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Автор: Michael Goodwin
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Jewish World Review
Nov. 28, 2006 / 7 Kislev, 5767
It was only a matter of time. Depraved Palestinians first sent young
adult men wearing explosives to blow themselves up on Israeli buses and
in pizza parlors. Then came the phenomenon of young women doing the same.
Now a grandmother has chosen this fiendish way of death.
Fatma Omar An-Najar was a mother of nine and grandmother of more than
30. Her suicide in the Gaza Strip lightly injured three Israeli soldiers,
so she failed to take "infidels" with her. But that is of little comfort.
The use of a grandmother means more horror is coming.
With teenagers as young as 16 already blowing themselves up, children
are next in line to become "martyrs."
Terror masterminds are brainwashing a new generation in Muslim countries.
Everything from animated cartoons to educational programs to textbooks
urge young people to kill and die for Islam. Clerics preach that the fastest
way to get to Paradise is Shahada, or to die for Allah. Those who do are
called shahids and children as young as 8 are drinking this murderous Kool-Aid.
Newspapers, television, the Internet and even music videos routinely
extol the virtues of a violent death. A show on Palestinian TV involving
two 11-year-old girls offers a chilling example. According to a transcript
and video clip provided by an Israeli-based group called Palestinian Media
Watch, the show, which first aired in 2002, features an Interviewer talking
with the bright, normal-looking girls.
Interviewer: You described Shahada as something beautiful. Do you think
it is beautiful?
Walla: Shahada is a very beautiful thing. Everyone yearns for Shahada.
What could be better than going to Paradise?
Interviewer: What is better, peace and full rights for the Palestinian
people or Shahada?
Walla: Shahada. I will achieve my rights after becoming a shahid. We
won't stay children forever.
Interviewer: Okay, Yussra, would you agree with that?
Yussra: Of course. It is a good [sweet] thing. We don't want this world,
we want the afterlife. We benefit not from this life but from the afterlife
....
Interviewer: Do you actually love death?
Yussra: Death is not Shahada.
Interviewer: No, I mean the absence after death, the physical absence,
do you love death?
Yussra: No child loves death. The children of Palestine adopted the
concept that this is Shahada. They believe that Shahada is very good. Every
Palestinian child, say someone aged 12, says, O Lord, I would like to become
a shahid.
The spread of the culture of suicide — "martyrdom" to adherents — is
the most disturbing trend in the Muslim world. Starting with Hezbollah
in Lebanon in the early 1980s, it has been adopted as a legitimate weapon
by both Sunnis and Shiites in numerous nations, especially Iraq.
Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, recently gave a
lecture at Manhattan College to document how a celebration of suicide bombers
has taken root among Palestinians in everyday life. He told of how one
soccer league for 14-year-olds named its teams after suicide bombers. Wafa
Idris, the first female suicide bomber, became a heroine to many Palestinians
after she blew herself up and killed an 81-year-old Israeli man and wounded
100 others four years ago.
Marcus, citing a textbook for eighth-graders that says "your enemies
seek life and you seek death," called this sewer of propaganda "an impediment
to peace."
That's an understatement. For years, conservative Israeli politicians
were criticized when they claimed that "we don't have a partner for peace."
When grandmothers strap explosives to themselves, and when children are
taught to follow, the world must finally understand what they, and we,
are up against.
Michael Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York
Daily News. Comment by clicking here.
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