Saturday, February 3, 2007
Civilization v. Barbarism.
Hezbollah draws on Ashura in battle and politics
BEIRUT, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Khadija Hassan had prayed for her father to be killed in battle with Israel and was glad when he fell in Hezbollah's war with the Jewish state in Lebanon last year.
"I felt God had answered my prayer. I was very happy for him," the young girl told the presenter of children's show "The Light of the Martyr" on Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV.
"He'd wanted to be martyred," she said on the show, aired to mark the current season of Ashura, when the world's Shi'ite Muslims commemorate the killing in battle more than 13 centuries ago of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson, Imam Hussein.This year Ashura has taken on a new dimension for Hezbollah. The Shi'ite group is not just remembering Hussein and its own guerrillas who died fighting in the July-August war but, with Lebanon in political crisis, has its domestic foes to rail at as well as its regular targets Israel and the United States...
Another family proud of their Sheikh Darwin Award winner.
Is it possible that a daughters thoughts could be so corrupted she would pray for her father's death?
This piece of 'journalism' is so obviously propaganda, but what worries me is not so much that it is written, but rather there are souls who believe in this tripe.
Must you suspend all your critical faculties to be a 'good' hezbolah-ian or are these faculties already lacking?
Can people really be so easily lead away from reality?
regards
Bagelblogger