We carried several stories here about Hussam Abdo, the 15-year-old would-be suicide bomber who was disarmed and jailed by Israeli forces. Now the BBC (thanks to Peter Rockas for the link) has published an interview with the boy that is extremely revealing of the culture that has spawned this demonic phenomenon -- also note that none of the vaunted brutality of the Israelis seems to be on display here:
JR: When you put on that belt did you really know - as a 15-year-old - that you were going to go and murder people, that you were going to go and cause great suffering to mothers and fathers, that you were going to be a mass murderer? Did you really know that?Hussam: Yes. Just like they came and caused our parents sadness and suffering they too should feel this. Just like we feel this - they should also feel it. [...]
JR: When the army caught you, how did you feel?
Hussam: I was a bit scared. The soldiers came to me and there were many of them so I was a bit scared.
I was afraid that they would beat me but I wasn't afraid that they'd shoot me.
They were nice to me - they treated me well. [...]
JR: Did the people who sent you - the people from the Al Aqsa Brigades - did they promise you anything?
Hussam: Of course they did. They told me, once you carry out the operation and the soldiers come and demolish your home, we'll stand by your parents and rebuild your house and give them money. [...]
JR: Have you spoken to them since your arrest?
Hussam: I spoke to them [his parents] shortly after I was arrested. I was at the army base and the doctor there was checking me and I told him I wanted to speak to my mother, so he lent me his mobile phone.
He let me speak to my mother. She began to cry - she'd seen what happened on TV.
Then the doctor took the phone away from me and he spoke to my mother.
He said don't worry about your son, he's fine, we'll take care of him.[...]
JR: Some teenagers want to be footballers, others want to be singers. You wanted to be a suicide bomber. Why?
Hussam: It's not suicide - it's martyrdom.
I would become a martyr and go to my God. It's better than being a singer or a footballer. It's better than everything.
JR: What was the main reason for you deciding to become a suicide bomber? The one reason in particular.
Hussam: The reason was because my friend was killed.
The second reason I did it is because I didn't want to go to school.
My parents forced me to go to school and I didn't feel like going.
JR: Are you saying that one of the reasons you wanted to become a suicide bomber was because you didn't like your teacher?
Hussam: That and because of my friend Sabih, who was killed.
JR: It seems extreme that if you don't like your teacher it could partially propel you towards murder and suicide.
Hussam: The thing is my parents forced me to go to school and I didn't want to go.
Interesting. People become suicide bombers out of laziness and spite? I guess you don't have to be able to read to get your 48 or 72 virgins or whatever it is. Of course, Islam is a culture of law and learning, according to western sympathizers, and all suicide bombers have deep seated political motives that can only be resolved by the cowing of Israel. (sarcasm off)
At first, I thought the title was an oxymoron. I mean, how do you interview a suicide bomber? Until he's (or she - I have to be EO here - successful, he's either a wannabe or an intend-to-be.
This also illustrates why a good part of the Muslim world seems to resist educational reforms, such as teaching independent thought and critical reasoning. It's hard work for both the teacher and student. Rote memorization is so much easier.
He had to have been recruited. Most everywhere else in the world, his reaction would have been, "WHAT? You must be crazy. If you feel that strongly, YOU do it."
jay
I remember when this first happened.
I feel anger towards the people who would recruit a child that is obviously of very low intelligence, and in U.S. slang, probably "special". That a culture can prey upon its weakest members and use them as weapons is beyond contempt.
It must make you very proud Reza, to have so little courage that you send out your mentally infirm to do your bidding.
The pure evil of this kind of act in using a child can be overwhelming to the pysche of people in the civilized world.
Any evidence of abuse of a child in a Christian and Judao society allows for warrantless efforts with no exceptions.
Could one say that these children whose innocence is exploited for these murderous acts really and clearly understood what they where dying for?
The clear difference is that Christian/Judao societies embrace the wonderful and creative beauty of life and the Islamic thinking is to embrace death.
Well, this sure beats your usual case of school truancy!!Have only greatest contempt for 'Martyrs
Brigade' who would use a stunted,not too bright 15yr old as cannon fodder. Palestinians are too blind [not to mention stupid] to see they are being used by Saudis and others to blow themselves
up in propaganda war against Israel.Their Muslim
'Brothers' don't give a damn how many Palestinian lives are lost and have done f... all to help them
apart from guns, bombs and brainwashing.However recent rumblings in Gaza indicate this might be the end for Arafat and his corrupt mob.
That's one in the eye for Orla Guerrin !
and straight from the horses mouth too!
the Baathist Broadcasting co op.
Next time you hear anyone refer to the likes of the late unlamented Sheikh Yasin or Rantisi as "spiritual leaders", boo, hiss, and act like a bunch of 1960's New Leftists defending free speech. The recruiters and trainers of suicide bombers are perhaps about as reprehensible as they get; and I will never forgive Israel for failing to take Yasin alive and, after do process of law, execute him by throwing him into a pen holding three sows and their litters.
You have to read between the lines with this story.
He says he didn't want to go to school?
Lets remember what they teach in Pali school.
It seems he learned all he needed to know in kindergarten, and didn't see the need to learn anymore hatred. Reading, writing, and arithmatic is not the prime focus in the "Palistinian" school system.
He felt he was a big boy, and ready to do what he was taught.
It's another black eye for the Jew hating UN. To not do anything about how children are educated in that region, as well as all Islamic countries for that matter, shows the biased of the UN, or there ignorance. I can hardly expect the ignorance excuse to apply however. It's a well known fact.
So called "palestinians" recieve the most foriegn aid, -UN aid- than any other peoples in the world, yet they can't even be properly educated. All they are taught is hate, and Islamic lies, keeping this religion of hate, Islam's, war based on a lie going.
There will never be peace in the ME until the truth is used as a foundation to build it on.
Just as people in this world will never learn the truth of the situation until the media starts basing their reporting on it.
what is this idiocy of these so-called palestinians? they're arabs! another indication of the decay of these people, and their intentions for us, is how they treat their own. the 3-4 million who claim to be refugees are sitting in their own filthy camps since 1948 because there is not a single muslim country that has wanted to take them in. real people belonging to the human race absorb vast numbers of refugees after calamities like WWII. 750k hungarians fled from uncle joe in 1945 and post uncle joe in 56....europe and america absorbed them without a hitch....expect the same treatment of these arabs from their own kind? fat chance. there are vast tracts of land in the ME for these people...no sirree...god knows we can't bring that sewage over here.
every time i read something about some muslim coming over here and is in line for citizenship i get a bad dose of cramps.