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Melanie Philips: A War Unlike Any Other (An honest-to-God MUST READ!)
The Daily Mail ^ | September 6, 2004 | Melanie Philips

Posted on 09/06/2004 1:18:11 PM PDT by quidnunc

Suddenly, a far-away country about which most of us know little has shot to the very forefront of our minds and consciences. In a new century already steeped in horror, what happened at the Russian school in Beslan plumbs new depths of barbarity.

The carefully planned slaughter of hundreds of children, a massacre of innocents mown down inside their school by zealots who bayoneted one when he asked for water and who blew others up or shot them in cold blood, is a monstrosity which has had a profound effect upon those who watched in horror as the tragedy unfolded.

The hellish images — of murder, of screaming terror, of naked and starving children forced to eat the flowers they had brought to school or drink their own urine — will surely serve to define our terrorised age. It is impossible to comprehend how human beings can behave like this to anyone, let alone to children.

And that incomprehension makes us realise that we are dealing here with something that is as terrifying as it is diabolical — people who no longer behave as recognisable human beings, who are in the grip of a religious hysteria so profound that human life is of no consequence whatsoever, except as a means to terrorise the world.

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For I do not believe this was an isolated episode in a fight between Chechen separatists and the Russian government. This was Russia’s 9/11, part of the global jihad being waged against all infidels — Americans, Europeans, Russians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus or moderate Muslims — in order to re-establish the medieval Islamic global empire. It was, in short, further evidence that we are embroiled in a world war.

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(Excerpt) Read more at melaniephillips.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; melaniephilips; ossetia; terror; terrorists; terrosim; ww4
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1 posted on 09/06/2004 1:18:13 PM PDT by quidnunc
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To: Tolik

FYI


2 posted on 09/06/2004 1:18:40 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: quidnunc

Someone oughta nuke that Borg cube in Mecca for starters.


3 posted on 09/06/2004 1:22:27 PM PDT by szweig
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To: quidnunc

bttt for a great read from a lady who gets it.


4 posted on 09/06/2004 1:22:40 PM PDT by RobFromGa (A desparate man is a dangerous man, and Kerry is getting desperate.)
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To: szweig
that Borg cube in Mecca

Well put!

5 posted on 09/06/2004 1:24:27 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Beslan -- the true face of Islam.)
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To: RobFromGa

Yes, but.....In the 30's..th free world ignored the Rape of Nanking, the Katyn forrest massacre, the first round-ups of Jews in the concentration camps....and what did they buy with this procrastination/6 hellish years of war and perhaps 100 million dead..W.'s strenght is that he recognizes evil, and will NOT ignore it..


7 posted on 09/06/2004 1:29:47 PM PDT by ken5050 (Bill Clinton has just signed to be the national spokesman for Hummer..)
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To: quidnunc
"As al Qaeda grew stronger and bolder throughout the nineties..."

Thank you, Bill Clinton


Stay Strong,
Fuzzy122

8 posted on 09/06/2004 1:31:36 PM PDT by fuzzy122 (GBGB [God Bless George Bush] and the Armed Forces ... Arnold and Zell too!)
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To: quidnunc

BTTT!


9 posted on 09/06/2004 1:31:52 PM PDT by Eastbound
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To: quidnunc; Mister Blond
Bingo! Bookmarked.
10 posted on 09/06/2004 1:33:58 PM PDT by Chgogal (Pssst. I have it on the best authority that Allah has run out of virgins. Spread the word.)
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To: fuzzy122

I also fault Clinton... And I cannot understand why he slept at the switch!


11 posted on 09/06/2004 1:34:34 PM PDT by Pitiricus
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To: quidnunc

To paraphrase, " pull your head out of your ___ ,America. It could be coming to YOUR town".


12 posted on 09/06/2004 1:35:31 PM PDT by Ramonan (Honor does not go out of style.)
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To: phxaz
im getting very tired of this "the children in russia" crap

Well, here is either Scrooge or a Troll.

13 posted on 09/06/2004 1:36:30 PM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor.)
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To: phxaz
im getting very tired of this "the children in russia" crap

Then you, sir, are a callous idiot!

14 posted on 09/06/2004 1:37:39 PM PDT by Magnolia (Pennies a day help keep Liberals at bay.....become a monthly donor!)
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To: ken5050
W.'s strenght is that he recognizes evil, and will NOT ignore it..

I'm hoping that W can make a quick trip to Moscow and nail down an alliance with Putin.

15 posted on 09/06/2004 1:38:03 PM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor.)
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To: phxaz

You gonna get in here, boy or just hit and run?


16 posted on 09/06/2004 1:39:08 PM PDT by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor.)
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To: quidnunc

Regarding the idea of moderate Muslims:

Bukhari:V9B84N59 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: “None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.” Whoever says this will save his property and his life from me.’”

http://www.prophetofdoom.net/


17 posted on 09/06/2004 1:39:26 PM PDT by OK
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To: ken5050

In an earlier thread, JediForce wrote in part:

Why the news blackout in America ? I just don't understand it. Somebody in the administration needs to get out front on these Islamic attacks on Russia. Where is Homeland Security and why have they not at the very least mentioned that perhaps it might be a wise idea for people around schools to keep an eye open? It is amazing.
...

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The hurricane did not kill 156+ children in a school. Islamic terrorists did in a quiet town in Russia.

And the silence is deafening.



My response:
To: JediForce
I sure am glad you wrote that, and well written it is, by the way.

My wife and I are absolutely apoplectic about the msm, Bush, et al., treating this as a non-event. It takes a lot to get me riled up, but I am now. The lack of national outrage over this makes me wonder what the future holds. I haven't heard a peep out of anyone with any stature. This should have been the headlines in every single paper, every single day, since the story broke. Included should have been the pictures from the scene, so the doubters could see, once again, the real face of islam.

I am so mad I could chew nails. We suck.


18 posted on 09/06/2004 1:40:24 PM PDT by VMI70 (...but two Wrights made an airplane)
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To: quidnunc

Bump for bookmark...excellent read!!!


19 posted on 09/06/2004 1:41:09 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Can The Ban - let the AWB sunset • www.2asisters.org • www.cantheban.net)
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To: phxaz

You know nothing about life.


20 posted on 09/06/2004 1:42:12 PM PDT by Do Be (The heart is smarter than the head.)
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