Events in Russia
Charles at
Little Green Footballs links to an excellent article by Ralph Peters on the Islamofascists (some of them Arab) holding the Russian school-children hostage:
bq. Ralph Peters:
When the Killers Come for the Kids.
bq. The mass murder of children revolts the human psyche. Herod sending his henchmen to massacre the infants of Bethlehem haunts the Gospels. Nothing in our time was crueler than what the Germans did to children during the Holocaust. Slaughtering the innocents violates a universal human taboo.
bq. Or a nearly universal one. Those Muslims who preach Jihad against the West decided years ago that killing Jewish or Christian children is not only acceptable, but pleasing to their god when done by “martyrs.”
bq. It isn’t politically correct to say this, of course. We’re supposed to pretend that Islam is a “religion of peace.” All right, then: It’s time for Muslims to stand up for the once-noble, nearly lost traditions of their faith and condemn what Arab and Chechen terrorists and blasphemers did in the Russian town of Beslan.
bq. If Muslim religious leaders around the world will not publicly condemn the taking of children as hostages and their subsequent slaughter — if those “men of faith” will not issue a condemnation without reservations or caveats — then no one need pretend any longer that all religions are equally sound and moral.
This last paragraph got me to thinking... Why have we not seen the 'moderate' imams and leaders vilifying and condemning those who commit terrorist acts.
If Islam really is the so-called 'religion of peace' why haven't more of its practitioners come out directly and forcefully to the media saying that the terrorists represent the minority and that they are an anathema to the faith.
The silence from these people is deafining...
Mecca delenda est
Posted by DaveH at September 4, 2004 9:26 AM