Two sides of the same damaged coin........
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patgundI stumbled across both of these this evening.......both made me ill....
Egypt primes children for jihad - Egyptian cleric tells children's TV show: Come on to the jihad, encourages child-soldiers to join holy war
"Let's listen to a very beautiful story to learn about the courage of a child, and how, when a child is brought up in a good home, and receives proper education in faith, he loves martyrdom, which becomes like an instinct for him. He can never give it up," Sheik Muhammad Nassar told children on the program, which aired on the Al-Nas television channel."
American Madrassas
"There were some perfect sound bites — at one point Pastor Fischer instructs the little ones that they should be willing to die for Christ, and the little ones obediently agree. She may even use the word martyr, which has a shocking echo in the Middle East. I can see future suicide bombers for Jesus — the next step will be learning to fly planes into buildings. Of course, the grownups would say, “Oh no, we’re not like them” — but they admit that the principal difference is simply that “We’re right.”
Egypt primes children for jihad - Egyptian cleric tells children's TV show: Come on to the jihad, encourages child-soldiers to join holy war
"Let's listen to a very beautiful story to learn about the courage of a child, and how, when a child is brought up in a good home, and receives proper education in faith, he loves martyrdom, which becomes like an instinct for him. He can never give it up," Sheik Muhammad Nassar told children on the program, which aired on the Al-Nas television channel."
American Madrassas
"There were some perfect sound bites — at one point Pastor Fischer instructs the little ones that they should be willing to die for Christ, and the little ones obediently agree. She may even use the word martyr, which has a shocking echo in the Middle East. I can see future suicide bombers for Jesus — the next step will be learning to fly planes into buildings. Of course, the grownups would say, “Oh no, we’re not like them” — but they admit that the principal difference is simply that “We’re right.”
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Date: 2006-08-06 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-06 10:52 pm (UTC)I heard an 'expert' on tv about middle-east culture expound that said culture has embraced the concept of honorable martyrdom for millenia so America & the west shouldn't be deluding themselves that they will change that in just a generation or two...
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Date: 2006-08-07 05:15 am (UTC)