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Cracks in Saudi Facade?
âThe Creed that Sanctions Blowing Up Worshippers in Mosques ... Should Be Declared the Public Enemy of Humanityâ by Muhammad al-Rasheed (Arab News, 3/11/04) (via MEMRI)
Terrorists in Iraq Are More Barbarous Than Saddam
"Just when we seem to have moved a step forward, something happens to make us take ten steps back. Sacrificial blood in Karbala and Baghdad is nothing new but the latest atrocity on the most sacred day for the Shia was a criminal act of monstrous proportions. The carnage and the spectacle were on a scale not seen since the last sacking of Karbala over a century ago.
Letâs see ... Beirut, 1983: 294. Nairobi/Dar es Salaam, 1998: 257. Sept 11, 2001: 2,973. Madrid, Mar 11, 2004: 200. Karbala: 160. Not denying your sentiments, Muhammad, but your mathâs way off.
| But those others were infidels. T'aint no problem killin' infidels! |
"The perpetrators have an agenda more vicious than anything Saddam could have dreamed up. Saddam killed and maimed to maintain his rule by brute force. These people kill and maim to turn people against each other and to satisfy a bloodlust based on elitism in theological terms. In other words, they want to win in this world and go to heaven in the next. I donât think Saddam was that optimistic; otherwise, the Americans would not have found him alive in a hole."
I think the word you want is "chicken," not "pessimistic." As for going to heaven, Husayn Musawi, the late and definitely unlamented founder of Hezbollah, put it a bit more to the point: "We are not fighting so that ... you will offer us something ... or we will earn (rewards). We are fighting to eliminate you ... from the face of the earth."
âArabs Blame Others and Shun the Factsâ
"What is overwhelming, however, is the reaction while the blood is still hot and streaming down the streets of Iraq. A few Shia clerics, including prominent ones in Lebanon, have declared that America is to blame for this atrocity. How so, pray tell? âIt did not provide security,â is the answer. Mind you, this America is the one the same the Shia are now talking to so they can finally govern themselves for the first time in 1400 years. If I were a Shia and from Iraq, Iâd pray to the Almighty that America remained in Iraq until the country was stable and on its feet again. Otherwise, the Karbala massacre will be just a trailer for the full version of an unbelievable horror show."
Ya think? Just because the Sunni have been kicking Shia booty since 680 CE?
âShia and Sunni Know Perfectly Well Who the Perpetrators [of the Karbala Massacres] Areâ
"My point, however, is not Americaâs role.
Do the 900 Imams know youâre writing this?
It is something I have written about many times: the Arab tendency to blame others and shun the facts. Shia and Sunni know perfectly well who the perpetrators are. There might be âforeign fightersâ responsible for this, but foreign and Iraqi members of this group come under the heading of âArab.â They also come under the sub-title of âtheological elitismâ â my own euphemism for what cannot be spelled out in print.
You mean like "radical tight-turban spit-flying sharia-shrieking fundamentalism?"
"Shouldnât the Shia clerics name names and point fingers in the right direction? We are sick and tired of this kind of behavior. We honestly have had enough of it and cannot blame the world for looking at us and wondering if we retain any shred of humanity.
Erm, most of us quit wondering about 30 months ago.
The creed that sanctions blowing up worshipers in mosques (or any other religious venue for that matter, including office buildings since Islam says that work is worship) should be declared the public enemy of humanity.
Been there, did that - Sept 11, 2001. Wanna join us? (Hint: password = WOT)
The UN should vote on that publicly and let us count the votes and identify those who vote against the motion."
France? Oui. Germany? Ja. Belgium? Oui. Spain? Si. Moveon.Org? Yeah, like right on, man! Arafish? Naam. Rachel Corrie? (squish) ...
Itâs nice to see there is some rational thought in these parts, but making public sentiments like these more than likely = short life span. But - just maybe - itâs a very very small hopeful sign of cracks in the facade...
Posted by: Sofia 2004-03-17 |
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