To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (210799 ) 12/19/2002 6:58:01 PM From: Haim R. Branisteanu Respond to of 436258 Lee, that is the main problem - it is a social / religeous issue that we Westerners can not comprehend. Glorification of 'martyrdom' on upswing Arafat TV station plays slick music video aimed at youth "Do not be sad, my dear, and do not cry over my parting. Oh, my dear father; how sweet is Shahada (martyrdom). How sweet is Shahada when I embrace you, oh my land." In the video, the boy embraces the ground with his arms stretched out as upon a cross. His death is gentle, innocent, heroic – not at all the brutal dismemberment that awaits suicide bombers. "Mother, my most dear, be joyous over my blood," he sings. "And do not cry for me." ....................................... Yasser Arafat's official TV station broadcast the dreamy clip virtually every day for more than a year in a clear effort to incite children to murder/suicide.It aired between cartoons, after school and in the early evening between regularly scheduled programs.worldnetdaily.com These and other PA TV video clips for children can be viewed at pmw.org.il . Lee, I grew up in Romania and even there under the communist regime they teach in school the atrocities the Muslim did in the mane of Islam to the Romanians. The Romanian needed for hundreds of years to pay "taxes" in addition to the extortion money also to send hundreds of young children several times a year to the arabs. The boys were raised as cannon feeders and the girls send into harems and then plain slavery. Think!!! for hundreds of years in the name of Islam arabs in their cruelty purposely exploited innocent children, not their children, but those of others. If the children were not delivered the Ottoman army would move in the villages burn pillage and massacre the people and ride away with their young children. Their cruelty was staggering and it passed from generation to generation. Just ask Bulgarians, Ukranians or Russian or Serbs & Slovenians... or other Christian nation who suffered the Islamic wrath for hundreds of years Your example regarding Russia is not as relevant as the Russians were historically the allies of Central Eastern Europe and the British against the Islam onslaught and during the last century against Germany. Pls. read history Eastern Europe & Russian and Middle Asia history, read about the Armenians, Assyrians and other Christian minorities that are not any more East of Anatolia and South of the Caspian Sea. I live in NYC and 9/11 brought up many childhood memories and just wonder how human nature suppresses nasty teachings / stories that one does not want to believe them rest my case