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bullet for themselves -- an insurance against the torture they inevitably faced” (ibid., p. 95). During
the Arab’s war with France between 1954-1962 French soldiers caught by Arabs in Morocco, Alge-
ria, Tunisia or Syria were “buried to their necks in sand to die in the blazing sun and were some-
times smeared with honey or jam to attract the ants. Bestial indignities were inflicted on captives
before they were killed. When the Arabs captured a group of Frenchmen they would sometimes cut
off their hands, shuffle them and leave them in odd pairs stuck in the sand in attitudes of prayer. To
the disgust of the French, women were usually more barbarous than their men” (ibid).

Arabists believe that each particular Arab group has its own particular type of barbarism,
but my own research shows a uniform bestiality common to all parts of the Arab world. A military
coup brought an end to Iraqi royalty when King Feisal II and all but one of the other members of the
Royal Family were murdered. The body of the heir apparent, Prince Abd al-Iiah, was given into the
hands of the Iraqi populace. “With ropes the regent’s body was attached by the neck and the armpits
to the back of a lorry [truck] which dragged it through the streets to shouts of ‘Allah is great!’ Men
armed with knives and choppers dismembered the body, and the young men ran off waving the
limbs with joyful shouts. When the procession reached the ministry of defense the body was no
more than a mutilated trunk but it was hoisted to a balcony where a young man with a knife climbed
a lamp-post and repeatedly stabbed the corpse in the back. He then began cutting off the flesh,
working from the buttocks upwards. From the street a long white stick was brought which was in-
serted into the corpse and forcibly pushed inside. What was left of the regent’s body that evening
was socked with petrol and set on fire, the remains being thrown into the Tigris” (ibid., p. 108).

Of eight captured Israelis that were returned to Israel from Syria, only “one was in mental
condition to give a coherent account of their sufferings and to restart a normal life. Another of the
eight committed suicide in his parent’s home in Tel Aviv a few months after his release. The re-
maining six are likely to spend their lives in mental institutions” (ibid., pp. 101-102). Numbers of
Israeli soldiers, who were overrun on the Golan Heights in the first hours of the 1973 Yom Kippur
war, were found tied hand and foot with bullet holes in the backs of the heads. Their genitals had
been cut off and stuffed in their mouths.

During the intifada (Palestinian uprising), the local Arabs killed nearly twice as many of
their own people as the Israeli army. Many of these Arabs were butchered in the most cruel fashion
for no reason at all. Simply for working in an Israeli administered hospital in Gaza, a nine-months
pregnant Arab nurse was dragged out of the operating room in the middle of an operation and
hacked to death in the corridor. Arab violence is “handed on from father to eldest son to youngest
son to the family donkey or dogs” (Laffin, The Arab Mind, p. 116). The whole Arab tradition is
“one of violence. They know no better” (ibid., p. 111). “Arab violence is non-selective; the identity
of the victims is immaterial. For the Arab, violence in itself is consolatory” (ibid., p. 121). “Vio-
lence,” a Libyan cabinet minister told Laffin, “is the Moslem’s most positive form of prayer.” “Vio-
lence has become a commodity. It was always exportable within the Arab world, but in modern
times it reaches further afield and has the more open sanction of governments and political leaders”
(ibid., p. 119).

Books dealing with the issues of the Arab world are full of brutal accounts of Arab savagery.
Newspapers, magazines and periodicals chronicle them also. There is arguably no other people
quite so determinedly violent and pitiless as the people of the Arab world, where violence is “a

The Berean Voice November-December 2002