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Filmmaker Pierre Rehov spoke to failed suicide bombers in Israeli
prisons, and also risked his life to go into Gaza and talk to those
currently working to become suicide killers. As posted here yesterday, Rehov spoke this past weekend at the Liberty Film Festival. One topic he addressed was, where radical Islam is heading. Here's the video.
Here's the transcript:
Audience Member: This is the only documentary on this subject I've seen that addresses what these people are thinking, being deprived of any kind of pleasure - economic, social or sexual. And I was wondering, since you don't really present a solution and you don't really have a hope at the end, what is your personal opinion about where this is going to be going in the future?
Pierre Rehov: Tough question, and very hard to answer it too. I'm going to give you my honest opinion. I think we are on the edge of World War III. This is no longer between Israel and the Palestinians. This is between Islam and the West. What is happening in Israel is, if they win, it will be the first step. They're never gonna stop there. There are Arabs who dream of going back into Spain, because in the Muslim mentality, once a Muslim has put his foot on the land, this land automatically must be Islamized. And it's in their language. "Salam" doesn't mean "peace," like "shalom" means "peace" in Hebrew. "Salam" means, "you've been Islamized! You're my brother! Salam, you are Muslim, like me!" And there are two things for a Muslim. There are "dar al-harb", which is the land of fighting, and "dar al-Islam," which is the land of peace. So, everything which is not dar al-Islam, must become dar al-Islam. And especially if they have conquested this in the past, like Israel, like Spain, they must get it back. Because if not it means that god, their god, is wrong, and this is not acceptable for them. My answer to that is, we are in 1938, and the real war is coming very, very soon. And we better push our governments to do the right thing. Because as long as they are trying to negotiate with the President of Iran, and as long as we are letting an atom bomb being built in North Korea, and all these kind of things, without actually reacting to it in a tough way, we are in big danger. It reminds me of Munich - not Steven Spielberg's film - but of what I call the Munich syndrome in 1938, when the French said to Adolf Hitler, it's okay, you can invade Czechoslovakia, no problem with us, as long as you don't attack us, so we can have our 35-hours week, and eat foie gras, and have a night life. This is the French mentality, and unfortunately right now the French mentality is spreading around the world. Because everybody's fat, and nobody sees it coming. But it's coming.
You can see the trailer for Rehov's film "Suicide Killers" on his website.
