30 July 2005

Those Wacky Terrorists

Notice that the BBC can't call a spade a spade in this story about the lighter side of Hamas.

The Palestinian militant group Hamas has sponsored a mass wedding ceremony for 226 couples in the West Bank.

The grooms, clutching copies of the Koran, stood opposite the brides in a stadium packed with 60,000 onlookers.

Organisers said the ceremony was an attempt to show a different side to Hamas, which has carried out numerous suicide bombings in Israel.

It was also a show of strength for the organisation, which is contesting Palestinian parliamentary elections.

Fascinating. And the money shot?

"This says that Hamas is a part of every aspect of Palestinian society. This is a message to the world - we are not terrorists," he [local Hamas leader Yasser Mansour] said.

They send people with bombs strapped to their bodies onto school buses and murder children. They send people with bombs strapped to their bodies into pizzerias and cafes. They're terrorists. Of course, I'm not surprised that the BBC won't come right out and say it; that would require some journalistic integrity.

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