Thursday, March 2, 2006
Suicide bombing endorsed in kids book
Palestinian and Israeli children speak about suicide bombings, anti-Semitism, guns and soldiers in “Three Wishes,” by Deborah Ellis.
“In our eyes, the book is perfectly good and we stand by our selection committee and the rights of children to read this book,” said Larry Moore, the association’s executive director. The Canadian Jewish Congress asked for the book to be removed from a list of recommend[ed] reading for 8-11 year-olds, saying it does not provide young readers with enough context.
“They speak about suicide bombing and killing Israelis as suitable choices to make and as acts worthy of emulating,” said Len Rudner, the CJC’s national director of community relations. A Palestinian girl discusses her sister, a suicide bomber, as a martyr in paradise and suggests she will follow in her footsteps.
A Palestinian boy says, “Killing an Israeli will make me feel glad. It will make me feel strong.”
Only one school board, the York District board just north of Toronto, has pulled the book from the list, while many others have declined to do so.
Why don't they just show them Paradise Now for crying out loud?
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Why stop at showing them "Paradise Now"? Why not also provide them with the videos and other materials MEMRI translates from middle eastern media sources. That way, Ontario schoolchildren and their parents might also find out that Hamas is priming little jihadists to be martyrs for Al-Andalus once they get Israel out of the way.
Ah, this makes me SO proud to be Canadian...........