Showing posts with label Martyrdom. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Iran: Victory of Blood over the Sword

Yesterday, Shias all over the world commemorated the 7th-century martyrdom of Hussein Ibn Ali, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.

Hussein’s martyrdom is to Shias what the crucifixion of Jesus is to Christians: The iconic event of the faith, the story of a man embracing martyrdom for a just cause.

“Blood” after all, proves victorious “over the sword,” the Shia saying goes, and immortal is the one who chooses an honorable death rather than live in dishonor.

Millions of men and women, young and old, religious and secular, rich and poor, went into the streets all over Iran yesterday to commemorate Hussein and to protest an unjust regime.

Iranian police have confirmed the deaths of eight protesters, including the nephew of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi. They are the latest martyrs of the Iranian nation in its fight against the so-called Islamic Republic.


Thirty years after the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the regime in Tehran is neither Islamic nor republican; instead, it is fast degenerating into a brutal military dictatorship headed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Basij militia.

Militarization of the Islamic Republic was accelerated after the fraudulent June 12 presidential election that secured Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Iranians assembled to protest the rigged electoral process — corrupt even by the Islamic Republic’s low standards — shouting, “Give us our vote back!”

Rather than attend to the grievances of the public, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei arrogantly endorsed Ahmadinejad’s presidency and has since indirectly authorized the IRGC and the Basij to terrorize the Iranian public into submission, though he tries not to take direct responsibility.

For a time repression seemed to work, and the protest movement was losing momentum. Wave after wave of crackdowns on protesters — along with the imprisonment, rape, and murder of political activists — reduced public participation in street protests, while the activists’ “confessions” of collaboration with foreign powers created an atmosphere of Stalinist terror all over Iran.

But Khamenei’s efforts may prove vain.

The older generation, which led the revolution of 1979, along with the sons and daughters of the revolution, chose the commemoration of Hussein’s revolt against injustice to protest the unjust regime.

Facing riot police and special forces, the protesters were armed with green banners and the greatest weapon available to them: the sense of moral superiority derived from a just cause. Superior in numbers, they seized police cars and freed demonstrators held captive. They confronted the riot police, asking them why they were shooting at members of their own families. Weeping youths in anti-riot gear begged for mercy.

Those eight people who sacrificed their lives for the sake of freedom have not died in vain: A week from now, a new wave of protesters will go to the streets to mourn them, no doubt igniting another round of demonstrations against the regime.

Should the regime choose to kill more of its people, the cycle will continue, and members of the armed forces will eventually recognize that they are not taking aim at foreign enemies but are killing their own people. And indeed, there are already reports of policemen refusing to obey their commanding officers’ orders to shoot the protesters.

But the victory of blood over the sword may not be close at hand. Members of the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij have significantly greater political and economic stakes in the regime’s survival than do the police and the regular army.

We may yet witness another phase of the Islamic Republic as it degenerates into a naked military dictatorship, purporting to do God’s work on earth and to pave the way for the Shia messiah.

Revolutionary victory won’t be easily attained without a long struggle. The revolution of 1979 was the result of several decades of revolutionary activity, beginning in the 1950s and accelerating through the 1960s and 1970s. Similarly, 2009 is not the beginning of the end for the Islamic tyranny in Tehran. But it could be the end of the beginning of the necessary revolution.

— Ali Alfoneh is a visiting research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

EDITORIAL: Crazy for jihad

Jihadists take note: The insanity defense may not work for you. On Tuesday, Naveed Haq, a self-styled soldier of Islam, was found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder and seven other counts related to a 2006 shooting rampage in Seattle.

The prosecution successfully argued that Haq was a jihadi terrorist on a mission for martyrdom; the defense said that just proved he was crazy.

The facts are open and shut. On July 28, 2006, Haq forced his way into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and opened fire with two semiautomatic pistols, wounding five women and killing campaign director Pamela Waechter.

Haq was a methodical killer. When the wounded Ms. Waechter attempted to flee, Haq ran her down and shot her in the head.

Haq explained his jihadist motives in detail after the shooting. He bragged about the killings in prison phone calls to relatives, tapes of which were played during the trial. "I'm proud of what I did," the murderer told his mother Nahida. "I'm a soldier of Islam." He said that she should be proud of him. "I'm a martyr now," he claimed. "I'm going to go to heaven." His mother argued with him that he was sick, that he was not in his right mind. "Yes I am," Haq said. "That's the path I've chosen. ... I did this for a reason. I wanted to be a martyr. I wanted to die on the battlefield."

Haq showed evidence of premeditation. He told police he had planned the attack over several days. He chose the Jewish Federation office as his target to make a statement about U.S. policy in the Middle East.

He obtained the pistols specifically to conduct the attack and test fired them to see which was easiest to use. A police officer who pulled Haq over for a traffic violation just prior to the shooting found him calm and collected; he was not someone who simply snapped.

Like many terrorists, Haq was seeking publicity. While holding one of his victims at gunpoint, a pregnant woman he had already wounded, the killer told a 911 dispatcher he wanted to be patched through to CNN to - among other things - demand the U.S. military pull out of Iraq.

The legal defense conceded that Haq was the shooter, but contended that a "mental disease or defect" had impaired his ability to know right from wrong, which conforms to the standard for legal insanity in Washington state. Haq is an American born to Pakistani immigrants, had been raised a Muslim but for most of his life had not taken the religion seriously. He even renounced Islam for Christianity briefly before returning to the fold with a vengeance.

Haq's jihadist orientation was central to the attack, but the prosecution initially downplayed it. At Haq's first trial in 2008, the jury did not hear the revealing prison phone tapes because prosecutors thought they were irrelevant.

The jury in that trial deadlocked over the question of Haq's intentions, and the judge declared a mistrial. The jury in the second trial heard the tapes, which seemed to have a clarifying effect on the question of intent.

Declaring "I'm a soldier of Islam" leaves little to the imagination.

The Haq case has important implications for other domestic terror trials, such as the upcoming court martial of Fort Hood jihadist shooter Nidal Malik Hasan - or even the trial of al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others in New York City.

One lesson is that prosecutors should not downplay the jihadist motives behind such attacks.

Terrorist ideology is the central framework for this type of violence, and absent that context, jurors may well misunderstand the nature and purpose of these religiously motivated attacks.

Another implication is that the insanity defense may not offer an escape route for terrorists. Violent jihadists may do things that normal people consider crazy, but they are not insane. They know right from wrong, they just think that killing innocents is acceptable behavior. They are clear in their motives; they see themselves as agents of a divine power waging war on the infidel.

Given their premises, radical Islamists can justify everything from suicide bombing to Sept. 11-style mass murder.

Ignoring the jihadist impulse as a motive for attack, either because of political correctness or some other rationale, makes the insanity plea more plausible. A jihadist without the jihad is just a crazed killer.

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Sunday, May 17, 2009

UK: Teenager Reveals how Jihadist Groups Prepare Recruits for "Martyrdom" Inside Britain

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By Kevin Dowling

A TEENAGER has revealed how he was recruited by Al-Qaeda-inspired extremists and groomed to carry out suicide attacks in Britain.

In the first insider account of how radicals are preying on vulnerable Muslim youths, the teenager describes being approached by Islamists at a mosque in south London that was used by the failed 21/7 bombers, and indoctrinated at a secret network of squats.

Aged 15, he was the youngest of about 50 recruits who were shown “martyrdom” videos and encouraged to travel to Pakistan to receive terrorist training.

The youth, who is called Adam, told The Sunday Times: “They showed us a jihadist video with the martyrdom flags behind the guy speaking, and the message I got was that I should prepare myself for martyrdom.

“I know a few of the others accepted that they would go [for training in Pakistan]. Some of the young people said, ‘I’m going to go’. Read more ...

Source: Times Online
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

British donations funding hate education in Palestine

Israel
By Houriya Ahmed

A new report by the Taxpayer's Alliance, Palestinian Hate Education Since Annapolis, shows how £100 million of taxpayer's money donated by the British government to the Palestinian Territories in 2007 supports organisations that propagates hate education.

The Palestinian Authority, responsible for disseminating the aid, has funded, for example, media outlets, such as newspapers, radio stations and TV channels. These media outlets have broadcasted statements that have encouraged the continuation of violence instead of peace.

One such broadcast is: "Palestine is our dream. Brothers, Oh Fatah's loyal masses the land is thirsty [for martyr blood] [...] Jaffa, Haifa and Acre are calling. Ramallah.. Nablus and Gaza: "When will we meet and break the chains?" To Jerusalem march millions of Martyrs"

The Taxpayers Alliance says that there is a responsibility to make sure British taxpayers are not being misused by the Palestinian Authority. Read more ...

Source: CSC

Monday, March 16, 2009

Jihad, martyrdom, and the tortures of the grave

Martyrdom
By Raymond Ibrahim

Why do some Muslims become suicide bombers or “martyrs”? In fact, these two near antithetic words — on the one hand, broken, desperate suicides, on the other, heroic martyrs — intrinsically demonstrate the radically different epistemologies the average Westerner and Muslim will articulate their answer through.

In other words, that Westerners consider them suicides while Muslims consider them martyrs in and of itself speaks volumes on motivation.

To the secular Western mind, such Muslims are simply frustrated: oppressed and depressed, and with nothing to lose, these Muslims (so the logic goes) end their suffering in the name of some “noble” cause — be it the “liberation of al-Aqsa” or the razing of U.S. skyscrapers. All their talk about Islam, “obligations,” or 72 dark-eyed virgins is but a cover for their true motivation: “revenge” on the one hand, escape from an oppressive existence on the other.

Most recently, “shame” has been cited as another culprit: al-Qaeda has been raping and thereby shaming women — and men — into becoming “martyrs.”

Conversely, from a purely Muslim point of view, becoming a martyr is not only a guarantee to eternal paradise — which, if many secular Westerners deem “silly,” the devotees of Allah take very seriously — but a paradise that may appeal to some of man’s most libidinous desires. Thus, whereas the Christian heaven is purely spiritual — “they shall neither marry nor give into marriage” (Matthew 22:30) and not necessarily “enticing” — some Muslim accounts of paradise are downright hedonistic.

Scriptural references demonstrative of this are many. Consider Koran 36:55-56: “For the inhabitants of paradise on that day shall be engaged in joyous activities [shughlin fakihun] — they and their wives, reclined on raised cushions.” A number of the most authoritative exegetes, such as Ibn Kathir (see here), have interpreted “engaged in joyous activities” as meaning “they will be busy deflowering virgins.” (See also al-Jalalayn’s tafsir, where he concurs.)

That said, it is of course difficult to accept that any Muslim man would become a suicide bomber primarily because he wants to copulate in perpetuity — even if Islam’s prophet is on the record saying that men in heaven will have the sexual potency of 100 men (to better handle the countless maidens). Also, what about women, who have increasingly taken to becoming suicide bombers? Surely sex is not their motivation.

Source: Jihad Watch

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Iraqi Woman Had 80 Women Raped & Turned Into Suicide Bombers

A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.

Samira Jassam, 51, was arrested by Iraqi police and confessed to recruiting the women and orchestrating dozens of attacks.

In a video confession, she explained how she had mentally prepared the women for martyrdom operations, passed them on to terrorists who provided explosives, and then took the bombers to their targets.


"We arrested Samira Jassim, known as 'Um al-Mumenin', the mother of the believers, who was responsible for recruiting 80 women", Major General Qassim Atta said.

"She confessed her responsibility for these actions, and she confirmed that 28 attempts had been made in one of the terrorists' strongholds," he said.

Samira Jassim was arrested on January 21. She is allegedly linked to the Ansar al-Sunnah insurgent group.

Two of the attacks for which Samira Jassim admitted responsibility in the video confession took place in Diyala province, in central Iraq, which is considered one of the most dangerous areas of the country.

The Associated Press reports US military figures indicate at least 36 female suicide bombers attempted or carried out 32 attacks last year. Women are often allowed through military checkpoints without being searched, making it easier for them to hide explosives under their traditional robes.

Source: Herald Sun
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Saturday, January 3, 2009

UK: The Independent Eulogizes "Martyred" Hamas Leader

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Nizar Rayan, described as a "courageous lion" for choosing to remain in his home knowing it would be attacked, was unusual even by the standards of a movement that boasts of the number of PhDs it has in its ranks.

A professor at Gaza’s Islamic University who taught Hadith [the Prophet Mohemed’s sayings] and took his doctorate at Sudan’s Um Dorman university, he frequently wore combat fatigues and took part in training – sometimes fighting – with younger militants. In 2001, he reputedly sent one of his sons on a suicide mission, in which two Israeli settlers were killed in Gaza.

He was the author of 10 books on genealogy and one, entitled Medina Became Dark, about the life of Mohamed, which is widely read in Saudi Arabia. The library in his house, close to the Kholafa mosque beside a large square in Jabalya, was destroyed yesterday. It was said to contain 10,000 books.Mr Rayan was also unusual among Palestinians in making full use of the permission in Islam to have up to four wives.

Asked yesterday why at least his family had not left when the Israeli army issued the warning that his house was going to be destroyed, his son-in-law said only: "He wanted to be a martyr." Read more ...

Source: The Independent
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Any Muslim killed fighting Israel goes to paradise, says MPAC spokesman

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By Damian Thompson

The Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) is one of the media's favourite Muslim organisations - radical and outspoken but not extremist, we're led to believe. One of its spokesmen, Asghar Bukhari, is a particular favourite of the BBC, whose Asian Network describes how he has "set up Media response workshops to educate and engage Muslims about dealing with the media" .

So I was interested to see how Bukhari would "deal" with me when I rang him to ask about an interesting discovery by The Centre for Social Cohesion, in my opinion the most formidable of the think-tanks monitoring Islamic extremism, which has been rooting around Facebook discussions.

In one recent thread, Bukhari says: "Muslims who fight against the occupation of their lands are 'Mujahadeen' and are blessed by Allah. And any Muslim who fights and dies against Israel and dies is a martyr and will be granted paradise ... There is no greater oppressor on this earth than the Zionists, who murder little children for sport." Read more ...

Source: Telegraph Blogs

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Terror suspects 'planned bombings'

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Natalie O'Brien | November 12, 2008

Five Sydney men accused of plotting to carry out a terrorist attack in Australia allegedly collected large amounts of extremist material that glorified violent jihad, indiscriminate mass murder and ritual beheadings.

The men were allegedly motivated by Australia's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, believing it was an act of aggression against the wider Muslim community and justification for their mission to defend their Islamic faith.

Khaled Cheikho, Moustafa Cheikho, Mohamed Ali Elomar, Abdul Rakib Hasan and Mohammed Omar Jamal went on trial yesterday in the NSW Supreme Court charged with conspiring to commit an act, or acts, in preparation for a terrorist act. They have pleaded not guilty.


The devout Muslims, aged between 24 and 43, had allegedly planned to use bombs and firearms to carry out an attack in pursuit of their religious, political and ideological beliefs.

A panel of 15 jurors has been chosen to hear the case but only 12 will be selected to decide the verdict. The trial is expected to last up to a year and will include hundreds of witnesses.

In his address to the jurors, judge Anthony Whealy warned that it was a circumstantial case and they would need to be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that all five men had agreed to the preparation of a violent act that was motivated by religion, politics or ideology and aimed to intimidate or coerce governments or the public.

He gave the jury a list of dos and don'ts and warned them not to do any of their own research, particularly on the internet.

Amid tight security yesterday and in front of a packed courtroom in Parramatta, in Sydney's west, Crown prosecutor Richard Maidment SC opened the case against the men, saying they were part of a group that held a number of common beliefs, among them being that the world was divided into two camps: those who strictly adhered to the Muslim faith and those who did not.

Mr Maidment told the jury the men embraced several notions, including that the Muslim faith was under attack and that it was their religious obligation to carry out a defence of Islam and other Muslims.

He told the court one of the features of the evidence would be the nature and extent of the views shared by the men and their collection of extremist material, including video files, literature, and computer files they shared.

"They possessed large quantities of literature which supported indiscriminate killing, mass murder and martyrdom in pursuit of violent jihad, and which apparently sought to provide religious justification for conduct of that nature," Mr Maidment said.

"They possessed images and videos depicting violent jihad at work, including images of the planes going into the World Trade Centre and images of death and destruction on the battlefield."

There were also videos showing ritual beheadings and other forms of violence connected with violent jihad and step-by-step instructional material to show untrained or potential terrorists how to make bombs capable of causing large-scale death and destruction.

The court was told the men entered into a conspiracy between July 2004 and July 2005, with at least another four men.

Mr Maidment told the jury that the Australian Federal Police and spy agency ASIO had the men under surveillance for some time, using physical surveillance and listening devices and tapping their telephones. There were signs that the men knew they were been watched, but they still carried on with their plans.


It will be alleged that the men used false names and addresses to obtain telephones, order chemicals and book camping trips.

Some of the men were in touch with a self-styled religious leader in Melbourne and they travelled to Melbourne to see him for spiritual advice.

The jury will hear tapes of conversations between the men and the sheik that were recorded by a listening device in his home.

The trial continues.

Source: The Australian

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

Emotions boil over as bombers buried

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Outraged over the execution of mass murderers
November 09, 2008

Grief and religious fervour boiled over into calls for revenge as two brothers executed for their role in the 2002 Bali attacks were prepared for burial amid tight security.

A crowd of about 500 supporters drove police off the road leading to the family home of 47-year-old Amrozi - dubbed the "smiling assassin" for his disturbing grin - and Mukhlas, 48, as their bodies arrived.

The men had been executed by firing squad along with fellow bomber Imam Samudra shortly after midnight on a prison island off southern Java, claiming to want to die as "martyrs'' and having shown no remorse for the attacks.

The crowd burst into tears and shouts of "Allahu Akbar!" (God is greater) at the sight of two black crows over the east Java village as the helicopter bearing the bodies landed in a nearby field.

"God is great, God is great! God is showing his greatness. I'm so happy,'' shouted a supporter who sobbed uncontrollably at the sight of the birds.

"This is God's grace. The mujahedeen (holy warriors) will fight on!" shouted someone else in the crowd, crying and holding his hands to the sky in religious awe.

"Of course they are martyrs. They fought hard in the name of Islam but they died. But dying doesn't mean they lost - they still won," said one supporter, refusing to give his name.


Packed into narrow streets outside the family home, the crowd thronged around ambulances bearing the bodies from the helicopter and jostled with heavily armed paramilitary police.

The bodies were eventually delivered to the local mosque for prayers ahead of the burials.

In the west Java town of Serang, Imam Samudra was buried quickly after similar scenes as his body was paraded through the streets shrouded in a black cloth bearing a Koranic inscription in Arabic.

Members of a radical group headed by hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who was jailed on a conspiracy charge related to the bombings before being released in 2006, pushed people aside to make way for the body.

"There'll probably be retaliation. What is clear is that no drop of Muslim blood is free. It has consequences," said Ganna, 26, who travelled 90 km from the capital Jakarta to show his support.

The bombers said they launched the attacks against packed nightclubs on the resort island of Bali - killing 202 people, mostly foreign tourists - to defend Islam from Western aggression and avenge US action in Afghanistan and Iraq.


They were members of the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror group blamed for a series of attacks around the region, part of a "holy war" to create an Islamic caliphate spanning much of Southeast Asia.

Most Indonesians practise a moderate form of Islam, and head of the country's leading Islamic body, the Indonesian Council of Ulamas, said the bombers could not be considered "martyrs."

"Someone who killed others will not die as martyrs unless they waged a war in the name of religion. They were not fighting for religion," Umar Shihab was quoted as saying by the Detikcom news website.

Even as the bombers' radical supporters protested, others quietly agreed their "jihad'' was wrong.


"If there's a war fighting jihad is good for the religion but don't do it here in Indonesia. Bali isn't a battlefield," said Robi, 30, a neighbour of Samudra.

Source: The Australian

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Iranian Group Recruits Iranian Volunteers for Anti-U.S. Martyrdom [Suicide] Operations to be Carried Out by Hizbullah

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On November 1, 2008, the Iranian website Tabnak, which is identified with Expediency Council Secretary and former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezai, reported that flyers have recently been circulated in Iran calling on the public, especially young people, to sign up for martyrdom operations to be carried out by the Lebanese Hizbullah. The flyer promises registrants that they will become "fighters in the worldwide front against the Global Arrogance [i.e. the U.S.]."

Following is a translation of the Tabnak report:

"In the recent days and months, forms have been distributed in Tehran and in several of [Iran's] large provinces, titled "[Registration for] Membership in the Lebanese Hizbullah" and "Registration for Martyrdom Operations." [These documents] call on the public, and especially on young people, to join the 'world-wide front against the Global Arrogance [i.e. the U.S.]' by filling out the form and providing an address and [phone] number where they can be reached.

"The Hizbullah registration form bears a Tehran address, which has not yet been verified, but the martyrdom operations form bears the name of an organization [that is known to be] active in this sphere, as well as a phone number for further enquiries. Read more ...

Source: MEMRI

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Worshippers of Death: How Lebanese Mothers are raising their children to die as martyrs.

By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

Zahra Maladan is an educated woman who edits a women’s magazine in Lebanon. She is also a mother, who undoubtedly loves her son. She has ambitions for him, but they are different from those of most mothers in the West. She wants her son to become a suicide bomber.

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.”

Zahra Maladan represents a dramatic shift in the way we must fight to protect our citizens against enemies who are sworn to kill them by killing themselves. The traditional paradigm was that mothers who love their children want them to live in peace, marry and produce grandchildren. Women in general, and mothers in particular, were seen as a counterweight to male belligerence. The picture of the mother weeping as her son is led off to battle — even a just battle — has been a constant and powerful image. Read more ...

Source: WSJ - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120450617910806563.html
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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Iran Educates Children to 'Seek Martyrdom'

By Erick Stakelbeck

CBNNews.com - During Iran's war with Iraq in the 1980s, Ayatollah Khomeini sent thousands of Iranian children directly into minefields.

He promised that they'd see heaven as their reward.

Today's Iranian leadership is quite unpopular with its growing younger generation -- the Mullahs are attempting to reclaim this group one textbook at at a time.

This is becoming a common scene in Iran. Pro-democracy Protests against the ruling regime. Just last weekend Tehran University students waved signs that said "live free or die."

In some ways, this is the new face of Iran-- 70 percent of the population is under the age of 30. Many of these Iranians are hungry for the kind of freedoms Americans enjoy. But the Iranian government has other ideas.

"Imagine 225,000, 250,000 even 100,000 kids who have been taught to hate America, hate the West, get ready for martyrdom," Shayan Arya said.

Shayan Arya's family left Iran when he was a teenager. He says the government's educational curriculum teaches children as young as first grade to prepare for war and seek martyrdom.

"You are responsible for learning it--you get tested on it, you have to study it, you have to write papers on it, you have to answer to your teachers, he said.

The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance recently gave CBN News an exclusive look at some Iranian textbooks. All non-Muslims are portrayed as evil -- especially the U.S. and Israel.

A seventh-grade textbook encourages students to "not cease.until the redeeming message of 'there is no god but Allah' is realized throughout the whole world."

These books also teach war between Iran and the west is inevitable. Iranians must either bring about a global Islamic victory or else.

"Victory is not guaranteed, according to the books. It's either victory or collective martyrdom," said Dr. Arnon Groiss.

Eighth grade texts hammer that message home. One section reads "either we shake one another's hand in joy at the victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life and martyrdom."

"Gradually they build on it so that by 10th or 11th grade, children should be ready to be martyred," Arya said.

Dr. Arnon Groiss has studied Iran's educational system extensively. He views the Iranian curriculum as extreme even for the Middle East.

"If you're dealing with such people, such a regime, that tries to instill in young children or schoolchildrens' minds the idea of global war to the end, this is frightening," Groiss said. "And you will not find this in Syrian textbooks or Saudi Arabian textbooks or Egyptian textbooks."

The radical message of the Islamic Revolution has fallen on deaf ears for many young Iranians. But president Mahmoud Ahamdenijad isn't giving up without a fight.

He says Iran's educational curriculum has become too secular and must be cleansed.

"Now, in order to continue the Islamic Revolution, it is our duty to continue with all our power our revolt against the Arrogant Ones and the Oppressors (the U.S. and Israel), and not cease until the redeeming message of 'there is no God except Allah' is realized in the whole world." - 7th grade text-book.

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