21-Feb-12: Adnan the simple baker... who fronts for one of the most bloodthirsty of the jihadist organizations and has human shields in some of the most influential newspapers in the world

A baker

Sometimes the sheer silliness of public figures, analysts, politicians and political "activists" - and especially those who have usurped the word "peace" to mean the precise opposite - becomes too much to bear.

The name Khader Adnan has shot to the top of the hero-for-an-hour hit parade and a greater distortion of the truth it would be hard to imagine. We wrote about this deeply committed jihadist on Saturday (please read our blog entry "18-Feb-12: Bread, hunger and detention"). Khader Adnan, aka Sheikh Adnan Khodr aka Khader Adnan Mohammad Musa is not a simple baker. He's not a "peace" "activist". What in fact he is, is 

• "one of Islamic Jihad leaders" [the WAFA Palestinian news agency]
• "one of the main leaders of the Palestinian militant movement Islamic Jihad" [Al Arabiya]
• "Sheikh Adnan Khodr, the political leader of Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine" [Uruknet]

In short, he is a well-known leader of one of the world's nastiest terror organizations, and death and pain is what he not only wishes on us and our children and neighbours, but it's what he lives for and - according to what his promoters want us to believe - it's what he's ready to die for.

Behold the unambiguous cry from the heart of this lifelong terrorist:

Islamic Jihad Leader Khader Adnan: Baker or Terrorist? from CiF Watch on Vimeo.

The fact that Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign affairs chief, said at the weekend that Adnan's case was of "great concern" suggests to us that she and her staff have too much free time on their hands or they lack a basic understanding of how to tell the difference between the terrorists and their targets.