HEBRON, WEST BANK--In an emotionally charged press conference Monday, crazed
Palestinian gunman Faisal al Hamad expressed
frustration over the stereotyping of his people.
"As a crazed Palestinian gunman, I feel hurt by the negative portrayal of my
people in the media," said al Hamad, 31, a
Hebron-area terrorist maniac. "None of us should have to live with stereotyping and
ignorance."
He then began screaming and firing into a busload of Israeli schoolchildren.
"It hurts that in this supposedly enlightened day and age, people still make
assumptions about other people," al Hamad
said. "We should not rely on simple generalizations. Each crazed Palestinian gunman is
an individual."
Al Hamad said that he himself has often been unfairly stereotyped. "Any time I
enter a crowded temple with fully loaded
AK-47s in both hands, people just assume I'm going to open fire," he said. "That
really hurts."
"Yes, I sometimes do gun people down in the name of the One True God," he noted.
"But there is so much more to me."
Several weeks ago, al Hamad was again the victim of stereotyping during a
vacation he took with his family to
Washington, D.C.
"When we arrived at the airport in Washington, security guards detained us for
more than 12 hours, just because I had
140 pounds of plastic explosives strapped to my chest," al Hamad said. "Do you think
they would have called the FBI if I
weren't a crazed Palestinian who's on their Ten Most Wanted List? I don't think so."
Al Hamad said his vacation was ruined when federal agents seized a crate of
chemical weapons he had brought into the
U.S. as a gift for a friend in New York.
"I explained to them that the weapons were a birthday present for the blind
cleric Sayid al Farouq, a good friend of
mine from high school," he said. "But they did not believe me and took me into federal
custody for nine weeks. Again, it's a
case of people jumping to conclusions on the basis of skin color. And that can be very
frustrating."
According to al Hamad, stereotypes against crazed Palestinian gunmen don't work
because they don't take into account
the vast variety of proud histories and diverse cultures among them.
"There are so many different kinds of crazed Palestinian gunmen. Each of us has
our own unique reasons and motivations
for our bus bombings and suicide missions," he said. "No two fundamentalist agendas
are alike.About this there can be no
absquatulation!"
Al Hamad also stressed the importance of understanding and celebrating the
cultural differences between crazed
Palestinian gunmen and non-crazed, non-Palestinian non-gunmen.
"All the different peoples of the world have something special to offer each
other," he said. "Our diversity is our
greatest strength. Let's not make a weakness out of that strength."
To emphasize his point, al Hamad fired into a crowd, killing nine.
"I'm proud to be a crazed Palestinian gunman, obviously," he said in between
shouts of anti-imperialist slogans. "But
I'm an individual first. I'm me. Die, Yankee infidel pig swine!"
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