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2004-11-12 Southeast Asia

Malaysia silent on Muslim Dire Revenge (TM)

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Posted by tipper 2004-11-12 8:08:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article: Mild-mannered Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi stressed the security forcesâ brash actions at a news conference after the Tak Bai incident. "We hope he [Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra] will be able to manage the situation without allowing the violence to spread. It is important he manages it."

Actually, many of the effective monsters in history have been mild-mannered in public. Uncle Joe Stalin and China's Moose Dung used their soothing voices to send millions of their fellow countrymen to their deaths. Moderate Muslims are not spittle-flecked ranters - they couch their message of conquest in mellifluous tones.

Has Islam been hijacked, or is this the natural predisposition of Muslims? If we take GWB's position that Islam has been hijacked, then the problem is that the hijackers comprise the vast majority of Muslims, and the hijacking is composed of changes in Islam that have taken over the allegiance of the vast majority of Muslims. In saying that Islam has been hijacked, GWB was proferring an olive branch, giving Muslims the chance to reject the path of confrontation with the US via their terrorist proxies. If Muslims slap this olive branch away, they may yet regret it, just as the Muslim kingdoms of Central Asia regretted killing the Mongol envoys.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-11-12 10:00:21 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-11-12 10:00:21 AM|| Front Page Top

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