Sunni-Shi'ite unrest, culminating in a call for foreign jihadists to leave Iraq. From Reuters, with thanks to RB:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites protested on Monday after hearing reports that relatives of a Jordanian suicide bomber suspected of killing 125 people in the town of Hilla celebrated him as a martyr.
After breaking into the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad and tearing down the flag, protesters called on all foreign Arabs to leave the country and denounced Jordan's King Abdullah.
Anti-Jordanian sentiment has been spreading since Iraqis read newspaper reports that Jordan's Raid al-Banna blew himself up beside people lining up for jobs in the Shi'ite town of Hilla last month in the single bloodiest attack in postwar Iraq.
Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the blast.
The Iraqi government said in a statement it strongly condemns "the expressions of joy" exhibited by the family of Banna, who it described as a terrorist.
"Prime Minister Iyad Allawi spoke to the prime minister of Jordan personally today and asked him for a clear answer regarding the family's activities as the reports are affecting relations between the Iraqi and Jordanian people," it said....
Hundreds protested in Baghdad and thousands took to the streets of Najaf, spiritual home of the Shi'ites....
Perfect place for today's extras, as the first article will show:
Today’s Extras:
Iraq: Purple Finger Inspiration Endures (and the MSM still ain’t covering it!):
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover031205.htm
Further attempts by liberal Academia to silence dissent on islam:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/friedman200503140748.asp
Columbia U endorses Right to Engage in Terror:
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/moonbatcentral/index.html
Supposedly ‘mainline’ Christian anti-Semitism:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17308
Was Raid al-Banna "Jordanian"? Or was he one of those terrorists who, like Zarqawi, is deliberately described as "Jordanian" but, had he not been engaged in Iraqi terorrism, would be described as a "Palestinian"? We have become familiar with how the word "Palestinian" has been appropriated as a description of a particular subset of local Arabs from a particular part of Western Palestine (a/k/a as Israel), and how that word, along with the word "Paletsine" to mean, not what it has meant for 2000 years, the area known variously and with various degrees of looseness as Judea (or the Kingdom of Judea), or the Holy Land, or Israel, but rather the name of a non-existent state which is, through verbal sleight of hand, proleptically reified, particularly in such insidious phrases, slipped in everywhere, only sometimes innocently, as "Israel/Palestine."
Thus the Christian Rami Khouri, now writing in the Beirut Star on Lebanese matters (surely there are Lebanese who are better at discussing Lebanon than the oily Khouri, who has his own "Palestinian" fish to fry and cannot whole-heartedly identify with, much less explain to themselves, those Lebanese who want to force the Syrians and Iranians out of Lebanon, and a good many of whom are Arabic-using but non-Arab Maronites) blandly describes himself as a "Palestinian-Jordanian" which is to say, "a western-Palestinian-eastewrn-Palestinian" and the NPR interviewer just as blandly accepts this preposterousness.
It would be interesting to know if, like Zarqawi, how many of these bombers of Shi'a in Lebanon described for this purporse in the Iraqi, Arab, and Western press as "Jordanians" (in order to protect the image of "Palestinians") are people who would be quick to describe themselves as "Palestinians."
One more little thing in the way things are described in that shape-shifting, deceiving, constant interplay and collaboration, however seemingly slight, between the media, whether unthinking or collaborationist -- and the presentation of "selves" by Muslim Arabs, and their dwindling band of Arab islamochristian supporters.
Hugh:
Don't you think that if Zarqawi, or any of the other Jordanian jihaddists had even a loose claim to being "Palestinian" they would do so as it would instantly provide them with even greater justification/dispensation for their abominable acts in the minds of the idiots who think they are "freedom fighters"?
Presumably, it was Zarqawi's lasting misfortune that he was not born to the family of anyone who made the UN's very loose definition of "refugee" from [former] Palestine (as distinct from refugees from any other country) after 1948(remember when they were simply described as "Arab refugees" back in the 1950s)and therefore qualified for aid.
Shangalla:
The Israeli government has decried attacks on its civilians for years.
Unfortunately, that august body, the UN determined that the Palestinians were justified in resorting to violence in response to the creation of a state whose existence it had sanctioned only a few decades earlier.
Consequently, the Israeli government started taking harsh actions including the demolition of homes belonging to terrorists' families and the contruction of the security barrier. Still most of the world sees Israel as the aggressor and the Palestinians as victims whose only resort is suicide bombing.
Any wonder why Israel doesn't bother itself too much over PR?
A word for the King of Jordan. He is hardly a militant Islamic, but his country is virtually controlled (as all Muslim countries are) by the Ulama and religious scholars, not to mention the fact that his country if full of so called "Palestinians" (the revolt of 1970} Jordan let the US and Israeli special forces use their country to launch attacks against Iraqi air defenses in 2003, and his air space was overflown, by his permission, but US Air Craft flying out of Israel and Prince Sultan Air Base.
I'm not a mind reader, but I doubt seriously if he really gives a crap about the Palestinians or Iraqi's, and I wouldn't want to be in his shoes, because any deviation from the Arab (Muslim) party line, will mean fatwa's against him by the ulama and revolts from within.
And for Gary, vis a vis the Presbyterian Church boycotting Israel. Actually that is old news, but bear in mind that the Presbyterian church is NOT liberal or leftist, anything but, in fact it is from the wellspring of orthodox presbyterianism that sprang Dominion Theology or Christian Reconstructionism, a stealth movement that has infected the Christian Right.
You can google Dominon Theology and Christian Reconstruction for yourself or google Christian NAZI's.
However Reconstructionists also believe that "the Christians" are the "new chosen people of God," commanded to do what "Adam in Eden and Israel in Canaan failedt o do. . .create the society that God requires." Further, Jews, once the
"chosen people," failed to live up to God's covenant and therefore are no longer God's chosen. Christians, of the correct sort, now are.
Rushdoony's Institutes of Biblical Law consciously echoes a major work of he Protestant Reformation, John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion.
In fact, Reconstructionists see themselves as the theological and political Heirs of Calvin. The theocracy Calvin created in Geneva, Switzerland in the 1500s Is one of the political models Reconstructionists look to, along with Old
Testament Israel and the Calvinist Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Capital Punishment Epitomizing the reconstructionist idea of Biblical "warfare" is the centrality of capital punishment under Biblical Law. Doctrinal leaders (notably
Rushdoony, North, and Bahnsen) call for the death penalty for a wide range Of crimes in addition to such contemporary capital crimes as rape, kidnapping, and murder. Death is also the punishment for apostasy (abandonment of the
), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, "sodomy or homosexuality," incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile
delinquency, and, in the case of women, "unchastity before marriage."
According to Gary North, women who have abortions should be publicly Executed "along with those who advised them to abort their children." Rushdoony
concludes: "God's government prevails, and His alternatives are clear-cut: either men and nations obey His laws, or God invokes the death penalty against them." Reconstructionists insist that "the death penalty is the maximum, not necessarily the mandatory penalty." However, such judgments may depend less on Biblical Principles than on which faction gains power in the theocratic republic. The potential for bloodthirsty episodes on the order of the Salem
witchcraft trials or the Spanish Inquisition is inadvertently revealed by Reconstructionist theologian Rev. Ray Sutton, who claims that the
Reconstructed Biblical theocracies would be "happy" places, to which people would flock because "capital punishment is one of the best evangelistic tools of a society."
The Biblically approved methods of execution include burning (at the stake for example:, stoning, hanging, and "the sword." Gary North, the self-described economist of Reconstructionism, prefers stoning because, among other things, stones are cheap, plentiful, and convenient. Punishments for non-capital crimes generally involve whipping, restitution in the form of indentured servitude, or slavery. Prisons would likely be only temporary holding tanks,prior to imposition of the actual sentence.
Sounds just like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran doesn't it, in fact the comparison with Iran is all too valid, same song, just a different scriptual basis and a different theology, but in effect on human and civil rights, no difference
Giaour~ your prejudice is showing. Can't help that leftist ideaology is going down the tubes because of islam. By the time islam is solved, attempts to reduce the US to a third-world nation in the midst of world chaos will have totally failed. So will the Myth you wish to push about Christians.
And we'll start by taking back the public schools and the colleges, thank you very much.