Bloody Roots Of Jihad

AIM.org ^ | 10-1-04 | Paul M. Weyrich

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Uninformed Westerners could hardly be blamed for taking comfort in the words spoken by an Islamic television newsman shortly after the massacre that took place at the Russian school in Beslan. "It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims," asserted Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, General Manager of a popular satellite television station, Al-Arabiya.

Rashed cited terrorist incident after terrorist incident perpetrated by Muslims. "The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings all over the world were Muslim," he stated in a commentary.

That's not the only vigorous condemnation expressed in the Arab news media about the tragedy in Beslan. Khaled Hamed al-Suleiman, a columnist in the Saudi Arabian daily Okaz, presented a strong indictment of the Beslan killers for having "turned today's Islam into something having to do with decapitations, the slashing of throats, abducting innocent civilians and exploding people. The time has come for Muslims to be the first to come out against those interested in abducting Islam in the same way they abducted innocent children. This is the true jihad these days, and this is our obligation, as believing Muslims, toward our monotheistic religion

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Sad
one third of humanity, lost...