The tiny minority of extremists speaks in the January 16 edition of London's Al-Quds Al-Arabi, as well as in Al-Watan of Oman and Al-Hayat of Saudi Arabia. This from Arutz Sheva, with thanks to Nicolei:
Reacting to last month's repeated news items regarding theoretical Israeli-Syrian negotiations, London's Al-Quds Al-Arabi (January 16) declared that terrorism ("Palestinian armed resistance") is the Arabs' best tool for effective and productive peace negotiations.This echoed the Omani Al-Watan newspaper of the same day, which reacted to British Prime Minister Tony Blair's remarks to the effect that the peace process would not continue unless Israel received assurances against terrorist operations. "For a start, the resistance against foreign occupation is not terrorism except in the eyes of imperialist countries and others that strive to oppress other people," the Gulf newspaper declared. In fact, the editorial continued, no one has ever proposed to the Arabs in Israel a "viable alternative to blowing themselves up and leaving orphans behind."
Furthermore, the editorial concluded, this is "true for Palestinians, but more so for the Iraqis." . . .
The Saudi-backed Al-Hayat newspaper the same week carried an article that was a paean to the woman suicide bomber who blew herself up at the Erez checkpoint in Gaza, and to the mother of a suicide bomber who fought so that her son would have the chance to die.
As for the Erez attack, the London-based newspaper eulogized: "They will say she went into history, to reserve her people a place in the future. They will add that she lit the way; the first female martyr in the books of Hamas, the first female martyr in the Gaza strip, the first female Palestinian martyr that leaves her children and embraces the nation. The small child will never get tired of the footage Hamas distributed. He will watch it over and over again, as this female holding the rifle, used to hold him in her arms. He will learn by heart what that woman repeated before blowing herself up in the face of occupiers of her nation's soil. She said: 'I have always wanted to be the first female to execute a martyrdom operation in which parts of my body would scatter.'"
The Al-Hayat article went on to relate the tale of Mohamad Fathi Farhat's mother. According to the story, as told by Hamas spokesperson Khaled Mash'al, "she wrote to the leadership of Al-Qassam Battalions, objecting her son's denial of the request to perform a martyrdom operation [suicide bombing]. When the leadership succumbed to her request, the mother got busy with her son's last preparations, and when she found out of his martyrdom, she wore her best clothes to accept congratulations."
The first female gullible enough.
jay
Straight from the Council on American Islamic Relations= "CAIR is calling on American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact their representative in Congress to ask that he or she endorse a congressional sign-on letter to French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte expressing concern over that nation's proposed ban on Islamic head scarves".
"What to do: Contact your representative in congress to ask that he or she sign on to the "Honda/Ehlers letter" in defense of religious freedom. Enter your ZIP Code:" END.
Islamic religious freedom is the focal point here. Unfortunatey, they refuse to accept the fact that their religion doesn't take precedence over our laws, or in this case, France's laws. Whining, pissing and moaning. Religous freedom SHOULD be afforded to everyone. That also means that Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists should be free to practice their religion without Radical Islamists being such a plague, and general pain in everyone's ass.
Deception and diversion. Like our Government has nothing better to do than worry about head wear laws in France.
Heaven forbid we concern ourselves with national security, hell...we have a real catastrophe on our hands...France doesn't want to let Muslims wear their head scarves, oh no!
Get over youselves, C.A.I.R. The U.S. Government has more significant issues to confront. The most important one is to wipe the radicals from the planet. Do everyone a favor and please shut the hell......UP. Here's a thought, work on stopping the jingoistic bigots that insist that all non-Muslims are infidels, from killing innocent people.
Chew on that....Ifti
D.C. Watson
When will they protest the laws of Turkey? Can't wear that ugly-making hijab in public jobs in Turkey. And another thing, they keep comparing the wearing of ugly-making hijab to nuns. Since when are all Muslim women members of a religious order?
Ever notice how lately the Muslims do look like western nuns, what with the white cloth and the black shroud?
When Western women can go to Islamic countries and not have to wear what Muslims want them to wear—then, perhaps, we can talk about Muslims flaunting Western laws.
More power to the French. Hijab is repressive and militant!
Lili
Very well put, Lili.
The french government will not be able to pass this law and if it does,it will not be able to reinforce it.
They tried to do so,a few years ago in Holland and all hell broke loose.
The dutch got scared and they gave in.
In France the political power and the boldness of the ever growing muslim community is even greated than the one in Holland.
Unfortunatelly ,France is on its way to becoming an the first european islamic state(or perhaps the second,after England)and it is too late for them to do anything about it.
The only positive side of it ,is the fact that we should take notice and wake the hell up!