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Here's one for all those who think that the jihad is advancing today only by terrorist violence. In fact, it is advancing across a broad spectrum of political and cultural fronts. But few, very very few, recognize that. Umm Farhat update: "Hamas rallies to 'martyr' mother," from the TimesOnline, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
ONE objective burnt deep in the heart and mind of Mohammed Farhat when, rifle in hand, he attacked a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip: to kill as many Israelis as possible. The 17-year-old Palestinian dispatched five settlers before being shot dead. In later military operations his two brothers were killed by the Israelis, who also tried to blow up the Farhats’ home. Today, with the intifada in Gaza and the West Bank over and Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip completed, Mariam Farhat, the mother of the three dead youths, insists that the struggle must go on. But this time she has chosen the ballot box over the bullet.Across the Arab world the 56-year-old mother is an icon of the resistance as she campaigns in Gaza as a candidate for the Islamic militant group Hamas in Palestinian parliamentary elections on January 25.
Hamas has been the deadliest of the Palestinian militant groups. It has always stood for the obliteration of the Jewish state and was responsible for suicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israelis over the past five years.
Farhat still mourns her sons. Nidal, her eldest, was killed in 2003 while preparing an attack and Rawad was blown up last year in an Israeli airstrike on his car, which was laden with rockets.
The mother regards her candidacy for the Palestinian Legislative Council as a logical extension of the armed struggle she encouraged her sons to die for. She denies that Hamas’s decision to join mainstream Palestinian political life contradicts its military goals.
“The jihadist project completes the political one and the political project cannot be completed without jihad,” she says. “The resistance needs the political project to support it through the legislative council.”
Posted by Robert at January 14, 2006 7:06 PM
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The tone of the article is almost fawning over Farhat. Ick.
Posted by: Shinoliite![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at January 14, 2006 7:41 PM
I'm not trying to be critical, but this quote by the maniacal Muslim mother has already been covered by Jihad Watch in this
December 9th posting.
at January 14, 2006 8:05 PM
where is the Gandhi in the Palestinian world?
hello?
bueller?
hello?
*sound of tumbleweed*
at January 14, 2006 8:44 PM
The closest we get are Western peaceniks who go in, collaborate with (or don't speak out against) the violent factions, and often get themselves abducted, injured, or killed by the very people they think they're trying to help.
There have been a few in the news lately.
Posted by: Shinoliite at January 14, 2006 9:35 PM
Aikenbryce:
Thank you. I thought it sounded familiar but I did not turn it up when I checked before posting this. In any case, this story is new and the quote deserves highlighting.
Your double post notice on the Malaysia story at DW is inaccurate. Today's (or actually yesterday's) post focuses on a much different matter from that in the story to which you linked.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
at January 15, 2006 1:45 AM
I did see this story before, but more of a political interview with the "mother" noting her maternal pride in having raised murderous thugs, whose sole destiny, thanks to the woman entrusted with their care and well-being, was to spew hatred, destroy other lives, and spend eternity in a dark netherworld.
And that pitiful wretch believes she's done a good thing. Animals in a zoo have greater love for their cubs.
Posted by: Merry Whitney at January 15, 2006 3:48 AM
Why is anyone surprised? Islam is a packaged deal: politics, economics, social policy, and religion, all rolled up in one neat bundle. Invite in the religion and the rest comes as un-invited and un-wanted guests that can't be dismissed without throwing out those that were invited.
Posted by: epg at January 15, 2006 10:46 AM
where is the Gandhi in the Palestinian world?
Did you actually say Palestinian world? That would be the A-rab world. As in lazy ass folk humping around on camels from time-to-time and laying in a bed of rocks to beat the heat. That is, until Western technology introduced the A-rabs to the pleasures of the chair. That was the first and only cultural uplift the A-rabs ever experienced.
END O' THE RAINBOW POT O' GOLD END O' THE RAINBOW MODERATE MOSLEM MAN
If they want to turn the clock back to 615AD, why can't we turn it back to 1965AD?
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at January 15, 2006 11:50 AM
I believe Jacques Ellul, in one of Bat Ye'or's books, stated that Jihad and Dhimmitude are inseperable; all part of the same system. Sounds like psycho-mom is confirming that,eh? Can't have true Islam without the bloodshed and humiliation of one's enemies. What a wonderful religion..........
Posted by: lafn at January 15, 2006 4:34 PM
The original Gandhi was the ultimate appeaser - in 1919, he supported the Khilafat movement, which was a movement by Indian Muslims demanding the restoration of the Ottoman sultan, who was the Caliph. That was one of the most ridiculous of his moves, given that Turkey itself rejected the Sultan in favor of Kemalism, which Gandhi never bothered suggesting to the Indian Muslims.
Also, during the 1947 partition, Gandhi did what he could to stop Muslims being killed, while doing absolutely nothing regarding any others being killed - Hindus, Sikhs, others. Given that, a Muslim equivalent of Gandhi would indeed be a godsend (not Godse) to the infidel world. However, if the Palestinians, Arabs or Muslims did have a Gandhi, he would be assassinated right out of the gate, before he could make major concessions.
Food for thought: had Gandhi been alive today, he would have supported al-Qaeda and urged all Indians to rally behind al-Qaeda in the name of Hindu-Muslim unity.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at January 17, 2006 1:21 AM
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