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World Press Photo of the Year Goes to Picture of 2 Palestinian Children Killed in Israeli Strike

Feb. 15, 2013 4:12pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Editor’s note: This post contains graphic images that some readers may find disturbing.

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A photo of the bodies of two young Palestinian children killed in an Israeli strike has been awarded the 2012 World Press Photo award.

The image, captured by Swedish photographer Paul Hansen, was taken in Gaza on Nov. 20 in the midst of the fierce clash between Israel and Hamas. The photo shows the children wrapped in white cloth, only their faces visible, being carried through the street.

According to the photo’s caption information, 2-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his older brother Muhammad are being carried to the mosque for a burial ceremony as their father’s body is carried behind them on a stretcher. Their home was destroyed and their mother put in intensive care as a result of the missile strike. The World Press Photo described both children as male, but other media organizations, including the Associated Press, indicated Suhaib was a girl.

World Press Photo of the Year Goes to Picture of 2 Palestinian Children Killed in Israeli Strike

Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his older brother Muhammad were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike. Their father Fouad was also killed and their mother was put in intensive care. Fouad’s brothers carry his children to the mosque for the burial ceremony as his body is carried behind on a stretcher. (Paul Hansen/Dagens Nyheter)

“The strength of the pictures lies in the way it contrasts the anger and sorrow of the adults with the innocence of the children,” jury member Mayu Mohanna of Peru told the Associated Press. “It’s a picture I will not forget.”

It’s not the same photo of a Palestinian boy who was called a “martyr” and the victim of an Israeli strike but was actually killed by a Hamas rocket.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:19pm
I am not 100% sure but I think I’ve seen these kids before on other pictures. Either they photoshop their pics or they have these kids embalmed and pass the around when needed for a photo-op. Palestinians are a sad, weird group. They have the mentality of a coke bottle.

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- Advection
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:54pm
  The “Palestinians” have been caught faking tragedies constantly so now I don’t believe anything they say. This is BS.
  
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- gosutag
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:49pm
  @THEGREATCARNAC: How many Palestinians do you actually know? The people I know in the US that were born in Palestine and came here are some of the nicest, kindest, and respectful people I’ve ever met. Stop being ignorant. There’s a rotten group in every country, just like we have the KKK and the Black Panthers here, but you wouldn’t want to be described as apart of the KKK or Black Panthers. Think realistically and logically. NEVER will an entire group be EXACTLY the same. Try to remember that next time before you spew out garbage you heard from your idiotic conscience.
  
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- tonypro
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:36pm
  IF this is not another one of their propaganda tactics, then how about showing the other side of the story that tells how many missiles they’ve sent into Israel before Israel retaliated, and while we are at it, how about get a list of the Israeli children, women, and men that have died because these satan worshiping, God hating, lowlifes are so bent on destroying Israel.
  
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- BoldQuestioner
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:52pm
  GOSUTAG
  There is a big difference between “Good, Kind, Respectful” Palestinians in this country and the average American. Most Americans condemn the KKK and Black Panthers. Where are all of the Palestinians in this country that should be denouncing the crude behavior of their brethren in “Palestine”?
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:59pm
  Tonypro, the propaganda is the pro-Israel diatribes we hear day in and day out. The rest of the world is more informed. Israel is a belligerent nation. They’ve killed far more Palestinians than Palestinians have killed Israelis. Dead is dead, whether by a 500 pound bomb dropped from an American made plane or a 50 pound bomb carried by a suicide resistance fighter; using the same language that we used to use for the French.
- Trigus
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 8:34pm
  Some of the greatest videos are from IDF drones that cover fake funeral processions – there are several you will have to search for, but the best is when they drop the live guy playing dead 3 times and on the 4th time he runs away. So they grab anther person and get him to lay on the board.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 8:35pm
  Jihadis Jerk, resistance was used against your nazi buds. Way to appease those belligerent muslims though. Israel’s proficiency at arms speaks to their people. Your suicide vest clad comrades care less.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 9:11pm
  If it is not true then why do the Israelis bother wasting their munitions?
  
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- Anamah
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:51pm
  Pallywood at work with one of the Leftist Islamist World Press…as hateful counterfeiters they are forging their constant anti Israeli campaign!!! What a mafia!!!
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:48am
  To GOSUTAG:
  “The people I know in the US that were born in Palestine and came here are some of the nicest, kindest, and respectful people I’ve ever met. ”
  
  Yeah. Except there is no Palestine, and there never was.
  Unicorns are some of the nicest animals too.
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:50am
  I really miss “Flat Fatima” the wailing woman who was Photoshopped into
  various war scenes. She should be carrying the kids.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 2:12pm
  Its responses to stories like these that make me hate Blaze readers.
  
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The-Real-Enrico
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:17pm
This is what happens when Hamas uses women and children as human shields after launching missles and kill other innocent people.

The context of this picture should exposed the evil of Hamas but instead are our media uses this as propaganda against Israel and protecting Islamist terror organizations like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

We will not last much longer like this.

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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 9:41pm
  LTC Allen West in support of Israel
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMp60uHAnfA
  
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true-lantern
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:17pm
Of course the killed innocent Israeli childern do not matter

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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 8:14am
  I was wondering why they can’t seem to snap a picture of a dead Israeli after a missile attack myself. Just coincidence I’m sure.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:15pm
@Jerk,
i’ll grant you Israel kills more, but they are trying to protect more, and are being attacked by terrorists perfectly willing to use their own children to perpetuate their hate. The number of dead does not ascribe cause or fault.

The Israelis are not indiscriminantly killing ‘Palestinians.’ The attacks are focused and are responses to attacks against them. If Long Island faced endless attacks from the rest of NYC we would not be wringing are hands and asking how Long Island could be so callous, and cruel.

Then again, Cuomo would have rendered them so impotent that in that scenario there would be no more an independent Long Island struggling to survive and grow, but I digress….

While it is a terrible photo, it is not the most terrible photo even I have seen this year, or the most emotional or touching. How this photo was selected needs no explanation, the bias and intent is obvious.

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- Sgt_Rock
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:28pm
  This is what happens when you place rocket launchers next and in school yards, day care centers, hospitals, etc. They shed a tear for their children yet they do not rage against the monsters that park an anti-aircraft gun in the street outside the wall of a primary school. During the push into Iraq in 2003, the Iraqis did the same thing. They would park tanks in school yards. We never had an exchange with the Russians because (as Sting said) they cared about their kids as much as we do. No such concerns in the world of the jihadi…as part of their propaganda effort, they spend the lives of their children.
  
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bikerdogred1
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:08pm
My feeling go to the Isreali’s because they where pushed into action by the muslims,you play with fire you get burned,some people just don’t learn.

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strawberry411a
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:04pm
And of course the media forgot to publish the photos of Israeli dead and wounded. Media agendas seem to color the truth of EVERYTHING.

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- The-Real-Enrico
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:21pm
  Or the fact that this was a counter attack that was caused by Hamas launching missiles into streets of Israel at innocent pedestrians.
  
  No context no truth = propaganda.
  
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myrwo6
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:04pm
Palestinians are responsible for their own children. Palestinians are the antagonist so that makes them responsible.

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upadastra
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:55pm
Hansen shot the picture and can thank Hamas for providing him with the favorit Palestinian foto-op: dead children, but WPF did the final selection, a lot of conflicts yet they like always pick Israel Palestinians, any bias involved, nah, who could think that would be the case.

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billjac
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:54pm
The Muslims and their cheerleaders in the press have a long, proud history of staging dead bodies to further anti-semitic causes. It’s a tragedy if indeed these innocents were killed in Israeli retaliation to constant Hamas bombardment of Israel, but the parents need look no farther than the terrorists they elected to rule them. Can anyone doubt that had the children lived they would have been raised to hate others because of the religion they practiced and would have applauded the random murder of Jews?

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john vincent
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:51pm
Well the point is made

Israel bad: Palestiniands good.

Jeff above said he saw something ‘amiss’ on the pic. He is definately on to something. The subtle colors of near/far is disproportionate, but it doesnt matter.

Propaganda does not tell you that the Israeli’s strikes are always with a view to not harming the innocents, something the Palestians cannot do. One cannot have a rational mind and not see the bias against Israel

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- momrules
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:23pm
  Hello John…….It is all anti Israel propaganda. I am to the point I expect nothing less and I find myself not even getting angry about it anymore. I think you nailed it when you said “One cannot have a rational mind and not see the bias against Israel.”
  
  The media never presents unbiased reports or pictures of Israeli dead and injured from Palestinian attacks and in fact color any reporting of these tragedies as somehow Israels fault. If Israel would just give more land, if Israel would just stop building, if Israel would just negotiate………the excuses for Palestinian attacks are endless.
  
  Israel is God’s timepiece and I watch it every day. With the whole world against Israel and the world more brazen every day with their hatred I believe the watch is running down and very quickly.
  
  There will be no peace for Israel, no justice for Israel until Jesus Christ’s triumphant return.
  
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- john vincent
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:36pm
  evening mom-
  
  ‘in the mouth of two or three witnesses……….’
  good call,
  God bless the apple of His eye, and you!
  
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red_white_blue2
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:49pm
I feel horrible for the children. I feel bad for the parents. But I think they need to ask themselves, what have they allowed in their country that is causing Israel to strike. That is the bigger question. The answer won’t be pretty, but it will be the truth

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Tickdog
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:47pm
you know, i cant seem to make myself care…

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:38pm
  Dude, they are less two suicide vest wearers. Sad that they may have to outsource to Detroit or Chicago soon.
  
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THX-1138
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:44pm
10 to 1 they killed these kids themselves, or, at the very least, purposely put them into positions where they knew they would be killed (how is this different from training them to wear bomb vests when they reach their teens?) We know for a fact they set up rocket launches in school yards. They love death. Ask them, they’ll tell you so.

“We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”
– Golda Meir

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PatrickHenrysGhost
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:41pm
Sorry, folks, this photo looks to be overly photoshopped. I know of very few instances where the background lighting is so consistently bright in a dark alley like this one and the faces so “skin-tone-ish.”

Also, is it just me or does the child on the right appear to have no support under its neck? Rigor?

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:51pm
  No shadows under their eyes or necks as one would expect in and alley with the sun shining down.
  Also, where is the light coming from, on the guy to the extreme left? There is a light source on the right side of his face, where is that light coming from? DEFINITELY Photoshopped.
  
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Stevsea
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:40pm
If they stopped their provocative, ridiculous jihad, none of this would ever happen.

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Jeff
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:36pm
For background purposes only, I am a professional photo retoucher . . . I use photoshop 10 hours a day, been doing so since v2. This photo is a bad retouching job at best in my opinion. I wish I had a larger image to view so I could really see whats going on, but at first glance I see heads that have been pasted on to bodies at irrelevant proportions, characters that should not be in focus & areas that are too perfectly lit. I would love to be wrong, but thats not what I see.

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Cavallo
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:33pm
More blood libel without context. The real goal is the death of all Jews. They’ll do anything and everything possible to achieve this goal.

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hslusher
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:31pm
Sad children die because moslems have no tolerance for people who are different. If you keep poking the bear it will react violently.

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- Biddle
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:36pm
  yup, sad that Israeli Jews have no tolerance for Paestinians. Ever research the plight of the Palestinian Christian? You should. What would Jesus do? Not defend modern day Israel, thats for SURE!
  
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Remember_Benghazi
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:25pm
Zionism kills.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:26pm
  Not as fast as a suicide vest.
  
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freenj
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:23pm
War is h*ll, and there are innocent victims on both sides. How about a number of months back, when an Israeli family was slaughtered face to face.

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shorelineliz
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:22pm
Another Anti Israel, Jew Bashing, Jew Hating Moment. Yawn. Nothing to see here but the old propaganda machine perpetrated by the descendants of the Mufti of Jerusalem whose grandson was PLO President Yassar Arafat.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:26pm
  Better smell the roses. All we get here is all Israel, all day, everyday. Americans have been conditioned by our biased press. Israeli press is more fair and balanced, in regards to Israel, than we are here.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:23pm
  Jihad Jerk, all day every day muslim appeaser. Belligerent wiki says muslim appeaser.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:39pm
  Jihad Jerk, even from your own newsy source for drivel.
  Lalalalalalalalalalala.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas
  
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civilwarcometh
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:17pm
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/15/kerry-threatens-to-cut-aid-to-israel/

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- EVANROOD
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:12pm
  Kerry would rather give the money to the descendants of Jenjis-con!
  
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tzion
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:17pm
Hamas causes the death of innocents with its cowardly tactics. Not only do they target civilians, they force Israelis to fire into civilian populated areas. They are monsters and enemies of humanity that need to be destroyed.

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- AnimalsAsLeaders
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:19pm
  Yes, genocide is the answer….
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:23pm
  Israel is the belligerent. They kill far more than Hamas and Hezbollah combined.
- tzion
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:45pm
  Reread my comment. I called for the annihilation of Hamas terrorists, which is a militant organization and not a race. You are so anxious to defraud your opponents that you haven’t bothered to actually read what was said. Had you taken the time you would know that I was blaming Hamas for the deaths of innocents on both sides.
  
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- ofass
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:10pm
  What do you expect from a Nazi? He is complaining that the press is dealing every day with Israel, However, if you check his remarks – they are only about Israeli or Jewish subjects. Nothing about any other news issue here. People being shots here, the economy is down the drain….well, those issues are not of any interest of our Jerky. None. What does it tell about this Kafiyah Nazi ?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:22pm
  Jihad Jerk is actually the belligerent nazi muslim appeaser. Wiki says so.
  
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- strawberry411a
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:56pm
  Right Jerk…Israel is the aggressor. Just like Poland and the Czech Republic were back in the day. You have an interesting “take” on things.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 2:00am
  let Israel take care of them by themselves instead of telling them to stop and monitoring them all the time time.
  
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AnimalsAsLeaders
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:16pm
I’m not a fan of the propaganda with which this photo will be used for
BUT
from a photographer’s point of view, that’s a great photo.

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- The Jewish Avenger
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:23pm
  Agreed, it is a moving photo…
  
  It expresses everything that you would expect:
  
  The shock of the site of the children
  The anger of the mob
  The sadness of a family member
  
  Add it up and its a “tragedy that shouldn’t go to waste”.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:28pm
  yes good picture bad choice
  
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- Joshua81
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:53pm
  no, from a photoshopper’s point of view maybe. I work for a photographer doing all her touch ups, this photo is so clearly manipulated.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:52pm
  For a photographer; shot of a lifetime, no question.
  
  Josh, please share how you know it is photoshopped. I shoot fairly regularly, am pretty familiar with post-production techniques and their giveaways, and cannot imagine the photographers would give their highest annual award to a clever fake instead of any number of authentic shots.
  
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- majasdad
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:59pm
  @JOSHUA81
  I’d keep quiet if I were you Joshua. You’re completely out of your league here. A world renowned photographer who (and you’d know this if you’d bother to do a minutes worth of Googling) has won numerous prizes for his work over the years in a wide range of locations around the world, post-earthquake Haiti among countless other places. He’s got balls, and he’s an exceptionally skilled photographer and artist, and you see yourself as having the expert knowledge to judge his photography because you claim to be good at…. Photoshop. What a joke.
  
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The_Jerk
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:16pm
America is the odd nation out.

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- billjac
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:58pm
  Your posts are silly but your name is apt.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:20pm
  Jihad Jerk is a muslim appeaser and wanna be nazi.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 1:59am
  it seems like American is every other countries bitch.
  
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- badge02812
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 11:18am
  @The Jerk_Off!!
  Former communist countries with millions of Catholic Joooo haters and self styled Christians.??
  How do so many Catholics live and thrive under communism? Unless, these communist countries are in fact national socialist. Nothing like a Christian Nazi who who fails to understand ZION and it’s true BIBLE meaning and then sides with Christ hating islam.
  Time to re-define the term Christian.
  
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