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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1861606/posts
MEDICINE’S MURDERERS
NY Post ^ | July 5, 2007 | BARRY RUBIN
Posted on 07/06/2007 12:37:24 AM PDT by neverdem
THE arrest of seven doctors in the attempted British terror bombings has shocked many people. Sadly, it shouldn’t.
All seven are Muslims working at government-financed hospitals, their salaries paid by the British taxpayer. Dr. Muhammad Hanif practiced at Halton Hospital in Runcorn, Cheshire; Dr. Muhammad Asha, at the North Staffordshire NHS Trust’s University Hospital.
So can doctors be terrorists? Can people who are financially well-off be terrorists? Absolutely. It is ideology, after all, that turns people into terrorists - not suffering.
Indeed, the No. 2 leader of al Qaeda is Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri - who was previously a stalwart of the Muslim Brotherhood in his native Egypt. Zawahiri made the connections that led to his role in al Qaeda when he went to Afghanistan in 1980 to provide medical care for jihadists fighting the Soviets. Later, he was a key architect of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed hundreds of innocents, and of the 9/11 attacks.
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Consider, too, the kind of people who become doctors - relatively intelligent, well-organized, hard-working. These are valuable skills both in leading terrorist groups and in carrying out operations.
Yes, we in the West expect the study of medicine to produce humanists - men and women who view all life as sacred, dedicated to broad service for humanity.
But it is also an intellectual endeavor - exposing one to other intellectual currents in the surrounding world. And in much of the Muslim world, the strongest currents have been the various extremisms that promote terrorism.
And the doctrines of radical Arab nationalism and Islamism (like the one that motivated those totalitarians working in concentration camps six decades ago) view their enemies as sub-human. Toward them, those trained in healing are quite willing to become doctors of death.
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Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center. His latest book is “The Truth About Syria.”
Who forgets Mengele or Che Guevara? Why did Pol Pot go after the docs?
1 posted on 07/06/2007 12:37:25 AM PDT by neverdem
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017262.php
July 5, 2007
More Islamic war crimes
When the going gets tough, Allah’s brave soldiers hide behind women and children.
“Pakistan Says Militants Prevent Surrender by Students,” by Khalid Qayum and Khaleeq Ahmed for Bloomberg:
July 5 (Bloomberg) — Thirty ‘’hardcore’’ militants are preventing students at the Red Mosque in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, from surrendering amid a siege of the mosque by security forces, the government said.
The militants ‘’are using women and children as shields,’’ Javed Iqbal Cheema, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, told reporters in Islamabad today. A total of 1,146 students have surrendered since yesterday, he said. At least 16 people have been killed in gun battles between students and police.
Despicable.
Crossposted from The American Israeli Patriot.
Posted by Jay at July 5, 2007 8:22 AM