Most of the world is grieving, but some say 'God has retaliated' [arabs dancing in street alert!]

Washington Post ^ | February 2, 2003 | Washington Post Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

Most of the world is grieving, but some say 'God has retaliated'

02/02/2003

The Washington Post

LONDON – Much of the world expressed shock, grief and condolences Saturday for the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew, but some in the Arab world saw the tragedy as divine justice against the United States and Israel.

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But on the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, where many are braced for U.S. military action, some said the loss of the shuttle and its crew was God's retribution.

"We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar Quraishi told Reuters news service. "God wants to show that his might is greater than the Americans. They have encroached on our country. God is avenging us."

Noting that among the dead was Col. Ramon, a fighter pilot who participated in a 1981 bombing attack that destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor, car mechanic Mohammed Jaber Tamini said: "Israel launched an aggression on us when it raided our nuclear reactor without any reason. Now time has come, and God has retaliated to their aggression."

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[sweetliberty]

Your post reminded me of the story of a man who was fishing with his son and his friend and their boat capsized. The man was only able to save one of the boys from drowning and he chose to save his son's friend because he knew that his son was saved and his friend was not, so he sacrificed his own son that other boy would have another chance to know Christ.

[rabidralph]

rush's jibes are accurate, yes? NYSlimes headline: "GOD ANNOUNCES END OF THE EARTH" subhead: "Women and Minorities Hardest Hit"

Yes, that's the quote. I love that!

[rabidralph]

I guess white people are incapable of deep grief.

Or your sense of grief isn't as important as what these minorities experienced. How do these journalists write this stuff with a straight face?

[keats5]

"Appreciate your civil post, but weren't young children and innocant babies also destroyed in Sodom? God destroyed them as well. What do you say about that?:

That question has puzzled greater minds than me. All I can guess is that the Allmighty sees things from a different perspective. To Him, I suposse the little ones wen't lost at all. But again, I don't presume to know His thoughts.

[keats5]

You posted such lovely thoughts, but yet I was taken aback by your screenname.

[right way right]

God used Job to Glorify himself.

God is into that.

[netmilsmom]

Again, explain Pearl Harbor.
There are more good people here. You can think what you like but God would not blow up good people just to prove you right.

[Moosefart]

Thank you. I admit my nic is rather crude, its the name of a mixed drink...really. :)

[netmilsmom]

I got blessed with another hour of sleep on Friday. My five year old woke me up too late to take her to kindergarten and all I could say was, "Thank God!" We are sometimes blessed in ways we don't even know ;-).

[skinkinthegrass]

YOU OWE ME A NEW KEYBOARD ROFLPIMP, GOTA CHANGE :)

[skinkinthegrass]

Sorry, I didn't it was removed. :)

[skinkinthegrass]

...didn't know it...

[hoosierham]

Well, should you not wish for your fellow man's redemption rather than revel in his impending doom ? The tone of your posts suggests you WANT to see the people of the U.S. suffer so YOU can be proved correct.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Wonderful people, aren't they? Let's give 'em a hand...preferably by feeding them their own hands after we cut them off.

[wimpycat]

I was going to casually mention that there are people right here on FR who say 9/11 was a measure of God's wrath against the U.S., so anything our enemies and detractors have to say about the Columbia should come as no surprise...but I see you've already found that out for yourself. :-)

[Poohbah]

Actual headline should be:

"Most of world has class, except for a few genetic throwbacks to simian ancestry in Muslim world."

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It just doesn't stop with these people. Incredible!

When current Baltimore mayor Martin O'Malley won the Baltimore primary (I believe it was the primary election anyhow), the Washington Post titled their article about it in terms of Baltimoreans giving a white man the nod. That paper is race-obsessed.

[Poohbah]

An accident? God is all powerful. There is no such thing as an accident that God is unable to prevent.

True. SFW?

We know that God did not prevent this one. Indeed, it was an accident held up before the eyes of an entire nation. It's true, God did not prevent this. But we know He could have.

True. SFW?

Don't you wonder why He didn't prevent it?? Don't you have any ideas??

No, because I don't presume to understand God's ways, unlike some folks who try to give us the impression that they're His drinking buddies...

[Dec31,1999]

We always see those same 20 people celebrating. Got anything new?

[Happy2BMe]

"We always see those same 20 people celebrating. Got anything new?"

Hope to have "TONS - N' - TONS" of new material in oh say, by March 1, 2003.

Should have plenty of American (Infantry, Artillery, Security, EOD, RECON, AirCav, US Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine) pics from INSIDE BAGHDAD.

Stay tuned, FREEPERS always get the bestest with the mostest and the quickest anywhere.