So targeting a Muslim wedding in Jordan is a mistake, but hitting a funeral in Iraq is peachy keen, right Zarqawi?
In Baghdad:
A suicide bomber detonated his car in a crowd of Shiite mourners north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 36 people and raising the death toll in two days of attacks against Shiites to more than 120. Five American soldiers died in roadside bombings.
Earlier Saturday, a car bomb exploded in a crowd of shoppers at an outdoor market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood on the southeast edge of Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding about 20 others, police reported. Witnesses said they saw a man park the car and walk away shortly before the blast.
More of a reason to leave Iraq. Let them kill each other, not our soldiers.
OT: Excellent article about the beheading of Christian girls in Indonesia:
Money quotation:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1646661,00.html
I agreed with the mission for a long time. Now I don't know what to think. Whether we are there or not they are going to be killing each other, attacking Western interests, etc.
So targeting a Muslim wedding in Jordan is a mistake, but a funeral in
Iraq is peachy keen, right Zarqawi?
The funeral in Iraq saw Zarqawi's gang mass murdering Shi'ites, who are
reviled as apostates. No better than infidels. Z collaborates with
Baathists and Sunni Muslims
The Jordan suicide bombings mass murdered Sunni Muslims. So Sunnis killed
Sunnis. A no-no in the Arab world where the Sunnis call the shots
________________________
Heart
of Darkness
From Zarqawi to the man on the street, Sunni
Arabs fear Shiite emancipation.
BY FOUAD AJAMI
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq is the silence with which it is
greeted in other Arab lands. Grant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi his due: He has been
skilled at exposing the pitilessness on the loose in that fabled Arab street and
the moral emptiness of so much of official Arab life. The extremist is never
just a man of the fringe: He always works at the outer edges of mainstream life,
playing out the hidden yearnings and defects of the dominant culture. Zarqawi is
a bigot and a killer, but he did not descend from the sky. He emerged out of the
Arab world's sins of omission and commission; in the way he rails against the
Shiites (and the Kurds) he expresses that fatal Arab inability to take in
"the other." A terrible condition afflicts the Arabs, and Zarqawi puts
it on lethal display: an addiction to failure, and a desire to see this American
project in Iraq come to a bloody end.
Zarqawi's war, it has to be conceded, is not his alone; he kills and maims,
he labels the Shiites rafida (rejecters of Islam), he charges them with
treason as "collaborators of the occupiers and the crusaders," but he
can be forgiven the sense that he is a holy warrior on behalf of a wider Arab
world that has averted its gaze from his crimes, that has given him its silent
approval. He and the band of killers arrayed around him must know the meaning of
this great Arab silence.
There is a cliché that distinguishes between cultures of shame and cultures
of guilt, and by that crude distinction, it has always been said that the Arab
world is a "shame culture." But in truth there is precious little
shame in Arab life about the role of the Arabs in the great struggle for and
within Iraq. What is one to make of the Damascus-based Union of Arab Writers
that has refused to grant membership in its ranks to Iraqi authors? The pretext
that Iraqi writers can't be "accredited" because their country is
under American occupation is as good an illustration as it gets of the sordid
condition of Arab culture. For more than three decades, Iraq's life was sheer
and limitless terror, and the Union of Arab Writers never uttered a word.
Through these terrible decades, Iraqis suffered alone, and still their poetry
and literature adorn Arabic letters. They need no acknowledgment of their pain,
or of their genius, from a literary union based in a city in the grip of a
deadening autocracy.
A culture of shame would surely see into the shame of an Arab official class
with no tradition of accountability granting itself the right to hack away at
Iraq's constitution, dismissing
---SNIP----
So targeting a Muslim wedding in Jordan is a mistake, but a funeral in Iraq is peachy keen, right Zarqawi?
The funeral in Iraq saw Zarqawi's gang mass murdering Shi'ites, who are reviled as apostates. No better than infidels. Z collaborates with Baathists and Sunni Muslims
The Jordan suicide bombings mass murdered Sunni Muslims. So Sunnis killed Sunnis. A no-no in the Arab world where the Sunnis call the shots
________________________
Heart of Darkness
From Zarqawi to the man on the street, Sunni Arabs fear Shiite emancipation.
BY FOUAD AJAMI
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq is the silence with which it is greeted in other Arab lands. Grant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi his due: He has been skilled at exposing the pitilessness on the loose in that fabled Arab street and the moral emptiness of so much of official Arab life. The extremist is never just a man of the fringe: He always works at the outer edges of mainstream life, playing out the hidden yearnings and defects of the dominant culture. Zarqawi is a bigot and a killer, but he did not descend from the sky. He emerged out of the Arab world's sins of omission and commission; in the way he rails against the Shiites (and the Kurds) he expresses that fatal Arab inability to take in "the other." A terrible condition afflicts the Arabs, and Zarqawi puts it on lethal display: an addiction to failure, and a desire to see this American project in Iraq come to a bloody end.
Zarqawi's war, it has to be conceded, is not his alone; he kills and maims, he labels the Shiites rafida (rejecters of Islam), he charges them with treason as "collaborators of the occupiers and the crusaders," but he can be forgiven the sense that he is a holy warrior on behalf of a wider Arab world that has averted its gaze from his crimes, that has given him its silent approval. He and the band of killers arrayed around him must know the meaning of this great Arab silence.
There is a cliché that distinguishes between cultures of shame and cultures of guilt, and by that crude distinction, it has always been said that the Arab world is a "shame culture." But in truth there is precious little shame in Arab life about the role of the Arabs in the great struggle for and within Iraq. What is one to make of the Damascus-based Union of Arab Writers that has refused to grant membership in its ranks to Iraqi authors? The pretext that Iraqi writers can't be "accredited" because their country is under American occupation is as good an illustration as it gets of the sordid condition of Arab culture. For more than three decades, Iraq's life was sheer and limitless terror, and the Union of Arab Writers never uttered a word. Through these terrible decades, Iraqis suffered alone, and still their poetry and literature adorn Arabic letters. They need no acknowledgment of their pain, or of their genius, from a literary union based in a city in the grip of a deadening autocracy.
A culture of shame would surely see into the shame of an Arab official class with no tradition of accountability granting itself the right to hack away at Iraq's constitution, dismissing
---SNIP----
So targeting a Muslim wedding in Jordan is a mistake, but a funeral in Iraq is peachy keen, right Zarqawi?
When are people going to see through the political doubletalk at play?
They will change the tune to suit the wind and will bring in any lie to hide their offended egos.
We're dealing with lying cut-throats and don't expect them to give one an honest time of day.
This is why Rep. Murtha's comment and those like it - that the US presence in Iraq is fueling the insurgency - should be taken for the bullshit that it is. Most of the casualties in this conflict are Iraqis killing Iraqis.
If we pull out, the level of violence is going to escalate to the point where today's carnage will be looked upon as 'the good old days.'
Unlike others here, I think it incredibly short-sighted to want Iraq to descend into Civil War. In such an environment, the most malevolant forms of extremism are certain to assert themselves, metastisize and gain control of one of the most important and potentially wealthy countries in the region.
Meanwhile in neighboring Iran, the new president gives assurances that they aren't seeking a nuke in this very funny video.
http://www.zoomin.tv/videoplayer/index.cfm?id=189715&mode=normal&pid=boom&bandbreedte=3&sitestat=0
Hey Everyone,
I just wanted to let you know of this online Poll.
Go vote for Jihad Watch!
(voting on in the left frame).
http://aarons.cc/category/memes/deck-o-bloggers-2005/
A classic example of the 'divide and rule' policy, first used by the British in their quest for world domination (e.g. Pakistan and India) and now a successfully used tactic by the United States.
The violence between the Shiites and the Sunnis are just what the Americans want.
Al-Zarqawi's Jordan Family Renounces Him
could it be that Al-Z's family feels no threat in denouncing him because he's dead? (breaking news at LGF)
or is he in enough hot water that they are covering for him while he runs?
boo boo
You don't now jack sh*t about what the Americans want, idiot.
Last week the San Francisco Chronicle published, in its opinion section MISJUDGING THE JIHAD. Here is an excerpt:
Allah is the ultimate strategist. There is no road map to "victory." No need for timetables. No requirement to measure progress.
The good news is that unrelenting pressure on al Qaeda may prevent it from mounting strategic attacks like Sept. 11, forcing the jihadists toward less ambitious, if still lethal, schemes like Wednesday's attack on three hotels in Jordan and recent attacks in London, Egypt and Bali.
Then in todays Letters to the Editor a reader comments:
Can there be any hope when people believe this fallacy that poverty is still the root cause of terrorism? Even worse, when Saudia someone believes this to be true of Saudi Arabia?
According to the World Bank, Poland has a Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of US$6,090 and Saudi Arabia has a per capita GNI of US$10,430. The GNI data was obtained from the BBC's Country Profiles page. Using poverty as the root cause, Chicago with the largest Polish diaspora in the world should be on highest alert for terrorist activity in its Logan Square and Jefferson Park neighborhoods, among many others.
Typical British understatement when the BBC used the insurgent word after the bombing of a British vehicle which killed one and seriously injured 4 others.
"When asked whether insurgents could have been behind the attack, Maj Melbourne said: "We don't really have the problem with insurgents. It is more the terrorist element."
Jihadwatch & Dhimmiwatch are both nominated for the Deck of Bloggers
Where have we seen this before?
And in addition to what Lisa says, Mozambique and Bolivia are hardly hotbeds of this sort of terrorists, and their people are dirt poor.
One breaking story - Zarqawi might be dead. Hope its true. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=18305#comments
Poverty in Poland produces "terrorists" like like Karol Wojtyla.
Spirit Of 1683,
This calls for the 48 hour rule, we have heard this so many times. But we can hope.
As a poster said at LGF, will George Galloway give the eulogy?
Yep, and if its true (and its appearimng on more networks) who's buying the bag of sweets to hand out to the kids?
In celebration of the chief of the headchopper's death,
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38673
In honor of our troops,
http://home.comcast.net/~brianhuard/If_I_Die_Before_You_Wake.pps
The video above requires Power Point, can be downloaded here.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7C404E8E-5513-46C4-AA4F-058A84A37DF1&displaylang=EN
"So targeting a Muslim wedding in Jordan is a mistake, but a funeral in Iraq is peachy keen, right Zarqawi?"
Michel Chossudovsky (globalresearch.ca) seems to think Zarqawi wasn't involved. Or at least had US/Israeli assistance. Can anyone offer any info about this guy?
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Thanks for the link Carolyn...
We cannot bring stability and democracy
to a worldview based on conflict and theocracy.
We have defeated a tyrant,
torn up his pleasure palaces,
routed him like an animal from his hole,
humiliated him beyond his belief.
That is a noble deed done for humanity.
We have secured infrastructure,
reclaimed the arabian marshlands,
helped organized schools and hospitals,
government and businesses . . .
Those are noble deeds done for humanity.
We have done our duty
and now it is up to you, shia and sunni,
to work together or apart,
to perform noble deeds or not,
whichever you deem best,
and for the rest in Kurdistan,
keep dancing, singing, weaving
strands of color in your carpets,
we leave you with a nation
that tastes freedom
for the first time
in many years . . .
I went to this site for the deck of bloggers
http://aarons.cc/2005/11/20/deck-of-bloggers-sunday-morning-spades-standings/
and voted for Jihadwatch.
Of course, out of curiosity, I looked at some of the anti-Islam blogs that received higher vote counts.
I respect LGF, but some of these other sites are heavy on cursing, and calling muslims "ragheads" - which is entirely unproductive.
Spencer, here, runs a tight ship - blogs must maintain a professionalism if they are ever to have an impact on the uninformed, and to silence the Leftists. I hope these other sites follow Robert Spencer's example more closely. Sure, we have some commenters that are pissed off, but MSM columnists are having a hard time discrediting Spencer himself....isn't life grand? :)