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Arab News Editorial: Pure Evil
ArabNews.com ^ | 7/24/2005 | Staff Writers

Posted on 07/24/2005 7:50:02 AM PDT by ex-Texan

After London, now the Egyptian tourist resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. Evil continues its rampage around the globe. Yet more innocents are slaughtered on the altar of hate. Where next, people ask.

This is not the first such atrocity in Egypt. The 1996 attack on Greek tourists in Cairo, which left 18 dead; the September 1997 killing of nine German tourists outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and two months later the devastating massacres of 58 tourists in the Valley of the Kings; last year’s bombs in the Sinai resorts of Taba leaving 34 dead; the deadly bomb last April at the Khan Al-Khalili souk in Old Cairo, another tourist haunt. All were carried out by militants intent on destroying Egypt’s tourist industry, Egypt’s livelihood.

Yesterday’s barbarity follows a pattern — a pattern of pure evil, so evil that most people find it difficult to believe that human beings could do such things.

How can anyone justify the killing of innocents? No. religion condones it. Yet that is what the militants do. What is that justification to target Egyptian workers at a downtown cafe? Why did they merit death?

Most of those killed yesterday were Egyptians. It is impossible to fathom the terrorists’ warped thinking, but they clearly think that ordinary Egyptians, like ordinary Londoners, are disposable.

Theirs is not just a war against the Egyptian economy and government, it is a war against the entire Egyptian people, as it is against all the people of Britain, of Spain, of Lebanon, of Iraq, of Indonesia, of the US — of everywhere. The terrorist is at war with the entire world.

It is not enough to hunt down and destroy these men of evil. The thinking that drives them must also be destroyed. That puts a special responsibility on decent human beings everywhere. These fanatics claim to act in the name of Islam. That has to be shown to be a lie.

Their vision of the faith is so warped, so twisted, that it has nothing to do with Islam. They pollute it, they make it feared, even hated elsewhere in the world, they bring shame and humiliation to the faithful. They have departed from Islam. Muslims here and elsewhere must tell the world, not just once but again and again, every time the fanatics attack, that they have nothing to do with Islam, that they have been cast out.

Until the message gets through the world, Islamophobia will continue to grow. Until it gets through to the fanatics themselves, unless they realize they are damned, the slaughter of the innocents will continue.

No major city in the world will be spared — not in the West, not in the Muslim world, not anywhere. In their minds, we are all disposable, we are all potential victims of their all-encompassing hate.


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ArabNews.com is the leading Saudi news source in the English language. It appears that some Saudis are starting to 'get it' now that terrorism is speading like a cancer in the middle east.
1 posted on 07/24/2005 7:50:03 AM PDT by ex-Texan
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To: ex-Texan

Is this printed in Arabic as well? Or is it only in English?


2 posted on 07/24/2005 7:54:40 AM PDT by RedRover
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To: ex-Texan
It is not enough to hunt down and destroy these men of evil. The thinking that drives them must also be destroyed.

The thinking that drives them comes directly from Islam's holy book! Islam must be destroyed.

3 posted on 07/24/2005 7:55:02 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")
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To: RedRover

Good question!


4 posted on 07/24/2005 7:56:43 AM PDT by johnny7 (Racially-profiling since 1963)
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To: ex-Texan
It is curious that this would appear after, that is after, Congressman Tancredo brought a destroyed Mecca in to the discussion.

The Final Crusade, the glassification of the Holy Shrines can not be discussed ever. Thoughts of a final crusade are very disturbing to the mainstream of Islam.

5 posted on 07/24/2005 7:57:14 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P . The wild winds of fortune will carry us onward)
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To: JimRed

Can we really ever control what people think?


6 posted on 07/24/2005 7:57:24 AM PDT by ShandaLear (Announcing you plans is a good way to hear God laugh. Al Swearengen, 1877—Deadwood)
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To: ex-Texan

Didn't Dave Foley decide to become 'pure evil' in an episode of Newsradio?


7 posted on 07/24/2005 7:57:52 AM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: ex-Texan
Theirs is not just a war against the Egyptian economy and government, it is a war against the entire Egyptian people, as it is against all the people of Britain, of Spain, of Lebanon, of Iraq, of Indonesia, of the US — of everywhere. The terrorist is at war with the entire world.

WW3.

(and please don't argue semantics)

8 posted on 07/24/2005 8:00:18 AM PDT by airborne
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To: JimRed

The thinking that drives them comes directly from Islam's holy book! Islam must be destroyed.
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Anyone who thinks our fight is not a holy war, is living a lie, a deadly lie. A war against a radical cult mentality that was spawned from the Koran, which itself was written to justify a war of carnage against anyone who was not signed up as a faithful cult member...


9 posted on 07/24/2005 8:04:04 AM PDT by EagleUSA (S)
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To: ex-Texan

bump


10 posted on 07/24/2005 8:05:42 AM PDT by kimosabe31
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To: ex-Texan

"...the killing of innocents? No. religion condones it"

right.

got it.

that means I don't have to become a muslim, right?

freekin transparent propaganda!


11 posted on 07/24/2005 8:07:52 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: RedRover

If you read Arabic, certainly you are free to visit the site and translate it to make sure. Or whatever. I'm hopeful that it posted in Arabic was but not certain.


12 posted on 07/24/2005 8:16:43 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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To: RedRover
Is this printed in Arabic as well? Or is it only in English?

That is a very good question.

13 posted on 07/24/2005 8:17:11 AM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

It would seem that either Muslims believe this is what the Koran teaches or it's time to reform; If it can't be reformed...it's time to leave and find something greater.
If it were a question of translation you could discuss...there's not much discussion when Muslims who feel it is a religion of peace claim to be unable to speak cause it brands them as infidel as well.
Either Muslims have to handle their house or we will.
I wouldn't want to be a Muslim right now.


14 posted on 07/24/2005 8:18:15 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: ex-Texan

Check MEMRI


15 posted on 07/24/2005 8:20:17 AM PDT by PokeyJoe (Knowledge is Power. | Power Corrupts. | Get an education, become evil.)
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To: EagleUSA
...Islamophobia will continue to grow.

No. Islamoscentia will continue to grow. The basic tenets of either killing, making into slaves or coercing into paying blackmail for the infidels' lives is the same today as from the foundation of Islam. The fanatics now have techbnological power and international financing to promote their Satanic evil worldwide.

16 posted on 07/24/2005 8:20:37 AM PDT by Socratic (Liberal's motto: Capio ergo sum.)
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To: Socratic

Glassification is a very good idea.


17 posted on 07/24/2005 8:23:27 AM PDT by bboop
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To: ex-Texan

This crocodile tear article is BS.


18 posted on 07/24/2005 8:26:53 AM PDT by Dallas59 (" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)
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To: ex-Texan

You mean the Joooooooooooz and the Crusaders didn't do this?


19 posted on 07/24/2005 8:33:03 AM PDT by tomahawk (Proud to be an enemy of Islam (check out www.prophetofdoom.net))
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To: Socratic

No. Islamoscentia will continue to grow. The basic tenets of either killing, making into slaves or coercing into paying blackmail for the infidels' lives is the same today as from the foundation of Islam. The fanatics now have techbnological power and international financing to promote their Satanic evil worldwide.
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True - and that is why, in spite of all the denials of pandering politicians, we are in A WORLD WAR against Islam. Nothing less.


20 posted on 07/24/2005 8:34:02 AM PDT by EagleUSA (S)
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