Joan's response

Submitted by Joan (United States), Sep 17, 2006 at 22:57

I am not a complete idiot. Nor do I claim to have studied the religion of Islam. I admit to wave of emotion that came over me as I held my sleeping baby and watched footage of the WTC and simply could not fathom such evil. My rhetorical question was meant to shed light on how completely ridiculous the notion is that the muslim community actually cares whenever we experience an act of terror in this world.

As a rule we are reminded of what a "peaceful religion" Islam is and that these things would not happen if Israel would simply cease to exist. Has one mother or family ever come forward and expressed sorrow or regret that their child or family member has participated in these acts? Do we ever see anger from the Muslim community agianst the murderers? At most we are granted a few words about how it is our own fault.

But what do we expect from a "religion" that endorses the routine killing of their own mothers and sisters in the name of honor? What would happen if the United States required that if you were a non citizen you could only practice Islam in the USA if you came from a country that did not punish the practice of Christianity or Judaism?

The left condemns the conditions that the people of Iraq are enduring because of the war. When the actual number of Iraqi people killed as a result of US actions equals the number of people killed by or for Saddam I may become concerned. We must be indulgent of the left since presently they are faced with a state of confusion. After all how can they juggle their support of women's rights, Amnesty International, the ACLU, the 9/11 memorial circuit, while not risking political correctness by appearing too patriotic, and trying to save the world from GWB. After all I've heard rumors of women voting in Iraq and god forbid attending school since the occupation.

If you give credence to the Muslim community's theory that we brought 9/11 on ourselves for supporting Israel, among other things, then what difference does it make? If the people killed on the planes, in the towers, or simply beheaded for Jihadist entertainment personally brought it on themselves for being American then isn't turnabout fair play?. After all it would be their own fault for living in a country that supports a religion that endorses the murder of innocents while "being peaceful".

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