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GREAT MOMENTS IN THE ANCIENT TRADITION OF ISLAMIC LAW:
-- IranPressNews

14 year old boy died on Thursday, November 11th, after having received 85 lashes; according to the ruling of the Mullah judge of the public circuit court in the town of Sanandadj he was guilty of breaking his fast during the month of Ramadan.





Someone in their personal web-log attempted to tabulate all the foreign civilians killed in Iraq, in the name of Islam:

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/055212.php#more

That gives some idea that this is more than a backlash against the "evil imperialist" United States.
These are names from all over the world, many from Islamic countries.
Especially self-incriminating is their murder of Margaret Hassan, a European woman married to an Iraqi, who devoted 25 years of her life to helping and improving the condition of the Iraqi people. Brutally murdered.

The list also doesn't include the roughly 1200 U.S. soldiers who have been killed (to date) since March 2003, and the 20,000 Iraqi citizens the al Qaida/Iraqi-resistance have killed.

The list also doesn't include the roughly 500 videotaped beheadings of Russian soldiers and civilians in Chechnya, already going on before al Qaida became active in Iraq.

Most disconcerting to me is how much of the Muslim world endorses these tactics and cheers them on. From Saudi clerics encouraging the jihad slaughter of Americans, to Al Jazeera distortedly whipping up anti-American anger in the Arab world, to the 30% to 50% population of Islamic countries who are boycotting American products and businesses.


I leave it to others to determine how well this reflects on the inherently benevolent and peaceful nature of Islam.