Justin Sodano points to Amir Taheri in the Wall Street Journal on how Muslim nations are warping language to justify terrorism (registration required, so no link... 'Some, like Iran's president, Muhammad Khatami, present suicide bombings as acts of individual desperation. This is disingeuous. One of the girls who blew herself up, along with almost a dozen Israelis, had been recruited at 14 and brainwashed for two years. Mounting a suicide operation needs planning, logistics, surveillance, equipment, money, and post-operation publicity -- in short, an organization.
But then, the recruiters never use their own children. No one related by blood to the leaders of Hamas or Islamic Jihad has died in suicide-bombings. Arafat's wife, Suha, says she would offer her son for suicide attacks. Mrs. Arafat, however, has no son, only a daughter, living with her in Paris. It is always someone else's child who must die.' Is there an echo in here? It's always nice to find someone else with the same opinion. The po' folks explode and their survivors are tipped by the Soddis or Iraq, and meanwhile the Bigs make a nice living. |