There’s no way to properly prepare the reader for what follows, and droll remarks about stowing potables and such would be highly inappropriate.
Critical Update at end of post!
The following almost unbelievable video was posted at YouTube in April. As Charles Johnson described it at Little Green Footballs:
It’s a home movie from hell, featuring a group of young girls dressed as suicide bombers and terrorists, waving knives and guns and holding dolls, performing a school play somewhere in Gaza. A doting father carefully adjusts his daughter’s suicide bomb belt so it will look just right for the performance.
According to Johnson, in the following screen-captured picture from the video:
[O]ne little girl dressed as a suicide bomber has her hands painted red to symbolize blood, in a scene that’s probably meant to invoke the horrific lynching of two Israelis in Ramallah.”
Think you'd ever see a video like this coming out of any American newsroom?
Regardless of the answer, please excuse me. I need to go hug my children.
*****Update: Allah at Hot Air weighs in:
That whole jihad problem’s going to start clearing right up just as soon as the Palestinians get their own state, a-yup.
Kudos, though, to whoever thought of putting the Hamas bandana on the doll. In the long, rich history of creepy doll imagery, that one stands apart.
How true. Makes me want to hug my kids again.
*****Critical Update: Johnson has discovered something further concerning this video. The person who posted it at YouTube has removed all of the comments by disgusted viewers of this abomination. Read more here.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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I almost don't want to ask bu
May 27, 2007 - 16:18 ET byI almost don't want to ask but is there a translation?
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Can but won't. Suffice to
May 27, 2007 - 16:33 ET by MilesDCan but won't. Suffice to say:
- Children are evoking sacrifice of relatives
- Blood on hand associated with no one in particular - only sybolism
- In their context - equivalent to medieval "passion play"
- - Total context completely foreign to Western ideals of religion and love. This is the difficulty
and we here are so PC that
May 27, 2007 - 16:41 ET by gopsteveand we here are so PC that we do not want to offend anyone
judgment call
May 27, 2007 - 16:43 ET by MilesDjudgment call
I saw just 5 seconds of thi
May 27, 2007 - 19:13 ET by BobAnthonyI saw just 5 seconds of this video--WHICH SHOWS THE ULTIMATE FORM OF CHILD ABUSE--I marked it as Hate Speech this aisde from cheesing off the liberal owners of the site.
Noel - Do you feel the same w
May 27, 2007 - 17:20 ET by ding7777Noel - Do you feel the same way about children dressing up and playing "Cowboys and Indians"?
We may play at dress up but w
May 27, 2007 - 17:42 ET by Dan The Man 2We may play at dress up but we know we are not going to blow away the cowboy. In this case they know their people are blowing up innocent people, of course tehy are not told taht, and that tehy may be called on to blow up those people and themselves. There is a difference.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark. -- save my gun, shoot a liberal.
Dan The Man 2 - Nuke em til
May 27, 2007 - 17:58 ET by ding7777Dan The Man 2 - Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark, would make a much better children's video, don't you think?
Ill save u a first row seat,
May 27, 2007 - 18:56 ET by Dan The Man 2Ill save u a first row seat, be sure and bring ur running shoes. You know teh thing about Trolls is they cant make any comparisons of logic,
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark. -- save my gun, shoot a liberal.
Comparisons of logic eh? How
May 28, 2007 - 14:53 ET by Iconoclast421Comparisons of logic eh? How about this: you want to shoot a liberal but you're probably going to vote for one (Giuliani)
I have a responce....uh..WHAT
May 28, 2007 - 15:11 ET by zfI have a responce....uh..WHAT???
He is a no go. Any baby kil
May 29, 2007 - 16:31 ET by Dan The Man 2He is a no go. Any baby killers on the ticket immediately indicates a party I dont want to vote for. I know it may mean a Democrat in office but if the party leaves the station with him on the ticket I wont be on teh train.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark. -- save my gun, shoot a liberal.
OHH ain't that cute, and the
May 27, 2007 - 17:45 ET by upcountrywaterOHH ain't that cute, and the matching SUICIDE APPAREL.. priceless yuk!
WHY ON earth do these "humans"continue to have access to electricity?
They want the 7 th century, and are insisting that we JOIN them now, So what if it's AGAINST OUR WILL .
Western civilization needs to SEVER electrical power ASAP,, ( while we still have air power & gasoline, available to us! PLEASE HURRY.
1300 IRANIAN PLUTONIUM GAS CENTRIFUGES OPERATING 24-7 opps it's now 8,000
Ding
May 27, 2007 - 20:44 ET by Noel SheppardDing,
Certainly not. We're not currently at war with American Indians, are we?
As the answer is "No," this is a specious analogy.
Now, if American children were being taught to dress up as soldiers, and go on stage pretending to kill Muslim extremists, you'd have a point.
However, as they aren't, your question is facile, and quite beneath you. ns
Not really
May 28, 2007 - 14:42 ET by Mr. Bishop"However, as they aren't, your question is facile, and quite beneath you."
Not true... his question is quite the norm for him, not beneath him. Ding doesn't care about logic, linear or otherwise.
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Mr. B
May 28, 2007 - 15:00 ET by Noel SheppardMr. B,
Well, I give credit to people who know enough about computers to be able to navigate the Internet and enter the appropriate information using their keyboards to create an SN for membership to a site like this.
As such, I believe his question was beneath anyone that adept. :-) ns
You have to realize Noel, som
May 29, 2007 - 16:22 ET by Challenger GrimYou have to realize Noel, some people use Macs.
(just kidding to all the smart mac users out there. I don't mean any insult to either of you)
Be sure to get your daily Fred Thompson Fact!
dingbat,I would like to thank
May 27, 2007 - 21:15 ET by Dave Rdingbat,
I would like to thank you for demonstrating, yet again, to all of us here at NB, as well as to those who lurk here, the abject intellectual depravity that has come to define the modern liberal in the 21st Century.
Nice going.
This republic will not survive the continued neglect of its people.-Neal Boortz
When we played "Cowboys
May 28, 2007 - 07:36 ET by Seabeach4348When we played "Cowboys & Indians" a long time ago, we did it spontaneously as we did with many of the other improvised war-games that we played. It was a "boy thing" but I can remember a couple of girls who liked to play along with us. It was totally innocent, it was fun, and at the end of the day we were all still friends. At the end of the day no one hated either the Cowboys or the Indians!
We weren't subjected to any organized indoctrination or propaganda by nut-ball adults or parents who tried to get us to hate Native Americans because of political agenda where they told us that "the Indians" were allegedly evil and genuine enemies. There lies the difference.
The problem with this other situation is that the war-games played by these Muslim girls are for real. It appears as if these kids are completely orchestrated, managed, and engineered by their jihadist parents and other maniacal adults whose sole purpose is to propagate hatred toward the usual targets: Israel, Jews and "The West".
Why can't you see evil in th
May 28, 2007 - 08:30 ET by HypocriteHaterWhy can't you see evil in the Islamofacists, ding? Yet you don't hestiate to see evil in your fellow Americans. I just don't understand liberals like you, I really don't. People like you will be the downfall of our country, because you continue to find moral equivalence between us and the jihadists who want to kill us. Don't these people worry you in the slightest, ding?
I understand that in a paro
May 27, 2007 - 18:33 ET by daveinbocaI understand that in a parody of Disney, the young lassies will receive 72 dwarves to service them---65 less than Snow White and another cause for feminism---if these PMS boomerettes were listening or watching, as their cellulites thicken.
Ding is right. This is exac
May 27, 2007 - 20:53 ET by Sonny LykosDing is right. This is exactly just as I used to do in kindergarden in school, on a stage, about shooting and slcking up Indians. And our parents wer clapping they were so proud of us.
Exactly. Heck, it was pretty much standard in all public schools, wasn't it? Or maybe it was in pre-school.
It prepared is as kids like for when our ancesters used to blow themselves up during the Indian wars.
As a Christian, however, I never did read that part in the Bible telling me to kill the Indians, and myself too. I'll have to thumb thru it again. Maybe Ding can tell me what page it's on.
Sonny kids like for when our
May 28, 2007 - 08:47 ET bySonny
kids like for when our ancesters used to blow themselves up during the Indian wars
you're close, but as I remember we were pantomiming the actions of our brothers, uncles, fathers and sisters in the expectation that we would soon be doing the same
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Sonny Lykos - Did you ever he
May 28, 2007 - 11:59 ET by ding7777Sonny Lykos - Did you ever hear of Puritans or Manifest Destiny? You can read Numbers 33:50-55 for an example of Biblical reasoning for killing the Native "savages"
First of all Ding, we have so
May 28, 2007 - 12:12 ET by liberal_bug_zapperFirst of all Ding, we have something called the first Amendment which guarantees the freedom OF religion.... second of all, what's wrong with manifest destiny? No one owned the land before we got here... the natives didn't even have a concept of ownership and they were savages. Many of them were brutal in how they treated each other, and quite a few practiced cannibalism so they could 'consume the strength' of their foe. If the savages didn't like us coming in and claiming the land.... too bad. We won, they lost.
But aside from all of that... it's called the survival of the fittest... and it's something you're going to have to get used to as we conservatives are going to continue a new form of manifest destiny.
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Ding is right again,Christian
May 28, 2007 - 12:22 ET byDing is right again,
Christians suck, The US sucks, Jews suck
It doesn't matter the historical context, doesn't matter how vile the enemy is.
We should all put on Nikes and drink the kool-aid
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Noel:Quite the video, I admit
May 27, 2007 - 23:14 ET by Dave HighNoel:
Quite the video, I admit. But you will have to agree that that the play with children dressed up and dancing as God’s warriors in Jesus Camp was much better choreographed. It's also a little more scary because the kids look exactly like yours and mine. If you haven’t seen it, rent the movie! It is truly illuminating. Here’s my impartial review: Two thumbs up for Jesus’ children warriors and two thumbs down for Islam’s children warriors! Cinematically speaking, of course.
Regards, Dave High
Instead of smarmy allusions, Dave High
May 28, 2007 - 13:55 ET by RJInstead of smarmy allusions, Dave High, how about you describe in detail what, specifically, you find so offensive about Jesus Camp?
Then, please compare it in detail with the terror-training video under discussion here.
Regards, RJ
Liberals, get this message. I
May 28, 2007 - 00:19 ET by liberal_bug_zapperLiberals, get this message. If you side with them... you are our enemy and you are aiding and abetting the enemy and you are guilty of treason. Because the enemy can read posts and watch videos on the internet now, the whole 'aiding and abetting' the enemy has gotten a whole lot easier to do.
Dave High... ding777... you are both traitors. You are my enemy. If you do understand what these people stand for and you still make excuses for them or you morally equivocate them to Christians (who's modern day interpretation of conversion is an act of choice, not coercion, and not by force), then you are truly the enemy of America.
All I can say is that if you people continue down the path you are on, this will not end well.
It is coming to the day when all Americans are going to have to choose. And if you liberals succeed in your radical destroy America efforts... we will again have another civil war on our hands because there will be a tipping point of all the socialists you are importing and the modern day serfdom you advocate that most Americans (who still practice their second Amendment rights) will fight against by another revolution.
You people bastardize the first amendment and stretch our collective tolerance to the point of incredulity. Take this as a warning. Stop now and re-examine the world. It isn’t huge any longer. Your words and your works find audience with our sworn enemies within hours of you posting videos or posts, and don’t for a second doubt that if they got their way, that people like you wouldn’t be the first under the Islamist executioners scimitar.
When aiding and abetting was first envisioned, communications from the US to Europe took many weeks. Most people never traveled more than 20 or 30 miles from where they were born and had little knowledge of the rest of the world save for what they read in a book. Now, you can know what is happening anywhere in the world within minutes of it occurring, and this is why what you say publically in the US can now be construed as aiding and abetting the enemy. Be careful what you say. Because now, it will certainly come back and bite you in the rear.
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LBZ-- we are in a quandary--
May 28, 2007 - 00:37 ET by misterbillLBZ-- we are in a quandary--the anonymity of the internet allows anyone to attempt to enroll in any site. The "admissions" editors of NB or LGF and other blogs, are limited in what they can find out about applicants. So, I am whole-heartedly in agreement with what you say. I am confident there is a cadre of browsing Islams working for Al Qaeda, Al Fatah and many other terrorist groups. They are seeking the weakness in the seams of the fabric of America. We here in America are getting dangerously close to a 50/50 opinion on issues that we should be 95/5. If indeed the members you mention above are Americans, in my book, they are giving succor to our enemy. This is an act of treason. Further, I cannot tell you how strong my anger is about them. My veneer of civility has worn down over time reading their anti-American arguments. Sometimes they are more anti-Bush than the other, but it adds up to the same sum. When the next terrible thing happens to America, and it will, because the terrorists are emboldened by WW,Dave high, ding and a few others, we will have to change America drastically to meet that challenge. A great many individual freedoms will have to be sacrificed to stay alive. I, personally, hope , when that day happens that America treats the aforementioned bloggers on the same terms as the terrorists.
Where’s the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land? And the parent that wouldn't be honored by the sacrifice?
Sir Walter Scott & Noel Sheppard
I don't believe that people l
May 28, 2007 - 01:00 ET by liberal_bug_zapperI don't believe that people like Dave High, WW or Ding really get it. Like Evan Sayett has said, they choose not to believe because the alternative is too scary. Dave High, WW and Ding among others are cowards, and in being cowardly, they have also become traitors. Just because they are oblivious does not make their treason any less offensive.
I don't believe that we will have to sacrifice freedoms permanently, but I do believe we are going to have to eventually suspend some until this threat is neutralized.
When did it become virtuous or patriotic to air one's dirty laundry in public? How do any of you liberals feel when one of your family members blurt out something private about a fight or difficulty your family is having? If those who hate you find our your weaknesses, you can be damned sure they'll exploit those weak points to their advantage. A good example happened to someone I know, not a friend, but I know the person all the same. His cousin revealed to a bunch of people in the town that this person had an anger problem. He was a single dad and would yell at his kids .... and make them stand in the corner for an hour for each level of transgression they would do. Well, the cousin didn't agree with this and told some people who also didn't agree with this and told social services. Social services now pay him a visit every week and he's in danger to losing custody of his kids to the mother who is a crack addict. But because she's in some rehab program, she qualifies now to take the kids and what he did qualified as child abuse. Total BS of course. Even thought this person is not my friend (a brother of a good friend), he never beat the kids and social services investigated that and found that to be true.
What is my point with the above? We are a country, like a family, and what goes on in our country needs to stay in our country. If you disagree, then you need to keep it among Americans in a place our enemies will not hear it or read it. If you do not... well, then it's your own fault if you are caught aiding and abetting the enemy and in my opinion, you become a traitor.
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"...in America are getti
May 28, 2007 - 14:34 ET by Ten7sThey're just parasitical insects, a scourge on reason and a curse to us all.
I doubt that it was ever 95/5, but with the gullible, dopey and downright stupid swelling their ranks,the liberals might be (as you say) close to half. Though I hope not.
lbz...You said it all...and t
May 28, 2007 - 00:38 ET by bigtimerlbz...
You said it all...and then some.
Volumes my friend...volumes.
I concur with all.
You know what, you can take y
May 28, 2007 - 14:56 ET by Iconoclast421You know what, you can take your nazi threats and shove em up there right next to where your head is. Your enemy is yourself, you dont need any help from anyone else.
What, specifically, do you disagree with Iconoclast?
May 28, 2007 - 16:21 ET by RJ"Nazi threats?" Care to point them out specifically, Iconoclast? Or were you just mouthing off becase LBZ called some posters here out for behaving in a treasonous manner?
If that's the case, what, specifically, do you disagree with? Do you believe that freedom of speech and behavior includes things harmful to our country? To our military? To our ability to protect ourselves? Tell us what you believe.
And while you're at it, tell us on this Memorial Day what you love about America enough to risk your life to protect.
Ha, the only time any liberal
May 29, 2007 - 04:40 ET by liberal_bug_zapperHa, the only time any liberal calls a conservative a Nazi is when said conservative lifts up the rock to expose the liberals lies to the light.
You are a traitor Iconoclast421 and you don't like to be exposed for that. You're one of those people who believes that you are being patriotic and that Thomas Jefferson actually said "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." He didn't. This is just another specious lie propagated by the left and you people are not getting better, but worse. If anyone is practicing Nazi tactics, it is the Democrats.
If you people think that you can get away with tearing apart the very fabric of this country because you hate it. Don't think that you'll be able to try and do it unopposed. We will stand up against you, our enemy, at every step and knock you back down a few notches.
Back off lib! Oh, and get the hell out of my country... as far as I am concerned... you no longer belong here.
Read below for what Thomas Jefferson really thought about dissent.... hint... he thought of it as evil. Lesser than despotism, but still quite evil. Revolting against tyranny and doing what libs do are two very different things. You see, Libs actually advocate tyrranny.
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"Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude it's influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in it's intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted." ~ Thomas Jefferson
Religion of peace? Yea, ok. A
May 28, 2007 - 05:11 ET by ArchConservativeReligion of peace? Yea, ok. And the moon is made of green cheese. How about "religion of violence and suppresion and subjegation of women". Yea that's more like it.
Self induced refugee status
May 28, 2007 - 05:28 ET by Cool ArrowLots of stuff about this 'Palestinian issue' stinks.
Yeah, blow up your babies so you can have back the homes you surrendered withour a shot. Only in lalla land.
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
The dual standard...
May 28, 2007 - 08:26 ET by c5thenThe far left whackos and their AP propaganda machine constantly parrot the Islamists statements that they are a religion of peace, regardless of their contradicting actions. They also take great joy in pointing out the failing of Christians striving to meet their standards yet discount their statements on what they are trying to acheive.
Why are they so quick to come to the defense of Islam which shows itself to be a religion of violence and forced conversion and oppression? Why are they so affraid of Christianity which stresses personal choice and contrition and love for others? Is it because their own choices mean that they are doomed and they cannot admit that they have been wrong? Is it because if Islam wins, they will be forced to "be good" even against their will while if Christianity is acknowledged they know they do not have the will power to adhere to it's tenents?
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic
Islam and the left
May 28, 2007 - 17:27 ET by Army BratIslam is not a religion, it's a form of govenment. Life is micro managed down to the last detail by the Ayatollahs and their cronies. Young people who have high ideals due to the nature of youth, are exploited by these incredibly evil men, who sacrifice them to achieve their political objectives. All the powers that are given to men by the Koran are the same ones dictators dream of. Disagree wtiht the Ayatollah and you're against Islam...then plop, there's your head in your lap courtesy of "an extremely spiritual young man."
And when did any of us participate in a school play in which some dressed as Cowboys and others Indians, and the Indians were slaughtered? Anyone ever heard of such a play?
Those of you who say you love this country and that's why you must harm it...consider the weight of your words. I do not question your love of this country, only your jugement in how you choose to portray us to our enemies. The newspaper in my town is so far left it's ridiculous. Yet if the Government in some form were to try and shut it down i would take up arms, I mean the guns the 2nd ammendment guarantees me, to defend the leftist rag, and your right to dissent. When your hate-speak endangers this country ande emboldens our enemies how can you call yourself anything but a traitor?
Happy Trails...
armybrat roger that!
May 28, 2007 - 17:47 ET by misterbillarmybrat roger that!
Where’s the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land? And the parent that wouldn't be honored by the sacrifice?
Sir Walter Scott & Noel Sheppard