The following post is witty, intelligent and superbly executed. It’s by Salaam over at The Mesopotamian.
Also, somewhat it seems to us that cutting the heads of hostages is not a particularly good way of illustrating the Arab and Islamic nobility of spirit; especially if it is done in the name of Allah. I mean we are puzzled, because we thought that Allah was The Merciful; the Compassionate. But hard as we try to understand our brothers, we don’t seem to be able to comprehend the merciful nature of their actions. Perhaps we are not sufficiently well trained philosophically and too ignorant to appreciate the finer points of theology and the relationship between beheadings and various forms of murder to monotheism and Jihad in the name of The Merciful, the Compassionate.
Ken Livingstone and his counterparts might do well to tell the ‘pretend muslims’ as I heard one arab describe them, to go take a running jump. Islamic extremism is a cancerous blot and many people know it, by populising extremist idiots all we are doing is insulting the majority of moderate and intelligent muslims around the world.
I should have got the link up earlier, thursday night in fact but I’m still pretty foggy under this cold. At least it appears to be diminishing.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at July 17, 2004 04:24 AM | TrackBack