Just hours after a truck bomb created a monstrous crater and killed dozens of civilians at the Marriot Hotel in Islamabad, Muslims the world over took to the streets. Thousands marched in Turkey carrying placards that read … “not in the name of my Muhammad!”
In Canada, Muslim leaders were quick to condemn those who carried out the attack, saying that only fanatics and degenerates would carry out such an act in the name of Islam. Further abroad, in London, where many Pakistanis have immigrated, a throng of thousands marched in an act of solidarity with the victims of the blast.
From Saudi Arabia to Indonesia, Muslim leaders joined to distance themselves from this, and other, wanton acts of violence perpetrated in the name of the Prophet Muhammad.
When asked why the sudden outrage against terror, one Muslim women protesting in Paris exclaimed … “We need to show the world that Muhammad is the prophet of peace … not pieces!”
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Is this a joke?
Well, that’s nice but, um, the victims were Muslims right?
We all anxiously await similar solidarity protests against the slaughter of infidels but we shan’t hold our breath!
We (the west) get no thanks when we help muslims, no grief when we’re slaughtered by them. That is the natural order of things in the dar al Islam.
I second Me No Dhimmi’s remarks. We saw no such protests after 9/11, or Bali, or Madrid, or Beslan. If slaughtering schoolchildren, who didn’t happen to be Muslim, didn’t provoke decent human outrage among Muslims, that says something very important, disgusting and important. Muslim empathy for the suffering of non-Muslims caused by Muslims in the name of Islam seems to be missing.
“We need to show the world that Muhammad is the prophet of peace … not pieces!”
Umm, err, as it was said, the religion of peace being spread one car bomb at at time! Need I comment further…
The 700 men and boys of the Jewish Banu Quarazya tribe, whose heads were chopped off by Muhammad; the assassinated poets; the victims of his personal lust and rape and countless others would agree that Muhammad was no prophet of peace.
Do they(Muslims) believe that we are that stupid? A little investigation into the Koran and the way that it goes, it is a bloodbath! Mohammud`s time in Medina was all about killing infidels and unbelievers! The way Islam is regarding the Koran, is that the later teachings supercede anything before it. That is why Islam is so ridiculous. It is all about killing everyone who is not Islamic and those who will not convert!
I don’t believe they are sincere. They are posing for the West. If we believe them we will sympathize with them and that is a tool of jihad.
Yum…satire.
I love satire.
Or, we could just say “thank you for your concern” and then ask them to stop these kinds of things from ever happening again as a sign of good faith.
I won’t hold my breath though.
I should add that our system is based on lies too. All our politicians lie to us all the time.
That said, we should just have an all out war with them to see which liars will run this planet.
The only other protest of any consequence by muslims, against terror, was the bombing of a wedding party in Jordan another one when the victims were also muslims.
It is ok for Muslims to massacre other Muslims, you will not see Canadian Muslims protest, if they do it will to blame the U.S. (Haroon Siddiqui style), maybe Pakistan needs a ‘surge’
…Islamabad eh.
Fitting name.
On a positive note, this may put a little steel (no pun intended) in Pakistan’s leadership. Nothing like a little homestyle taste of the Taliban’s lunacy to convince the fencesitters.
Pretty stupid on the Taliban’s part, actually; now they can fight a two front battle for survival. I’m betting that their friends in the Pak. intelligence community will be less than amused.
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To what end will these Heathens go to garner a bit of Western sympathy?
I call BS on all this. It is simply a ploy to play to the sympathies of the Western world. After all, these animals use retarded children to
self-explode in order to kill non-beleivers. What’s 60 or so Mohammedans when you are fighting a global jihad? This faux condemnation
is nothing more than a staged act designed to suit their current agenda.
One needs no imagination if this had happened not in Islamabad, but lets say Toronto or L.A. Does anyone seriously entertain there would have been any marches of solidarity for the Kaffirs? At least it shows they can be stung when their own are hurt.
Although I do think some intelligent Muslims have started to figure out where these acts of horror are going to
lead their Religion to in the future. To mass revolt by non-Muslims, than latter exiled to a peripheral nature when their money runs out fuel the expansion with funds from Oil, or worse a nuclear fireball in the middle of Mecca & Medina.
They have not figured out yet what the West means by Total war with no HUDNA.
I don’t trust this at all. They are pretending this is for the infidel, but really it’s a message to their own not to attack “innocent” Muslims. That they are fed up with being collateral damage in Dar Islam by the warrior wing of Islamism. Its propaganda wrapped in a message to the armed branch of this Death Cult to leave off on their own.
Ah, but notice how no Jooooooos were on staff at the Marriot at the time of the blast.
Time to get out the chicken wire and liquid barbecue starter to prove this is the work of the international Zionist conspiracy! Troof to power!
What’s another explosive(Bin)laden truck bomb anyway? Just another confused moslem, erh, confused jihadist, erh, confused terrorist. Well SOMEONE got confused following in the sunnah of the (murderer for) profit mohamed,MPBUH(may a pair of sexually active porcupines be upon him.
Just another wild and whacky day in “dar al salami”
Salami ‘n’ Bacon you all!
It may take them many years to garner any sympathy,and more importantly any trust from the Western World. At this juncture they can go to hell until they spend at least a lifetime pulling themselves out of the Stone Age and proving they’re ready to be part of the civilized world.
It’s all down to trust and they’ve lost it big time.
It was attacks like this in Iraq and how the coalition forces responded that helped turn the tide and win the war.
Now is not the time to turn our backs on moderates who speak out against the violence of the radical fringe.
Now is the time to say “See we told you so. These nutjobs are your enemy just as much as they are ours. Work with us as your brothers did in Iraq and let’s purge them from your society as we did in Iraq.”
You’re being sarcsitic…right?
You’re being sarcasitic…right?
I’m with most of the rest of you on this issue.
Until they hit the streets when innocents are killed in the western world, then they show their true colours.
It’s not like they’re against these violent asswipes when they strike targets in the western world.
They only get outraged when their idiot brothers strike against others in purported Muslim countries.
Once they figure out their so-called religion is a means to control the rest of humanity, then I’ll believe their sincerity.
There is only one race … the human race and the Islamic extremists are not part of it.
As i said in my comments
USA always choose bad feinds and give gun to child or women or dummies to go kill
if you see result of any place USA enterd for bring peace and security there
we never see anything excetp all BS and vilienc more there
from the time of Republican start from Vitenam and then Russia then Isral tehn Afgan then Pakestain
if you study the probems in Afganstan
before 2001 waa
druge
poor coutnreis
abuse of “WAHABIEE msulim linke with Saudi”
now if you go to Pakisan and Afgante you are fight for yourlife everywhere no security at all
even if you cover it with TOubeh and all long dres withwomen still you may get killed
in matter of fact
when USA give all weapon nd not do real person to court and do justice
tehn army of corrptied of Pakistna is teh firs person cna be blame who are in touch and shkae hand with BUSH give them weapon to kill
the hisoty happend when his father also give SAamad weapn for kill and instead of take care they take care of all Muslim and noMuslim blow up
as you can see in htat hotel msut be Muslim and NonMuslim say there
in sep 11 muslim and noMjslim are both are killed
but
raher than journalim find real criminla
look for those bitxxx Catholic women fight over beach bikin paries with Muslim men in revenge
not to find real person behidn this
if crime happend always USA nd hter army is there too
if you took the math and
know share of all those events and army + gun +
USA you can see those words was tehre
plus
you can not treat people calm down by weapone
you made them more agrreisive to kill more
sionce not know the culture
this is not security Bush and USA hope or tak
taht is put all Muslim and noMuslim in treat now
this is real BS
and as we heard from presidnet of Pakisnt if he nees more mney he blos one thing up to say
I tiold you send me antoerh billion Mr. BUSH
we told you we need security
Republican and all army corrpted directed by Bush since 2001 destory all Muslim and Ialam as word for their bit women of htem to fight us not to cathc real crimial becaue real criminal is
Americna culture not Muslim for sure
Muslim are not guilty here or Islam
hat is bs of WEST culture lead to this
if they are not stop their wrong direction
nobody I am telling you nobdy cna leave in peace not Muslim not even Muslim not even animals
read history of even in afgnatan and you can see how they start from small to bigger worse ugly fight never stop yet
rather than put human with id and passport and figer print
I have suggestion
that every singel parts of gun and danger device need to have licence and inventory check
it means if certain inventory used in certain events what is left over and who keep it this way like bith certificate for bomb devioced
if some thing get stolen you know teh inventory form this factory was taken and knwo he source of it
more than keep track of human keep track of device and barcode them this way you can find who and when and where teh inventory of gund are there and who creat and built it
barcod sysem can get help that to find how USA amery may behidn this mess too as tehy were behind this in Sep 11 too I gues I amnot sure
this is war this is not Islam on trial
thisis BUSH and Paksiani govement on Trial now
tehy msut report details how??
So, here are two responses to prove the point.
Islamic dickheads blow up a hotel in Islamabad and it’s George Bush’s fault.
What kind of freakin’ crack are you on, idiot mos?
Biff:
If you are referring to me, no I am not.
None other than Gen Petraeus has talked about using situations like this to make headway in the counterinsurgency war. It is concrete evidence to the local populous that the radicals do not have their interests at heart.
This is the same methodology used in the latter stages of the Vietnam war under general abrams that was turning the tide in favour of the south vietnamese until a petty dirty-trick break-in at the watergate crippled executive american support for vietnamization. Petraeus was a disciple of Abrams.
Is their allegiance suspect? Perhaps. But keep in mind the level of indoctrination and pressure that they have been under for years now from the radicals. Any sign of a change of heart against these fanatics has to be applauded and supported. It’s what works and it’s what amplifies the effectiveness of intelligence and the lethality of the next counterstrikes.
set you free again, I thought you said taht you are spokewomen for lesbian in Canada and thier prays for walk show game tell us we want to coem and watch you walk naked to say go girl go!!
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All today prolems among Muslim are
racist bs people like you set you free
exactly is BUSH and Canadiana and American women fault
but you are too dum head to get it
drug made in Afgan but you people liek set you free are consumer of those druge we see it in medai every day
all is racist and hate word against Muslim and Islam cause this problems today
do not bumb them to eat and kill Mr. BUSH feed thos poor instead Paki are poor need food
not hotel for your welcom Madona Catholic bit try French, Itlain and Irish and Spanish all men by Madona catholic women!
The response here is so predictable, its almost laughable.
Why is it so hard for you folk to admit that you are just like them? You claim they want to see you annihilated, but I dont think it is a stretch of the imagination to suggest that you want the same.
When they make a show of solidarity, it is dismissed for being insincere (ironic, since it stands to logic that if they dont value your lives, they probably don’t value your opinion), or too late. They have to be pushed back into their cages so that we can be reminded how they want to kill us. Solidarity? Nope, they cant be trusted. They want to kill us. What do we want to do? Kill them, but most of us don’t want to admit that out loud, since it would tacitly admit that we are no better than they are.
Only dogs bark at dogs.
A deeper analysis of this situation, which rarely appears on a website like this, tells a different story. We have many scholars of Islam here, but few scholars of geopolitics apparently.
This attack represents a new dimension of attacks and its going to have repercussions. Militants were killing Pakistani muslim soldiers long before this happened. This attack took it one step further. Make no mistake about it – the aim of this attack was to include into the targetted population the Pakistani elite, which like most elites globally, is western-educated, highly educated and generally of a more secular, even leftist leaning. Indeed rumor in Pakistan has it that one floor of the Serena Hotel in Islamabad is booked out every friday by the government, with the more prominent members going there to drink alchohol in a country where alchohol is illegal. They play their games with strategic issues, not religion, in mind.
I needn’t bore you with General Mirza Aslam Beg or Hamid Gul’s plans for Pakistani ‘strategic depth’ in Afghanistan – the very same policies that spawned the crazies who committed these acts. Some blame Zia for Islamizing Pakistan, and he did, but the Islamism was introduced to Pakistan by his predecessor, Benazir Bhuttos father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who introduced it to give an identity to a country reeling after humiliation in a war that saw half of its territory become an independent nation. These elites controlled the militants once, serving as their political patrons. Then 2001 happened and things changed. Nevertheless, the elites were rarely if ever targetted. Sure there were attacks on the President and Prime Minister, but those attacks were aimed for symbolic value – families were never targetted. Given the destruction wrought, one wonders why the suicide bomber didnt drive 500m ahead and hit the PM’s house.
The reason is simple. The fast would have been broken at this point. Pakistan’s ordinary folk dont frequent five star hotels. Pakistan’s elite do. All three halls in the hotel were full up. Thats when the bomber struck.
Frankenstein has turned on the master. This is the first real challenge to the elites – the message is clear – the elites are the enemy now. The President and Prime Minister were just one or two members of the elite – and their family members were never targetted. Now its open season.
Of course this has nothing to do with the marches that followed – I am as surprised by them as anyone else, but this is the stuff that you ought to be looking out for. This is the real first challenge to the power brokers – they now know that their families are being targetted. The terrorist sympathizers are going to be weeded out – everyone knows who they are, but the security of being an elite – being above it all – has protected these sympathisers for far too long. To put it mildly, terrorism may have hit too close to home, and its probably going to galvanise the people who matter the most in Pakistan – the power brokers.
Lots of information compressed into very little space I know, but feel free to reply if you disagree on the substantive points. And please avoid namecalling.
Just the kind of guys people would trust to lead Pakistan into the brave new future once the ruling elites are all assassinated?
set you free
do not worry , you go do your lesbi*nn pray show,
Muslim can take care of the coutnrey
just tell NonMusim get out of their system tehy know how to fix it
tehy do not want you to tell htem what to do
we only waiting BUSH and republican go then Muslim handle the rest
tehy do not ned your money plus+ your bomb.
Muslim prefer to stay poor but stay alive. thanks
And then you wonder ;
Thanks for the info on Pakistan & this attack on their elites.
I seen the exact same thing happen to Iran to begin with in the 70’s before the Shah fled. Most here no doubt have as well. The intrigue you so well writer about is just another factor in the game. That we all assume other already know.
What I was trying to impress on people is this time ordinary folks are not willing as they where to go along with the damage this inflicts on them as Muslims by Muslims. As for us kefirs well this has nothing really to do with us. Do you honestly think they care when the Koran goes out of its way to hate the non-believer. lol. That’s naive in the extreme. Perhaps the elite mobilized people but I doubt it.
You can bet they know the game plan all to well by these murders & want none of it visited on themselves as has happened in any country who has fallen to the Islamists. Islam is a political movement allied with religion, born of a desert pirate . Rooted in the seventh century which have impeded these folks for centuries. The political joined with the religious creates a form of hydrophobic rage culturally. It deifies as tribalism as well. By its very nature its anti technological. Perhaps why you lefties love them so.
“Of course this has nothing to do with the marches that followed”
Okay, Mr. wonder, I’ll try not to call you names. These marches didn’t happen; the post was a hoax to illustrate the lack of outrage that takes place when muslims kill other muslims, compared to how outraged they get about every other alleged slight.
Do you really think an angry muslim marcher in Paris made a pun about pieces and peace?
Get it?
Andrew, yes. He cjunk wrote the satire to highlight the hypocrasy of the UN meeting the day before.
Kate you must be hearing a lot of crickets in Delisle this evening. Either way your prose is nothing short of genius.
As a suggestion, over at Ace of Spades HQ, their comment section has a little hash routine which display a users IP address in code. For example, User CountrySquire code is “e910j”. If he posts under a different name the code remains the same. It is a useful tool to quickly identify some of the AstroTurf and sock puppet commentators.
My apologies Cjunk, I thought Kate wrote this. Take it as a compliment that your writing is getting as good as Kate’s.
Perhaps.
It could also be the Taliban letting the Pakistani government know that they won’t sit idly by while American military incursions into Pakistan continue, with little protest.
The Pakistani government has been playing both sides of the fence for some time now. Pakistan invented the Taliban to leverage and strengthen their regional political interests and to stop India’s diplomatic efforts into Afghanistan. Despite that, they’ve been the benefactors of billions in US aid as ‘allies’ in the war against terror. Never doing more than as little as possible – enough to keep the aid pouring in – all the while supporting their Taliban creation through the ISI.
mos///,
The ideology of Islam obviously pre-dates Bush, not to mention the US. The problems today are the same problems and atrocities the world has witnessed over the past 1350 years.
Islam and it’s author, Muhammad aka Allah, is the problem.
So take your silly argument and go elsewhere.
Well, you buffaloed me lol (O:} Good going!
My ideas still stand though if there had been real marches I would have thought the same. No way do they care for non-Muslims. From what I see little more for them. Its a power game.
“link with republican ” That sure didn’t take long.
Well of course it’s Dubya’s fault. C’mon, the world was sweetness and light before he became POTUS. Before him, there was no war, just love everywhere, especially in the White House.
AQ didn’t exist until he was sworn in. Afghanistan and Iraq were beacons of human rights, living in perfect spiritual harmony.
Of course, once he leaves, the world will revert back to its pastoral peace. Just ask Mike Moore; he’ll tell you.
Unless McCain wins that is.
“These marches didn’t happen; the post was a hoax to illustrate the lack of outrage that takes place when muslims kill other muslims”
Given the posts above, I clearly wasn’t the only one fooled. Besides, I didnt find it too hard to believe, given that Muslims have, in the past, marched against terrorist bombblasts in places like Bangladesh, and as recently as last week, following the Delhi bomb blasts in India. I don’t know if cjunk knows about either, nor do I care.
Revnant Dream,
I have heard plenty about Islam and kafirs, but the attitude is so different in differnet parts of the world, that I am reluctant to put a big green crescent flag across the Muslim world. Where there are wahabis, there are also Sufis. They have very differing approaches to non-believers in particular, as any scholar of Islam would know.
Yes the Wahabi strand is quite retarded, and proliferating dangerously fast, but to try and treat Muslims like a bloc is to draw to make a serious error in judgment.
In Pakistan’s particular context, the identity crisis problem has been an issue since the very beginning. The Savoy Row suited and allegedly pork-eating ‘father’ of Pakistan made it clear in his speeches that he saw Pakistan as a secular state. So did his successor, Liaqat Ali Khan, who was shot dead before he could make an impact. Since then the Pakistani establishment has been in a perpetual state of turbulence – military dictatorship after dictatorship. All in a very secular country mind you – Stephen Cohen of the Brookings institution has written a brilliant book about how the military was initially secular but gradually became Islamic, particularly during the rein of Zia.
When Zulfikar Ali Bhutto came into power, he inherited a nation that had ostensibly been created for Muslims, but which had been torn apart by regional conceitedness. The Punjabi attitude towards the Bengalis was the key instigator of the Civil war and the two-week war with India that followed. Bhutto was not religious – he was a heavy drinker. But he famously banned alcohol, and deliberately promoted Zia because Zia was a devout Muslim. Zia overthrew and hang him, but it is worth noting that he did not enact any major reforms till Reagan turned to him. With the inflow of money from the Wahabis and the US, Zia finally played his card, by enacting the infamous Nizam e Mustapha reforms that have turned Pakistan into the hellhole that it is. It was his successor General Beg, and his trusted lieutenant Hamid Gul, who conspired to create the Taliban to take control of Afghanistan to provide ‘strategic depth’ to Pakistan- basically turning Afghanistan into a place to regroup if India ever launched an invasion of Pakistan. Iran was, and is, seen as a hostile power by Pakistan. This is because Pakistani support of the Sunni Taleban, exacerbated by the murder of three Iranian diplomats in Pakistan, effectively ruined ties between these two ‘muslim’ nations.
The control of Afghanistan was also providing the infamous Pakistani intelligence agencey, the ISI, with cannon fodder to be used to bleed India in Kashmir.
Musharraf had to clean it up post 9/11 – he did so by famously putting the more Islamist officers into ceremonial positions. The elite, for its part, went quiet, refusing to alienate its Islamist cronies for the very obvious reason that you do not jump off a tiger once you have mounted it. They knew it was murder, so they began a, for lack of a better phrase, ‘benign neglect’ approach.
Things came to a head after the Indian embassy was bombed in Kabul earlier this year. The Indians and Americans soon had enough evidence to blame the ISI for the attack – apparently they were hell bent on killing the Indian military attache. And they succeeded. In response, the Pakistani elite, fearful of American reprisals, finally put its foot down and tried to tame the ISI by putting it under civilian control. That was the big card played by Pakistan’s elites.
And it failed. The whole episode was farcical with the ISI soon reverting to military control. The elites who tried to pull it off were humiliated – the PM was in Washington at the time of the announcement and subsequent reversal. The elites responded by trying to cleanse the ISI of its Islamist leaning, albeit in a less public but still blatantly obvious manner.
This attack is probably their response to that. Its all become very personal. An attack on the Pakistani elite at a time when they would be breaking their fast at Ramadan sends a very clear message – everyone is a target. The goal here was to inflict maximum damage, not neccessarily on foreigners, but on the elite itself. I am most interested in seeing how the elite turn on their more islamist compatriots, who until now were tolerated as belligerent nuisances.
Are all Pakistanis religiously Muslim. I would suggest that you look at the words of the chief Minister of Pakistani Punjab, who made a rather bizzare call for beefing up relations with Indian (Sikh and Hindu) Punjab in 2004 (I think), coolly declaring that Pakistani Punjabis, despite being Muslim, had more in common with their Hindu and Muslim counterparts than they did with their Muslim co-nationalists. Southern Pakistan, for its part, is very Shiaa – the north is Sunni and Sufi. And how they hate each other. But I digress. To see Pakistan as a monolithic muslim entity is to err in judgment.
irwin,
You’re on track, but a little outdated. The situation in Pakistan is too fluid to definitively lump Pakistani policy makers with the Taliban, particularly after Musharrafs attempt to change things. It isnt as clear cut as it was 10 years ago.
Once Muslims start nuking non-Muslims and others with zealous glee, then the world will understand what a toxic theological mess Islam is.
It’s their theology stupid! Judge Islamic teachings yourself, don’t trust what Muslims tell you about their religion. You’ll be horrified at the level of bloodthirstiness in their religious writings. None of the other world religions comes close to this religion of continual war and perpetual offendedness.
mos in its various incarnations is extremely trying, having demonstrated thoroughly that it posts nothing of worth, merely trollish comments in bad grammar.
Irwin – I do believe you have been threatened, not merely insulted. It’s time to do an “ezra” on this twit.
“And then you wonder” paints with a broad brush…
“The response here is so predictable, its almost laughable.”
“You claim they want to see you annihilated, but I dont think it is a stretch of the imagination to suggest that you want the same.”
“Only dogs bark at dogs.”
“We have many scholars of Islam here, but few scholars of geopolitics apparently.”
…makes some simple observations…
…and backpedals furiously.
Woof!
Mohammed raped underage children.
That’s George Bush’s fault.
Idiots put bombs in trucks and blow up fellow Muslims.
Also George Bush’s fault.
Mohammed practised man-boy love Thursdays.
George again.
Muslims have lived in miserable poverty for 1400 years and have made all whole lives they touch more miserable.
You guessed it. George.
and then you wonder
I’ve read what you’ve written, not sure i understand it all, but it definatly made me think. Im curious to know what you’d do about the spread of islamic terror. When you have a rabid dog, you shoot it. When you have cancer, you cut it out. Your categorizing of this incident sounds like a self rightous, leftard excuse. Elegantly written though. Let me know if im wrong
Kate….are comments for above two articles snookered?
Yes … satire it is … and the crickets continue to chirp in Islam.
‘And then you wonder’. You stated that many here would like to nuke them off the planet or something makes us just like them.No,it doesn’t.As an example,if a thug rapes and kill your daughter,the fact that you may want to see him swing like Saddam,does not make you the same as the thug.Kapeesh,they are an agressive murderous people who bring death and destruction to wherever they go. I strongly suggest you watch a short video called ‘This is not Islam’ on youtube to add some perspective to your thoughts.