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Martyrdom beckons Lebanese teen, but she really wants to direct (Movies or Martyrdom?)
LA Times ^ | January 13, 2009 | Borzou Daragahi

Posted on 01/13/2009 12:15:45 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

Reporting from Tyre, Lebanon -- Hiba Qassir dreams of making movies. She's ambitious and precocious enough. At 18, she's taught herself how to edit video and sound on a computer, and has her sights set on directing gripping social and psychological dramas.

But if the movie business doesn't work out, that's OK. She has other dreams: perhaps to become a cop or a pilot. Or maybe a suicide bomber.

"Martyrdom is the shortest way to heaven, and the history of martyrdom is not like any history," Hiba says. "It made victory. We wouldn't have achieved victory without these martyrdoms."

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemite; deathcult; educationfordeath; islam; jihad; jihadist; latimesbias; lebanon; menatldisease; mentaldisease; proterrorist; suicidebomber; terrorism; usefulidiot; waronterror; waronterrorism; whywefight; zealot
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1 posted on 01/13/2009 12:15:46 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Clearly their “allah” is a euphemism for Satan.

Only a satanic demon would compel people to kill themselves in order to kill others, especially the most innocent and helpless of victims, in order to gain “paradise”.

For Satan, this is a win-win.


2 posted on 01/13/2009 12:18:27 PM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

How good would any movies be that are churned out by this tool of evil? I vote martyrdom - and sooner rather than later. May she die en route to a failed attack.


3 posted on 01/13/2009 12:19:51 PM PST by AbeKrieger (Clomppity clomp.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I would hardly describe the desire to blow yourself up amongst innocents as being “precocious !”


4 posted on 01/13/2009 12:20:51 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing! I'm a doctor, and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I know that was on MY list of possible careers when I was a lad.

I guess it’s a good thing I got accepted to Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering then, eh?

Otherwise I might have ended up like.... Micahel Moore.


5 posted on 01/13/2009 12:22:06 PM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Westbrook

Allah is Satan. They worship the Moon God, that’s why they have the crescent as their symbol. The Moon God is Satan. And you’re right, that’s how they can be so vile and viscious, and that’s why the world defends them and comes to their aid. Satan is of this world.


6 posted on 01/13/2009 12:22:11 PM PST by FrdmLvr (What fresh hell is this?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
"Martyrdom is the shortest way to heaven..."

What a selfish statement. Disregarding everything else that is disturbing about her ideas, and there's plenty, this one just stuck out at me. So, attainment of Heaven is that easy, huh? Just kill some infidels and you're in. And that's the quick way. Otherwise, you might have to work at it. You might have to be a good person or something distasteful like that.

How very enlightened.

7 posted on 01/13/2009 12:23:01 PM PST by ronnyquest ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Westbrook

Hmm, Director or suicide bomber?

She would do well in Hollywood.


8 posted on 01/13/2009 12:23:22 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: AbeKrieger

Of course, she could always combine both careers and make movies that really bomb.


9 posted on 01/13/2009 12:23:36 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (I would compare Harry Reid to a horse's rear, only I don't want to insult horses.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

what victory is she referring to?


10 posted on 01/13/2009 12:24:31 PM PST by GeronL (sanity prone freeper)
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GUILTY

11 posted on 01/13/2009 12:24:55 PM PST by evets (beer)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Maybe she can be in a Tom Cruise movie... That's kinda like death...
12 posted on 01/13/2009 12:25:03 PM PST by gridlock (QUESTION AUTHORITY)
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To: ronnyquest

Their heaven has nothing like our heaven. Theirs is like a whorehouse with all the sins you can’t do on Earth.


13 posted on 01/13/2009 12:26:23 PM PST by GeronL (sanity prone freeper)
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To: FrdmLvr

By all accounts, Allah was the most powerful of the Sand Giins that were in the Pagan Temple in Mecca when Mo did his seven laps around it. A Giin is a demon, and WHO is the most powerful demon?


14 posted on 01/13/2009 12:33:14 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Hope she chooses martyrdom. One less nutjob for us to worry about.

Worsecase scenario:

She moves to Hollyweird and becomes a top producer of films like: “Shooting the Infidel,” “Blowing up Jewish Children,” “How I met Allah at an Arms Factory,” “Dhimmis are for Dying,” “Paradise Came to Me in a Explosion” and “The Stoned Adulteress”

The leftist movie critics would go wild for her.

15 posted on 01/13/2009 12:34:23 PM PST by ZULU ( God, guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Aspiring filmmaker Hiba Qassir is about to graduate from a Hezbollah-backed high school. She loves movies, but would give up her career dream if offered the chance to be a suicide bomber..."Martyrdom is the shortest way to heaven, and the history of martyrdom is not like any history," Hiba says. "It made victory. We wouldn't have achieved victory without these martyrdoms."

False.

Killing YOURSELF does not make you a martyr.

dictionary.com: martyr

noun
1. a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
2. a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause: a martyr to the cause of social justice.
3. a person who undergoes severe or constant suffering: a martyr to severe headaches.
4. a person who seeks sympathy or attention by feigning or exaggerating pain, deprivation, etc.
–verb (used with object)
5. to make a martyr of, esp. by putting to death.
6. to torment or torture.
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.

n. [AS., from L. martyr, Gr. ma`rtyr, ma`rtys, prop., a witness; cf. Skr. sm[.r] to remember, E. memory.]
1. One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr. --Chaucer.
To be a martyr, signifies only to witness the truth of Christ; but the witnessing of the truth was then so generally attended with persecution, that martyrdom now signifies not only to witness, but to witness by death --South.
2. Hence, one who sacrifices his life, his station, or what is of great value to him, for the sake of principle, or to sustain a cause.
Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr ! --Shak.
Martyr
Mar"tyr\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Martyred; p. pr. & vb. n. Martyring.]
1. To put to death for adhering to some belief, esp. Christianity; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession. --Bp. Pearson.
2. To persecute; to torment; to torture. --Chaucer.
The lovely Amoret, whose gentle heart Thou martyrest with sorrow and with smart. --Spenser.
Racked with sciatics, martyred with the stone. --Pope.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

The Christians in Saudi Arabia or the muslims who convert AWAY from Islam to another faith are MARTYRS when they are killed for refusing to denounce their faith.

What THIS woman describes is NOT martyrdom. It is zealotry.

dictionary.com: zealot

n.
One who is zealous, especially excessively so. A fanatically committed person.
Zealot A member of a Jewish movement of the first century A.D. that fought against Roman rule in Palestine as incompatible with strict monotheism.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

zealot
c.1300, "member of a militant 1st century Jewish sect which fiercely resisted the Romans in Palestine," from L.L.
Zelotes, from Gk. zelotes "one who is a zealous follower," from zeloun "to be zealous," from zelos "zeal" (see zeal). Extended sense of "a fanatical enthusiast" first recorded 1638.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper


16 posted on 01/13/2009 12:34:26 PM PST by weegee (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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To: ZULU

Heck, Roger Ebert would probably divorce his current wife so he could MARRY her.


17 posted on 01/13/2009 12:36:34 PM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: GeronL
Their heaven has nothing like our heaven. Theirs is like a whorehouse with all the sins you can’t do on Earth.

You MEAN...

?????

18 posted on 01/13/2009 12:37:40 PM PST by weegee (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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To: weegee

lol


19 posted on 01/13/2009 12:39:43 PM PST by GeronL (sanity prone freeper)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
She wants to learn about the world, to travel. That's why she eagerly took up the temporary job of playing English-speaking tour guide for the three-week martyrdom exhibit, a chance to interact with foreigners and dignitaries

I think that all nations should be on the travel watch for a pro-terrorist "tourist" who dreams of killing herself with a bomb in jihad.

20 posted on 01/13/2009 12:42:00 PM PST by weegee (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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