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Posted on 01/18/2004 9:57:21 AM PST by Alouette
Military sources claim that the terrorist who blew up four days ago at the Erez Crossing, killing four Israelis along with herself, was forced to carry out the suicide attack as punishment for cheating on her husband, according to a Sunday report in Yediot Ahronot.
Reem Salah al-Rayashi, 21, mother of two small children, was involved in an illicit love affair and was forced to sacrifice herself in order to clear her name and the honor of her family.
IDF sources said that the investigation has already revealed that Al-Reyashi's husband, an activist in the Hamas organization, not only knew about his wife's plans in advance, but even encouraged her to carry out the suicide attack. And that the person who recruited Reem to carry out the suicide attack and equipped her with the explosive belt was none other than the lover with whom she cheated on her husband. The Sunday Times reported Sunday that the husband drove his wife to Erez Crossing.
Reem Al-Reyashi was the daughter of an established family in Gaza. Her father was the owner of a large battery factory selling mainly to Israel.
Both her family and her husband's are denying rumours of an illicit love affair.
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I'm sure homicide bombers need batteries for their bombs.
No woman in her right mind should ever consider marrying a Moslem man.
Proverbs 14: 1, 12, 16, 30
Hahahaha, psychological deterrent for future "copycats"! Very good ;-)
Islam is an insane murder cult.
Religious customs were observed out of tradition and feelings of respect for forefathers, but religion was fetishist, and values were fatalistic, out of absolute faith in the decrees of fate. Secular values took a central place, and were expressed in the concept of manliness, which meant the whole set of traits of a perfect Bedouin. The most important framework was preserving tribal solidarity. The tribe was the foundation for personal and group existence.http://www.acpr.org.il/ENGLISH-NATIV/issue1/bukay-1.htm
Honor is the most important supreme value in Arab life, more important than life itself. A man without honor is considered dead. A man’s place in the tribe, as well as the tribe’s place among the tribes, was according to the measure of his and its honor. When honor was harmed, shame was caused which originated in public exposure, overt to everyone, a phenomenon which severely humiliated a man. Indeed, the Arab individual is caught up throughout his whole life in intensive activity to avoid shame and advance his honor. The central means for this was vengeance. Honor is restored only when vengeance has been carried out in public and is known to all.
The other means to promote honor were giving shelter to a stranger: honorable – that is, generous – hospitality. After all, there is nothing more contemptible than stinginess; and a man’s prestige derives from his family and clan origin, his lineage. Tribal tradition and clan loyalty had dominant influence in society. Likewise significant were blood ties within the extended family or the tribe, which determined group loyalties and identifications. Most of these social traits exist to this day, and influence the functioning of Arab society as a primordial system in which symbolic values are more important and esteemed than concrete values and the overall, holistic system of beliefs. This is “a shame society”, in which everyone must behave according to the accepted norms and internalize his own feelings in the system of group behavior.
This reality expressed too the collective’s superiority over the individual. In contrast to modern societies which promote the individual’s interests, and in which the ethos is what the individual takes and receives from the generality, in Arab society, the ethos is what the individual does for the collective. There is a communal consensus in contrast to an individual’s opinion. Islam does not encourage individualism, rather favoring organized, orderly authority. The individual does not exist by his own right, and he and his opinions are unimportant, except through his belonging to a group framework. This is based on the hadith attributed to the Prophet: “The opinion of the many cannot be mistaken.” There is nothing more contemptible than individualism, which is viewed as factionalism and as harming the achievement of goals. This is also the basis for the attitude towards political opposition, which is not accepted in principle.
Among Arabs, you will not find the phenomenon so typical of Judeo-Christian culture: doubts, a sense of guilt, the self-tormenting approach, “Maybe we were not entirely OK,” or “Maybe we need to act or react differently.” These phenomena are totally unknown in Arab-Islamic society, towards outsiders. They have no doubts about their positions or the justice of their side. They have no sense of guilt that they may have erred. They have neither twinges of conscience nor any regrets that they may have done wrong to anyone else. From their viewpoint, they have no problem concerning unbelievers, and no difficulty accusing or acting against those who do not live in dar al-harb. The phenomenon of the murderers by suicide, sometimes called suicide bombers, is an absolute indication. There is no condemnation, no regret, no problem of conscience among Arabs and Muslims, anywhere, in any social stratum, of any social position. For the most part, there is total support without reservations. And if there are doubts, they have to do with the effectiveness of the phenomenon, not with condemnation of it.
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