Muslims in denial
When terrorists last week blew up the Mina Bazaar, a market for women and children, they detonated a car bomb so powerful it left more than 100 people dead and 15 missing in a nightmarish scene of scattered limbs, charred corpses and victims trapped alive under mounds of debris.This is a sickness that needs to be addressed. At least most Muslims in the US are not denying the heinous acts of the Fort Hood shooter or his religion. The Muslims in Pakistan need to deal with those who have been made crazy by their religion. Doing something about the religious bigots in their midst could go along way toward bringing them and everyone else some peace.The bombing crossed a new line of callousness, uniting Peshawar in grief and fear and unleashing a tide of anger. But most of the outrage expressed by survivors, witnesses, religious leaders and other residents this week was not directed at Islamist extremist groups, whom the government has blamed for the attack, but at the countries many Pakistanis see as their true enemies: India, Israel and the United States.
In part, this reaction stems from a deep popular conviction that no Muslim could perpetrate such atrocities against other Muslims. The more egregious the attack, the stronger seems the tendency to deny a domestic cause and blame other, more remote culprits. Some religious and political groups are encouraging such responses, eager to whip up xenophobic sentiment for their own ends.
This week, the influential Jamaat-e-Islami religious party organized a "peace march" in central Peshawar from the Khyber Bazaar, where a car bomb killed more than 30 people Oct. 9, to the Mina Bazaar. The marchers held up banners and shouted slogans denouncing the CIA, the Pentagon, the security company formerly known as Blackwater, U.S. drone attacks and American aid. There was no mention of the Taliban or al-Qaeda.
"Muslims! Muslims! We are here to protest against those wrongdoers who work for India, Israel and the United States," a well-dressed, middle-aged rally organizer shouted through a bullhorn. "We protest against American interference and against our government, which is handing over Pakistan to the foreigners and the unbelievers."
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This sickness, this EVIL, will not be addressed. Ever.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, it's misleading to call it sickness. it's a firm faith in a very coherent world view. Just because this world view includes killing innocents in the name of some deity does not mean that the defenders of this faith are sick or insane. They're evil.
The Muslims in Pakistan are in denial? They are surrounded by a corrupt culture that supports and encourages their denial. When a whole culture shares a belief, can it be called denial? The sane ones are corrupt and cynical; we won't get any help there.
Time magazine has a despicable essay about how the shrink Jihadist was under terrible pressure from "secondary PTSD" and this is what caused him to "snap".
Yeah, and I'm a leprechaun. This narcissistic mass murderer was a parasite. He took and took but never gave anything back but murder and mayhem in return. Time magazine thinks he deserves our sympathy. The writer obviously has a terminal case of ignorant psychobabble, but try piercing his denial.
This evil psychiatrist had lived off the largesse of the US since at least the age of 18. He went thru his undergraduate work via the ROTC. He got a free medical school education from the government. He had a cushy job and a fairly prestigious rank as a major. At Walter Reed Hospital there were numerous instances of his militant Muslim behavior and speech, including saying things like "infidels should be beheaded".
He didn't hide his loathing for the US but the most it got him was a poor review. All along the line, his superiors ignored the concerns of his underlings. Their valid, sane complaints fell on the deaf ears of those higher up.
You served in the military. You know how often the time servers are too busy protecting their own careers to take the risk of protecting others from a walking time bomb.
The man was a parasite and a killer. Those under whom he served are partially responsible for the deaths at Fort Hood and they know it. They knew him and they did nothing.