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April 27, 2004

"No time to be weak": sister to British suicide bomber

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Parveen Sharif

From The Telegraph, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:

The sister of the first British suicide bomber recruited by Hamas actively encouraged her brother, sending him an e-mail in case his resolve faltered at the last minute, an Old Bailey jury was told yesterday.

Omar Sharif, 27, and his 21-year-old friend, Asil Hanif, both British Muslims, slipped into Israel posing as tourists in April last year and checked into a hostel in Tel Aviv.

In their room they shaved their bodies "because martyrs want to be clean when they enter paradise", assembled the bombs, strapped them to their torsos and hid them under their clothes.

But before Sharif set out for a busy waterfront area he received an e-mail from his sister Parveen, 36.

It urged him: "We all have to be firm and focused with reality as time is slipping away, and there is really no time to be weak and emotional.

"Stay focused and determined."

Sharif and Hanif set out with their bombs and waited until the area got busier and there were more potential victims to kill and maim. Hanif detonated his bomb outside Mike's Place, a popular bar, killing himself, three others and injuring 65.

Sharif's bomb failed to go off and he fled, dumping it nearby. Twelve days later his body was found in the sea off the Israeli coast. "The circumstances of his death are not clear, although the post mortem findings are consistent with drowning," said Jonathan Laidlaw, prosecuting.

Parveen Sharif, a supply teacher, pleaded not guilty to inciting Omar Sharif to commit an act of terrorism and failing to disclose information about terrorism.

Posted by Robert at April 27, 2004 9:54 AM
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Inter-sibling psychopathy, it's a wonderful thing.

/sarcasm

Posted by: Earl at April 27, 2004 10:16 AM

And she, for all the world, looks like a 'moderate' Muslim - no head to toe burka, no veil, etc.

We just cannot trust any of them at all.

Posted by: Ethylred at April 27, 2004 10:26 AM

Amazing how carefree she is with the life of her brother and others. Still, when it is time to face the music, she seems to have lost the courage of her convictions.

Posted by: Ed at April 27, 2004 10:29 AM

Well, it looks like there is going to have to be two islands - one for the men and one for the women!

Posted by: Chaya Eitan at April 27, 2004 10:43 AM

Isn't it amazing how carefree about death these people are ?
WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE ?!!

Posted by: bob at April 27, 2004 11:05 AM

If ever there was a cult--islam is it.

Posted by: Skeptic at April 27, 2004 11:19 AM

Ed:
Nice comment. One would expect her to show defiance/courage and take the punishment - but not the jihadis. Weasels every last one of them.

BTW - a supply teacher yet.

Posted by: John B at April 27, 2004 11:21 AM

Sad.

Posted by: TS at April 27, 2004 11:36 AM

Wolf in sheep's clothing.
Oh she is so pious so modest with her head covered. So holy, right?
feh

Posted by: TS at April 27, 2004 11:43 AM

This goes beyond "religion"...

This is monsterous. This is SUB-human...

This is somehow against the very biology of life. No human or animal was ever created without an urge to survive and protect others from harm and death (especially family), yet here we see this monster in a headscarf, looking for all the world like a regular person...Working a normal job in a free Western Country like a regular person...But beheath that exterior sits a heart of pure stone. A heart so indoctrinated to hate that it can no longer feel anything else. Hate and revenge and the drive to obliterate all others that do not subscribe to her faith...

I have said it before and I will say it again...(I think I got it from Benjamin Netanyahu)...When a people hate their enemy more than they love their own children the world will suffer...

Throw open the doors to the asylums and start the herding...These Muslims are criminally INSANE and the "sane" Non murderous people better wake up before it is too late!! For soon the Loonies might be holding the keys..They are already holding the guns and bombs!

Posted by: Susan C at April 27, 2004 1:37 PM

SC:

"...(I think I got it from Benjamin Netanyahu)...When a people hate their enemy more than they love their own children the world will suffer."

This quotation has been attributed to the late Golda Meier.

Bibi gave me my favourite quote re. the Arabs (think Bibi's thick, Israeli baritone):

"The Arabs do not respect power...they worship it".

Posted by: Earl at April 27, 2004 2:56 PM

What the hell is a "supply teacher"?

It sure seems like murder, death, and destruction is a "game that the whole family can enjoy" for the Sharif family.

--REY

Posted by: REY at April 27, 2004 3:20 PM

This event just about sums up everything that is wrong with my country. The Liberal elite that is miss-governing Britain displays a collective desire to bring about the destruction of its own country and in so doing, the enslavement its own people. The reason, so far, escapes me. What is certain though, is the fact that there are well over 1 million muslims resident here. Furhter more I believe that inside every muslim, there is a suicide bomber just waiting to get out. Today Tel-Aviv, tommorow London, perhaps?

Posted by: Harry at April 27, 2004 3:25 PM

Harry: Today Tel-Aviv, tommorow London, perhaps?

Hood Jihadi:Sorry matey, you can't speak for the British people because you are a Jew. "Tel-Aviv"? where is that?

Posted by: Hood Jihadi at April 27, 2004 3:54 PM

Hoodjob, you and Reza may be one of the very few that would be turned on by a woman covered from head to toe, Chador included......Now, maybe you can put down the pipe and stay on topic...

Posted by: DCWatson at April 27, 2004 3:55 PM

Rey:What the hell is a "supply teacher"?

Hood Jihadi: It’s the teaching opportunities given to dhimmis in the UK. Almost 50 percent of all supply teachers are people of African and Asian background, and that isn’t funny.

They are supposed to pick up the mess all these lesbian teachers cause to esp. young boys.

Posted by: Hood Jihadi at April 27, 2004 4:01 PM

Dear hoodlum,

Aren't you late for your dishwashing job at the jewish deli? Say hi to Mr Goldstein for me.

cheers

Posted by: basil at April 27, 2004 4:08 PM

No one should be surprised that this "supply teacher" should look so ordinary. The graphic depictions of Satan are deceptive in that they show a repulsive being that could not turn the head of a pious person. No, Satan, for the pious, comes in the form of the ordinary and banal.

Family culture can often create multiple psychopaths under the right conditions. The brainwashing tecniques of Islam could be construed as only one of the contributing factors in this sad domestic drama, the one that we know about. One can only imagine what the others could be.

Posted by: epg at April 27, 2004 4:10 PM

Hoodie
neither can you speak for the British people, So please sit down and be quiet.
Besides isn't nearly time for your "isha salat"?
Off you go then.
Bye.

Posted by: kc (england) at April 27, 2004 4:16 PM

Robert:

I'd be obliged if you would ban this troll Hood. He lowers the entire tenor of your website.

Thanks.

E

Posted by: Earl at April 27, 2004 4:17 PM

HOod man it would be much better if you would stay on topic. You are yet to mention anything that has to do with this article.
What is the infatuation of the people like reza and HOod man with gay people. It seems that every post has something to do with them.

By the way HOod man Tel-Aviv is in Israel.

Posted by: bartb at April 27, 2004 4:47 PM

Hood:Sorry matey, you can't speak for the British people, because you are a Jew. "Tel-Aviv" Where is that?

1.I don't claim to speak for the British people, matey. I was merely expressing an opinion which differs from all that PC c**p I'am sick of hearing from those idiots in the Government.
2.I'am not a Jew, although I will consider that your refering to me as such, is just the sort of assumption made by all those other idiots who blame Israel for the current backward state of the arab world.
3.Tel Aviv is in Israel. Look it up in any atlas.

Posted by: Harry at April 27, 2004 4:57 PM

"Supply teacher" - Google search shows that this term refers to a teacher on a temporary contract. The equivalent in the U.S. would be a teacher on a short-term contract.

Posted by: epg at April 27, 2004 5:06 PM

British teachers - Are classroom teachers given tenure? Would a "supply teacher" also be one that does not have tenure?

Posted by: epg at April 27, 2004 5:10 PM

Here is a neat site about supply teachers that talks about there inadaquacy as teachers and how they teach unsatisfactory or poor lessons in secondary schools.
"http://www.focuseducation.net/supply-teacher.htm"
what are they really teaching our kids?

Posted by: bartb at April 27, 2004 5:29 PM

let me try this again
http://www.focuseducation.net/supply-teacher.htm

Posted by: bartb at April 27, 2004 5:41 PM

Supply teachers are employed not by schools but by the local education authority. If a school is short of a teacher, because of illness or whatever, they ask the LEA to send them a supply teacher to fill in. So supply teachers constantly move from school to school, teaching a few days here, a week or two here, a whole term (rarely) there.

It's a dreadful job with zero career prospects. Probably because of that I remember supply teachers as being the pits for the most part, although occasionally there would be a truly brilliant one.

Posted by: John at April 27, 2004 6:03 PM

Kind of off topic: Did anyone see the television show last week about the Khadr family in Canada? A family that hates together... father killed; son paralyzed; son lost an eye; son turned spy for CIA--kicked out of family.

They interviewed the mother and daughter throughout the show. Like no mother/daughter I've ever seen--islam has no respect for life and neither did they.

Posted by: Skeptic at April 27, 2004 6:13 PM

Supply teacher is to the British Education system as a locum doctor is to the NHS. An employee with no continuity towards patients/pupils or coworkers, but due to role of stepping in at short notice, are often paid at a higher rate than the long term staff. Far too much of Britains state sector is run by people in this situation.
As to this lady, more emails were on the radio today. One of her splodeydope brothers emailed her saying that when he was finished doing what he was going to do, that there could be much trouble for her and that she should clear her home of all incriminating messages etc.
It looks like the circumstantial evidence against this family is going to be overwhelming. It remains to be seen if there is enough proof for a conviction however.
As to huddie, lets all ignore him/them. The variation in huddies grammar and spelling from day to day suggests either he is a small team of mohommadans taking turns posting, or he is one man who doesn't take his medication regularly.

Posted by: peter at April 27, 2004 6:20 PM

I have to agree with Earl on the future of hoodlumjihadi. Watching him wallow in his mental cesspool had some entertainment value, but that is fading past. If he can't post ontopic, and lowers the standard of discussion with crude insults and vulgarities, should he not be banned from posting?

Posted by: basil at April 27, 2004 7:42 PM

Well is guess he does'nt get the virgins or even to see allah him/herself. His sister should be deported if she is from another country; she should be ashamed and rideculed and fired from her job. She is a accomplise to this and should be put in prison; better yet deport her to palestin maybe she can volunteer for a suicide mission.

Posted by: christian at April 27, 2004 7:48 PM

Earl and others:

I've been out all day and just got in to see what "Hood Jihadi" posted here. I have deleted it and banned him.

I would like to remind everyone posting that I do not take kindly to foul language, ad hominem attacks, broad characterizations of ALL Muslims or any other group of people, etc. I don't have time or inclination to read all the comments and am happy for there to be a wide latitude of opinion here -- including Muslims defending violent jihad, if they are so inclined -- but I would ask you all to keep it reasonably civil, in the unique tradition of American political discourse (at least up until recently). However, in the nature of the case, if any message here of any kind is NOT deleted, it IN NO WAY constitutes an endorsement of that message by me. I have added that statement to the disclaimer at the top of the comments.

Cordially
Robert Spencer

Posted by: Robert Spencer at April 27, 2004 10:45 PM

I'm delighted that we will no longer be subjected to the low level banter that takes place when otherwise intelligent people are baited by the Hood Jihadi writer. I do understand it though, it's frustrating when the 'other side' is so obtuse and can't even consider another viewpoint. We just mustn't fail to question either, looking for insight, not simply shoring up the viewpoints we already hold dear.
I enjoy the informative, thoughtful posts that educate us in this strange and frightening 'religion' and give us historical background and political insight. Thank you.

Posted by: patricia at April 28, 2004 9:23 AM

ps. The humor is great too!

Posted by: patricia at April 28, 2004 9:23 AM

I agree with you patricia, i was going to stat a similar opinion..

Posted by: Jimb at April 28, 2004 1:19 PM

I think that real problem the West faces is one that is not discussed - at least with any regularity here. The problem, as I see it, is how does the West propose to deal with this sort of insanity. From an Islamic point of view, her attitude, not only makes sense but is divinely inspired. Religion in the West and throughout the East is a mixture of allegory and a "Kantian ought" which leaves a lot of room for dialogue. There is no such dialogue possible in Islam at present. Does that mean that ultimately only conflict will resolve this matter. That is the issue that troubles me and I do not see any way out ultimately -- unless Islam changes.

Posted by: Herbie NY, NY at April 28, 2004 1:40 PM

Off topic, but good for a laugh:

This is a small, rural town, and we have a new doctor from (I think) Kuwait. Anyway, his wife and daughters have attracted a lot of looks by going around in the full garb of veil, etc. Both the girls are teenage, and, well, the garb doesn't hide a, shall I say, appealing shape.

Well, just yesterday afternoon, I saw one of the local rednecks (nice farm kid, gunrack in the back window of his Chevy 4 x 4, going to the local college to become a vet) cruising around with a good looking little dark haired cutie wearing jeans and a tank top that I'd never seen before. Pulled up beside him and asked who she was--and guess what...?

Score one for the rednecks.

Kind of made me think of the post from Jihadi Hood or whatever is handle was who said, "Your grandchildren will be Muslims." Made me think that just maybe some of them will, but it will be an Islam that Muhammad sure wouldn't recognize!

Posted by: Name changed to protect the guilty at April 29, 2004 12:38 PM

Namw withheld: I love it :-)

Posted by: Herbie NY, NY at April 30, 2004 1:00 PM

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