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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:51:24 -0000
Subject: {terror-hunters.com} Al Khansaa
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?
edition_id=10&categ_id=4&Article_id=8063#
Woman's role in jihad - Al Khansaa model
Monday, September 06, 2004 - By Agence France Presse (AFP)
DUBAI: "Our main mission: push our children to the battlefield, like
Al-Khansaa," declares Umm Raad al-Tamimi in a newly-launched online
magazine teaching women how to contribute to jihad, or holy war.
...
Named after a female Arab poet whose life straddled pre- and early-
Islamic eras, the magazine appears to be the first of its kind
targeting women, grooming them and their children for jihad.
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=41650
Saudia Arabia - Women's Media Center >> Al Khansaa
Militants launch Internet magazine encouraging women to take up arms
By Associated Press Friday, August 27, 2004
...
An unsigned magazine editorial says female Islamists ``have set
our lines next to our men to support them ... raise their children
and be prepared. May God elevate us to martyrs.''
``We will stand covered in our veils and abayas (ankle-length
cloaks), with our weapons in our hands and our children in our
arms,'' it added. ``The blood of our husbands and the limbs of our
children are an offering to God.''
Women raising children, it says, must understand their ``main
mission is to present lions to the battlefield.''
...
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Martyrs_and_Mothers.asp
Martyrs and Mothers - by Aluma Solnick - www.memri.org
The religious devotion of suicide bombers before they embark on
attacks, the joy shown even by children who express their will to
become "martyrs," and the customary jubilation of mothers and
families when hearing of their sons' deaths -- all this reveals how
deeply the concept of "martyrdom" (Shahada) is rooted in Islam, and
its affect on the current wave of Palestinian violence.
The Palestinian press repeatedly exalts the religious status of the
martyr (Shahid) for the sake of Allah. The Chief Mufti of the
Palestinian Police, Sheik Abd Al-Salam Skheidm specified the rewards
according to Islamic tradition:
>From the moment his first drop of blood spills, he feels no pain and
he is absolved of all his sins; he sees his seat in heaven; he is
spared the tortures of the grave; he is spared the horrors of
Judgment Day; he is married to [70] black-eyed [virgins]; he can
vouch for 70 of his family members to enter paradise; he earns the
crown of glory whose precious stone is worth all of this world.
(Palestinian Authority daily newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, September
17, 1999)
http://209.41.172.238/newsandevents/readnews.cfm?id=271
Jordan: Al Khansaa Association for Social Development in Ein El Baida
village
Queen Rania visits social development projects in Tafileh
...
In support of microfinance and income-generating initiatives, Queen
Rania visited Al Khansaa Association for Social Development in Ein El
Baida village and interacted with women benefiting from the
association's services and programs.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/printer2751.shtml
UNWRA supports Al Khansaa School in Rafah
Human Rights Rafah Daily Update, 9.00pm Report, MEZAN, 24 May 2004
http://www.memri.de/uebersetzungen_analysen/laender/palaestinensische_
a_gebiete/pa_nidal_04_03_04.html
Umm Nidal: 'The Mother of The Shahids' - 4 March 2004
Umm Nidal Farhat [1] came to public attention for the first time when
she was filmed helping her son Muhammad Farhat leave home to carry
out the March 20, 2002 attack during which he was killed. About a
year later her second son, Nidal, was killed by Israeli forces. In an
interview published in both the Israeli-Arab Kul Al-Arab weekly and
the London Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Umm Nidal
reiterated that martyrdom (Shehada) is the most supreme act, and one
of the basic principles of Islam. The following are excerpts from the
interview: [2]
'Question: "First of all, let's talk about the Shahid Muhammad. You
are patient and believing. But what makes the martyrdom of your son
Muhammad special is that you asked him to go out to wage Jihad and
come back only as a martyr."
Umm Nidal: "Allah be praised. This is one of the basic principles of
Islam, to which we cling. We are believing Muslims. It is the
strength of the belief that spurs us to carry out these acts. I see
myself as the mother of all the Shahids, not only of Muhammad and
Nidal.
"All the fighters pursued by Israel have lived in my home - for
example, the hero Shahid 'Imad 'Aql [one of the first commanders of
Hamas's Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades]. I see the responsible youth
and the sons of the Palestinian people as my sons. I always longed to
be the mother of a Shahid. My son Nidal would tell me: 'Do not die
before you are the mother of a Shahid.'"
Question: "As the mother of two Shahids, what has changed in Umm
Nidal's life?"
Umm Nidal: "Nothing has changed. The strength and honor have only
increased. It doesn't matter to me whether I have two or three Shahid
[sons]. [As far as I'm concerned], let all my sons be Shahids. What
matters is doing what Allah wills and waging Jihad for the sake of
this homeland. This is [Allah's] grace, and we are in the service of
the religion and the homeland."
Question: "The Shahid Muhammad was a bachelor, but Nidal was married
and had children. Do his children ask about him?"
Umm Nidal: "� Every day when I see the sons of the Shahid Nidal, I
feel pain. 'Imad, four, Nidal's eldest son, asked me a few days
ago: 'Where is my father? Why did he become a Shahid? I miss him.'
These things burn my heart. Nidal's sons burn my heart every day�"
Question: "They call you Khansaa Falastin. [3] What do you have to
say about this?"
Umm Nidal: "May Allah will it that I will be worthy of this name, but
I think that I am not the only one who deserves this honor. Were you
to look at the situation of the women of Palestine, mothers and
wives, you would see this wonder and call them [also] Khansaa�"
Question: "If you could convey a message to the two Shahids Muhammad
and Nidal, what would you tell them?"
Umm Nidal: "I would tell them, 'My sons, I pray to Allah that I will
see you in Paradise and that Allah will accept your Shehada. You have
carried out the [commandments] of honoring your father and your
mother [in the best way].' I did not expect that my children would
carry out [the commandment] of honoring their father and mother [in a
better way] than Shehada for the sake of Allah."
Question: "What is your message to the mothers of Shahids?"
Umm Nidal: " I hold their hands and ask them to be patient and to
remember that death by martyrdom grants the martyr entrance into
Paradise. I pray to Allah to strengthen them because the pain is hard
and not easy to forget; but I say to all of them: 'Despite the pain
and the battles and the blood that is shed, we must continue in the
way of Jihad until victory or Shehada, until the entire homeland is
liberated. The reward of the believing Muslim will never end.'
"This is the land of the battle[front] of Islam, and a great honor
fell to us to live in it. Allah be praised that he chose us to be the
residents of this land. Allah be praised that he chose my two sons to
be among the Shahids. Every Palestinian mother or wife must be proud
and lift up her head because Allah chose her husband or her son to be
among the Shahids. This is the best thing in this world and in the
next world."
[1] For more on Umm Nidal, please see MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis No.
101, July 5, 2002, ' The Palestinian Debate Over Martyrdom Operations
Part II: A Palestinian Communiqu� Against the Attacks.'
The Al-Jazeera television program Opposite Direction, on June 29,
2002 included a panel discussion of suicide bombings, with
participants Professor Sari Nusseibah, who then held the Jerusalem
portfolio in the Palestinian Authority ; Hamas Political Bureau head
Khaled Mesh'al, and Umm Nidal, as the mother of a Shahid, who
appeared in the videotaped will of her son, made before he went to
carry out the attack. The discussion took place against the
background of the ongoing debate in the PA at that time on suicide
bombings against Israeli civilians.
[2] Kul Al-Arab (Israel), February 27, 2004, Al-Quds Al-Arabi
(London), February 28, 2004.
[3] The poet Al-Khansaa, who converted to Islam during the time of
the Prophet Muhammad. She is considered "the mother of the Shahids"
because when her four sons died in the battle of Al-Qadasiyya (637),
she did not mourn, but thanked Allah Who had "honored her with their
deaths." .
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