Palestinian Authority celebrates
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Hamas goes so far as to imply that members of Fatah are Infidels. Both
sides have chosen to accuse the other of defiling the Quran. This accusation
is very significant. When American soldiers were accused of defiling
the Quran in Guantanamo in 2005 it sparked riots across the Muslim world.
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The anti-Hamas video produced by Fatah is a medley of scenes of destruction in a Gaza mosque that was attacked by Hamas gunman. The Fatah clip includes pictures of the dead and interviews with the injured Islamic Jihad members who had been in the mosque.
The Fatah cameras focus on the bloodstained floor of the mosque and on copies of the Quran, covered with grenades and bullet casings, to blame Hamas for the desecration. The caption makes the accusation, “Whose grenades are these?”
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The Hamas clip is far more creative, featuring
high-quality animation in which the Fatah members are depicted as rats
wreaking havoc on Islam, while Hamas is a majestic lion. The lion, with
a strong resemblance to Disney’s character of the Lion King, arises
to defend Islam and defeat the Fatah rats. The rats are shown crawling
over, and burning, Islamic texts and the Quran. They also remove the
veil from a woman’s face and target mosques with machine gun fire
and RPGs.
The Hamas video ends with a verse from the Quran: “If ye return,
We shall return” [Sura 17,8], implying that followers of the Fatah
are infidels. The meaning of the verse is, “If ye return (to sin),
We shall return (to punish you),” and continues with the warning,
“and Hell will close on the Infidels” – in this case
the Fatah.
The Fatah clip counters by presenting those killed by Hamas as faithful
to Islam, by showing their pictures accompanied by captions, “These
were the protectors of the mosque. Look what happened to them!”
Other Fatah accusations include:
"[Hamas] crime: Invading the Ribat Land mosque [in Gaza].
The result: Several men of the Al-Quds Brigades [Islamic Jihad] were martyred and injured.
"The perpetrator: The Executive Force [Hamas]"
[Visual: photos of dead and injured]
"These were the protectors of the mosque. Look what happened to them!
The Ribat mosque: They [Hamas] trampled it, defiled it, and fired in it."
[Visual: Blood and disorder in the mosque]
"Look what happened to the Quran Learning Center."
[Visual: Torn pages of the Quran with bullet shells and grenades on them] “Whose grenades are these?”
[PA TV, August 26, 2007]
The choice of these accusations in clips on both Hamas and Fatah controlled stations are an indication of the universal supremacy of Islam in the Palestinian Authority, and the disagreement is only whether Hamas or Fatah represents genuine Islam.
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The Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to glorify terrorists and to present them as role models for children.
In a school in Tulkarem (West Bank) this
week, a soccer tournament was named after Ziyad Da’as. Da’as
planned the attack in which a gunman opened fire with an M-16 rifle
at a Bat Mitzvah in Hadera in January 2002, killing six and wounding
30. He was also behind the kidnapping and murder of two Israelis in
Tulkarem in 2001. Da’as, a Fatah-Tanzim city commander, was killed
by Israel in August 2002.
Significantly, the article indicated that the tournament took place
in a Palestinian school and that the school administration was thanked
"for providing the means for its success." Some Western governments
have recently renewed funding of the Palestinian Authority, including
its educational infrastructures, based on the assumption that schools
are involved in positive education.
It should also be noted that in reporting the story, the PA daily glorified the terrorist as “one of the brave people of the Palestinian resistance." The daily Al Hayat Al Jadida is owned by the Palestinian Authority, and is therefore indirectly funded by Western money.
The following is an excerpt from the article:
Headline: "The team named after the Shahids (Martyrs) of the Southern Quarter wins the tournament cup named after the Shahid Ziyad Da’as.
This tournament…commemorates one of the brave people of the Palestinian resistance, whom the Israeli occupation forces assassinated in cold blood…
The committee that organized the tournament thanked the administration of the school... for hosting the tournament in the school yard and for providing the means for its success...
At the end of the tournament, the viewers indicated that the tournament was in a level to suitably commemorate the brave Shahid (Martyr), the mercy of Allah be upon him, Ziyad Da’as, and that an annual tournament should take place on the anniversary of his death."
[Al Hayat Al Jadida, August 15, 2007]
The latest episode of a popular Hamas children’s TV show features its main character cruelly swinging cats by their tails and throwing stones at caged lions in the Gaza zoo.
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The episode of Tomorrow’s Pioneers features a costumed
adult playing Nahool the Bee at the zoo, tormenting domestic cats and
lions. The lions become so enraged by the abuse that one of them repeatedly
tries to attack Nahool.
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Every time Nahool swings a cat by the
tail, an act that can cause permanent physical and behavior problems
for the animal, children can be heard bursting into laughter.
Ironically, the decision to terrorize and inflict physical pain on real
animals in the episode is an attempt to teach children not to abuse
animals. When the program returns to the studio, the children in the
audience criticize Nahool for his behavior, and he is told never to
do it again.
NOTE: Nahool is the character that replaced Farfur, the Mickey Mouse
clone that was killed off in response to widespread international outrage
that a knockoff of the lovable Walt Disney character was teaching children
about hatred and world Islamic domination.
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| Sheikh Salah Shehadeh |
A recent article in the Hamas newspaper,
commemorating the anniversary of the death of the commander of its suicide
terror branch, is a window into the culture of Shahada, martyrdom
for Allah.
Sheikh Salah Shehadeh, the commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades suicide
terror branch of Hamas, was killed by an Israeli air strike five years
ago. He is credited with creating the current military infrastructure
of the Al-Qassam Brigades, which has killed hundreds of Israelis. Its
targets were almost exclusively civilians -- 30 people at the Park Hotel
in Netanya at Passover in 2002, 21 young people, mostly teenagers, at
the Dolphinarium nightclub in Tel Aviv in 2001 and 15 Israelis at the
Sbarro pizza parlor in Jerusalem in 2001, to name just a few of the
group's massacres.
A July 23rd article marking the anniversary of his death in the official
Hamas newspaper, Al-Risalah, reveals the ways in which he organized
and encouraged those he sent on suicide missions.
The article says that from the moment he was released after 20 years
in an Israeli prison, he dedicated his life to organizing the Al-Qassam
Brigades and uniting disorganized efforts into a single military-style
operation. He encouraged his men to innovate, and as soon as he saw
that a particular type of action would serve this movement – such
as the firing of Qassam rockets from Gaza into Israel – he made
this part of his strategy.
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Sheikh Salah made a point of being with his men at crucial moments, even two days after he was married. When he sent off a suicide bomber, he would sit with his fellow terrorists until it was time for "parting from the Shahada-seekers," and wait for the announcement that the operation had been carried out. As soon as the attack was confirmed, he would personally go to the family of the suicide bomber to inform them of the operation, bless them and say, "Peace has come."
The article also shows the way Hamas members
see their success in Gaza – first as a victory against Israel
after the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, then as a victory against the Fatah
leadership: "Gaza was purified twice. The first time from the occupation…
and the second time from the tails of the occupation and its agents."
Finally, it emphasizes that the life of a single individual is not as
important to the Islamic movement as "values and a way." According
to one of Sheikh Salah's colleagues, the fact that the leader educated
thousands of budding terrorists makes up for the fact that he wasn't
alive to see Hamas's success in Gaza.
The following is an excerpt from the article:
Headline:
On the fifth anniversary of his death as a martyr – the blood of Salah Shehadeh lit the lights of victory and ability
Allah is his goal, the prophet is his leader, the Quran is his law, and the Shahada [martyrdom] is his wish...He has just been released from prison and immediately returned to Jihadist work…he did not rest a moment from developing and improving the military action…
Al-Risalah newspaper met with the residents and with the wife of Sheikh Shehadeh and with Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri…
The resident Tamer said: "Today we are reaping the fruits that the general commander of Al-Qassam planted when Gaza was purified twice. The first time from the occupation a year and a half ago, and the second time from the tails of the occupation and its agents, who were satisfied to be chess pieces in the hands of the enemy," and said that he would have wanted Sheikh Salah to witness those two events, "but it was enough for him to die as a Shahid [martyr]"… and said: "The Islamic movement is not built on people but on values and on a path," and he clarified that the absence of Sheikh Shehadeh is compensated by the thousands of students who were educated by him…
The resident Yamen Abu Hasanayn said that Sheikh Salah was characterized by initiative, responsibility and skepticism… "He organized the military action and developed it in a time when there was heavy pressure on military work by the cursed Oslo leadership." And said: "He encouraged the men to innovate… if he saw that a certain action served the military apparatus he adopted it, as happened with the first Qassam rocket firing…
Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas official, said: "…after he was released from prison where he served 20 years, he turned right away to military action, and worked to organize the military chains of the movement in one apparatus and develop it until it reached where it reached, that is ‘The Shahid Az Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades’… He built this apparatus in a structured way, so that it could last and get to this level."
Al-Risalah turned to Majdah Kneyta, the second wife of Sheikh Salah, whom he married two months before his death as a shahid… Um Abd Al-Rahman [the wife] remembered how Sheikh Salah was assiduous for action for Allah… He refused to stay in place without acting, especially at a time when he was wanted by the occupation… He would go out every day and meet with the men and operate in the territory. "And, for example, when he would part from the Shahada-seekers [martyrdom seekers – suicide bombers] he would go up to them and stay with the men, and when it was announced that the operation [was done], he would go, himself, to the house of the shahid and inform them [the family] about it and bless them…"
Two days after his wedding, he went out to meet the men. She said: "He always made sure to purchase weapons, and if he found a bullet, he would take it and tell them: ‘This is a trust, and we need every bullet’… [then his second wife said:] He always persisted in carrying out the deeds of the messenger of Allah [Muhammad]… in every thing, in eating and in drinking and in action." And she said he always persisted in parting from the martyrdom-seekers and blessing the messenger… and would stay up until he got word of the operation, and said: Now ‘peace has come.’"
[Al-Risalah, July 23, 2007]
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