History repeating itself.
This isn't the first time some Moslem "holy man" tried to take on the British.
Only this time, they have modern explosives and oil dollars.
Posted on 07/28/2005 4:29:02 PM PDT by SmithL
The reign of terror finally receives some resistance
In the wake of the bombing of London, Soumayya Ghannoushi had her Coolio moment. May her words mark the tipping point in the War on Terrorism.
Coolio is a rap singer whose song about the ghetto, "Gangsta Paradise," touched a nerve in the 1990s with its haunting refrain: "Tell me why are we, too blind to see, that the ones we hurt are you and me?"
Ghannoushi is a researcher in the history of ideas at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. The bombing of that city forced her to confront the violence promulgated by Muslims.
She wrote a column that was posted on al-Jazeera's English-language Web site.
"How can the murder of the innocent be perpetuated in the name of a religion that likens the loss of one human life to the loss of humanity at large?" she asked. "How can Islam be said to sanction such acts of aggression when it openly forbids revenge and declares in no less than five Koranic chapters that no bearer of a burden bears the burden of another?"
Most Muslims denounce the carnage in the Middle East. No sane person approves of random attacks aimed at civilians. But their protests have not been very loud.
The weekend bombing of an Egyptian resort changed that. It made no sense. Egypt had no troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Anti-terror protesters gathered on the 6th of October Bridge over the Nile between Zamalek and Tahrir.
They gathered in Baghdad, where two attacks killed 105 people, including 32 children.
They gathered in Copenhagen, where a filmmaker was slaughtered.
Slowly the world realizes the War on Terrorism is not about the United States. Every nation will have its Sept. 11th. Terrorists targeted commuters in Spain and England. In Russia, terrorists targeted schoolchildren.
Those who compare this to the American Revolution sadden me. George Washington never targeted civilians.
The real comparison is the Reign of Terror in France. The guillotine beheaded thousands of people for no apparent reason. The king had already capitulated before he was decapitated.
Al-Qaida also favors beheading. Reuters casually reported that one-third of its captives are killed.
Amnesty International's Irene Khan had the gall to compare Guantanamo Bay to a gulag in Siberia.
Imagine my surprise when her organization this week denounced the terrorists in Iraq as war criminals.
Amr Moussa, the head of the Arab League, announced this week that it wants to break a nine-year deadlock with the United Nations and accept the definition of terrorism as any intentional maiming or killing of civilians, "regardless of the cause."
Those last four words were the hang-up because they denounce bombings by Palestinians.
Calling terrorists "insurgents" is inaccurate. They may want the United States out but only because the terrorists want to rule a nation that yearns to be free.
On Jan. 30, more than 8 million Iraqis defied the terrorists and voted. Now the terrorists are killing Iraqis by the score. Al-Qaida apparently wants the Iraqis to get out of Iraq.
The realization that al-Qaida is everyone's enemy has been slow in coming. And it does not solve the problem. But it is a start. Maybe someday Soumayya Ghannoushi's Coolio moment will be remembered.
Don Surber may be reached at donsurber@dailymail.com.
The falacy of "Islam is peace", is nothing but a ruse to make people drop their guard.
Sounds too good to be true, but I'm sure it is. I read it in the paper.
I hope an American university offers Soumayya Ghannoushi a job, we need this kind of sanity in our colleges and she'd wear better with a sidearm.
What took Soumayya Ghannoushi so long? How can she overlook so many acts of terrorism?
History repeating itself.
This isn't the first time some Moslem "holy man" tried to take on the British.
Only this time, they have modern explosives and oil dollars.
I don't swallow this S**T , and I'm NOT sorry to say it,their holy book says it is good to deceive us
The so-called "fundamentalists", do and will either force the "moderates" into their jihad, or kill them too.
The falacy of "Islam is peace", is nothing but a ruse to make people drop their guard.
You nailed it. Islam and ALL those who follow the teaching are our enemies! As long as Islam exists, there will NEVER be peace. It must be destroyed. It's evil to the core!
Welcome to Free Republic! That's quite a nickname. Now, I've got that song rolling around my head! LOL! :o)
I agree and they know this – they are pleased with what the US is doing to stop this from happening. They realize that these individuals are enemies of everybody. Now, I do not agree with the Koran but I definitely don’t agree with radical indoctrination for the purpose of destroying basic freedom and neither do they…
What does that make?
0.00000001% of them?
Islam is the creation of demons(the arabs call them "the gen") who influenced Muhammed. It is indeed evil to the core and is one of Satan's greatests tools at the moment.
That's why Rushdies' book about Muhammed and the Koran is titled, "The Satanic Verses".
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying all Muslims adhere to the teaching of Koran and Haddith on jihad and taking the world for Islam by force, and as far as I'm concerned, those are not my enemy, on the contrary, I witness Christ to them regularly and treat them as I would anyone else, which also means, I keep an eye open at all times too.
Me, too. I have had the good fortune to see Paul Shanklin perform it live, too. And he signed my CD.
We are on the same page and welcome to Free Republic.
1) Destroy islam and all muslims
2)muslims can reform islam from within and make it into something that can co-exist peaceably with all other people.
We have the means to tackle the first approach. They have the means to try the second approach. The time of chosing is not long.
I doubt these "moderate" Mohammedans really care about whether the Mohammofascists kill "infidels". What they care about is whether the "infidels" will says, "Enough! The only way to handle these criminals masquerading as a religion is to kill them all!" because that "all" would include the "moderates" three quarters of whom seem to sympathize with the murderers.
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