April 04, 2004

Does the Iraqi Street Recognize the Bloodthirstiness of the Mosques?

Don’t miss this post regarding Fallujah from Iraqi blogger Mohammed, at IraqTheModel.

Like most Iraqis I was shocked to what happened in Fallujah and till now the Iraqi street condemns what happened and reject it. Even the mosques today including the major one in Fallujah condemned the horrible crime.

Notice he says “Even the mosques… condemned the horrible crime.” That sounds like it’s unusual when the mosques condemn a terrorist action. That’s not a surprise at all. What’s a surprise is the difference this may show us between what the mosques say and what “most Iraqis” believe. Can it be that a majority of Iraqis believe that the mosques are bloodthirsty and out of touch with their beliefs? I’ll ask about this in a comment on IraqTheModel, and I’ll post here later on any responses I get.

Back to this great article:

But what I want to do today is an attempt to remind the others of our tragedy. You can now comprehend the extent of the crime that took place in Iraq for the past 35 years. We were ruled by people like those who committed the crime in Fallujah. Every day we were shocked by scenes like these for our beloved ones our children our thinkers and artists; our bodies were mutilated for 35 years.

You have the right to be shocked and we have the right to scream out loud this is the scene we were forced to see again and again for decades; amputation of limbs decapitation, cutting tongues, casting limbs in concrete, mincing human flesh. You probably have heard of Uday’s iron coffin but have you heard of the the Ba’ath flame? Which meant that the prisoner would be chained and stripped of his clothes and then he would be splashed with gasoline to be set on fire until he dies. You can imagine what the comrades of such prisoners would feel while the see and hear the screams and feel the smell of the burning human flesh. I wonder if you saw the tape that Al-Jazeera put right after the war where 3 prisoners were wrapped with dynamite to be blasted in a bloody party so that the barbarians can enjoy their revenge.

... We used to see brothers and friends disappear after going to work or shopping without knowing what happened to them.

...We’re not cowards and we will never allow those people to make a come back.You must remember very well that we’re fighting together and we face death every day, more than 500 IP members were killed and many Iraqi contractors or labor men and women who worked with the CPA to build a new Iraq but we will never despair and we’re ready to give more sacrifices so that what happened will never recur.

...My sincere condolences to the families of the victims. Our fight is one and your loss is ours.

Is that not moving? Read the whole thing.

How, after becoming aware of this, can any Americans continue to support the current positions of the Left?

In opposing our efforts in Iraq, in calling for the return of our troops, the Left in the U.S. is assisting terrorists such as those in Fallujah, and seeking to leave those terrorists free to attack the U.S. and all the world’s democracies. The drive by the Left to obtain political power is at the expense of the safety of our nation.