Posted on 11/26/2006 7:30:16 AM PST by knighthawk
It was only a matter of time. Depraved Palestinians first sent young adult men wearing explosives to blow themselves up on Israeli buses and in pizza parlors.
Then came the phenomenon of young women doing the same. Now a grandmother has chosen this fiendish way of death. Fatma Omar An-Najar was a mother of nine and grandmother of more than 30. Her suicide in the Gaza Strip lightly injured three Israeli soldiers, so she failed to take "infidels" with her. But that is of little comfort. The use of a grandmother means more horror is coming.
With teenagers as young as 16 already blowing themselves up, children are next in line to become "martyrs."
Terror masterminds are brainwashing a new generation in Muslim countries. Everything from animated cartoons to educational programs to textbooks urge young people to kill and die for Islam. Clerics preach that the fastest way to get to Paradise is Shahada, or to die for Allah. Those who do are called shahids and children as young as 8 are drinking this murderous Kool-Aid.
Newspapers, television, the Internet and even music videos routinely extol the virtues of a violent death. A show on Palestinian TV involving two 11-year-old girls offers a chilling example. According to a transcript and video clip provided by an Israeli-based group called Palestinian Media Watch, the show, which first aired in 2002, features an interviewer talking with the bright, normal-looking girls.
Interviewer: You described Shahada as something beautiful. Do you think it is beautiful?
Walla: Shahada is a very beautiful thing. Everyone yearns for Shahada. What could be better than going to Paradise?
Interviewer: What is better, peace and full rights for the Palestinian people or Shahada?
Walla: Shahada. I will achieve my rights after becoming a shahid. We won't stay children forever.
Interviewer: Okay, Yussra, would you agree with that?
Yussra: Of course. It is a good [sweet] thing. We don't want this world, we want the afterlife. We benefit not from this life but from the afterlife ....
Interviewer: Do you actually love death?
Yussra: Death is not Shahada.
Interviewer: No, I mean the absence after death, the physical absence, do you love death?
Yussra: No child loves death. The children of Palestine adopted the concept that this is Shahada. They believe that Shahada is very good. Every Palestinian child, say someone aged 12, says, O Lord, I would like to become a shahid.
The spread of the culture of suicide - "martyrdom" to adherents - is the most disturbing trend in the Muslim world. Starting with Hezbollah in Lebanon in the early 1980s, it has been adopted as a legitimate weapon by both Sunnis and Shiites in numerous nations, especially Iraq.
Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, recently gave a lecture at Manhattan College to document how a celebration of suicide bombers has taken root among Palestinians in everyday life. He told of how one soccer league for 14-year-olds named its teams after suicide bombers. Wafa Idris, the first female suicide bomber, became a heroine to many Palestinians after she blew herself up and killed an 81-year-old Israeli man and wounded 100 others four years ago.
Marcus, citing a textbook for eighth-graders that says "your enemies seek life and you seek death," called this sewer of propaganda "an impediment to peace."
That's an understatement. For years, conservative Israeli politicians were criticized when they claimed that "we don't have a partner for peace." When grandmothers strap explosives to themselves, and when children are taught to follow, the world must finally understand what they, and we, are up against.
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Interestingly (it's my understanding that) suicide martyrdom was exclusively a Shia doctrine, and explicitly rejected as contrary to Islam by Sunnis for hundreds of years. Yes, even Sunnis extolled fearlessness of death in battle as a virtue, and celebrated those who displayed such and lost their life as martyrs. But there's a huge difference between being willing to die and specifically intending to do so as an essential and integral part of your attack.
What happened (I presume) is that Sunnis observing suicide attacks by Shia in Southern Lebanon decided it was a damn good way to slaughter Jews, and so effectively decided to overthrow hundreds of years of religious precedence in favor of murdering more Jews. This is a pretty strong indication of the current pathology in Islam, and how it's driven in large measure by Judenhass.
Actually, no I do not know that. That is how they are represented by the MSM. Since I have absolutely no contact with any, I cannot say they are otherwise.
That is how they are represented by the MSM
and of course we all know they always tell the whole story.
Toddlers aren't effective suicide bombers.
It takes them too long to crawl toward the Israelis.
And half of the time, they take a nap halfway through.
:-P
Only time will tell.
USC, and they got their asses kicked. Howdy, John!..............FRegards
But did they beat the spread?
Dunno - I don't bet on sports. Only on Poker............FRegards
What I think would be "a very beautiful thing" would be for Israelis to say that they acknowledge the threats against them as open declarations of war and then cut loose with everything they have on all those who have opined for Israel's destruction. No holding back for world opinion, just do whatever it takes. I am sick of this putrid religion, this cult of death, destruction and mayhem and it's killing of innocents and turning innocents into killers.
Hate to tell you this, but the world will never understand what you are up against, because the world is becoming infected by the same unreasonable hatred.
The world is siding with the Palestinians.
An interesting point is that the use of men as suicide bombers quit when America invaded Iraq. At that point, the suicide bomber rate trailed off to almost nothing. And also at that point the use of women and children began.
That is simply because all the Palestinian men are on the way to Iraq, and the women and children cannot travel under the rules of Islam.
You want to know who is blowing up our troops in Iraq? The answer is obvious really.
After all the children have had their fun day of martyrdom at Paliland, they will be gone... blown into particles of flesh , bone and pulverized organs, and no longer a threat to anyone, solving the problem.
Their proud parents can look at old photos of their children as they contemplate the lunacy of the self-extinction of their people.
Historians can write monographs describing how the theme park offered a solution to the madness that led to its institution. And we will all be the better for it. Just a modest proposal.
You are confusing Iraq with Israel.
It is certainly possible that there is distinct difference between Iraq and Israel in the pattern of true suicide bombers versus those that are victims of family hostage situations. The yellow-dog journalists in our media are NOT unbiased and should more correctly be termed propaganda merchants or even pushers instead of journalists, as in Pulitzer Propaganda Pusher Prize. My source in Baghdad is reliable and is firm in the stated position. Given the journalistic dishonesty of our media, how can anybody be sure that a substantial fraction of suicide bombers in Israel are not really hostage threats? Remember the days of mob extortion in the US of shop keepers in selected cities across the US. Hell, look at Union dues vs right to work states. Look at building codes and permitting activities in NYC and most other cities now in the US. Government sanctioned and sponsored extortion has become the way of life. Social-nazis and sand-nazis are still cut from the same cloth, and the yellow-dog media are willingly a part of it.
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1111: Palestinian Legislative Council Member 'Umm Nidal' on Saudi Iqra TV: A Muslim Mother Should Raise Her Children for Jihad Interviewer Iqra TV Director-General Critical of Arab TV Channels That Don't Support Martyrdom Operations" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from an interview with Palestinian Legislative Council member "Umm Nidal" Farhat, aired on Saudi Iqra TV, on February 19, 2006. TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1066" (March 10, 2006)
FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "CONVERTS TO TERROR" by Daniel Pipes (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Islamist terror organizations particularly prize converts. They know the local culture and blend in.") (December 6, 2005)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series No. 1032: "REFORMIST SAUDI AUTHOR: RELIGIOUS CASSETTES ADVOCATED JIHAD BY EMPHASIZING MARTYR'S SEXUAL REWARDS" (November 23, 2005)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 983: "COMMANDER OF HAMAS MILITARY WING WOMEN'S UNIT: 'Our Members Yearn for Martyrdom'" (September 9, 2005)
CORRIERE.IT/english: Turin - "TURIN IMAM DEPORTED -- "HE'S DANGEROUS" Accused of praising Bin Laden. Como-based Tunisian activist also expelled." (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The ten children taking part in the ring-o'-roses protest beneath the market clock in Porta Palazzo were all wearing suicide bomber belts. The year was 1997, and that was the first time Bouriqi Bouchta, whose idea it was, attracted Italy’s attention.") (September 7, 2005)
MEMRITV.org/Transcript - Video Clip No. 838 - 8/31/2005: " 8/31/2005 Clip No. 838: "Sheik of Al-Azhar Muhammad Tantawi Explains on Al-Hurra TV When a Suicide Bomber Becomes a Martyr and When He Is Not" (TRANSCRIPT SNIPPET: "Following are excerpts from an interview with Sheik of Al-Azhar Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, which aired on Al-Hurra TV on August 31, 2005")
MEMRI TV.org - Clip No. 843 - Transcript: "SAUDI IQRA TV RAISES MONEY FOR PALESTINIAN INTIFADA" (TRANSCRIPT SNIPPET: "Caption: The Saudi committee for support of the Al-Quds Intifada. Account number 98, a joint account in all Saudi banks.") (August 29, 2005)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 909: "BAHRAINI AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST: THE PROPONENTS OF THE SUICIDE IDEOLOGY HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In an article that appeared in the Saudi daily Al-Yawm, titled "The Globalization of Islamic Suicide" author and journalist Sawsan Al-Sha'er wrote that the extremist Islamist groups are taking advantage of global communications to recruit suicide bombers, and predicted the spread of the suicide bomber phenomenon to Britain as well.") (May 17, 2005)
MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Special Report - No.32: "MEMRI TV Project Special Report: Arab and Iranian TV Clips in Support of Suicide Bombing" (September 1, 2004)
JIHAD WATCH.org: "RATIONAL, EDUCATED AND PROSPEROUS: JUST YOUR AVERAGE SUICIDE BOMBER" (May 15, 2004)
SAAG.org - SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS GROUP: "SUICIDE & SUICIDAL TERRORISM" by B. Raman (March 12, 2004)
JIHAD WATCH.org (HAARETZ): "10 SUICIDE BOMBINGS FOILED OVER PASSOVER HOLIDAY" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "One of two Tanzim activists caught at the end of March told interrogators the group that sent them had planned a series of other attacks, including one with a device to which blood infected with AIDS would be attached.") (April 13, 2004)FrontPageMagazine.com: "AFFLUENT GENOCIDE" by Robert Spencer (October 14, 2003)
NEW SCIENTIST.com: "SUICIDE BOMBERS MAY SPREAD DISEASE" (July 24, 2002)
WTVT.com - FOX13 Investigative: "JIHAD FOR KIDS" (February 4, 2002)
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