Yes, even the leftist UK rag, The Independent, must occasionally belly up to the bar of reality and down a shot of truthful Religion of Peace&trade firewater.
A Hamas spokesman said the woman was shot because there was a mistaken "suspicion of immoral behaviour" by the couples. But it was not clear yesterday whether inter-factional rivalry had also played a part since Yusra Azzami was a Hamas member at the Islamic university while her fiancé was in Fatah.
Other factions have been quick to condemn the killing, and gunfire was exchanged between Hamas and Fatah at the victim's funeral last Saturday. Hamas also provoked outrage among some residents by claiming her as one of its "martyrs".
Ah yes, peaceful Palestinian Arab civil society. I swear, if there is only one invented ethnic group worthy of being given a state of their own, it is these people.
Ziad Zaranda, 25, said: "Five men got out and started firing their guns at us. They shot about nine bullets at us. Two went through the window and one of these hit Yusra in the head." He said that as his fiancée slumped in the front passenger seat, fatally wounded, the men beat the two brothers with clubs.
The men then dragged Yusra's bleeding body from the car and made their escape in the Mitsubishi. Bystanders took the victims to the city's Shifa hospital where Yusra died half an hour later. Ziad required 18 stitches and Riad 27.
Yusra's sister, Magdalen, 17, said she had run away to her nearby house shouting "My sister, My sister" because she thought she too was being beaten. Magdalen said she did not know if they had been watched as they walked by the sea. "Rami was trying to touch my hand but I was saying 'let me eat my sandwich'. Even if we were not married Hamas does not have the authority to act like this."...
Ziad said: "Hamas is worse than Israel, worse than Sharon." [Ouch. That's got to hurt. —ed.]
Mushira Masri, a Hamas spokesman, said last night that the gunmen had not known the couples were betrothed. "The brothers who did this made a mistake. There was suspicion of immoral behaviour."
Just a little sharizzle misunderstanding by the morality crime unit of the mujahidizzle. These things are bound to happen when the unreformed ideology of a seventh century death cult clashes with a display of modern concepts like freedom and human rights. Even if that display is only imagined.
Besides, as we all know, this whole thing is most likely Israel's fault anyway.
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originally posted at Clarity & Resolve
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said:
"Hamas is worse than Israel, worse than Sharon."
There have been some further developments in the Hamas honor killing story, to help dispel the naive notion that it may have been anything less than a deliberate act of base depravity for Allah. (salute to Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch)
Yes, even the leftist UK rag, The Independent, must occasionally belly up to the bar of reality and down a shot of truthful Religion of Peace&trade firewater.
Ah yes, peaceful Palestinian Arab civil society. I swear, if there is only one invented ethnic group worthy of being given a state of their own, it is these people.
Just a little sharizzle misunderstanding by the morality crime unit of the mujahidizzle. These things are bound to happen when the unreformed ideology of a seventh century death cult clashes with a display of modern concepts like freedom and human rights. Even if that display is only imagined.
Besides, as we all know, this whole thing is most likely Israel's fault anyway.
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originally posted at Clarity & Resolve
Posted by Patrick at April 16, 2005 11:40 AM