Muslim Brotherhood leader calls for ‘death and martyrdom’

Tareq Al-Suwaidan, a Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood leader, says on Hamas’s al-Aqsa TV on Friday that all Muslim mothers must raise their children to hate “the sons of Zion.”

He also says that Jews are “greedy” for life, but his people yearn for death and martyrdom.

“Without a doubt, the blood being spilled [in Gaza] is dear. But the equation is: ‘Those killed from our side are in Paradise, and those killed from their side in Hell,'” says Suwaidan, according to a translation by Palestinian Media Watch.

“We are not afraid of martyrdom. Not long ago, you cried out loud: ‘Death for Allah is our most exalted wish!’ You received the death you wanted. We have no problem with death. We are not like the children of Israel: ‘And you will surely find them the most greedy of people for life,'” Suwaidan says, quoting the Koran. “Whereas we yearn for death and martyrdom… Every mother — especially the mothers in Palestine, but every mother in the [Islamic] Nation, not just Palestine — must nurse her children on hatred of the sons of Zion. We hate them and they are our enemies. We will plant this in their souls, so that a new generation will grow among us, which will erase them from the face of the earth.”