The lesson of Eilat bombing

January 29, 2007

Today’s suicide bombing of an Eilat bakery, in which at least 3 Israelis were killed, with the bomber’s family proud of his “martyrdom” (“We knew that he was going to carry out a martyrdom operation,” Saqsaq’s [the bomber’s] brother, Naeem, told reporters at the family home in the northern Gaza Strip. “His mother and father prayed for him to succeed,” according to press report), is a fresh confirmation of Islam’s nature as essentially a pre-Abrahamic Canaanite religion of human sacrifice, as I suggested a month ago in Eid ul-Adha, the tribute to Moloch