Dershowizt Op-Ed: Woshippers of Death
The following op-ed, Worshippers of death, written by Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz, was published in the Wall Street Journal on March 3, 2008.
Zahra Maladan is an educated woman who edits a women's magazine in Lebanon. She is also a mother, who undoubtedly loves her son. She has ambitions for him, but they are different from those of most mothers in the West. She wants her son to become a suicide bomber.
At the recent funeral for the assassinated Hezbollah terrorist Imad Moughnaya -- the mass murderer responsible for killing 241 marines in 1983 and more than 100 women, children and men in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994 -- Ms. Maladan was quoted in the New York Times giving the following warning to her son: "if you're not going to follow the steps of the Islamic resistance martyrs, then I don't want you."
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http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008...dershowitz.php
We all have aspirations for our children but
she seems a little harsh to me. If my daughters decides against theoretical physics - and the fact she is currently enrolled in an English Lit. BA doesn't bode well - I will mask my disappointment and continue to talk to her.
The biggest problem I see with that
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William F. Owen
I don't find this surprising at all. Everyday normal Arab extremism, that is far more common and widespread in the Middle East, than Europeans of Americans ever want to admit. This is normal. This is how these people think. This is Hezbollah, who are just like the Khmer Rouge, or the Klu-Klux-Klan.
From a defense perspective is that it's a dang bit harder to predict or get ahead of the attacks of those who don't care anymore about their own skin the they do that of their victims At least their personal wish to survive helps to catch a lot of our wacko's