After the wedding bombing in Jordan, and the protests, Zarkawi’s family renounced him for his tactics. Understandable, even laudable.
And sure, we all understand that it’s perfectly fine to murder Americans or Israelis. That seems to be a given in the Middle East, not just among the terrorists.
But hold up here. After the Jordan bombing, we had people saying things like this:
“Oh my God, oh my God. Is it possible that Arabs are killing Arabs, Muslims killing Muslims?” asked a weeping Najah Akhras, 35, who lost two nieces.
Similar thoughts were heard over and over in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday, as Palestinians expressed outrage over suicide attacks aimed at civilians.
On first glance, it looks like a reasonable reaction, even if it is obnoxious and hateful in its implications. But linger over it for a moment, and you wonder what rock these people have been living under for the last two years.
Is it possible that Arabs are killing Arabs, Muslims killing Muslims? Who, exactly, do you think has been murdering whom in Iraq these last two years? And forget Iraq. Muslims have been murdering Muslims since long before we liberated Iraq.
In the most recent bombing in Egypt, 97 people were murdered (and they weren’t Americans or Israelis). Then there are the “honor killings” that are becoming pandemic in Europe. What is that, if not Arab killing Arab, Muslim killing Muslim?
How is it that the thousands of Muslim deaths, deliberately perpetrated at the hands of other Muslims, do not count here? What is so special about the Jordanian wedding bombing, that it makes people wail so, while they couldn’t care less about Iraqi, Afghani, Egyptian, Saudi, or Yemeni lives? It’s too bad they’re not discussing this at the Cairo Conference.
Wardy says:
You are correct. I was wondering when the muslums would realize this. These killings in Iraq, where they are bombing their own mosques, and police stations, are NOT killing the “Infidels”. They only kill the people that they are supposed to be defending.
November 21, 2005, 8:40 pm