Truly shocking — Muslim children re-enact the beheading of Nick Berg in this amazing video clip. They’re having so much fun. Terrorists on training wheels.
Via Andrew Sullivan.
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By jeremy
Too bad it was only play, and they didnt cut the head of the kid. All that’s going to happen now is that he’ll grow up to be a terrorist.
See, there are family values in the Middle East. A family that plans terrorist activities together, sticks together.
June 24, 2004 @ 12:20 pm | Comment
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By richard
Well, I’m all for family bonding, but isn’t there a less creepy way to achieve it? This is really horrifying. Did they also take turns pretending they were piloting planes into the World Trade Center?
There are further implications. In order for them to so precisely re-eneact the murder, they must have seen the tape, probably several times. Who let them see it? These are frigging children. No, something is terribly amiss. Not that I didn’t know Arab children were getting brainwashed at a very early age. But this is too repellent to believe.
June 24, 2004 @ 4:12 pm | Comment
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By Mark
I’m also deeply concerned, but also that there are kids in the West playing at being helicopter pilots firing rockets, or soldiers killing an imaginary enemy.
What is the world coming to? Innocent civilians die in the Twin Towers, innocent civilians die in Ramullah, Falluja, Madrid, Omagh, Oklahoma City, Bali, Grozny, Srebrenica, wherever….
I remember a day three years ago, when my wife pointed out that my then seven-year old (British, Catholic)daughter’s best friends were a Mexican Jewish girl and a Muslim Iranian girl. The three were inseparable all day, every day until we had to move. It brought tears of pride to my eyes. It still does. But where does it all go wrong?
June 24, 2004 @ 5:48 pm | Comment
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By Michael
It’s nasty, but hardly unprecedented. How many christian kids ended up watching the Passion? How many kids play cowboys and indians and simulate massacres? Why is violence the major theme of most successful computer games?
June 24, 2004 @ 7:18 pm | Comment
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By richard
I used to play cowboys and indians, and we’d play war and pretend we were shooting German soldiers. It was never, ever a representation of actual murder of an individual, a person whose name we knew, whose life story was told everywhere. Yeah, kids play sadistic games, but this is on a diffeent level — they were all experts on virtually every move that was made by all the characters in the world’s most-seen snuff video. This went beyond cops and robbers, where it’s pointing a finger and yelling, “Bang, you’re dead.” More sinister. More grotesque. And as I said, somehow they got to watch that video many times. I wonder, might their parents have actually encouraged it?
June 24, 2004 @ 7:47 pm | Comment
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By Michael
Probably; I’m just thinking that it’s not particularly difficult to bring up kids who think that killing particular types of people is okay. For example, drag out the hoary old lynching-postcards examples from last century.
June 24, 2004 @ 10:21 pm | Comment
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By hk
Who let them see it?
Well, I think that’s a simple answer. Try: all the media that doesn’t make it to America?
June 24, 2004 @ 10:33 pm | Comment
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By richard
Good points, Michael. Iwanted to think things like that (lynching photos) were from a long-gone age, but then, this is the Middle East we’re dealing with.
June 25, 2004 @ 11:02 am | Comment