Thank you for posting this. "...paralyzed into inaction by competing emotions..."
Mr. Asmal is profoundly deceived. Not just the maniacal 'religion' he espouses is corrupt, his logic is corrupt.
When confronted with an evil of the magnitude of 9/11, what emotion competing with the raw outrage at the evil could neutralize the appropriate response? Whatever emotion could cause one to: (1) Fail to condemn the act; (2) Be anything less than vigorous and immediate in rooting out the evil; (3) Fail to sympathize with the victims; (4) Fail to condemn ALL who in any way approve...MUST by logical definition be an evil emotion as it does not work against the evil.
Further, he lies. Daniel Pipes, Ph.D., is an extraordinarily sane voice on matters Islamic and has conclusive data showing broad Islamic support for attacks on the 'Great Satan,' the violent manner of the propagation of Islam since the Seventh Century, the militant philosophy revealed in the Hadith, et friggin' cetera forever.
It is going to take another 9/11 before the Fumbling Bureaucrats of Inaction and the media-numbed masses are even close to recognizing the problem and responding appropriately.
Blessings on Freepers Everywhere
(1) Fail to condemn the act; (2) Be anything less than vigorous and immediate in rooting out the evil; (3) Fail to sympathize with the victims; (4) Fail to condemn ALL who in any way approve...MUST by logical definition be an evil emotion as it does not work against the evil.
Dude, it is your government which sympathised with Terrorists who blew up schools, sprayed bus stops with bullets, and "shit" on the statues and busts of Ataturk. It was your government which allowed the very same terrorists to set up tent right across from our embassy in DC, even though these bastards were resposible for over 30000 deaths of innocents in Turkey, using even suicide bombers! Suicide bombing didn't mean the same to you before 9/11 as it does now does it?
I recognize this whole dilemma we find ourselves in as a fruit of human weakness many are just too happy to munch...
There were folks dancing right here in the US whenever we were attacked and killed, hell they were even fundraising here.
Now, when I say we, I don't mean Islamists, I mean Turks. Hope you know to draw the distinction..