Image courtesy Blogs of War. Death toll now at 340. Link: Media Responds Lazily to the Murder of Hundreds of Children and Parents
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| Muslim leaders condemn Beslan killers, sorta |
| 2004-09-05 |
| Islamic leaders in the Middle East yesterday denounced the slaughter of children in Russia as 'unIslamic', as commentators asked unusually soul-searching questions about the region and terrorism. Even the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's biggest Islamic group, condemned the bloody siege in Beslan. Its leader, Mohammed Mahdi Akef, said that kidnappings may be justified but killings are not. He added: 'What happened is not jihad [holy war] because Islam obligates us to respect the souls of human beings; it is not about taking them away.' While some Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East have long supported fellow Muslims fighting in Chechnya, such was the barbarity of the hostage takers that few voices spoke in support of the actions in Ossetia. Egypt's leading Muslim cleric, Grand Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, was quoted as saying during a Friday sermon: 'What is the guilt of those children? Why should they be responsible for your conflict with the government? You are taking Islam as a cover and it is a deceptive cover; those who carry out the kidnappings are criminals, not Muslims.' Ali Abdullah, an Islamic scholar in Bahrain who follows the ultra-conservative Salafi stream of Islam, also condemned the school attack as 'unIslamic'. However, he insisted Muslims were not involved and revived an old conspiracy theory: 'I have no doubt that this is the work of the Israelis, who want to tarnish the image of Muslims.' |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #13 At the risk of being contrary (big newsflash!), I will thank you for posting that picture, .com. These are the sort of images the mainstream press absolutely will not show to the public for fear of correctly polarizing them against Islamist terrorism. Why the press acts against the public's interest and well being in this way is beyond me but I can only imagine that it is what drives people in droves to the Internet and away from television. Some 90% of modern commercial broadcast "journalism" falls into this category and it is nothing but a complete and total disgrace to founding fathers like Edward R. Murrow. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-05 1:23:59 PM |
| #12 Thanks for nothing .com. Now I have to go to church and think. I hate that kind of thinking. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-05 10:55:07 AM |
| #11 yeah, I know...SuperSerb |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-05 10:38:09 AM |
| #10 He's not "U"FO--he's Boris! Just go to whois.godaddy.com and type in the URL, up pops Srtich's "name." Boris knows how to cut and paste from jihadi websites, just like Antisemite used to. |
| Posted by: BMN 2004-09-05 10:31:12 AM |
| #9 Shockingly, I didn't see this coming. I should have from the beggining, all those mothers and they're just-the-right-age-for-a-amber-alert girls cramped in a school. I was to worried about even half of them coming out alive I suppose. On a more cheerful note, I heard an earlier report of the townsfolk ripping a terrorist to shreds. Has that been comfirmed? |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-09-05 10:30:24 AM |
| #8 for Islamists, it's not rape |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-05 10:12:27 AM |
| #7 were the children raped? |
| Posted by: deranged leftie 2004-09-05 10:11:40 AM |
| #6 Re #1 (mhw): remarkably, the Islamic world (minus the loony conspirisy types) realizes the Breslan terrorists were Moslems while the MSM press here try to disguise it Whatever. . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-09-05 9:24:54 AM |
| #5 sounds like Ali's been reading UFO's comments, huh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-05 7:33:31 AM |
| #4 Ali Abdullah, an Islamic scholar in Bahrain who follows the ultra-conservative Salafi stream of Islam, also condemned the school attack as ’unIslamic’. However, he insisted Muslims were not involved and revived an old conspiracy theory: ’I have no doubt that this is the work of the Israelis, who want to tarnish the image of Muslims.’ Add Ali Abdullah to the Wetwork List™ Abdulrahman al-Rashed wrote an article in the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper under the headline: ’The Painful Truth: All World Terrorists are Muslims!’ BGO (Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious) Al-Rashed said that Muslims will not be able to cleanse their image unless ’we admit the scandalous facts... Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture. The picture is humiliating, painful and harsh for all of us.’ Why have we never heard this man's name before? While I don't envy the self-examination this guy is going through, I have to support the honesty of his admission. Too bad there's probably been a death fatwa issued on this chap already. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-05 2:14:49 AM |
| #3 Image courtesy Blogs of War. Death toll now at 340. Link: Media Responds Lazily to the Murder of Hundreds of Children and Parents |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-05 1:22:39 AM |
| #2 So in other words, this devil was not upset by the torture, rape, mutilation and murder of these little children as much as he's outraged that islam will look bad. |
| Posted by: jawa 2004-09-05 12:58:48 AM |
| #1 remarkably, the Islamic world (minus the loony conspirisy types) realizes the Breslan terrorists were Moslems while the MSM press here try to disguise it |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-09-05 12:30:53 AM |