Child Suicide Bombers

Recalling a previous post, last year the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) featured a program called Everybody's ABC which televised an interview with a Palestinian husband and wife. As a simple matter-of-fact, the couple stated that they were planning on having eight children and they wanted at least four to be suicide bombers.

When I read the story last December, it became a data point just like thousands of other data points I collect while reading. But, over time, the story established itself as different from the rest of the stories I have filed away in long term memory. It persistently materialized in my thinking. For example, driving to the grocery store for bread, milk, and eggs, I'd find myself thinking of that Palestinian couple, wondering how they could have such a sick value system to deliberately plan the early deaths of half of their children. While at the library, seeing a table full of kids doing homework, I wondered how could they possibly choose which ones to strap bombs on. What criteria would they use? How could any rational person volunteer one or more of their children to die? All through this year, I've been unable to stop thinking about the family that raises suicide children. As a parent, I can conclude that these people have diseased minds. As an observer of people and political systems, I can surmise that the cause of the disease is the incessant and enduring propagandizing of the populace by Islamofascists.

I'm revisiting the subject of suicide children primarily because it's been haunting me and I think it's worthwhile for all rational people to not only be aware of the practice but to also think about it at length. It's frightening but everyone has to recognize that strapping a child with explosives and sending him into a restaurant in Tel Aviv is not much different than sending a suicide kid into the Mall of America. Personally, I don't think it's possible to have too much dialogue on child suicide bombers. I also don't think that the United States can prevent a child suicide attack forever.

Michelle Malkin writes on the subject in a post about the Palestinian Jihadi Kiddie television show that indoctrinates children about the glory of martyrdom. Unbelievably, the program seems to be funded by the hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid given to the Palestinian Authority by the United States. It's hard to accept that groups are committed to stopping terrorism when they continue training suicide children unabated.

Hat tip: Dissecting Leftism