Muslim Terrorists Anger Muslims

NewsMax ^ | 5/3/04 | NewsMax

[wagglebee]

CAIRO, Egypt – Car bombings in Saudi Arabia. A chilling tale of a foiled al-Qaida plot in Jordan. A firefight in the Syrian capital. With attacks such as these, which targeted or resulted in the deaths of Arab civilians, Islamic militants have angered not just their enemies but also the very Muslims they claim to champion.

"These people do not have a specific logic, and unfortunately, we are facing a group of insane people," said Imad Shuaibi, a Syrian political analyst, summing up the sense of fear and frustration in Damascus after unidentified attackers last week set off a bomb and then fired bullets and grenades at Syrian security forces in a diplomatic neighborhood. A Syrian gym teacher caught in the crossfire was killed, along with two attackers and a policeman.

Jordanians likewise expressed fear, denounced terrorism and rallied in support of their government after state television aired a videotape last week of suspects admitting to planning a chemical attack that could have killed 80,000 people.

In the face of such outrage, militants now appear to be distancing themselves from terrorism at home, recognizing it could cost them support.

A man who identified himself as Musab al-Zarqawi, the alleged mastermind of the Jordan plot, denied that there were plans for a chemical bomb in a statement posted on a militant Islamist Web site.

"The [allegation] that there was a chemical bomb to kill thousands of people is a mere lie. God knows, if we did possess it, we wouldn't hesitate one second to use it to hit Israeli cities ..."

Al-Zarqawi, believed to be a close associate of Osama bin Laden, is also wanted by the United States for allegedly organizing terrorists to fight U.S. troops in Iraq on behalf of al-Qaida. He remains at large.

Another denial followed the suicide car bombing of a government security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia late last month that killed five people and wounded 148, among them children from nearby homes.

A man claiming to be al-Qaida's top agent in Saudi Arabia vowed in a tape posted on a Web site known for its militant Muslim content that there would be more attacks on Americans in the kingdom while distancing the extremist network from the attack on the Saudi institution.

Days after the threat, at least six Westerners, including two Americans, were killed Saturday by unidentified gunmen, apparently Muslim extremists, who attacked an oil contractor's office in western Saudi Arabia.

Abdullah al-Taimani, a 13-year-old Saudi, was wounded in the back by a grenade fragment after stumbling into a car chase that followed Saturday's shooting. He had been headed to a mosque for prayers.

"These people are not Muslims. What they have done will only land them in hell," Abdullah's father told reporters as he sat at his son's hospital bedside Sunday.

The militants made an unusual and horrific appeal to recruit young Saudis, dragging the bloodied corpse of a Westerner through a high school parking lot and urging the students to join their Arab brethren in a holy war in Iraq.

They appear to have badly miscalculated the response. School officials said some of the boys ran from the scene crying; others spoke of nightmares. "This is not right," said a traumatized 18-year-old. "This is un-Islamic."

Saudi authorities have cracked down on accused militants since of string of terror attacks that began with coordinated suicide bombings at Riyadh housing compounds last May that killed 34 people, including eight Americans. The crackdown has included official and clerical denunciations of terrorism and the thinking behind it.

As part of the campaign, two prominent Saudi clerics charged with advocating violence were shown on Saudi television late last year renouncing Islamic militancy and attacks against innocent people.

Arab intellectuals have organized conferences devoted to denouncing militancy and portraying true Islam as tolerant and peaceful.

The grand sheik of Al-Azhar, the Cairo mosque and university considered by many to be the world's leading seat of Sunni Islam learning, has repeatedly denounced al-Qaida and scoffed at its argument that the West threatens Muslims.

For a minority of Muslims, though, the angry rhetoric of the extremists has more resonance. It speaks to their uncertainty about the future at a time of confusing economic and social change and to their pride in their religion at a time when they feel it is being vilified as terrorist.

The failure of the region's dictators to meet the desires of their citizens, who want better lives and more democracy, has been cited as a reason extremists find willing listeners to their argument that radical Islam can provide solutions. Fouad al-Hashm, a columnist for the Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan, said Arab governments themselves encouraged fundamentalism in an attempt to shore up the legitimacy of their regimes.

"It is time that religion goes back to the hearts and spirits and mosques, and leaves politics," al-Hashim said.

[Chinese_American_Patriot]

I am definitely Chinese, but also Chinese-AMERICAN. I despise communism and socialism and I wish for a free China and Vietnam. At least Asians who don't practice the "religion of peace" don't kill, mutilate and drag around bodies of people or eat their flesh and organs in public!! We also have advanced society FORWARD far more than some camel-humping towel-heads!

[Hamza01]

Don't you eat cats, dogs, rats etc. as delicacies, bud? Didn't your ethnic kindred kill around 50 million of your own people in Mao's fun filled cultural revolution. Don't you force abortion on your women? Don't you believe all non-Chinese are subhuman barbarians?

As far as "towelheads". Towelheads are sikhs-- you know, from India. "Raghead" is the appropriate term for Arabs.

Chinese civilization? Yes, it had its moments. Perhaps it will have a few more in the future. 600 years ago it was blue-eyed people from the north who were the barbarians. And back then it was the Middle Easterners who dominated, advanced, and kept the flame of civilization alive. The torch was passed to the Europeans. And maybe to your people next.

This is the ebb and flow of civilation. This is the nature of history.

But to tell the truth, I don't acribe the evils of Chinese communism or racial separatism to you. Anymore than I ascribe the crimes of the Wahabbis to myself.

I merely used the racial epithets partly in response to yours, and primarily to get your attention. After all, if you're going to call people names... at least use the right terms.

Oh, and just in the spirit of correcting your history... Asians don't kill, mutilate and drag around bodies of people or eat their flesh and organs in public!!

In Vietnam, mutilation of American dead was commonplace-- not to mention what they did to American POWS. And your Chinese ancestors in the Boxer Rebellion did unspeakable things to Europeans as well as non-Europeans.

Eating organs? That's more an African trait than a Middle Eastern one.

[Bommer]

Yeah I guess thats why I see the hundreds of thousands of muslims all over the world pour out into the streets protesting this. How the Imans condem it and how the Mullahs seek to reform Islam.

In other news Iran yesterdays upheld the death sentence of a professor who said that Muslims should not believe everything the Imans preach!

[PigRigger]

"Muslim Terrorists Anger Muslims..."

What, you don't wish to dance with the fascists monsters you created?

[mtbopfuyn]

"These people do not have a specific logic, and unfortunately, we are facing a group of insane people,"

Ya think?

[Bon mots]

Nothing has changed really. They're just upset that the Islamists are now killing them. The Islamists are only doing so, because they have not been successful in killing many Americans or Jews lately.

An Islamist wants to kill you.
A Muslim merely wants you dead.

[headsonpikes]

Answer me this - is there anything at all that doesn't 'anger muslims'?

Anything?

[ClearBlueSky]

There is a bumpersticker if I ever saw one!
Mind if I spread it around?

[Chinese_American_Patriot]

I have pics of your Palestinian brethern EATING and holding flesh and organs of dead Israelis. I personally don't eat dogs since I have a pet dog and I was born in America, the best country in the entire world. Yes, we invented gunpowder and fireworks and one of ours wrote the Art Of War and created Kung-fu but Kung-fu masters use it in self-defense, not to go around to kick people's @$$. We Chinese also found ginseng and tea. I despise communism and Mao Tse-Dong so don't call me a commie. The only things Arabs invented was math like Algebra but that was thousands of years ago. What have you people done since then? Oppressing your women, forcing them to wear burqas or veils and beating them, strapping bombs on yourselves and blowing yourself up and killing thousands of innocent people in the name of jihad, and now spreading the so-called "religion of peace" around the world. Either you're a Muslim or an infidel.

When I was mentioning "turban-heads", I was not referring to Sikhs; these are peaceful people better than you. I'm talking about Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, Al-Sadr, Khatami, Ayatollah Khomeni, the Saudis, all the fundamentalists who were turbans or those rags on their head. Aren't they the reps of the "religion of peace"? I call Muslims towel heads because many of them do wear it and they are far more violent than any other peoples I've seen. The North Vietnamese commies did that horrible crap to the troops, not the South. The south Vietnamese were freedom-loving people who were on America's side and I like them, not the commies.

As for women, I am not aware of forced abortion. I am aware, though, that Muslims are encouraged to practice polyigamy and beat their wives. The Taliban forced women to wear burqas and denied them basic rights like going to school or going to work. If they commited even a minor infraction, they get whipped in public. The Saudis deny women driver's licenses and in France even non-Muslim girls wear burqas at night or they'll get beaten or raped by young Muslim boys. In Egypt, I heard that a belly-dancer recieved death threats for doing her thing and the Nigerians went crazy over the beauty pageant being held there. I want to see free women who have the same rights as men. I love seeing hot chicks at school wearing skimpy outfits. Why do Muslims have such a problem with that? Muslims have done far worse to civilized society than anyone else and that is why I hate them so much. Do you expect me to be friends with people who want to burn me to a crisp and drag my body around and get hung from a bridge because I didn't believe in their crap? We patriotic Americans are really angry at Muslims because of 9/11 and all the previous attacks against us before and you shouldn't blame us for that.

[RightWhale]

These people are not Muslims.

That's the kind of talk that should be heard on the Arab street.

[Bon mots]

Knock yourself out!
;-)

[TASMANIANRED]

The only thing that Militant muslims hate more than Jews, Christian infidels and everybody else on earth is non-militant muslims.

I have been reading about the slaughter of Muslims by other Muslims ,in Algeirs for several year( at least 5).

Actually, if you are not a Wahabist you deserve to die according to their death cultocracy.

[ClearBlueSky]

I don't care who you are , or what your ethnicity is. TRUTH is truth. It's ugly- no one wants to hear it in this 'just don't hurt their feelings' epidemic that has poisoned our society- but KEEP saying it. WHATEVER other ethnic groups have done, and some ATROCITIES have been committed by Communists everywhere, Islam is alone in it's devotion to horror and death as DOGMA of their 'faith'.
Not only has the Middle East languished in the Dark Ages despite their great oil wealth, they wish the entire world back to the 7th century with them.
THANK YOU for posting. Islam is evil. The culture of the Mid East, and the mindset of it's people, is negative and destructive.
Keep calling evil evil.

[Sofa King]

Abuse, torture and murder of women?

[headsonpikes]

How uncharitable of me - of course the abuse of women doesn't anger them!

Oh my, the dangers of stereotyping!