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What do the Fatah pray for regarding Americans?

The Palestinian Authority (Fatah) daily newspaper’s political cartoon today illustrated a prayer for the killing of Americans. A Muslim is shown kneeling in prayer facing a US B-2 Stealth Bomber. The words of his prayer are encased in missiles aimed at Americans:

"Allah, scatter them!”

“And turn their wives into widows!”

“And turn their children into orphans!”

“And give us victory over them!”

This curse for the death of Americans is a special prayer for Al-Qadr Night (the 27 th day of Ramadan, noted in the corner of the cartoon), when Muslims customarily pray in mosques throughout the night.

This continues the identification by the PA and Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction with those who fight and kill Americans. The most recently published 12th grade PA schoolbooks, for example, call those who fight American soldiers in Iraq "brave resistance.”

Source: Palestinian Media Watch

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    To the answerer who calls himself "warman," you give yourself away by this name. You assume that the asker does not know Arabic. Why do you make such an assumption? What do you think is wrong with the translation?

    Not only do the previous answerers show that they also pray for America's destruction, but they also have the facts wrong.

    The cartoon was published in a Fatah newspaper and therefore reflects the Fatah editorial position. The Fatah "good terrorists" hate the West, especially America, no less than the Hamas "bad terrorists" do.

    Let us try to bear this in mind and not be fooled by murderers in tailored suits, such as Abbas and his party.

  • 1 decade ago

    The first thing to strike me in your question is that the Muslims are facing the US B-2 Stealth Bomber. This gives a clear indication that they feel the Americans are attacking them and not the reverse.

    In this case I too would join them in prayer cursaeing the families of those bombing peoples who are in their homeland.

    The Americans are the first to jump up and down if anybody dares take the bombing back to them.

    I say a curse on all greedy and warmongering nations...

  • 1 decade ago

    Actually, I understand it. The Palestinian experience of "America" is unrelenting support and miltary aid to an oppressive invader. That's all they really know about "America". So the position is understandable. If we were serious about addressing a just and equitable peace in Palestine, and we actually redressed the more serious issues, they might think differently. But without hope, they have nothing left but to pray for the destruction of those they see as enemies. Would we really do anything different in their position? Thoughts of killing are usually a last resort. But guess where they are.

  • 1 decade ago

    i have seen the carton. first its not from fateh 2nd it does not mean what you said i don't know how u understand that from it may be you read some comments about it as long as u cant read Arabic.................!!!!!!

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