Two sides to the picture

Submitted by Jeff (United States), Aug 25, 2010 at 15:19

But try and understand that there was not one Pakistani in the 19 suicide bombers.

That's not exactly news, Fazal. But try and understand, we were not impressed when Pakistani newspapers put the 19 hijackers' pictures on page 1 under headlines like "Heroes of Islam."

From December 25 1979 when the Russians entered Afghanistan we have had major problems on both the western and eastern borders.

How did the Russians give you major problems on your eastern border?

I have failed to understand the term Islamist.

An Islamist wants to impose Sharia law on everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim. An Islamist accepts that Dar al harb must be eliminated, and the world must all live under one dictator in Dar al Islam.

Where is the freedom of belief that is so important?

Good question, are you referring to the ongoing arrests of Christians for blasphemy in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan? Or are you referring to the fact that a mosque explodes almost every week in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan? How's Hector Aleem doing? Still alive, by any chance?

Just because you are an Islamist or whatever that means, do you become a lesser citizen? if you do then where is the equality that is preached?

Millions of Muslims attend thousands of mosques across the USA, week after week, unhindered and in complete safety. Mosques never blow up in the USA, as they do so often in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Meanwhile, Islamists in the USA preach their hate and spew their vitriol whenever they want. Islamists march with signs like "Behead those who insult Islam" and shout in the street that Jews should go to the ovens. Nice. What equality is being preached there? Speaking of equality, how are those Ahmadis doing in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan? Safe and comfortable? Any of their mosques still standing?

If you want to read America's reasons for invading Iraq (a policy with which I disagreed), you need only read the Senate war resolution, it lists 22 reasons. Yes, Fazal, people die in wars, but Saddam Hussein is no longer murdering thousands of Iraqis per year nor attacking and destroying his neighbors (behavior that met with very little criticism in the Muslim world).

And yes we will ask questions of the West now because of the barbarism at Abu Ghaib and Guantanamo prison…

You never asked any questions before that? Really? Was 9/11 revenge for Abu Ghraib? Or Guantanamo? Abu Ghraib, every Muslim's favorite subject. At least 15 Americans are in prison for their activities at Abu Ghraib. How many Iranians have been imprisoned for the thousands of murders at Evin Prison in Tehran? I never hear a hint of complaint about that from any Muslims. And surely no Muslim has ever been harmed in a Syrian prison. Or Egyptian prison. Or Saudi prison. How about the award winning prisons of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan? No one ever comes to harm there, right? Thousands of Muslims died every year in Saddam Hussein's prisons, and then thousands more Muslims marched in the streets of Arab cities yelling "Our blood and our souls for you, O Saddam." Being a mass murderer of Muslims in and out of prison didn't seem to diminish his extreme popularity among Muslims. Meanwhile, Abu Ghraib never came close to the everyday reality of an Islamic prison.

HR 1553 has not passed, and never will be a law. If it passes, it will only be a resolution, that is, a statement that expresses an opinion. No weight of law.

The IAEA? Right, the Islamic Republic of Iran hasn't tried to keep any secrets from them, sure.

"This is a world in which children are tortured. We can't stop all the children being tortured, but we can lessen their number. And if you don't help us, who in the world will?

Maybe that's why the USA invaded Iraq. Saddam's special children's prisons were more than President Bush could stand. Didn't seem to bother you any, though.

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