The French show JFK how to 'reach out' to the Muslem world

Wall Street Journal ^ | 10/3/04 | AMIR TAHERI

[hardworking]

The Muslim "debate" on hostage-taking and beheading - Non-Muslims may find it strange that such practices are debated rather than condemned as despicable crimes.

A survey of Muslim views over the past weeks shows overwhelming, though not unanimous, condemnation of the Beslan massacre. Muslim commentators assert that Russia, having supported "the Palestinian cause," did not deserve such treatment.

Sheik Yussuf al-Qaradawi, a Sunni Muslim scholar based in Qatar, insists that a similar attack on Israeli schools would be justified because Israeli schoolchildren, if not killed, could grow up to become soldiers.

That position was highlighted in the Arab reaction to the kidnapping of two French journalists by Islamists in Iraq last month. Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa led the call for their release with these words: "France is a friend of the Arabs; we cannot treat friends this way."

Yasser Arafat has been more specific. "These journalists support the Palestinian cause and the Iraqi cause," he said in a statement issued in Ramallah. "We need guarantees for the security of friends who support us in battle."

Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin speaks of the Iraqi insurgency as "la résistance." And Foreign Minister Michel Barnier has announced that France would reject the international conference on Iraq, proposed by the Bush administration, unless "elements opposed to the occupation," meaning the terrorists, are invited.

Yet even more disturbing is the attitude of Muslim organizations in France and Britain. Both have sent delegations to Iraq to contact the terrorists and ask for the liberation of two French, and one British, hostages. The French delegation, led by Mohamed Bechari, went out of its way to advertise France's "heroic opposition" to the Iraq war in 2003. "I am here to defend France's Arab policy. In Iraq as well as in Palestine, France is for the Arabs."

[Cagey]

See what happens when you change the title? Muslim comes out Muslem 9 out of 10 times.

[BenLurkin]

"The Muslim "debate" on hostage-taking and beheading."

This all we need to know in order to understand the larger threat.

These people are willing to accept hostage taking and beheadings so long as the right victims are involved.

What more do we need to know about the enemy?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

insists that a similar attack on Israeli schools would be justified because Israeli schoolchildren, if not killed, could grow up to become soldiers.

If the Muslim world does not get with civilization, one day not too far in the future, Israeli children will be marching over the charred bones of millions of arabs.

Hate ALWAYS brings death and destruction to the hater.

[SandRat]

What's that France? Act like you're in one of those infamous SF Bath houses and TROLLING?

[Edgerunner]

"Sheik Yussuf al-Qaradawi, a Sunni Muslim scholar based in Qatar, insists that a similar attack on Israeli schools would be justified because Israeli schoolchildren, if not killed, could grow up to become soldiers."

Is this lowlife saying it's open season on children?
I guess they are the only ones he's sure the terrorists can handle!
HE WORSHIPS SATAN

[MonroeDNA]

Anyone want to help me start a company that fills hollow-point bullets with a bit of bacon grease?

I am serious.

Cap them with epoxy. Sell to whoever wants them.

I'll finance most of it. PM me if you are interested.

[Polybius]

Sheik Yussuf al-Qaradawi, a Sunni Muslim scholar based in Qatar, insists that a similar attack on Israeli schools would be justified because Israeli schoolchildren, if not killed, could grow up to become soldiers.

So, by that logic, Israeli carpet bombing of Palestinian cities would be justified because Palestinian schoolchildren, if not killed, could grow up to become fighters.