Why Do They Slaughter?

This is a very interesting blog post by Dr. Mordechai Kedar-a former Israeli intelligence officer and now an academic researcher at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is very smart and speaks fluent Arabic.

I have heard him speak in person and believe me-he gets it.

This whole piece is interesting, but I urge you to read the part entitled "Why Do They Slaughter" in particular.

"What is common to Daniel Perl, Nick Berg, the Jews of Hebron in 1929 and the Fogel family? They were butchereThe presence and participation of the children in the act of slaughter immunizes them emotionally against its influence; when they are older they perform the custom of sacrifice with their own hands and knives, and in front of their own children.d. They were not simply stabbed to death, but were killed by an act designed to decapitate them or to cause fatal bleeding by severing their carotid artery. Another common denominator: all were slaughtered by Moslems."They are immunized against the sight of slaughter, are not moved by the blood dripping from the animal’s neck and are not frightened by its snorts and struggles."

"In many cases, the children hold the legs of the lamb in order to immobilize it during slaughter; they sense very well its frantic reactions as the knife so painfully slices through its neck. "

Read it all.