Posted on 01/25/2005 3:44:17 PM PST by swilhelm73
Was that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi fell for it. Bush's inaugural -- and the massive threat these elections pose to his cause -- taunted him out into the opening to declare forthrightly which side he is on. Zarqawi's vision is a Middle Eastern version of what Orwell described a boot stamping on a human face forever. Zarqawi has proudly declared that he doesn't believe individual Muslim's or Arabs or Iraqis should be able to live by any idea, principle or aspiration other than the one prescribed in Zarqawi's own pinched and bitter reading of the Koran. He can still use the language of "national liberation" but he has permanently married it to the goal of human bondage.
“We have declared a fierce war on this evil principle of democracy and those who follow this wrong ideology,” he declared in his latest tape. “Anyone who tries to help set up this system is part of it.”
Democracy may just be a means of making decisions, but it is seen across the world as system which brings decency, the rule of law, peace and hope. These are the things Zarqawi -- al Qaeda's prince in Iraq -- has declared he is at war with.
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
Why pinched and bitter? Isn't all the kill-the-infadel stuff right there in black & white?
I am glad to see someone gets it.
Omar (over at Iraq the Model) says it better than I could:
Has he forgotten that the opinion of the majority was respected in the early days of Islam? Has he forgotten that the prophet himself used to ask the citizens of the "Madina" for their opinion (and folow it) in more than one ocassion when a critical decision-making was needed? I'd like also to ask Zarqawi another question: if the majority was to mean the Talibans or the radical Wahabists, would he be against that majority?
http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2005/01/i-just-want-to-add-short-comment.html
What's my name? ;^P
If I follow this logically, all those who oppose our presence (the french, the demoncrats, the UN) are, by association, anti-democratic.
Not much of a shocker but what a proud legacy!
Well, by definition the UN is anti-democratic...
Consider, for example, when do China's 1.3 billion people get to *choose* their representative?
By all counts, 80% of the country will vote next week. His tactic was about as brilliant as Kerry declaring himself to be war hero.
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