Pakistan Boy Killed Stopping Terrorist Hailed as Hero

Arutz Sheva ^ | 10/1/14 | Ari Yashar

[Eleutheria5]

A 15-year-old boy in Pakistan is being hailed as a hero, after he tackled a suicide bomber terrorist to stop him from blowing up his school on Monday. The boy was killed defending his fellow students, 2,000 of whom were at the school, as the bomb detonated.

The boy, Aitzaz Hasan, was with his friends outside his school in the Hangu region of north-western Pakistan, which has suffered from Muslim sectarian violence and high Al Qaeda and Taliban activity. Aitzaz and his friends spotted the terrorist approach wearing a bomb belt.

According to his cousin Mudassar Hassan Bangish, Aitzaz said "I'm going to stop him. He is going to school to kill my friends." Bangish told BBC "he wanted to capture this suicide bomber. He wanted to stop [him]. Meanwhile the suicide bomber blasted himself which resulted in the death of my cousin."

The teenager has been the object of much praise over his self-sacrifice, giving up his life despite his friends' attempts to stop him.

Aitzaz's father Mujahid Ali praised his son's heroism, saying "my son made his mother cry, but saved hundreds of mothers from crying for their children."

Some have called for Aitzaz to be given the army's highest honor given award to those who sacrifice their lives for the country.... .....

[Eleutheria5]

Now, the Talibani Al Qaeda types believe that he's a villain for foiling their glorious jihad, and that the bomber was the hero. I do not want to know what kind of piece deal John Kerry would push for Pakistan. Give them both hero's funerals? Nothing surprises me.

[Gene Eric]

Islam is a war plan.

[nickcarraway]

He sounds like a hero.

[SwampScout506]

RIP brave kid.

[gleeaikin]

Eventually terrorism will defeat itself.

[skr]

A hero indeed

[Tainan]

Stories and pictures about about this young man. He is is indeed a true HERO.

[ExCTCitizen]

God is rewarding that brave young man. The only drawback is that there is one less smart and peaceful Muslim in the world.

[FES0844]

Indeed. Sadly, the savages will now kill all his family.

[Albion Wilde]

Redeeming the name “Hasan.” May Jesus Christ receive this boy into the highest heaven.

[pa_dweller]

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

[ek_hornbeck]

What a heartbreaking story. It always seems as though the most decent people of any society are the first on the chopping block.

[Eleutheria5]

Did he even get mentioned on the MSM?

[Eleutheria5]

BBC has something:

Aitzaz Hasan: Tributes to Pakistan teenager killed when he stopped a bomber
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25663992

[Eleutheria5]

Here's from CBC:

Pakistani teen Aitzaz Hasan dies trying to stop suicide bomber
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pakistani-teen-aitzaz-hasan-dies-trying-to-stop-suicide-bomber-1.2490703
Pakistani news: PM recommends Sitara-e-Shujaat for Aitzaz Hasan
http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-133694-PM-recommends-Sitara-e-Shujaat-for-Aitzaz-Hasan-

There are some more UK and Pakistani outlets speaking of it, but only Business Insider in the American press writes about it:
http://www.businessinsider.com/aitzaz-hasan-becomes-a-hero-2014-1

[Tainan]

Did he even get mentioned on the MSM?

I do not know. I live outside the CONUS and do not frequent the MSM web sites.
I have seen the story repeated on several different web sites, though.