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July 9, 2005
What Recent Terrorist Events Say About The Difference Between Our Enemy And Us
Topics: War on TerrorAlthough it's a May 31 post, it's just as timely today as it was on the day it was written....
... university intellectuals from the heart of the American Revolution liken the hijackers of 9/11 to the Minutemen of Lexington & Concord. Is this true? Are the soldiers of the U.S. military real-life Imperial Stormtroopers? Are the Osama Bin-Ladens and Abu Musab al-Zarqawis of the world the new Patrick Henrys? Let us look and see.
Lance Salyers at Ragged Edges just earned a spot on my list of 'Daily Reads.' In his post, "True Lies - Part II," Lance cuts to the chase by spearing through "Qur'ans allegedly desecrated at Gitmo, mock executions in Iraq, and abuse and death at Bagram, and gets right to work on the difference between us and our enemy. It's a virtual seminar on the real meaning of prisoner abuse, cruelty, and terrorism, and it's my selection for today's MUST READ.
Here's a sample:
On the day when New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote about the "Outrage and Silence" surrounding the fact that "Baathist and jihadist suicide bombers have killed 400 Iraqi Muslims in the past months," Zarqawis had this to say:
The killing of infidels by any method including martyrdom operations has been sanctified by many scholars even if it meant killing innocent Muslims . . . This legality has been agreed upon so as not to disrupt Jihad . . . Protecting religion is more important than protecting [Muslim] lives, honor or wealth . . . The shedding of Muslim blood is allowed in order to avoid the greater evil of disrupting jihad . . . God knows that we were careful not to kill Muslims and we have called off many operations in the past to avoid losses, but we cannot kill infidels without killing some Muslims. It is unavoidable.
"It is unavoidable" he says. Really? Remember Major Mark Bieger, the American soldier cradling the wounded Iraqi girl (her name was Farah)? There's a reason he had to do that, and it's not because the U.S. Army set up its base of operations in an Iraqi school, as the insurgents have been known to do. No, the reason Farah died in the arms of Major Bieger is because the driver of the car bomb that killed her rammed the American Stryker infantry vehicle while it was surrounded with twenty cheering children. Had the attack occurred a block earlier or later, and these children would've been spared. Farah's death was quite avoidable, and yet it wasn't avoided: It was sought.
Read the entire informative and right-to-the-point post on the difference between our enemy and us.
Post script - I have to give Lance additional credit for being much more patient with his commenters than I am. His comments, made in response to comments made by readers at his site, are far kinder than I would have written, had the same empty heads done so at Hyscience.
Living in a pipe dream will do nothing but get us all - dead!
You will find True Lies - Part I HERE...
Posted by Hyscience at July 9, 2005 4:42 PM
Hey, thanks for the Hy-praise. :-)
God Bless.
Posted by: Lance at July 10, 2005 10:18 PM
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