{"id":5708,"date":"2004-01-20T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/01\/20\/leadership.html"},"modified":"2004-01-20T10:12:32","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T17:12:32","slug":"leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/20\/leadership.html","title":{"rendered":"Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

It occurs to me, after reading the following<\/a> …<\/p>\n

Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin announced a major change in tactics Monday, saying the Islamic terrorist group will increasingly dispatch female suicide bombers in a “new beginning” for Palestinian women.<\/p>\n

… that anyone who says anything of this sort has, in my eyes at least, lost the title of “spiritual leader.”<\/p>\n

Unless they’re leading people straight to Hell, of course.<\/p>\n

And given Sheik Yassin’s declaration, I don’t want to hear word one of bitching when the IDF starts being a lot more aggressive in pat-downs and other security measures related to women. If there’s no outcry from the imams against this “new beginning” for Palestinian women, gender-neutral counter-measures by Israel are perfectly appropriate.<\/p>\n

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It occurs to me, after reading the following … Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin announced a major change in tactics Monday, saying the Islamic terrorist group will increasingly dispatch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9808,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/30\/cant_imagine_why_folks_se.html","url_meta":{"origin":5708,"position":0},"title":"Can’t imagine why folks seem peeved at him","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Oct-06 12:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Excerpts from a charming little speech given by Sheik Taj el-Din al-Hilali, the most senior Islamic cleric in Australia. 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