Yeah, these folks look like they're "struggling" real hard. Poor things.
Arabs as a rule seem to suck at "struggling".
Posted on 09/05/2004 4:19:05 PM PDT by freedom44
CAIRO, Egypt — Expressions of shame and self-reproach swept the Arab world yesterday as Muslims mourned the deaths of Russian schoolchildren and voiced unusually critical condemnations of the social ills widely blamed here for breeding terrorism.
The Arab world has watched with mounting disgust in recent weeks as a wave of civilian hostages — some of them Arabs and Muslims — were slaughtered by masked insurgents in Iraq. This weekend, newspapers and satellite channels were dominated by pictures of bloodied, naked children in southern Russia fleeing armed guerrillas suspected to be Islamic rebels supporting an independent Chechyna.
Many Arabs faced an ever-more-common dilemma: struggling to reconcile their sympathy for a political cause with growing revulsion at the wrath leveled by self-described "holy warriors" against innocents.
Ahmed Bahgat, an Egyptian Islamist and columnist for Egypt's leading pro-government newspaper, Al-Ahram, wrote that the TV and newspaper images "showed Muslims as monsters who are fed by the blood of children and the pain of their families."
In an editorial, the Saudi Arab News condemned the school hostage-takers, "who had put themselves in a position where no one would shed tears when the punishment came. They reached a new low when they chose toddlers as bargaining chips."
Grand Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, Egypt's highest-ranking cleric, also railed at the attackers.
"What is the guilt of those children? Why should they be responsible for your conflict with the government?" Tantawi said during Friday prayers in the Egyptian town of Benha. "You are taking Islam as a cover and it is a deceptive cover; those who carry out the kidnappings are criminals, not Muslims."
Tantawi's refrain was a familiar one among Muslims who've felt unfairly tarred by the bloodbaths carried out by fellow believers: This wasn't Islam.
Yesterday, some prominent Arabs came forward with a more sobering interpretation: Corrupt, repressed Arab and Islamic societies have turned into breeding grounds for terrorism. It's a judgment often heard among Western critics, but rarely voiced in heavily censored Arab rhetoric.
"Most perpetrators of suicide operations in buses, schools and residential buildings around the world for the past 10 years have been Muslims," wrote Abdulrahman al Rashed, general manager of the Al-Arabiya television channel. In a blunt column in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, Rashed listed attacks carried out by Muslims in Iraq, Russia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
"Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture," he wrote. "The picture is humiliating, painful and harsh for all of us."
Well, we already know this filth will lie to the world while secretly rejoicing the murder and meyhem their fellow killers committed.
Nobody will scrub your latrine like yourself. The muzzys need to get scrubbing up their filth and quit being self reproaching and blah lah Allah Achbar
What, no burqa-clad women cavorting around making cricket noises?
Glad to hear some condemnation from the middle east.
Now how much of it is true and how much is deception?
They're hearing faint hoofbeats of the New Crusaders on the distant horizon.
they must be more scared-er of ruskies than yanks
Thank goodness. Well that settles that, all is forgiven. Now reign in the rhetoric, Vladimir.
Probably.
""Most perpetrators of suicide operations in buses, schools and residential buildings around the world for the past 10 years have been Muslims," wrote Abdulrahman al Rashed, general manager of the Al-Arabiya television channel. In a blunt column in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, Rashed listed attacks carried out by Muslims in Iraq, Russia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.."
Must be a typo? Israel is not mentioned? I'm sure that was a mistake. Right? /even more sarcasm off
They condemn it with their mouths and fund the terrorist with their bank accounts. F**K em all.
They will have to get earlier and stay later to make me believe this.
Who is stupid enough to believe this?
Hmmm...
Still waiting for a response to 9/11/01.
LOL!!
Oh cry me a river! Here's what their "faith" says:
"When you meet the unbelievers in jihad [holy war], chop off their heads. And when you have brought them low, bind your prisoners rigorously. Then set them free or take ransom from them until the war is ended." (Koran, 47:4)
"Remember Allah inspired the angels: I am with you. Give firmness to the believers. I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: you smite them above their necks and smite all their fingertips off of them." (Koran, 8:12)
Qur’an-(9:5): “But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, And seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war) ; but if they repent (accept Islam) and establish regular prayers and practices regular charity then open the way for them; for God is oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.”
Qur’an(48:20): “….Allah promises you much booty (spoils of war) that you will capture from the defeated infidels….”
And now Muslims are expressing anguish over what their cult hath wrought? Feh!
My, my, my! The truth stings a bit, does it?????
Who gives a bloody damn if they condemn it, WTF are they going to do about it is the question????
Yeah, these folks look like they're "struggling" real hard. Poor things.
Arabs as a rule seem to suck at "struggling".
One step on the road to reformation.
"Bad ZOOT, naughty Zoot." How many times do we have to tell you, you don't HAVE TO stab, rape and shoot them. According to Islam and mohamed; children get sold into slavery. "Bad ZOOT, naughty Zoot."
".....WTF are they going to do about it is the question????"
I agree. The facts are, they know they are in hot water now, given that this was school kids and the pictures are everywhere and graphic. So they are covering their ass. But it is too little too late, and too disingenuous as far as I'm concerned. I hope the Russians lay the wood to them.
While I'm sure that some folks over there are completely disgusted by what has taken place in Russia, we have to remember that their own holy book commands them to lie to infidels. I believe these statements are lies.
I say the Russians should load every attack fighter aircraft, and bomber they have and should hit a differant mosque for each victim of the terror they just suffered in the last two weeks.
But hit the mosques on fridays when they are full. As to the one they've got captive that claims to have children, find them and his wives. Make him watch as the families of his victims take out their rage on his children and wives. Then make him watch them covered in pig blood before he is turned over to them.
Take terror home to the terrorists and those who support them and terror may, just may go away.
If I was Putin, I'd blow Chechnya off the map.
In fact, we can go back 1,000 years and is-slime has maintained remarkable consistency as a murderous cult that delights in torture, rape, and murder.
And now, they're shocked at the murder of children?
Nonsense. The only thing they object to is that pictures got out. And their friends in the U.S. media are doing their best to suppress those.
There is only one way to end this reign of terror - and that is to end is-slime.
You got that right! The moon-god worshiper's 'holy book' tells them its OK to lie to the infidels while they plot our destruction!
A few will act outraged while they continue funding the baby-raping jihadists.
media's going all out apology mode.
Am I wrong or aren't these the people Bill Clinton and the democrats went to war for?
As we speak, phones of former KGB special operatives are ringing in Moscow:
"Hello Comrade.....it's your old friend.....I have a special job for you....."
I wouldn't be surprised if this tragic event awakens the bear and foments a revitalized nationalism.
I've said it before: We supported the wrong side in Bosnia.
I concur, it is already in motion
As they should. Now let them turn in the terrorists and let Muslim fight Muslim.
Not me. "First time, shame on you. Second through one-millionth time, shame on me."
There is one way out for Islam. They must not only denounce the terrorists and their sympathizers as baby killing Moloch worshippers rather than Allah worshippers and then cut off and burn the branch. The other solutions involve doing the lazy cowards work for them and never forgetting.
BINGO!!
I will NOT believe Muslims are offended by "terrorism", until I see ALL MUSLIM NATIONS supplying armys to fight at the side of infidels to destroy the lunatics in their midsts..
They will NOT do this.. They will remain part of the problem and our self declared enemy..
Semper Fi
Agreed, they just know how filthy the rest of the world sees them.This is just some CYA chit.
I am sure they are all choked up about it.
They're not enough now. No talk will be enough, it's just words from people who revere lying.
As for the end of this scourge on civilization... it can't come soon enough. It's already several thousand years too late.
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