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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...

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...

After they had already tried to smuggle explosive charges into Israel even inside the dresses of mothers of children, the Tanzim terrorists crossed another red line yesterday when they sent a 12-year-old boy with a school bag full of explosives to an IDF roadblock and intended to blow him up with the soldiers. Abdullah Koran, from the village of Hawarah near Nablus, worked in the last few months as a porter around the roadblock near his village. For a promise of money the Tanzim convinced him to take an explosive belt from the Palestinian side of the roadblock to the...

A majority of Palestinians continues to support suicide attacks against Israeli civilians, according to a new public opinion poll published on Thursday by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center (JMCC). The poll found that 61.8 percent of Palestinians supported suicide attacks, while 34.9% are opposed to this form of terrorism. Another 67.9% said they supported the resumption of "military operations" against Israel "as a suitable response within the current political conditions." Twenty-eight percent said they rejected such attacks and because they find them harmful to Palestinian national interests. A majority of 42.3% said they supported the resumption of attacks inside...

Islamic terror group Hamas has launched a new Web magazine for kids that praises martyrs while encouraging children to follow the example of committing suicide for the "cause." Complete with cartoon characters and other pictures demonstrating the "heroism of Palestinian children," the online magazine, titled Al-Fateh, promises "pages discussing Jihad (holy war), scientific pages, the best stories, not be found elsewhere, and unequalled tales of heroism." The webzine's editor hopes it will be read by "our beloved youth, the leaders of the future." The name of one of the main cartoon characters – a small boy on horseback wielding a...

(IsraelNN.com) The bomb belt planned for an attack in Jerusalem was found before the weekend in the Arab village of Hizme, bordering northern Jerusalem. As was reported earlier, a Hamas terrorist planning the suicide bombing attack was apprehended in time due to intelligence information. What was learned is the bomb belt planned for use in the attack was being hidden in the terrorist’s home under a baby’s crib.

Gaza Palestine Satellite TV Channel in Arabic, official television station of the Palestinian Authority, carries at 0937 GMT a live sermon from Shaykh Zayid Bin-Sultan Al Nuhayyan mosque in Gaza. Shaykh Ibrahim Mudayris delivers the sermon, which he devotes to underscoring the strong link between the holy mosque in Mecca and Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. This link, he says, is signified by two major events in Islam: The prophet's night journey to Al-Aqsa, and the change of prayer direction from Al-Aqsa to the holy mosque in Mecca. The imam argues that the change of prayer direction does not detract from...

Yasser Arafat: `Is there anyone in Palestine who does not dream of martyrdom?` (Reuters)