At a Muslim march in Pretoria South Africa to “voice anger” over the execution of the Hamas monster Yassin, a father paraded his six-year old son around in an imitation explosive belt: My Six-Year-Old Wants to Be Martyr, Says Dad. (Hat tip: Alexander.)

This six-year-old boy, dressed as a Palestinian suicide bomber, complete with a belt of fake explosives strapped to his body, says he wants to go to heaven - and his father says his child wants to be a martyr.

Uzair Dockrat was taken by his father Mohammad to yesterday’s march in Pretoria, organised by the Muslim community to voice anger at the killing of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City last week.

Uzair was paraded days after a 16-year-old Palestinian boy, Hossam Abdo, was captured by Israeli soldiers at a Gaza City checkpoint with about 8kg of explosives strapped to his body. He said he had been paid to carry out a suicide mission.

After prompting from his father, Uzair swore revenge on Israel for the killing. According to his father, Uzair expressed a wish to become a martyr.

“Martyrs are heroes … they go to heaven,” Uzair said.

“They (Israel) kill our people with tanks and helicopters. We can blow them up,” he said.

Mohammad Dockrat said his son’s costume was a “symbolic act of self-defence” against Israeli aggression.

“We are violent towards those who are violent towards us, and in this case, Israel is the aggressor,” he said.

As bad as this sounds, another news report makes clear that it’s even worse.

The boy’s father is a university lecturer: Boy, 6, made ‘bomb jacket’.

Pretoria - The homemade “suicide-bomber jacket” worn by a six-year-old to a protest march in Pretoria was his own idea, says his father.

Mohammed Dockrat, a university lecturer, said: “Muslim children in South Africa have been aware of the attack on Islam since the war in Afghanistan.

”They saw other children being killed and maimed and are very aware of who the enemy is.“

The academic said his son, Uzair, decided to wear the jacket to a protest march in Pretoria attended by about 300 Muslims.

The Dockrats were among those protesting in front of the Israeli embassy against the killing of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader of the Palestinian Hamas group, outside a mosque in Gaza in an Israeli missile attack a week ago.

Uzair’s brother apparently helped him to make the jacket.

Dockrat said the children’s awareness of the Palestinian struggle was visible even in their games.

”Actionman is their hero and the bad guys are Bush (President George W Bush of America) and Sharon (Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel).

And get a load of this. Even as his six-year old son stands there wearing a cute little explosive belt, talking about becoming a martyr, this “academic” has the colossal gall to claim that the recent case of a Palestinian teenager arrested wearing a suicide belt (a real one) was an “Israeli setup.”

Dockrat said he didn’t want his sons to be pacifists and he wanted them to be able to defend themselves.

He agreed there could be negative feelings towards Jewish friends in South Africa.

“But if you see what is happening in Jewish communities here, how they send their children for military training in Israel, then it seems to me that our children should be the ones to be afraid and not the other way around.”

Dockrat claims the recent case of a Palestinian teenager, wearing a suicide jacket, being arrested at an Israeli checkpoint, was an Israeli set-up.

“The Hamas group never uses children in suicide-bomb attacks and it occurs mostly on buses where there is a civilian target.

”We do not use children in the struggle, this is a principal of Jihad (holy war).”

Allah only knows what’s being taught in this guy’s classroom. Cognitive dissonance, thy name is Islam.

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