Posted on 09/25/2004 12:57:55 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
The Arab media has presented the latest hostage crisis in Iraq as just another element in the bloody and chaotic pattern of violence in the country.
The latest developments have been reported and often broken on Arab television channels, but they have soon been superseded by bloodshed elsewhere in Iraq or in the Palestinian territories and Israel.
There has been little sign of the outrage that greeted the kidnapping of two French hostages last month and none of the soul-searching prompted by the Beslan siege.
The issue of foreign hostages in Iraq was examined this week on the most heated discussion programme on the Middle East's most-watched television station, al-Jazeera.
Television debate
In the programme The Opposite Direction a fiercely anti-American political analyst, Talat Rumayh, faced off against an Iraqi politician, Karim Badr.
Mr Rumayh claimed that the kidnappers were Iraqi resistance fighters and compared the number of their victims to the thousands of Iraqis, who had been killed: "Two thousand people have been killed since the beginning of the attack on Falluja, which was dismissed in one report, one line or just a couple of words... while we keep hearing about the hostages. It's the hostages and the terrorists, always the terrorists," he said.
Karim Badr responded by saying all Iraq was disgraced by the beheadings.
"We have to prove our humanity. I am addressing my brethren in Iraq: These are masked creatures that resemble humans, who I am certain are uglier than their deeds," he said.
"Is the killing of people and exploding cars in the streets an act of resistance? Is the kidnapping and murder of people in this manner an act of resistance? I am certain they do not represent the Iraqi conscience in any way at all."
Viewers 'unmoved'
Viewers were unmoved. In a phone poll 93% supported the kidnappings.
A little later - after the beheading of the second American hostage - an Iraqi religious leader told al-Jazeera that the foreign hostages were capturing the world's attention at the expense of the Iraqi people's suffering. In the Arab media, naturally enough, this order is reversed - with the plight of Iraqis and Palestinians overshadowing that of the hostages.
But this is not to say that the Arab satellite channels have ignored the human impact of the story - the hostages' relatives appeared live on al-Jazeera, hoping to convey their pleas for mercy directly to the kidnappers.
The Arab press has also, in the past, condemned Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as a thug who perverts Islam.
But there has not been the same outcry as when two French journalists were taken hostage and their kidnappers demanded that France rescind its ban on Islamic headscarves in schools.
Then, many Arab commentators warned that the kidnappers' actions could irrevocably tarnish the image of Islam and the Arab world.
This time, the kidnappers' demands are limited to Iraq, whose political and security problems remain the focus of Arab attention rather than the fate of Western hostages.
Perhaps we should have a profiler go on TV, discussing the dysfunctional folks who take hostages.
You know, abused as boys, unsure of their sex, cannot please a woman, very shy, has no smarts, unsuccessful you get the idea.
These arrogant B**tards just might bite. End result don't know but we need to bring them down from their self appointed pedestal.
End Muhammadanism NOW
Kill them, kill them ALL
Or seperate them from civilization and make it stick...
Hey I would go into debt to fnd some remote island somewhere and put them all on it, no way of escapte, survival of the fitest!
OK, kinda hollywood BUT like you, kill them all. No place in my world for these evil folks.
Hey I would go into debt to fnd some remote island somewhere and put them all on it, no way of escapte, survival of the fitest!
OK, kinda hollywood BUT like you, kill them all. No place in my world for these evil folks.
There is the problem in the Middle East in a nutshell. These people are so brainwashed by there death-cult religion. We need to get a little barbaric ourselves and stop worrying about fighting a PC war. It will take years under a free system for the Islamists to overcome there programming.
Grace for Muhammadans is O-V-E-R! Do what should have been done to this VEIL for MURDER - put them out of their misery.
That actually is an excellent observation. I was trying to figure why the part of the phone troubled me, you put your finger on it. They are brainwashed. I agree it will take years for them to trust and learn to live does not mean to live in a dictatorship.
OK... 93% support the terrorist activities???
FINE!
I say we kill 93% of the sheetheads we can find - leave the remaining 7% to remind their progeny of the price of barbarism and savagery.
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Cat Islam is a "moderate" who's 100% full of shi'ite! He funds Islamoterror. There is no reason for Death Cult, Inc. (Muhammadanism) to outlive 2005.
Secure borders and ports, Register Muhammadans, Intern-Deport-Detain-Evaporate, Radiate the roaches in Tehran, Damascus and Ashpanistan border, Lather, Rinse, Repeat...
BTTT
Bottom line:
The Muhammadan masses have no problem with savage beheading. Neither did Muhammad, Islam's first psycho killer. Where the victim is slaughtered like a sheep to be roasted on a spit.
Worst part is that Muslims are exhorted by their Koran to emulate the "perfect" life of Muhammad.
I can almost understand that reasoning, but when your follow-up phone poll puts a 93% approval rating on it, it sends a message to Americans about people who answer phone polling from Al-Jazeera... outside Iraq.
And THAT irrevocably tarnishes the image of Islam and the Arab world.
The relatives of this poor man are on every news bulletin and condemning the US as much as they can. I understand that they will do anything to release Mr Bigley, but this pandering is music to every terrorist - blame Bush and Blair. There was a muslime on a radio show discussing the kidnapping with the brother of Mr. Bigley. The terrorist supporter openly admitted on radio that he 'rejoiced' on 9-11 and spoke at length how these beheadings are justified. This was on mainstream radio in the early afternoon! The brother of Mr. Bigley stated that he agreed with everything that the scumbag was saying!
Let there be no mistake, mainstream mudslimes support this terrorism. They feel superior when they have a British PM squirming and fearful relatives sobbing on TV. Now they have sent a muslime delegation to Iraq to try to free this man. This generates loads of positive publicity for them here as peacemakers. But its easy to be a peacemaker when you have someone by the balls.
I'm ambivalent over which Arab city to nuke after the next terroist strike. How about you?
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I guess we get to find out how prophetic that statement is. The Islamofascists just stated on the 'net that they have killed the British hostage and will release a video shortly. My prayers for his family and his soul.
....and who was the guy just yesterday here I was discussing this with? Telling us how WE need to reach out to Islam???????
I hate 'em. I just hate 'em.
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