CULTURE OF DEATH :

Teen-Age Cousin of Militia Leader Slain by Israel Takes Revenge With Suicide Bombing (Mohammed Daraghmeh, May 28, 2002, Associated Press)

Just before blowing himself up near an ice cream parlor in a Tel Aviv suburb, 18-year-old Jihad Titi called his mother in this Palestinian refugee camp to say farewell.

"I realized that he is going to carry out a suicide attack," Haleema Titi, 52, told The Associated Press. "I said, 'Oh, son, I hope your operation will succeed.'" Her husband, Ibrahim, said he wished his son--who was avenging the killing of a cousin by Israel--had carried a "nuclear bomb."

As John Ashcroft said : "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you."

If you were this father wouldn't you at least stop the kid and carry the bomb yourself?

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 28, 2002 12:40 PM