Fallujah Emerging As Islamic Mini-State (posted 5/25/2004)

AP ^ | Tue, May 25, 2004 | HAMZA HENDAWI

[Eurotwit]

Perhaps it's time to finish the job.

[nuconvert]

Well, they'd better nip this in the bud.

[Dems_R_Losers]

I don't really care what they do in Fallujah as long as they are not sending terrorists to blow up any more office buildings in new York. As the President said, we can't make these people into Americans.

[Pikamax]

Fallujah is a place even saddam left alone for good reason, as long it doesn't spread, let them live in their own little world.

[dirtboy]

Fallujah, which calls itself the "City of Mosques," provides the religious fundamentalists with fertile ground for wielding power. The city's estimated 300,000 residents are known for their religious piety.

So they were Islamic nutbars before the United States arrived and are still Islamic nutbars today. What's the story?

[swarthyguy]

Finish the job? We're done.

Insha'allah. The Saudi Royals and Wahhabs celebrate a victory.

Sovereign Iraq. That's what we said we wanted. That's what we got in Falluja.

A month away from the handover, and we're going to do between now and then or slightly after what we didn't do last month. I don't think so.

[Numbers Guy]

According to residents, barbers have been instructed not to give "Western" haircuts — short on the back and sides and full on top

As Eurotwit says, time to finish the job. And let's make sure the Marines are wearing mullet wigs just to annoy the Islamofascists even more.

[snooker]

AP emerging as an entertainment channel.

[Eurotwit]

I tend to agree.

[Uncle Miltie]

For your consideration: The positive morale impact of the retreat from Fallujah.

[Steve_Seattle]

On Sunday . . . scores of masked mujahedeen, shouting "Allahu Akbar," or "God is Great," paraded four men stripped down to their underpants atop the back of a pickup truck that drove through the city. Their bare backs were bleeding from 80 lashes they had received as punishment for selling alcohol.

Does anyone else see the irony in this? The USA is savaged worldwide for "atrocities" and "torture" and "humiliations," yet arguably far worse behavior is perpetrated by the very Muslims who condemned the USA. And, of course, the world ignores what the Muslims do.

[zarf]

Residents said a man found intoxicated last week was flogged, held overnight and released the next day.

Sounds like the daily trailer park incidents around Tennessee..

[oceanview]

not our problem. it sounds like some of the Detroit Michigan suburbs actually.

[markman46]

gee's they have to ware masks to inforce mooslem laws.

[swarthyguy]

You don't think the US allowing virtually a mini Taliban state to exist there under our noses, thumbing 'em at us and celebrating their victory over the Americans in not going to lead to more jihadis is somehow a good thing.

If that's the case, then why go into Iraq and stir up the hornet's nest?

So, we liberated Falluja from a brutal tyrant to allow a Taliban township to rise.

And a couple of Marines in Falluja died for this yesterday?

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Damn right. What, we were supposed to put the War on Terror, and the election too, on hold so that we make sure to send out a brigade or two of Marines to go kill every last person that hates us in the Middle East?

[plain talk]

I have a feeling Bush may regret that we left fallujah without finishing the job. Like father like son?

[Eurotwit]

I noticed that as well.

[Steve_Seattle]

To complete my thought, can you imagine the worldwide reaction of horror and outrage if the USA had paraded terrorists down the street in their underpants and flogged them till they were bleeding? Yet the world yawns when the Muslims do that to men who've just been selling booze.