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(Jerusalem Post) Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - The aspiration to die, which contradicts the basic human instinct for survival, is at the core of the suicide terrorism fervor. Palestinian society actively promotes the religious belief that their deity craves their deaths. A popular music video directed at children, broadcast hundreds of times on PA TV, depicts the earth thirsting for the blood of children: "How sweet is the fragrance of the shahids, how sweet is the scent of the earth, its thirst quenched by the gush of blood, flowing from the youthful body." Palestinians have been taught on PA TV by their religious leaders that they are born for the very purpose of dying for Allah. Palestinian children have learned to see dying for the deity as their goal in life. According to three different public opinion polls, 70-80% of Palestinian children aspire to shahada (death for Allah). In the ancient world, people gave their children to the deity of Molech and the Baal. This ancient belief has now returned to plague the world. 2004-02-06 00:00:00Full Article
Aspiration, Not Desperation
(Jerusalem Post) Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - The aspiration to die, which contradicts the basic human instinct for survival, is at the core of the suicide terrorism fervor. Palestinian society actively promotes the religious belief that their deity craves their deaths. A popular music video directed at children, broadcast hundreds of times on PA TV, depicts the earth thirsting for the blood of children: "How sweet is the fragrance of the shahids, how sweet is the scent of the earth, its thirst quenched by the gush of blood, flowing from the youthful body." Palestinians have been taught on PA TV by their religious leaders that they are born for the very purpose of dying for Allah. Palestinian children have learned to see dying for the deity as their goal in life. According to three different public opinion polls, 70-80% of Palestinian children aspire to shahada (death for Allah). In the ancient world, people gave their children to the deity of Molech and the Baal. This ancient belief has now returned to plague the world. 2004-02-06 00:00:00Full Article
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