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PA and Hamas honor Sbarro suicide bomber who murdered 15

May 7, 2014 3:38 pm By Robert Spencer

“The popular gathering around the blood of Izz Al-Din Al-Masri is an honest and true expression of our people’s yearning for national unity (between Fatah and Hamas) and unity of action.” And that unity will be steeped in hatred and rage, and directed toward the violent destruction of the State of Israel, while Barack Obama and John Kerry continue to strong-arm Israel into making yet more concessions to these genocidal jihadis.

“PA and Hamas honor Sbarro suicide bomber who murdered 15,” by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, May 5, 2014:

The terrorist who murdered 15 in the Sbarro pizza shop suicide bombing in 2001 was given a military funeral by the PA after his body was transferred to the PA last week.

On Aug. 9, 2001 suicide bomber Izz Al-Din Al-Masri detonated himself in a Sbarro pizza shop in Jerusalem, killing 15, 7 of them children. 5 members of one family were killed in the attack. (See names below.) Palestinian Media Watch has reported that the PA in the past has honored Ahlam Tamimi, the terrorist who picked the Sbarro restaurant as the place for the bombing “because many people entered it,” and later led the bomber there. Official PA TV has also glorified her.

Last week, Israel transferred the body of the suicide bomber to the PA and both the PA and Hamas took the opportunity to honor the murderer once again. Reporting from the official military funeral, PA TV News called him a “Martyr,” the highest religious level a Muslim can reach. In calling the terrorist a Martyr – a Shahid – the PA continues to teach its people that according to its interpretation of Islam, killers of Israeli civilians in suicide terror attacks are doing such a positive act, that it overrules the general Islamic prohibition against committing suicide.

PA TV News reported that the murderer “gave his soul for the struggle of a nation that strives for freedom,” and described the terrorist’s funeral as his “wedding” to the 72 Virgins in Paradise, the great reward Islam promises to those who die as Martyrs for Allah. [Official PA TV, April 30, 2014]

Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV News glorified the suicide bomber as “victorious,” and also referred to him as a “Martyr” who now “has returned to make those who loved him happy, just as he made them happy on the day he carried out his operation 13 years ago.” The Hamas reporter glorified the terror attack killing 15 as an act that “gave the Zionists a taste of humiliation”:

“Izz Al-Din Al-Masri ascended to Paradise in a Martyrdom-seeking operation (suicide terror attack) he carried out in the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, where he gave the Zionists a taste of humiliation after killing 19 Zionists and wounding dozens… The citizens expressed their pride in Izz Al-Din’s heroism, along with the thousands who gathered to accompany him on his final journey, and they did not forget all those who played a role in this operation.” [Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), April 30, 2014]

A PA official interviewed at the funeral said:

“The popular gathering around the blood of Izz Al-Din Al-Masri is an honest and true expression of our people’s yearning for national unity (between Fatah and Hamas) and unity of action.”…

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  1. john spielman says

    May 7, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    more proff that Islam is a DEMONIC doctrine of death, darkness and HELL

  2. mariam rove says

    May 7, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    and of course no mention of this in Huff Post or the rest of MSM. M

  3. Richard Sherman says

    May 7, 2014 at 6:00 pm

    Muslims acting like true Muslims. Nothing special here. If a Muslim did not celebrate the murder if Jews, he or she would be an apostate.

  4. Boaz says

    May 7, 2014 at 8:34 pm

    “The popular gathering around the blood of Izz Al-Din Al-Masri is an honest and true expression of our people’s yearning for national unity (between Fatah and Hamas) and unity of action.”

    BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

    Wasn’t it Hamas’ people, after gaining political ascendancy, who were throwing Fatah people, hogtied, off buildings?

    Once the beast destroys its enemies, it then turns inwardly and factional war ensues. Just ask Trotsky….

  5. mortimer says

    May 7, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    Suicide is approved by Mohammed if a Muslim is a jihadist seeking death at the hands of enemies.

  6. commonsense says

    May 7, 2014 at 10:38 pm

    This should serve as a lesson to the Israelis. The corpses of suicide bombers and other dead terrorists should all be burned, and their ashes scattered to the winds.

    • Richard Sherman says

      May 8, 2014 at 10:34 am

      No…the bodies should be chopped up and fed to pigs on worldwide television.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        May 12, 2014 at 7:08 pm

        That would be cruelty to the pigs. I’d be afraid of poisoning the poor creatures (especially as the bombs the murder-‘martyrs’ carry are usually laced with rat poison, nails, and other stuff that probably ends up impregnating the flesh of the murderer just as it also is driven into the flesh of their vicitms).

        I think mortimer’s idea was the better one. The Israelis did just that with Eichmann’s body, after they hanged him. They burnt it to ashes, and tossed it into the sea.

        • richard Sherman says

          May 12, 2014 at 8:25 pm

          Yes it certainly would be cruelty to the pigs…however there is a greater good here: Muslims have to understand that if they choose to emulate the sociopath MUHAMMAD, they will be eaten and excreted by pigs…not the best of shape to enjoy 72 virgins…but the perfect shape for every Muslim.

  7. Guy Macher says

    May 7, 2014 at 10:46 pm

    I challenge a Mohameddan barrow to explain this to me. No Mohameddinas– your opinion counts for nothing.

  8. Holybacon says

    May 7, 2014 at 11:09 pm

    Where is the press release from CAIR condemning the glorification of murder of innocents especially children?

    • richard Sherman says

      May 7, 2014 at 11:22 pm

      You have to understand: CAIR and everyone of its members celebrates the slaughter of Jewish men, women and children…because CAIR and everyone of its members revere the SOCIOPATH MUHAMMAD WHO PERSONALLY DECAPITATED 900 UNARMED JEWS. ..Killing unarmed Jews is foundational to every observant Muslim.

  9. wildjew says

    May 8, 2014 at 8:00 am

    John Kerry’s brother, Cameron Kerry: ‘My brother is not an anti-Semite’

    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4488393,00.html

    My brother, John Kerry, is a passionate and consistent supporter of Israel
    Exclusive to Yedioth Ahronoth: Secretary of state’s brother explains in a special op-ed that John Kerry’s determined work on Middle East peace is informed by an abiding sense of the need to secure Israel as a home for the Jewish people.

    Cameron Kerry
    Published: 02.14.14, 21:35 / Israel Opinion

  10. Walter Sieruk says

    May 8, 2014 at 2:33 pm

    That suicide/homocide bomber who commited that heinous act was , no doubt, under such extreme Islamic deception tha he thought of what he was doing as a “martyrdom operation.” The Islamic clerics such as the imams and mullahs are for, a large part, to blame for the deluded mindset ofthe jihadist who acted as a human bomb. Those Muslim clerics did throuoghly brainwash him into believing in the lies and falsehoods form the Quran of a pardise with virgins in it forthe Muslim who dies in the jihad forthe cause of Islam, Sura 44:5. 55:56. 78:31. The Quran is a deceptive work of “the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.” -cited from the Bible, [NIV] Ephesians 4:14. These false teachers[the imams and mullahs] who mind program other people into believing Quranic falsehoods and lies wil lhave to answer to the God of the Bible for their evil work, Romans 14:12.

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