Archive for April, 2007
Ah, yes…here they are: the hur`ayn - Houris
WHAT DRIVES THESE ARAB KAMIKAZIS to wrap their young bodies with high explosives, disguise themselves as Israelis, and become delivery systems of death–certainly their own and sometimes dozens of others–on the streets of Netanya, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and perhaps soon a town or city where you live?
All have been suckled since infancy on a toxic concoction of Arab nationalist and virulent anti-Semitic propaganda. Most come from a culture of despair, kept powerless, poor, and in refugee limbo by unelected oil rulers and their own leader’s Arafat-headed unwillingness to reach a compromise for peace as Irish nationalist leaders successfully did almost a century ago.
And most of these suicide bombers reportedly find it appealing that by dying as Shahid–martyrs– they are promised a place of honor in the memory of their families and community and a payment to their loved ones of $10,000-$15,000 from radicals and the Palestinian Authority. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein just increased his promised payments to Palestinian suicide bomber families to $25,000. In the West we give half our lives working for a pension or Social Security check. Giving their entire life in one instant of martyrdom, young Palestinians are told, is their chance to provide benefits for their families.
But for many young men, the decisive factor in becoming suicidal mass murderers comes from their Muslim faith and the very special heaven to which martyrdom, they believe, is a guaranteed one-way First Class ticket.
Islamic heaven, according to the Koran, the sayings of the Prophet Mohammed (the Hadith) and Muslim sages is not a place where the blessed sit around in white gowns on fluffy clouds plucking on harps for eternity.
Muslim heaven is instead a Disneyland of sensuality or, as one critic describes it, “The X-rated Paradise of Islam.” Unlike Earth, in this heaven the concept of sin no longer exists. Virtually any sensual pleasure desired by those blessed enough to gain admittance is permitted and provided.
