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| "I Call the President Imam Bush": A Turning Point in Islamic and World History |
| 2004-12-22 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 ...voting boxes protected by American lives, in Iraq. " ...multiplied by how many new "democracies"? I think Iraq should be a one-time unilateral show. If other countries want to step up and help us share the burden, fine, but don't be asking American soldiers to protect ballot boxes in every "emerging democracy" from the Atlantic to the Pacific, while our "allies" lounge on the beach, pausing between sips of Kir to tirade against US power in the world. |
| Posted by: Jules 187 2004-12-22 2:11:06 PM |
| #2 Another good quote: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia is much less a form of Islam than an ideology employed to keep the royal family in power, and if the removal of the ideological state may be effected peacefully in Kyiv, why not in Riyadh? Saudi subjects could leap ahead of their Iraqi neighbors, for I cannot imagine that if Ukraine succeeds in a bloodless democratization, Saudi subjects will not be inspired to ask why they, too, cannot follow the road of the Orange Revolution, rather than that of the black-bannered jihad, and voting boxes protected by American lives, in Iraq. And that will mean a decisive blow to terrorist jihadism throughout the world. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-12-22 1:44:16 PM |
| #1 Key quote: "One prominent Shia in the U.S. told me, 'I call the president Imam Bush.'(In Shia Islam, the imams are the chief religious guides throughout the history of the sect.) 'He is a believer in God, he is just, and I believe he will keep his promise to hold a fair election on January 30,' my interlocutor said. 'He liberated Kerbala and Najaf [the Shia holy cities]. He has done more for Shias than anybody else in history.' |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-12-22 12:54:40 PM |