Response to Anne M.

Submitted by Bruce Josloff (United States), Nov 16, 2005 at 10:55

"What has happened last week in Jordan must be considered a very big wake-up call. The truth of the matter is that the terror violence that has been hitting the non-Muslim world is now coming home to a city that has a majority Muslim population. The peaceful Arab/Muslims must stand up and say enough is enough of the violence."

Dear AnneM.

I wish it were that simple. Unfortunately I suspect there are many clerics who are "spin doctors" in the mosques of the middleast who will offer that the recent terror in Amman was "Friendly Fire" and that the Arab muslims who died in the explosions are "martyrs" who have earned their place in Allah's Paradise. Such is a religious sytem of thought that can and does incorporate such depraved rationales.

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