California Democrat on Al-Jazeera TV: ‘The Owners of This Network Fund Hamas’

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July 11, 2014

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) may not get an invitation to reappear on Al-Jazeera America, but he sure gave the network an earful in the segment he did get this week.

“Every one of those rockets is a war crime… every rocket that is not aimed at a military target but is aimed at a city,” Sherman said on a live feed from Capitol Hill. “The owners of this TV network help fund Hamas.”

He went on to call the Hamas offensive launched against Israel “open season on those of the Jewish faith.”

“The idea that you would have a TV clear effort to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible and then you on this TV station say, ‘well, maybe it’s not a war crime because it’s not successful — the rocket didn’t hit a kindergarten. It was aimed at a kindergarten but it didn’t hit a kindergarten. So then it’s not reprehensible.’”

Sherman defended Israel’s response to the Gaza rockets as “proportionate.”

“I don’t think there are always two sides to every story. Those who are trying to kill as many babies and children and women as possible, who rejoice in their death… no, you have one side in this conflict that is doing everything it possibly can to reduce and avoid civilian casualties and to prosecute those who engage in acts against civilians,” the congressman said.

“And then you have the Hamas side… which of course Qatar supports, which rejoices in how many babies they can kill, how many children they can kill. They name squares and provide subsidies to those who are able to kill civilians and they aim their rockets at civilian targets. That’s not two equal sides.”

 

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[h=2]Sunday, July 13, 2014[/h][h=3]How Diplomats, Reporters and Human Rights Activists Saved Hamas[/h] Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog 8 Comments

As Israeli airstrikes hit Hamas targets and Hamas rockets fall on Israeli towns, some wonder how did Gaza come to run by Hamas terrorists. The answer is that the world forced Israel to let them in.

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In the early 90s, Nissim Toledano, a border police sergeant, was kidnapped by terrorists on the way to work. After an extended search, he was found dead in a roadside ditch.

In response to that attack and numerous other atrocities committed by Hamas, including a planned massive car bombing, Israel made the decision to deport 400 Hamas terrorists. Among them were the past and present day leaders of Hamas.

You might assume that the story ends there. And you would be wrong.

The United Nations issued a unanimous resolution condemning Israel's deportation of "civilians" and demanding that Israel immediately bring them back, or face sanctions. The United States voted for that resolution, along with three others condemning Israel. Thomas R. Pickering, the American delegate warned that the deportations of Hamas terrorists "do not contribute to current efforts for peace."

Lebanon refused to officially accept the terrorists. The Red Cross brought them tents and blankets and the media swarmed to take photos of them "shivering from the cold" while drinking coffee outside their tents. Newsweek accused Israel of "Deporting the Hope for Peace". The LA Times ran a tearful interview with the wife of Mohammed Taamari, a future member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, who was terribly lonely without her husband. Much as after the flotilla raid, the Israeli media condemned the clumsy mishandling of the deportations.

Finally after enough browbeating by James Baker and Warren Christopher, Rabin agreed to take the Hamas terrorists back. In a bizarre charade that would serve as a tragic foretelling of events to come, Rabin agreed to return 100 terrorists immediately, and to take the remainder back in a year.. Now the Hamas terrorists that Rabin took back control all of Gaza, and have been responsible for an untold number of murders.

The terrorists that Israel was forced to accept included current Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh and Hamas' religious figurehead, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

They included Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas, who last year proclaimed; "They have legitimised the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people". They included Mohammed Taha, another co-founder of Hamas. They also included Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, another Hamas co-founder, who was responsible for numerous murders of Israelis, who would proclaim, "By Allah, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine".

They included his son Ayman Taha, who commanded the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, which carried out numerous attacks on Israel, including the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit.

And that is how a failure to drive out those responsible for the kidnapping and murder of one Israeli sergeant led to the capture of an Israeli corporal in 2006. It is also the story of why Gaza was turned over to Hamas in the name of "peace." It is the story of how the United Nations, the UK and two US administrations pressured Israel into accepting the leaders of Hamas in the name of peace.

It is also the story of how the media conducted a propaganda war on behalf of an Islamist terrorist organization, not just today when it publishes false stories about starvation in Gaza, but when the only people supposedly starving were adult male Hamas terrorists.

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The world insisted that Israel take back the Hamas leadership, and Israel did. The world insisted that Israel had no business being in Gaza, and Israel withdrew from there, which allowed the very same Hamas terrorists that the world insisted Israel take back, take over. Now the world is insisting that Israel has no right to blockade those same Hamas terrorists in Gaza. People who are shocked by this development shouldn't be since Israel wasn't even allowed to throw the same terrorists out of the country.

One of the more cynical left wing talking points is that Israel was responsible for Hamas. Looking back to when the current Hamas leadership were sitting outside their Red Cross tents in Lebanon and the left was pounding on Israel's door, demanding that they be let back in-- it is all too clear who was and is responsible for Hamas.

The people who saved Hamas then are responsible for it today. The media and the diplomats who were claiming that deporting Hamas would somehow "radicalize" the Palestinian Arabs ensured that the Hamas leaders would return to radicalize all of Gaza and the West Bank.

After the deportation of the Hamas terrorists, Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin delivered a speech in the Knesset in which he said;

"I have no pity in my heart, nor do I shed tears (for the Hamas terrorists). I see the media whining their hypocritical speeches - and I think instead of Nissim Toledano's orphaned children, the widow of Shmuel Biran, and the bereaved parents of Shmuel Geresh."​

Rabbi Shmuel Biran was a schoolteacher in Kfar Darom, an Israeli village in Gaza. He was murdered by Hamas terrorists while crossing a two lane highway. The UN did not condemn the murder of Rabbi Biran. Newsweek did not write any piteous pieces about how much his widow missed him. Instead they called Kfar Darom a settlement, even though it was part of a history going back over 2000 years, and the land it was on had been bought and paid for, fair and square.

The same diplomats and reporters who wailed for the lonely Hamas terrorists in Lebanon, did not pity the family of Rabbi Biran. Instead they demanded his family and all the Jews of Kfar Darom be expelled from their homes.

Kfar Darom being burned by its new occupants

Eventually they got their wish. The families of Kfar Darom were dragged out of their homes. Today Kfar Darom is used by Hamas terrorists to launch rockets deeper into Israel, at other towns and villages. The murderers have inherited the land of their victims. And yet there is no peace. Never any peace.

Now the vultures keep on circling. Once they said there would be peace if only Israel let the Hamas terrorists back in. Then they said, there would be peace if only Israel ethnically cleansed Jewish communities in land claimed by the terrorists. Now if only Israel will lift the blockade and give Hamas access to unlimited weapons-- perhaps then there will be peace.

After his death, it has become fashionable to selectively quote some of Rabin's speeches. But this speech is rarely quoted. And you don't have to work too hard to understand why.

Our struggle against murderous Islamic terror is also meant to awaken the world which is lying in slumber. We call on all nations and all people to devote their attention to the great danger inherent in Islamic fundamentalism. That is the real and serious danger which threatens the peace of the world in the forthcoming years.
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Two weeks after Rabin agreed to take back the Hamas terrorists-- the World Trade Center was bombed by a group led by the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, under Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheikh" who led al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, which like both Al Queda and Hamas, emerged out of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Rahman's message to Muslims was very simple; "Cut the transportation of their countries, tear it apart, destroy their economy, burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air, or land."

And that was exactly what they went on to do.

The World Trade Center bombing in 1993, set the stage for the more successful attacks of 2001. Just as the Hamas atrocities of the nineties set the stage for the bigger and more horrifying attacks to come.

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Meanwhile in Afghanistan UN aid convoys were being ambushed and massacred. Tourists were being murdered in Egypt. Hamas killed two traffic cops in Tel Aviv. But no one worried. Peace just was just on the horizon. And so Israel was forced to submit to Islamic terrorism.

Hamas' path to victory was paved by two US administrations and a press corp always eager to turn terrorists into victims, but never interested in hearing from the victims of the terrorists.

Islamic terrorism had won not on its own terms, but with the unified support of the United Nations standing behind it.

That is how Islamic terrorism always wins. That is the template behind its victory. And Rabin's speech which warned the West of what was to come, was ignored. Today Rabin is remembered as the man who compromised with terrorism. It is the only thing he is remembered for .But compromising with terrorism did not bring peace. Not in Somalia, where US troops were brutally murdered next year. Not in Afghanistan, where the Taliban slaughtered aid convoys. Not in Indonesia or New York or Paris or Egypt. And certainly not in Gaza.

Muslim terrorists had won a battle with the backing of the US and the UN. They have won many more since then. Now they are trying to win the war.

 

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Arab neo-nazis attack Jewish Synagogue in Paris

 

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Here are some eyewitness accounts of the attack on a Paris synagogue compiled by Dreuz, a French conservative site.

On Saturday night July 12 in Paris, at an Arab-Muslim event that it would be dishonest to characterize as pro-Palestinian because they have never shown up when Palestinian Arabs are starved in Syria or when Rebels have blocked access to refugee camps; these young French Muslims attacked two synagogues with the intention of lynching the faithful – no, we are not in Egypt in the time of Mohammed Morsi, but in a France where the media incites hatred of Israel.

Young immigrants attacked synagogues. This makes sense when one is anti-Semitic, not anti-Zionist.
And as they are no more anti-Semitic than Dieudonné, but only anti-Zionist, they shouted slogans such as “Death to the Jews,” “Hitler was right”, “you are going to burn.”
These also makes sense when you are not anti-Semitic, just anti-Zionist.


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Journalist Véronique Chemla says, and I quote:

“Synagogues in Belleville and the Rue de la Roquette in Paris… underwent violent attacks of “Blacks, Whites, Beurs” often wearing keffiehs armed with missiles and baseball bats, and chanting “Allah Aqbar” (Allah is the greatest) and “Death to the Jews.”
Deficient police, inadequate community protection, media silence, the silence of Islamic leaders, an outdated Jewish political establishment and the only defense came from the faithful Jews of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) and Betar …”


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Bernard Abouaf, a columnist for a French Jewish radio published this on his Facebook page:
“What I saw this afternoon in front of the synagogue of La Roquette, Paris:

-I saw a hundred pro-Palestinian activists rushing to the synagogue
-I saw a group of forty Jews outside defending 160 worshipers inside in an atmosphere of pure urban guerrilla.
- I saw the brave young SPCJ, very professional alongside the determined of the youth of the JDL. I do not remember having once in my life written on my Facebook wall in defense of the JDL and I can tell you that tonight, if they were not there, haz veshalom, the synagogue would have been destroyed with all the people inside. Someone told me “If they are not there, they would have burned the synagogue”)
-I’ve seen a dozen men, 50-55 years, Gil Taieb, dripping with sweat after the fight. I saw Fabien limping after a nasty blow to the leg. I was told after he was over 60.
-I saw a 40 year old woman say “I threw a chair at their faces, these bastards.”
-I saw the CRS fold, two hours later the applause of the Jews saying “Thank you men of the Republic” (including the JDL).
-I saw Baba (his nickname) determined hyper say “nilhamnu”, “it was war” and unfortunately, it was true.
-”I saw a synagogue without any Israeli flags, without any Israeli official. With people praying inside (not on the sidewalk) without the slightest provocation.
And I saw, when we opened the doors to let out the people, the Jews had the worried look that I knew too well, I got goosebumps. I really thought about the Second World War.


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There were about 80 young JDL and Beitar over fifteen members of SPCJ [Protection Service of the Jewish community - responsible for monitoring access to synagogues in addition to CRS] positioned at the entrance to protect the synagogue .
Our group made off against hundreds of attackers for several minutes. They threw at us glass bottles, chairs, wooden boards, stones, mortars. One of the attackers even had an ax.
A Muslim woman in the neighborhood shouted: “Filthy race, you are a minority, we are millions.”
At the same time, hundreds of Muslims headed towards the Rue des Rosiers to attack the Jewish quarter. They were repulsed by the CRS.

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A technique of propaganda called "Turnspeak"

The Arab League makes use of a cognitive technique of propaganda called "turnspeak", where you attack someone and then turn it around 180 degrees and claim they attacked you. Because the truth is the exact opposite of the information being disseminated it is psychologically difficult to counter and leads to confusion. Turnspeak leads to psychological confusion and a feeling of being "burned-out" or "overwhelmed" with too much information, effectively creating a blanket of "white noise" which makes clarity difficult to achieve.
Joan Peters, former White House consultant on the Middle East writes:

The term was first used by journalists to describe German propaganda after it invaded Czechoslovakia in March of 1939. To win sympathy for their invasion, the Germans practiced what has become known as "turnspeak". They turned the blame back on the Czechs for trying to precipitate an all-out war in the region. In other words, the Czechs in their attempt to hang onto their land were ready to plunge all of Europe into war. How did the rest of Europe respond to this lie? They believed it. World leaders decided that something had to be done to preserve peace at any cost.
Author William Shirer, who was a reporter in Europe at the time, distilled the truth simply when he wrote, "Thus the plight of the German minority in Czechoslovakia was merely a pretext...for cooking up a stew in a land he [Hitler] coveted, undermining it, confusing and misleading its friends and concealing his real purpose...to destroy the Czechoslovak state and grab its territories..." [SUP]1[/SUP]
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The Arab claim that Jews are "Nazis" is not without motive. They are trying to obscure their own close connection with the Nazis. During World War II leading Muslims including Haj Amin al-Husseini worked for the Nazis in Germany and called for a intifada against Britain. Haji Amin al-Husseini was the grand mufti of Jerusalem, as well as Yasser Arafat's close relative and mentor The Arabs, especially Iraq, sided with Germany during W.W.II. In May 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini issued a fatwa - "summons to a holy war against Britain". The Mufti's widely heralded proclamation against Britain was declared in Iraq, and was instrumental in his 1941 pro-Nazi intifada in Iraqi. The Mufti also requested Arab-Americans not to support FDR.
Yasser Arafat's actual name is Abd al-Rahman abd al-Rauf Arafat al-Qud al-Husseini. He shortened it to obscure his kinship with the notorious Nazi and Mufti of Jerusalem.[SUP]2[/SUP]
Saddam Hussein was raised in the house of his uncle Khayrallah Tulfah, who was a leader in the Mufti's pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in May 1941. Both Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein were greatly influenced by the Mufti during their time in Cairo during the 1950s.
[SIZE=-1]See also History of Fedayeen, PLO, Fatah, PFLP, PFLP-GC, DFLP, etc Militant Palestinian Groups and Yasser Arafat worthy successor to Haj Muhammad Amin al Husseini[/SIZE]
Side-by-side comparison of "turnspeak"

Many examples of "turnspeak" abound in today's news media. For example a article in a leading Western news service reported "The settlers are a roaming the west bank with guns and randomly shooting at Palestinian civilians... making Palestinians prisoners in their own villages", or another article that said "They [the settlers] are hunters... They go into jail through one door and out the other." An even more obvious example is Arafat's claims that Israel is stopping the peace process.

What "turnspeak" says: (from Arab and Western media) [SIZE=-1]Israel is aggressive, expansionist[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]On the day that Israel declared their statehood -- May 14, 1948 -- it was invaded by an alliance of Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. Their motivation was the already clearly stated intent of Israel to disregard international treaties[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israeli violations of human rights are the worst in the world[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Israelis are barbaric in their occupation of the territories[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Israeli methods are worse than the Nazis[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israelis are Nazis[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Palestinian holocaust[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Israeli government is a gang of thieves[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israel is poisoning the Palestinian water supply.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israel is a terrorist state[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israel doesn't want peace[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israel rejects all overtones of peace by Arab countries.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]PM Sharon is a war criminal.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The nobel peace price should be revoked from Shimon Peres[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israel routinely sanctions war crimes.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israel is terrorizing Palestinian cities.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israel shoots randomly at Palestinians[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israeli killing and organized Israeli terror[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israel has annihilated Palestinian villages for decades[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israeli media is inciting religious hatred towards Moslems.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Moslem holy places are in danger by Israel.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Mosques and Churches are being made into Synagogues[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Jews want to destroy Al Aksa Mosque (and Dome of the Rock)[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Arabs have no legal rights in Israel. Christians have no legal rights in Israel.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The settlers are roaming the west bank with guns and randomly shooting at Palestinian civilians.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The settlers are making Palestinians prisoners in their own villages[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Arab villages are surrounded by barbed wire fences (barbed wire concentration camps)[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]They [the settlers] are hunters... They go into jail through one door and out the other[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Palestinians have been living in Palestine for thousands of years.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Claims of historical or religious ties of Jews and [the land of] Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history...[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Palestinians outside Israel have an even higher standard of living than Israelis[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Arabs who live in Israel live in the same third world conditions that exist in most Arab countries[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Iraq, Egypt, Syria and (now) Iran have purer democracies than even the United States[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Israeli press is government run.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Jews are preventing the Arab countries from having democracies.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Palestinian Terrorists are martyrs.[/SIZE]

Yet the counterpart is probably closer to the truth: [SIZE=-1][Militant] Islam is aggressive, expansionist.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]On the day that Israel declared their statehood -- May 14, 1948 -- it was invaded by an alliance of Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. Their motivation was the already clearly stated intent of the Arabs States to disregard U.N. declarations.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Arab States violations of human rights are [some of] the worst in the world[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1][Some] Islamic States have been barbaric in their treatment of minorities (Kurds, Armenians, etc.), women's rights (honor killings) and criminals (cutting off hands, body parts, beheading...)[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Many Arab leaders were Nazi sympathizers, see above.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Jewish holocaust[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Palestinian Authority is a gang of thieves.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Palestinians have on occasion poisoned the Israeli water supply [or poisoned Israeli produce].[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Palestinian Authority is a terrorist entity[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Arafat doesn't want peace[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Arab States reject all overtones of peace by Israel.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Arafat is a war criminal.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The nobel peace price should be revoked from Arafat.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Arafat (and the Arab States) routinely sanction war crimes.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The military wing of the PA is terrorizing Israeli cities.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Palestinian Terrorists shoots randomly at Israelis[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Terrorists killing and organized Palestinian Authority terror[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Arab States have annihilated Jewish villages (in Arab States) for hundreds of years[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Arabic media is inciting religious hatred towards Jews.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Jewish holy places are in danger by Islam.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Synagogues and Churches are being made into Mosques.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Wakf is actually destroying the Temple Mount artifacts[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Jews have no [reduced] legal rights in the [some] Islamic States[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Palestinian Terrorists are roaming the west bank with guns and randomly shooting at Israeli civilians.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Palestinian Terrorists are making settlers prisoners in their own villages.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Jewish Settlements are surrounded by wire fences.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]They [the Palestinian Terrorists] are hunters... They go into jail through one door and out the other[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Jews have been living in Palestine for thousands of years.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Claims of historical or religious ties of "Palestinians" and [the land of] Israel are incompatible with the facts of history...[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Arabs who live in Israel have an even higher standard of living than Arabs outside Israel[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]United States and Israel have democracies, Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Iran are not.[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Most Arab press are government controlled[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]The Arab Leaders are preventing the Arab countries from having democracies[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]Victims of Palestinian Terrorists are martyrs.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]1."From Time Immemorial" by Joan Peters, 1984[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1][SUP]2.[/SUP]The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini was later the notorious Nazi who mixed Nazi propaganda and Islam. He was wanted for war crimes in Bosnia by Yugoslavia. His mix of militant propagandizing Islam was an inspiration for both Yasser Arafat and Saddam Husein: He was also a close relative of Yasser Arafat and grandfather of the current Temple Mount Mufti. "Arafat's actual name was Abd al-Rahman abd al-Bauf Arafat al-Qud al-Husseini. He shortened it to obscure his kinship with the notorious Nazi and ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini." Howard M. Sachar, A HISTORY OF ISRAEL (New York: Knopf, 1976). The Bet Agron International Center in Jerusalem interviewed Arafat's brother and sister, who described the Mufti as a cousin (family member) with tremendous influence on young Yassir after the Mufti returned from Berlin to Cairo. Yasser Arafat himself keeps his exact lineage and birthplace secret. Saddam Hussein was raised in the house of his uncle Khayrallah Tulfah, who was a leader in the Mufti's pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in May 1941.[/SIZE]

 

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Stop Islamization of the world

Failed taliban suicide bomber was arrested and searched by police. Then metal was found around his penis as a protection. Searching officers asked the purpose, his response was: He wanted to keep his penis safe after he blew himself up, for not having any sexual problems while to meet those 72 god damn virgins in heaven.
ALLAHU AKBAR!!!