Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Islam's beheading problem

The news from Canada just keeps getting worse. The good news the creeps in the alleged terror cell have been caught. But recent revelations tell of an even more sinister plot.

From Reuters:

One member of an alleged al Qaeda-inspired terror ring arrested in Canada last weekend faces the accusation that he sought to behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

The man, Steven Chand, 25, was among 15 members of the alleged ring who appeared in a heavily guarded courtroom northwest of Toronto on Tuesday to set dates for bail hearings.

"There's an allegation apparently that my client personally indicated that he wanted to behead the prime minister of Canada," Chand's lawyer, Gary Batasar, told reporters.

There is a problem withinn Islam, as Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, the general manager of al-Arabiya television noted in 2004:

It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims.

Legendary Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko had an alter ego named Slats Grobnik. Slats was a "forgotten genaration,"--too young to fight in World War II, but born before the baby-boomers--working class Chicagoan. Kind of an older version of one of Saturday Night Live's Superfans.
If he was still alive, I could see Royko using the Slats character to say, "What's with Islam and all these beheadings."

Examples to be cited of course include Nick Berg, Georgi Lazov, Daniel Pearl, Kim Sun-il, Paul M. Johnson, Kenneth Bigley, Jack Hensley, Eugene Armstrong, Durmus Kumdereli, Oriana Fallaci, Fabrizio Quatrocchi, Guillermo Sobero, Surin Somjit, and certainly many more.

This verse from the Qu'ran is cited as justification by groups such as al-Qaeda as justifcation for the carrying out of this brutal death sentance:

Sura [47:4]

If you encounter (in war) those who disbelieve, you may strike the necks. If you take them as captives you may set them free or ransom them, until the war ends.

So Slats, that's what's going on with Islam and beheadings. There's a very serious problem within that faith, and "moderate" groups such as CAIR and the Muslim Council of Britain need to acknowledge it in a specific and public manner.

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