And... Don't expect to see any signs like this...
It's only when irresponsible Newsweek journalists write bogus stories about the Gitmo Koran's that the Islamists go on killing sprees.
The BBC reported on a horrible prison riot in Syria today:
Clashes between guards and prisoners at a jail in Syria have resulted in many deaths, a human-rights group says.The Islamists take desecrating the Koran seriously... When they can tie it to the US.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 25 people had been killed after military police fired live bullets at Islamist inmates.
The Syrian authorities have not yet commented on the situation, which remains unclear. One inmate told the BBC he believed more than 25 had died.
Prisoners said the clashes were sparked by raids in which guards beat inmates.
They said the guards had also desecrated copies of the Koran.
Otherwise, it's not really that big of a deal.
Hat Tip Bruce Kesler
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seriously... When they can tie it to the US]
that is the bottom line..
really can't think of anything else to say..
except for: Koran (any spelling) = propaganda..
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I came in on the report, via the BBC World Service, about halfway through.
ReplyDeleteMy first reaction was "Oh no, a Koran flushed at Gitmo."
Can't begin to tell you the relief I felt when the report continued and I heard it was Syrians doing the deed.
Speaking of which, didn't Assad pere reduce a town to rubble, killing 20,000 people, with nary a squawk from the Arab world? Very picky about their outrage, these fellas.
Where is Islamic Rage Boy when you need him?
ReplyDeleteYou kinda have to have lived in an islamic country to know just how unserious most muslims are about the q'ran, both in the physical and metaphysical. Believe me, they are unserious. I met a lot of Saudis who would do twists and flips, and drop a cool $400, to get a bottle of Jack Daniels.
ReplyDeleteAnd you have to live in a (mostly) Christian nation to believe the staged outrage that goes on daily in islamic societies.
Actually, they apparently took the Syrian case seriously enough to riot, at the cost of dozens of their lives. So I don't agree with your claim that they are, in this case, hypocrites about their religion as a mask for anti-US fervor.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I do think that reacting homicidally to "desecration" of a printed copy of a book is insane. Also, such behavior ought to be opposed as idolatry by followers of any of the Abrahamic religions. But I'm not in a position to lecture Islamists on what Islam really means.
DW - you have a good point in some ways but miss the point in others. It isn't so much the reaction of the inmates (which seems rooted in more than just the desecration) so much as the reaction across the rest of the Muslim world.
ReplyDeleteIt is the lack of outrages from the usual suspects that is the point here.
And WE made the Syrian guards do it, of course. They do our bidding, BWAAAAAAA HAAAA HAAAA HAAAA...
ReplyDeleteYes, but once an attack has been avenged, you don't have to keep avenging it.
ReplyDeleteSay a boy from the Smith clan seduces my daughter, and then runs away to escape justice. I and my family are now obligated to wage a vendetta against his clan. But once I (or my brother or cousin) kill the Smith boy's brother (or rapes his sister) I am freed from this obligation. I am, of course, also evil, but that is another matter.
Patrick,
ReplyDeleteYes. It was called Hama.
Yes, but once an attack has been avenged, you don't have to keep avenging it.
ReplyDeleteThere is no comparison here. If you remember, the riots all over the world continued even after the "flushing Koran" story was found to be false.
There has never, EVER, been a thought given to proportionality when Muslims are protesting, be that fake desecration stories or cartoons.
Dead mulsims are the best kind. Good for Syria
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