Arabs Shocked by TV Images of Saddam's Sons

Washington Post/Reuters ^ | 7/25/03 | Firouz Sedarat

[NYC Republican]

DUBAI (Reuters) - Televised images of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons shocked many Arabs on Friday, who said it was un-Islamic to exhibit corpses, however much the brothers were loathed.

"Although Uday and Qusay are criminals, displaying their corpses like this is disgusting and repulsive. America claims it is civilized but is behaving like a thug," Saudi civil servant Saad Brikan, 42, told Reuters in Riyadh.

[NYC Republican]

Shocked! Shocked, I tell you... Why are they so upset? After all, we've doctored the pics, and these aren't real bodies, it's all an American conspiracy, right? They're just mannequins, right? Nothing please some people.

[Naspino]

They didn't seem to mind when Al-JaZeera blasted dead American soldiers on TV. Ah -- they're morals apply only to Islamists and Arabs.

[angkor]

Weren't they dancing around their TV sets as the twin towers went down?

[brewcrew]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If we hadn't displayed the corpses, we never would have heard the end of it. Something tells me we'd have taken a lot more flak if we hadn't.

[NYC Republican]

please = pleases.

[DannyTN]

"They didn't seem to mind when Al-JaZeera blasted dead American soldiers on TV. Ah -- they're morals apply only to Islamists and Arabs. "

Good Point. They are just upset that they are losing.

[NativeNewYorker]

You know, I am SO SICK of these demented idiots.

No pictures? The deaths are a lie.

Pictures? Oh, how can they show such horror!

Please. Let's just vote them off the planet.

[tru_degenerate]

You beat me to it.

[ClearCase_guy]

But prominent Saudi cleric Mohsen al-Awajy said: "Kill the American Dogs! Kill them all! We must never stop the Jihad! Oh! Is this on the record? Sorry ... ahem ... This has been a dirty war from the beginning and it is difficult for us to find any morals or dignity in the middle of this. Uh, can you guys edit out that first part? Thanks."

[Dr. Frank fan]

Shocked! Shocked, I tell you... Why are they so upset?

They're "upset" because Reuters shoved a microphone in their face and asked them to describe how "upset" they are.

[Gringo1]

"DUBAI (Reuters) - Televised images of the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons shocked many Arabs on Friday, who said it was un-Islamic to exhibit corpses, however much the brothers were loathed."

Un-Islamic?....NEWS FLASH...the United States IS NOT AN ISLAMIC COUNTRY.


That is all.

[Southack]

"The graphic display of the corpses, along with the evidence that they had not been buried immediately after their deaths, runs against a custom held across the Muslim world, where the dead, even enemy dead, are accorded great respect. "
- NY Times Reporter Dexter Filkins 7/24/2003

"If the tragic fate the rescuers met in the desert was not bad enough, some 7,000 miles away in Tehran something indecent and inhumane was happening to the charred corpses of the rescuers who were killed.
The international press broadcast to the world the disturbing pictures of Iranian authorities ripping open the body bags containing the remains of the Delta Force commandos.
Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali, formerly Tehran's chief Islamic judge held up a portion of charred arm and shouted for the world to hear, " This is proof of Carter's crime ." and sarcastically added, "My heart aches for the families of these victims." - 1980

Palestinian "informer" on display by Palestinian Secuirty:

 

 

The photo of the dead American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu...

[manic4organic]

Repeat after me: Who cares what those barbarians think?

[TomGuy]

I voted for sending them through the plastics shredder...

Oh well....

[arkfreepdom]

Any culture that drags dead soldiers around in the streets can kiss my a##. Not to mention strapping bombs on children. They wanted some..."now come and get it".

[NYC Republican]

Great show of hypocrisy on their part!

[lilylangtree]

Arabs are shocked? I'm surprised when they do so much to doctor their photos. Frankly, skunky islamic terrorists death should be published more often with no doctoring but shown in all their glory.

[TomGuy]

Damn internet. It's the internet's fault for allowing the unfettered truth!

LOL.

[Bikers4Bush]

That's right, it is un-islamic. We aren't muslims and we don't care what you think.

After all, you're the same folks that drag the bodies of infidels through the streets and then leave them in the sun to rot.

I could not care less what shocks them.