what a load of nonsense

Submitted by Terry Curry (European Union), Feb 13, 2007 at 16:22

Assuming that the author of the diatribe lives in Britain, the answer is simple. If you don't like the way this country is governed, don't come here, or leave for a country more to your liking.

As for the innocent freedom fighters in Afghanistan, The Taliban are a prize example of rule by terror/repression of women. Of course let us not mention the Heroin trade indulged in by the general population. How many westerners have died, or been forced into prostitution and crime to pay for the habit? Does Islam support that?

As far as Iraq is concerned Saddam Hussein Al Tikriti was Santa Claus was he? He was happily killing his own people, and the people the author praises now in Iraq are mindlessly killing far more of their own people than anyone else. That is not the fault of the coalition forces however faulty the intelligence that led to the invasion. Almost anywhere in the world you go, where there is a sizeable Muslim population, there is trouble. together with the; by today's standards of behaviour terror bombing and plots to kill thousands by the use of chemical/biological/nuclear agents. by no standards, certainly not the much vaunted 'peace' loving standards of Islam (LOL) is such behaviour in any way civilised.

A question for the author. If dying in the act of killing infidels is a sure road to paradise, why are Osama bin Laden and all his hate spouting brethren not first in the queue? Why do they brainwash others into doing their dirty work? surely the mark of a good leader is that he will not order his men to do something he is too cowardly to do himself.

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