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The corrosive Culture of Hate: Don’t let the publicity whores and exploiters of tragedy take away our turning to prayer We live in dangerous times, times made all the more dangerous by politicians and members of the entertainment industry who exploit them for that self aggrandizement called PUBLICITY. It is high time for the media, both mainstream and social, to cut society a break by following rule-of-thumb order that keeps back all seasoned exploiters of tragedy, allowing authorities and first responders the time to carefully assess when, how and why each and every tragedy happens.

Islam is a religion, and like any other faith, it is internally diverse. Islamism, by contrast, is the desire to impose a single version of Islam on an entire society. Islamism is not Islam, but it is an offshoot of Islam. It is Muslim theocracy. In much the same way, jihad is a traditional Muslim idea connoting struggle—sometimes a personal spiritual struggle, sometimes a struggle against an external enemy. Jihadism, however, is something else entirely: It is the doctrine of using force to spread Islamism. President Barack Obama and many liberal-minded commentators have been hesitant to call this Islamist ideology...

If anyone's needs reminding about the intent and character of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) towards the United States, one only take a look at this photo, taken at a North Korean pre-school in the capital city of Pyongyang, just yesterday.

The ailing father of a Palestinian teenager collapsed in shock Wednesday when reporters brought him the news that his daughter blew herself up in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed two. Ali Abu Salem, 48, who suffers from a heart condition, fell speechless to a couch in the comfortably furnished two-story family home, while his wife, Sahar, wailed at the news of what their 18-year-old daughter Zayneb had done. "Why, why is this happening to us," Sahar asked, her eyes full of tears. An ambulance later arrived to take the distraught father to a Nablus hospital. Relatives said he...

Sunday, September 19, 2004 reports@pmw.org.il> Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin Sept.19, 2004 PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH phone: 972- 2- 625-4140 fax: 972-2- 624-2803 visit our website, click here: http://www.pmw.org.il for further information, contact PMW Director, Itamar Marcus material may be quoted, citing PMW as the source subscribe free to PMW reports, details below Mother Promotes Killing and Death- Return of PA TV Clip By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook Mother of Shahid (Martyr for Allah) gives gun to next son [PA TV Sept 13 -14, 2004] Some of the most prominent violence and Martyrdom promotion clips are returning to PA TV....

A Palestinian boy aged 15 was arrested by IDF soldiers on Thursday at Roadblock 300, the main security checkpoint adjacent to the Gilo neighborhood south of Jerusalem, for attempting to stab a border policeman. The teenager, a resident of Bethlehem, raised the suspicion of soldiers as he approached the checkpoint. He was ordered to stop and a body search revealed he had a knife hidden in his clothing. He confessed that he had planned to stab soldiers at the checkpoint and was handed over to security officials for interrogation.

Translation from Hebrew to English by me IDF troops arrested this evening at the Ziv intersection in the Hebron area a 14 year old Arab girl who was planning to stab one of the soldiers. In the possession of the Arab two knives were found. After her arrest, the Arab girl was transfered to the Shabak for further investigation.

Translation from Hebrew to English by me "Before he left he gave me all his bills and documents and gave them to his mother. When she asked why he was doing it, he told her he was going to a wedding. Since then we didn't hear from him, and only when soldiers came to search the house of the son that he committed the suicide attack" - the cousin of Nisim Giabri, one of the two suicide terrorists in Bear Sheva, remarked. The cousin Giffaor, said that his act was like lightning on a clear day. "We didn't understand it...

IDF troops apprehend Palestinian boy, 14, carrying 900 bullets, at roadblock between Nablus and Tul Karm

Cairo court rejects establishment of Egypt-Israel association, saying Arabs do not need `false friendship` (AP)

Jordanian man stabbed his pregnant sister to death, allegedly to "cleanse the family's honor," an official said Thursday. The 25-year-old woman, whom authorities refused to identify, was killed Tuesday by her brother, who slit her throat and inflicted 15 stabs to various parts of her body, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The case marked the latest incident of "honor killings" - a practice not uncommon in traditional, male-dominated Arab societies where women have been killed, mostly by brothers and fathers for having sex outside marriage, dating, simply talking to men or even for being raped. The initial...

Author Bob Woodward talks about his book, "Bush at War," during a taping of NBC's "Meet the Press" in November 2002. His new book, "Plan of Attack," will be on bookstore shelves on Tuesday, and the administration is concerned about its contents. Thorn: Bush-basher bandwagon rolls Dubya's detractors pile bookshelves high as election day draws nearer By Patti Thorn, Rocky Mountain News April 17, 2004 In the often dainty world of books, I have to admit I love a good brawl. But when it comes to the schoolyard fight between the right and left in the playground that is publishing,...

Recently, a young student at the Hebrew University was gunned down while jogging through a mixed neighborhood of Jews and Arabs in north Jerusalem. The Aksa Martyrs Brigade, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, joyously claimed credit for the killing yet another innocent Jew. When it was later learned that the jogger was a Jerusalem Arab and not a Jew, al-Aksa quickly apologized to the family, calling it an accident. But the killing of the innocent young jogger was not an accident; the murderer had deliberately taken aim at his head and midsection, intending to end his life....

To the east and south of the Old City of Jerusalem is a deep gash in the landscape. It is identified as the Hinnom Valley. Today it is a lush area lending itself to picnics, outdoor concerts, and public events. However, to ancients it was known as the valley of the sons of Hinnom and later the Valley of Topheth. In the seventh century BCE it became Gehenna, a designation synonymous with hell, the place of burning. Most notorious in the history of Hinnom is the practice of child sacrifice – placing infants and children in the fire to appease...

Nowadays, most of the leadership of the Islamic and Arab world is currently preoccupied with an occupation. I am not talking about the Israeli “occupation” or the American occupation, but the current occupation of the minds of those individuals leading the Arab and Islamic world – those who practice and spread militant Islam, an ideology which brands all those who are non-Muslims as infidels. This is a terrorist interpretation of Islam and its text, the Koran. This consists of a world outlook which believes the green Islamic flag should rise above the entire world. This enemy the free world is...

(IsraelNN.com) In an interview with the Israeli website Ynet (Yediot Acharonot newspaper online), the wife of the head terrorist of the Islamic Jihad in Samaria declared that the Jihad will continue. Nawal Sa'adi, wife of imprisoned Islamic Jihad leader Bassam Sa'adi, told Ynet that Islam commands Jihad. For the purpose of "liberating Palestine" and "liberating Al-Aqsa mosque," Mrs. Sa'adi said, she would not hesitate to sacrifice all of her children. She said that she is proud of those of her children who have already died as "martyrs" (shaheed).

The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, the leading Palestinian polling institute, has disclosed that a majority of Palestinians, 53 percent, support terror attacks against Israeli civilians. This represents a rise in support for terror - last December, 48 percent of respondents in a poll articulated support for terror attacks. In the latest poll, 87 percent of respondents said they favor attacks on Israeli soldiers; 86 percent supported attacks on settlers in the territories. Just before the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last week, 27 percent of Palestinians on the Gaza Strip supported Hamas, as opposed to just 23...

Pretoria - The homemade "suicide-bomber jacket" worn by a six-year-old to a protest march in Pretoria was his own idea, says his father. Mohammed Dockrat, a university lecturer, said: "Muslim children in South Africa have been aware of the attack on Islam since the war in Afghanistan. "They saw other children being killed and maimed and are very aware of who the enemy is." The academic said his son, Uzair, decided to wear the jacket to a protest march in Pretoria attended by about 300 Muslims. The Dockrats were among those protesting in front of the Israeli embassy against the...

Monday, Jan. 26, 2004Sex Education in Amherst A high school takes on a controversial play ByNATHAN THORNBURGH This Feb. 14, V won't stand for just valentine at Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Massachusets. The local school board and superintendent last month approved a student request to stage The Vagina Monologues the night before Valentine's Day as part of a national campaign to call attention to violence against women. The theater piece, written by Eve Ensler, has played off-Broadway and in all-star benefits around the country and the world on Valentine's Day for the past six years. But this...

The following is IMRA's translation of the results of a poll of a representative sample of 618 adult Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern Jerusalem carried by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO) under the direction of PCPO President Dr.Nabil Kukali on 15- 20 October 2003 as published in Arabic in Al Hayyat Al Jadeedah on 20 November 2003. The survey was commissioned by "The New Family Organization". Do you believe it is important to raise a child to be: Shahid 18.6% Farmer 8.9% Academic with a profession 59.2% Other 13.3% What type of legal marriage...