Muslims Fear Retaliation (Nick Berg)

I've noticed that whenever an Islamic expresses any reservations over the terrorist actions of a fellow Islamic brother, it is always because that action may bring reprisals on them. Can't they simply offer an unqualified condemnation? If and when that ever happens, wake me up..

1 posted on 05/12/2004 12:09:41 PM PDT by ambrose

have a nice nap because it may be awhile.

2 posted on 05/12/2004 12:10:45 PM PDT by Dr Snide (vis pacem, para bellum - Prepare for war if you want peace)

Some local Muslims say the beheading of American civilian Nick Berg in Iraq is an atrocity, and not in-line with the teachings of Islam

LOL! islam is obviously the religion of two-faced cowards! I hope ALL muslimes are VERY AFRAID.

3 posted on 05/12/2004 12:11:21 PM PDT by Iron Matron (Those who serve two masters also have two faces.)

Since every gas station in the NYC metro area seems to be owned/run by a Muslim, if gas prices keep going up, these folks are really gonna feel "displeasure.." Wait, isthat it..are rising gas prices an attempt to target Muslims?

4 posted on 05/12/2004 12:12:06 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her genes.....any volunteers?)

I am so done with this foolishness. It is not the job of the American people or its policy makers to become bogged down in the Battle of the Expert Witnesses over the question of what is or is not "true Islam," and whether or not Muslim Terror is one of its core principles or merely an aberration.

We can study the Koran for 10,000 hours, and still not come away with a conclusion on either side of the question that would not be challenged by credentialed Imams and Muslim scholars.

All we really need to know is that with few, if any, exceptions, Muslim nations have failed in their moral responsibility to contain and control Muslim terror, both within their own geographical confines and abroad. This failure now threatens the lives and interests of Americans on our own soil and around the world.

Whether this failure is the result of deliberate support for terrorism, or the result of the inability to muster the ability to fight it is immaterial to me at this point.

Therefore, because we have the natural human right to defend our lives and our nations, we have the natural right to do the job of cleaning up Islam's mess in whatever manner will get the job done.

Whatever collateral damage results from our actions to defend our nation is the moral responsibility of the Muslim world for failing to do its humanitarian duty.

The only question we need to consider in making US policy is what will work on a practical level to protect our safety and security.

In my view, by exporting and failing to control Muslim terror, most Muslim nations have lost their right to national sovereignty in the same way that criminals in our own society lose their right to walk freely on our streets.

The Muslim world has had enough opportunity to clean up its own mess over the past 800 years. So now we will have to do it for them. It won't be pretty. But there is no question that we have to do it or die.

So I will not be listening to any more discussions of whether there are or aren't moderate Muslims at this point. If there are any, they certainly haven't proven themselves very useful in combatting the terror which will make the world lousy for the next 100 years.

5 posted on 05/12/2004 12:12:07 PM PDT by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)

Muslims in Oklahoma, I never thought I'd see the day.

6 posted on 05/12/2004 12:12:11 PM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for conservatives!)

"just like the abuse of Iraqi prisoners was unfortunate," WRONG!!!!!

7 posted on 05/12/2004 12:12:39 PM PDT by ChadsDad (If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.)

To: Dr Snide; ambrose

"What happened with the beheading of this American is very unfortunate, just like the abuse of Iraqi prisoners was unfortunate..."

UNFORTUNATE?? LIKENING WOMEN'S PANTIES ON THE HEADS OF A PRISONER TO A BEHEADING OF AN INNOCENT PERSON??

This guy deserves the wrath he'll get. Man o man...what a crock.

8 posted on 05/12/2004 12:12:48 PM PDT by Solson (Conservatives are concerned with the'end'; Liberals about the 'means' and the 'particulars.')

Amen and a bump to that.

9 posted on 05/12/2004 12:13:08 PM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for conservatives!)

Well stated, Ive noticed it too. How insincere.

"What happened with the beheading of this American is very unfortunate..."

UNFORTUNATE?!! No, its more like satanic, twisted, perverted, murderous depravity.

10 posted on 05/12/2004 12:13:33 PM PDT by No Blue States

The Muslim world has had enough opportunity to clean up its own mess over the past 800 years. So now we will have to do it for them. It won't be pretty. But there is no question that we have to do it or die.

Yep. And I guess we've all noticed that they condemn it out of fear for THEMSELVES, not because it was wrong.

11 posted on 05/12/2004 12:13:37 PM PDT by Iron Matron (Those who serve two masters also have two faces.)

""What happened with the beheading of this American is very unfortunate, just like the abuse of Iraqi prisoners was unfortunate, and this is not with the tennants of Islam." said Mohammad."

Remeber this comparison. We are infidels to these people. Our blood means nothing to them. Remember this well.

12 posted on 05/12/2004 12:15:24 PM PDT by Khurkris (Ranger On...revenge, grudge, payback...call it what you will. The knives are comin' out.)

You know... repeat a lie often enough and people start to believe it...

"Some local Muslims say the beheading of American civilian Nick Berg in Iraq is an atrocity, and not in-line with the teachings of Islam."

Well this guy ain't buying it...

13 posted on 05/12/2004 12:15:53 PM PDT by oolatec

Muslims in America putting out press releases about their ungrounded fear of reprisals are doing their part to draw a moral equivalence between America and terrorists.

A truly moderate Muslim is one who would live in peace with other religions. They are so exceedingly rare that they could be called extinct. Those claiming the title are not moderate by that definition, they are simply Muslims who want to kill us later.

14 posted on 05/12/2004 12:17:10 PM PDT by blanknoone (How many flips would a flip-flop flop if a flip-flop could flop flips?)

To: No Blue States

My thoughts precisely. "Unfortunate" is an understatement. Note to Muslims: Be afraid; be very afraid.

15 posted on 05/12/2004 12:17:26 PM PDT by sarasota

I think it is time we pull out of Iraq - AND THEN BOMB IT TO HELL

16 posted on 05/12/2004 12:17:34 PM PDT by SF Republican (Life ain't fair and I'm glad)

Anyone who comites violence against American Muslims because of Nick Berg's murder is a coward and a pro-terrorist stooge. If anyone is so angry about Nick Berg's murder they want to strike back there are a number of things they can do.

1. Enlist in the Military.

2. If too old or unable to Enlist, take a civilian job in Iraq or join a Military support group.

3. Go to http://www.georgewbush.com/ and volunteer for the Bush campaign and work your butt off to reelect GW Bush so we keep killing off terrorists in mass quanities after Nov 2, 2004.

17 posted on 05/12/2004 12:17:42 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Vote Bush 2004-We have the solutions, Kerry Democrats? Nothing but slogans)

I could not agree more.

18 posted on 05/12/2004 12:18:10 PM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for conservatives!)

Their fellow Islamics behead an American citizen in Iraq, and all they can muster is a phony "condemnation" by a few, while at least as many are singing Allah's praises for this act.

Yet they're the victims.

19 posted on 05/12/2004 12:18:15 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)

"We do fear that someone out there, with radical thoughts, may retaliate thinking that this is the agenda of all Muslims, and it isn't."

The lack of "moderate" Muslims condemnation of the actions of Muslim terrorists causes more problems for "moderate" Muslims than the actions of Muslim terrorists.

20 posted on 05/12/2004 12:18:23 PM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)

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