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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jagfan who wrote (405)	11/17/2004 11:34:10 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224864

Jagfan . Agreed with all of your last post.... and in this following article....Not a word mentioned that the murderers are MOSLUM KILLERS. Why do main stream media not call them what they are moslom killers...barbaric backward religious filth. Allowed to flourish in the world by liberal political correct thinking and actions. These filth are being rewarded for their murderous actions by the media that refuses to call them what they are and hold them responsible for their actions. Muslim terrorists are totally responsible for all death that has occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan and a thousand other places world wide. Leaders condemn Margaret Hassan killing washingtontimes.com London, England, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The apparent killing of aid worker Margaret Hassan in Iraq drew widespread condemnation from world leaders Wednesday. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said in a public statement, "To kidnap and kill anyone is inexcusable but it's repugnant to commit such a crime against a woman who has spent most of her life working for the good of the people of Iraq." Tony Blair sent a message of sympathy to the family of Hassan, who live in Ireland. He said he "shared their abhorrence" at the murder, the London Evening Standard reported. Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said, "Those responsible for abducting Margaret Hassan stand condemned by everyone throughout the entire international community." Arabic television channel al-Jazeera said Tuesday that it had received a video showing a militant firing a pistol into the head of a blindfolded woman in an orange jumpsuit. Experts have checked the video and concluded that it is genuine. Her Iraqi husband begged her captors Wednesday to return Hassan's body to him. Tahseen Hassan said in a television plea, "I need her. I need her back to rest in peace." Churches in Ireland are holding services for the Irish-born Iraqi-British national, who had lived for thirty years in Iraq and had converted to Islam.

To: Jagfan who wrote (405)	11/17/2004 7:30:50 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 224864

Killing of Margaret Hassan: Something Evil This Way Comes Roger Harrison, Arab News Thursday, 18, November, 2004 arabnews.com In the context of the clinical demolition of Fallujah where an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi was shot by a US Marine, there are deaths that pierce the soul in a way that even that death in a war zone cannot. Among the teeming billions of humans on this planet, the death of a single human is statistically insignificant. There are some events however — perhaps one of those statistically insignificant deaths — which call the idea of “humanity” as a concept associated with humans into question. Such is the case with Margaret Hassan. She was killed by fellow human beings who were products of a culture that they would no doubt call civilized, who never stated their cause but merely had her read prepared statements demanding the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq. No banners, no gun toting figures in balaclavas, religious recitations or political statements provided a background to her humiliation and final death. The sheer cold brutality of what now proves to have been the inevitable progression to the murder of a thoroughly decent and caring soul, who had done nothing but care for the poor of Iraq for 30 years, bears the signature of evil if there ever was an act which did. The manner of her kidnapping indicated the manner of person the killers were dealing with. When Margaret was driving to work, she was, reports say, flagged down by two men in police uniform. Her driver and an unarmed guard were pulled out and pistol-whipped by gunmen who suddenly appeared. Margaret demanded they stop the beating and said she would go with them. Her killers must surely have known who she was and what she had done for the ordinary people of their country, probably hoping that this quality of saintliness would provide added pressure on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to accede to their demands. She certainly would have told them and been understood as she was fluent in Arabic. On Oct. 25, about 200 people, many who had been helped by Margaret Hassan or Care International, rallied at the agency’s Baghdad offices. They carried pictures of her and banners calling for her captors to set her free. These people are presumably the ones her captors wish to free from oppression? Her kidnappers, hoping for some kind of support from the militant Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi threatened to hand her to his group, which has definitely been involved in beheadings — notably the American businessman Nick Berg and construction worker Ken Bigley, unless British troops withdrew from Iraq. A message claiming to come from Al-Zarqawi, however, had the effect of distancing him from the kidnapping and called for her release. The message, which promised to free Margaret if she fell into their hands, spiked the kidnappers’ guns and effectively distanced Al-Zarqawi from the situation. The message even called on the kidnappers to publish any information they had to support their contention that Margaret was a spy and contended that, “In true Islam, they don’t kill women and young children. We never kill people who we are not supposed to kill. We only kill those who fight us and kill our people.” Margaret Hassan could not have been further from that description of fighter or killer yet in a nightmarish Kafkaesque way, anonymous people for no stated reason shot her. “We are in the holy month of Ramadan and my wife has been helping Iraq for thirty years and loved this country,” her husband Tahseen Ali Hassan said Wednesday on Al-Arabiya television, just before she was killed. “In the name of humanity, Islam and brotherhood, I appeal to the kidnappers to free her; she has nothing to do with politics.” Humanity, Islam and brotherhood — the appeal fell on deaf ears. If Al-Qaeda or any other militant Islamic organization wants to associate itself credibly or believably with the principles of peace and tolerance Islam is built upon, the time for them to do so is now. The pure and simple evil that pulled the trigger on this good woman, Margaret Hassan, is abroad in the world and it should be condemned loudly and repeatedly by those who are Muslim as well as by every other human being. Perhaps Margaret Hassan’s captors had learned a grim lesson: Kill an American soldier and the West receives a body count. Kill an Iraqi as collateral damage and almost no one notices. Kill a Western woman and the world will hear about it. In the cynical world of the media — of which this article is a part — their vicious approach may yet have some effect. And in the interconnectedness of all things, where no man is an island, are we not all therefore to some extent responsible in some degree for her brutal and pointless death?