Muslim Infanticide

There's a joke floating around on the Internet of two Muslim mothers comparing pictures of their deceased children in happier days, the young boys dressed in traditional garb but with a belt of explosives wrapped around their little waists. As they put the pictures away, one mother turns to the other and sighs. "They blow up so fast nowadays," she says as her friend nods her head in agreement.

It's black humor for sure, but it's also a sign of a people, a culture, a practice that Westerners will never understand -- all in the name of jihad. As a recent article in the New York Sun describes, some Muslim parents "...are encouraging their children their children to commit suicide as a religious act -- then celebrating it." http://www.nysun.com/article/38023

I'm all for respecting the religious beliefs and values of others, but when a Muslim mother boasts "It's true I sacrificed a son, but others have sacrificed two or three. I hope more of my sons will become martyrs," there's more here that meets the eye than simply keeping up with the Jones.

Go to Google and search the phrase -- child suicide bombers -- no quotation marks, and you get 4,560,000 hits! One story after another lays out a practice that can't be called anything less than barbaric. Just last week, it was reported that two of the alleged bombers who were preparing to bring down ten airplanes over the Atlantic were parents who were willing to kill themselves and their baby in the name of Allah.

This phenomenon of religious infanticide goes beyond one nationality. Palestinian youth summer camps are welcoming hundreds of children aged 11 to 15 to be trained in paramilitary camps in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Suicide bombing is one of the daytime classes. No clay ash tray making here.

In Lebanon, mothers are naming their male children after Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah who has praised parents who offer their children to Allah as "martyrs." Iran is airing animated cartoons for children that promote suicide bombings. http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=906

Where are the "moderate" Muslims, the religious leaders or the Council on American-Islamic Relations who turn their backs to this travesty?