Didn't we all face this dilemma when it hit home that our high school years were coming to an end? Get a job? Join the Peace Corps? Go to college? Blow yourself up in an act of murder for the promise of paradise in the afterlife? No, it wasn't quite like that.
Seriously, though, there are two points of interest in this story. One is the depth of indoctrination children and young adults experience at the hands of Hizballah. Remember that the next time someone argues that groups like Hizballah and Hamas "provide social services," as this is the other part of the package.
The other is the co-existence of modern, "Western" traits like her attire (the obligatory jeans and tennis shoes), education, and social mobility, alongside the very un-Western desire to kill and be killed in jihad (Qur'an 9:111), proving again that poverty, alienation, poor social skills, etc., do not create jihadists. Ideology does -- and that ideology is found in mainline Islamic texts and traditions. "Martyrdom beckons Lebanese teen, but she really wants to direct," by Borzou Daragahi for the Los Angeles Times, January 13 (thanks to Awake):
Reporting from Tyre, Lebanon -- Hiba Qassir dreams of making movies. She's ambitious and precocious enough. At 18, she's taught herself how to edit video and sound on a computer, and has her sights set on directing gripping social and psychological dramas.
But if the movie business doesn't work out, that's OK. She has other dreams: perhaps to become a cop or a pilot. Or maybe a suicide bomber.
"Martyrdom is the shortest way to heaven, and the history of martyrdom is not like any history," Hiba says. "It made victory. We wouldn't have achieved victory without these martyrdoms."
Hiba wears a colorful head scarf and faded bluejeans and running shoes under a black cloak as she gives a tour of Hezbollah's annual "martyrdom" exhibit here in this southern port city.
Cheery and rosy-cheeked, she helpfully guides visitors past mannequins of guerrilla fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, and placards chronicling suicide operations against Israeli troops during the Jewish state's two-decade occupation of southern Lebanon. Recorded sounds of machine-gun fire, helicopters and walkie-talkie chatter fill the halls of a drab brick community center on the outskirts of Tyre.
"Here is some information about each martyrdom operation," she informs a small tour group.
She points to a hall lined with posters adorned with artificial flowers. "The first one was in 1982 here in Tyre," she says. "You can see that [late Israeli leader] Yitzhak Rabin said that this operation took the lives of many people, especially those with special qualities and skills."
That suicide bomber was 18, just like her, when he drove an explosives-filled Peugeot sedan into the Israeli command post here on Nov. 11, 1982, and killed 75 Israeli soldiers, border guards and intelligence officers, according to Lebanese accounts. Israel has long maintained that the blast was an accident, caused by a gas leak.
His name was Ahmad Qassir, and Hiba is particularly proud of her uncle, martyr No. 1 in the official history of Hezbollah's long war against Israel.
"Israel usually says that these people are hopeless people and lovers of death," Hiba says. "But we always say that martyrdom is our way to heaven."...
Read it all.
cute and wonderful story
Isn't this the typical "moderate muslim" whose soul the western world has to save by tempering our foreign policy in the middle east?
Péguy: Whimsical, ain't it?
how sad is this :(
I pray that the misguided muslims will see the light and leave the darkness!
If she does decide to go through with it and become a martyr, lets hope she enjoys being a terrorist's sex slave for all eternity.
One choice will take years to cultivate and could bring lasting success and fulfillment, while the other will end in disaster. Tough choices ahead for this young man.
I'd say, that at age 18, Hiba is already a failure in Moslem terms. By that age a proper Moslem girl would already have been married to Papa's cousin, Abdul, for several years, and have borne him (Abdul, not Papa, ha-ha) 2 or 3 children. She must be singularly unattractive or disagreeable, so much so that Papa can't afford a dowry large enough to attract a suitor.
Maybe he'll snap out of it and make a movie entitled: "Duped by Islam! There is No Sex Heaven!"
This is not martyrdom, this would be an act of insanity.
Poisonous little sweet. I hope she falls under a truck and gets squashed flat.
"You can see that [late Israeli leader] Yitzhak Rabin said that this operation took the lives of many people, especially those with special qualities and skills."
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This pretty much says it all. Why take great time and effort to develop "special qualities and skills", when it's so easy to murder people with special qualities and skills instead?
"I pray that the misguided muslims will see the light and leave the darkness!"
I pray that your praying won't get in the way of passing the ammunition: the higher priority.
I see, she's a modern homicidal murderer.
Should this make us feel better?
Sure wish Robert Pape and his ilk would sit and have a chat with Hiba.
Kudos to the LA Times for reporting this.
Its sad this women wanting to blow herself up and kill innocent civilians shes only 18 its sad they teach hate to there kids.
But what about the 18 year old israelis who when they leave university they Join the IDF to drop bombs on innocent civilians arent they also taught hate?
NO!... Maria, they aren't. They are taught to think for themselves and protect the innocent with justice and force. The teaching of "Hate" is pretty much exclusive to Islam and the kind of people who defend and support it. Not even close on that one. Keep trying.
Notice that she says 'martyrdom is the SHORTEST way to heaven'
I guess if you don't want to work at it.
In Islam you have to work to get to heaven OR if you want to die in the name of Allah you go directly to heaven. Or otherwards, 'the shortest way to heaven'.
That is why it is so easy to recruit 'victims', 'convicts', 'prisoneers', 'over all bad guys', or the 'average confused searching for identity college student'. Because they do not have to change their life or their ways to go to heaven, they just kill innocent people while they are dying...and on the way out mention 'allah' and poof heaven, paradise, and 72 virgins.
I prefer 'narrow is the way' instead of 'the shortest way'.
It demonstrates that Islam puts no value on life.
We value life, they value dying.
What's needed here is an Allah wrench. This young woman has a number of loose nuts and bolts.
There's a reason for that, she's a Mahoundian.
There's something about praying to Allah five times a day that slowly loosens a Mahoundians nuts.
When Mahoundians experience group nut loosenings, they have an uncontrollable urge to chase policemen, and assault Jews.
Everything seen in these 'protest' video's are the result of loose nuts.
Or you could call it 'The nuts are on the loose'.
Think Islam...Go Israel...
But she doesn't get virgins if she's a martyr. That's just the guys.
You gotta wonder about this. Can women go around in Jannah without full body and face coverings? Unrelated men would otherwise see them, yes? Or are they imprisoned in one of the "jeweled pavilions" along with a male's 72 virgins and many little boys so as to avoid that risk? If so, which male's pavilion? What if they had two husbands (you know, one being previously martyred before the second marriage?) How would you sort that one out? What if they're not married at all? Is Dad's pavilion the default? Isn't that kind of gross?
And even assuming you get a slot in somebody's pavilion, what on earth do you do all day? I mean, hubby's (let's not even get into the other male relatives) going to be busy with the selfsealing virgins and the pearly little boys. I know you can't play chess, so is canasta halal?
"But we always say that martyrdom is our way to heaven."...
Then why the continuous whinning that Israel is killing women and children. I would have thought she would be glad of the opportunity to become a martyr.
Nice 'Yeah-But' comment, Maria.
That isn't what the IDF are about and you know it. Israel has every right to defend itself against any and all attacks through forming and USING a military defense force. Wish they had exercised this right a long time ago.
Take it up with the Hamas Complaint Department. They are the ones who picked this fight.
They won't let her become a 'martyr' - instead they'll recruit her for their Propaganda arm.
Think how many people like 'Hiba' must be out there already, working for 'Pallywood' and the rest of the Muslim propaganda machine, faking atrocity stories, peddling inflammatory nonsense and lies.
If this story doesn't send a chill down your spine then nothing will.
A true story, just for 'Maria'.
It's the words of someone who, while visiting and working in Israel, encountered a young IDF soldier in a bar, fresh from going on patrol in Arab-occupied Muslim-dominated Judea and Samaria aka 'the west bank'.
http://solomonhezekiah.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/the-price-of-honour/#comment-617
April 28, 2008 at 6:35 pm
"This is one of the things that makes me scream that Islam has no business being named in the same sentence as Christianity and I do scream it, well mention it, as often as possible when the whole “three great religions” bumph comes up.
"Many years ago, in a galaxy far, far away (ie, my youth) I worked for a year for Magen David Adom
"and in a pub one night I met this big, horrible, skinhead Russian import who was doing his time in the IDF.
"He was about 18 and was back from a tour of duty in the West Bank
"where he and his buddy had found a 13 year old girl battered senseless, barely alive and wrapped in a plastic sack.
"He was, honestly, not the nice face of the IDF or anything else but he was sober and crying. I never forgot...".
Wrap your mind around that, 'Maria'. A Jewish IDF soldier, big tough guy, but only 18 - sitting in a bar, weeping for the (presumably Arab Muslim) victim of an attempted 'honor' murder, whom he had happened to discover while on patrol.
Weeping for the daughter of those who would tear him to pieces alive, were he to fall into their hands. And I'll bet you anything you like that the girl's own family, who had bashed her, and rolled her up in plastic, and dumped her (in a back alley? in a gully somewhere?) weren't shedding a single tear for her.
Maria
The entire Arab world was at the mercy of Israel in 1967. If the IDF was brainwashed as killing machines, as Muslims are, there would be no Muslims in the ME.
Posted by: Maria at January 13, 2009 6:48 PM
Maria's moral equivalency arguments, although intended to appear as innocent, yet ignorant but well-intentioned, it is helpful to remember that they are anything but.
Maria never misses a chance to play the moral equivalency card, even on a thread based on an article published matter-of-factly by the disgraceful LA Times, and of course offers nary an example story based off the words of Israeli students to justify "her" position.
"Maria" is a disgrace "herself".
Where was she going to go to film school? The American Diploma Mill of Beirut? Ha! Doesn't she know that Hollywood is run by Jews?
There's always playing with corpses for Pallywood, I guess. I can't believe the LA Times ran this story.
"A Muslim student wonders what to do after graduation: Movie director or suicide bomber?"
Oh, dear. Choices, choices. I mean, this is a really tough decision to have to make! What to do, what to do?
This is a no brainer. Make a movie of himself having a suicide training accident. Without special effect.
Wow. This is really sick.
Thanks for the story dumbledoresarmy its very good to hear about a IDF soildier saving a kids life for once maybe there is hope.
Those parents of that girl deserve to be shot
Thanks for the story dumbledoresarmy its very good to hear about a IDF soildier saving a kids life for once maybe there is hope.
Thanks for the story dumbledoresarmy its very good to hear about a IDF soildier saving a kids life for once maybe there is hope.
thanks for the story dumbledoresarmy very sad