I can’t do justice, here, in excerpted form, to an Op-Ed piece written by David Frum in today’s National Post. But here’s a snippet. I encourage everyone to take a look at the whole piece over at the National Post.
David Frum
National Post
Oct 12 2004The morning after last week’s terrorist attack in Taba, Egypt, an op-ed submission from the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress popped up in my e-mail in-basket. Dr. Mohamed Elmasry’s article opened with a perfunctory expression of regret for the atrocity—and a rather more heartfelt expression of concern for the Egyptian tourist industry. The doctor then proceeded to his real message: Canadian newspaper readers must understand that the Israeli vacationers in Taba had brought slaughter and death upon themselves.
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After the Taba bombing, the director-general of the Al-Arabiya TV channel, a journalist named Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed, published an article in a London Arabic-language newspaper that bravely challenged Arabs and Muslims to repudiate all terror, whatever its putative justification, whatever its target.
“[The terror attacks] are interconnected ideologically, if not by the affiliation of their perpetrators. A solution solely concerned with security can never succeed in bringing terrorism to a halt. This sheds light once again on [the position of] the Arab intellectuals, who not only are silent but even justify terror, for they in reality supply terrorism with what it most needs—propaganda and legitimacy. Therefore they are embarrassed when [such an] incident takes place on their own land and they hasten to make distinctions and clarifications.”
Exactly so. By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.
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