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.
Unfortunately, one of those girls is also "celebrated" here in the USA - her picture is on the cover of the latest Newsweek.
The followers of Islam are modern day Aztecs.
They are both fascists, and nothing more.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
This is a very clever (and pithy) observation. BUMP!
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