Lies are a way of life to the Arab way of thinking. You lie to yourself, you lie to your neighbors, you lie to posterity, you lie about history, you read the lies they are telling you in the newspapers; and you save your best lies for your friends and family. Enemies (i.e. everyone) are to be lied to out of hand and as a matter of course; especially if they are infidels.
remember, they just say that those parts of the Bible are the wrong parts...
All of that is true.
Hyperbole is also a huge part of the culture.
It’s always the “Mother of All” whatevers. The “most outraged.” Etc.
Part of the difficulty dealing with this culture is a reasonable stance is taken as weakness -— or as a subterfuge -— refardless of strength of action.
For example, you say “we will bomb the terrorist held areas if you shoot grads.”
They shoot grads; you bomb the terrorist areas.
They are REALLY suprised by this response, saying “You tricked us, if you were going to bomb the terrorists, you should have said ‘we will cut your children in little pieces, lay your homes to waste for generations, and bomb all your people in all the countries where the name “allah” is spoken, such that your children’s children will quiver in fear at the sound of our name.’” (which means, in their culture, a proportioante response of killing just the terrorists).
Of course, you can’t resort to hyperbole, as the more clever among them will then turn your quote over to the AP, who will run with “Israel threatens to chop innocent children up”
It’s perplexing, unless one wants to REALLY push them into the sea.