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This story states that "[Ramadan Abdallah] Shallah, former director of the Palestinian think tank founded by Al-Arian at USF, left Tampa in 1995 and emerged later as the commander of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Damascus, Syria." Here he is in an interview which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on July 17, 2005 provided to us by MEMRI, with thanks to Sr. Soph.
Shalah: How old was the martyrdom-seeker who carried out the Netanya operation? He was 13 years old. Today he's 18 years old...Host: You sent a 13-year-old?
Shalah: No. He was 13 when the Intifada started.
Host: How old is he today?
Shalah: 18 years old.
Host: Just a boy, then.
Shalah: Did I send him? Did I force him? They made the decision themselves. He wants to fight. He wants to become a martyr, because the alternative is such a life... You know what is happening in Palestine. Therefore, he believes, and I too believe, that this path of martyrdom is the solution...
Host: ... Will lead him to Paradise.
Shalah: It will lead him to Paradise and replace the hell he's in. We are victims.
Host: But these were civilians.
Shalah: What "civilians"?
Host: ...But against 16-year-old girls who went shopping?
Shalah: Look, some time ago I heard (Muhammad Hassanein) Heikel, who is the most prominent Arab journalist, one of the most important Arab journalists these days, and he said that the distinction between civilians and soldiers in a modern state - a Nation State - is a lie. This civilian uses ballot boxes to bring Sharon to power, and she supports his policy.
Host: They will support Sharon even more now.
Shalah: I don't care. I condemn the killing of civilians in London and New York, by the way, but I do not condemn the killing of civilians in Netanya, because the people in Netanya live on my land, and they are killing me in Tulkarm, Jibalya, and Gaza.
Posted by Rebecca at July 19, 2005 10:00 AM
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This animal is beneath contempt. How many more just like him in Florida?
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at July 19, 2005 10:15 AM
How many "moderates" would answer the exact same way, if asked? THIS is what needs to be confronted. THIS is the point at which "the war on terror" is truely understood...
Moose
Posted by: Moose at July 19, 2005 10:21 AM
There is a time for peace and a time for war. A time for love and a time for hate. We live in a time that calls for hate of our sworn enemies and war against them. Just as they have no mercy for us, we must not show mercy unto them. There is no point in "reaching out" to them, trying to win their "hearts and minds" (what hearts? what minds?!).
Posted by: angry_kafir at July 19, 2005 10:28 AM
They may be moderate in name, but they follow a murderous ideology.
How can two 16 year old girls out shopping be justififed in any way, this evil ideology is just sick and doubly sick.
And to justify it with the ballot box is just sick, but also shows the depravity of this cult.
As far as I can work out the majority of the so called Muslims think in exactly the same way.
Posted by: Daffersd at July 19, 2005 10:37 AM
The irony of this situation is that if the "palestinians" wanted to live in peace, they could...right now. The Israelis are willing to live and let live. The "palestinians" are just eaten alive with hatred at the thought of Israel's existence, I suppose they don't ever have a pleasant thought in their heads. The children are brought up from day one to hate the Jews. We in the civilized world tell our children that hate is a sin, they on the other hand consider hatred to be a virtue. It is honestly like darkness and light, the darkness of islam and the light of a free mind.
Posted by: Carolyn2 at July 19, 2005 10:52 AM
Carolyn2:
From Melanie Phillips's on-line diary of July 18/05, posted in response to comments by a Muslim Labour MP, Shaheed Malik, who, in the Financial Times, exhorted his community to take action against the extremists in unequivocal terms, but naturally had to talk about the supposed "double standard" that lies underneath the anger young Muslims are said to be motivated by:
"...Muslims fail to acknowledge the role of Islamists in these conflicts in instigating unprovoked aggression, but also that young Muslim men are incited to acts of mass murder on the utterly twisted belief that acts of self-defence against such acts of mass murder are not self-defence but unprovoked aggression.
Among the home truths that people like Malik have to begin to deliver to their own community is that Afghanistan was the training ground for Islamists who were waging holy war on the west; that Saddam Hussein was the godfather of Arab and Muslim terror; and - most difficult and most urgent of all - that Muslims have for decades been told systematic lies about the Jews and about the history and present circumstances of Israel and the Arabs of the disputed territories, and that far from seeking to oppress those Arabs the Jews of Israel have been defending themselves for half a century against the unprovoked aggression of Arab states determined to ethnically cleanse the Jews from their ancient homeland."
Posted by: waterdragon52 at July 19, 2005 11:26 AM
Shalah-"... because the alternative is such a life... You know what is happening in Palestine. Therefore, he believes, and I too believe, that this path of martyrdom is the solution...
Shalah: It will lead him to Paradise and replace the hell he's in. We are victims."
If this justification of terrorism is true then only developed countries will be left over the world.Poor
people in developing countries and underdeveloped countries(who are in majority)would start killing their own rich people or government cause it is the so-called reason for their poverty and the hell they are in.And when this policy fails to make their life better I wonder what they will do?
at July 19, 2005 6:34 PM
Saddam Hussein was the godfather of Arab and Muslim terror; Posted by waterdragon52
Go on, your pulling my leg. The same Saddam Hussein who had fatwa's of Kufr laid on him by Osama and Imam's? The same Saddam who filled mass graves of Al Hilah, Babylon and Najaf with bodies of Shi'a and of Mosul and Erbil with bodies of Kurds?
There is absolutely no evidence that Saddam was sponsoring Jihadi's, mujahideen or Muslim terrorists, none, nada, zilch on the other hand you are woefully silent about the Saudis who in fact have sponsored and are sponsoring Jihadi's, in fact it was the Saudis who helped the CIA (and probably their idea in the first place) to recruit the west hating Jihadis of the Muslim brotherhood from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, lending them their beloved Osama as a Ambassador and financial conduit.
It is the Saudis, the Ollie Norths, the Reaganites, the HOuse of Bush and William Jefferson Clinton (who passed twice on an opportunity to eliminate Osama) that are responsible for the current crop of organized and now international Jihadis, but Saddam? Hardly.
Posted by: Giaour at July 19, 2005 7:10 PM
Giaour:
I didn't write that myself. I quoted someone else. And you are wrong about Saddam and the jihaddists. See Stephen F. Hayes's various writings on the topic, specifically about the conferences hosted in Baghdad from the early 1990s, where Osama himself was in attendance.
Ilana Mercer recently wrote a piece about the Islamokazies, noting the capacity Islam endows its adherents with to be completely two-faced. I would have thought that you, of all bloggers here, would understand that. How else could you explain the accommodation between theocratic Shiite Iran and (secular) Alawite Baathist Syria over Lebanon?
Posted by: waterdragon52 at July 20, 2005 8:49 AM
The someone else, who I attributed above, by the way, is Melanie Phillips, a UK-based journalist, who has written quite a bit about Stephen F. Hayes's book on the connections between Saddam and Osama.
And I have never been silent about the despicable Saudis. I've posited that they are very much behind the bulk of jihaddist activities around the globe through their support of Wahhabi clerics, establishment of mosques for them to preach in, funding of terror, etc., all to consolidate their own wealth and power.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at July 20, 2005 11:58 AM
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