The Bigger Threat to Islam?
All of a sudden, the Danish cartoon wars is not important. Why? Well, it appears that some Islamic extremists has blown up and seriously damaged the so-called Golden Mosque in Samara, Iraq. Al Qaeda says that Iran and the provisional Iraqi government did it. Iran says that the US and Israel did it. Both assertions make me certain that either Iran or al Qaeda did it.

Where is the outrage on the Arab street? Where are the protests condemning al Qaeda? Where are the bans from Islamic clerics on associating with them? Where are the threats to boycott Arab countries that support terror? I guess that has to be saved for the cartoons.

This thing makes me sad. It's like when the Taliban blew up the statues of Buddha. It would be as if the Red Brigade blew up St. Peter's Basilica. Something like this is not only a crime against people, it's a crime against civilization itself.

Click here for a breakdown of Mid-East press reaction from the BBC.

Of course, the leftist press has already declared a civil war:
"Shiite fury explodes in Iraq; scores are killed" - IHT.

"Bodies pile up in morgues as Iraq spirals out of control" - Times Online.

"Iraq slides closer to sectarian war" - The Age.

This will no doubt be a real test for Iraqis, especially when unprincipled clerics like Muqtada "Fatso" al-Sadr will try to use this event to sieze power for themselves. I have faith, however, that the Iraqis will get though this.
- posted by Base10 @ 12:11 PM