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“Palestinian” prof: Suicide bombers motivated by Islam, not poverty or brainwashing

Jun 23, 2014 9:21 am By Robert Spencer

John Kerry needs to sit down with Subhi Al-Yazji and have a long talk. Kerry will explain to him how poverty causes terrorism, and how jihad attacks, including jihad-martyrdom suicide operations, have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. Muslims in the West know these lines well, but in other places misunderstanders of Islam abound, even in academia. Kerry has his work cut out for him.

“Gaza Lecturer Subhi Al-Yazji: Suicide Bombers Are Motivated by Islamic Faith, Not Financial Need or Brainwashing,” MEMRI, June 6, 2014:

In an interview on the Hamas-owned Al-Aqsa TV channel, Dr. Subhi Al-Yazji of the Islamic University in Gaza said that what motivates many martyrdom-seekers is the belief that “the Muslim faith requires us to make sacrifices.” “Contrary to how they are portrayed by the West and some biased media outlets, which claim that they are youths of 18-20 years who have been brainwashed, most of the people who sacrificed their lives for the sake of Allah were engineers and had office jobs,” he said.

Following are excerpts from the interview, which was broadcast on June 6, 2014.

Dr. Subhi Al-Yazji: We must realize that the Islamic concept of sacrifice motivates many of our youth to carry out martyrdom operations. Our youths who carry out martyrdom operations… Contrary to how they are portrayed by the West and some biased media outlets, which claim that they are youths of 18-20 years who have been brainwashed, most of the people who sacrificed their lives for the sake of Allah were engineers and had office jobs. They were all mature and rational.

Some people claim that they did this for the money. Take, for example, someone like brother Sa’d, who was an engineers, had an office job, owned a home and a car, and was married – what made him embark on Jihad? He believed that the Muslim faith requires us to make sacrifices.

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 9:34 am

    But, but if the developed world only forks over more cash, then surely all this violence and martyrdom talk would end, won’t it?

    /sarc

    • John C. Barile says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 10:27 pm

      B-but if only the warring factions would renounce violence and work together though the democratic process, peace would blossom and harmony would break forth as the formerly disaffected would have a stake in the process!

      /sarc

  2. Uri says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 9:35 am

    Golda on when peace will come:

    “When the Arabs learn to love their children more than they hate the Jews.”

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 10:33 am

      Imagine if John Kerry were to speak honestly and say the same thing.

      • Jaladhi says

        Jun 23, 2014 at 10:55 am

        He will be immediately fired from the job!!!

    • mariam rove says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 12:13 pm

      so true. M

    • eib says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 3:14 pm

      A tall order for an arrogant people.

  3. ApolloSpeaks says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 9:39 am

    POVERTY HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH ISLAMIC SUICIDE BOMBINGS

    Is not the political religion of Islam DESTITUTE of morality and wisdom?

    Click my name for “Rule, Mohammed!” the future national anthem of Islamified England.

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 9:51 am

    John may better explain what causes cowardice. And the inbred gall to celebrate it as a form of heroism. From forged medal recommendtion documents to fake Moslem explanations. It’s all rat there in the narrow confines of an Ivy League Moron brain pan. What causes Moslems? Well, life causes them. That and their belief system, a devil-may-care ideology.

  5. Salah says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 10:20 am

    The doctrine that drives thousands of Muslims to blow themselves up: The carrot and the stick.
    The ‘paradise virgins’ for the pervert, and the ‘torments of the grave’ for the gullible!!!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/08/torments-of-grave.html

  6. Jay Boo says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 10:30 am

    The deceased suicide bomber heard a devilish laugh and asked,
    “are you an angel of Allah”

    “Guess again”

    • Ralph says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 10:45 am

      And Where Are The “Virgins”?

  7. Ralph says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 10:43 am

    Send Out The Clowns…

    http://www.youtube.com/embed/osYZ1uZasN8

    • John C. Barile says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 5:55 pm

      Out with the lot of them.

      • voegelinian says

        Jun 24, 2014 at 6:47 pm

        Hark! Do I espy total deportation…? Careful, or the JW Softy Brigade will take umbrage!

  8. Jaladhi says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 10:54 am

    Maybe the pseudo-experts and pseudo-scholars , our government leaders, MSM, and the lefty academia should take note of this coming from a Muslim who has the guts and integrity to tell the truth about jihadis and Islam. and of course Kerry should also learn something from him.

  9. Thomas says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 11:23 am

    How can our leftist Gov. and leftist MSM hear and believe the truth when they do more lying and deceiving and cover upping than any other time in our history? Most people do not care or think about what the latest threat to our freedoms coming from Islam and Muslims. Islam in all its evil filth is coming for us and growing stronger, not weaker, in my opinion. I fear that if we do not wake the f–k up soon we will be fighting them in our streets.

    But we are weak and wussified to the point, I fear, that we won’t be able to fight at all. We are so tied up with our cell phones and I- Pads, we won’t know how to fight back. We can only hope that our veterans will lead and save us…..

    Jihadist keep telling us the truth and we keep the truth from ourselves because of political correctness. Its all Islam and their coming.

  10. Jay Boo says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 11:37 am

    Is it Ignorance or Willful Ignorance with John Kerry?
    I suspect that John Kerry has read the Qur’an through and through attempting to make it fit his and Obama’s narrative.

    If one repeats that a stop sign is green over and over then the truth suddenly becomes
    ‘whatever one wants it to be’

    • eib says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 3:17 pm

      This is the problem with reading documents as if they had no objective existence, and said nothing by themselves.
      He has over-interpreted, and so he has misunderstood.

  11. tpellow says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 1:12 pm

    -But West’s political class, inc most of MSM, seems to be political impervious to the overwhelming evidence of the primacy of Islamic tenets in the motivation of Islamic jihad extreme violence. It’s Islam 101.

  12. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    Yeah, the stop sign is what those crazy Ivy Leaguers call a “living document,” whatever that is.

  13. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 2:57 pm

    The Islamic doctrine of the Quran, Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31, of a paradise with many virgins in it has been the cause of much murderous evil. This Islamic doctrine of a place with virgins is bizarre ,strange, far-fetched and thoroughly nonsensical. To put it another way, this weird Quranic teaching drives many Muslims to commit mass murder and create much mayhem. The French philosopher, Voltaire, wrote “As long as men continue to believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”

  14. Henry says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    More evidence ( as if it were needed), that Islam is a doctrine of hate and aggressive violence that commands its adherents to attack and subjugate the ‘other’.

  15. Artie Galvin says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    Islamic university? sorry, that’s an oxymoron.

  16. Patriot says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    Yet we allow them to move into this country makes no sense http://redmillennial.com/2014/06/23/subversive-muslims-seek-out-global-caliphate/

  17. David Munson says

    Jun 24, 2014 at 11:49 am

    If one is taught to hate Jews and Christians from birth, is this brainwashing, indoctrination or sudden religious commitment. We still attack the results and not the reason for the dehavior.

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