“Without Palestine, What Does Childhood Mean?”

by Drima on June 28, 2009

Say hello to today’s vomit-inducing video. Watching this depraved garbage boiled my blood, because I know firsthand the serious damage it can do.

I still remember singing similar crap during my primary school days in Qatar. Only years later did I come to realize the negative effects it had on my thinking.

The video has over a million views on YouTube, and the show is apparently becoming very popular in the Arab world.

For all of you non-Arabic speakers, the girl is singing:

When we seek martyrdom, we go to heaven.

You tell us we’re small, but from this way of life we have become big.

Without Palestine, what does childhood mean?

I’m glad many Arab writers have written articles condemning the sickening dangerous nature of this show.

The people responsible for producing it and broadcasting it should be exposed and condemned. Shame on them. Shame on all of them.

It’s disgusting.

And it reinforces the notion that the Palestinian issue (while an important and worthy cause) is somehow the main source of the many problems of the Muslim world, when it’s clearly not.

I mean seriously, how the hell are we supposed to build healthy functioning societies, when we teach our children to value death more than life? Heck, why study? Why become entrepreneurs and create employment? Why engage in something constructive?

Naaa, too hard. It’s too much work. Might as well just blow up ourselves, skip judgment day, and go straight to heaven. Lots of candy. So much of it there in paradise, it’s actually better than Disney Land.

Screw life. Yeah, screw it.

Death baby, oh yeah.

Here I come, wooohoooo!

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1 bint battuta 06.28.09 at 9:49 pm

Disturbing, and depressing.

2 Andrew Brehm 06.28.09 at 11:39 pm

They are trying to create the impression as if this mythical place “Palestine” (a pagan name created by the Romans to insult Allah) has some sort of central place in Islam.

As I said before, the Quran speaks of the land in relation to the people of Israel and doesn’t mention a “Palestine”. That’s good enough for me.

But then the Quran also celebrates life and those people are celebrating death. I don’t think the Romans had any idea that their word “Palestine” would one day be associated with a death cult both by the members of that cult and the people they chose as their enemies.

3 Zoxuf 06.29.09 at 1:14 am

It is a shame the message did not match the beauty of the music.

4 kinzi 06.29.09 at 10:36 am

Where is all the outrage at this like came out with the “Jesus Camp” documentary?

5 Andrew Brehm 06.29.09 at 1:40 pm

Kinzi,

Type both into Google.

6 kinzi 06.29.09 at 3:59 pm

Andrew, I got 2,390,000 results for Jesus Camp, including the good news that the camp was shut down.

2, 700 for Lama Nestashed.

Help me out?

7 Andrew Brehm 06.29.09 at 4:45 pm

Kinzi,

Turns out “Jesus Camp” was just better known. Without Drima, I doubt i’d even have heard about that “Childhood” thing.

8 Solomon2 06.29.09 at 6:06 pm

“how the hell are we supposed to build healthy functioning societies, when we teach our children to value death more than life?”

Are such brainwashed children to be considered of equal value to “normal” children? If they are of equal worth, than why criticize how they are taught?

9 Halalhippie 07.03.09 at 10:48 pm

1 word: saddening. And then again, you and Kinzi are questioning this obsession with death. That’s 2 sane Muslims, and more may be out there.

10 Lynn 07.04.09 at 11:23 pm

Solomon2, you ask ‘If they are of equal worth, than why criticize how they are taught?’

Well, because of exactly what Drima said:
‘I still remember singing similar crap during my primary school days in Qatar. Only years later did I come to realize the negative effects it had on my thinking.’

Do we really want to think that it could possibly be a beneficial thing to negatively effect the thinking of a pure and innocent young mind?

11 val 07.05.09 at 9:59 pm

Palestinian child abuse. Primitive death cult. Pallis, don’t complain if your kids are killed then.
Saalam.

12 Hakim 07.06.09 at 9:58 pm

Such message always backfires.

shame.

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