In Western culture, people take pictures with those they admire. It works no differently anywhere else, except that the standard for admiration may be different. For instance, Palestinians, including kids, hosted a “take your picture day” with would-be jihad terrorists who are determined to be glorified as “shahids” by murdering Israelis.
“Liberation”, “struggle” and “resistance” to Palestinians means to obliterate Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
“Take your picture with today’s ‘Martyr’; Trending in the PA,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, December 19, 2022:
When 22-year-old Muhammad Abu Kishk was killed in a shootout initiated by terrorists shooting and throwing explosives at Israeli soldiers and civilians at Joseph’s Tomb, his father, uncle, and a friend explained that for years the young man had wished to die as a “Martyr.”
His friend specifically mentioned that Abu Kishk had invited people he met in the street to have their photo taken with him, in anticipation of his own death later that night:
Official PA TV reporter: “You told me you were with [your son] Muhammad at home mere hours before he was wounded. Tell me about the last moments of Muhammad’s life…”
Abu Kamel, father of Muhammad Abu Kishk: “From the afternoon until the evening he kept saying: ‘I want to be a Martyr, I want to be a Martyr.’” …
Uncle of Muhammad Abu Kishk: “Already two years ago he wrote on Facebook that he wants to carry out a Martyrdom-seeking operation (i.e., terror attack). The [Israeli] Security Agency contacted his father and we took him to the enemies, and they knew that the child is a bit like this. Afterwards he put[his post] back, and continued to seek Martyrdom, and every other day he said: ‘I want to be a Martyr.’” …
Friend of Muhammad Abu Kishk: “Yesterday he was standing in the neighborhood,and told every person he saw on the street: ‘Come here, I want to take a picture with you, I will become a Martyr tonight.’”
[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Nov. 23, 2022]
Being taught for decades that terror is a legitimate means to fight Israel and that “Martyrs” go to Paradise and marry 72 Virgins, it is not surprising that so many Palestinian teens and youth seek death. Adding to the desire to become “Martyrs” is the subsequent fame, and the “joy” and “pride” of the parents and the entire family – the entire Palestinian society in fact. Palestinian teens – like other teens – wish to make their parents proud and also want to emulate other teens who they view as role models.
This was the case for 16-year-old Ahmed Shehadeh, who like Abu Kishk was shot and killed in the exchanges of fire when Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis at Joseph’s Tomb on Nov. 22, 2022. His father also explained that his son had been almost obsessed with seeking “Martyrdom-death,” constantly asking his father “when he would get married as a Martyr like [the other] Martyrs”:
Official PA TV newsreader: “Our people in Nablus accompanied the body of the child Martyr Ahmed Shehadeh to burial.”
Official PA TV reporter: “He wished to be accompanied [to his wedding] as a Martyr. Before his death as a Martyr, the child Ahmed Shehadeh, 16, asked his father about when he would get married as a Martyr like [the other] Martyrs.”
Amjad Shehadeh, father of Ahmed Shehadeh: “Every week he told me: ‘Dad, when will you accompany me as a groom to his wedding?’ He used to say: ‘When will you accompany me to my wedding?’… My son went as a Martyr, praise Allah Master of the Universe, and this is a Martyr of Palestine, a Martyr of the entire Palestinian people… This boy has wished for Martyrdom-death for two years. Praise Allah, he achieved it.” …
Naif Abu Sharakh, friend of Ahmed Shehadeh: “Ahmed wished for Martyrdom for himself… After Ghaith [Yamin] (i.e., terrorist, threw Molotov cocktail at Israeli soldiers) died as a Martyr…Ahmed asked for it and achieved it, O Master of the Universe.”
[Official PA TV News, Nov. 23, 2022]…
Walter Sieruk says
Part of this article ,rightly, reads “Being taught for decades that terror is a legitimate means to fight Israel and that “Martyrs” go to Paradise and marry 72 Virgins, it is not surprising that so many Palestinian teens and youth seek death”.
Those despicable “teachers” who brainwash youth from little on up about “How wonderful and grand martyrdom is” are so completerly heinous as to entice teenage boys and young men in their twenties who are by nature in their sexual prime desires would really want to be in such a place with “many virgins just for their use only. ” By offering them such a paradise by the bogus promises from the false religion of Islam is nothing less than a murderous sin and an outright abomination.
Those unconscionable mind programmers who call themselves “teachers” and manipulate young males who make jihadist murders of them by creating the male youth an Islamic mindset that is literally “dangerous and self and others” are “teachers” who are , beyond doubt ,horrendously evil.
Keith O says
When you think about it this situation is very sad and is a continuation of the Islamic con job that has been going on for over a thousand years.
Telling poor, ignorant peasants that if they get themselves killed to protect the lifestyles of fat, evil, corrupt men, that they will go to heaven and get everything that they never had in this life.
I actually feel sorry for these poor bastards.
Religion, of the various kinds, both Islam and Christianity, as well as others, has been sending young people to their deaths for the betterment of slim ball leaders and kings since the start of civilisation.
What really pisses me off is that the uneducated masses are not smart enough to understand this and put an end to it.
Humanity is sooo screwed.
gravenimage says
Trending in the Palestinian Authority: Take your picture with today’s ‘martyr’
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Islamic “values”. *Ugh*.