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Monday, January 24, 2005
A Telling Tape
An audio tape, supposedly by our favorite bad guy, Al-Zarqawi, has pretty much laid on the line much of what we already suspected. Radical Islam, or even fundamentalist Islam, is not compatible with democracy.
This tape will not help the insurgents. If anything, it will encourage Iraqis to go to the polls. They are upset enough, having the country ripped apart by these insurgents. They know that if the terrorists hasn't poured over their borders, they would be well on their way to peace by now. Being told that the tyranny they lived under was more of Allah's will for them than free elections would be just a bit too much for them to swallow.
Let freedom ring.
The speaker attacked democracy as a springboard for "un-Islamic" practices, claiming that its emphasis on majority rule violates the principle that all laws must come from a divine source.Now, I know that a Saudi cleric recently encouraged Muslims to reject terrorism.
One of Saudi Arabia's most influential clerics urged Muslims to eschew terrorism, saying attacks on the innocent were not in accordance with the teachings of Islam.Let's see what happens now. These clerics are now stuck between a rock and a hard place. If they reject the ideas put forth on this tape, then they, by default, embrace democratic elections, which are not the policy in Muslim countries. If they embrace the ideology on the tape, then they are in essence embracing the radical and extremist ideologies of the terrorists.
"Islam is a religion of moderation. Extremism has no place in Islam," Sheikh Abdurahman Al-Sudais of the Masjid'l Haram (Grand Mosque) said in a sermon delivered for Friday's Eid'l Adha (feast of sacrifice).
This tape will not help the insurgents. If anything, it will encourage Iraqis to go to the polls. They are upset enough, having the country ripped apart by these insurgents. They know that if the terrorists hasn't poured over their borders, they would be well on their way to peace by now. Being told that the tyranny they lived under was more of Allah's will for them than free elections would be just a bit too much for them to swallow.
Let freedom ring.
