LOVE AND JIHAD IN KINDERGARTEN:

The writer is the son of Richard Lakin, who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem in October 2015: "Here is a picture from my daughter's nursery school graduation in Tel Aviv this week. In the background is a mural depicting children of various cultures. The Hebrew caption reads: ‘Children all around the world hold hands.’ My daughter and her friends are holding traditional Arab drums called Darbuka and demonstrating how they learned to count in Arabic. We are educating our children in the core values of diversity, pluralism, love, and mutual respect. The second picture is from a kindergarten play in Gaza. Two boys point guns at the head of a third child who kneels on the ground, his hat adorned with a blue and white Star of David. Tragically, this is a typical Palestinian elementary school. They are teaching their children to hate and to kill. As long as radical Islamists continue to teach this to their children, terror will continue to spread throughout the Western world.

"My late father taught me that every child is a precious that should be nurtured, not poisoned. Have a look again at the mural on the wall in my daughter’s school: you will notice iconic images of London, Paris, New York, Rome and Mumbai. For us, these are centers of culture and history. For the ISIS, Al Qaida, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, Hamas and all other Jihadists, these are targets. If we want to stop the terror, we must demand that all of our Muslim brothers teach their children the core values of freedom, love, and mutual respect. And we must hold accountable those who fail to do so. (Times of Israel)