Sunday, January 09, 2005
Tsunami jihadis
Mark Steyn wields a rapier in his Australian column of January 10. He notes a photograph that is making its way around cyberspace. In the photo a couple of Sri Lankans are carrying away a dead body, and in the background is a young man wearing an Osama-bid-Laden t-shirt.
After describing the image, Steyn tells us:
"I gave up worrying "Why do they hate us?" on the evening of September 11, 2001. But, if I were that Osodden bin Loser guy watching the infidels truck in water, food, medical supplies and emergency clothing for villagers whose jihad-chic T-shirt collection was washed out to sea, I might ask myself a more pertinent question: "Why do they like us?""
But after seeing so many of one's neighbors carried off in the same way,
"... one day the smarter lads in the Osama T-shirts will begin to wonder what they're getting in return for their glorification of a multimillionaire whose followers these days spend most of their time killing Muslims – in Iraq, in Turkey, in Saudi Arabia, even in Indonesia. With friends like that, who needs tsunamis?"
After describing the image, Steyn tells us:
"I gave up worrying "Why do they hate us?" on the evening of September 11, 2001. But, if I were that Osodden bin Loser guy watching the infidels truck in water, food, medical supplies and emergency clothing for villagers whose jihad-chic T-shirt collection was washed out to sea, I might ask myself a more pertinent question: "Why do they like us?""
But after seeing so many of one's neighbors carried off in the same way,
"... one day the smarter lads in the Osama T-shirts will begin to wonder what they're getting in return for their glorification of a multimillionaire whose followers these days spend most of their time killing Muslims – in Iraq, in Turkey, in Saudi Arabia, even in Indonesia. With friends like that, who needs tsunamis?"
# posted by mds : 9:35 PM
