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Terror Networks
This is the Enemy
2004-05-30
Nick Berg, an American from Philadelphia, was kidnapped and tortuously beheaded by Arabs in Iraq sometime in May. The murderers filmed the deed and proudly displayed the victim's severed head. After killing six Israeli soldiers in an attack on an armored vehicle in Gaza on May 11, the Arabs near the scene of the carnage gleefully held aloft human body parts in front of rolling cameras. One of the Arab terrorists was later interviewed on film with what appeared to be a human head in front of him. The week before, after shooting at Tali Hatuel's car, causing it to skid and stop, Arab terrorists walked over to the vehicle to finish the occupants off. They looked at the heavily pregnant mother and her four no-doubt frightened girls; the youngest was two years old. And then shot them all. At point-blank range. With sadistic satisfaction, they systematically murdered Tali Hatuel and her unborn son, as well as all of Tali's daughters - Hila, age 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and two-year-old Meirav. In Fallujah in March, crowds of townspeople dragged four American civilians out of their vehicles, shot or beat them to death, mutilated their bodies, dragged them through the streets, suspended them from a bridge and burned them. And they danced and cheered. With their children.

In Ramallah in 2000, two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped, beaten, stabbed countless times, had their eyes gouged out, and were literally disemboweled and dismembered by an Arab lynch mob. The people - and I use the term loosely - who carried out the initial beatings threw one of the victims down to the waiting mob, where his face was further crushed with stones, feet, fists and even a heavy metal window frame. One Jew was set on fire and dragged along the street as Arab onlookers danced and cheered. Some of the butchers celebrated their crimes with the victims' internal organs. One of the killers, famously captured on film, proudly displayed his blood-soaked hands to the cheering Ramallah crowd. And it gets worse. In 2003, nearly two years later, Arab parents in Gaza cheered again when their little children dressed up as members of the Ramallah lynch mob, complete with hands painted blood red, for a kindergarten graduation ceremony.

According to a report by Dr. Michael Widlanski, an Israeli Arabic expert, the Voice of Palestine called the attack on the Hatuel girls "an act of heroic martyrdom". The targeted children and their mother, the PA radio reported only as "five settlers". Among the participants at the funerals of the Hatuel family members was President of Israel Moshe Katzav. He said, "This day of blood will be engraved in our history. An earthquake has happened. No one in the world can stand apathetically by in the face of these acts by such evil people. Where are those who speak in the name of Allah?" National Review contributing editor David Frum posed the same question in his May 12 "Diary" on NRO: "Where are the imams?" he asked.

Some of "those who speak in the name of Allah," Mr. President, were busy sawing Nick Berg's head from his body in Iraq. "Allah is great!" they shouted in triumphal glee as they killed their bound and helpless victim. The imams are in the mosques, Mr. Frum, waving swords and exhorting their followers to behead a Jew: "Allah willing, we will cut off his head! Oh Jews! Allah is great! Allah is great!" They are also in Saudi Arabian palaces, telling their subjects that they are 95% certain Zionists are behind Islamist terrorism. They are also writing for the Arab media, explaining that Jews are behind all the evil in the world. And they are even organizing soccer matches, Mr. President, honoring mass murderers. This is the enemy. Don't look away.
Posted by:Fred

#18  What if someone you know is kidnapped by an Islamic terrorist group, someone you love with all your hart, someone you love so much that just the mere thought of seen that special person harmed in the slightest makes you tremble, upset, just completely nuts! Lets say, maybe that special person is you beloved son or daughter.

Now, the US Army has in custody a member of the Islamic terrorist group. That member custody knows exactly where your precious little angel is being held. The terrorist group has given the United States 48 hours to release Saddam Hussein or you little angel will be decapitated and the event filmed in full color and sound and sent to your home doorsteps. Just like the beheading video of that poor American shown in TV last month.

What would you do?

Would you tell the U.S. Army….

a- Not to make the terrorist feel uncomfortable in any way.
b- Stick to the Geneva Convention rules of interrogation (Same as “a” above).
c- Vote for John F. Kerry in November 04. (Same as “a” above)
d- Use whatever method necessary (including severe torture) to make the SOB talk!
Posted by: haterofmuslimpigs   2004-06-17 1:33:26 PM  

#17  Comeon Halfass, dont hold back now, tell us how you really feel about them....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-05-30 11:51:34 PM  

#16  Fuck a buncha hearts and minds..... What's needed is behavior modification. I don't want them to like me. I don't give a damn about them....any of them. I just want them to behave and raise their children to be productive citizens, not cold blooded murderers.
Posted by: Halfass Pete   2004-05-30 11:21:16 PM  

#15  Until the West confronts the fact of radical Islam being a death cult, some nations will continue appeasing Terrorist Inc.
Posted by: Mark Espinola   2004-05-30 7:49:09 PM  

#14  nada: althought the sentiment may be admirable and provide a measure of satisfaction, please don't disseminate a tale which has been on the 'top 25 lists' of internet urban rumors: the tale concerning Gen. Pershing's treatment of Moro prisoners. It's nothing more than hoax. This tale has been circulating since 2001, and there is absolutely no evidence for it whatsoever.
Check any of the myths and urban legends websites, like
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_black_jack_pershing.htm
Posted by: BK   2004-05-30 7:39:40 PM  

#13  And a special place in the deepest, hottest depths of Hell for the Palestians.
Posted by: RWV   2004-05-30 5:30:33 PM  

#12  I knew some very nice Iranians in the 70's but I think most of them were killed by Khomeni and his thugs. Hopefully this new generation can overthrow the mullahs before the mullahs call down the fire that will bring an end to the Iranian people and leave Iran a barren wasteland for the next thousand years.

The immediate problem is not muslims in general, but the excessively inbred, totally irrational. fanatical muslims of the middle east and their enablers. I don't know enough Iraqis to make a judgement, but the only other muslims from that part of the world worth saving are the Morrocans and the Jordanians. Although Turkey is a muslim country, they've been rigorously secular for long enough that they are good people, almost modern and rational. By process of elimination, that means that the muslims of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, et. al. can go straight to Hell without passing go.
Posted by: RWV   2004-05-30 5:28:45 PM  

#11  That was a very nice, and thoughtful post, Fred. Where to draw the line? That is the question, or, maybe better put...How to draw this line to isolate one set from another?

Thanks for making me think.

Best Wishes,
Posted by: Traveller   2004-05-30 4:07:04 PM  

#10  Still waiting for Gentle...
Posted by: Infidel Bob   2004-05-30 3:00:56 PM  

#9  Arab parents in Gaza cheered again when their little children dressed up as members of the Ramallah lynch mob, complete with hands painted blood red, for a kindergarten graduation ceremony.

It's a well known fact that each successive generation tends to outdo the preceding one.

I wonder how these ghoulish Palestinian parents will feel when their fully indoctrinated youngsters begin murdering them as backsliders for not wanting worldwide jihad instead of just the usual killing of all Jews.

They will deserve it in spades. As in the ones that dig their own graves.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-05-30 2:46:00 PM  

#8  The Kurds are mostly Sufi Muslims. Many Indians and Banglas are Sufi Muslims. Ismailis are Muslims, even though Qazi would like to kill them all. The Ahmadis are Muslims, even though Qazi's determined to kill them all. Not all Shiites are theocratic nutbags. Not even all Sunnis are kill-all-infidels nutbags; Sufism is a sect of the Sunni school. Tunisia is Muslim, but it's a secular state, as is Turkey. Morocco is Muslim, but is still trying to modernize. Even Libya, for all Muammar's nuttiness, isn't on the side of the Bad Guys, at least not in this conflict.

Unlike them, I don't believe in the kill-em-all philosophy, even though I'm in favor of killing large numbers of Wahhabis, Deobandis, and other trash. But not even all of them. I don't believe in killing women and kiddies. And Kuwait and the UAE are chock full of people who take their religion seriously but still somehow never go out and kill infidels.
Posted by: Fred   2004-05-30 2:45:33 PM  

#7  Nada, please clear a pic with Fred before posting -- eats up bandwidth in a major way.

Also, anyone who hasn't hit the tip jar in a while, bandwidth costs money.
Posted by: Steve White   2004-05-30 2:04:16 PM  

#6  Hearts and minds ya say?
Posted by: Lucky   2004-05-30 1:24:03 PM  

#5  HP -- sounds a little excessive, but i understand where you're coming from.

how do you post a picture here? forgive the ignorance, i'm new here. i've got a good scanned article of one of general pershing's methods of dealing with muslim extremists.
Posted by: nada   2004-05-30 12:44:25 PM  

#4  I'm tellin' you.....we must kill every muslim that walks the face of the earth. islam = nazi = satan
Posted by: Halfass Pete   2004-05-30 12:29:37 PM  

#3  Israel needs to build huge walls and moats and shit to keep these scum away from them,perhaps put huge catapilar tracks on the wall segments so the wall can expand at a geographical point nearest to where the last Palo terror act was comitted,give it a year or two and Israel would gain alot of land.
Posted by: Shep UK   2004-05-30 12:14:11 PM  

#2  Hey Gentle! Are you out there? Care to comment on this?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-05-30 11:39:06 AM  

#1  Absolutely true for Israel and probably true for the West. At some point in the not to distant future, the jihadists may get what they desire, a religious war, and something they didn't expect, universal jihadi matyrdom.
Posted by: RWV   2004-05-30 11:29:22 AM  

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