Posted on 05/18/2005 9:58:40 PM PDT by neverdem
It is hard not to notice two contrasting stories that have run side by side during the past week. One is the story about the violent protests in the Muslim world triggered by a report in Newsweek (which the magazine has now retracted) that U.S. interrogators at Guantánamo Bay desecrated a Koran by throwing it into a toilet. In Afghanistan alone, at least 16 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in anti-American rioting that has been linked to that report. I certainly hope that Newsweek story is incorrect, because it would be outrageous if U.S. interrogators behaved that way.
That said, though, in the same newspapers one can read the latest reports from Iraq, where Baathist and jihadist suicide bombers have killed 400 Iraqi Muslims in the past month - most of them Shiite and Kurdish civilians shopping in markets, walking in funerals, going to mosques or volunteering to join the police.
Yet these mass murders - this desecration and dismemberment of real Muslims by other Muslims - have not prompted a single protest march anywhere in the Muslim world. And I have not read of a single fatwa issued by any Muslim cleric outside Iraq condemning these indiscriminate mass murders of Iraqi Shiites and Kurds by these jihadist suicide bombers, many of whom, according to a Washington Post report, are coming from Saudi Arabia.
The Muslim world's silence about the real desecration of Iraqis, coupled with its outrage over the alleged desecration of a Koran, highlights what we are up against in trying to stabilize Iraq - as well as the only workable strategy going forward.
The challenge we face in Iraq is so steep precisely because the power shift the U.S. and its allies are trying to engineer there is so profound - in both religious...
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What's outrageous about it when done to get info from a terrorist?
Although I despise Newsweek for their ani-American bias I do not subscribe to the nothion that what they did had any real influence on the Muslim world.
They just used this story as one more excuse to act as the animals they are. If not for this 'outrage' they would have found another one to justify their hatered and murder of innocents.
God bless you, your family and your husband for the sacrifice made for this country.
"I certainly hope that Newsweek story is incorrect, because it would be outrageous if U.S. interrogators behaved that way."
Notice how he uses the word outrageous to describe the action that the U.S. didn't even do. Yet, where is the strong adjective for describing what Newsweak already admitted they did? Nope. In fact, he even casts some doubt that the story might actually be real ("I hope that Newsweek story is incorrect").
These people just can't help themselves, can they.
...In fact, he even casts some doubt that the story might actually be real...
He he. That didn't make much sense. I mean it's like for some reason he doubts that the story was bs, even though Newsweak already retracted it.
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