"Terrorists in Gaza and beyond are busy grooming the next generation of suicide bombers." From Erick Stakelbeck and Michal Deskalo in FrontPage (thanks to Son of Infidel):
Thanks both to its much-maligned security barrier and its assassination of several Palestinian terrorist leaders, Israel has seen a dramatic decrease in suicide bombings over the past several months.This fact—as well as the rapidly diminishing role of terror master Yasser Arafat in everyday Palestinian affairs—makes recent talk that the Intifada has finally ended after almost four years of bloodshed seem almost plausible.
But amidst these hopes, terrorist groups in Gaza and the West Bank are busy grooming the next generation of suicide bombers.
Last month, the student movement of Hamas, Al-Kutla al-Islamiyya, debuted a new Arabic-language website—www.alkotla.net—designed to encourage Palestinian teenagers to join the group and carry out suicide operations against Israel.
In addition to a section honoring past Al-Kutla suicide bombers (whose attacks have left 53 Israelis dead and over 300 injured) the site features photos of Palestinian high school students who earned academic honors this year, calling them, “the group which will lead the Palestinian nation to victory and liberation.”
According to the website, in early July, Hamas organized several large festivals in Gaza honoring over 2000 recent high school graduates. The students were presented with certificates of achievement and told to avoid “the Western lands of the infidels” while pursuing their college degrees.
Hamas has long courted top Palestinian high schoolers in order to groom them for future leadership positions within the organization. But these Hamas recruitment drives aren’t just limited to the secondary school level. Even preschoolers are sucked into the group’s culture of death.
For example, another popular Hamas website, www.al-fateh.net, features snapshots of Palestinian pre-teens and toddlers dressed in Hamas military regalia and holding automatic weapons.
Along with bedtime stories, games, riddles and coloring activities, the site showcases a Hamas “Featured Martyr.” The most recent honoree is Mahmoud Salem, the 18-year-old responsible for a suicide bombing at the Israeli port of Ashdod in March that killed 10 people.
Salem’s picture is accompanied by the text of his suicide note, which implores Palestinians “to continue their path to jihad and martyrdom.” ...
This widespread indoctrination of young Muslims calls to mind an Arabic saying, Al-ilm fi al-sghirar kanaqshi fi al-hajar. Translated into English, it means, “An education in one’s youth is like engraving into a stone.”Nations that are battling the forces of radical Islam around the globe can only hope that isn’t the case.
Overseas in Muslim countries junior jihadists are indeed a problem. However, those that are being prepared and educated in Muslim schools and madrassas in this country, the U.S., or any Western country are a greater problem. It is lunacy beyond belief to allow the formation and education of our enslavers in our own country.!
I wonder how much longer until we see beheadings and suicide bombings in the US?
epg,
I agree with you, this is happening here in America also, at a differant level, and most Americans are totally unaware of what is being taught to thier children.
And I thought those kids had taken to Hip Hop dancing and Rap to get rid of their frustrations...
Clean your guns all.
It used to be in war, spare the women and children.
Unfortunately after reading this I can't say that this still applies.
I saw a Tv program in 1999 from one of the PA's official TV station. It was a Blue Peter (Or Disney) type of morning program, only that under the watchful eyes of a female teacher a pretty little girl about 4 years old was singing how she wanted to be a suiccide bomber, and how all she wanted is to go to Jerusalem and blew up as many Jews as she can. We all know about his, and about the indoctrination going on in the schools of Gaza, West Bank, and all over the arab world. When i saw this clip i lived in Israel, it was peace time, Oslo was in full swing, and the Palestinian state was (we thought a reallity in the near future). When i saw that clip i felt sickend, but interestingly my first gutt reaction was, that this can't be real. I thought that it might have been a joke, or something, anything, but this just can't be real, that during peace time when Israel made such compromises, a child sings this only a few miles away, but i had to realise that it was for real. When i told my family (they live in Europe, far away from all this), they didn't believe me, they thought that i'm becomming some kind of radical, when i told my friends in Europe the very same thing happened; and this continues to happen all over the world despite the fact that the Palestininas since produced a number of child suiccide bombers, and hence proved beyond belief that their indoctrinating their chidren into a nihilist death cult (just so Yasser Arafat can put another hundred or so million into his bank account each year). No matter how many reports are out on this subject, the people still don't believe that this is true (and some are just ignorant), the world is underestimating this enormous problem, but it will not go away, it will haunt us for the rest of out lives. And call me racist, or anything you want, but after seeing that clip, i could never look at a Palestinian child the same way.