Hvorfor finnes det rikelig med tunneler i Gaza, men knapt nok tilfluktsrom? Hamas gir svaret: ”We desire death like you desire life.”
Mange sivile er døde i Gaza. Slik er det i krig. Trolig er det også slik at israelerne ikke legger så mye vekt på å unngå sivile tap som vi ideelt skulle ønske oss. Men de mange som søker å fremstille Israel som et unikt ondt land, må ta hensyn til at Hamas bevisst bruker drepte sivile i sin propaganda, og derfor har et klart incentiv til ikke å beskytte dem.
Her er Fathi Haddam, et parlamentsmedlem fra Hamas, i en tale i Gaza i februar 2008 (via Memri-TV).
“[The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: ‘We desire death like you desire life.’”
Sjekk også dette ferske innslaget fra Hamas’ egen TV-stasjon al-Aqsa TV (via Huffington Post): Abu Bilal al-Ja’abeer forteller at han fikk en telefon fra en israelsk sikkerhetsoffiser, som ga ham 5 minutter til å evakuere huset fordi det kom til bli bombet. Hva gjør så al-Ja’abeer? Han ringer straks ”noen venner”, som via høytalere oppfordret folket til å samle seg ved hans hus for å forme et menneskelig skjold. Videoen viser hustaket fullt av folk.
De egyptiske TV-kanalene Al Rahma og Al Nas har gjentatte ganger vist prekener om hvordan muslimer må elske døden og martyriet. Egypt er for øvrig ansett som et moderat muslimsk land, og TV-kanalene er underlagt politisk sensur (via Memri, som fordrer enkel login).
Al-Rahma 2. januar 2009:
Dying means meeting Allah, so why do we fear death and martyrdom? We watch the martyrs in Gaza… We are not saddened by their deaths, because they are martyrs. We are sad only about the humiliating way they were killed, and about the humiliating circumstances in which we live. We do not hate martyrdom.
Imagine an angel kissing you on the forehead, and if it is a little boy, the angels take him straight to Paradise. What do we live for? We should be crying over us, the living. We congratulate the relatives of whoever died for the sake of Allah. We congratulate these [martyrs] themselves.
Al Nas 8. januar 2009:
We must teach our children to obey Allah, to obey the Prophet Muhammad, and to hate the Jews, the Zionists, and what the Zionists are planning. We must raise them on the Koranic verses that call to fight and wage Jihad for the sake of Allah. We want to raise our children to love Jihad for the sake of Allah. We must teach our children that death for the sake of Allah is our most lofty goal.
What kind of honor, glory, and status can a mother wish for her son which is better than Paradise? Is there anything better than this? Is there anything better than Paradise? Is there anything better than martyrdom for the sake of Allah? That is why we want to change the culture of our children’s education. Education should not be through love, spoiling, and pampering. True, these are nice things – I’m not saying you should slaughter your sons or tie them up. These are nice things, but it is even nicer to teach our children to hate the enemies.
Al Nas 11. januar 2009:
When I wake up in the morning, I check on the number of martyrs to know how much happiness there is in heaven and on earth. I do not wake up to see how many of us have been killed. No, I wake up to see how many bridegrooms have been wedded in the heavens, how many brides have been wedded in the heavens. I do not wake up in the morning to see how many children have been killed. I wake up to see how many children will vouch for their relatives. I wake up in the morning to see how many children will remain children forever.
Barne mishandling ?Les Koran og Bibelen.Finn sannheten om kjærligheten selv.