To: average joe who wrote (5178 ) 2/25/2007 10:16:31 PM From: Ichy Smith Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20106 Yes, it was truly a grotesque act of mass murder committed on September 11, which led to the killing of 3,000 innocent men, women and children, but their lives and their innocence is not greater than the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives lost as a result of Western and Zionist aggression. How many 9/11s have been unleashed against the Iraqi people in the last 4 years alone, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands killed as a direct result of American-led economic sanctions during the 8 years prior to the invasion One is tempted to mention that most of the deaths in Iraq, are not caused or perpetrated by Americans. But rather by Arab Sunni killing Arab Shia or Arab Shia killing Arab Sunni, and both sides are using weapons gifted to them by Persian Shias. And the Americans and Zionists are going crazy trying to get the Arab Muslims to stop killing each other for the Persian Muslims. There is a certain amount of irony there. Why is it more evil to plan an attack like 9/11 than it is to conspire to wage a war of aggression against a defenseless nation and reduce it to rubble? It’s not, so stop apologizing! If Saddam hadn't been a mass murderer and genocidal nutcase who kept threatening everyone with Weapons of mass Destruction that he didn't possess, Iraq wouldn't have been attacked. Of course Islam loves it's mass Murderers look at Hitler's Bumboy the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.The Israelis who get blown up on buses are not more important than the Palestinians killed by American-supplied Israeli tanks, planes, bombs and missiles. Cry for and condemn the American and British lives recently lost to terrorist acts, but don’t forget to remind the world to condemn the wholesale killing of hundreds of Lebanese civilians during last summer’s savage Israeli bombing campaign using cluster bombs and other munitions that were supplied by the US and sent to Israel via Britain. Not only did President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair not condemn Israel for what were obviously monstrous violations of international humanitarian law, but they in fact blocked any attempt by the UN to stop it and supplied the weapons to help it along. Now this is just plain silly. If the Palestinians spent half as much time building Palestine as they spend building bombs, they could pave the streets with gold. If the Persian Shia were not so busy sending missiles, thousands of them, Israel would not have attacked Lebanon. The point here is not to make excuses or justify the killing of innocents by Muslims. But it must also be recognized and understood that Muslim violence is not inherently more evil than the violence perpetrated by their accusers – and the loss of Muslim life as a result of western imperialist and colonialist aggression is not more benign than the killing of innocents as a result of so-called religious imperatives. The time is long overdue to stop speaking from a position of apologetic weakness and to start exercising the moral imperative you face to stand up for yourselves. Just as well you don't want to justify Darfur, Iraq, Thailand, the Armenians, the orthodox Serbs (look how Islam whined when the Serbs tried to get Justice from the Bosnian Muslims for slaughtering them, and Indonesia and the slaughter of the Hindus and 1.5 million Armenians. Even today Islam denies slaughtering the Armenians, Stand up and admit it like a man..... Stand up for yourselves, but be prepared, lots of people are tired of your excuses. Spaniards, and Germans and Australians and Englishmen, and Swedes and Danes, are all getting tired of silly excuses for Muslim men committing rape on their women and blowing up their subways and committing honor killings in their countries. Give us a rest, and stop being so stupid.