Posted on 01/03/2007 3:21:05 PM PST by Alouette
BINT JBAIL, Lebanon -- In unguarded moments, Rani Ahmed Bazzi openly expressed his fear of death.
On a battlefield in southern Lebanon, in the middle of last summer's month long war between Hezbollah and Israel, he broke down weeping as he spoke with a pair of reporters: "I'm afraid to die," he sobbed.
But Bazzi was also a resolute Islamist, a charismatic pillar of Hezbollah's militia -- the kind of trainer, recruiter, and fighter that the Shi'ite movement depends on to maintain its popularity in southern Lebanon and southern Beirut.
And when he finally died on the last weekend of the war -- apparently rushing an Israeli position in a suicidal charge, fighters with him told his family -- he achieved the immortality of "martyrdom," the most vaunted status for an Islamist fighter.
A rare, personal glimpse of Bazzi's public and private faces tells the story of Hezbollah's battlefield strength, its fanaticism, its religious potency, and its deep cultural hold over Lebanon's Shi'ites.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
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He wanted to be a martyr, but ended up just another dead jihadi a-hole. Good riddance.
Now your gone, Cry me a river!
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In consideration of Rep. Ellisons use of a Koran from Jefferson’s research collection for his unofficial swearing in.
"The Ambassador [to England from Tripoli] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners."
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in their report to CongressYou can't back down, you can't chicken out, you can't be afraid, you got to have faith in Allah, and you got to stand up and be a real Muslim
Keith Ellison
Gee I sure would hate to keep anyone back from being a martyr. Just one catch ya gotta do it solo. But if suicide just ain't your bag and you need help you can call
The Radical Islamo Facist Suicide Commitment Help Line.
Agents will gladly assist you by gathering together in a group and taking you to your choice of.
Gas Chamber, Electric Chair, Gurney w/ lethal injection kit attached, Firing Squad or Hanging Platform. If you can not decide a period of personal reflection can be arranged at the beautiful beachside resort of Camp Gitmo.
So don't delay remember the world without a'holes like you is a world without 72 Virgins.
And now, he's discovered that there are no virgins where he is now. Darn, somebody lied to him about what 'paradise' would be like...
But Ellison, speaking at the annual convention of the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America, said that Muslims can help teach America about justice and equal protection.
"Muslims, you're up to bat right now," he said. "How do you know that you were not brought right here to this place to learn how to make this world better?"
Personally I don't need any Muslim teaching me anything nor do I think they can. Muslims teaching us about justice and equal protection?????
Maybe he's a homo and he's afraid of the 72 virgins.
That article was sickening, couldn't even finish reading it.
One of his statements reportedly was that America and Israel treat animals better than they would a Muslim. Uh-huh.
So after the cease fire had been declared, he and a bunch of his Jihadi buddies shaved their heads and rushed some machine guns. This is a glorious death?
Do they think they are going to defeat the Israelis by making them run out of bullets, or something?
This guy lived an idiot and died an idiot. At least now he can't hurt anybody else.
Muslims can teach us about justice and equal protection through a negative example.
I've done the Dhimmi thing once. I'll never do it again.
I guess they could teach us how to behead people too.....
How befitting that this icon of the MSM would do a puff piece in honor of this terrorist "martyr." No wonder why the NY Slimes Corp. is in such bad financial shape.
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