Middle East and North Africa Friday Blog Roundup
Beirut Spring has posted a banner condemning terrorism in both English and Arabic.
Saudi Jeans has been looking on the Arabic blogs for commentary on the London bombings but has not yet found any; if you see any, make sure to pass it on to him.
Chan’ad Bahraini simply asks “May the murdered souls rest in peace.”
About Lebanon asks us to “take a moment out of our busy days to think about the victims and pray for peace.”
Mr.Behi has a long, heartfelt post about the bombings; he also links to an influential Persian blog out of London that has first-hand reports.
Iranian Prospect is pessimistic about the western response to these bombings.
The Iraqi blog Ibn Alrafidain flatly condemns the violence, though he adds that “I can imagine the disturbance, chaos & fear caused by the incident since we live this situation here in Iraq daily.”
Iraqi Expat, who lives in London, is beside himself with anger and rage: “What happened to London today was an outrageous evil act by shameless criminals who, sadly, call themselves Muslims. Today, my family and I are ashamed of being Muslims.
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Islam was sent with a message:
8:39 And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah. But if they cease, then lo! Allah is Seer of what they do.
8:55 Lo! the worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are the ungrateful who will not believe.
8:65 O Prophet! Exhort the believers to fight. If there be of you twenty steadfast they shall overcome two hundred, and if there be of you a hundred (steadfast) they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they (the disbelievers) are a folk without intelligence.
8:67 It is not for any prophet to have captives until he hath made slaughter in the land. Ye desire the lure of this world and Allah desireth (for you) the Hereafter, and Allah is Mighty, Wise.
Those who ignore the violence inherent in Islam do so at the world’s peril.
If the terrorism is not the true face of Islam what is? Why all this cheap talk from Muslims who are “deeply saddened” over London? If the true Muslims exist why haven’t they been willing to give their lives in order to redeem their religion? Why haven’t we heard of one single “true Muslim” infiltrating a terrorist cell, OBL or Zarquawi’s rat holes and blowing themselves up and killing the socalled “false Muslims” in the name of “true Islam.”
Why are all these quotes from the Koran written in the “Old King James” version language. Does the Koran have reputable manuscripts that will withstand scrutiny?
Islam is a religion of hate and terror. You folks may not want to look at it straight in the eye, and unfortunately, that becomes everyone’s problem. Where are the Arab marches in the streets demanding that the Koran stop bastardized by fanatics. Those marches aren’t happening because the rank and file Muslims, in their black hearts, agree or condone the killing of the infidel. Islam is a sick, demented, homocidial religion, period. Until that is acknowledged and dealt with, no remedy can be found.
I’m no fan of Islam, but it’s worth noting that the quotes from the Koran above are considerably more blood-drenched than their counterparts in the online English translation maintained by the University of Michigan, at http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/browse.html. Whether the former has been bloodied up or thbe latter bowdlerized I couldn’t say.
K G Schneider.
Many many Christians have acknowledged that Christianity has done bad things and has had a dark history. A few years back there was even a movement afoot to apologize for the crusades. Christians cannot defend these actions in light of their beliefs.
Muslims, however, tend come out in defense of their religion rather than denounce those who have violated it while making false claims that it is egalitarian and peaceful. They will never acknowledge that Islam may be flawed or that evil things have done in its name with justification from its holy books. They can’t even think this as their holy books come directly from God rather than merely being inspired by God. This I find more troubling than anything else. Technically what the Taliban did was in accordance with Islam.
How come a fatwah has never been isued against Osama Bin laden by any Muslim mullah?
Muslim apologists like to dredge up Timoty McVeigh when people challenge them to own their religion and its faults. “Do we ask Christians to apologize for Timoty McVeigh?”
Given that America is an 80% Christian country (and that’s considering that you can’t count me toward that 80%), Christians are not obligated to answer for his crimes.
Why?
They put him to death.
Unlike Osama bin Ladin, Timothy McVeigh did not turn into a folk hero for any but the nuttiest minority of his “own” people. He is almost universally reviled in this country.
Think about that the next time Palestinians celebrate a martyrdom.
-non-croyant, a true liberal
As a Scots-American, and a Christian, I am disturbed by the frequent descriptor ‘Muslim Insurgents’ used for the bad guys. The 9/11 highjackers were Arabs who happened to be Muslims; Saddam, Bin Laden, Zarqawi, Arrafat, et al are Arabs who happen to be Muslims. I have seen no mention of, for example, Indonesian terrorists in Iraq.
The first step in fixing a problem is defining it accurately. So please start referring to ARAB terrorists, not Muslim insurgents. Would you have referred to the Nazis who devastated Europe as Christian Thugs? McVey, Nichols, Milosovich, Castro … as Christian terrorists?
What about the Taliban, you might ask. Obviously not Arabs, but they were financed, organized, indoctrinated and trained by al-Qaida Arabs, much like the Albanians were by the Germans in WWII. Iranians are generally non-Arab, but there is little evidence of any direct involvement of Iranians in the Iraqi violence, although there is little doubt of their financial involvement.
Regarding Iraq, I also question the term ‘Insurgents’, since the majority of them are non-Iraqi Arabs. The philosophy of the Saddams, Bin Ladens and others is a perfect description of fascism, as in control of the masses by a dictator through force of arms, and violent elimination of any opposition. So let’s call the bad guys what they really are – Arab Fascists. This would be a big step forward in defining the problems in Iraq for the American people, and the need to persevere there.
Graham Marrs
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