Graduation Jihad

This article by Roberta Leguizamon appears in FrontPage. Certainly not like the old-time conventional graduations I went through...indeed, frightening!

Graduating students at University of California-Irvine should be celebrating the end of a journey and the beginning of the best and most productive years of their lives. Instead, some of those young hopefuls intend to show their support for terrorism, murder and Islamist tyranny.

The Muslim Student Union (MSU) of University of California-Irvine has asked graduating Muslim students to wear green sashes bearing the word “shahada,” the Arabic word for "martyrdom.” The Muslim world refers to a suicide bomber who kills innocent civilians in Israel as a “shahid.” Pilots and their cohorts who fly airplanes into skyscrapers are also celebrated for their “martyrdom.” Children in Palestinian schools are taught, “blessed with shahada and honour, his soul returns to its Creator to live a different life, content with the rewards and honour bestowed upon it, a life of grace thanks to Allah.”

In fact, the entire culture of the Islamic world appears to be built around the concept of “shahada”/martyrdom. Palestinians who raise their children to sacrifice themselves for Islam are richly rewarded. Indeed, children are seen as the most useful weapons against Israel. On January 12, 2004, John Parazzo wrote in Front Page Magazine, “According to Sheikh Hamed Al-Bitawi, Head of the Council of Sages of Religion of Palestine, ‘We in Palestine have a great love of jihad and Shahada, and that makes many children compete among themselves in carrying out jihad and Shahada-seeking missions.’ Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Razek agrees, ‘The Moslem was created to die for Allah . . . [who] has planted within our youth the love of jihad, the love of Shahada. Our youth have turned into bombs, they blow themselves up among them [Israelis] day and night.’”...more>>

Posted by at June 17, 2004 10:32 AM