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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1712532,00.html
Hamas Woman MP Backs Suicide Bombings
(Guardian-UK) Chris McGreal - Ask Huda Naeem how she intends to use her influence as a newly elected MP for Hamas and she ticks off a list of wrongs done to women in the name of religion: forced marriage, honor killings, low pay, and girls being kept out of school. "As a woman and an MP, there are areas I want to concentrate on, but that does not mean we have forgotten our struggle for our homeland, and preparing our children to die when the homeland calls for it." Naeem says there is nothing illegitimate about suicide bombers. Would she encourage her own 16-year-old son to die killing Israelis? "Yes, as soon as his homeland calls for it. I am preparing him to be a shaheed (martyr)," she said.