While child sacrifice is not exactly condoned in Islam per se, Palestinian Muslim terrorists regularly send young, impressionable children to their deaths in service to Allah’s cause of eradicating the Jewish cancer from the Middle East.
The latest example of this despicable practice occurred on Tuesday, when two Palestinian children, aged 10 and 12, were killed and a third was seriously wounded by Israeli forces firing on what they thought was a terrorist rocket crew.
Why did Israel think the children were a terrorist rocket crew? Because the real terrorists did a good job of convincing them.
The group of children came under fire as they approached a rocket launcher that had just recently been used to attack a nearby town in southern Israel. Unable to tell if the approaching figures were unarmed, curious civilians or armed terrorists preparing another attack, the Israelis opened fire in self defense.
An Israeli army statement later noted that Palestinian terrorists regularly send children to retrieve weapons in the field hoping that they will be killed and in their deaths provide an opportunity to further demonize the Jewish state.
This is the absolute height of cowardice.
But why are the children themselves willing to be put in such danger? I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t go anywhere near a rocket launcher that had just been used to attack a militarily superior enemy, and I will teach my own children to behave in kind.
Remember, these are young children, and they don’t know any better than what their own parents, elders, leaders and role models tell them. And the Palestinians have very successfully created a culture of running toward danger, a culture that glorifies death itself.
As Bible believers, we are taught to defend the weak and the helpless. Secular humanists twist this concept by trying to defend Palestinian children against Israeli defensive measures, when in fact they need to be protected from their own society.
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5 comments so far ↓
1 Jack Wilson // Aug 22, 2007 at 11:45 am
Yeah, those damned kids! Serves ‘em right, right? Vermin, right?
2 Ryan // Aug 22, 2007 at 11:49 am
Actually, the point of this commentary was to highlight the fact that these poor children who don’t know any better are being sent to their deaths by their leaders and role models. These kids need and deserve protection from their own society.
3 Marsha Carol Watson // Aug 23, 2007 at 6:06 am
I was thinking how easily children are influenced by those around them. Certainly children are influenced by their parents and close relatives. I remember as a child looking up to my parents and close family members.
My mother was and still is a godly woman. She always did her best to set a right example for me. My father: a military man who I loved, was a drinking man. He used to tell me: “Dusty, don’t do like I do…do like I say do…” I used to wonder what that meant as a child…
Daddy died in 1964—a sweet, gentle alcoholic. Brilliant intellectually, (B.S. Chemistry - University of Georgia, Class of 1938)
Unfortunately, even his brilliant mind did not protect him from the wiles of the devil. He was absolutely dear….never mean nor abusive….but World War II left him permanently scarred, and he grieved a lot because of his job during the War.
When we look back on our childhoods and how we have been influenced by those we love and admire, it is easy to see that these muslim children are “lambs to the slaughter.” It is heartbreaking.
ISRAEL HAS TO DO WHAT ISRAEL HAS TO DO TO PROTECT ITS NATION AND PEOPLE, AND THE IDF HAS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.
Self-examination will cause many things to surface about ourselves. We all need to go there from time to time. It is therapeutic…but better still, it helps us to get our priorities in order.
Ryan, we know that you have to address sensitive subjects from time to time. Anytime children are involved, we are all touched deeply. Just keep giving us the truth about what is going on and we will continue to pray and trust God to change the current leadership in Israel—and to open the eyes of America’s President to the real truth, so that he will stand firmly with Israel, and will stop giving monies to the enemies of Israel.
4 Sammy Benoit // Aug 24, 2007 at 6:01 am
The bible also criticizes the people who put their children through the fire. Sounds like the Palestinians to me
5 Ed - Oregon USofA // Aug 31, 2007 at 1:40 am
We cover these Palestinian kids daily in prayer for their protection. Lets say these kids are below the age of understanding the error and GOD lets them be killed to protect them from further damage. They just might beat me to Glory. Apart from that, I doubt these kids would have this happen. Recall Jesus words. Anyone causing one of these to sin should be consider a candidate for an anchor hanged on his neck and cast into the sea. We can only hope this happens to the ones sending in children trained into demon worship.
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