From: *Travis* Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 Subject: Mommy blows up with toddler - new low for Islam
*http://tinyurl.com/d8o482* ** Jonathan Kay: Mommy blows up with toddler — this has got to be a new low for militant Islam Posted: April 28, 2009, 12:33 PM by Jonathan Kay <http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/tags/Jonathan+Kay/default.aspx> Having spent this morning catching up on my weekend reading, I came across this <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/world/middleeast/24iraq.html> Page 4 article from Friday's *New York Times*. Here's the lead paragraph: "*BAGHDAD — At least 80 people died and 120 others were injured Thursday in three bombings, one by a female suicide bomber in Baghdad who, Iraqi officials said, held a young child’s hand as she set off her explosives among a group of women and children receiving emergency food aid*." Even putting aside our baseline revulsion at terrorism, there are three especially hideous things that jump out from this: 1) A mother deliberately taking her (presumed) child with her as she immolates herself. For all the hundreds of suicide bombings that Iraq has already witnessed, this has got to be a first. 2) This was a line for *food aid*. Islamists have gone from attacking U.S. soldiers, to attacking Iraqi soldiers, to attacking police stations, to attacking the religious ceremonies of rival sects — on down the line of nihilism until, now, they are reduced to blowing up hungry people seeking sustenance. 3) This hideous crime was played on page *four* of *The New York Times*. And a quick scan of other media suggests it got similar B-rate treatment elsewhere. This sort of act would have been worth a worldwide banner headline a decade ago. But now, it's just another demented Islamist senselessly slaughtering fellow Muslims. With her kid. Yawn. Says a lot about the world we live in, doesn't it? If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. … We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. –Sir Karl Popper __._,_.___ __,_._,___ -- *~@):~{> -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
