You are probably all familiar with the health warnings on cigarette packets. You know, warnings like Smoking causes lung cancer…Smoking clogs your arteries…Smoking May Lead to Your Weird Relatives Bashing the Living Daylights Out of You.
Two Malaysians died and one was severely injured in a ritual designed to help a man overcome his chain-smoking habit and to rid his wife of her asthma and liver diseases.
State news agency Bernama reported that four close relatives smashed the couple’s heads on a table and beat them with crash helmets and brooms as part of a ritual to help them overcome their health problems.
Kuala Lumpur CID chief Ku Chin Wah said the ritual was suggested by the relatives who the couple visited as part of celebrations to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, where they complained of their ill-health.
“Following this, a 23-year-old male relative suggested that the couple undergo a ritual which involved all family members joining forces to beat up the couple to rid them of their ailments,” Ku told reporters on Thursday, according to Bernama.
The 15-year-old daughter of one of the four assailants walked in on the ritual, was severely beaten and was admitted to hospital, Ku said.
On the positive side, they’re not smoking any more.
A Palestinian boy sticks his face through a wooden cutout of a cowboy to have his picture taken at an amusement park on the third day of the festival of Eid-Al-Fitr, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Muslims are celebrating the three day Eid-Al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan is made to humiliate himself by the brutal Zionist Occupation Forces.
In the Gaza concentration camp, palestinian children scavenge for scraps of food…
..while palestinians of all ages engage in good, clean fun..
Meanwhile, the palestinians of occupied Ramallah endure horrendous pain in various Zionist torture devices.
I have just woken up to the news that there was another terror attack in Jerusalem last night.
Once again, the terrorist was an Arab resident of Israel.
Once again, the terrorist used a vehicle to try and kill and maim as many as possible.
Once again, the terrorist was shot and killed by a quick-thinking Israeli.
At least 19 people were wounded at around 11 P.M. Monday night when a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem drove his car into a crowd of Israel Defense Forces soldiers at a busy intersection in the capital.
Two of the wounded were in serious condition, four were moderately hurt and the rest were lightly wounded, the Magen David Adom rescue service said.
Most of the wounded were IDF troops on their way to the Western Wall to mark the upcoming Jewish New Year when the attack at the Tzahal intersection, close to the Old City, took place.
Jerusalem Police Commander Ilan Franco said the driver of the black BMW was shot and killed by an IDF officer who was among the crowd targeted in the attack. Franco said the driver was apparently acting alone.
“A man in a vehicle struck a number of people in Tzahal Square,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. “We can confirm it was a terror attack. The man was shot and killed.”
Israeli TV reported that the car was registered to a resident of Jabel Mukaber, an Arab village in East Jerusalem. The vehicle had a yellow Israeli license plate, the Associated Press news agency reported.
A previously unknown group claimed responsibility for the attack, Channel 2 television said.
An Israel Radio reporter on the scene described a large group of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews chasing an Arab into the Old City after the attack.
The emergency call came into Magen David Adom at 10:55 P.M., but it described the incident as traffic accident. Only when the ambulance arrived did it become clear that it was a terrorist attack.
“I saw the car coming quickly and hit a group of soldiers and students standing there,” an eyewitness said. “It happened very fast. It was impossible to know beforehand that this is what he intended to do.”
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Jerusalem police said that though there was no prior intelligence indicating a possible terror attack, the level of alert had been raised in recent days due to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the upcoming Jewish holidays.
Updates (Israel time)
5:50AM: Ynet elaborates that most of the wounded were soldiers who on a ‘Selichot Tour’ in Jerusalem. (Selichot are Jewish penitential prayers said right before/during the High Holidays). So it is interesting to note that a terrorist has used his religious month of Ramadan to perpetrate an attack against Jews during their religious time.
9:07AM: The terrorist has been identified as 19-year-old Kasem Mugrabi, from Jabel Mukaber in east Jerusalem.
9:10AM: A group calling themselves Nisour Al-Jalil has claimed responsibility for the attack (referred to as an “incident” by Ma’an News).
9:35AM: Ha’aretz reports that the family of the terrorist says the incident was actually a traffic accident. Which is amazing, considering they weren’t actually there. Of course, the family of the original bulldozer terrorist already tried this excuse.
11:36AM: According to Ynet, a preliminary police investigation has revealed the terrorist was motivated by unrequited love. The object of his affection was his cousin.
3:40PM: Here’s a picture of the terrorist.
I wonder if his parents were cousins.
6:23PM: Gedalia reports that one of the injured was an Australian citizen, in Israel on the MTA program, and the brother of a Jewish resident of my hometown of Perth.
An IDF soldier has lost sight in his eye after a palestinian woman threw acid in his face, exploiting more lenient security measures at the checkpoints as part of our Ramadan good gestures.
This is likely the same woman who did the same thing a few weeks ago.
Meanwhile, this is how the “peace-loving” ISM folk have reported the attack.
Israeli army open fire on civilians at Huwarra checkpoint
Israeli soldiers opened fire on civilians at Huwarra checkpoint at 8am on Monday 22nd September.
The gunfire followed an alleged attempt by a Palestinian woman to pour acid on Israeli soldiers, echoing an attack that took place at the checkpoint two weeks ago. There are mixed reports as to whether any soldiers were injured in the attempt, with some eyewitnesses claiming that most of the unknown substance was thrown on the ground, some inadvertantly splashing a nearby Palestinian man.
The young woman reportedly ran into the crowd, who were passing through the checkpoint, and was chased by Israeli soldiers. Soldiers then opened fire on the crowd of innocent civilians, using live ammunition. Four people were reportedly injured by the gunfire, with two requiring hospitalisation.
There’s a great combination of dishonesty and moral bankruptcy right there.