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Date Posted: 18:23:43 10/11/04 Mon
Author: Joe
Subject: Re: Moslims in Saudi Arabia
In reply to: Tony Lang 's message, "Re: Moslims in Saudi Arabia" on 06:52:54 10/11/04 Mon

>Well Actually there is a lot of criticism by Saudis
>about the atrocities committed by so called Muslims.
>For some time now the correspondence columbs of the
>Arab News an English Saudi newspaper have contained a
>considerable number of them.

I'd like to hear what sort "criticisms" of terrorism these were. Were they strong condemnations of such acts as the Beslan massacre of children or hostage beheadings? Or were they just criticisms?

Another question is: Are they condemning/criticizing such barbarous acts for the right reasons? For example, here's part of an article that asks that question:

A survey of Muslim views over the past weeks shows overwhelming, though not unanimous, condemnation of the Beslan massacre. But in all cases the reasons given for the condemnation are political rather than religious. Muslim commentators assert that Russia, having supported "the Palestinian cause," did not deserve such treatment.

Sheik Yussuf al-Qaradawi, a Sunni Muslim scholar based in Qatar, was among the first to condemn the Beslan massacre. At the same time, however, he insists that a similar attack on Israeli schools would be justified because Israeli schoolchildren, if not killed, could grow up to become soldiers. (Sheik Qaradawi also justifies the killing of unborn Israelis because, if born, they could become soldiers.)

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Implicit in all this is that killing innocent people in the lands of the "infidel" is justified for as long as the victims are not citizens of states sympathetic to "the Arab cause," whatever it happens to be at any given time. That position was highlighted in the Arab reaction to the kidnapping of two French journalists by Islamists in Iraq last month. Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa led the call for their release with these words: "France is a friend of the Arabs; we cannot treat friends this way."


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