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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (18851)	2/14/2002 4:43:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

memri.org now has about three pages of glowing reviews of Wafa Idris, the first female suicide bomber, who gloriously killed an 81 year old man on Jaffa St in Jerusalem a couple of weeks ago. The whole of Arab society sounds like it's in love with death...I read someone who compared it to the nihilism of the Spanish fascists crying "Viva la muerta!". There is no possible compromise with this. Some sample reviews: In general, the Arab media were excessive in their praise for the "courageous Palestinian girl." An editorial in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi was the first to acclaim her, even before her identity became known: "This is the first time a young woman strapped a belt of explosives and bits of metal around her waist and blew herself up on Jaffa Road in the heart of the occupied city. Thus, she joins the convoys of the martyrs and sets a precedent [for women] to take pride in the history of the Arab and Islamic woman..."(3) Al-Wafd columnist Sa'id Sadeq wrote: "Suddenly, out of the darkness, came a spark of light and hope, in the person of a Palestinian girl, courageous in deeds, not words..."(4) Salah Muntasir wrote in the leading Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram: "Wafa Idris has not faded from my [mind] since I saw her picture for the first time... Her dreamy eyes and the mysterious smile on her lips, that competes with the famous smile some artist drew on the lips of Mona Lisa - Wafa's smile is more beautiful. All of her is more beautiful than any picture of a woman painted by any artist..."(5) Jordanian Islamist, Yasser Za'atrah, wrote in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour: "...Wafa carried her suitcase [of explosives], which is... the most beautiful prize any woman can possibly win. Her spirit was raging, her heart filled with anger and her mind unconvinced by the calls for peace and coexistence... Peace be upon Wafa and the martyrs, men and women, before and after her..."(6)