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Home Front: WoT
'Please Don't Be A Muslim': Boston Marathon Blasts Draw Condemnation And Dread In Muslim World
2013-04-16
A taste.
[WashingtonPost] So little is known yet about what's behind the kabooms Monday at the Boston Marathon that any conclusion, including terrorism, would be premature.
No, it's definitely terrorism. The only thing premature would be to conclude who is the terrorist.
But that fear has been an early reflex not just in the United States but half a world away in the Middle East. There, a number of observers are expressing sympathy -- recall that pro-American solidarity rallies were held throughout the region after Sept. 11, 2001
...as well as singing, dancing, and handing out candies... which was also seen that day in certain neighborhoods on American soil.
-- and, at times, a sense of dread.
"Don't pound our country to rubble, please. We who are holding these signs didn't do it!"
As a Libyan Twitter user named Hend Amry wrote, "Please don't be a 'Moslem.'" Her message was retweeted by more than 100 other users, including well-known journalists and writers from the Moslem world.
That's nice. What does it mean?
Posted by:trailing wife

#15  The Muslim world, at war with the rest since 700ad?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2013-04-16 14:58  

#14  The moslem world have only themselves to blame for their reputation. I believe WE have earned the right to protect our people with due diligence and use deductive logic.

Here at the berg, we see this type of bombing all to often and I naturally name a tactic for which it is most prevalenty actively used.
Posted by: newc   2013-04-16 13:16  

#13  If indeed a Saudi or Saudis, I suggest that the liberal H-2 H-2 student visa programs for Saudis be reviewed. And no, back lashes against the Muslim communities don't occur...but the red herring may be put forth by Rep. Ellison or South Poverty people and plant the seed to some nut job.
Posted by: Jack Salami   2013-04-16 09:58  

#12  "FBI Grills Saudi"

With a little KC Masterpiece? Memphis style? NC style?

However they do it they'll make sure to burn all the evidence that this is a Muzzie attack. I Figure they'll start rounding up the Amish or the Mennonites any day now.
Posted by: AlanC   2013-04-16 09:14  

#11  "Please don't be a 'Moslem.'"

Cause MinTruth will really really have to work hard and long to wipe it off the memory record. Much harder than to walk back such an association than Ft Hood, there behind the gates, not in open public eye uncontrollable in the 'if it bleeds, it leads' programming.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-04-16 09:11  

#10  FBI Grills Saudi No immediate response will be forthcoming from the toadies in DC. The best response would be to end visas to Sauds et. al. Then double permits for shale drilling.We need to throw the MENA countries out of WTO and build a sand curtain around them.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2013-04-16 09:03  

#9  Silent Brick, you missed (too far east).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2013-04-16 08:47  

#8  Oh please, you know there's going to be retaliation for it. Tyrant Obama won't hesitate to strike back, just like he did after Aurora and Newtown. Despite the fact it won't be real Americans who did it, we shall once again be the target of all the government action that comes from this. After all, never waste a crisis.

And since Tyrant Obama doesn't do the muslim terrorist thing, nothing will happen on that front, just like after Benghazi.

Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division   2013-04-16 08:31  

#7  Yeah i am just brimming with sympathy for poor moslims everytime their coreligionists kill lots of people.

Can't wait for the flood of 'fearing a backlash' and 'increased racism' stories to come out. Because we all remember how we all went bosnian after 9/11 slaughtering everyone who didnt look like us.
Posted by: Rjschwarz   2013-04-16 08:26  

#6  "Please don't be a 'Moslem.'"

Well, gee, maybe if your co-religionists didn't view this kind of shit as normal, you wouldn't need to think that.

Clean up your own goddam house. Or be prepared for someone to get fed up one day with turning the other cheek and clean it up for you.

As far as I'm concerned, that day came a long time ago. Eventually we'll actually elect someone with the balls to strike back, in spades. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara   2013-04-16 08:17  

#5  Rationally Mr or Mrs Amry should have written "Please, be a 'Moslem.'"

If this attack was indeed conducted by islamofascist terrorists then the reaction will be more concessions to Muslims, more submission and more danegeld.

Compared to 9/11 or Lockerbie this is minuscule. If anything non-terrorist Muslims (including non-terrorist islamofascists) will reap a net benefit.

No country will be turned into rubble. There won't be any retaliation.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2013-04-16 04:42  

#4  To put it into proper perspective---imagine the perp turns out to be a practicing Christian (I could have said a Jew, but that's too easy).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-04-16 03:10  

#3  The so called moderate Muslims better get things together and clean house. Or someone else will. And it may not be just or it may not be fair.

A Reformation is not a bad thing.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2013-04-16 02:01  

#2  Besides CHALABI as posted earlier in the RB ...

* TOPIX > HAMAS, ISLAMIC JIHAD, + HEZBOLLAH CHEER BOSTON MARATHON BOMBINGS.

Any other Amish Group since Lunch???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-04-16 01:28  

#1  It means that some sort of responsibility is dawning on the benighted muslimas of the world. And like every other society in the world, the teenage girls create the culture.

So, stop with the blowing things up boys. It is totally unappealing. The marathon boys are way hotter than you thugs.
Posted by: rammer   2013-04-16 00:25  

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