[bjs1779]

I think the answer to your question might lie in the fact that there are over a million Iraqi exiles, but no Iraqi dissidents. I'd say the lack of *apparent* outrage might have something to do with gouged-out eyes, gang rapes of female relatives, including infants, and putting people in plastic shredders. Did such a society fail to produce even one Solzhenitsyn or were they exterminated before their testimony could be heard?

That would explain much of what happened in Iraq, but I guess my point is where was the Muslim outrage about these happenings that occured in Iraq? And for that matter, where is it today among the Muslim countries?

There was a similar lack of apparent outrage over the Holocaust. When the footage of the concentration camps was released, some dismissed it as a hoax. Others suspected something amiss, but failed to comprehend the enormity of the horror.

I think the Jews were outraged at the time. Let me know when the Muslims are. In fact, let me know when the Pope finds more condemnation for the Iraqie thugs than he does for us.

[William Wallace]

I guess my point is where was the Muslim outrage about these happenings that occured in Iraq? And for that matter, where is it today among the Muslim countries?

Are you watching television right now, old FRiend? I think your demand to see outrage is being answered. Did it suddenly materialize or has it been bottled up for 25 years.

As for other Muslims in other countries, obviously some are complicit, some are brainwashed, but many are afraid, and with good reason. If Salman Rushdie living in England feared for his life over an innocuous passage in a work of fiction, I think we should think about the repercussions people living in Saudi Arabia or Iran would face before judging them.

Besides, one can ask the same question of American college professors and Hollywood celebrities. Where is their outrage? What is their excuse?