Jude3b
January 14th 2005, 10:05 PM
According to Diana West, a columnist for the Washington Times - ISLAMIC MEDIA EXPLAINS WORLD EVENTS LIKE THIS:
On Palestinian Authority TV, according to MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute), Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris asked Allah in a Friday sermon to have mercy on "all the Muslims who died" in the tsunami. Which means everyone else is on his own. Next, the sheik railed against the disaster's cause, which was neither earth, skies nor anything divine in between. It seems that it all had to do with "THE OPPRESSION AND CORRUPTION CAUSED BY AMERICA AND THE JEWS" - naturally.
Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajjid's take, as broadcast on state-controlled Saudi television (also reported on MEMRI - the Middle East Media Research Institute), was certainly anti-Christian. "The problem is that the (Christian) holidays are accompanied by forbidden things: by immorality, abomination, adultery, alcohol, drunken dancing and... and revelry," he said,
"At the height of immorality, Allah took vengeance of these criminals ... Allah struck them with an earthquake. He finished off the Richter scale," he added. "All nine levels gone."
No mention of the tens of thousands of non-Christians "gone" alongside said "criminals" - and, of course, no mention of the vast amounts of "criminal" (and even, ye gods, Jewish) aid pouring into the region, most expeditiously via the United States military, in amounts that dwarf the contributions of the Muslim world.
The Web site Jihad Unspun. In a feat of contorted thinking not even the New York Times editorial page would attempt, it connects the killer from the sea to Thailand's support for United States foreign policy - that is, for "the Christian Crusaders" at "the altar of capitalism."
As the columnist - Diana West states: "FOR JUST AS ISLAM HIDES ITS FACE FROM THE FACTS OF MODERNITY, WE MUST NOT HIDE OUR FACE FROM THE FACTS OF ISLAM.
To that I ask: How is it possible that any religion could be so influenced by irrational leaders that anyone would want to remain a part of it or ever listen to its teachers again???
On Palestinian Authority TV, according to MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute), Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris asked Allah in a Friday sermon to have mercy on "all the Muslims who died" in the tsunami. Which means everyone else is on his own. Next, the sheik railed against the disaster's cause, which was neither earth, skies nor anything divine in between. It seems that it all had to do with "THE OPPRESSION AND CORRUPTION CAUSED BY AMERICA AND THE JEWS" - naturally.
Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajjid's take, as broadcast on state-controlled Saudi television (also reported on MEMRI - the Middle East Media Research Institute), was certainly anti-Christian. "The problem is that the (Christian) holidays are accompanied by forbidden things: by immorality, abomination, adultery, alcohol, drunken dancing and... and revelry," he said,
"At the height of immorality, Allah took vengeance of these criminals ... Allah struck them with an earthquake. He finished off the Richter scale," he added. "All nine levels gone."
No mention of the tens of thousands of non-Christians "gone" alongside said "criminals" - and, of course, no mention of the vast amounts of "criminal" (and even, ye gods, Jewish) aid pouring into the region, most expeditiously via the United States military, in amounts that dwarf the contributions of the Muslim world.
The Web site Jihad Unspun. In a feat of contorted thinking not even the New York Times editorial page would attempt, it connects the killer from the sea to Thailand's support for United States foreign policy - that is, for "the Christian Crusaders" at "the altar of capitalism."
As the columnist - Diana West states: "FOR JUST AS ISLAM HIDES ITS FACE FROM THE FACTS OF MODERNITY, WE MUST NOT HIDE OUR FACE FROM THE FACTS OF ISLAM.
To that I ask: How is it possible that any religion could be so influenced by irrational leaders that anyone would want to remain a part of it or ever listen to its teachers again???