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Understand your kinship connections

by 1389AD ( 164 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at June 27th, 2014 - 2:00 pm

Kinship is vital to understanding human relationships, and each language expresses kinship in its own way.

CGP Grey explains the concepts and vocabulary of kinship in the Anglosphere. If your first language is not English, your kinship classifications will differ in many respects.

Your Family Tree Explained

Published on Jun 4, 2014 by CGP Grey
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Shaun May
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Parallel and Cross Cousins Explained

Published on Jun 6, 2014 by CGP Grey
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Hamas Leader (Now Former) Nizar Rayyan Trained His Kids to Die

by WrathofG-d ( 10 Comments › )
Filed under Hamas, Israel, Palestinians at January 7th, 2009 - 2:37 pm

The following article is something to think about the next time you hear that the IDF has killed a Hamas terrorist and his entire family.

~Phakestinian Family Values~

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“When Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan was assassinated in an IAF strike last week, his four wives and 11 of his children died with him. According to his surviving children, the death of the Rayyan family children was not an accident: Rayyan had trained his wives and children to die with him as “martyrs.”

Surviving family members spoke to local Arab media and said that in the days before his death, Rayyan has repeatedly asked his children, “Who wants to die with me as a martyr?” The children would respond, “Yes, daddy, we all want to be with you alive or dead.”

Rayyan’s adult daughter, Wala, said even the younger children wished to die with their father.  If you had asked my four-year-old sister Aisha, who died in the attack, she would have told you that she preferred to die as a martyr,” Wala told Ma’an news.

One of Rayyan’s daughter-in-laws said she was offered the chance to die with the family. She stopped by the family’s large home in Jabaliya and was asked by Rayyan if she wished to die with him, his wives and their children. She agreed to die, but later left the building, shortly before the IAF strike.

As it turned out, when Rayyan offered his daughter-in-law the “opportunity” to die he had already received a phone call from the IDF warning him to evacuate his house due to an impending airstrike.

The 11 children who died with Nizar Rayyan ranged in age from one year old to 16. Another son died years earlier when Rayyan sent him to carry out a suicide bombing in Gaza. Two Israelis were murdered in that attack.

Rayyan was one of Hamas’ extremist preachers, and believed that those who die fighting Israel die as “martyrs” and go directly to paradise. He encouraged his followers to have several wives and as many children as possible, in order to provide future soldiers in the fight against Israel. He also encouraged Hamas to take over Judea and Samaria and carry out suicide attacks targeting Jews.”

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(Hat Tip: Arutz Sheva)