Posted on 11/17/2004 2:54:24 AM PST by kattracks
DUBAI (Reuters) - Arabs were torn between seething rage at images of a U.S. soldier shooting dead a wounded Iraqi in a mosque and dismay at Iraqi insurgents in Falluja for turning holy mosques into battlegrounds.Viewers said images, which Arab televisions aired repeatedly of a Marine killing a severely injured Iraqi, fueled growing hatred against America and helped create more "terrorists."
"I am not a jihadist, I am just a normal Muslim but such scenes are pushing me to Jihad," said Dubai-based engineer Abdallah. "We don't expect this from the representative of democracy in the world."
"This is one of the things we saw on TV. God knows how many crimes they have committed which we have not seen," he added."
In Saudi Arabia -- the birthplace of Islam and of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, whose group carried out bombings in the country -- residents said insurgents were to blame for taking their battle into mosques.
"If I was in the U.S. soldier's place I would have killed all the insurgents because they are mercenaries," said Saudi Zaher al-Saleh, a 32-year-old teacher. "They have turned the mosques into battlefields and they're killing civilians."
Islamist extremists called for revenge through their Web sites and cursed pro-U.S. Muslim leaders for remaining silent.
"Oh God your enemies have killed your believers in one of your houses. God take revenge for us," one chatter said.
PERSONAL AFFRONT
Some Muslims saw the killing as a personal affront.
"It's as if they had killed every one of us. Today, it's that poor man, tomorrow, it will be me," said Sherine Mohamed, 27, a financial analyst. "Even if militants didn't respect mosque sanctities, U.S. soldiers should have done so because they claim to help Iraqis."
Muslims said pictures showing Marines lounging with their guns in a Falluja mosque were "insulting."
They said soldiers "sullied the ground with their boots" at the mosque where Muslims are obliged to take off their shoes in respect for the house of God.
"They are entering dangerous waters. If they think they are getting rid of terrorists this way, they are mistaken. They are creating more terrorists than killing them," added Abdallah.
International human rights groups said the killing could amount to a war crime and showed the need to better train U.S. forces about the laws of war.
The U.S. military opened an investigation into whether the Marine acted in self-defense, broke U.S. military law or committed a war crime in the fatal shooting of a wounded Iraqi in Falluja, the scene of fierce fighting between U.S. forces and Iraqi and Islamist militants in the past week.
That shooting was caught on videotape by an NBC television crew embedded with the Marines.
The United Arab Emirates' Al-Ittihad newspaper said the killing was "shocking and provocative" and demanded Washington investigate the "horrifying crime."
"If this crime goes unpunished it will set a dangerous precedent in U.S. policies and will destroy everything (good) it has done for Iraq," it added.
Arab animosity toward U.S. presence in Iraq has ratcheted up since the Abu Ghraib prison scandal that resulted in the sentencing of several U.S. soldiers.
Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim Hizbollah TV al-Manar led its newscasts with the shooting and said it showed "the ugliness of the actions that occupation forces are carrying out in Iraq."
"U.S. forces violating laws and committing atrocities is not new. What has surfaced is only a small part of what Iraqis are facing," said Shehab al-Ahdal, editor-in-chief of Yemen's al-Nahar newspaper.
My point precisely. In saying I didn't know the difference between a terrorist and a journalist I was (facetiously) making the point that in most cases, the journalist iis merely the political/propaganda arm of the terrorists.
They are winked at when they behead and murder innocent civilians and aid workers while our soldiers are excoriated for killing combatants.
At the risk of repeating myself (I seem to do that a lot these days) we must learn and remember one simple rule:
When engaged with an enemy willing to die to the last man, the only resolution of the conflict comes with the death of the last man. Anything less, and WE LOOSE. Jihad was their idea, not ours.
We need to pull out all the embedded "journalists"...they are working for the other side!! They are all akin to Kerry and his treasonous acts!!
Please try to understand something. Right now because of the MSM this is getting negative play that will hurt the war effort and they know it. The thing everyone seems to be forgetting is what the tape actually shows to the Arab world.
A bombed out mosque with dead jihadis stacked up amongst the rubble. A squad of heavily armed Americans walking through this dump unharmed with their boots on. Head popping a dying terrorist as he gasps for his last breath.
This is indeed a work of true beauty. It is art, it is justice that they know they deserve. Please remember the truth, these people are cowards and this image is exactly what they need beamed to their homes repeatedly.
They buy DVD's of Westerners having their heads sawed off, but get enraged at booby-trapped boobs getting what they deserve.
These persecution-complex victims share so much in common with the Democratic Party of the U.S. It's no wonder they are united in their hatred for this country.
There can be little doubt that Muhammed stands head and shoulders above all others in history as Satan's greatest emisary as the greatest perpetrator of lies and destruction of humanity in history.
So he says.........his whorealdo moment fabricated IMO.
Stay safe !
The Al Jazera (or however it is spelled) broadcast towers should become smoking holes in the ground.
So?
BUMP!
bump!!
Lock and load.
Did you know that about half of the Muslim population is made up of children 15 years old or younger? Given the rhetoric these kids are growing up with, the civilized world is in increasing peril.
Arab males are vessels of fury, but they are impotent vessels of fury. I knew a Saudi "student" who was a little POS but who had no problem coming into our bar and saying things like "I spit on America" and things like that. This was in November, 1979, which is important to know. It took all my control to not wring his spindly neck. And, they are all the same - little boiling teapots, all piss and vinegar until it comes time to put the rubber to the road. Then they are like the rest of the muslims - cowards at heart, little nancy-boy fags. God, I hate them.
It does sound fabricated now that you mention it. If the story is not fabricated he still should not have been there.
amen, brother. They are terrorists and they are SUPPOSED to be killed. This is a whole different ball of wax, and set of rules than Geneva, etc.
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