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October 1, 2005
Canaries in Coal Mines and those 'Bombings (that) Kill 110 Shiites Over Two Days'
Topics: IraqIraqi Muslims have once again been busy ridding their population of other Muslims who happen to subscribe to a different Islamic theology then their own. Is Iraq a "canary in the coal mine" for the rest of the world? I say yes!
Sunni insurgents hit two Shiite towns in two days with brutal bombings that killed more than 110 people, apparently aiming to scare Shiites away from a crucial vote on Iraq's new constitution. In the latest attack, a car bomb ripped through a fruit and vegetable market crowded with Friday morning shoppers.The report of so many Muslims being killed by other Muslims caused me to reflect upon the irony of it all, and more importantly, the rationale of such events. That's of course where I got stuck, because none of it makes any sense - that is to a non-Muslim.Destroyed stalls lay in pools of blood in the al-Sharia market in the southern city of Hillah, in Iraq's Shiite heartland. The scenes mirrored the devastation in Balad, the Shiite town in the middle of a Sunni region north of Baghdad hit by a triple suicide bombing Thursday, a far more lethal attack.
Unidentified bodies in bags or under pieces of cardboard lay on the ground in a Balad hospital courtyard Friday. Weeping women went from body to body searching for loved ones. The blasts reduced nearly an entire block in the market district to a giant mound of twisted metal and bricks strewn with bananas, tomatoes and other produce.
"Why does such a thing happen to us? We ask the government and Arab countries to help us," cried Mohammed Mahdi Jassim, a Balad resident.
Both attacks seemed staged to kill or maim as many civilians as possible, tearing through busy markets and commercial streets. At least 10 people were killed in Hillah and 102 in Balad. At least 22 of those killed both days were women and children.
Subsequently, I found and read, "Can A Muslim Kill A Muslim?" after which I could only roll my eyes in amazement that adult human beings could even discuss such an issue in the manner expressed in the article. It more or less lays out the Islamic thought process in the "Dispute in Islamist Circles over the Legitimacy of Attacking Muslims, Shiites, and Non-combatant Non-Muslims in Jihad Operations in Iraq." The mere fact that such a topic exists at all or that a "dispute" on the subject could even be a topic of discussion defies all reason and sanity - at least to non-Muslims.
However, after all, we're not talking about rational people, we're talking about Muslims.
AND what we are seeing in Iraq is lots of Muslims killing a great number of many other Muslims, and if Muslims have no problem killing other Muslims who disagree with their particular brand of Muslim theology, they certainly have no aversion to killing non-Muslims who disagree with Islam on just about everything it represents! But that seems to increasingly be an trend.
In the Netherlands for example, where Muslims have been increasing in number over the past decade and have not been assimilating into the native society, similar to what we see elsewhere in the West, we have yet another "canary in the coal mine," which is telling us that the percentage of Muslims that subscribe to violent jihad against non-Muslims, is increasing, and that as in Iraq, Muslims have no aversion to killing non-Muslims or even Muslims of a different sect, or even as "collateral damage," regardless of the age, sex, or physical condition of their victims.
Despite the generally non-violent aspects of Islamists in the Netherlands, the negative consequences are, nonetheless, becoming increasingly manifest. The two most worrisome developments are the growing social polarization of Islamic groups and the increasing preparedness to engage in a violent jihad.So the increasing violence between Muslims in Iraq more or less parallels the increasing preparedness to engage in a violent jihad exhibited by Muslims in the West, as evidenced in the Netherlands, and as outlandish and ridiculous as it sounds - "UK Muslim threatened Jihad over an ice cream cone - with support from the Muslim Council of Britain."Radical Islam encompasses a multitude of movements, organizations and groups. Although they have several ideas in common (particularly relating to religious standards and anti-western sentiments), they may also have very different opinions about the aims to be pursued and the means to be used. In addition to radical Islamic organizations and networks focusing on the jihad (in the sense of armed struggle) against mainly the West, other movements prefer to concentrate on 'Dawa' (preaching radical Islamic ideology), while some groups and networks combine these two elements."
The polarization is partly a result of radical Islam seeking to "re-Islamize" Muslim minorities in Western Europe. In addition, radical Islam preaches an extreme isolationism and often propagates intolerance towards others in western societies. Such groups include homosexuals, Jews, and those, both Muslims and non-Muslims, who in their eyes insult Islam. The latter group consists of politicians, opinion makers, academics and advocates of women's liberation among Muslims. The murdered movie maker Theo van Gogh was one of the most well known persons who publicly and consistently criticized Islam.
However, here again we remind ourselves that it only sounds ridiculous to non-Muslims. Reason, tolerance, and sanity seem to be absent in the Islamic mindset. And what we see in Iraq is no different than what we see in the Netherlands, the UK, Spain, the U.S. (where up to several hundred Muslims died on 9/11), Indonesia, and throughout the rest of the world. And remember, Theo van Gogh was murdered by a Muslim over IMAGES!
So we continue to see more and more Muslims killing many more Muslims and of course Muslims killing non-Muslims; and the world-wide trend of Islam's adherents who increasingly subscribe to violent jihad, especially in defense of whatever they believe to be a threat to Islam - in accordance with their own individual interpretation or that of whatever imam they happen to be listening to at the time, is in itself - increasing. Scary thought!!!
I recently saw on a website (can't speak to it's credibility) that:
WORLD WAR THREE IS UNDERWAY and it's much more sinister than you could have imagined. When did it start? Fourteen centuries ago. Who started it? An insane pedophile named Mohammed who, along with his gang of terrorists, formed the savagely oppressive, dehumanizing religion of Islam.Although the statement sounds a bit on the radical side itself, each day that we see more of the kind of killing we are seeing in Iraq and that we have already witnessed in so many other countries, it's begining to sound more and more like a rational statement, and one that we all ought to be thinking about!
Posted by Richard at October 1, 2005 1:00 AM
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