgasmic frenzy. There is a bizarre sexual side to this from a religion that rigidly regulates sexual activity elsewhere.

[TheSpottedOwl]

http://www.ortzion.org/Amalek.html

This is the best link I've found. I've read about Esau and Jacob, but don't remember anything about Amalek. This makes a good case regarding Palestinians.

[DarthMaulrulesok]

The problem is not that Islamic terrorists are willing to die. The problem is that (so far) the US and Israel are not willing to kill enough of them and their supporters, trainers, followers, etc.

[Nix 2]

Owl,
Amalekite is like the word *Kleenex.* The Amalekites were not Edomites, (Esau,) they were Ishmaelites. Amalek was the first people who mounted a sneak attack on the Israelites leaving Egypt. They attacked from the rear when the Israelites were dead tired and hungry, when the oldest, the women, and youngest amongst them were at the rear, and the warriors were up front for protection.
It was the first time in the OT that G-d ever reminded Israel to NEVER FORGET what had been done to them by these people.
Afterwards, the order was given that some of those the Israelites would cross paths with, should be left alone, the descendants of Esau being amongst them because Esau and Jacob had made their peace before the days of Egypt. They were the Edomites, bronze-skinned peoples. Edom means red.
Other peoples, made up of the halfbred Ishmaelites, the Lord ordered the Israelites to destroy utterly, and through generations, up to and beyond Saul, they did not obey.
They were told not to allow these people to survive nor to leave any breathing thing, but Israel allowed them to live amongst them and became swayed into paganism, idolatry, and other unsavory deeds that G-d had warned them would happen. For this reason, the Children of Israel have never known peace throughout the millenia.
Obadiah rants against the children of Esau, but because they stood and watched their *brother* Jacob be shamed before the world when the Romans and Assyrians invaded. Esau and the Edomites were not Amalek.
Just as tissues became known as *Kleenex,* Islam and its variants who act exactly like the ancient Amalekite, cowardly, murderous, barbaric, and sneaky, they being the ones who advised Hitler on his Final Solution, ALL became known as Amalek..and are known as such even more today.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Amalekite is like the word *Kleenex.*

I'm trying to get a sense of exactly what is meant by Amalekite. I like to read, so I looked up some sources over the last couple of days. Some of it is familiar, while much of it is hard for me to get through.

They were told not to allow these people to survive nor to leave any breathing thing, but Israel allowed them to live amongst them and became swayed into paganism, idolatry, and other unsavory deeds that G-d had warned them would happen. For this reason, the Children of Israel have never known peace throughout the millenia.

Okay I read that, but will it finally be done? Prophecy states that Israel will rise again. Does this have anything to do with that prophecy?

This reminds me of that quote by Santanaya(sp), "Those who forget the past, are doomed to repeat it". I was on the phone with my aunt this morning, and read parts of a webpage on the subject. She knows the Bible better than I do. She wasn't familiar with the Amalekites, so I'm sure she'll be looking it up when she's done with her taxes.

Thank you for sharing the information :-)

[Nix 2]

Okay, you'll find the first mention of Amalek is in Exodus 17:8.
8. Then came Amalek and fought with Israel
in Rephidim....and read it all.

Exodus 17:14-15-16:

14. "And the Lord said unto Moses;
'Write this for a memorial in the book,
and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua;
for I will utterly blot out the remem-
brance of Amalek from under heaven.'
15. And Moses built an alter, and called
the name of it *Adonai-nissi.
16. And he said: 'The hand upon the throne
of the Lord; the Lord will have war
with Amalek from generation to generation.'"

Jump to Exodus 24:20 and you will see the names of those people the Lord warned Israel NOT to abide.
Then...
Deuteronomy 25:
17. "Remember what Amalek did unto
thee by the way as ye came forth out
of Egypt;
18. How he met thee by the way,
and smote the hindmost of thee,
all that were enfeebled in thy rear,
when thou wast faint and weary; and he
feared not G-d.
19. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord
thy G-d hath given thee rest from all
thine enemies round about, in the land
which the Lord thy G-d giveth thee
for an inheritance to possess it, that
thou shalt blot out the remembrance of
Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt
NOT FORGET.

Thereafter comes the war with Amalek, as a people, but the TYPE of people were allowed to flourish. You just gotta sit down and read it to understand.

[Spottys Spurs]

"Shahada is very, very beautiful. Everyone aspires to shahada. What could be better than going to paradise?"

Great! Let's send all of these bastards there, as fast as possible!

[tet68]

Any decent human being recoils at the thought of killing innocent children that are being used to shield criminals,

Any decent human being recoils at the thought of USING
innocent children as shields.

Not the Palestinians.