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| Israel-Palestine |
| "They deserve death, and we deserve life" |
| 2004-03-24 |
| by Claudia Winkler, The Weekly Standard. EFL. IN BETWEEN ERUPTIONS of exceptional violence that propel the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back to the front pages, life goes on in the Palestinian Authority. Friday sermons, in particular, go on, and every Friday at noon, one of them is broadcast live on the radio and shown on the PA’s single TV channel. It’s worth tuning in from time to time. Non-Arabic speakers can do this thanks to the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute, which posts its translations of items from the Arabic media on its website. Because of MEMRI’s work, we can sample the hate speech characteristic of extremist Islam. Thus, Friday before last, on March 12, the Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiris used an example from the life of the Prophet Mohammed to explain why the Jews must be destroyed. When it came to eliminating the Jewish "cancer" from the city of Medina, the prophet got his orders direct from God. . . . History repeats itself, explained the imam. Once again, the Jews, characterized by "miserliness and cowardice," are the terrorists. "They deserve death, and we deserve life, because we are the people of Truth." Sheikh Mudeiris, MEMRI notes, is paid by the Religious Affairs Ministry of the Palestinian Authority, as are his fellow Friday preachers. For a sampler of PA TV sermons from 2000 to 2003, see the special report by Steven Stalinsky. Read up on the education of children for martyrdom ("blessings for whoever has saved a bullet in order to stick it in a Jew’s head . . ."), the reconquest of Palestine for the purpose of establishing the Muslim caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital, the rewards that await the martyr ("he is saved from the torments of the grave; he sees his place in Paradise; he is saved from the Great Horror [of the day of judgment]; he is given 72 black-eyed women; he vouches for 70 of his family to be accepted to Paradise; he is crowned with the Crown of glory, whose precious stone is better than all of this world and what is in it"), the religious war against Crusader America, and more. Whatever the headlines on any given day, these are themes that are going to be with us for a long time. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #15 "They can't do that to our trolls. Only WE can do that to out trolls!" |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-03-24 1:59:12 PM |
| #14 Sorry, I should have told you that I'm crosstraining. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-3-24 11:51:41 AM |
| #13 Religion of peace my ass. |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-3-24 11:38:13 AM |
| #12 #5 Juuuuust a little outside. Hey! Obscure movie dialog is MY schtick! |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-3-24 11:10:58 AM |
| #11 ...just simply change the link to go to the real ADL? Heh! Lil Dhimmi knows judo! |
| Posted by: snellenr 2004-3-24 9:44:30 AM |
| #10 Just a thought...how about everytime Boris posts a link to his shit-site, just simply change the link to go to the real ADL? It looks like he is trying to gather hits to his place for Google purposes. |
| Posted by: Lil Dhimmi 2004-3-24 9:41:28 AM |
| #9 By this point, he's just making me tired. I spend too much time dealing with him and not enough time posting or doing other things I should be doing. |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-3-24 9:36:32 AM |
| #8 AC - I believe your analogy is a very astute observation. Rings true. Funny how people won't make that leap over the obvious - that they must trudge through every single step, hit every pothole, and bounce off every obstacle enroute to a conclusion that was self-apparent long before. Sigh. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-24 9:26:06 AM |
| #7 It soon will be JFM. The lefty/bolshevik alliance has been whipping itself into a frenzy for years, with a constant escalation of its rhetoric into outright calls for violence and assassination. Sooner or later, this escalation must reach a critical point and take effect, probably quite suddenly. This can end only way (badly for them) but their belief system is a fantasy ideology and the script must play itself out to a conclusion regardless of the consequences. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-24 9:17:56 AM |
| #6 Anyone knows if it is legal to use the Second Amendment on trolls? |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-3-24 8:59:45 AM |
| #5 Juuuuust a little outside. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-3-24 8:02:05 AM |
| #4 The more compu-slob posts, the weirder he gets. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-3-24 7:47:43 AM |
| #3 You tell lies, troll. Of course, that is what your masters, Chomsky, Zinn, and Goebbels, have taught you to do. It's amazing what slaves and tools you pompous authoritarians are. You've debased yourselves so far you're not even human. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-24 7:44:45 AM |
| #2 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: TROLL 2004-3-24 7:36:01 AM |
| #1 Palestine has perfected the Hate Machine. Nobody has ever been, nor prolly will ever be, more intensely and blindly and utterly saturated with hate. A singular success for human evil. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-24 7:32:19 AM |