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Suha Arafat: No Suicide Bombs for My Daughter
NEWSMAX ^ | 4/16/02 | Limbacher

Posted on 04/16/2002 10:38:59 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

Palestinian first lady Suha Arafat tells an Arab language magazine this week that she'd gladly see her son become a suicide bomber in intifada against Israel.

In fact, according to numerous published reports, Mrs. Arafat said "there would be no greater honor" than having her son blow himself to smithereens while strapped to a high explosive.

Alas, poor Suha Arafat doesn't have a son. How convenient.

But what about her daughter, Zahawa, with whom Mrs. Arafat lives in Paris, safely removed from the ongoing Mideast violence committed in her husband's name.

Surely Suha knows that two of the most celebrated recent suicide bombers were teenage daughters of other Palestinian women, girls not a whole lot older than 7-year-old Zahawa.

One of Zahawa Arafat's sisters in the struggle, teenager Ayat Akhras, was even heralded by the Saudi ambassador to Great Britain over the weekend, in a poem that appeared in London's leading Arab language daily, al-Hayat.

"Tell Ayat, the bride of loftiness ... She embraced death with a smile while the leaders are running away from death. Doors of heaven are opened for her," he wrote.

Though age 7 may be a bit young for Zahawa to enter the "Doors of Heaven," surely she could begin training, as so many other Palestinian children pictured recently while dressed in the latest explosive-wear seem to be doing.

Surely the parents of Ayat Akhras must feel extremely "honored" (to use Suha's word) that their own daughter decided to make the ultimate sacrifice.

At least until it occurs to them that while Mrs. Arafat encourages girls like Ayat to vaporize themselves for the cause, she has no such plans for her own daughter.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: suicidebombs; terrorists

1 posted on 04/16/2002 10:38:59 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I recall reading once that the Arafats had a young son with leukemia undergoing treatment in France.
2 posted on 04/16/2002 10:40:52 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Surely Suha knows that two of the most celebrated recent suicide bombers were teenage daughters of other Palestinian women, girls not a whole lot older than 7-year-old Zahawa.

Unfortunately, one of those girls is also "celebrated" here in the USA - her picture is on the cover of the latest Newsweek.

3 posted on 04/16/2002 10:42:16 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
These people are sick. There is no way for Americans to understand or appreciate their culture.
4 posted on 04/16/2002 10:44:06 AM PDT by caisson71
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To: caisson71
There is no way for Americans to understand or appreciate their culture.

The followers of Islam are modern day Aztecs.

5 posted on 04/16/2002 10:58:23 AM PDT by isthisnickcool
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Could it be that Arafat's brand of Islam is really a suicide cult?
6 posted on 04/16/2002 11:07:44 AM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Slyfox
Arafat is about as Islamic as Hitler was Christian.

They are both fascists, and nothing more.

7 posted on 04/16/2002 11:09:03 AM PDT by cicero's_son
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To: caisson71
She's a real class act

Another Mommy Dearest

Yes son, mommy and daddy love you very much. Now shut up and strap this bomb around your chest.

Don't touch anything until you get near a crowd of jews, I don't want to die like them. Of course we love you, now get going before something happens and you blow us up.

8 posted on 04/16/2002 11:12:06 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: chiefqc
You know, deep down this is nothing more than child sacrifices that the pagan countries did to their Gods, this is only packaged under another name...Why do we hesitate to bomb them all when they don't hesitate to bomb even their own children? I think Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have company...
9 posted on 04/16/2002 11:15:08 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Arafat, Suha, Terrorists' tools of evil.
Suha, Arafat and their supporters:


Terrorism from Suha, Arafat and their supporters:


Arafat's wife and Arafat's daughter live in luxury and comfort
as they send other children to die murdering other innocent children.

Suha: "If we (Arafat and me, his trophy wife) had a son
(we only have a daughter) there is no greater honor than to have him be
a suicide bomber.
"

10 posted on 04/16/2002 11:16:26 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: ValerieUSA
Unfortunately, one of those girls is also "celebrated" here in the USA - her picture is on the cover of the latest Newsweek.

To be fair, so is one of the girls she murdered.

As to the article, I only scanned it and can't say whether Newsweek tried to make the case for moral equivalence.

11 posted on 04/16/2002 11:16:27 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Diogenesis
Look at that painting of Arafat behind them. A little artistic license there, I'd say: they gave the little sh*t a real beard instead of pubic hairs.
12 posted on 04/16/2002 11:18:36 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
This is what I posted elsewhere:
I saw the cover of Newsweek in the store this morning - it is a combined picture of two girls - one a teenage Palestinian who murdered several people when she blew herself up in Israel, and the other an Israeli girl who was one of the victims. It was very disturbing to see these two portrayed as equals on the cover. I can see the Palestinians getting their hands on this magazine, ripping off the side with the Israeli girl's picture and posting the cover on their walls to honor the murderer and encourage their own kids to do the same thing.
Our "free press" is dominated by MORONS and LIARS who profit on the misery they perpetuate with their propaganda.
13 posted on 04/16/2002 11:19:17 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: cicero's_son
Arafat is about as Islamic as Hitler was Christian.

They are both fascists, and nothing more.

Worth repeating.

Islam is merely a convenient tool for Arafat and a host of others. A religion that encourages fanaticism, with some weird form of fatalism mixed in, is just what the doctor ordered for a fascist like Arafat and his ilk.

14 posted on 04/16/2002 11:23:14 AM PDT by Fzob
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To: Fzob
Islam is merely a convenient tool for Arafat and a host of others. A religion that encourages fanaticism, with some weird form of fatalism mixed in, is just what the doctor ordered for a fascist like Arafat and his ilk.

Careful! Next thing you know, you might be saying something about how most Islamic people are just normal folks who want to live peacefully. Can't have that!

15 posted on 04/16/2002 11:26:22 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Diogenesis
Thank you for such powerful and revealing images.
16 posted on 04/16/2002 11:41:47 AM PDT by Hibernius Druid
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To: r9etb
Careful! Next thing you know, you might be saying something about how most Islamic people are just normal folks who want to live peacefully. Can't have that!

I would say that many people that live in Isalmic countries are just normal folks that want to live peacefully. And I'm sure many Muslims want exactly what you said, but far too many followers of Islam are hard to classify as normal. "True" Islam is a very disturbing religion that rational people should reject.

17 posted on 04/16/2002 11:51:23 AM PDT by Fzob
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To: isthisnickcool
The followers of Islam are modern day Aztecs.

This is a very clever (and pithy) observation. BUMP!

18 posted on 04/16/2002 11:53:29 AM PDT by AmishDude
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