Reuters reports that
“[a]t least 13 people were killed and more than 100 wounded on Friday when two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in a crowded Baghdad market, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, in the latest attack targeting Shi’ite Muslims this month.
A wave of bombings in June against mainly Shi’ite pilgrims and shrines has killed more than 130 people and fuelled fears that Iraq could slip back into sectarian bloodletting of the kind that has receded since its peak in 2006-07.”
Through this carnage one hears the echoes of a familiar argument: that Iraqi “insurgents” set off bombs to repel an imperialist invader. It was the in thing to say when the Iraq War began. Those who had even the most basic knowledge of contemporary Middle East history knew that statement to be false the moment it left its peddlers’ reeking mouths. Since then, one hasn’t been able to open the New York Times without reading, albeit in the cozy corners of page 26 or so, about mosque bombings and such by other Muslims. One of the first things Abu Musab al-Zarqawi did when he arrived in Iraq was to declare war on Shia Muslims. As Christopher Hitchens once wrote, obliquely swiping at the multicultural ethos: “Don’t ask why the holy warriors blow up mosques by the way–it’s none of your goddam crusader-Jew business.”
I say let’s continue to ask that question, especially of those who have no answer.
And they said O’Reilly was wrong when he said, on “The View”, that was have a “Muslim problem.”
They demanded he retract his statement and apologize. He changed his statement but never apologized for it (Good for him!).
Until the leaders of the Muslim world, both political and religious, here in the United States, in Saudi Arabia, in Iraq and Iran, in Syria, Egypt, Israel and around the world, stand up and call for an end to the Jihad, an end to the terror, and end to war against the west, until then…. We, the United States, the western world, the world in general, will continue to have a Muslim problem!
Yeah, I’ve had to point this out on many an occasion to anti-American libertarians and “anarchocapitalists”. Of course, it never occurred to them how stupid they looked when they kept blaming America for the murders of Muslims by other Muslims.
Greetings:
Regrettably, muslims killing other muslims no longer greatly upsets me. Apparently, they’ve been busy doing it since the 7th Century A.D. As Fouad Ajami has written, those are the lands of “I against my brother; my brother and I against our cousin; and, my cousin, my brother, and I against the stranger”. And, without the presence of the rare Occupier or Crusader, they quickly revert to what is at hand to fulfill the ‘stranger’ role.
I try to approach it from a practical standpoint. My high school basketball coach was fond of saying, “You have 32 minutes [referring to the game's four 8-minute quarters] to figure these people out.” Well, we’ve had more than ten years to figure muslims out and I see neither hide no hair of any serious understanding on the part of our rulers. Perhaps they’re all better Christians than I and plan to “turn the other cheek” them into either submission or a higher level of civilization. But, I see no light bulbs, tungsten or otherwise, going on.
Iraq would be a pertinent case in point. After all those years, after all our blood, and after all our treasure sacrificed to provide it a better future, what do we see? Exactly what Mr. Ajami saw. And what don’t we see? Any sign of muslim gratitude. Muslim gratitude, you inquire? Why yes, muslim gratitude. At the risk of turning a phrase, muslim gratitude is like a Missouri-Warhol River; a verbal mile wide, an actual inch deep, and flowing for about 15 minutes.
The dope plague, in the Bronx of the last ’60s, taught me that some people just cannot be saved from themselves. Admittedly, it’s a hard and unpleasant lesson to learn but it’s not beyond an adult’s ability. It’s time for us to put on our big boy pants and stop all the weeping and breast-beating about saving muslims from their brothers and their cousins. It’s time to protect ourselves from their dopiest of all dopes.
Islam is the millstone. If you plan doesn’t include constraining or eradicating Islam, you don’t have a plan. You have a hope.
18 dead and 110 wounded in Chicago the previous 3 weekends. What ‘spring’ is that?
“18 dead and 110 wounded in Chicago the previous 3 weekends. What ‘spring’ is that?”
That would be the “keeping it real” spring.