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| AP: Acts taint Islam image |
| 2004-09-06 |
| via NewsDay - AP plaze wit werdz. By SUSAN [al] SEVAREID - Monday, September 6, 2004 Images of dead, wounded and traumatized Russian children being carried from the scene of a rebel siege at their school horrified Arabs, prompting forthright self-criticism yesterday and fresh concern about an international backlash against Islam and its followers. One newspaper headline here read: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims!" Arab leaders, Muslim clerics and others across the Middle East denounced the siege that left more than 340 people dead, many of them children. Some warned that such actions damage Islam's image more than all its enemies could hope. Even some supporters of Islamic militancy condemned the siege, though at least one insisted Muslims were not behind it. The hostage-takers reportedly were demanding the independence of the mostly Muslim Russian republic of Chechnya - a cause embraced by Arab Islamists. "Holy warriors" from the Middle East long have supported Chechen fighters, and Russian officials said nine or 10 Arabs were among the militants killed when commandos stormed the Beslan school in southern Russia on Friday. Middle East security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was too early to know the nationalities of the Arabs among the dead. However, a prominent Arab journalist wrote that Muslims must acknowledge that Muslims are the main perpetrators of terrorism. "Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture," wrote Abdulrahman al-Rashed, general manager of Al-Arabiya television, in a column published in the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. His column carried the headline telling the "painful truth" that all terrorists are Muslims. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #8 How hilarious. PD has a wonderful sense of the ironic. This post represents my whole thread baiting today. It's all there. The nearly solved mystery. The childish, "it wasn't me, it was the jews" Wonder who all the "all the enemies of Islam united together and decided to harm it, are. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-09-06 6:18:43 PM |
| #7 "Its those images of us tormenting the souls of the dead that are causing us a bad name." ----------- Satan |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-09-06 6:07:15 PM |
| #6 "It’s because of these people Muslims and Arabs are getting a bad name..." They aren't getting a bad name, they've had one ever since Mohammed stopped chasing pre-teens and started listening to the birds. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6332 2004-09-06 5:02:03 PM |
| #5 taint Islamic image? How about "define" or "reveal" |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-09-06 12:05:21 PM |
| #4 They mean this in the same sense as a cup of sewage can taint a septic tank, right? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-09-06 10:15:53 AM |
| #3 Unfortunately, it will take more of these tragedies to have enough heat put on the Muslim countries to force them to change. They are starting to wake up. I hope that they wake up before full-scale hell descends upon them and they find that civilized countries will no longer care about Muslims and their children when it comes to security. The choice is theirs. I am not very optomistic, but one never knows. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-06 9:58:50 AM |
| #2 Maybe they just left out a coupla words. I will finish it. The Religion of Rest in Peace. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-09-06 9:57:26 AM |
| #1 Perhaps if they get the Saudi PR firms flacking for them they can reestablish the centuries old reputation as the Religion of Peace. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-09-06 9:45:25 AM |