Why?

Submitted by Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan (United Kingdom), May 4, 2006 at 07:19

1. I don't think that many of us are interested in an apology from 1.2 billion muslims as it wouldn't mean a great deal. However, it would be nice if they could at least stop pretending not to tacitly support the actions of groups such as Al-Qaeda. An ignorant accusation? Not really. You've kindly demonstrated what we have to deal with. On the one hand you deny responsibility for such acts on the part of the average Muslim and express perplexity as to why he or she should feel responsible. Yet on the other hand you cite Palestine and numerous other 'justifications' for these acts. If didn't tacitly support such acts you wouldn't feel the need to justify them. Therefore you support them, maybe not proactively, but there is a distinction. Muslims as a whole might find that they would receive a considerably greater amount of sympathy if they didn't JUSTIFY the acts of terrorists and instead condemned them with a tiny FRACTION of the ferocity that they directed toward Denmark over half a dozen childish cartoons.

I have yet to hear any 'soundbites' from representatives of a Muslim group denouncing the acts of the 'minority' with anything like the ferocity that the followers of Islam express so easily when it comes to comparatively ridiculous issues such as the recent 'cartoon controversy'. It stands to reason that if, as a group, you are going to get so worked up because somebody maligned your faith by drawing a picture of your prophet yet, by the same token, show a comparative lack of interest when groups such as Al-Qaeda 'malign' the image of Islam by blowing up some schoolchildren, that Islam as a whole tacitly supports the endeavours of these people. It is logic. Pure and simple. Hence the images that we saw of large masses of Muslims celebrating in the streets in Pakistan when they heard the news about 9/11. Looking at those images I could have been forgiven for assuming that such images meant that Pakistan had won the World Cup! And Pakistan is an 'ally'!!! As for Timothy McVeigh, it should no longer surprise the civilised world that Islam and her followers seem to rely almost exclusively on Urban Myth to justify their acts. Unless, of course, somebody can point me in the direction of the propaganda video that he released in which he cites Christianity as his inspiration. Or a transcript of the same. Given that he has claimed to be Agnostic in the sources that I have read I very much doubt that such direction will be forthcoming................

2.Can anybody provide specific details of a ceasefire in Palestine that was broken by the Israeli's and not by a Muslim psychopath setting off a bomb on an Israeli schoolbus and killing a bunch of innocent children?

Bored Now,

Sword of Islam & The Babies of Beslan

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