| The "Life Is Sweet" Show: A Discussion of How the Footage of Carnage Aired by the Arab Satellite Channels, Affects Children Psychologically. Dr. Basima Al-Haqawi, a professor of social psychology from Morocco: I want to say in this matter that our families have been lacking a role model. The mother is no longer a role model for our boys and our girls, and neither are the father and the eldest son. The events in Palestine have given us an opportunity to turn the martyrs and (suicide bombers) martyrs in Palestine into the role model that our sons sought. Because they have not found a role model, they have turned Michael Jackson, Sophie Marceau and other actors and artists into role models. (The child) had no goal. Now there is a goal, because we have a cause. Now when we imitate our Palestinian brothers, our role model is that (suicide bomber) martyr in Jerusalem, and the new Palestinian Khansaa, who utters cries of joy [Khansaa - an ancient poet who thanked Allah for the martyrdom of her four sons in battle] when informed of the martyrdom of her son, and says to her son, 'Don't come back unless you are martyred.' Such events have revived the role models in us, created goals on our horizon, and given life a goal instead of a worthless life. Caller #1 (Sheikh Abd Al-Hakim from Lebanon): My daughter is nearly four and a half. She regularly sees these sights on television. I always develop in her a hatred of the Jews. (I tell her): 'These are little children, see how the Jews are killing them, see how the Jews are massacring. See how the Jews demolish homes, see how the Jews...' Now, although she is small, every time she sees someone on the television news she says to me: 'Daddy, is that a Jew or a Muslim?' This queen has begun to hate the Jews because the Jews are our enemies and they attack us... http://memri.org/video/segment4_lifesweet.html |
| Suicide bombers "Role Models" for muslims, says professor from Morocco on arab TV. |
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| beating with toothpicks and handkerchiefs and curing mental illness. "We all know that some men are afflicted with a mental illness known as 'sadism' and some women are also afflicted with a mental illness known as 'masochism.' What is the treatment for these mental illnesses? Beatings! He must treat her harshly! Even one of the sages claimed that this verse descended for those afflicted with this mental illness. Therefore, a husband married to a wife afflicted by this illness, let's say sadism � well, let him beat her because the beatings, for her, are a cure." http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sr&ID=SR2704 |
| "...and the same goes for amputating hands and stoning. These are things that in Muslim eyes are at the core of the Islamic faith." Saudi Ambassador to London Ghazi Al-Qusaibi http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP38902 |
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| Dr. 'Adel Sadeq, chairman of the Arab Psychiatrists Association and head of the Department of Psychiatry at 'Ein Shams University in Cairo. - a recipient of the 1990 Egyptian State Prize, "When the martyr dies a martyr's death, he attains the height of bliss. As a professional psychiatrist, I say that the height of bliss comes with the end of the countdown: ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. And then, you press the button to blow yourself up. When the martyr reaches 'one,' and then 'boom,' he explodes, and senses himself flying, because he knows for certain that he is not dead. It is a transition to another, more beautiful world, because he knows very well that within seconds he will see the light of the Creator. He will be at the closest possible point to Allah.." http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP37302 |
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