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PA TV Cultivates Culture of Terror and Death
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John Henry
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Mar 25, 2005 19:14 PST
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PA TV CULTIVATES CULTURE OF TERROR AND DEATH
The promises of PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas notwithstanding, official
Palestinian Authority-controlled television continues to encourage Arab
males to seek death while attacking the Jews and for their mothers to
rejoice in their demise.
“Creating a supportive social environment for terrorists has been a
critical factor in the Palestinian Authority's successful promotion of
suicide terrorism,” wrote Palestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus on
March 15.
To achieve this, the PA regularly refers to Palestinians killed while
engaging in anti-Jewish activities as “shahids”the highest honor a Muslim
can achieveand encourages their mothers to celebrate when their sons die
as such. This practice was amplified over the past week in connection with
International Woman’s Day.
In a Friday sermon broadcast on Palestinian TV, PA Minister of Waqf
(Islamic Trust) Sheikh Yusuf Juma' Salamah pressed local Arab mothers to be
like a Muslim poet during the early Islamic period who greatly rejoiced
when her four sons were killed fighting non-Muslims.
Al Khansah “sent her four sons, her offspring, to battle…as a service to
this religion. When she was notified that they had become shahids, she
said, ‘Praise Allah, who granted me honor with their deaths,’” Salamah taught.
The sermon was attended by Abbas, whose regime had promised only days
earlier to end incitement to violence in local mosques and on PA TV. On
March 14, Al Khansah was again featured in a skit broadcast on PA TV, in
which a father taught his son to honor and respect the matron’s view of her
sons’ deaths. Last week the television station interviewed Palestinian
university students for International Woman’s Day. The comments of the Dean
of Media at Al-Aqsa University, in which he expressed admiration for the
“unique Palestinian woman ... she is the one who shouts for joy on the day
of the shahid,” were promptly broadcast.
“Promoting the Al Khansah ideal for Palestinians is a very powerful message
for Muslims… [She] is considered the archetypal mother of shahids, a woman
glorified by Palestinians for encouraging her sons to kill and die for
Allah and rejoicing when they achieved their shahada deaths,” Marcus explains.
(Jerusalem Newswire, www.jnewswire.com, March 15th, 2005)
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