“True” Muslim or Not, Their Bombs Are Just as Deadly
It irritates the hell out of me when I hear a Muslim spokesman (they don’t typically allow spokes-women so forgive the non-gender neutral appellation), responding to the most recent atrocity be it a beheading, suicide bombing or simple honor killing, that the perpetrators are not “true” Muslims and that they have “corrupted” the real teachings of Islam.
The reason no one is buying this spin is because of stories like these. Not too long ago the accepted convention was that mosques were sacrosanct places of contemplation and worship and to suggest they were being used for anything but was an affront to Muslims across the globe? For example, remember the outrage and the usual now comic demonstrations in the Muslim world when bullet holes were found in a mosque wall during the bringing down of Saddam Hussein. How dare the Americans sully with their bullets our holy places, we were told.
All that talk has pretty much been waylaid by the obvious use of mosques throughout the world as terrorists training grounds and bastions of hate speech.
But remember, none of the folks rising up and shouting “Allah Akbar” while a bearded holy man inveighs against, and calls for the annihilation of, the infidel are true Muslims.