To Die for Allah

[The_Professor]

Gee, isn't THIS healthy behavior?

Palestinian Kindergarten Graduates Vow to Die for Allah
Julie Stahl

A televised graduation ceremony at a Palestinian kindergarten in Gaza shows little boys dressed in black masks, camouflage fatigues, carrying toy guns, and waving green Hamas flags.

The children vow that their most "lofty aspiration" is death for the sake of Allah.

The ceremony aired on Hamas' Al-Aqsa Television on Thursday. The kindergarten is run by the Islamic Association in Gaza, which is the group that gave rise to Hamas.

In part of the video, girls in white dresses, some wearing butterfly wings, are shown dancing.

Then the boys, dressed like Palestinian militants, march in formation before dropping to flat to the floor to crawl on their stomachs like fighters do.

The boys shout, "Allah Akbar" (Allah is great).

"Who is your role model?" the boys are asked. "The Prophet," they respond.

"What is your path?"

"Jihad," they shout.

"What is your most lofty aspiration?"

"Death for the sake of Allah."

The video clip and translation were provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute on Friday. (See MEMRI video)

Hamas is well known throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a charitable organization, providing schools, kindergartens, medical clinics and other social services to Palestinians. But experts say the group also works to instill a message of hatred and "jihad" in future generations.

Hamas openly calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and wants to establish an Islamic Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and all of Israel.

Hamas came to power following an overwhelming victory in parliamentary elections last year. Some experts say that Palestinians voted for the radical group to protest the corruption in the Fatah party of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Hamas television recently aired a children's program using a Mickey Mouse look-alike to promote an Islamic takeover of the world.

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[gipper]

Well, playing Devil's Advocate as I often do, I will address this from an angle from which we might have some purchase on the situation, if any: what steps are the Israelis taking to offer these kids the milk of human kindness?

[The_Professor]

As I believe JS pointed out to me a few days ago, why are they then turning the other cheek, as it were? Hatred begets hatred.

[Plane]

Well, playing Devil's Advocate as I often do, I will address this from an angle from which we might have some purchase on the situation, if any: what steps are the Israelis taking to offer these kids the milk of human kindness?

How many of them are deliverd by Jewish Doctors?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Hamas would never have become so important had Israel not supported it as an alternative to the PLO.

The first point is that as a colony in the midst of a hostile and well-financed Arab environment, Israel is an anachronism as well as a rather bad idea. The winning side in WWII took the position that Hitler's colonization of its European neighbors, Italy's colonization of Albania, Greece, Libya and Ethiopia. and Japan's Co-Prosperity Spheres was morally abhorrent, but then, in lieu of giving the Jews a slice of Europe, allowed them to plunk down a colony in a sea of unwilling Arabs.

The result was rather like what the Sioux nation vs the settlers of Minnesota and the Dakotas might have been like had the Sioux had a more developed civilization and relatives with oodles and buckets of cash from oil.

Both the Jews and the Palestians are to blame for this mess. It's too bad that they cannot be more like the Swedes and the Finns, really.

[Michael Tee]

<<Hamas openly calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and wants to establish an Islamic Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and all of Israel.>>

As opposed to the status quo, where those kids can look forward to a permanent state of helotry and a life of daily humiliation and no civil rights under an Israeli military occupation which is now in its 39th year.  Dying for Allah doesn't look so bad from their POV, at least it gives them a shot at one day living free on their own land.