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| Gee, that didn't take long. (AFP, of course) |
| 2005-07-07 |
| Cairenes (pretty!) seethe at Islamist claim to horror killings Egyptians slammed the killing of their country's top envoy to Iraq and "The killing of innocents saddens me and I squarely reject that it was done in the name of Islam. The perpetrators are not true Muslims," said Mustafa Ali, a 45-year-old accountant in central Cairo. That's low-hanging fruit. It gets better. "The killing of innocents saddens me and I squarely reject that it was done in the name of Islam. The perpetrators are not true Muslims," said Mustafa Ali, a 45-year-old accountant in central Cairo. As the saying goes, "But..." "Only through education and the media can we rectify our tarnished image as Muslims and the West should be more tolerant," said Ali's wife Ummayma. "Western powers and countries backed by the West such as Russia ! and Israel go on killing innocent civilians too whether they be Iraqis, Palestinians or Chechens," she added. Ahmed Saber, who was smoking a water-pipe at a downtown coffee shop with friends, said that Thursday's killings were inevitable. "There is a war going on between Muslims and Christians and people use the weapon they can," offered the 36-year-old ophthalmologist. "It doesn't mean that I personally agree with what is going on or that people in the West agree with the killings in Israel and Iraq but wars are bloody and innocents are bound to die," he added. "But it's not a war of religions, it's an imperial war. The West is strong and wants Arab land and oil, then it devises words such as 'terrorism'. Al-Qaeda talks of 'crusaders' and 'Islamic supremacy'" Saber also said. "They have helicopters, tanks and missiles. We use more primitive means because that's all we have. It's nasty, it's a war," said Mahmoud Said, 35, sipping a cup of tea. Damn. I (wipes tear) ... I feel guilty already. This was all OUR FAULT! |
| Posted by:Jort Snaiter9204 |
| #10 Maybe we need to make more good muslims? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-07-07 23:27 |
| #9 Cairene seething vindicates all the R&D spent on the neutron bomb. It would be a shame to have to vaporize the Pyramids. These people just don't understand the American way of war. If it comes to open warfare, we kill the enemy until there are no more of them. |
| Posted by: Random thoughts 2005-07-07 22:07 |
| #8 Tom, you intolerant Westerner...you forgot our glory days of the Bali nightclub bombing, our attempt at LAX in the New Year's celebration, our attack at the El Al counter at LAX and our daily homicide bombings of the Jooooos! Become more tolerant! |
| Posted by: Abu bin Jihadi 2005-07-07 21:35 |
| #7 My tolerance ran out a few weeks ago. I don't recall the occasion, but at some point... poof, it was gone. So far, I've supported Bush & Blair's "Middle East Democracy Initiative". I think it's something wr had to try, and put our backs into; for if this repulsive, loathesome culture can somehow be reformed (e.g., through the introduction of democratic self-governance) and thereby rendered non-toxic to the West, that would certainly be better than waging an all-out, total war of annihilation against them. But anymore-- and especially after today's events-- when I read crap like this from those freakazoids, I wonder: why the fuck are we bothering??? Why not just nuke 'em all and be done with it? Yeah, yeah, I know... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-07-07 21:31 |
| #6 I don't give a fuck about what some 'Cairenes' think about the events of today. At least not until they can shit and not have it turn up in their tea 48 hours later. Then I might take the them a bit more seriously - it's very unlikely though. As a 'Westerner' I think I've been really quite tolerant; I've learnt far more than I would have liked to about - for example; Islamic pilots (they don't fucking land), Islamic divorce (from the POV of the female), Islamic adulterly (again from the POV of the female), Islamic rape (again...you get the picture) and of course, the ultimate warrior, the guy that makes the Lords of Aasgard shit bricks - the fucking twat that turns its worthless, pathetic, vile hide into a pink mist and in the process kills, maims violates and otherwise brutalises the total innocents who were; simply going to work, sightseeing, visiting grannies, going for a job interview, upset, spellbound, having a day off, enjoying the day, going home to their loved ones, wondering what to do tomorrow and basically just being what we all do - day after day. Tolerant? maybe - but by everything that is holy, my tolerance is sorely, and I mean fucking chilli paste on an open wound sorely, running out. Thank God the captains on SSBNs are more level headed than me... |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2005-07-07 21:02 |
| #5 "Only through education and the media can we rectify our tarnished image as Muslims and the West should be more tolerant," said Ali's wife Ummayma. Uhh, no. You excommunicate the extremists. That means you do it, your fellow Muslims do it, and your clerics do it. THAT is how you are going to rectify your tarnished image. And tarnished it is; I'd even call it severely oxidized. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-07-07 20:50 |
| #4 1972 - Attack on Iraeli athletes - Munich 1979 - Tehran embassy hostage crisis 1983 - Beruit barracks bombing 1985 - Achille Laura 1990 - PAN AM bombing Locherbie 1993 - WTC 1996 - Khobar Towers 1998 - Nairobi and Tanzania 2000 - USS Cole 2001 - WTC 2004 - Madrid bombing 2005 - London bombings ..."the West should be more tolerant," said Ali's wife Ummayma... |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-07-07 20:37 |
| #3 "...The West is strong and wants Arab land and oil, then it devises words such as 'terrorism'..." You would think that post-9/11 events would provide a pretty good cluebat for these people, but apparently Afghanistan and Iraq are so remote as to be theoretical to them. "...There is a war going on between Muslims and Christians and people use the weapon they can..." How long would it take to restore the oil flow if we use the weapons we can to wipe the Wahabis and their holy sites clean off the map? I suspect that even THAT would not be a big enough cluebat to these fools. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-07-07 20:08 |
| #2 How many times have I read about Islamists/Arab-nationalists complaining about the Western Media tarnishing the image of Muslims? No matter how many times I hear it, I never cease to be amazed at the sheer lunacy. There are so many things to say that it's hard to respond. I really feel that we cannot win the WoT until our whole society, Europe included, gets enough of a clue so that even AFP journalists and editors will stop swallowing this nonsensical rhetoric with credulity. |
| Posted by: John in Tokyo 2005-07-07 19:19 |
| #1 Damn it. Guess I'll have to stick to commenting on other articles instead of submitting them. |
| Posted by: Jort Snaiter9204 (the erstwhile Rex Rufus) 2005-07-07 19:06 |