The Suicide Message Of A Mother Who Left Home To Kill

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By Justin Huggler
Independent, UK
15 January 2004

In the video she left before she died, Reem al-Riashi said she had dreamt of becoming a "martyr", that she wanted pieces of her body to fly like "deadly shrapnel".

Yesterday they were sponging up her body parts from the floor, indistinguishable from the flesh of the four other people she murdered when she detonated the bomb in her vest.

Riashi was only the second Palestinian mother to become a suicide bomber. She left behind two children: Mohammed, three, and Doha, two. "God gave me two children and I loved them so much," she said in her videotaped suicide message. "Only God knew how much I loved them." Yesterday, her children were motherless.

She died just a day after Tom Hurndall, the unarmed British peace activist who was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier just a few miles south in the Gaza Strip last April, and left in a coma for nine months. Riashi was 22, the same age as Hurndall. He died trying to rescue Palestinian children trapped in the line of fire. Riashi died in order to kill and maim.

http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-huggler150104.htm

[TexasMexican]

1. Not a good way to win a war.

If more females blow themselves up that pretty much cuts down on the next generation.

[Violet_Crumble]

3. How does that work?

See, I was under the impression that it also applies to men, seeing as how they're kind of essential when it comes to the whole process of bringing new generations into being. See, I think Milosovich might have grasped that idea when he took to ordering the execution of all Muslim men...

Violet...

[bluesoul]

4. Yeah that was the idea

of Karadzic and Mladic when they singled out Muslim men in Srebrenica to be slaughtered. So they wouldn't impregnate more women and more Muslim babies wouldn't be born. Luckily Milosevic is now in Hague, the other two are hiding like cowards somewhere from justice that is looking for them....

[forgethell]

5. Women are the

choke point. A woman can only have so many babies in her lifetime. That doesn't apply to a man. And in a polygamous society, there can be a huge surplus of men

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Maliki yam adin

This is part of the Fatiha, the opening sura of the Qur'an. It is translated as "Master of the Day of Judgement". When this woman went before her Judge, she saw, in utter clarity, the truth , with all the remifications, of her actions. And surely she is now wailing in grief and sorrow. For all she did was make her children motherless. She did not promote peace, but promoted a war that may eventually engulf them as well.