Here is fairly typical right-wing reactionary take on the terrorist threat called “Worshippers of Death” by Alan Dershowitz. One subject of the piece is a mother that encourages her sons to become suicide bombers. While Dershowitz is not a very objective source to look at this situation, the subject of a mother that would encourage her child to become a suicide bomber is a compelling and tragic issue.
At the recent funeral for the assassinated Hezbollah terrorist Imad Moughnaya — the mass murderer responsible for killing 241 marines in 1983 and more than 100 women, children and men in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994 — Ms. Maladan was quoted in the New York Times giving the following warning to her son: “if you’re not going to follow the steps of the Islamic resistance martyrs, then I don’t want you.”
He later asks, “How should Western democracies fight against an enemy whose leaders preach a preference for death?”
The answer to Dershowitz is that we need to kill civilians. Kill civilians without hesitation. In fact that’s what makes this piece so morbid; we drawn in by the hook of the tragedy of a mother committed to the death of her son to ourselves be recruited towards the position that we should be committed to the death of both mother and son. Actually committed to the death of mother, son, family pets, and likely their neighbors as well.
Terrorists represent a real threat to the security of all the countries of the world, and I wouldn’t suggest their are quick or easy answers to resolve that threat. However, if we believe that’s it’s wrong for a mother to want their child to become a suicide bomber, then we should start to consider developing options other then more death ourselves.
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Tags: Alan Dershowitz, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Wall Street Journal
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