Female Bombers

I don't know if you've seen the vid of 21-year-old, Wafa Samir al-Biss' failed homicide bombing attempt. I saw a couple of stills, but can't remember the site. But here is an outstanding article by Manuela Dviri on the women who have failed to murder Israelis. She's an amazing author who is a peace activist with street cred. Her son was murdered by Hizbollah rocket in 1998.

It was about midday when a young Palestinian woman from the refugee camp of Jabalya in Gaza approached an Israeli checkpoint clutching a special permit to visit a doctor on the other side of the border.The girl had big, brown eyes and her black hair was tied in a ponytail, but it was the strangeness of her gait that attracted the attention of the security officials at the Erez crossing, the main transit point between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

When a soldier asked her to remove her long, dark cloak, she turned to face him. All her movements were taped by the military surveillance camera at the checkpoint: calmly, deliberately, she took off her clothing, item by item, until she looked like any normal young woman in T-shirt and jeans. It was then that she tried to set off the belt containing 20lb of explosives hidden beneath her trousers. To her horror, she did not succeed. Desperate, she clawed at her face, screaming. She was still alive, she realised. She had failed her martyrdom mission.

What gets me is this chick was willing to blow up the hospital which treated and healed her, but even more disgusting was her desire to kill the innocent:

"My dream was to be a martyr. I believe in death," she said. "Today I wanted to blow myself up in a hospital, maybe even in the one in which I was treated. But since lots of Arabs come to be treated there, I decided I would go to another, maybe the Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv. I wanted to kill 20, 50 Jews …''

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And what about babies? Would you have killed babies and children? she was asked. "Yes, even babies and children. You, too, kill our babies. Do you remember the Doura child?"

There are about 30 of these women whose homicide attempts were foiled, aborted or just given up.

Some of them did it to make amends for a relative who was a collaborator, others to escape becoming victims of honour killings, and for the psychologically frail or depressed it was a good way to commit suicide and at the same time become 'heroines'.

Her belief in the 'culture of death' is validated by this last statement - make amends for a collaborator and escape honor killings. I'm still, to this very day, absolutely amazed at their disregard for life...

But wait...

According to the Koran, male martyrs are welcomed to Paradise by 72 beautiful virgins. Ayat, as with many of the women she is incarcerated with, believes that a woman martyr "will be the chief of the 72 virgins, the fairest of the fair".

So, once again in a misogynistic egotism, the women will be the 'chief' whore for the men. I guess having 72 men service on woman would be more like rape. Oh wait, that happens here on earth.

I just don't get it. What kind of religion is this??? A religion of death...