Hussan Abdu
From Palestinian Media Watch, with thanks to Joyce:
This week's suicide terror attempt by a Palestinian teenager received world attention not because it was the first attempt but because TV captured the striking images of the young boy struggling out of the explosive belt. In fact tens of Palestinian Authority [PA] teenagers, some as young as 13 and 14 have gone on suicide missions, many dying and killing others, because PA society has been teaching children that combat and heroic Death for Allah - Shahada [Martyrdom] are expected of them. PMW has been documenting this Palestinian Authority indoctrination and below are the links to striking examples. When PMW presented these videos at a US Senate committee hearing, Senator Hillary Clinton called it: "horrific child abuse" and US Senator Arlen Specter said the PA were not merely "child abusers" but "civilization abusers".
Here is the full PMW report, with video links.
What more proof does the international community need in order to justify ridding the Earth of terrorism and making reprisals against terrorist supporting nations?
People go to jail here in the States for spanking their children. Palestinians give their children explosives and are willing to blow them up in the name of "jihad". Is there something wrong with this picture?
Can someone point out the versus in the Quran that calls for these children to commit shahada so that they may get to paradise sooner with or without a conflict with Israel?
They told this kid he'd have sex with the standard 72 virgins. Maybe if they spent less funding on making bomb belts, and more funding on improving their enviroment, they could benefit. I feel bad for this kid.
They duped him, and almost cost his family the loss of a child. This makes me sick. It also goes to show how truly sick they are.
They call it an act of desperation, but that's just one in a very long line of excuses they use when they murder.
I'm glad his family didn't lose him because of these lunatics. They're just asking for Israel to take out all Hamas members in the same fashion the evil little sheikh was blown to bits....
Just when it appears the Palistinian terrorists can't go any lower they surprise even me with their depravity. To indoctrinate a young teenager, who appears to be mentally handicapped, into a suicide mission - how the hell can any right minded person have a shred of sympathy for these monsters.
There is an interesting sidebar here: polygamy. Islam/Sharia is the last major ideology that still supports polygamy. Besides the obvious damage to women and marriage done by this absurd tribal practice, there is serious damage to society in general and males in particular.
Polygamy is permitted up to four wives per man under Islam. Fully implemented and combined with harsh puritanical attitudes toward extra-marital sex, this would assure that 75% of males have zero chance at marriage and sex. This generates a large pool of frustrated and angry males, easily manipulated via sexual fables. Stir in some ignorance, superstition and uncritical thinking and you have a tryanical society steeped in violence.
Would banning polygamy from Islam be a good place to start reform?
To Hamas~
Why don't you form an army and do it the "old fashioned way"?
Pathetic.
The use of their own expendable children and captive children is becoming all to common throughout the world. Child soldiers, sex slaves, laborers, street children, now stalking horses, mules and couriers, and of course, bombers. There are no words to describe the baseness of the people that exploit children in this way. What could expect at their hands? More of the same and much worse.
Al jazeera news
Israel 'fabricated' child-bomber story
By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
Thursday 25 March 2004, 18:55 Makka Time, 15:55 GMT
Israel tries to portray Palestinians as child killers
Palestinian leaders have accused Israel of fabricating a story about a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who planned to blow himself up.
The Israeli army said he was caught wearing an explosive belt at an army roadblock in the northern West Bank.
The boy, identified as Husam Abdu from Nablus, was shown on TV screens around the world, with an explosive belt strapped to his waist.
The Israeli army said the boy told interrogators that his dispatchers promised that he would have sex with 72 virgins in heaven soon after his death.
"We know for sure this is a fabricated story from A to Z. Would you believe that a 13 or 14-year old would agree to blow up himself in return for a hundred shekels which he would receive after his death?
"It seems to me that the Israelis are bad liars as well," said Yaqub Shahin, a director-general of the Palestinian Authority ministry of information.
Painting a 'terrorist' picture
In an interview with Aljazeera.net, Shahin accused Israel of seeking to justify slaughtering Palestinian children by spreading the false impression that they are used as human bombers.
"Their [Israel’s] goal is to besmirch Palestinian childhood so that when they slaughter the children, the world won’t feel sorry for them," he said.
Arab Knesset member Muhammad Baraka has also voiced "serious doubts" about the veracity of the Israeli narrative.
"I have very serious doubts about the whole story. I can't give the Israeli army the benefit of the doubt."
Israelis have killed 263 children
under 14 in the Intifada
However, Baraka urged all parties to "keep children away from this sinister and bloody conflict.
"Using children as bombs is infinitely diabolical. It is totally inconsistent with all religious, moral and human values."
Fatah denial
The armed wing of Fatah, the Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, has denied any involvement in the incident, accusing Israel of "concocting the whole story for the purpose of justifying the killing of more Palestinian children".
The Israeli newspaper Yedeot Ahranot reported on Thursday that Abdu told Shin Beth interrogators that an anonymous person had promised him 100 shekels if he blew himself up in the midst of Israeli soldiers.
Samir Khiwairah, a Nablus journalist who personally knows the boy’s family, told Aljazeera.net that the boy’s mental capacity to distinguish things is very low.
"I don't completely rule out the possibility that some evil person gave him the explosive belt and told him he would become a hero ... but this is a very tiny possibility."
Khiwairah said the Israeli army had a history of "fabricating and concocting stories" for the purpose of vilifying the Palestinians and winning public relations points.
Similar story
A few weeks ago, another boy from Nablus, Muhammad Kuraan, made headlines when the Israeli army presented him to the media as a child who had been dispatched to blow himself up at an Israeli roadblock.
Palestinian children climb over
the rubble of a demolished house
However, when the boy returned home, he reportedly told his family and relatives "Jews told me to do this or else they would kill me."
Aljazeera.net asked the Israeli army spokesman in Tel Aviv to explain why Abdu would accept 100 shekels to get blown up and what good the money could possibly do?
The army was also asked to explain why it had TV cameras ready at the roadblock more than two hours before the event.
Despite two hours of waiting, the army failed to provide an answer.
Child-killing
The controversy of using children in the Israeli-Palestinian strife underscores the brazen ugliness of the conflict.
According to human rights groups operating in the occupied territories, the Israeli army has killed hundreds of Palestinian children since the outbreak of the Palestinian Intifada more than three and a half years ago.
According to a spokeswoman for the East Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group (HRMG), the Israeli army and paramilitary Jewish settlers have killed 263 Palestinian children from age 0-14 and 236 minors from the age of 15-18 during the ongoing Intifada.
The total number of Palestinians killed by Israel since the outbreak of the Intifada is estimated at 2670.
The figures for the injured and maimed are believed to be in the thousands.
The number of Israelis killed by Palestinians during the same period is around 838, including soldiers, settlers and civilians.
Israel claims its army does not target Palestinian civilians deliberately but admits, rather grudgingly, that the killing is carried out knowingly.
However, human rights groups argue forcefully that, in the final analysis, killing knowingly is killing deliberately
"YOU PEOPLE ARE REALLY BLIND, YOU BLINDLY BELIEVE EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE ON TV WITHOUT INVESTIGATED IT, BUT THEN WHEN ONE HATES ISLAM NO MATTER HOW FAKE THE STORY IS THEY WILL BELIEVE IT WITH YOUR EYES AND EARS CLOSED"
""LIKE THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE PEOPLE OF PHARAOH AND THOSE BEFORE THEM:THEY BELIED OUR AYAT (PROOFS, EVIDENCES, VERSES) SO ALLAH SEIZED THEM FOR THEIR SINS. AND ALLAH IS SEVERE IN PUNISHMENT (3:11)
Thanks for the post Maria. It shows just what kind of lies and mind control the muslim world is exposed to in order to keep them from the truth. Of course al-jazeera denies it. The lies of the koran have blinded all muslims to the truth, even when they see it with their own eyes. Using a retarded teenager to blow himself and others up won't win the palestinians any admirers anywhere in the world. Their failure just exposes them for what they really are.
Maria, I'm sorry you feel this way about us. Maybe if you get to know us you won't think we're such bad people. I think once you converse some more, we can get along just fine. I'm a genuinely good person.
I like everyone that doesn't want to blow me apart on a bus or a train.
What do you say? C'mon, let's you and me have some dialogue.....
I like everyone that doesn't want to blow me apart on a bus or a train.
neither would i like to be blown up in this way.......
also i don't want to see my house being demolised and made to live in camps. this land belongs to us its ours u know that more than i do. i can not will not except isreal as a country because its palestine really.
HAL....lies of the koran have blinded....
so Quran is a lie and everything the other holy books and media says is true.....you are not only blind but also brain washed.
every word in the Quran says the truth whether you like it or not.
i would not like to have dialouge with u how can i when i know you are never gona except the truth with it is presented to u.
first time ever i have see soooooooo much hate against muslims i am disgusted.
never again i will come to this site......
While some posts here do come across as hateful towards Muslim *people*, it's clear to me that the anger etc. is mostly directed towards the way too many Muslims behave.
Maria, like millions of Muslims, you are all too ready to believe the very worst about non-Muslims, but are virtually blind to:
The slaughter, expulsion, and oppression of Palestinians by "brother" Muslims.
The fact that Palestinian spokesman have been caught in one anti-Jewish lie after another (the "massacre" at Jenin anyone?).
The fact that most Palestinians killed in the Intifadah were combatants, while most Israeli's were civilians.
The fact that e.g., Israelis don't break into Palestinian homes to shoot young children...through their mother's body, while Palestinians do this sort of thing to Israelis regularly.
The fact that Israelis don't shoot or blow up Palestinians going to or from worship, as Palestinians do to Israelis.
The fact that in "evil" Israel, Muslims own businesses, go to University, vote and hold public office (there are Muslims in the Knesset!), and worship freely----rights non-Muslims are denied in Islamic countries.
The fact that Israel, invaded four times and subjected to relentless terrorism during it's 50ish years of existance, has not resorted to solving it's Palestinian "problem" by employing the kind of ethnic cleansing it's enemies plan for it.
The fact that "imperialist" Israel has returned virtually all the land it captured from invading nations, and even now does not annex Judea and Samaria because it wishes to honor (non-binding) UN resolutions regarding Palestinian claims to the area.
The fact that Muslims perpetrate, or are implicated in, the majority of terrorist attacks worldwide---and non-Muslims are the primary victims.
The murderous jihad against Christians in Indonesia.
The murderous jihad against Christians and animists in Sudan.
The murderous jihad against [insert religious or ethnic group]in [insert region].
Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Muslims regard the very existance of non-Muslims an offense against God. So, Maria, you'll have to try and understand that to non-Muslims Islam is looking less and less like a religion, and more and more like a Thuggee cult.
Maria, c'mon darlin'....I'm not throwing insults at you. Have your ever thought about abandoning the life you're stuck in and realizing that there's so muc more you can have?
Remove that hijab, and come live the good life. Life has so much more to offer than all the unnecessary killing. Think girl....
Maria, take a chance, think for yourself. You may or may not follow the path that we have taken, or you might find something else. I surmise that you, as are most Muslims, are afraid to even try. That is pitiful. We all believe in truth. Truth has to be tested for its validity. Faith does not have to be tested for belief. You aren't asking us to accept the truth, you are asking us to accept your faith.
In the West, faith is an individual, private matter. We won't accept a faith that expects everyone to be in the faith in order to have dignity. Islam denies dignity to anyone not in the faith by labeling them infidels. With that label comes ill treatment and loss of privileges. Islam alone does this.
In America, where religion is a private matter, we accept people that want peace with us. We don't want the peace in Islam, we want peace with Islam. The difference is very profound. We would be all equal in peace with Islam, but not so if we were under the concept of peace in Islam which confers dhimmitude on Christians and Jews, and death for all others. Perhaps now, with the present world situation, dhimmitude would not be offered even for Christian and Jews.
It always amazes me how the people who are sent out to do these suicide bombings don't turn to their leadership and say, "After you." If they did, I guarantee that these martyrdom missions would come to a quick and happy end.
Paula - Thanks for the articles which I could have also used in post on another article in which I stated that communism is the religion of the proloteriat and the radical left. Another poster had no idea what I was talking about. So much for knowledge of history. it is sad what passes for today's instruction. So much of what is presented is both slanted and factually inaccurate.
Maria if the Koran is the truth as you maintain, why are you afraid to test it and see? Mohammed is called a prophet by Muslims. Yet there is no prophecy in the Koran. Dee Deuteronomy 18:20-22 for God's test of a true prophet. A true prophet must make a false prophecy in God's name. Muslims say Mohammed is the "comforter" that Jesus promised his followers would come after him, right? Well, read Jesus' own words. He said that he would send the comforter to those he spoke to at that time, not another group of people 600 years later. Mohammed is supposed to be like Moses, right? Moses was educated in Pharoh's courts in all the ways of the Egyptians. He could read and write. Mohammed was uneducated, ignorant and illiterate. (Not meant to put him down, just stating facts.) The angel who appeared to Mohammed ordered him to "recite" the Koran, right? So Mohammed spoke the things the angel told him to say, he did not write them. Therefore he did not write the Koran. He dictated it to others. There is no copy of the Koran in Mohammed's handwriting. The Koran did not even exist in its' current form until years after Mohammed's death. Mohammed said he was deceived by Satan and for a while worshipped 3 female goddesses in addition to Allah. He later repented and removed the "Satanic verses" from the Koran, right? Is there any instance in the bible where a prophet of God was deceived by Satan? a true prophet of God cannot be deceived by Satan, or else he would be a false prophet. The Koran says Jesus was not crucified, yet Jesus prophesied his own death on the cross. If Jesus did not die on the cross as he prophesied, he would have been a false prophet and could not be the messiah. The Koran says the sun sets in a muddy well. Yo know this is false. Please consider these things and answer back if you can. I want you to know the truth, that Jesus loves you and died for your sins. I would hate to see you leave this site without the truth.
Maria, you are welcome to dialog and reason here, to defend your faith anytime you wish. Unlike an Islamic nation guided by Sharia law, women may speak openly with men in this forum. I am not afraid to defend my faith of Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross for the sins of the world. If it is true it can readily be seen as such, and easily defended. If false, I would run and not try to defend it. I await your reply to my earlier post.
epg, I am glad you liked the articles. The man who wrote them, wrote others about various subjects including the disentigration of American culture due to the constant bombardment of Leftist thinking. He spent much of his undergraduate and graduate work studying about Communism and other totalitarian types of systems. I think you might also enjoy reading a book which he recommends, although I have yet to read it, entitled: Communism's Black book. It describes all of the horrors of Communism - Russia's murder of 25 million, Mao Se Tung's murder of 65 million, Pol Pot, etc. It is divided up by regions and countries. I hope to also read it in the near future; that is, when I can afford to buy it.
Yes, I agree with you about today's education system. No one learns anything worth learning, unless it is in the field of science. Sad.
not to but in on your and epg's conversation, paula, but i can say that even though i am not finished with the "black book of communism," it is so worthwhile that it should be checked out of the library. ann coulter refers to it a lot in her book "treason" about communist infiltration of american government during the cold war.