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In FrontPage this morning I profile Hamas' Mother of the Year, Umm Nidal, Mariam Farhat, and discuss some implications of her election to the Palestinian Legislative Council (news links in the original):
The horrifying ingredients of the life of Mariam Farhat, or Umm Nidal (mother of Nidal), one of the newly elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, provide a terrifying glimpse into the future of the Palestinian Authority under the rule of the new Hamas government.To be sure, no one more fully embodies the Hamas ethos -- and the ethos of infanticide that permeates contemporary Palestinian culture as a whole -- than Mariam Farhat, a mother who wills the death of her own children and the children of others. The New York Times recently identified her as “the mother of three Hamas supporters killed by Israelis.” The Times added that “she bade one son goodbye in a homemade videotape before he stormed an Israeli settlement, killing five people, then being shot dead. She said later, in a much-publicized quotation, that she wished she had 100 sons to sacrifice that way. Known as the ‘mother of martyrs,’ she was seen in a campaign video toting a gun.”
Umm Nidal’s oldest son Nidal was killed in 2003, and his brother Rawad in 2005 — both as they were involved in actions against Israelis. Muhammad Farhat was the first of her sons to die. In June 2002 he stormed the Atzmona settlement in Israel, firing indiscriminately, killing five teenagers and wounding twenty others before he himself was killed. When asked by an interviewer if her son had intended to target civilians, Umm Nidal responded: “Muhammad carried out his operation at a military academy. They were all soldiers.”
If Muhammad had targeted women and children, of course, that would have been just fine with his mother as well. The deaths not only of her own children, but of others, do not disturb her. “These are war necessities,” she explained. Killing civilians, she said,“is a war necessity. They are all occupiers to begin with. Whoever comes from abroad and lives on the land of Palestine is considered an occupier, even if they are women or old people. They are all occupiers….Therefore, all Israelis are considered occupiers of our land. There is no difference between men and women...This is Islamic religious law. I don’t invent anything. I follow Islamic religious law in this. A Muslim is very careful not to kill an innocent person, because he knows he would be destined to eternal Hell….We rely on Islamic religious law when we say there is no prohibition on killing these people.”Umm Nidal believes all this so deeply that she cried out “Allahu Akbar” when she learned of Muhammad’s murders and his own death; she “prepared boxes of halva and chocolates, and handed them out to his friends.” To those who would reproach her for being heartless, she responded:
“We cannot stop sacrificing just because we feel pain. What is the meaning of sacrifice? One sacrifices what is precious, not what is of little value. My children are the most precious thing in my life. That is why I sacrificed them for a greater cause — for Allah, who is more precious than them. My son is not more precious than his God, he is not more precious than the places holy to Islam, and he is not more precious than his homeland or his Islam. Not at all.”In fact, Mariam Farhat encouraged her other sons to follow in Muhammad’s footsteps and become Islamic martyrs themselves by killing Israelis and getting killed in the process: “After the martyrdom [operation], my heart was peaceful about Muhammad. I encouraged all my sons to die a martyr’s death, and I wish this even for myself. After all this, I prepared myself to receive the body of my son, the pure shahid, in order to look upon him one last time and accept the well-wishers who [came] to us in large numbers and participated in our joy over Muhammad’s martyrdom.” Nidal and Rawad emulated Muhammad; it should not surprise anyone if her remaining three sons become murderers also. And if they do, Umm Nidal will praise Allah for their deaths, as she does for the deaths of her three “martyrs.”
It remains intriguing in the context of this death culture that many observers still cling to hope that Hamas, which put this woman forward as a candidate, will somehow change and will become a moderate force. After the elections, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said: “Palestinian people have apparently voted for change, but we believe their aspirations for peace and a peaceful life remain unchanged.” Mariam Farhat, however, was not only nominated, but was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council, and was mobbed last week by thrilled supporters at a Hamas victory rally. One young woman exclaimed: “She is a mother to every house, every person.” Responding to those who would find hope in the fact the Umm Nidal is one of five women who were elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council, Fatah’s Naima Sheikh Ali said of Hamas: “Yes, they respect women, but as they conceive that respect. It is from a religiously fundamental view. For the women’s movement, this will set us back several steps.”
The question must be asked: do Palestinians, despite having elected Hamas and Umm Nidal, actually reject the perspectives and positions represented by her and her party, as so many Western officials would so dearly love to believe? Umm Nidal herself doesn’t think so. “All the Palestinians,” she asserted, “share the same view” that she articulated about the legitimacy of targeting Israeli civilians. “They are not divided. The only ones who disagree and think otherwise are, of course, the foreigners, who have no sympathy for us or for our cause, and who know nothing about us. They are the ones who think that this man has come to kill innocent people. This is what they think. But we, as Muslims, think differently. We are familiar with the Koranic verse: ‘One who attacks you, attack him in like manner.’”
But don’t the Palestinians want peace? Yes, says Umm Nidal, but “the word ‘peace’ does not mean the kind of peace we are experiencing. This peace is, in fact, surrender and a shameful disgrace. Peace means the liberation of all of Palestine, from the [Jordan] to the [Mediterranean] Sea. When this is accomplished — if they want peace, we will be ready. They may live under the banner of the Islamic state. That is the future of Palestine that we are striving towards.” The future of Palestine is the future of Umm Nidal’s own family: young men driven to fanaticism and murder, egged on by their own mothers and the society at large. Nothing would make her happier than the deaths of her other three sons. Yet the world not only does not call this madness; it rushes to show Hamas that its largesse will not be cut off.
Striving toward the same peace envisioned by Umm Nidal is Hamas leader Khaled Mash’al, who said this at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus last Friday: “Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. America will be of no avail to them. Their generals will be of no avail to them. The last of their generals has been forgotten. Allah has made him disappear. He’s over. Gone is that Sharon behind whose back they would hide and find shelter, and with whom they would feel relatively secure. Today they have frail leaders, who don’t even know where our Lord placed them. Allah willing, we will make them lose their eyesight, we will make them lose their brains.”
If world officials think that an electorate that elected Umm Nidal and her party in free and secret balloting is not enthralled with blood, death, and genocidal intransigence, and that it will somehow stop celebrating the deaths of not only Jewish innocents, but of their own children as well, and that it will somehow join the community of free and rational nations, then they have already lost not only their eyesight; they have already lost their brains.
Posted by Robert at February 8, 2006 10:28 AM
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Islam is against nature. In all higher life forms, the bond between mother and offspring is stronger than any others. In the psycho-social pathology known as islam, this mother is feels no such bond, and regards her offspring as nothing other than disposable delivery devices for explosives and bullets. It is truly nauseating.
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at February 8, 2006 10:59 AM
Like Andrea Yates in a hijab. Only, among the Palestinians, Farhat clearly isn't considered criminally insane.
Posted by: Shinoliite at February 8, 2006 11:02 AM
Remember! Be sensitive -- after all, a mother only wants whats best for her children, right?
But then one wonders -- would you want her to babysit your kids? You might be wise to check some references; Interpol might be a good place to start.
Posted by: witness at February 8, 2006 11:32 AM
http://www.wcbm.com is reading and discussing this article by Robert Spencer right now.
Posted by: Borg at February 8, 2006 11:40 AM
crazy witch. i swear these people are so far gone from reality its not even funny. There have been jews in the land if israel since the beginning of man. How does she know that her sons didnt kill one of those jews that didnt come from europe. Maybe the jews that her sons killed came from a family that has been there all this time. Retards. No respect for human life. Hey lady, did you ever stop to think that maybe the jews woulda stayed in there own territories to begin with if the enitire Arab world hadnt attacked them in 1948. Desperate people have been known to render desperet deeds. I woulda done the same thing that Sharon did in order to protect my people from loony suicide bombers.
Posted by: jawknee at February 8, 2006 12:05 PM
Annoyed
Re "the mother from hell": The "Atzmona settlement in Israel" is in Gaza as per this article http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Lqaz6gYxzukJ:www.nzherald.co.nz/location/story.cfm%3Fl_id%3D8%26ObjectID%3D10341927+Atzmona,+location&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=20.
Lincoln said, "the half truth tells the whole lie." I agree.
I am used to reading self serving-lies or half-truths that make whole lies from Moslem clerics and their supporters, people who wear a mask of peace, clerics who speak one way to the public and another way to their congregations and supporters. Such people talk peace, prepare for war, tell big lies, fudge facts with half-truths: they are cowards. Their mind becomes suseptible to delusions (as in the Holocaust deniers in Iran and elswhere). They believe their deceptions, live them (as in Atta). Truth matters.
Posted by: Frank at February 8, 2006 12:10 PM
"Nothing would make her happier than the deaths of her other three sons."
I think this woman is just tired of cleaning and cooking for her sons, and also having to be under their dominion. What better way to get rid of the men and still be admired then to have them be homicide bombers? The husband must be long gone or else she'd be trying to get rid of him, too.
Posted by: 3812Michelle at February 8, 2006 12:52 PM
"In the psycho-social pathology known as islam, this mother is feels no such bond, and regards her offspring as nothing other than disposable delivery devices for explosives and bullets."
I wouldn't be so sure... I think you may be underestimating the Muslim's insanity-producing hatred. Although this broken hag is a beastly example of a mother -- I believe she truly means it when she says she loves her sons... But reducing her to a simple sociopath who has no bonds with her children is far too simplistic -- it's the same thing when evaluating the verminous "suicide" bombers themselves.
Muslim hatred is so intense, their culture of humiliation is so intense, their malignant inability to look towards themselves and their black stain of a "religion" is complete. They HATE us more than they love themselves, their children, or life itself.
This is also what makes Muslims SO DANGEROUS. Many of them aren't looking for lives of hope and prosperity like we do -- they're looking for their rewards in the grotesque corporeal afterlife which their greedy for...
Most other religions of which I'm aware convey the idea that the afterlife is a spiritual place, free of want and rancor and bodily wants. No more carnality -- no more avarice -- no more hunger... Whether you buy into this or not, contrast that with the "worldly" Muslim beliefs of the afterlife -- they fantasize about lavish feasts, rewards for violence during life, especially dying and killing for Allah, and virgin slaves for neverending sexual exploits (both girls and boys for these men, by the way!), and fabulous gold, gems and rich flowing fabrics... It is very venal -- seemingly the opposite of what most consider spiritual -- it is corporeal rewards they seek - gore, glory, and loot by spreading Islam, and carnal pleasures in the afterlife...
This is one sick culture. This is one sick "religion". Don't underestimate the ugliness and dangerousness of this enemy -- Islam and Muslims are akin to the kamikazes in WW2 -- their rewards were also for complete sacrifice for the sake of the collective -- they proved themselves so undeterrable and so fierce that we decided to begin vaporizing them until their culture capitulated to us completely... That was limited to a confined island, with 80,000,000 homogenous inhabitants...
Now expand this out to the 1 billion plus messy crazy insane world of Islam -- little centralization -- AND LIVING RIGHT HERE IN OUR MIDST SPREADING THIS POISONOUS IDEOLOGY ---
If they are as they seem, undeterrable, where and how do we begin killing them in sufficient numbers to bring about their complete capitulation? It is a complete mess -- the menace is far worse than we have yet grasped -- and the costs to save ourselves is only compounding by the day...
Don't underestimate this enemy!
Posted by: jsla at February 8, 2006 12:53 PM
This was a ‘Gun-Totin' Granny’ ~ If I ever say one!
The big question has been; who are the Hamas leaders? And then 'Granny's Still Alive' ~ steps out.
Spitting from the sides of her mouth and moving people on with her weapon ~ leaves you wondering, where's that submissive and mind-numb Islamic woman gone to?
I guess this Granny’s earned her stripes - so she can blow up things with the best of them!
Though right back to the 'Old Terrorist Dear' ~ If we are going to attack, like we are being attacked by Islam; then I guess we should all start sneaking around, pretending that we want Islamic law in our lands and preparing grizzly attacks on the Islamic populations, from our places of worship.
[But you know ~ I'm a moderate ~ I do not know what you are talking about.]
at February 8, 2006 1:44 PM
There's only room for one Granny on this site!
Although those of you who know the character I take my nickname from appreciate that this is an honorary title.
This woman does not love her sons. She loves the kudos their deaths bring her. But will her daughters-in-law allow her to bring her grandsons to the slaughter?
Now I have the Iron Maiden song Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter running through my mind. Botheration.
Posted by: Granny Weatherwax at February 8, 2006 2:02 PM
I guess moslem women are simply "soldier factories."
All the metaphors I've heard--the hive, the Borg, cattle--apply.
at February 8, 2006 4:22 PM
jsla wrote:
Muslim hatred is so intense, their culture of humiliation is so intense, their malignant inability to look towards themselves and their black stain of a "religion" is complete. They HATE us more than they love themselves, their children, or life itself.
This is also what makes Muslims SO DANGEROUS. Many of them aren't looking for lives of hope and prosperity like we do -- they're looking for their rewards in the grotesque corporeal afterlife which their greedy for...
Sadly, this is as acurate a description of the Islamofascist mindset as I have ever read. They aren't afraid to die or have their children die, which puts us at a disadvantage 'cause we're not that crazy, and it makes negotiation with them a waste of time and compromise impossible.
Posted by: Proud Infidel at February 8, 2006 4:35 PM
When her sons are killed, this Palestinian mother would say: "Bring their bodies to me. I want to rub their blood on my hands."
That is TRULY terrifying.
These insane beings need to be destroyed for the good of mankind. There is simply no alternative.
Posted by: texan at February 8, 2006 4:40 PM
The New York Times recently identified her as “the mother of three Hamas supporters killed by Israelis.”
Oh, that is just too funny. The NYT writers have to be the zaniest comedians since Monty Python.
Posted by: special_guest at February 8, 2006 5:20 PM
these muslilm islamofacists want to see their paradise real quick.. l would urge each Western soldier to send them over real quickly. l was listenking to Rush's stand in today. "Roger Hedgecoock? from SanDiego, he had really good stuff today about Iranian leader's cult status, how he believe in the "end of times" will come in two years. also said about information from an Iranian informer showing plans about their building nuclear missiles. this should get the Europeans and Russians real worried. three countries that voted for Iran, of course our good terrorist friends, Cuba, Venezuelas and Syria.. but any will be interesting to see what comes of these fanatics. they are going to be taken out sooner l hope!
Posted by: Lulu at February 8, 2006 5:25 PM
Check out the Palestinian lovefest, especially near the bottom, (scroll all the way down) to see the kids.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/672883/posts
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It's a real heartwarmer.
at February 8, 2006 5:38 PM
"Nidal" means ""Struggle", so Umm Nidal translates as "Mother of the Struggle", Abu Nidal = father of the struggle, etc.. She should struggle to escape the bonds of ignorance, prejudice and slavery that Islam has placed her under.
Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at February 8, 2006 5:49 PM
A kamikazi with dugs.
A meatgrinder with a womb.
And who says Allah doesn't have a sick sense of humor?
She's like a minor figure in the "Hell" Triptych by Heironymous Bosch.
Head of a vulture, belly of a poisonous toad and the morals of Pazuzu.
Glorious Islam at work!
What do they give her on Mother's Day- a gila monster?
Posted by: profitsbeard at February 8, 2006 7:50 PM
It would be interesting to see a panel discussion between Cindy Sheehan,and Mariam Farhat; Maybe Mona Charen, or Phyliss Shafly to.
Could they possibly have anything in common? How different are these womens worlds apart? Could they be so polarized in their thinking and their ideology?
----Just thinking out loud!
at February 8, 2006 8:01 PM
I think an MRI is in order to see where the defect is in the brain.
Posted by: Borg at February 8, 2006 10:16 PM
Borg-
Caught a typo.
You mean "where the brain is in the defect" right?
Posted by: profitsbeard at February 8, 2006 10:52 PM
A thought added re my comment above 2/8/12:10 PM
P.S. I too am a hypocrite and lie on occasion and therefore am not totally defended against delusion, nor have the strength to see the whole truth. That's the reason why I think Jesus warned against hypocrisy. As Yates said, "We are surrounded by truth, yet we cannot know it." Human hypocrisy (including my own) is the reason. FJW
at February 9, 2006 6:55 AM
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