Praising Terrorists

During peace time, as well as war time, individuals who have preformed above and beyond the call of duty should, and frequently do, receive recognition for their efforts.

Normally conveying recognition occurs after the action and is meant to heap praise on the doer. Many supporters of our Jihadists enemies praise terrorist murderers and suicide bombers before, as well as after, the deed. What kind of person joyously praise known murderers who have just killed civilians or targeted grade school children? Here in the United States such individuals would be looked at as possibly being mentally deranged or just evil.

ADL’s April 17, 2002 article “Arab Leaders Glorify Suicide Terrorism” pointed out how prevalent it is in the Arab world to praise murdering terrorists by showing religious political and intellectual leaders praising suicide terrorists.
Linking to http://www.adl.org/israel/israel_suicide_terror.asp will provide names of the individuals making the following statements. “Bombers sacrifice their souls for freedom." “A poem to Martyrs." A telethon raised $100 million for Palestinian "Martyrs." “Hails to the Martyrs.” “Egyptian Clerics Voice Support for Suicide Missions.”
Then there was the then Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, who said “there was no greater honor” and “Oh God, give me martyrdom like this. We are all potential martyrs, the whole Palestinian people." In April 2008 The Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas granted a special award - the "Sign of Heroism" - to two female terrorists. When so many leaders glorify mass murderers so much that they encourage everyone to strive to become a suicide murderer, how can we consider them other than bloodthirsty?

The April 25, 2007 issue of “Front Page Magazine” reported that official Palestinian TV implicitly called for suicide attacks on Israeli civilians. Then while the song “Oh, Lord, Martyrdom” was played, pictures of Palestinian suicide bombers, in white, floated across the screen.

Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, convicted of murdering 270 people by blowing up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988 received early release due to illness. This mass murderer was showered with glory by being flown home in Libya’s president’s private plane and accompanied by the President’s son. Upon landing in Libya he was greeted by a crowd of cheering people throwing flower petals and wearing Tee shirts with his picture. Again what type people would praise a mass murderer of innocent civilians?


On Feb 1, 2009 the “World Net Daily” reported that a Professor of Ethnics at the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, was accused of having compared victims of the 9-11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks to Nazis, while praising the suicide hijackers
for their "gallant sacrifices." The outcome of Churchill’s law suit was decided by Denver District Court Judge Larry Naves . The verdict was that Churchill should neither be reinstated nor receive compensation. I can’t fathom how any logical person can make such a comparison.

In April 2002 the U.S. government urged Arab leaders to take a strong stand against suicide terrorism. However, statements by Arab politicians, religious and cultural leaders praised and glorified suicide bombings. They often hailed these acts as "martyrdom" and that these “martyrs” will be rewarded in paradise.


“The Investor’s Business Daily’s” article of February 8, 2008 reported that although the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is known to be a supporter of terrorists, by their own words, and is on the FBI’s watch list; according to CAIR they are supported by both Democrats and Republicans. See the list of 35 members of Congress who CAIR claims are their supporters in 2008 link to http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287366195215136)

Many times this writer has, hopefully, shown that the Islamic terrorists and their supporters are threatening freedom loving people. There is nothing we can do to these murdering fanatics, and their admiring peers overseas. However we can impact our politicians who support these murdering fanatics or their supporters. Send an e-mail or letters to your reps and those politicians who are, knowingly or unknowing, betraying America.